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| Posted by adrian2004 uskidscompute.com 11/09/2004 02:04:59 Play online chess |  Subject: Chess ClocksMessage: Ive started helping out with a school chess club age 7-11. The club needs to obtain some chess clocks. Does anyone either know where I can get some cheap second hand clocks, or alternatively know of anywhere that has some spare. Thanks in advance. |
| Posted by chrisp uskidscompute.com 11/09/2004 12:01:44 Play online chess | Local clubs Message: may be able to either lend you some clocks on occasions, or may have some older ones they no longer want and may be willing to let you have either free or cheap. Generally though, I have always found that it is difficult to get hold of second hand clocks cheaply, unless they are knackered!! Is there any chance of the school putting some money towards them, as the parents might be willing to chip in as well. Anythings worth a try!! Good luck chrisp |
| Posted by adrian2004 uskidscompute.com 11/11/2004 11:28:17 Play online chess | Message: Ill pester the school. I had a little look on internet and clocks seemed to start from about Ł25 is that about right?? ——— Chess Ratings Inflation Leads to a Record Ranking — There are two firsts in the current ranking of the world’s top chess competitors, which was released on Tuesday. Four of the chess players have a rating (the number used to create the rankings) of 2,800 or higher, and 47 players have a rating of at least 2,700. Before Garry Kasparov did it in 1990, no chess player — not even Bobby Fischer at his peak — had crossed 2,800. Now six have done so. A rating of 2,700, which used to be the level at which chess players were considered elite, has become almost ordinary. In fact, the average rating of the world’s top 100 chess players is 2,701. But ratings inflation — caused in part by looser rules guiding them — makes it difficult to compare different eras. The ratings system was ... |
| Posted by chrisp uskidscompute.com 11/12/2004 12:18:21 Play online chess | yeah Message: probably about right - although most a bit more than that. Good luck ——— On Chess: Fischer never sought hero treatment — Bobby Fischer’s conviction that he could play chess to a draw against God, at least with the white pieces, wasn’t a mark of arrogance. It was simply an obvious fact, he thought, if he made the right moves. Although he received much negative publicity, Fischer was usually surprisingly approachable. New York chess grandmaster and Fischer contemporary Andy Soltis recalls their first meeting in the book Bobby Fischer Rediscovered: “He was relaxed, natural and not at all the prima donna I’d read about. He was just Bobby.” Such was my impression and that of many others who had contact with him. But, as his mother cautioned early in his life, her gifted and sensitive son intensely disliked being ... |