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| Posted by bucklehead mailcafe.net 6/07/2005 06:03:44 Play online chess | Also... Message: ——— Anand Wins, Carlsen Leads at Pearl Spring — Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, began the second half of the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing, China, with a win, but he is still a full point behind the leader, Magnus Carlsen of Norway. Carlsen has 4.5 points; followed by Etienne Bacrot of France, who has 4; Anand with 3.5; Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan, 2.5; Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, 2; and Wang Yue of China, 1.5. Monday, Anand beat Wang, who put up little resistance. The opening was a Queen’s Indian Defense and the queens were traded rather quickly. Anand, who was Black, traded a knight for a bishop, securing the bishop pair; he also had a better pawn structure. Anand soon won a pawn and then ... Posted by fabian | mailcafe.net 6/07/2005 08:51:25 Play online chess Message: ——— 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 muppyman | mailcafe.net 6/07/2005 15:46:49 Play online chess cold or no cold,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 gunnarsamuelsson | mailcafe.net 6/07/2005 16:30:59 Play online chess I wouldnt take too much noticeMessage: Preparation means a lot, and a lot of players use programs and/or databases to help. If uve played the most inspired game of your life youll probably end up losing cause a machine could prove ur inspirational play unsound somewhere along the line,,whereas in a otb match u would have turned heads and gotten applause. Thats why ive stopped playing here, it lacks the stuff that I want from a game. See the games here as a forum for deep study of the game, but dont take any notice of rating cause it has nothing to do with reality. ——— 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 ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 6/09/2005 12:35:18 Play online chess Take Counter-measures !Message: But if you are not content to succumb quietly you can get pro-active and take steps against the cliche'. First to realize that while having a cold is detrimental, Being Cold is Not. Scientists have proven, or i heard it somewhere, that your brain functions best when the air temperature is between 42 and 48 degrees Fahrenheit; which fortuitously is ALSO a very good temperature for beer. Furthermore, your thinking speed increases up to 15% while standing, compared to while sitting. So at the very least, one can then find blunders, attributable to the headcold, 15% faster thereby shortening the time of that game & thus leaving more energy for the next game, as well as providing more opportunity to tell others about your nefarious nose between rounds. Remember that sneezing on your opponent while his clock runs is not sporting, but never sneeze on the pieces when YOU are on-the-move or he may require you to dephlem them before punching your clock. One final strategy; you should definately play gambits and Go For His King! Why not, afterall since you will already have an ironclad justification if you lose, and all the more bravado will be attached to your name if you happen to win (since you never know, your opponent just May Have THE FLU !!) Good-Skill to you! }8-) ——— 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 ... Posted by honololou | mailcafe.net 6/09/2005 19:28:26 Play online chess usethepawn…Message: won coz he is so low there is also the possibility that he cheats…" It is very bad manners to mention another player and then say that they may be cheating—even if your statement was not meant to be taken seriously. Unless you have hard evidence (you actually saw the player using a chess engine) you should refrain from dragging someone else's name through the mud. Posted by usethepawn | mailcafe.net 6/09/2005 21:11:16 Play online chess Fair enough honololou...Message: Posted by spurtus | mailcafe.net 6/10/2005 04:58:11 Play online chess Message: If I have a hangover I virtually always win or at least draw at OTB. ( I have a hangover always on day 2 of any chess congresses I attend!) Very strange, but true! Spurtus. Posted by silurasglanis | mailcafe.net 6/14/2005 00:56:09 Play online chess PerformanceMessage: I blundered badly and played superficially (ok even more so than I normally do) when I got back from Canada in early May and was jetlagged. Also domestic and work issues will impact your focus. Your standard of play will be an average, do not take your peak level during a period of a few months when life is calm and work is quiet etc as being your true on line strength, the things going on around us are part of this type of chess and we will obtain an average level. Posted by lennerborn | mailcafe.net 6/15/2005 02:05:02 Play online chess SpurtusMessage: A flu might be a different thing... possibly you could gain from it by sneezing all over the table everytime your opponent captures anything... |