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| From | Message | Posted by calmrolfe
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5/21/2003
05:13:21
Play online chess |  Subject: Undisputed Champion !!
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"AND THE NEW, UNDISPUTED HEAVYWEIGHT CHESS CHAMPION OF THE WORLD...IS.....LENNOX LEWIS !!!"
The US Chess Federation have just held their National Elementary Championships in Nashville, this involved 2,400 children from 41 US States and the team of six children who triumphed were the Oakhaven Lennox Lewis Chess Team !!!
Lennox Lewis spent US$14,000 helping prepare his team of children, paying for training sessions from GM Semyon Palatnik, (maybe assisted by Angelo Dundee with a bucket, sponge and mouth protector ? !!)
Anyway, good to see a keen chess player putting something back into the sport he loves, good on yer, Lennox mate.
Kind regards,
Cal
| Posted by parrvert
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5/21/2003
07:06:05
Play online chess | Nice story
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I wonder if he spends any of his money on chess in his home country. (no not Canada!)
I hear the Klitschko brothers also play chess, perhaps if and when he gets round to knocking Vitali out he will beat him at chess as well.
Does anyone know of any other celebrity chess players? I know Steve Davis has written a book about it.
| Posted by calmrolfe
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5/21/2003
08:10:29
Play online chess | Aaaah !!
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Steve Davis plays Chess, a veritable "minor chess classic" in it's own right !!
I.. found.. his.. comments.. on.. Chess.. to.. be.. very.. interesting..
What a crying shame he hasn't written a follow up, although he might struggle for a new title for the book, there again, being Steve Davis he might eventually think of "Steve Davis plays Chess - Book No 2"
His flair and annotation of chess matches is unrivalled, not even Bronstein at his best could rival "I aimed for a cannon off the pawn on e4 and potted the Queen on d1"
Alas, you don't get chess annotation like that anymore........
Kind regards,
Cal
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On Chess: Online games clear so many barriers — At its best, technology enhances our interaction with the world and ourselves. It allows us to transcend physical limitations. For chess players, Internet play can be a godsend. Time, space, age and health restrictions are diminished. It’s fun to go online and play game after game against a series of opponents at varying times and with time limits of your choice. Whether it’s 3 a.m. or one is a shut-in on Tierra del Fuego, or both, it’s possible to summon a willing chess foe from cyberspace. And if you lose, your anonymity can shield you even from the opponent. Online play, therefore, provides a haven for experimentation that isn’t easily available at a chess club. The games, electronically recorded and available for review, offer ...
| Posted by peppe_l
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5/21/2003
08:47:23
Play online chess | Werent Klitschko brothers
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Pretty strong players?
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Hou Yifan puts Humpy Koneru in her pocket yet again — If chess is ritualised psychological domination, China's Hou Yifan has Humpy Koneru in her pocket. Hou, the world women's chess champion at the age of 17, has just retained her title by defeating her Indian challenger 5.5-2.5 without losing a game. Tirana, Albania was the improbable venue which provided a €200,000 (£172,000) prize fund. The pair are the highest ranked women apart from Hungary's legend Judit Polgar who is in a class of her own and never competes in all-female chess events. On paper it should have been a close match but Hou had already twice eliminated Koneru from the biennial knockout world chess championships. In Tirana the Indian lacked confidence and ...
| Posted by myway316
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5/21/2003
17:54:49
Play online chess | Parrvert...
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I don't know about today's celebrities,but here is a list from the past:Humphery Bogart(said to be about USCF Expert strength),Charles Boyer,William Windom(said to be a real chess fanatic),John Wayne,Mischa Elman,Sergei Prokifiev,David Ostriakh,.There are others,of course,but those are the ones I remember most.
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When Bobby Fischer Played Chess Like Misha Tal — Reckless sacrifices were not his style, but for one day, one game and one moment in 1959 Bobby Fischer threw caution to the wind, went va banque and played like Mikhail Tal. His opponent was the Czech grandmaster Ludek Pachman and the game was played in Santiago de Chile. Tal mesmerized his opponents with a demonic look, quick mind and unsurpassed imagination. Sometimes his combinations were wrong, but it was always fun to watch him find his way through turbulent complications he created on the chess board. In 1956, Tal and Fischer slowly lifted their chess careers and began to fly. Bobby created his "game of the century" against Donald Byrne. Tal won the first seven games at the Student chess olympiad in ...
| Posted by myway316
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5/21/2003
17:55:43
Play online chess | Parrvert...
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I don't know about today's celebrities,but here is a list from the past:Humphery Bogart(said to be about USCF Expert strength),Charles Boyer,William Windom(said to be a real chess fanatic),John Wayne,Mischa Elman,Sergei Prokifiev,David Ostriakh,.There are others,of course,but those are the ones I remember most.
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Chess: Cheeky opening play — The bold Armenian Levon Aronian is one to watch out for at the London Chess Classic, as this unusual game shows. The third London Chess Classic begins this weekend at Kensington Olympia. The world no 1 Magnus Carlsen is the favourite, but in such a short tournament, and with the soccer scoring system, there could be an upset. Watch out for the Armenian Levon Aronian. Off the board he's laid back, on the board he is often bold and original. Here, in a standard Queen's Gambit position, instead of developing his king's bishop and castling, Aronian has advanced his kingside pawns. How would you respond with Black? RB: Outrageous! To advance the kingside pawns so early in the game ...
| Posted by knightrider7
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5/21/2003
19:23:17
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i hear bill clinton likes to play chess. at least i think he does. someone told me he really likes to choke the bishop.
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At times, young guns ignore famed coach — Being coached by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov might seem a straightforward matter. But it isn’t, for either the extraordinary mentor or his students of recent years: Norwegian chess phenom Magnus Carlsen, his disciple during 2009-10; and American standout Hikaru Nakamura. All three are extraordinarily independent. After notably improving his results under the Russian grandmaster, Carlsen pointedly explained that it was he — not Kasparov — who actually made the moves on the chess board. And Nakamura matter-of-factly admitted that he has several times ignored Kasparov’s advice — once choosing to play in a poker event rather than a chess competition — despite having a spectacular chess ...
| Posted by bellepheron
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5/22/2003
08:00:36
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Stanley Kubrick earned a living hustling chess in the park before making it big...
| Posted by premium_steve
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5/22/2003
10:11:37
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doesn't jay ingram (ingrim? sp?) from the discovery channel play? i thought i heard someone say that he has a pretty high rating...
| Posted by rubicox
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5/22/2003
21:04:38
Play online chess | I live in memphis!
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I also play at the lennox lewis tourneys at oakhavenen Jr. high scool on sundays everyonce and a while. these players from oakhaven live in the ghetto, but you wouldnt notice it over the board, ive played many of the top lenox lewis players, and i usualy see them every friday when the come over to the memphis chess club at the law school, one of there best players is abdoulae diallo with a USCF rating of about 1600, he has been playing chess for a year and a half, his brother abou diallo(there both from africa) is even higher rated, i havent played him much. in the 9 grade memphis chamiopnchip i played abdoulae in the third round, i beat him horribly but only for the rason being that he fasts on ramadan, later i got careless in the last round and lost to a cheap mate, we both lost one game and i played him ine playoffs the first game was a cheap draw and the second he slaughtered me(im not good at fast games thats why i play at gameknot). mschess.org, go to player on the sidebar, click on Jr. high, im fourth there i think(i consder myself underated) abdoulae and abou should be on there to.(oakhaven is the russian chess machine in memphis consder myself the lone fischer) :)
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