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Posted by zormaster
uskidscompute.com
1/03/2004
15:31:46
Play online chess |  Subject: Games
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Looking for over 1800 rated players who like to match me in fair battles.
Was high rated but some personal matters made me losing games.
Natacha Burkow
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Posted by brobishkin
uskidscompute.com
1/03/2004
16:01:12
Play online chess | OK...
Message:
It says you are looking for matches in fair battle... What exactly is an unfair battle?...
And what exactly are the personal matters that caused you to lose games... Just wondering...
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Posted by coyotefan
uskidscompute.com
1/03/2004
16:41:27
Play online chess | OUCH!!
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Tons of timeouts. Why would anyone want to play a 1800 quality player who has a rating of only 1411 because of timeouts. Does not sound like a fair battle to me :)
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Relentless Veselin Topalov wins again — The great double round robin in Linares, Spain, ended in a dramatic victory for world chess championship challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. Like a crafty pitcher who wins without his best stuff, Topalov succeeded without revealing any opening secrets he had prepared for his April match against chess champion Viswanathan Anand. Two of his four wins came from inferior positions, and only once did he outplay his opponent thanks to an advantage in the opening. Topalov's legendary determination highlighted the final round. His cautious opponent, Boris Gelfand of Israel, reached an obviously drawn endgame, yet Topalov induced an almost imperceptible ...
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Posted by ketchuplover
uskidscompute.com
1/03/2004
20:28:40
Play online chess |
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If this is who I think it is she is a very strong player. I'm surprised she's not looking for players with a min rating of 2000. I wouldn't be surprised if she's the best player here!!
If the people here enjoy a tough game she'll certainly give you one :)
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Chess notes — In a review of Diego Rasskin-Gutman’s book “Chess Metaphors’’ (MIT Press), which deserves special attention by chess lovers, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has published in The New York Review of Books a retrospective look at the development of chess machines. He also expresses a hope for the future. It is strange to this column that Kasparov ever thought that he would be a worthy opponent of chess computers. The computers have so many advantages over human beings in playing chess that it is hardly a fair fight. The chess computer memory is simply a copying device, the machine can look at any number of books on chess openings, and ...
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Posted by ctrl-reset
uskidscompute.com
1/03/2004
21:29:55
Play online chess | Doesnt matter...
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Ppl time out for various reasons. Atleast zormaster was honest in admitting his/her actual rating so that poor player like me dont get fooled. Doesnt honesty pay anymore? The world these days seemed filled with doubts.
-Ctrl.
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The f-pawn, part 3: a blunt but effective attack? — Punting the f-pawn down the chess board may be desperate but it sometimes gets results. The Grand Prix Attack. White has just offered the f-pawn. How should Black reply? RB We've been using the metaphor of route-one football in our survey of the f-pawn advance, and while we all know from experience that the long, hopeful punt down the park can produce the occasional goal, this looks to me just a little too early and a little too crude. The team is barely on the pitch and the ball has already been booted up the other end. On principle alone it seems wrong. I can't decide whether Black's best response is 1…exf5 or simply to continue with ...
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Posted by lexherman
uskidscompute.com
1/03/2004
21:38:07
Play online chess | Talking about fair
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Dropping your Elo from 2000+ to 1400....then join a team. Then play teamgames against players of 1200. Nice way to make yourself popular in a team by gathering lots of points.
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Vietnamese surprise in Moscow — The Aeroflot Open, arguably the strongest open chess tournament ever, ended Feb. 19 in Moscow. The field of 80 included 75 chess grandmasters. The surprising winner of 21,000 Euros (about $28,000) for first place was 18-year-old Le Quang Liem of Vietnam, who scored an undefeated 7-2. His success followed his tie for first place in the Moscow Open, another GM-heavy chess tournament, a day before the start of the Aeroflot Open. Entering the last round of the Aeroflot Open, Le shared the lead with his countryman Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, 19. Le defeated 2009 winner Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia), while Nguyen lost to GM Anton Korobov (Ukraine), who took ...
