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| Posted by karakoram uskidscompute.com 1/18/2003 02:33:18 Play online chess |  Subject: Piece offer against anti-MarschallMessage: The opening went as follows, I was black: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0-0 Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 0-0 8. a4 Bb7 9. c3 Te8?! 10. d4 exd4 11. e5 Ng4 12. h3 Nxf2 13. Kxf2 Bc5 Can someone analyze this position? My computer isn't able to do that well, because you have to think possibly 20 moves, to have a good endgame. The game continued: 14. Bg5 dxc3+ 15. Kf1 cxb2 16. Ra2 Be7 17. Bf4 bxa4 18. Bxa4 Bb4 19. Re3 e5 20. Nc3 Nxe5!! 21. Nxe5 Rxe5 22. Bxe5 Qg5 23. Qg4 Bxc3 24. Rxb2 Qxg4 25. hxg4 Ba6+ 26. Bb5 Bxb2 27. Bxe5 Rxe5 28. Bxb2 d6 end the engame became a draw. I know the last couple of moves at both sides could have been better, but it happened. |
| Posted by nightwalker uskidscompute.com 1/18/2003 03:51:15 Play online chess | Would it be possible to.... Message: Put a link to the game so people are able to view the moves for themselves instead of having to memorise it in thier minds. Then I am sure you will get an answer to your question! nightwalker |
| Posted by atrifix uskidscompute.com 1/19/2003 22:18:06 Play online chess | Message: After 14. Kf1 it's hard to see where Black's compensation is. White can answer ...d6 by e6, and Black doesn't really have any other attacking moves. It looks like the position is about equal except white is up a piece :) If I'm missing something, please point it out. ——— Chess grandmasters use twice the brain : Study — It may take years of hard work to become a chess grandmaster, but it gives a real boost to the brain – for working out chess problems, at least. It seems expert chess players use both sides of their brain to process chess tasks, rather than just one. Merim Bilalic at the University of Tübingen in Germany used fMRI to scan the brains of eight international chess players and eight novices while they identified either geometrical shapes or whether the pieces on a chess board were in a check situation. The expert players were quicker at solving the chess problem, activating areas on both sides of their brains as they did so. The novices used just the left side. Bilalic had expected ... |
| Posted by gambitnut uskidscompute.com 1/19/2003 22:41:07 Play online chess | I think you have black's 19th move wrong Message: White already has a pawn on e5. ——— Chess: The best form of defence — It may be a cliche, but in a tight spot attacking can be the best way forward. RB: Hands up those of you who plumped for 1 Rb1. There's no disgrace if you did. Peter Leko, rated 2743 when he played this game, opted for exactly that and went on to draw. It's the move I thought of when I first came across the game, in Drazen Marovic's Secrets of Positional Chess – but is it the best? After a series of miserable failures on my part, the boot's on the other foot this week – it's Dan's turn to solve the chess puzzle. DK: Black's rook has just swept down to c2 attacking the pawn on b2, and although that could be defended with 1 Rb1, my gut feeling tells me not to look at this too deeply ... |
| Posted by caldazar uskidscompute.com 1/19/2003 22:59:28 Play online chess | Message: I agree with atrifix; White is simply a piece. After 14. Kf1, White is threatening the simple 15. cxd4. 14... d6 fails to 15. e6, 14... dxc3 fails to 15. Nxc3 (if you're poor at tactics or really love bishops) or 15. Bxf7+ Kxf7 16. Qd5+. 14... bxa4 15. Rxa4 doesn't change matters much and practically everything else Black can play fails to 15. cxd4. Well, I suppose 14... Na5 can be met by 15. Bc2, but 15. cxd4 is fine here too. ——— America Has a New Chess Grandmaster and Three New International Masters — United States chess has rarely, if ever, had a week like the one that ended Saturday. On Saturday, four Americans earned titles at the Berkeley International chess tournament. Samuel Shankland, 19, the reigning United States Junior Champion, became a grandmaster, while Keaton Kiewra, 23, Daniel Naroditsky, 15, and Conrad Holt, 17, all qualified as international masters. Kiewra actually earned a grandmaster norm — the first of three needed for the title — but he still must raise his international rating above 2,400 to satisfy the requirements for the international master title. That is often less difficult than achieving the norms. Tatev Abrahamyan, 22 (she will be 23 on Thursday), earned ... |
| Posted by caldazar uskidscompute.com 1/19/2003 23:05:49 Play online chess | That should read Message: White is simply a piece up. ——— China Rises, and Checkmates — If there’s a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politburo chief, not to an Internet tycoon, but to a quiet, mild-mannered teenage girl named Hou Yifan. Ms. Hou (whose name is pronounced Ho Ee-fahn) is an astonishing phenomenon: at 16, she is the new women’s world chess champion, the youngest person, male or female, ever to win a world chess championship. And she reflects the way China — by investing heavily in education and human capital, particularly in young women — is increasingly having an outsize impact on every aspect of the world. Napoleon is famously said to have declared, “When China wakes, it will shake the world.” That is becoming ... |