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| Posted by nemesis1010 mailcafe.net 6/21/2008 14:50:18 Play online chess |  Subject: Books on OpeningsMessage: Cheers in advance Mike | ||||||||||||||
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| Posted by chessisvanity mailcafe.net 6/21/2008 20:15:40 Play online chess | MCO no thanks. Message: I suggest "Understanding the chess openings" by Collins. ——— Chess: European Players Are Well Paid for Team Play — The difference between the game in the United States and Europe is easy to illustrate by comparing two team competitions currently under way. The European Club Cup, which ends Sunday in Slovenia, features many of the world’s best chess players, among them Boris Gelfand, Peter Svidler, Teimour Radjabov and Ruslan Ponomariov. They have no particular loyalty to their chess clubs. They are playing because they are being paid, often quite well. And the clubs with the deepest pockets, like OSG Baden Baden in Germany and Tomsk-400 in Russia, are the only ones with a legitimate chance to win the chess tournament. Compare that to the setup of the United States Chess League, which just finished its fifth week of ... Posted by bogg | mailcafe.net 6/22/2008 00:09:33 Play online chess nemesis1010Message: CTCampbell (Bogg) ——— Rule change raises hopes of Vishy Anand meeting Magnus Carlsen — A change to the world chess championship candidates rules has raised hopes that India's Vishy Anand, the holder, will meet Norway's Magnus Carlsen, 20, who tops the chess rankings, in a 2012 or 2013 title match. The 2011 candidates in Kazan was settled by knock-out, where Russia's Alex Grischuk controversially made quick draws in the long classical games to reach the final via blitz tie-breaks. Subsequently, elite chess grandmasters voted for an all-play-all format. APAs were used from 1950 until 1962, when Bobby Fischer claimed that his Soviet rivals had arranged results to minimise the American's chances. The chess tournament was replaced by matches, in which Fischer famously destroyed ... Posted by mathemagician_ | mailcafe.net 6/22/2008 04:40:28 Play online chess Message: ——— Good at Chess? A Hedge Fund May Want to Hire You — Boaz Weinstein’s opening move on Wall Street came as a result of chess. Mr. Weinstein, now a star hedge fund manager, was trying to get a summer job at Goldman Sachs in 1991, when he was just 18. After being told there was nothing available, he stopped in a bathroom on the way out and ran into David F. Delucia, then the head of corporate bond trading. Mr. Delucia, who is ranked as an expert by the United States Chess Federation, had played Mr. Weinstein, ranked as a master by the chess federation, many times. He arranged for a series of interviews until Mr. Weinstein got an internship on a Goldman trading desk. Mr. Weinstein is not alone among Wall Streeters who have a chess ... Posted by mathemagician_ | mailcafe.net 6/22/2008 04:52:37 Play online chess Message: ——— Grand Slam Masters: Both Carlsen and Anand lose — After a sensational third round of the Grand Slam Masters chess tournament at Sao Paulo, World chess champion Viswanathan Anand and World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway languished at the bottom of the points table. Anand bowed to an in-form Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine while Carlsen called all the shots against bottom-ranked player Vallejo Pons of Spain before blundering a piece to leave the tournament in a state of shock before the first rest day. The football points system ensured that Ivanchuk, with seven points, had a good lead over the rest of the field. Levon Aronian of Armenia was in second position with five points, Hikaru Nakamura of US and Vallejo Pons were further down ... Posted by doctor_knight | mailcafe.net 6/23/2008 08:49:40 Play online chess Message: ——— Who's the man? — When I was a much younger man, I saw a film titled "Who's the Man?" It was a light comedy, but throughout the movie, the two main characters would pronounce, "You the man!" to each other. In the chess world, this was never an issue. Well, not until recently. Since 1886, there was always an official World Chess Champion. The chess world always knew who "the man" was, until 1993 and the infamous Kasparov-Short match. Garry Kasparov, clearly the best chess player in the world and the World Chess Champion to boot, was to defend his title against the lesser-know British GM Nigel Short. Nigel was one of the top 10 chess players in the world, but nobody thought he could beat Kasparov. Kasparov and ... Posted by thunker | mailcafe.net 6/23/2008 12:03:43 Play online chess Message: Posted by ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 6/25/2008 13:15:40 Play online chess Just dropping in .... Message: always right on Chess, in case you haven't noticed yet :) Great books and author. I especially liked Play The French #1. The info there was enough to boost several adherents from Iowa alone, into Sr. Master Postal Performances in the French at that time. Of course there was something of a French Conspiracy here at the time :) Very popular. Posted by nemesis1010 | mailcafe.net 6/26/2008 04:33:02 Play online chess Cheers everyoneMessage: I will probably start doctor_knight's Yasser Seirawan recommendation and then move onto John Watson's series (I note on Amazon there's a third volume due for release in October). mathemagician_'s Mike Basman book does sounds interesting. But also appears to be a bit of a rarity - can't see it at all on Amazon or Ebay. I actually find this link useful as an encyclopaedia of all openings, although the strategy and thinking behind them is very minimal:  www.csm.astate.edu |