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| From | Message | Posted by zdrak
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5/29/2003
10:39:12
Play online chess |  Subject: Last OTB game for this season
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The regional chess league has concluded today for this season, and our team finished a respectable third out of eight. Not really bad, but we were hoping for more ... better luck next season.
In the final round, we faced the league leaders, who guaranteed their #1 place already before the last round. Last time we met the same team, they fielded a lineup of one International and three National Masters. This time they could afford to show with their second squad. Here is the game on board 1:
White: Yours Truly (1972)
Black: Y. Markovich (2059) - not to be confused with A. Markovich (2192) against whom I played 4 weeks ago.
1. e4 e6
Draw.
Sorry for the anti-climactic finish ... but since the season already came to an end, we decided not to strain our brain muscles too much and call it a draw on all four boards, and escaped the venue, each to his own kids and wife, screaming something to the effect of 'see you next year!'.
| Posted by fattycunny
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5/29/2003
14:49:30
Play online chess | girls
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is you play for the girls team?
| Posted by loreta
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5/29/2003
20:55:36
Play online chess | Very long game....
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Is it allowed in OTB to make a draw after 1 move?
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Chess: When one false move is fatal — With so few chess pieces left on the board, absolute precision is essential. Carlsen-L'Ami, Tata Steel 2011. What should Black play? This is from the top section of the recent Wijk aan Zee chess tournament and continues our theme of defence. RB: When I look at this I get the same feeling of panic and gloom I get when my 11-year-old son brings me his maths homework for my so-called help. His questions require a simple precise answer, and that's what's needed here – absolute precision, no spinning off into creative fantasy. With so few pieces on the board, one false move is invariably fatal. What's the threat? If the Black king moves to the h-file, there's always the danger of ...
| Posted by r_lawrence
uskidscompute.com
5/29/2003
23:16:12
Play online chess | Why ...
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Didn't you guys play?
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Nakamura Wins Tata Steel Chess Tournament — Hikaru Nakamura of the United States emerged as the winner of the elite section of the Tata Steel chess tournament in the Netherlands after a spate of draws in the final round on Sunday. Nakamura finished with 9 points, a half point ahead of Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion. Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Levon Aronian of Armenia tied for third, with 8 points each, while Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France were another half point back, tied for fifth. In the final round, Nakamura had Black against Wang Hao of China. Rather than act like a wallflower and try not to lose, Nakamura played aggressively, even offering to sacrifice ...
| Posted by zdrak
uskidscompute.com
5/30/2003
05:07:42
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r_lawrence,
Maybe you were too busy replaying the game and didn't notice the rest of the text of the message, so I'll repeat the key points for you:
since the season already came to an end, we decided not to strain our brain muscles too much and call it a draw on all four boards, and escaped the venue, each to his own kids and wife, screaming something to the effect of 'see you next year!'.
Of course, a much more relevant question would be: why did I waste bandwidth by posting this "game"? And the answer to this is: well, since I posted all the others, it just didn't seem right for me to skip the last one. It's a matter of journalistic integrity ...
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At 79, ‘Viktor the Terrible’ Outsmarts an 18-Year-Old — The game’s mental and physical toll eventually forces most top chess players to stop competing. And those who continue to play tend to avoid the elite chess tournaments where the pressure is greatest. Then there is Viktor Korchnoi. He was a top chess player for more than 30 years and competed for the world title three times. The last of those battles was in 1981, when he was 50. Four years ago, when he was 75, he was still ranked No. 85 in the world. Korchnoi will be 80 in March, and his ranking has slipped to No. 460. But he can still be a formidable opponent, and he has lost little of his zest for competition. (He earned the nickname Viktor the Terrible partly because of ...
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