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| Posted by absolutegenius uskidscompute.com 9/01/2002 04:07:39 |  Subject: chessMessage: logical or creative? or both? |
| Posted by brobishkin uskidscompute.com 9/01/2002 07:48:26 | Chess... Message: Both... Logical art form... Bro... |
| Posted by honololou uskidscompute.com 9/01/2002 18:05:03 | put another way Message: it is part art and part science. ——— A Year With No New Champs but Plenty of Big Winners — Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia, the women’s titleholder, were able to rest on their laurels in 2009. That was because for the first time in six years there was no world championship match or tournament. That did not mean there were fewer big matches. In some ways there were more than ever. In addition to the traditional elite chess tournaments in Linares, Spain; Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands; and Moscow, upstart events in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Nanjing, China, thrived, and a chess tournament had its debut in London. And Russia played host to the World Chess Cup. Buoyed by victories in Nanjing and London, Magnus Carlsen, ... |
| Posted by nmdo uskidscompute.com 9/01/2002 18:06:34 | Message: Chess is logical because you can castle twice. No, really folks, I believe it's logical and creative. ——— All that chess — Magnus Carlsen, 19, walks into the new decade as the world's top-rated chess player. His January FIDE rating is 2810, five points ahead of Veselin Topalov and 20 points ahead of the world chess champion, Vishy Anand. An incredible accomplishment! In 2004, Carlsen played a brilliant game in Holland. His victory made a great impression and I called him the Mozart of chess. He was 13 at that time and, according to my good friend, the late Washington Post music critic Joseph McLellan, he was too old to be compared to the great music composer. But it was too late. The name stuck. From club players to grandmasters, from recreational enthusiasts to world champions -- a great spectrum of chess players ... |
| Posted by gooftrooper uskidscompute.com 9/03/2002 01:42:35 | nmdo Message: you can only castle once per game! ——— For Many People, Holidays Are a Time for Playing — The period around the new year has become one of the busiest times for chess players. Holiday chess tournaments have a long tradition. One of the oldest, the Hastings International Chess Congress in England, has been held every year since 1920-21, with a break during World War II. This year’s tournament began on Dec. 28 and ends Jan. 5. After six rounds, Andrei Istratescu of Romania, Yuri Drozdovskij of Ukraine and Zbynek Hracek of Czech Republic were leading the top section with 5 points, and being chased by a group of eight chess players, including three grandmasters, three international masters and two masters who each had 4.5 points. Hastings is no longer ... |
| Posted by certainratio uskidscompute.com 9/03/2002 08:49:27 | scientific Message: chess is a science: making hypotheses, checking conclusions, gathering empirical evidence. But of course, all good scientists must exercise a good deal of creativity. I wouldn't use "logical" to describe chess, since this word usually denotes mathematically precise reasoning. Such reasoning does occur, for example, in positions where a checkmate or stalemate or other draw is forced, or in conversion to a well-documented and proven won endgame. But this type of reasoning is rare in chess. A large majority of the moves do not carry this type of "proof" with them. For example, suppose your opponent hangs a knight on the fifth move of a game, the position being roughly equal otherwise. You know you should take the knight and that a won position is the result (though of course you can err), but it is science, not mathematical logic, that tells you this. Mathematical logic is only present when you have proven the win in _all_ possible cases. CertainRatio ——— A Bold Opening for Chess Player Magnus Carlsen — Vladimir Kramnik, former world chess champion and current No. 4, is playing in the first round of the London Chess Classic, the most competitive chess tournament to be played in the U.K. capital in 25 years. Tall, handsome and expressionless, he looks exactly as a man who has mastered a game of nearly infinite variation should: like a high-end assassin. Today, however, he is getting methodically and mercilessly crushed. His opponent is a teenager who seems to be having difficulty staying awake. Magnus Carlsen yawns, fidgets, slumps in his chair. He gets up and wanders over to the other games, staring at the boards like a curious toddler. Every now and then, he returns to ... |