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| Posted by fmgaijin mailcafe.net 4/19/2008 15:05:31 Play online chess | Then Try David Solway Message: ——— Chess Puzzles: Richard Reti's Marvelous Squares — A chessboard is a square, divided into 64 black and white squares. But there are more squares in chess, mostly invisible, as part of an amazing chess geometry hidden in chess players' minds. One classic square is often used in pawn endgames when a king is chasing the enemy's passed pawn. The king doesn't have to walk in horizontal or vertical lines, he can run diagonally or zig-zag across the field. But he needs to be close enough to catch the pawn. How close? The king has to walk into a square whose one side is defined as the distance between the pawn and its promoting square at the edge of the board. We can use a famous study by Richard Reti as an example. The world-class player ... Posted by fmgaijin | mailcafe.net 4/19/2008 15:18:06 Play online chess Interestingly Enough . . . Message: ——— Lahno Wins Women’s World Blitz Chess Championship — To be good at blitz, or speed, chess, players must think quickly and have good tactical skills. That is why the best chess players under slow, or classical, chess time controls are not necessarily the best at the faster form of the game. Though only 20 years old, Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine has been among the best women players in the world for seven years and is now ranked No. 7. She is actually ranked higher than Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia, the current women’s world chess champion, who is No. 10. She is clearly an excellent classical chess player and has won the European Individual Women’s Championship twice (in 2005 and 2008). Now she has proven that she may be even more adept at speed chess. ... Posted by chessnovice | mailcafe.net 4/19/2008 16:04:33 Play online chess ...Message: If I am losing, I'll rearrange your pieces While you're distracted. *takes a bow* ——— A tribute to Bent Larsen — Danish chess grandmaster Bent Larsen died Sept. 9 at age 75 in Buenos Aires, his home since the 1970s. Larsen was the most successful tournament player of the late 1960s, when he rose to third in the world behind Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer. Only losses to those two stars in Candidates matches kept him from playing for the world chess championship. Larsen had a lively mind and strong opinions, enabling him to speak knowledgeably about many subjects in more than a half dozen languages. Among chess players, he stood out for his fondness for discarded openings and his disdain for draws. He popularized 1 b3, now called Larsen's Opening. Typically, he used it irregularly over a four-year period and ... Posted by swapov | mailcafe.net 4/19/2008 21:13:33 Play online chess An old anonymous chess poem (ca.1600)Message: And over-dulled thy braine Then use this game which will refresh Thyself and it againe ——— Remembering Bent Larsen: chess's most popular grandmaster — Bent Larsen, who died last week aged 75 was world No 3 to Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky and the most popular chess grandmaster of his time. Larsen was articulate, gregarious, outspoken and witty, so his passing stimulated an outpouring of reminiscencies and affection. Larsen's resilience, inventiveness, hard work and readiness to risk the odd loss in his quest for chess tournament victories have proved a model for some current top GMs like Vasily Ivanchuk and Shak Mamedyarov, though his liking for the offbeat openings 1 b3, 1 g3 and 1 f4 remained his lone trademark. He described himself as self-made, with only Aron Nimzovich's My System a major style influence. He thrived in ... Posted by jstack | mailcafe.net 4/20/2008 11:03:27 Play online chess Thanks everyoneMessage: ——— As Chess Olympiad Approaches, Problems Surface — The biennial Chess Olympiad does not start until Sunday, but problems and conflicts have already arisen. The biggest ongoing issue is getting to Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, the site of the Chess Olympiad. As the city is in a remote location, the World Chess Federation had organized charter flights to carry teams there, but the schedule for the flights has changed repeatedly. The latest change occurred only two days ago. As the article notes, the repeated changes are not just making it difficult to get to the Chess Olympiad, but also more costly, and that is creating financial hardships for some of the chess federations that do not have substantial resources. In addition to the logistical ... Posted by wschmidt | mailcafe.net 4/20/2008 11:23:11 Play online chess Check outMessage:  en.wikipedia.org |