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| Posted by zhnkiu uskidscompute.com 5/08/2006 12:19:40 Play online chess | yes, too easy to make Message: ——— Vladimir Kramnik regains top form — Former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia won the Tal Memorial in Moscow by scoring an undefeated 6-3. The round robin featured 10 of the world's top 13 chess stars. Kramnik, in his prime at age 34, seems fully recovered from losing the 2008 world championship match to Viswanathan Anand of India. He also won his previous elite chess tournament in Dortmund, Germany, in July. In Moscow, Kramnik reached "+3" after six rounds, and only Anand, who was "+2," remained close. However, Anand lost in the last round to Levon Aronian of Armenia and fell to a tie for fourth place with Aronian at 5-4. Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Vassily Ivanchuk ... Posted by fmgaijin | uskidscompute.com 5/08/2006 12:22:27 Play online chess Faerie ChessMessage: ——— Defence, part 1: How does Black fight back? — Svidler-Jobava, European team chess championship, 2009. Black, to move, is under attack. How does he save himself? Our theme over the next few columns is defence – hardly a glamorous subject, and little discussed, but of course vital in chess. White has just played his knight into the middle of the board, heading towards Black's king, and the rook and the queen are also in powerful attacking positions. What does Black have in his favour? Not much. But he does have a material advantage, rook for knight and an extra pawn. This gives him a little hope: if Black survives the attack, he could find himself with a winning position. So let's concentrate on survival. First we ... Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 5/08/2006 12:31:34 Play online chess It Message: ——— Kramnik triumphant in Moscow — Former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik won the flu-stricken Tal Memorial on Saturday. Playing more deliberately and sharply, the Russian grandmaster reinvented himself. He did not mind dwelling in complications and kept his cool in difficult situations. He withstood the last-round charge of Ukraine's Vassily Ivanchuk, last year's winner of the same chess event. Magnus Carlsen sneaked in a tie for second place by winning the last two games. The Norwegian grandmaster gained enough rating points to move into the world's top spot. The world chess champion Vishy Anand of India had a chance to tie for first with Kramnik, but lost in the last round with the white pieces to ... Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 5/08/2006 12:34:30 Play online chess There are a lot of Message: The place to be for farout variants. Some mysteriously move a piece while you are gone. Some explode the pieces surrounding a capture (atomic). etc. Interesting stuff ! ——— French chess star wins world junior — Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France edged Sergei Zhigalko of Belarus to win the World Junior Chess Championship in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Each scored an undefeated 10 1/2 -2 1/2 in the 82-player tournament, the most prestigious age-limited chess event. Only players born in 1989 or later were eligible. Vachier-Lagrave, 19, earned the chess grandmaster title in 2005 and won the French championship in 2007. He entered the tournament as the top seed with a rating of 2718 (23rd in the world), but his triumph was hardly guaranteed in an upset-filled melee that included 16 other grandmasters, including six rated above 2600. Zhigalko, 20, was seeded third ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 5/08/2006 13:12:32 Play online chess Galactic Emperor... Message: Maharajah, as in the chess equivalent game of Fox and Geese. The Maharajah moves like a rook, knight and bishop. He can't be captured, but must be checkmated. It takes the entire normal army to bring this elusive fellow to book. Capablanca thought the addition of two more major pieces on a 10x10 board might enliven a game that had become a bit boring for him. I don't recall their names, 'Chancellor' might have been one of them. One moved like a rook and knight, the other like a bishop and knight. One imagines forcing a mate with K + <B/N> would be quite hard, given the difficult of winning with K + B + N vs K. But after trying it out, I find it quite easy. The position to aim for is something like WKf4, W<B/N>g5, BKh4. In the corner, BKa1, W<B/N>c3, WK anywhere you like. The <B/N> piece can deliver (not force) mate unaided! Perhaps it ought to be called 'Lord High Executioner', or maybe 'Cardinal'!? I wonder why Capa's idea never caught on? Cheers, Ion ——— Flu virus keeps competitors in check at Tal Memorial — Ten of the world elite are competing at Moscow's Tal Memorial, which ends today and is one of the strongest tournaments in chess history. But the winner in the chess event's first half was a flu virus which affected several grandmasters and encouraged a minimalist, cautious approach. Ukraine's Vasily Ivanchuk wore a face mask, and a high 80 per cent of the first five round games were drawn. The sickest chess player was Magnus Carlsen, 19, who had trained beforehand with Garry Kasparov and was expected to unleash some opening bombs in his campaign to become world No 1. But Norway's golden teen was close to defeat against Vlad Kramnik in the opening round and then ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 5/09/2006 02:17:43 Play online chess Archbishop...Message: In Fairy Chess there is a piece called a Knight (Night?) Rider, which moves like an ordinary Knight, but if it makes a capture, may continue to move by capturing until it runs out of captures. Cheers, Ion Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 5/09/2006 06:05:42 Play online chess Another Variant Site ! Message: (Hope it offers bughouse, as I am having a devil of a time getting set up to play that online. And in fact have yet to even gotten one game of it started... ) *** www.brainking.com Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 5/09/2006 06:13:57 Play online chess Link didnt take ?Message: -> www.brainking.com Now I see it is because I did not put in the actual h t t p : / / which my own computer does automatically. Didnt know it was needed. 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One imagines a slower kind of game, a bit like mediaeval chess, but with more useful pieces (I dislike the chaturanga Elephant and Vizier - The former can visit just 8 squares on the board, and the vizier seems pitifully weak...). If it hasn't been tried, maybe I've invented a new chess variant!! What, then, to call the beast... Cheers, Ion |