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| Posted by gooftrooper uskidscompute.com 1/15/2003 12:03:12 Play online chess |  Subject: Into the top 50!Message: i (gooftrooper) have entered the top 50 highest rated players for the u.k (GMT). If you only count players with 20 finished games so they are more accurate. Im so happy! ;-)))))))))))))))))))) |
| Posted by triangulator uskidscompute.com 1/15/2003 12:29:56 Play online chess | congrats!! Message: I am in the top 200 here as of a couple of days ago |
| Posted by nwadvana uskidscompute.com 1/16/2003 10:33:17 Play online chess | Do you mean the top 50 for gameknot uk players? Message: If so, how can you fint this info on this site? ——— Rising Chess Stars Open up a Lead at NH Tournament — The saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link is also true for chess teams. Unfortunately for the older team at the annual NH Tournament in the Netherlands, it seems to have three weak links right now. After seven rounds, the rising stars lead the experience team 19 to 16. The top chess player for the experience team, Boris Gelfand of Israel, is actually playing very well. He has scored 5 points — the most in the competition. Peter Svidler of Russia is playing beneath his ability, but he still has 3.5 points. But the other three experience members — Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark, Loek Van Wely of the Netherlands and Ljubomir Ljubojevic of Serbia — each have only 2.5 points. That is ... |
| Posted by gooftrooper uskidscompute.com 1/16/2003 10:49:36 Play online chess | nuts! Message: ive dropped out of the top 50 :( nwadvana you can find this stuff on advanced player serches. click on 'more options' on the left hand side menu and it is one of the options. gooftrooper ——— Two Win Diminished Chess Crowns — Boris Spassky, the future world chess champion, was once world junior champion. So were Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand, the current world chess champion. It used to be that the world junior championship was an important stepping stone for chess players who had dreams of becoming the best in the world. No longer. While the junior championship, which is open to participants 20 years old or younger, still draws talented chess players, the best of them usually skip the event because they are already among the world’s elite. Among those who were eligible to play this year, but did not, are Magnus Carlsen of Norway, No. 1 in the world; Sergey Karjakin of ... |
| Posted by tombro uskidscompute.com 1/16/2003 11:13:25 Play online chess | Neat! Message: I'm in the top 200 of US players, although it doesn't always feel that way :-[ ——— Steinitz's Immortal Chess Game — Enough is enough and you throw in the towel. That's the elegant way to give up in boxing. In chess, there are more ways of resigning a game before you get actually mated. The manner Curt von Bardeleben did it 115 years ago during the legendary chess tournament at the English seaside resort of Hastings, still generates controversy. Having been brilliantly outplayed by William Steinitz, the German count got up from his chair, left the chess tournament hall and disappeared in the streets. Consequently, he lost on time. Von Bardeleben was playing the tournament of his life and in the first nine rounds went undefeated, scoring six wins and three draws. Could a single loss upset him so ... |
| Posted by triangulator uskidscompute.com 1/16/2003 11:52:16 Play online chess | I am on Message: the top 100 list uscf ——— The middlegame: The art of a successful attack — A lesson in creative aggression from Luke McShane. Over the last few weeks we have concentrated on the technical precision of endings, and by contrast we now move to a much messier phase of the game of chess – the middlegame and, more specifically, attacking. Often, the knack in playing a successful attack is finding an idea that throws your opponent off balance. Subsequent analysis might prove the idea unsound – in recent years that has frequently happened, with every master move scrutinised by strong computer chess programmes. But so what? Machine analysis is a world away from a competitive situation where the chess clock is ticking and the defender knows that one slip will be ... |
| Posted by furious uskidscompute.com 1/16/2003 12:18:51 Play online chess | I wonder.... Message: Which country has the most high rated players? Could it be Italy? US? ——— For Top Seeds, No Guarantee of Victory, or Success — In a sport like tennis, it is not unusual to see a top seed win a tournament. But in chess, the margin between a No. 1 seed and most of the field is often small, and the top chess player is usually not the prohibitive favorite. Three chess tournaments that ended last weekend illustrated that rule, and the exceptions. The British Chess Championships was won by Michael Adams, who has been one of the top chess players in the world for 15 years and was in the Top 10 as recently as three years ago. When the tournament began, Adams outranked his nearest competitor by 150 rating points, which is more than a whole class better. He finished 1.5 points ahead of the No. 2 seed — a margin ... |
| Posted by gooftrooper uskidscompute.com 1/17/2003 12:45:12 Play online chess | great! Message: im back in! |
| Posted by kamikazelb uskidscompute.com 1/21/2003 08:24:27 Play online chess | Message: i think russia is a worthy candidate for the high rated players |
| Posted by kamikazelb uskidscompute.com 1/21/2003 08:24:35 Play online chess | Message: i think russia is a worthy candidate for the high rated players |