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Posted by kansaspatzer uskidscompute.com 10/31/2005 21:59:25 Play online chess	Subject: Kasparov number Message: What's everybody's Kasparov numbers? Mine is four, though based upon flukes.
Posted by velvetvelour uskidscompute.com 10/31/2005 22:30:43 Play online chess	Message: What?
Posted by schnarre uskidscompute.com 10/31/2005 22:54:29 Play online chess	Message: Eh!?!?!?!? ——— Meteoric Rise for One Who Had Turned Away — Chess players earn ratings through their performances, and the easiest way to gauge improvement is to chart a rating over time. Ratings usually rise gradually as a player gets better. The exceptions involve young chess players whose ratings have not caught up to their development. Matthew Herman, a 24-year-old American, would seem to be an even bigger exception. For many years, Hermanâ€™s international rating was 2,149, the level of a candidate master, because he rarely played and almost never entered tournaments sanctioned by the World Chess Federation. But late last year, after competing in five tournaments, his rating jumped to 2,392. He also fulfilled two-thirds of ...
Posted by bonsai uskidscompute.com 10/31/2005 22:57:03 Play online chess	Message: Presumably the same as an Erdös number, however do we count beating/losing to/or just playing against Kasparov for the definition? ——— Nigel Short maintains reputation despite age and loss of form — Nigel Short, at 45, is now the oldest chess player in the top 100 grandmasters in the world and has dropped far below his peak but the England No2 is still often invited to elite chess events. Short has the prestige of a player who met Garry Kasparov for the world title and won a match against Anatoly Karpov in the Russian's best years. He has built a reputation as an outspoken, energetic and entertaining personality who is popular with ordinary amateurs and who at the board is ready to use offbeat gambits. He has coached rising talents and given exhibitions in Third World countries. At present Short is in something of a form crisis after finishing last at the London Chess Classic and ...
Posted by wschmidt uskidscompute.com 11/01/2005 13:33:23 Play online chess	Wikepedia Message: has a good explanation of Erdos numbers for those still wondering what the heck this is about. I first heard about the concept as a party game for movie buffs called "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". ——— New and Old Chess Champions — As we enter the new decade, the chess world is ruled by a middle-aged man and a teenage girl. A twenty-something phenom presides over the world's chess ratings and a new book recalling one of the greatest chess magicians has been published recently. The Chess Champions. Vishy Anand steps into the year 2011 as the world chess champion. At 41, the Indian grandmaster can look back on his career contentedly. In 1991 in Brussels, he almost eliminated Anatoly Karpov from the world championship cycle. In the next 20 years, Anand won many major tournaments and world championships under different formats and time controls. How long can Anand keep the world title is ...
Posted by bonsai uskidscompute.com 11/01/2005 14:24:02 Play online chess	Message: * Paul Erdős has an Erdős number of zero. * The Erdős number of author M is one plus the minimum among the Erdős numbers of all the authors with whom M coauthored a mathematical paper. for an explanation what it's all about: -> en.wikipedia.org. ——— To Play Better Against Attractive Women, Men Need to Avert Their Eyes — Do men get distracted by and play chess differently against attractive women than against other opponents? Yes, according to a study by Swedish researchers. Called â€œBeauty Queens and Battling Knights: Risk Taking and Attractiveness in Chess,â€ the study used a large data set of results from international chess tournaments and cross-referenced them with photographs of 626 of the chess players â€” almost half of them women â€” whose attractiveness was rated by at least 50 independent observers. The study concluded, â€œOur results suggest that male chess players choose significantly riskier strategies when playing against an attractive female opponent, even though this does not ...
Posted by kansaspatzer uskidscompute.com 11/01/2005 16:15:47 Play online chess	Message: Person A has beaten Master B who has beaten IM C who has beaten Kasparov, so Person A's Kasparov number is 3. ——— Chess grandmasters use twice the brain : Study — It may take years of hard work to become a chess grandmaster, but it gives a real boost to the brain â€“ for working out chess problems, at least. It seems expert chess players use both sides of their brain to process chess tasks, rather than just one. Merim Bilalic at the University of TÃ¼bingen in Germany used fMRI to scan the brains of eight international chess players and eight novices while they identified either geometrical shapes or whether the pieces on a chess board were in a check situation. The expert players were quicker at solving the chess problem, activating areas on both sides of their brains as they did so. The novices used just the left side. Bilalic had expected ...
Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 11/01/2005 19:30:40 Play online chess	Me too Message: It is Four for Kasparov, as far as I know :) Includes a computer player that beat Gm Lautier I'll bet a low Fischer number is harder to come by tho !? Or Capablanca!
