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| Posted by drgandalf uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 09:39:37 Play online chess |  Subject: UnderpromotionMessage: Has anyone ever seen a game or a study involving the promotion of a pawn to a bishop? |
| Posted by indiana-jay uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 10:11:08 Play online chess | Message: Hmmm... I don't know but a Queen has the characteristic of a Bishop, so I don't think that it is necessary to promote to a Bishop. |
| Posted by tulkos uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 11:32:19 Play online chess | but it, would be easier, Message: say if you promoted to a queen or rook,the result would be stalemate, so you promote instead to a bishop which is easier to mate with than N + B. ——— World Chess Cup Offers an Opening for Players With Ambitions — The top 30 chess players in the world can earn good livings. But it is considerably more difficult for the players ranked just below them. Their appearance fees are lower, and they rarely are invited to the chess tournaments that offer the best prize money. For these players, the World Chess Cup now being held in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, is a great opportunity. With a field of 128 and prize money totaling $1.6 million — with $120,000 going to the winner — the tournament is giving some second-tier players a chance to compete against the chess elite, and perhaps to join them. The winner also will be seeded into the candidates’ matches for the world chess ... |
| Posted by wirzan uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 00:53:16 Play online chess | I've seen a game Message: where white promotes to a bishop to confuse his opponent. If he had promoted to a queen, black surely would have taken it, but he didn't take maybe cuz he would have lost an exchange (rook vs bishop) even tho it would have led to a draw game) White won the game. I don't remember where I saw the game, but I'll try to find it. ——— Chess notes — The chess news from Moscow simply inundated the world this month; first as former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia demonstrated that he is still a strong contender for that title. He won the Tal Memorial, held in Moscow in early November in a star-studded field of 10 of the world’s highest rated chess grandmasters. Since Kramnik lost his unified world title in 2007 to Viswanathan Anand, there have been questions about what the future held for him but he has certainly reasserted himself this year. Besides capturing the Tal Memorial, he also buttoned up his ninth title in the Dortmund, Germany, chess tournament. In the Tal tourney, Kramnik scored 6 points, heading ... |
| Posted by caldazar uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 01:56:25 Play online chess | A fun study by Smyslov Message: White: King on a5, bishop on c2, knight on d2, pawns on a6, d3, f5, g6, h4, and h5. Black: King on a8, bishop on f2, pawns on a2, a7, b2, d4, and h6. (FEN: k7/p7/P5Pp/K4P1P/3p3P/3P4/ppBN1b2/8 w - - 0 1) White to play and win. ——— Magnus Carlsen wins blitz championship — The World Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow assembled 22 leading grandmasters for a three-day extravaganza of speed chess. Each player had three minutes, plus a bonus of two seconds per move, to complete a game. This time limit has supplanted five minute games as the standard for blitz. Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen, who turns 19 Monday, won with a fantastic score of 31-11. That's 28 wins, eight losses and only six draws. World chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India, two weeks shy of age 40, continues to excel at a young man's game. He finished second with 28-14. Sergey Karjakin, who recently moved from Ukraine to Russia, was third at ... |
| Posted by mormel12 uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 04:59:40 Play online chess | is that one Message: already in the puzzle section? greetings ——— Magnus Carlsen's star continues to rise in Norway — Magnus Carlsen's World Blitz victory in Moscow has made the 19-year-old the darling of the Norwegian media. Carlsen scored 31/42 in the double-round event against the chess elite, with a rating performance close to 2900. He finished three points clear of world chess champion Vishy Anand, and six ahead of Sergey Karjakin in third. Despite this impressive performance, it was one of Carlsen's few defeats which really put him on the front pages and raised his fame quotient in Oslo to a par with Bobby Fischer. In an early round he lost to the world woman champion Alexandra Kosteniuk after blundering a rook, briefly attempting to substitute another move, and resigning ... |
