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| Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 4/17/2006 04:24:05 play online chess |  Subject: Alekhine: man & Chess playerMessage: Thus this thread is born for discussion about the Chess player, the man, and perhaps (hopefully) some games (annotations!! ?), and Hyperlinks!? Regards, Craig }8-) |
| Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 4/17/2006 04:27:32 play online chess | PS// Message: A Great Chess player! That he sometimes fudged in his annotations, or changed a move here or there?! Born Russian!? Died choking on a piece of meat, eaten at home sans utinsels !? (somewhere this has been disputed too. And believe I have even seen it claimed that it was pretty much forced down his throat?! ) |
| Posted by bucklehead uskidscompute.com 4/17/2006 06:10:19 play online chess | A couple of articles Message: There was also a recent ChessBase item on Alekhine's death: -> chessbase.com . |
| Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 4/17/2006 07:21:34 play online chess | thanks bucklehead .... Message: (But then there is a guy in town who has Paul Morphy's hand! Identical looking, not the part itself :) |
| Posted by thunker uskidscompute.com 4/17/2006 10:10:41 play online chess | Classic Message: Can be found at my little web site... -> home.ionet.net |
| Posted by taborov uskidscompute.com 4/17/2006 13:30:08 play online chess | Александр Александрович Алéхин Message: Alekhine's first chess accomplishment was when, in 1909, at the age of seventeen, he won the All-Russian Amateur Tournament in St. Petersburg with a score of twelve wins, two losses and two draws. He was awarded a national master title for this performance. The tournament was held concurrently with the more famous professional international event won by Emanuel Lasker and Akiba Rubinstein. Meanwhile, in the United States, later that year a twenty-three-year-old Cuban by the name of José Raúl Capablanca shocked American chess players by thrashing Frank Marshall in a match. The lives of Alekhine and Capablanca would soon intertwine. In 1914, after Alekhine finished 3rd behind Lasker and Capablanca in a tournament in Saint Petersburg, Tsar Nicholas II named him as one of the five original grandmasters. Alekhine also served in World War One, and was wounded. He became cosmopolitan in his life, living in many countries, and speaking Russian, French, German, and English. Following the Russian Revolution, in 1919 he was suspected of espionage, arrested and imprisoned in Odessa, though he was eventually freed. He won the 1st USSR Championship in 1920. In 1921 Alekhine left Soviet Russia never to return, moving to France, where four years later he became a French citizen and entered the Sorbonne Faculty of law. Although his thesis on the Chinese prison system went uncompleted, he nevertheless claimed the title of "Dr Alekhine". From 1921 to 1927, Alekhine amassed an excellent tournament record, winning or sharing 12 out of 20 first prizes in the tournaments he played. -> en.wikipedia.org |
| Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 4/17/2006 16:37:02 play online chess | Why was Ferriera's note written in English? Message: |
| Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 4/17/2006 22:38:02 play online chess | One win? Message: -> www.chessgames.com |
| Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 4/18/2006 14:15:20 play online chess | That finish... Message: |
Chess news: Chess notes -- The month of December has produced considerable drama and new champions for chess archives. First, the 128-player World Chess Cup field was, after knockout play, finally reduced to Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine and Boris Gelfand of Israel (formerly of Belarus), both of whom had survived six rounds. The subsequent struggle between Gelfand and Ponomariov was a real nail-biter. They drew their first four games at normal time controls. The rapids also produced a tied score. Play then moved on to Blitz, a full game in five minutes for each player. Here, both competitors played queen side openings, but Gelfand excelled, winning the first game by trapping Ponomariov’s queen, resigning ... Great intuitive sacrifice -- The exchange sacrifice -- trading a rook for a knight or a bishop -- is a magnificent tool in today's chess. It seldom wins outright. It is played for positional gain and calculation is often not required. Former world chess champion Tigran Petrosian loved it because he used it to get squares from which he could suffocate his opponent. The sacrifice is best suited for the black pieces in the Sicilian defense where the semi-open c-file tempts the black rook to eliminate the white horse on c3 before it can gallop off and do some damage. White is left with an unpleasant, immobile double-pawn and with holes into which black pieces can easily slide. Sometimes it destroys ... Norwegian teenager to be crowned new chess king -- The chess world's new number one 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen plots 20 moves ahead and can remember chess matches he played six years ago move-for-move, but insists he is still pretty much your average teenager. The brightest talent in a generation according to his Russian coach and chess great Garry Kasparov, Norway's Carlsen will officially become the world's youngest ever top ranked chess player when new rankings come out at the start of 2010. Dubbed the "Mozart of chess," Carlsen plays with a healthy dose of natural intuition on top of deep analysis and pursues other interests that he believes help his game. He brushes aside comparisons ... | |