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| Posted by bravesfan4ever uskidscompute.com 12/30/2003 10:31:10 Play online chess |  Subject: openings...Message: Could some one show me the evans gambit, the silician dragon and the tarasch openings? ...and if you could, can you show me some other good openings? thanks |
| Posted by ctrl-reset uskidscompute.com 12/30/2003 10:47:08 Play online chess | Some Opening Literature Message: The site below is one of the best when it comes to chess theory. I've provided the link to the opening's section, as requested. www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/openings.html Enjoy your experience. -Ctrl. |
| Posted by achillesheel uskidscompute.com 12/30/2003 11:42:37 Play online chess | Right On Ctrl-Reset Message: That is a great site and one of the first I used when I started getting back into the game a few months ago. Bravesfan, here is another one: www.chessgames.com/ ——— Chess-mad Armenia's heroes return in triumph — Armenia's top chess players, lauded as heroes after winning the 2011 World Team Chess Championship this week, vowed on Friday to boost the small chess-mad country's status in the game even further. The team's head coach said that future successes will be secured through official support and an unusual new scheme to promote the game among schoolchildren initiated by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian, a keen chess player who also heads the country's Chess Federation. "Because of this attention and care, we can improve our game," coach Arshak Petrosian told a press conference, two days after returning from the chess tournament in China to a rapturous welcome from fans and ... |
| Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 12/30/2003 12:00:27 Play online chess | Bravesfan; Re:other good openings Message: About other good openings...If you are going to play the ones you listed, I think a couple good "backup" openings to giveyou some diversity would be: The Polugaevsky var. of the Najdorf Sicilian(BL plays an early b5), to backup your Dragon. And the Goring Gambit to back-up your Evans Gambit. Much of the skills and positional understanding learned from your first choices would be transferable to these. ——— U.S. doesn't medal in China — During a long and grueling chess tournament here in Ningbo, China, the U.S. team had real chances to capture a medal at the World Team Championship. But the competition proved too fierce, and we had to settle for tie for fourth place with 10 total points. However, after the complex tiebreak system, the U.S. ended up in sixth place, which is slightly better than our original seventh-place seeding. Still, it was a bit disappointing, as we squandered some golden opportunities. In a normal chess tournament, an individual receives one point for a win and a half point for a draw. The same was true for this event, but individual results were tallied up after each round and then teams were awarded points based ... |
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