| Posted by clemens uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 05:38:23 Play online chess | Caldazar Message: I didn't get very far with that one.... (1. g7 a1=Q+ 2. Ba4 Qg1 - correct so far?) I'd really like to see the correct analysis posted here. ——— So tackles Kamsky after booting out Ivanchuk — Filipino chess Grandmaster Wesley So claimed the biggest scalp of his young chess career Wednesday night, sealing a 1.5-.5 victory over super GM Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine to barge into the third round of the 2009 World Chess Cup at the Khanty-Mansiysk Center of Arts. Continuing his strong showing against higher-rated chess players, the 16-year-old So held Ivanchuk to a fighting draw in the second game of their second round encounter to forge a showdown with defending chess champion GM Gata Kamsky of the United States. So stunned the sixth-seeded Ivanchuk (Elo 2739) with the black pieces in Game 1 Tuesday night. His confidence boosted, So then ... |
| Posted by thomaswolf uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 07:25:32 Play online chess | I did it ;-)) Message: Hi everybody ;-)) I promoted a pawn to a bishop board #598237 for , like told wirzan , confuse my opponent ;-)) But I don't know yet if I will win this game ;-)) See you Thomas ;-)) |
| Posted by wirzan uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 08:22:13 Play online chess | I found the site Message: www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/minor.htm it's a great site with lots of practical underpromotions |
| Posted by bigh uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 10:36:29 Play online chess | are there Message: any examples of under promotion to a knight? |
| Posted by gambitnut uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 10:40:01 Play online chess | I'm sure a knight is much more common Message: A knight can do things a queen can't. |
| Posted by zdrak uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 11:02:51 Play online chess | Message: White: Kg1, Qh5, Rf1, pawns g2, g7, h2 Black: Kg8, Qd7, Re8, pawns a7, h7 White to move and win |
| Posted by xerox uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 11:15:19 Play online chess | Message: rf8 rxf8 qxh7 kxh7 pxf7 and promote it to a knight |
| Posted by caldazar uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 12:06:17 Play online chess | Message: "White: King on a5, bishop on c2, knight on d2, pawns on a6, d3, f5, g6, h4, and h5. Black: King on a8, bishop on f2, pawns on a2, a7, b2, d4, and h6. (FEN: k7/p7/P5Pp/K4P1P/3p3P/3P4/ppBN1b2/8 w - - 0 1) White to play and win." 1. g7 is incorrect because Black can stop White from promoting with 1...a1=Q+ and 2...Qg1 as posted. Therefore, to prevent Black from playing his queen to g1, White should play 1. Bb1. I'm not sure if this study is in the puzzles section or not; I don't visit that area regularly. |
| Posted by zdrak uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 12:32:25 Play online chess | Message: A nice one! Here's the solution, don't scroll down if you still want to solve for yourselves: 1.Bb1 (thanks for the hint!) a1=Q+ 2.Kb5 and now white is safe from checks, and threatens g7-g8. So black plays: 2...Bg3! 3.g7 Bb8 With the point that g8=Q (or R) is now stalemate after Qa5+ Kxa5. But white has: 4.g8=B!! threatening Bd5#, and of course the Queen sac is not a stalemate now. Which leaves black only: 4...Be5 Or any other other bishop move for that matter... 5.Bga2! The queen is trapped and white wins. |
| Posted by spijker uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 13:02:21 Play online chess | 2 other nice problems Message: White: Kh1,Bg1 Black: Kh3,Nd2 and pawn f2 Black to move White:Kg1 and pawns f7,c6,c5,c4 Black: Ka6,Ba7 White to move Source unknown to me. |
| Posted by drgandalf uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 15:42:40 Play online chess | Thanks Message: Thanks for your help everyone. |
| Posted by gambitnut uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 16:14:53 Play online chess | If you haven't seen it before ... Message: ...here's a fun one! White: Kf8 Qa1 Rb1,h4 Ba8,d8 Nb2,f7 Pd2,f2,c4,a5,f5,a6,e6,d7 Black: Kd4 Qb8 Bf4 Pe7,f6,c5,b3,a2 White to play and mate in four. |
| Posted by gambitnut uskidscompute.com 5/22/2003 18:55:58 Play online chess | For when you are ready to give up Message: www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/babs.html |