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| From | Message | Posted by rayape
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1/10/2003
21:05:23
Play online chess |  Subject: POUPULARITY INDEX
Message:
poupularity index.........whichis better a hiher or lower number?
| Posted by brobishkin
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1/10/2003
21:49:26
Play online chess | Popularity index...
Message:
It's niether... It strictly shows just how many hits your profile has received... Nothing more, nothing less... If it's high or low, who cares... I most certainly don't... It's nothing more than info (which I do appreciate)... But I often wonder why it's called a "popularity index"... It should be a "hit counter"...
Bro...
| Posted by tulkos
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1/11/2003
05:24:00
Play online chess | Popularity index,
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You can't get a lower number, and the people with most hits are people like brunetti and edmaster.
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Nakamura Poised to Defend Title at Cap d’Agde — Hikaru Nakamura of the United States has worked his way into the world’s chess elite (he is ranked No. 15), but as good as he is at slow chess, his real forte is at faster time controls. He is generally considered to be among the top three or four in the world at blitz chess (where each player has five minutes or less for the entire game) and he also seems to be among the world’s best at rapid chess, in which each player has about 25 minutes per game. Two years ago, he won the Cap d’Agde Rapid chess tournament in France in a field that included Magnus Carlsen of Norway (now No. 1 in the world), Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine (who Nakamura beat in the finals) and Anatoly Karpov of Russia, the former ...
Posted by rayape
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1/11/2003
22:06:25
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i understand....thank you both very much...very helpfull
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Chess Champion's Class Act — Vishy Anand is the most versatile world chess champion. After all, he won world championships in classical matches, knockouts, rapids and blitz and dominated the advanced chess in which players are able to consult the computers. In this respect, no other world chess champion comes even close. But the Indian superstar is also a class act and gives credit where credit is due. Twice this year, Anand turned a favorite defense of his former coach, Artur Yusupov, into gold. "It was a pleasure to have Artur Yusupov working as my second, both personally and professionally," Anand writes in the preface to Yusupov's excellent book Boost your Chess 2, Beyond the Basics, published by Quality Chess. Yusupov was ...
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