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| Posted by greyrabbit mailcafe.net 5/01/2005 02:36:08 Play online chess |  Subject: To every story...Message: Cheers Charlie | ||||
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| Posted by greyrabbit mailcafe.net 5/01/2005 06:15:29 Play online chess | Hmmm.... Message: Cheers Charlie ——— On Chess: Fischer's dexterity with game pieces was sight to see — While watching Bobby Fischer explain a chess position during a TV appearance a year or two before he became world chess champion, I witnessed a startling display. The chess pieces appeared as inseparable from his long and graceful fingers as a deck of cards from the hands of a riverboat gambler or a soccer ball from the feet of Pele. Perhaps no player has ever set up chess pieces and moved them in play and analysis as frequently as the chess-obsessed American prodigy did. In the recent Fischer biography Endgame, Frank Brady describes a 1960 demonstration of chess analysis by Fischer at a New York tavern using a worn wallet chess set: "The half-inch plastic pieces seemed to jump into place ... Posted by i_play_slowly | mailcafe.net 5/01/2005 07:45:39 Play online chess Chess Related TopicMessage: * Many a tactic is successful in the opening, simply because the opponent is lulled into a false sense of security this early in the game. Traps are possible, as are pawn forks, fork tricks, etc. * I would recommend buying a good chess dictionary, like "The Oxford Companion to Chess". ——— Chess: Bishop's Gambit – the shock weapon — This little known variation on the King's Gambit is sharp and messy – and great fun. RB: The Bishop's Gambit variation of the King's Gambit isn't a common sight, but I have particular reason to know it. Many years ago the late human rights lawyer Larry Grant and I played a correspondence chess game, of sorts. I had White and I thought I'd catch Larry out with precisely this opening. I was being held at that time in Brixton prison and I would see Larry at the weekly remand hearing. We'd exchange moves, often in the holding cell below the court. I can still remember the grin on Larry's face when, instead of the queen check on h4 I'd been expecting, he played 3...f5. I'd never seen it before and ... Posted by indiana-jay | mailcafe.net 5/01/2005 08:59:31 Play online chess Message: documented in someone else's database. Midgame is when anyone start to divert or make his own variation and the other party start to find the refutation. Endgame starts when anyone of the players knows what the (theoritical) end result gonna be, a win a lose or a draw. So if you play with mateintwo, you reach the endgame right from the start :)) ——— Competitive Chess Boxing: Brain Meets Pain in Iceland — Two world-class competitors will battle it out in a boxing match in Iceland on Friday, with throngs of screaming fans cheering them on. In one corner will be Bjorn Jónsson, 42 years old but wily in his ways and with a devastating reach advantage over his opponent. Daniel Thordarson is a young, hard-nosed fighter and former Icelandic middleweight champion. After weeks of anticipation, these two rivals will finally meet head-to-head to see who punches harder, who has the desire to outlast the other, and whether the Tarrasch Defense can sufficiently counter a Queen’s Gambit. Wait, what was that last part? You see, Thordarson and Jónsson are 3-D digital artists at CCP Games, a major chess ... |