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| Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 3/25/2006 19:28:21 play online chess |  Subject: Blitz Chess @ Chessanytime dot com:HELP PLZ...Message: Did you experience any trouble getting onto that site tonight, or recently, or get knocked off of the site while playing? Or aware of any problem going on there recently of any similar nature? *** Tonight I got knocked off , only from that site, but not from browser nor net connection. And then could not get back online to it, to my paid account. Nor would it permit a guest sign-on nor Trial sign-on, which I tried just in order to try to talk with an online Administrator there. But could not do so. Now sitting and pending response to 2 e-mails to the site about it. *** Any helpful info appreciated ... or relating of similar experience(s) there. Any info of site down or under maintenance, etc? *** Have verified that my JAVA is updated to latest and that account is paid up over a month, still. Yet recieved sign-on error msg of "IO Execution error / connection refused / JAVA . And then when tried the Firewall bypass click ... It changed msg to say "Login not Registered". (Yet when Trial tried in order to find an administrator ... it said that KTTUN login was 'already in use' ! ) \ *** I'll be getting some more GK Blitz in tonight now it seems. Which I do also like. But after starting blitz here tonight already, was warmed-up and looking for some faster play to finish off with. }8-( *** But calamity has reared her ugly head, 'The gods laugh', and we mortals pay the price of their entertainment :(( Big-BIG--SIGH----and thoughts of woe . . . *** Craig A.C. |
Chess news: The f-pawn, part 1: cheap, crude and obvious? -- Is an f-pawn advance the chess game's equivalent of route-one football? RB For some time I've been nagging Dan to do a series of columns on the f-pawn advance. He's been resistant, partly, I suspect, because pushing the f-pawn is a bit like route-one football, the long ball punted down the park in hopes of a quick goal. The advance can sometimes be crude, obvious and speculative, but, like the infamous route-one game, it can also produce results, and, as we will see over the next few weeks, some very classy chess players have used it. We start with one of the classiest of all time, Botvinnik, in a chess game played in the decade before he became world chess champion. Having ... At Halfway Point, Topalov Leads at Linares -- The annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain began earlier this week, and after five rounds — or halfway through — Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed and No. 2 chess player in the world, is leading with 3.5 points, a point ahead of the field. Linares has been among the world’s elite chess tournaments since the early 1990s, when Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov were regular competitors. This year’s tournament has only six players, though they are all among the world’s best. The format is a double round robin in which each chess competitor faces all the others twice, playing once with White and once with Black. Aside from Topalov ... Weekend of Fun and Friends Between Battles on the Chess Board -- The highlight of the year for many chess players is Washington’s Birthday weekend, when four amateur team championships are held across the country. There are no cash prizes, but the chess tournaments are popular because of the camaraderie. Players walk back and forth chatting before, after and even during the games. Some renew friendships with competitors they see only once a year. The World Amateur Team East tournament in Parsippany, N.J., the biggest and oldest of the chess events, celebrated its 40th birthday this year. There were 1,150 players and 271 teams, down from 283 teams last year, said Steve Doyle, the tournament’s director, who ... | |