Posted by muppyman uskidscompute.com 11/01/2005 19:58:52 Play online chess	okay, Message: Welllllll, I was once on friendly speaking terms with an I.M. named Ortvin Sarapu, who came from Estonia and settled in New Zealand, and probably did more than any other person to put chess on the map in New Zealand. Now he actually did play one game against Fischer in one of the Zonals, and obtained a reasonable looking position on the black side of a French defence before being suddenly and comprehensively thrashed. (He told me later that he just didn't see any of it coming) Now Sarapu was mentor to a brilliant young man named Rodney Phillips (who later died tragically) and Sarapu always maintained that Rodney was G.M. material. My claim to fame is that I once played a draw in a friendly game with Rodney Phillips, and also I once actually met and talked to Murray Chandler, the only G.M. ever to come out of New Zealand and he actually did beat Kasparov at least once, many years ago. My question is, if we add all these fascinating facts together and throw in my blatant hero worship of Bobby, could that qualify me for an honourary 500 Fisher number????? huh??? do ya think??? maybe??
Posted by fmgaijin uskidscompute.com 11/02/2005 15:13:30 Play online chess	Kasparov/Fischer # Message: Three for Kasparov and two for Fischer (could get Kaspy down to two if you can count speed chess <LOL>).
Posted by chrisp uskidscompute.com 11/03/2005 12:28:36 Play online chess	No idea at all..... Message: but does losing to Kasparov count for anything??
Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 11/04/2005 02:03:46 Play online chess	Interesting... Message: ...idea to play with. I've worked out a sequence, that gives me a "Kasparov Number" of 7. It is via Karpov, which gives me a Karpov Number of 6 (!). What I find peculiar about it is that one from so remote a country as New Zealand is so few removes from the World Champion, via such a slender thread: Chess wins. The sequence runs: Dowman (once!) beat Sarfati beat Dive beat Anastasian beat Ehlvest beat Miles beat Karpov beat Kasparov. Now if I hadn't lost on time in an overwhelming position against Russell back in '86... Cheers, Ion
Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 11/04/2005 02:07:02 Play online chess	If draws counted... Message: I could get the number down to 3.
Posted by bob2 uskidscompute.com 11/04/2005 06:38:45 Play online chess	Three Message: Assuming that games in Simuls dont count. Bet yours is something similar Chris, just think of someone who you beat, who has beaten Short.
Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 11/04/2005 12:46:09 Play online chess	Wins and draws... Message: The 7-win sequence are all tournament and/or club games that went towards a national or international (ELO) rating. As would be the non-loss sequence of 3: Dowman drew with R. Wansink (Auckland Easter 1973) drew with M.Chandler (match late 1970s - don't know the final result, but do recall seeing at least one exciting and hard-fought draw...) beat G. Kasparov (World u/16s 1976). The 7-win sequence began with a club tournament win over Jonathan Sarfati 1978 (It did go towards National ratings, but Jonathan was still in school then, I believe...), Jonathan years later beat Russell Dive in a NZ Championship Tournament (don't recall what year. I believe Russell is an IM now... I have never,by the way, played in the NZ Chess Congress at which the NZ Championship is held. This did take a bit of researching, but it was a bit of fun. Try it. You might be surprised! Cheers, Ion
Posted by brunetti uskidscompute.com 11/08/2005 00:39:30 Play online chess	fmgaijin Message: Two for Fischer? Did you beat Spassky or some similar super GM? Alex
Posted by fmgaijin uskidscompute.com 11/08/2005 08:51:08 Play online chess	Fischer # Message: Though I do have some wins over good GM's (not to mention a draw with Benko back in the early 70's when he was still one of the top players in the world), most of them were too young to have beaten Bobby. No, my route to Fischer was sneakier--I beat several strong U.S. masters who beat Fischer when he was still young and erratic. Though he was a Candidate at 15 and played the Donald Byrne game at 13, he wasn't unbeatable in that period of his career (in fact, he had a minus score in the event where he played the Byrne game).
Posted by fmgaijin uskidscompute.com 11/08/2005 08:54:21 Play online chess	P.S. Kasparov # Message: My route to Kasparov comes from a win over GM Joel Benjamin, so that one is more direct but longer . . .
Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 11/09/2005 18:41:50 Play online chess	Jus wondering .... Message: Anyone impressive beaten by GM Arnold Denker ? Our young prodigy of 90's Omaha, Paul Rohwer (in the top part of the top juniors in USA, and trained by FM Mike Blankenau originally, at the time) defeated him during the era ... and what can I say, but that Paul could be had on occasion at the time (YES I ALWAYS remember wins vs 12 or 13 year old prodigy types ... and you should too if you want to good "Kaparov" # ! :)) So is GM Denker, may he RIP, a source of a nice trail of #3? }8-) PS// Better yet, beat those prodigies Before the training starts ! :) haha . I bet Paul is good for more proximity than I even know of to date :)) Of course this doesnt pay well nor garner trophies . . . But when you get old and Really bored at night ....