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| Posted by stendhar uskidscompute.com 3/15/2006 01:29:59 Play online chess |  Subject: RegretsMessage: | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Posted by daverundle uskidscompute.com 3/15/2006 03:54:55 Play online chess | i wish Message: To coin those immortal words 'i could have been a contender'! ——— Chess: Making the crazy move — Black's defensive options look limited – but the trick is to shock the opponent. RB: Continuing our series of What's the Correct Defence? I puzzled over this for a long, long time before conceding defeat. Had I been playing Black here, the fight would have gone out of me and I would already have mentally resigned. I don't see how Black can escape the unpleasantness that is bound to follow White's obvious next move – 1 Nc3. The boot remains on the other foot this week, so over to Dan. DK: This looks miserable: White's central pawns dominate and the pin on the b-file is really uncomfortable. OK, down to business. First, I need to establish just how bad things are. What's ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 3/15/2006 11:00:49 Play online chess Not sure...Message: ——— Giri Smashes Carlsen, but Nakamura Leads Tata Steel Chess Tournament — Round 3 of the Tata Steel chess tournament in the Netherlands produced a shocking result as Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the world’s top-ranked chess player, lost in 22 moves to Anish Giri, a 16-year-old Dutch grandmaster. Carlsen had White. Carlsen played very oddly and soon had a difficult position. He then blundered and resigned a few moves later. Afterward, he posted a message on his Twitter account: “Always nice to confirm that I’m still capable of blundering a piece in one move!” Giri now has 2 points and is tied for second with Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia. They all trail Hikaru Nakamura of the United States, who ... Posted by schnarre | uskidscompute.com 3/15/2006 11:32:57 Play online chess IMessage: I really do not regret the time I've put into chess! I wish I could have carried it further, whilst now I'm pretty much a has-been. ——— Four Lead Tata Steel Chess Tournament — After an exciting start Saturday in the elite section of the Tata Steel chess tournament in the Netherlands, Round 2 on Sunday was much tamer. Only one of the seven games was decisive — a victory by Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia over Wang Hao of China — and it was not even the most interesting game of the round. That distinction went to a wild dual between Anish Giri and Jan Smeets, two Dutch grandmasters, whose game ended in a draw. The most eagerly anticipated game was undoubtedly between Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, his predecessor. Anand brilliantly beat Kramnik in a 2008 title match and ... Posted by fmgaijin | uskidscompute.com 3/15/2006 11:40:53 Play online chess People and Places Through ChessMessage: ——— 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, Herman’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 wschmidt | uskidscompute.com 3/15/2006 12:55:43 Play online chess Wow, great question! Message: * 1) Had a machete held against my throat by an obvious lunatic who was trying to force me to become his "follower". * 2) Stopped playing and writing music for extended periods of time - a very dubious decision because I clearly have more musical talent than I do chess talent. * 3) Spent innumerable hours of misdirected study, mostly trying to run before I could walk. * 4) Spent a small fortune on chess books I'll never read. * 5) Made some fabulous friends both OTB and on-line. * 6) Become frustrated beyond measure at my blunders. * 7) Played some delightful games (some were wins, some were losses). * 8) Spent many hours learning about the culture, personalities and history of this amazing game. * 9) Learned how to savor a a good chess book. * 10) Finally learned to accept my limitations and enjoy the game anyway. Yes, character development through chess. Who'd a thunk it? So, the answer is.....sure there was and there still are those times. But it's been in my blood since the nineteen fifties. I always come back to it. Finding the balance is the key, the middle path. ——— 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 stendhar | uskidscompute.com 3/16/2006 06:59:52 Play online chess Nice responses...Message: But all in all I guess that chess does tend to start friendships faster than other hobbies as it is an universal language. But my original idea is that if chess changed something in the way you think, you do certain things or respond to stimuli, are you the better person for it? Please take into consideration that I've finished reading Nabokov's "The Defense" not so long ago, so my own opinion may have been altered from reading that certain book. Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 3/16/2006 12:08:14 Play online chess schnarre...Message: I'm the latter myself - for a given value of 'historical'... Cheers Ion Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 3/16/2006 19:02:52 Play online chess No, never regretted the time spent ... Message: 1)Not having a coach, as a young player having the time, and I believe the aptitude to have gotten to and beyond Master level in otb. Rather than starting at a 777 rating and peaking at Expert decades later, after being almost completely book&self-taught. *** 2) I regret that there have been people close to me who just cannot be helped to realize that a corr. Chess game with dozens of hours invested in it, can have worth & value to many other people who understand that it represents an expression of artistry when well done. *** I cannot have regrets for playing, considering all the great people it has brought me to associate with ... and the creative outlet it provides. }8-) Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 3/16/2006 19:07:33 Play online chess PS// And of course ... Message: I would say that the game has paid off handsomely for me ... Posted by alberlie | uskidscompute.com 3/18/2006 02:59:09 Play online chess re wschmids no. 10:Message: On the ICC, I followed Hikaru Nakamura solve some chess problems the other day. That had the most similar effect on me. Normally, I don't consider myself as being a complete idiot but it does take me a few seconds to take in the chessboard as a whole. Not only seeing the mate threats on g7 but also acknoledgeing the bishop on a2 etc. So, that takes a few sec. But within that time, Nakamura had already solved the problem. A few mate-in-six and seven's among them. It was absolutely amazing. He was moving the pieces with a speed that I couldn't even follow the movements. It was like "here's a position, then he does something - oh, it's already mate. Whoops, that was fast." I felt more thorough beaten by just watching him solving problems than I could have by playing him a hundred blitz games and loosing all of them... Posted by gwalchmai | uskidscompute.com 3/18/2006 14:26:03 Play online chess Sadly, no. Message: |