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| Posted by chris21 uskidscompute.com 1/21/2003 14:13:28 Play online chess |  Subject: World chess rankings list?Message: Does anyone know of a website or a source of information where I can see the world rankings for chess players? I know Kasparov is No.1 and I THINK Anand is No.2 but I'd be very interested to see an extensive list. Thanks in advance:) |
| Posted by thegreatpolgar uskidscompute.com 1/21/2003 14:19:27 Play online chess | Try Message: www.fide.com/ Nikki |
| Posted by atrifix uskidscompute.com 1/21/2003 15:54:31 Play online chess | Message: Kramnik has been trailing Kasparov by about 30 points for a few years. Fischer is (still!) #3, but inactive of course. Anand is about 50 points behind them. ——— New and Old Chess Champions — As we enter the new decade, the chess world is ruled by a middle-aged man and a teenage girl. A twenty-something phenom presides over the world's chess ratings and a new book recalling one of the greatest chess magicians has been published recently. The Chess Champions. Vishy Anand steps into the year 2011 as the world chess champion. At 41, the Indian grandmaster can look back on his career contentedly. In 1991 in Brussels, he almost eliminated Anatoly Karpov from the world championship cycle. In the next 20 years, Anand won many major tournaments and world championships under different formats and time controls. How long can Anand keep the world title is ... |
| Posted by calmrolfe uskidscompute.com 1/22/2003 00:42:53 Play online chess | I think you may find Message: that because Fischer is deemed to be inactive he has been replaced at No3 on the official rating lists by Anand. Kind regards, Cal ——— To Play Better Against Attractive Women, Men Need to Avert Their Eyes — Do men get distracted by and play chess differently against attractive women than against other opponents? Yes, according to a study by Swedish researchers. Called “Beauty Queens and Battling Knights: Risk Taking and Attractiveness in Chess,” the study used a large data set of results from international chess tournaments and cross-referenced them with photographs of 626 of the chess players — almost half of them women — whose attractiveness was rated by at least 50 independent observers. The study concluded, “Our results suggest that male chess players choose significantly riskier strategies when playing against an attractive female opponent, even though this does not ... |
| Posted by triangulator uskidscompute.com 1/22/2003 11:59:24 Play online chess | no I don't Message: all i know is that i am on the top of 1 list! ——— 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 ... |