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| Posted by cairo uskidscompute.com 4/25/2006 09:50:41 Play online chess |  Subject: Wolfgang UnzickerMessage: more here: -> www.chessbase.com Cairo |
| Posted by mattdw uskidscompute.com 4/25/2006 14:12:20 Play online chess | Rest in peace Message: |
| Posted by premium_steve uskidscompute.com 4/28/2006 10:12:02 Play online chess | Message: i think it is the unzicker variation that i always use against the pirc, with Bg5 before f4: 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bg5 |
Chess news: It’s Gelfand vs. Ponomariov for the World Chess Cup -- Boris Gelfand of Israel and Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine will meet in the final of the World Chess Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. Gelfand easily beat Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in the semifinals, winning his match 2 to 0, while Ponomariov outlasted Vladimir Malakhov of Russia in a playoff to grab the other final spot. Ponomariov actually fell behind in the tie-breaker, losing the first game, but he then came back to win the last three. Gelfand and Ponomariov were more experienced than their semifinal opponents, so their victories were not really a surprise. In fact, at the start of the World Chess Cup, the two were clearly among the favorites. Gelfand was the No. 1 seed, while ... Bennett and King on chess: Carlsen-Nakamura, BNbank Blitz, 2009 -- The London Chess Classic, the strongest chess tournament to be held in this country for 25 years, begins today at Olympia. Magnus Carlsen, the brilliant 19-year-old Norwegian, is one of the favourites, but he was dealt a psychological blow when he lost to one of the other participants, US chess champion Hikaru Nakamura, in a blitz tournament in Oslo 10 days ago. Carlsen played the classier chess, but Nakamura proved to be the better hustler. This was the game that turned the match around. Carlsen is threatening to queen the pawn, but Nakamura, with just a few seconds on his clock, found a win. RB: One of the first chess books I owned was Practical Chess Endings by ... Soviet training methods still reign in the chess world -- Two decades after the USSR broke up, Soviet training methods remain potent at the chess board. When the field of 128 was reduced to the quarter-finals in the current World Chess Cup, all eight grandmasters remaining had their education from Soviet coaches. The final four-game match now in progress to decide who qualifies for the 2010 candidates is between Ukraine's Ruslan Ponomariov, who won the 2002 World Cup as a teenager, and Boris Gelfand, the 41-year-old top seed. In the semi-finals Ponomariov beat Vlad Malakhov 4-2 while Gelfand eliminated Sergey Karjakin 2-0. In both the semi-final and in the game below the Israeli chess veteran defeated ... | |