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| Posted by i_play_slowly mailcafe.net 5/14/2005 08:18:24 Play online chess | Suggestion Message: * I would also like to make this suggestion to others who might like to coach and/or find a coach. ——— Magnus Carlsen loses top ranking — Former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik won the third Grand Slam Final in Bilbao, Spain. The double round robin featured four of the world's strongest chess grandmasters. The first two rounds nearly decided the tournament. Kramnik won both of his games while Magnus Carlsen of Norway lost twice. Kramnik drew his remaining four games to finish ahead of world chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India (who had one win and five draws), Carlsen (one win, two losses, three draws) and Alexey Shirov of Spain (two losses, four draws). Carlsen, ranked first in the world a month ago at 2826, has unofficially fallen to second at 2802 after poor results in the Olympiad and in Bilbao. Anand has ... Posted by usethepawn | mailcafe.net 5/14/2005 20:20:37 Play online chess I have noticed Message: ——— World’s No. 1 Chess Player Shows Signs of Growing Pains — Magnus Carlsen is such a formidable chess player, it is easy to forget that he is only 19. After he ascended to the No. 1 ranking a year ago, he went on such a roll — winning several of the world’s strongest chess tournaments — that it seemed no one could stop him. But in late September and early this month, in a span of nine games at the World Chess Olympiad and the Bilbao Final Masters, he lost five times, which is unheard of for a top-ranked chess player. When Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov were ranked No. 1, they rarely lost five games in a year. Viswanathan Anand of India, the current world chess champion, has been similarly consistent. It is not that Carlsen, ... Posted by bananaman1 | mailcafe.net 5/16/2005 17:30:11 Play online chess Message: you can find someone else, but I need some serious chess help. ——— Israeli Sets World Record by Playing 523 People Simultaneously — Alik Gershon, a 30-year-old Israeli chess grandmaster, set a world record on Thursday by playing 523 people simultaneously in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. The simultaneous display, or simul, took 19 hours. Gershon beat 454 of his opponents, drew with 58 and lost to 11, scoring 92 percent. For the record to be official, Gershon had to score at least 80 percent. The Jewish Journal reported that Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident, was among Gershon’s opponents. Gershon broke the record held by Morteza Mahjoob, an Iranian chess grandmaster, who played against 500 people last year. The record has been raised many times in the last few years. In an interview afterward with ... Posted by usethepawn | mailcafe.net 5/17/2005 01:10:07 Play online chess Ok Message: ——— All Games Are Decisive at Pearl Spring — Friday was a remarkable day at the Pearl Spring chess tournament in Nanjing, China. All three games ended decisively and two of the games had interesting subtexts. One round after all the games were drawn, Round 3 was a chess bloodbath: Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, beat Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, Magnus Carlsen of Norway beat Wang Yue of China and Étienne Bacrot of France overcame Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan. Carlsen now leads with 2.5 points, followed by Anand, who has 2, Bacrot with 1.5 points and the rest of the field, who each have 1 point. The most interesting game of the day was between Anand and Topalov who played a championship match earlier ... |