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| Posted by francoivrea uskidscompute.com 9/10/2002 07:15:19 |  Subject: Consecutive capturesMessage: Any of you can find which was the 'serious' chess game with more consecutive moves being captures. |
| Posted by zdrak uskidscompute.com 9/10/2002 07:40:45 | Message: This was already done. The Dutch chess journalist Tim Krabbe maintains a website dedicated to chess curiosities, and among them various "records". Click here: www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm (For those too lazy to click the link, the answer is 17) |
| Posted by spiral uskidscompute.com 9/10/2002 16:42:00 | Totally unrelated... Message: But how can you castle more than once in a game??? It is in the link above, under the record "Greatest number of castlings". spiral ——— Can Kramnik find a bold move? — The former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik had a superb year. But how did he turn this game to his advantage? Kramnik-Kosteniuk, World Chess Cup Blitz Moscow 2009. White to play. Apart from Magnus Carlsen's breakthrough, the major story of 2009 was Vladimir Kramnik's comeback. Since he lost the world title he looks more relaxed, his opening preparation is more thorough, and his play is sharper. This game is a good illustration of Kramnik's chess style. RB This looks to me like a pretty evenly balanced middlegame, and I can find nothing – nothing – at all for White. I can't see any tactical strikes. 1 Nxf7, 1 Ng6, 1 Rxc7 and 1 Bxd5 are all ... |
| Posted by gambitnut uskidscompute.com 9/10/2002 17:11:09 | Castling twice is illeagal! Message: Apparently noone noticed untilit was too late! ——— 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, ... |