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| Posted by baseline mailcafe.net 5/30/2005 14:31:31 Play online chess | Message: ——— Levon Aronian crashes to shock defeat by David Navara at Wijk aan Zee — When the world No1 Magnus Carlsen beat the No2 Levon Aronian in an early round at Wijk aan Zee last week, it seemed that the 21-year-old Norwegian would continue his smooth advance towards Garry Kasparov's all-time peak chess rating. Aronian, 29, had a different script. The Armenian caught up Carlsen, who was bogged down by draws, then took the lead in Tuesday's ninth round, where the favourite crashed with the white pieces to Sergey Karjakin. It was a huge psychological blow and the next day Carlsen, whose trademark is to operate with small edges in long chess games, halved out in a mere 21 moves while Aronian won again to go 1.5 points up on Carlsen with only three rounds left. But there was another ... Posted by brunetti | mailcafe.net 5/30/2005 17:06:44 Play online chess The meaningMessage: Alex ——— Drama in Dutch chess bout is from the undercards — Having spent the bulk of my competitive playing chess career somewhere in the middle of the wall chart, I am firmly convinced that some of the highest drama at a chess tournament can be found on some of the lowest boards. The top seeds and top scorers, isolated from the chess masses in their special rooms and roped-off areas, may be producing a higher-quality product, full of deep subtleties and quiet brilliance. But the battles are just as intense, the elation just as high and the heartbreaks just as bitter out where the lower-seeded masses are huddled. And in many cases, the most dramatic games can be found far from the top boards. Case in point - the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament, which wraps up this weekend in ... Posted by wackyax16 | mailcafe.net 5/30/2005 17:55:03 Play online chess thanksMessage: ——— Chess tourney in Wijk aan Zee — At the beginning of each year, the seaside resort town Wijk aan Zee in The Netherlands holds a chess tournament with many super grandmasters. Unlike most top-level chess events, this one features three grandmaster groups, so called A, B and C. The A group, which is the strongest of the three, features most of the world's best chess players, and this year is no exception. The reigning champion is St. Louis' own Hikaru Nakamura who had his breakout tournament last year. The event, named Tata Steel after the sponsor of the event, is a 14-player round robin, which gives each of the chess players 13 games in all. The last time Hikaru Nakamura (left) played reigning U.S. Chess Champion Gata Kamsky was ... Posted by ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 5/30/2005 18:03:18 Play online chess Anyone ... Message: Just curious as I used to play into it intentionally in otb as a youngster with good results; till the d4 stuff scared me off later. ——— Chipmunk Chess — It was not surprising to see the world's top two rated chess players, Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Levon Aronian of Armenia, sharing a lead at the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament at the Dutch coastal town of Wijk aan Zee. They amassed a 5.5-2.5 score and with five rounds to go, we can expect a dramatic finish. But it was one single move that drew the attention away from the world's finest chess players. Since it created so many holes in white's position, the move could only have been invented by a chipmunk. Six moves into the game Hikaru Nakamura-David Navara, the top-rated American chess grandmaster dented his position with a strange pawn move. He didn't create a crater, but the gap was big enough for ... Posted by kplo | mailcafe.net 5/30/2005 23:17:18 Play online chess fried liver openingMessage: ——— A Math Study Provides Hints About the Gender Gap in Chess — The findings of a new study about mathematics may explain why there are so few women among the chess elite. It concluded that cultural factors, not biological ones, are the reasons why boys outperform girls in math. The study, by Jonathan M. Kane and Janet E. Mertz, both professors in the University of Wisconsin system, was published in the January issue of the journal Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Kane and Mertz wanted to see if they could identify why there are performance gaps between men and women in mathematics. They examined student assessment scores from 86 countries and found that although boys always outperformed girls, the gap was narrower in some countries. That suggested that ... Posted by rogierv | mailcafe.net 5/30/2005 23:24:11 Play online chess The moves are:Message: Very good illustration! Posted by wackyax16 | mailcafe.net 5/31/2005 13:57:47 Play online chess I agree.Message: |