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Posted by enda uskidscompute.com 11/09/2005 03:06:10 Play online chess	Subject: Chess boxing Message: Any plans for gameknot to provide an option for this fine sport?? For info -> sport.guardian.co.uk Bags first fight Enda
Posted by se_santi uskidscompute.com 11/09/2005 04:03:45 Play online chess	LOL Message: That's the most stupid thing i have ever read about in my life (if not, it's VERY close to that)... no wonder they are the only 2 people in the world who do it...
Posted by futile uskidscompute.com 11/09/2005 13:11:39 Play online chess	Well why not? Message: Really, to be able to pound the snot out of someone in the ring as they're beating the snot out of you on the board is kind of poetic. I just hope they don't go too far with this theme...I mean I don't want to have to go a couple of rounds in the "pit" whilst defending my thesis... ——— Hikaru beats leader at Corus Chess Tournament — Let's start with an update to the Corus Chess Tournament, which is getting more exciting by the day. It had seemed that U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura's bid to win the event might be slipping away. Coming into the seventh round Saturday, Hikaru had made three straight draws. He was tied for second place, 1.5 points behind the leader, Alexei Shirov of Spain. Not a bad showing, but the 22-year-old New Yorker has ambitions of winning the chess tournament and clearly establishing himself as one of the world's elite players. So for Hikaru, Saturday was crucial. He was paired against Shirov and had the advantage of playing the white pieces. Here was a chance to cut ...
Posted by chessnovice uskidscompute.com 11/09/2005 13:50:20 Play online chess	... Message: I do boxing as a hobby (as well as chess, of course), and I like this idea. Imagine that most kids who defeat opponents over the board often get the humbling response, "Yeah, but I could still beat you up and take your lunch money." This would be the ultimate way to refute that. :) ——— The Scotch Opening, part 3: the Kasparov approach — The former world champion was responsible for a revival of interest in the chess opening. But how does he exploit it here? More on the Scotch. Garry Kasparov was responsible for its revival. Here he finds his e-pawn under pressure. What should he play? RB There are so many possibilities that I'm going to have to go through a process of elimination. We can discard the obvious hara-kiri options of 1 cxd5 and 1 exf6 Qb4+. Nor does 1 f4 fxe5 2 fxe5 Qg5 look particularly appealing. 1 Bg2 looks like it just loses a pawn and gives Black all the play after 1...fxe5 2 0-0, and 1 e6 is just bad. Nor do 1 Nd2, 1 Kd1 and 1 Ba3 solve the problem. That leaves ...
Posted by mightytiny uskidscompute.com 11/09/2005 13:54:35 Play online chess	So... Message: ...which of the world's top chess players do you think would win a chess boxing tournament? :D A resurrected Blackburne perhaps? (Didn't he literally knock out Steiniz in some tournament? :O ) ——— Russia return to form after slump — Russia, with a new-look young chess team, recovered from an early setback against Greece and won the World Team Chess Championship at Bursa, Turkey. The result eases the pressure on Moscow chess officials whose once invincible squad failed to justify top seeding in the last three Olympiads. The United States, without their No2, Gata Kamsky, took silver and India, missing the world chess champion, Vishy Anand, won bronze, both fine performaces. But the show stealer was this week's spectacular brilliancy, which helped the 22-year-old US chess champion to the individual top board gold medal. Boris Gelfand had planned the sharp opening and ...
Posted by nottop uskidscompute.com 11/09/2005 15:27:05 Play online chess	boxing and chess Message: There does seem to be a relationship, doesn't there? (more for otb chess than correspondence). There is a long time to train, study, prepare - and you can have seconds or assitants. But in the end, you have to get in the ring and fight it out. No help, no aids, just you and the opponent. And like in chess, when the punches start flying, the theory goes by the boards. I think the boxing trainers are a little more sophisticated than chess trainers. If you are going to box a small fast fighter, they will spar you against small fast fighters. Spassky, in preparing for his match against Fisher, took a training match against Karpov. I thought - "what could be more different in style than Fisher and Karpov?" I think Spassky should have talked to a russian boxing coach rather than a russian chess coach. It takes a little sophisticiation on the part of the observer to appreciate boxing (that and turning off the sound). There's so much more to it than people know. I just wish that the chiefs were more protective of the fighters (like wearing headgear like the amateurs do). I hate to see people hurt. ——— Magnus and Hikaru -- the Ali-Frazier of Chess? — ... But I can't tell you I've ever been more excited about a game than one that lasted five-and-a-half hours Thursday and ended in a tie. The sport was chess. If in everyday conversation you throw around terms like "zugzwang'' and "pawn island,'' you would have found the 59-move contest riveting. But even if you don't, the storyline was irresistable. Playing the white pieces was Hikaru Nakamura, the reigning U.S. chess champion and at 22, perhaps America's best hope for capturing the world title. On the other side of the chess board was Magnus Carlsen, the 19-year-old Norwegian phenom who is now the top rated chess player in the world. Both are brilliant grandmasters on the rise. Each ...
Posted by honololou uskidscompute.com 11/09/2005 19:38:55 Play online chess	and I thought… Message: speed golf was stupid. ——— Playing poker in a game of chess — Hikaru Nakamura began the New Year by leading the United States to a silver medal at the chess World Team Championship. On the heels of that success, Nakamura continued his impressive play in Wijk ann Zee, Netherlands, which annually hosts the worldâ€™s most prestigious annual chess tournament. Nakamura won two of his first four games and drew the world chess champion Vishy Anand. The tournament concludes on Jan. 31. Nakamura has adopted an extremely bold style. At key attacking points Nakamura looks to sacrifices a piece. The sacrifice opens up lines and facilitates an attack on the king. Objectively, it may not be the best move, but ...
Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 11/09/2005 19:54:12 Play online chess	Well maybe ... Message: If PKA or at least Kick Boxing gets ahold of it . . . my boxing is terrible since giving up club play }8-) But doesnt the board get knocked over a lot ??!
Posted by se_santi uskidscompute.com 11/10/2005 04:52:37 Play online chess	I compare Message: chess to tennis, by the use of initiative... Though tennis is more changing than chess in terms of initiative (comparing high level of tennis vs high level of chess, of course... i know at my rating initiative comes and goes easily)
Posted by futile uskidscompute.com 11/10/2005 21:00:31 Play online chess	I Recall... Message: ...a MAD magazine bit about extreme sports such as Phonebooth Croquet and Underwater Bowling. The extreme chess was played with lit sticks of dynamite! I think that would be more entertaining. Talk about timing out! (Commentator: "and here we are at move 27, it looks like Black is in a bit of time trouble...he makes a move....BUT TOO LATE! The board has been completely blown apart! Now White emerges from behind his berm to take the prize!)
Posted by tyekanyk uskidscompute.com 11/13/2005 12:31:40 Play online chess	Let me just say... Message: What Andy Kaufman said: I can beat any girl at this sport. Anyone who thinks different should prove it to me.
Posted by pawntificator uskidscompute.com 11/14/2005 23:57:47 Play online chess	It doesnt' seem very fair Message: There are some young kids these days who could whip my butt at chess, but I would knock them out. In general, I think I would do good at this sport. I'm not a very bad chess player and I'm a pretty big guy. I would actually be willing to give this a try. Sounds like fun.