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| Posted by calmrolfe uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 05:13:21 play online chess |  Subject: Undisputed Champion !!Message: "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 uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 07:06:05 play online chess | Nice story Message: 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 uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 08:10:29 play online chess | Aaaah !! Message: 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 :) |
| Posted by peppe_l uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 08:47:23 play online chess | Werent Klitschko brothers Message: Pretty strong players? |
| Posted by myway316 uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 17:54:49 play online chess | Parrvert... Message: 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. |
| Posted by myway316 uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 17:55:43 play online chess | Parrvert... Message: 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. |
| Posted by knightrider7 uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 19:23:17 play online chess | Message: i hear bill clinton likes to play chess. at least i think he does. someone told me he really likes to choke the bishop. |
| Posted by bellepheron uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 08:00:36 play online chess | Message: Stanley Kubrick earned a living hustling chess in the park before making it big... |
| Posted by premium_steve uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 10:11:37 play online chess | Message: 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 uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 21:04:38 play online chess | I live in memphis! Message: 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) :) |
Chess news: 21-year-old regains US Chess Championship title he held at age 16 -- A man who won the U.S. Chess Championship when he was just 16 has reclaimed the title at the age of 21. Hikaru Nakamura (pronounced Heh-CAR-uh NAH'-kuh-muh-rah) won the United States Chess Federation competition Sunday by beating Josh Friedel in the final round of the competition in St. Louis. He takes home a $40,000 prize. The chess ace from White Plains, N.Y., first won the title as a junior, breaking every age group record set by famed chess player Bobby Fischer, except that of youngest U.S. chess champion. The competition was held over 10 days at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. ... Nakamura Wins Second US Championship -- Hikaru Nakamura won the United States Championship on Sunday by making short work of his last round opponent, Josh Friedel. It was Nakamura’s second title; he also won in 2004, when he was only 16. Games from the chess championship, final standings and a video interview with Nakamura are on the Web site of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, which hosted the event. Nakamura, now 21, was the second-ranked chess player at the start and going into the last round, he was tied for first. Surprisingly, his closest competitor was not Gata Kamsky, the country’s top chess player, but Robert Hess, 17, who, when he is not playing chess, is a junior at the elite ... Battle of Generations -- The organizers of this year's U.S. chess championship in St. Louis offered a bonus $64,000 prize to the chess player who wins all his games. It was named after Bobby Fischer, who in the 1963-64 U.S. chess championship won all 11 games. It was an amazing performance. Fischer beat his nearest rival, Larry Evans, in their individual game with the King's gambit and finished 3½ points ahead of him. Repeating this feat is difficult. None of the chess players in St. Louis had a perfect score after the first three rounds and the Fischer Memorial Prize will not be awarded. The idea may stimulate other organizers. For example, FIDE may create the William Lombardy prize for the world's best ... | |