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| Posted by magna68 mailcafe.net 5/26/2005 06:41:13 Play online chess |  Subject: Scoop of the day! Fischer coming back!Message: -> www.mbl.is | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ibeben mailcafe.net 5/26/2005 10:45:23 Play online chess | Islandic Message: I think I likew your comment, although the posted link is in Islandic, not my best language so to say.. Maybe an idea to translate the main pieces? Thanks Ibeben | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by magna68 mailcafe.net 5/26/2005 11:04:51 Play online chess | More rumors... Message: ——— Chess cheating cases over the years — Over the years there have been many high profile and intriguing case of cheating in chess, using differing levels of sophistication. Wired-up chess player banned. In January 2007, an Indian chess player who stitched a mobile phone ear-piece into his baseball cap to get assistance from an accomplice with a computer was banned from the game for ten years. Umakant Sharma, 25, came under suspicion after he suddenly began thrashing players who were ranked many places above him - winning the All-Indian Chess Championship despite being ranked outside the world's top 50,000 players only a year previously. Text message moves. At the Dubai Open in ... Posted by ketchuplover | mailcafe.net 5/27/2005 20:29:21 Play online chess Message: ——— 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 roland_l | mailcafe.net 5/27/2005 21:24:03 Play online chess Message: ——— 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 ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 5/28/2005 23:46:53 Play online chess Hmmm...Message: It will be very interesting to see how things play out }8-) ——— 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 ... Posted by lynxchess | mailcafe.net 5/29/2005 21:58:31 Play online chess Match has been granted hereMessage: ——— In Europe, Four Elite Chess Events Are Closing or in Trouble — Some of Europe’s greatest chess tournaments are disappearing, and others are in peril. Last month, the organizers of the Mainz Classic in Germany announced that they were closing it down. One of the most popular events on the chess calendar, the Mainz Classic included tournaments for rapid chess and Fischer Random Chess and world championships in both formats. The organizers said they could not line up enough sponsors to keep it going. The Linares and M-Tel Masters chess tournaments may meet similar ends. The M-Tel Masters was last held in May 2009. There was no tournament last year because M-Tel, the Bulgarian phone company that sponsors it, instead financed the world chess ... Posted by ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 5/30/2005 05:02:25 Play online chess lynxchess ...Message: Posted by apastpawn | mailcafe.net 5/30/2005 15:31:45 Play online chess Was thinkig the same thing.Message: Would be good for the game. I'd pay to watch it on pay T.V. The only place it could be played without blipping a few choice remarks that are bound to be spewed. Posted by ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 5/30/2005 17:48:34 Play online chess apastpawn ...Message: There might be some remarks of interest. But maybe not at the board. From what I've heard, RJF is Always very professional, perhaps one might even say gentlemanly while playing. Off the board ??! ... well lets hope Judit has no microwave emissions from her chair . . . }B-) Posted by gambiter | mailcafe.net 6/14/2005 11:24:00 Play online chess FischerMessage: |