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| Posted by cairo uskidscompute.com 1/08/2003 04:57:46 Play online chess |  Subject: It had to come!!Message: Check this: www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=693 Best wishes Cairo |
| Posted by brobishkin uskidscompute.com 1/08/2003 12:40:04 Play online chess | Cairo... Message: Interesting article... It's appauling to read of such things happening at tournaments... But like you said "It had to come"... And I only thought things like that only happened On-Line... It had to come but unfortunately I dont think it's ever going away... More will follow... Bro... |
| Posted by tulkos uskidscompute.com 1/08/2003 17:34:57 Play online chess | people who cheat like that Message: probably do it for the money, and sooner or later they'll be caught, and then they are kicked out from playing at all for life--- or at least for a long time. They gave good advice at the end of the artical though--- H'mmmm--- It just might work. 8-) ——— Numberplay: Avoiding Attack — This week we hear from the second half of the Math for Love duo, Daniel Finkel, who has composed several variations on a chess classic. If you haven’t played much chess you won’t be at a disadvantage — all you need is a little logic. And watch out for that knight! Here’s Mr. Finkel: The 8 Queens Puzzle is a classic conundrum of the chess/logic/math variety: how do you place eight queens on a chessboard so that no two queens are attacking each other? Here is one possible configuration: Today, let’s pose the question for some of the less famous chess pieces on the board. 1. (Warm-up) Place eight rooks on a chessboard without any of them attacking each other. How do you know that placing ... |
| Posted by cairo uskidscompute.com 1/09/2003 00:47:04 Play online chess | Bro Message: Whatever happend to that trip you would take last year to a certain chess-shop, (I forgot the place) to check out some clocks etc. Best wishes Cairo ——— Two Big Chess Tournaments in the Two Biggest Cities — The biggest chess tournaments in the United States are usually held in places like Philadelphia and Las Vegas, not New York and Los Angeles. The reasons are cost (rents for tournament sites are higher in New York and Los Angeles) and convenience (inland chess tournaments tend to be easier to get to). Last weekend was an exception, with new top-level chess tournaments taking place in the two biggest cities. The competition in Los Angeles, at the First Metropolitan International Tournament, was slightly tougher and included Michael Adams of England, No. 28 in the world, and Loek van Wely of the Netherlands, No. 54. Adams lived up to his ranking by winning the chess tournament by ... |
| Posted by brobishkin uskidscompute.com 1/09/2003 01:43:34 Play online chess | Oregon... Message: The trip up the Oregon coast was magnificent... But I couldn't locate the Chess Shop on-line at it's current location just outside of Portland... Bro... ——— Carlsen stays cool atop rankings — Magnus Carlsen of Norway is a distinctly modern chess phenomenon. At 20, he is the world’s highest-rated chess player. He is also a millionaire — thanks to a lucrative sponsorship agreement with the G-Star apparel company — who can look forward to an expanding list of such commercial deals in the future. Off the board and on the board, Carlsen seems to do it all with a minimum of storm and stress. Unlike the legendary Bobby Fischer, he is not — as he is happy to point out — obsessed with chess. Last year, Carlsen surprised the chess community by turning down an invitation to take part in the cycle for the world chess championship. After calling for changes in the selection process and ... |
| Posted by calmrolfe uskidscompute.com 1/09/2003 09:42:11 Play online chess | Hmmm... Message: Very strange goings on in the toilet... Perhaps George Michael should have based his defence on the fact that he was a part time Chess Arbiter !! Neural implants will be the next "must have" accessory for budding GM's.... Kind regards, Cal ——— On Chess: For some greats, money is no issue — Have you ever considered hiring a chess teacher for yourself or a child? You might ask Magnus Carlsen for his advice. Under the tutelage of Garry Kasparov for a year or so starting in 2009, the 20-year-old Norwegian became the highest-rated chess player in the world. But there is a rub: the question of affordability. According to Carlsen’s father, Henrik, Kasparov’s fee was $690,000 — probably more than the former Russian world chess champion made for any comparable effort in his career. For Magnus, whom Henrik described as “not that interested in money,” Kasparov’s fee probably was no big deal. Largely, because of a sponsorship arrangement with the clothing manufacturer G-Star, the chess whiz earned ... |
| Posted by zoobrenok uskidscompute.com 1/09/2003 12:15:11 Play online chess | cairo Message: WOWOWOW!!! :-) ——— Chess: last of the brilliant Andersson manoeuvres — The positional master notes the seriousness of the situation – then fixes it. We conclude our survey of Ulf Andersson's positional play. White is threatening to manoeuvre the knight into e5, very much like the position from last week. How do you counter? RB: I haven't been doing too well with the Andersson positions. They've been too subtle for me, and this one seems beyond my powers as well. Can I stop the knight manoeuvre? 1…Nc6 doesn't help. White continues 2 Nf3 and makes the hop to e5 at his convenience. Since I can't stop the knight coming to e5, perhaps I should be making threats of my own. I can't see anything on the queenside – 1…a4 2 Ba2 leads to ... |
| Posted by __mda__ uskidscompute.com 1/09/2003 12:39:46 Play online chess | the sad fact is.. Message: as computers get smaller and cheaper, cheating is going to be a major problem at tournaments in the future.. I'm sure many of you have heard about people caught in vegas with "perfect card counting" computers hidden on their persons for playing blackjack ( one guy had a system where he'd tap numbers into the computer via his shoe ).. I fear this stuff is headed for chess tournaments where large $$$ is at stake. |
| Posted by triangulator uskidscompute.com 1/09/2003 13:30:32 Play online chess | that is sad Message: however I was told by a friend that his opp was listening to music, he assumed it was rap, but then started to hear just regular talking and also the guy kept saying his moves out lound as he wrote them down- like N to...e6 . so he went to the TD and the TD found an exuse to make him get rid of it, the TD then when turned it on and there was someone sending messages through it- lines. I think the guy can't play in OK |
| Posted by rebras uskidscompute.com 1/11/2003 14:37:44 Play online chess | The future looks bleak Message: after reading this...how I long for the "old days" when that technology wasn't available and we had to use our brain in tournaments....imagine that! |
| Posted by triangulator uskidscompute.com 1/11/2003 15:05:54 Play online chess | I still do Message: there is a new generation of kids( me and 5 others all good B class players) that do nothin but sit around, talk about chess and eat, or play blitz- or bughouse. we use our brians 12 hrs strait- the only comp we look at is the pairing pc |