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| Posted by fabian mailcafe.net 10/23/2005 10:15:07 Play online chess |  Subject: my longest gameMessage: over 3600 moves now now about 2200 moves left now... )) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Posted by evader23 mailcafe.net 10/24/2005 16:02:22 Play online chess | Message: I am just asking not meaning to be critical or anything but I want to know ——— Chess grandmasters use twice the brain : Study — It may take years of hard work to become a chess grandmaster, but it gives a real boost to the brain – for working out chess problems, at least. It seems expert chess players use both sides of their brain to process chess tasks, rather than just one. Merim Bilalic at the University of Tübingen in Germany used fMRI to scan the brains of eight international chess players and eight novices while they identified either geometrical shapes or whether the pieces on a chess board were in a check situation. The expert players were quicker at solving the chess problem, activating areas on both sides of their brains as they did so. The novices used just the left side. Bilalic had expected ... Posted by fabian | mailcafe.net 10/30/2005 10:00:23 Play online chess Message: ——— Chess: The best form of defence — It may be a cliche, but in a tight spot attacking can be the best way forward. RB: Hands up those of you who plumped for 1 Rb1. There's no disgrace if you did. Peter Leko, rated 2743 when he played this game, opted for exactly that and went on to draw. It's the move I thought of when I first came across the game, in Drazen Marovic's Secrets of Positional Chess – but is it the best? After a series of miserable failures on my part, the boot's on the other foot this week – it's Dan's turn to solve the chess puzzle. DK: Black's rook has just swept down to c2 attacking the pawn on b2, and although that could be defended with 1 Rb1, my gut feeling tells me not to look at this too deeply ... Posted by anaxagoras | mailcafe.net 10/30/2005 10:27:42 Play online chess Message: ——— America Has a New Chess Grandmaster and Three New International Masters — United States chess has rarely, if ever, had a week like the one that ended Saturday. On Saturday, four Americans earned titles at the Berkeley International chess tournament. Samuel Shankland, 19, the reigning United States Junior Champion, became a grandmaster, while Keaton Kiewra, 23, Daniel Naroditsky, 15, and Conrad Holt, 17, all qualified as international masters. Kiewra actually earned a grandmaster norm — the first of three needed for the title — but he still must raise his international rating above 2,400 to satisfy the requirements for the international master title. That is often less difficult than achieving the norms. Tatev Abrahamyan, 22 (she will be 23 on Thursday), earned ... Posted by hollcana | mailcafe.net 10/30/2005 11:13:37 Play online chess Neat!Message: ——— China Rises, and Checkmates — If there’s a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politburo chief, not to an Internet tycoon, but to a quiet, mild-mannered teenage girl named Hou Yifan. Ms. Hou (whose name is pronounced Ho Ee-fahn) is an astonishing phenomenon: at 16, she is the new women’s world chess champion, the youngest person, male or female, ever to win a world chess championship. And she reflects the way China — by investing heavily in education and human capital, particularly in young women — is increasingly having an outsize impact on every aspect of the world. Napoleon is famously said to have declared, “When China wakes, it will shake the world.” That is becoming ... Posted by fabian | mailcafe.net 10/31/2005 08:06:28 Play online chess to hollcanaMessage: ..so reducing material later then ——— David Howell surprised at Hastings Masters by young Indians — The 2011 version of the world's longest-running annual chess tournament, kept alive and well by Hastings Borough Council, ended on Wednesday with a tense final round and an upset result. England's youngest chess grandmaster, David Howell, 20, won his first five games but then lost tamely to France's No1 seed, Romain Edouard, who became the sole leader. It seemed the European GMs would fight out first prize until the little-known young Indians surged to the front in the final two rounds in an impressive breakthrough. Deep Sengupta, 22, beat Edouard in what was voted the best game of the chess event and shared the £2,000 top award on 7/9 with Arghyadip Das, 25, while ... Posted by odonata | mailcafe.net 10/31/2005 09:44:25 Play online chess VeryMessage: Posted by fabian | mailcafe.net 11/02/2005 05:14:28 Play online chess yesMessage: Posted by brunetti | mailcafe.net 11/08/2005 00:44:50 Play online chess The longestMessage: Alex Posted by fabian | mailcafe.net 11/17/2005 01:52:16 Play online chess Message: |