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| Posted by p8ntballjunky1 uskidscompute.com 8/29/2002 13:07:39 |  Subject: the best CHECKMATE ~~~~~Message: i love this checkmate! but i do not know what it is called! board #332037 |
| Posted by p8ntballjunky1 uskidscompute.com 8/29/2002 13:08:11 | Message: oh yea, how do i highlight the board # |
| Posted by philaretus uskidscompute.com 8/29/2002 13:30:42 | Look.... Message: ......at the bottom of the screen below the message box. Thus: board #332037 ——— On Chess: Tiny American was titan of tenacity — Is it possible to be 5 feet tall and yet be a formidable sporting icon? It is in chess - a gymnasium of the mind where size, speed and physical strength are incidental. Two small chess players who immediately come to mind are the 19th century's Paul Morphy and our contemporary Anatoly Karpov, who in his prime weighed little more than 130 pounds. And, of course, there was the diminutive Sammy Reshevsky (1911-92), who was justifiably feared by the Soviets as an unpredictable chess player of great talent in the post-World War II period. Reshevsky dominated the American chess scene until Bobby Fischer eclipsed him in the late 1950s and thereafter. No one - including himself, Fischer admitted - could ... |
| Posted by p8ntballjunky1 uskidscompute.com 8/29/2002 13:38:26 | Message: board #332037 ——— 'Bobby Fischer' documentary captures audience — Our brains tell us fame is fleeting, but do we believe it? Elvis, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan -- could they all really be wiped out of our cultural consciousness? You may not learn a lot about chess in Bobby Fischer Against the World, Liz Garbus's well-documented film about arguably the greatest and most tragic chess player that ever lived. But you do learn a lot about fame, and its possible relation to pathology. In his day, the ironically-shy/perceived-arrogant chess prodigy was among the most recognizable faces on Earth. When he played Soviet Boris Spassky in Reykjavik for the World Title in 1972, it led the news over coups, wars and elections. And then something ... |
| Posted by brunetti uskidscompute.com 8/29/2002 14:21:29 | It's Message: the De Legall's mate. The Legall was a french player, who teached Philidor. In your game the move 5.Nxe5 is a bad blunder. Black wins with 5...Nxe5. Alex ——— Boris Gelfand to challenge for world crown after beating Alex Grischuk — Israel's Boris Gelfand beat Russia's Alex Grischuk 3.5-2.5 in the candidates final in Kazan on Wednesday and will challenge for Vishy Anand's world chess crown in 2012. Gelfand is 42, Anand 41, and it will be the first time since 1934 that two over-40s have played for the unified world chess championship. Gelfand is only ranked world No 16, and Anand leads 7-0 in their decisive classical games since 1995, so the Indian will be long odds-on to win. Gelfand's success will be overshadowed by the record 90 per cent draw rate, 27/30, in the slow classical games at Kazan, where the eight chess grandmasters refused to take risks until the tie-breaks. Only four classical games, six in the final, were scheduled before ... |
| Posted by p8ntballjunky1 uskidscompute.com 8/29/2002 14:30:06 | Message: thxx. ——— It's Anand vs. Gelfand for the World Chess Crown — Boris Gelfand of Israel won the Final FIDE Candidates Match, defeating GM Alexander Grischuk of Russia 3.5 to 2.5 in Kazan, Russia, on Wednesday. It is a culmination of his successful chess career. With the victory, he earned the right to challenge the world chess champion Vishy Anand of India for the world title next year. At 42, Gelfand was the oldest participant in the Candidates matches, but he showed a steady hand and good nerves in difficult positions and prevailed against the American GM Gata Kamsky and Grischuk. His chess match against Anand, 41, could be interesting. Both players have vast opening knowledge, strive for initiative, can defend well and love to play dynamic chess. It could ... |
| Posted by dozer uskidscompute.com 8/29/2002 23:14:49 | Blunder or... Message: a clever trap? ——— Chess: A queen and pawn endgame — Queens are tricky – exchanging down to a pawn endgame is often the easier option. RB: Isn't White winning regardless of what way he exchanges the queens? The a-pawn has already advanced and the black king is outside the queening square. Meanwhile, his own passed pawn can be intercepted by White's king before it promotes. If I had this position, I'd be very happy. But Dan wouldn't have picked this position if it was that easy. There must be more to it than I'm seeing so let's try to calculate: 1 Qg4+ – my favoured option because after the exchange the pawn on g4 gets in the way of both Black's remaining kingside pawns – 1...Qxg4 2 hxg4 and now ... |
| Posted by p8ntballjunky1 uskidscompute.com 8/29/2002 23:59:33 | Message: a trap!, brunetti is right that it is a blunder, but that is what i was waiting,hoping for, |