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| Posted by usethepawn mailcafe.net 10/16/2005 01:57:30 play online chess |  Subject: Longest game ever?Message: |
| Posted by fabian mailcafe.net 10/16/2005 02:35:20 play online chess | longer ? Message: |
| Posted by usethepawn mailcafe.net 10/18/2005 02:18:20 play online chess | Not amount of moves Message: |
| Posted by fabian mailcafe.net 10/18/2005 09:48:02 play online chess | 2800 moves left Message: maybe some time then ) |
| Posted by thurstygeorge mailcafe.net 11/02/2005 15:37:46 play online chess | Message: |
Chess news: A chess lesson from the late Vasily Smyslov -- How did the great Russian grandmaster win this game? Vasily Smyslov, the former world chess champion who died in March, was often described as a master of the endgame and brilliant positional player, but great chess players are able to change their style according to the demands of the position. I've been going through his games and found strategic masterpieces but also blistering attacking play. Earlier in this game he sacrificed a piece to activate his forces and followed up by advancing his h-pawn – one of my favourite attacking methods. But it takes skill to finish the game. RB This may be a very famous chess position but it's not one that I ever remember seeing and ... A White Day at the Women’s Chess Grand Prix -- Everyone knows that playing White is an advantage in chess (though curiously it was not during the last round of the King’s Tournament in Romania that ended Friday; then Black won all the games). But, the results of Round 6 of the Women’s Chess Grand Prix in Jermuk, Russia, were still startling. White won every game. It was the second time in the first six rounds of the chess tournament that every game had ended decisively. Over all, only 8 of the 36 games in the tournament have ended in draws, an astonishingly low percentage. After six rounds, Nana Dzagnidze of the Republic of Georgia leads with 5.5 points, a point ahead of Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia. Tatiana Kosintseva of Russia is ... A Race for Second at the Grand Prix -- With four rounds left in the Fourth Women’s Chess Grand Prix in Jermuk, Russia, time is rapidly running out for anyone to try to overtake Nana Dzagnidze of the Republic of Georgia for first place. She leads by 1.5 points over Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia and Tatiana Kosintseva of Russia. She still has to play Mkrtchian and Hou Yifan of China, the chess tournament’s top seed, who is currently in fourth, so there is still a chance she might be caught. But her form so far has been superb as she has only yielded one draw in seven rounds. So the rest of the tournament may be a race for second. The Grand Prix is a series of six tournaments organized by the World Chess Federation. The winner will ... | |