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| Posted by roland_l mailcafe.net 9/14/2005 03:13:58 play online chess |  Subject: Um ... shouldn't I be able to castle queen side ..Message: -> gameknot.com it's board 3703873 ... my game with Olive |
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Chess news: An Often-Shunned Chess Opening, for Good Reason -- Some chess openings are perennially popular. Others are rarely used, particularly among elite chess players, and often for good reason. The unpopular chess openings can be broken down into three categories. The Bad: the Grob (1 g4), the Latvian Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 f5) and the Sokolsky (1 b4) among them. They are risky and give opponents too many opportunities to seize the advantage. The Ugly: Some chess openings are neglected not from any intrinsic failing, but because they are simply not faddish. In 1995, when Viswanathan Anand of India, the current world chess champion, played a title match against Garry Kasparov of Russia, he surprised his opponent with ... Moscow to host top-tier tribute -- The strongest chess tournament of the year, the Tal Memorial, begins Thursday in Moscow. World chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India, former champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen of Norway and seven other stars, all ranked among the world's top 13, will compete in a round robin. The only notable absentee is Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, ranked first in the world. Mikhail Tal was world chess champion in 1960 and a passionate devotee of speed chess until his death in 1992. As a tribute, the World Blitz Chess Championship will follow Nov. 16. The field will include all players in the Tal Memorial plus 10 more grandmasters. Last year, ... Chess Notes -- The US Chess League offers ample opportunities to examine games between highly rated chess players. Here is one in which Patrick Wolff annotates for himself, played on first board for the San Francisco Mechanics v. the Miami Sharks. In this game Wolff crosses up Julio Becerra, the 2006 Most Valuable Player in the league, by choosing as White a Two Knights Opening instead of a Ruy Lopez. The result is a closed game in which Black loses considerable time reconnoitering his Knights. White’s 27th move breaks what looks like a granite center and Black’s Queen Bishop Pawn becomes a target. In the end, Black has to choose between loss of a Rook or a King and so ... | |