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Posted by zormaster
uskidscompute.com
1/03/2004
23:05:34
Play online chess | Talking about fair
Message:
Lexerman
You and me are far away what we call friends so i notice your messages and set it in my garbage can. My personal reasons are personal and just a very few here know whats up and thats it, eat it or leave it.
Bye darling
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A Chess Player’s Attacks Pay Off, Even When They Shouldn’t — Computer chess programs are so popular, and so good, that almost anybody can use one to figure out where a chess player went wrong — when the game is over. But at the chess board, competitors can rely only on their brains and wits (unless they are cheating) and are bound to make mistakes, especially when they are under pressure. One reason why Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria is so good is that he forces opponents to make mistakes. Ranked No. 2 in the world, he is an aggressive chess player who is always trying to attack. There are problems with this approach, when being aggressive is not justified. But the constant pressure that he places on his opponents often ...
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Posted by lexherman
uskidscompute.com
1/03/2004
23:29:20
Play online chess | i miss the point....
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What reasons can there be for a Fide (grand)master (?)... to play as a 1200 player against another team. And do this trick against the same 1200 player 4x in a row?? We are no friends i agree...as a matter of fact i did not want to have anything to do with you again. Since i play in the same team as this player...and you were yourself beginning in this thread about "fair"play i just could not resist to confront you once again.
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Posted by zormaster
uskidscompute.com
1/04/2004
00:26:31
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Fide grandmaster? who?where? when, which? Listen man: a personal matter is a personal matter and thats it. fair? yes fair. My teamcaptain has given open business of the rating mine so it is all fair and square. I do not know which direction you want to go with this matter but lex you must learn to accept someones personal issues. Want a game lex?
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Posted by lexherman
uskidscompute.com
1/04/2004
00:40:05
Play online chess | Thank you , but no thanks
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I do not want to play a game with you. As a matter of fact after this incident the matter is closed for me. I have said what i had to say. i do not want to have anything to do with you. End of story.
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Posted by zormaster
uskidscompute.com
1/04/2004
00:41:33
Play online chess | glad you won't
Message:
Ciao
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Posted by thumper
uskidscompute.com
1/04/2004
00:42:50
Play online chess | Just to clarify a point ctrl-reset
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Zormaster didn't say a word about being a strong (2000+ level) player until Mateintwo complained about the deception to Irish-Pete, captain of Vlad's Impalers', on their team thread a day and a half earlier. He was quickly dismissed by the captain. Not only were the low level players getting 'fooled' in the team games, with Irish-Pete's knowledge, Zormaster was bragging about how easily he/she had won.
The esteem that Vlad's Impalers once held is now greatly diminished. In this matter, count me with Lexherman.
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Posted by zormaster
uskidscompute.com
1/04/2004
00:52:41
Play online chess | Bragging?
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No it was more boring about the level of my games and so i told a few of my opponents when they asked me if i liked it. Answer: NO
I suppose that any team captain a bright enough to ask another how good/bad the level is of his coming opponents and if not, dont be a whiner after a though defeat.
Have a nice day
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Posted by lexherman
uskidscompute.com
1/04/2004
00:54:39
Play online chess | one more time
Message:
Take a look at their team thread. mate in 9 moves huraaah!!!!
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Posted by zormaster
uskidscompute.com
1/04/2004
00:55:52
Play online chess | last word
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And i never ever asked for this useless conversation. i just asked for strong players; no less and no more.
Team issues is a matter for teamcaptains and not for us members of a team here on this forum.
Take care buddy.
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Posted by thumper
uskidscompute.com
1/04/2004
00:59:12
Play online chess | Thanks for the rebuttal
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Zormaster but I wasn't talking to you. Anyway, you 'have a nice day' too.
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Posted by zormaster
uskidscompute.com
1/04/2004
01:04:37
Play online chess | one more time
Message:
child
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Posted by gameknot_com
uskidscompute.com
1/04/2004
11:26:30
Play online chess |
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I'm going to close this thread for new posts before this "discussion" escalates into personal insults.
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