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| Posted by usethepawn mailcafe.net 5/13/2005 18:31:46 Play online chess |  Subject: Longest winning streakMessage: I know that sorceress_queen has 241 games up in a row but can anyone better that? | ||||||||
| Posted by usethepawn mailcafe.net 5/14/2005 02:42:51 Play online chess | New Leader Message: | ||||||||
| Posted by magna68 mailcafe.net 5/14/2005 05:50:23 Play online chess | Meaningless Message: Superman123 should have maybe added that this 308 consecutive wins were obtained playing only white against players preferrably not over 1200. What for? Hardly something to mention or to be proud of. ——— Former Chess Champions Find Success Beyond the Board — They took the road more traveled, and each is happy that he did. Patrick Wolff, Michael Wilder and Stuart Rachels are former United States chess champions who walked away from the game years ago to lead more traditional lives. Wilder, 47, a chess grandmaster, won the title in 1988. By the following fall, he was in law school at the University of Michigan, and done with chess. “I just didn’t have the energy or the motivation to keep my skills fresh,” he said in an interview this month. Now a partner at McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, he specializes in corporate tax issues. He said he had not played a tournament game in more than 15 years. “I never gave serious consideration to being a professional chess player,” Wilder ... Posted by usethepawn | mailcafe.net 5/14/2005 20:39:46 Play online chess So sorryMessage: ——— Carlsen Back in Action — After a break of several months (during which he went to New York to do some fundraising for the presidential campaign of Anatoly Karpov), Magnus Carlsen, the 19-year-old Norwegian who is ranked No. 1 in the world, returns to action beginning Monday in the Kings Tournament. This will be the fourth edition of the chess competition, which is in Bazna, Romania, in the heart of Transylvania. The town is best known as a spa, resort, so presumably the chess competitors will be well treated. In addition to Carlsen, the other competitors are Wang Yue of China, Boris Gelfand of Israel, Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania, and Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine. Ponomariov ... Posted by honololou | mailcafe.net 5/14/2005 21:37:20 Play online chess usethepawnMessage: occasions by superman himself. As you can see, it's kind of a hollow stat. sorceress_queen's record is impressive, though. ——— Jakovenko Leads Tournament Named for Karpov — Entering the final stretch, Dmitry Jakovenko of Russia and Sergey Karjakin, who also plays for Russia but is originally from Ukraine, are in the best position to win the 11th Poikovsky Karpov chess tournament. Jakovenko leads with 5.5 points after eight rounds and Karjakin is a half point back with 5 points. Alexander Riazantsev, another Russian, is alone in third place with 4.5 points, while a pack of four other players have 4. The chess tournament, a round-robin with 12 players (each competitor plays each of the other competitors once), is name after Anatoly Karpov, the 12th world chess champion, who is running for the presidency of the World Chess Federation. Poikovsky is ... Posted by thumper | mailcafe.net 5/14/2005 22:57:56 Play online chess Just my opinion....... Message: I'm more interested in who playes the toughest people here. Who has the highest 'average opponent' rating? ——— Boris Gelfand piles on the pain — Boris Gelfand’s credentials as a world class match chess player were further enhanced as he won the XXIII Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez Ciudad de Leon in a Blitz play off against world-number-five Levon Aronian. Last year Gelfand secured a place in the Candidates Matches, the last eight of the world chess championship by winning the World Cup knockout where he was supreme in speed chess playoffs. He exhibited the same kind of nerveless play at Leon. Gelfand won three games in a row to take the title. He needed victory in the fourth Rapid game to save the match but the Blitz was one-sided. Aronian looked a broken man at the end, the second game was gruesome. ... Posted by invincible1 | mailcafe.net 5/15/2005 02:14:54 Play online chess thumper,Message: ——— The Catalan Chess Opening part 3: the queenside — In this chess opening, the action is often on the queenside. How best to make use of that knowledge? RB The themes of the Catalan are coming through loud and clear even for those as innocent of the opening as I am. Last week I was struck by the duel of the bishops along the h1-a8 diagonal and here again the bishops are squaring up. A second theme seems to be recurring: activity on the queenside. Does the Catalan tend to drag play to the queenside, or is it just a quirk of the games we've been looking at? So, armed with this general knowledge, let's see if we can find a way forward for White. The answer, depressingly, is no. Black's position looks ... |