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| Posted by tulkos uskidscompute.com 9/05/2002 16:44:54 |  Subject: Mestrinho passed BRUNETTI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Message: /*?####$@%&*&($(&*?<>"*/ fireworks result!! |
| Posted by poisonedpawn78 uskidscompute.com 9/05/2002 16:49:43 | vote to delete Message: this is a dublicate post . basically . |
| Posted by death_by_pawns uskidscompute.com 9/05/2002 17:02:08 | Message: Yeah, I posted the subject first. So ha Tulkos! I win this time! *cackles evilly* ——— In Europe, a Young Chess Champion Emerges From Deep Ranks — The European Championships showed how much the chess world has changed in the last 20 years. The men’s division was won by Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, a 19-year-old chess grandmaster. Nepomniachtchi is talented, and he was seeded 35th in a field that included more than 150 grandmasters. But he was just one player among dozens who had a realistic shot at the title. On the scale used to measure ability, Nepomniachtchi has a rating of 2,656 and is ranked No. 78 in the world. Yet in 1990, Yasser Seirawan of the United States — one of the most talented chess players of his generation — was 10th with a rating of 2,635. Now, Seirawan’s rating is 2,651, and he is ... |
| Posted by philaretus uskidscompute.com 9/06/2002 06:10:42 | In the more accurate GK ELO ratings... Message: ....(available on e4e6.com) brunetti (2275) is still well ahead of mestrinho (2207). ——— Ivanchuk, Carlsen Lead at Amber — Rapid chess and blindfold chess require different skills. But excelling at both is a prerequisite for victory at the annual Amber Chess Tournament, the most unusual event of the year. Amber is sponsored by Joop van Oosterom, a Dutch billionaire and world correspondence chess champion, who started the tournament in 1992 and named it after his daughter. With a generous prize fund (this year 216,000 euros, or a little less than $300,000), an invitation to the tournament is coveted by the world’s top chess players. (It does not hurt that the tournament is held in Nice, France, on the Côte d’Azur.) This year’s field is made up of ... |
| Posted by tulkos uskidscompute.com 9/06/2002 12:02:36 | her's some on going games between Brunetti and Message: Mestrinho. board #216863 board #216869 board #216870 ——— Can Karpov Be President of Chess Federation? — The former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov announced on Saturday that he was running for president of the World Chess Federation. Karpov is trying to unseat Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who has been president of the federation (known as FIDE, its initials in French), since 1995. Ilyumzhinov is also the president of Kalmykia, a small Russian republic on the Caspian Sea. The federation president is elected for a five-year term, and there is no limit on how many times he (or she) can be re-elected. Karpov would not be the first ex-champion to serve as FIDE’s president. Max Euwe, the fifth world chess champion (1935-37), led the federation from 1970-78, a period of exceptional ... |
| Posted by tulkos uskidscompute.com 9/06/2002 12:03:55 | Black seems to be winning in all. Message: ——— Enter the dragon — David Howell was one move away from a fine victory in the eighth round of the European Individual Chess Championships at Rijeka in Croatia but a blunder on the last move of the time control gave his opponent Laurent Fressinet of France the full point. Howell also nearly won his ninth round game but was just foiled in the endgame. Michael Adams was lucky to hold a draw with the white pieces against Romain Edouard, a young French GM who impressed at Hastings. Adams was close to lost but after a time scramble he emerged a pawn down in a rook ending where all the pawns were on the kingside and ... |
| Posted by cheetah uskidscompute.com 9/09/2002 06:46:34 | Message: Mestrinho is nº1 now! :-) ——— The f-pawn, part 5: is this a good position to push forward? — It it time for black to use his f-pawn as a battering ram? We saw last week that advancing the f-pawn can leave you horribly exposed at the back if the attack stalls. Here Black has removed the knight from f6, clearing the way for the battering ram. Is it wise to advance the pawn to f5? RB When playing against 1 d4 I will often go for a Nimzo-Indian (as in the present chess game) or King's Indian. I have a liking for the kind of kingside attack that can arise – with certain key differences obviously – from both defences. With the centre safely closed, Black has ... |
| Posted by drcorbett uskidscompute.com 9/13/2002 06:39:35 | Burn.... Message: Poor Brunetti. I never even saw Mestrinho coming! |