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Posted by wschmidt uskidscompute.com 8/18/2006 14:55:15 Play online chess	Subject: Novice Nook # 30 Message: Wow, into the 30's! Thanks for sticking with it, folks. This week's article is called "A Fistful of Lessons" and focuses on how badly one can screw up a won game. Some of these errors seem incredible, but "let he who is without sin...." Also, the instruction on how the games should have been won is worthwhile, especially Example 2, which is a pawn endgame that might not be so obvious at first to those of us in novice and intermediate land. Here's the link. Have fun. ws -> www.chesscafe.com
Posted by rallyvincent uskidscompute.com 8/18/2006 15:18:55 Play online chess	Informative and amusing Message: Thank you, I follow these with great pleasure everytime. Greetings, Rally V.
Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 8/18/2006 15:33:25 Play online chess	Great article! Message: Fun positions. Disasters are always entertaining. A corrective, by the way, to the comments made in the 'bad sportsmanship' thread. I recall a pickup game in which I had so thoroughly outplayed my opponent that he had remaining a K+R (2 pieces, that is) against my ... well damn near everything, really. Comes the King hunt, the enemy king gets chivvied all the way down to g3 (I had White) where it stood in front of my castled king. By this time White's K-side pawns had disappeared or advanced far up the board. 'H'mmm,' thinks I, 'No quick kill. Let's just threaten mate in one.' Instant response: ...R(from somewhere unnoticed on the c-file)-c1 checkmate! It is such episodes that make me reluctant to criticise opponents who play like Custer. Cheers, Ion ——— A White Day at the Women’s Chess Grand Prix — Everyone knows that playing White is an advantage in chess (though curiously it was not during the last round of the King’s Tournament in Romania that ended Friday; then Black won all the games). But, the results of Round 6 of the Women’s Chess Grand Prix in Jermuk, Russia, were still startling. White won every game. It was the second time in the first six rounds of the chess tournament that every game had ended decisively. Over all, only 8 of the 36 games in the tournament have ended in draws, an astonishingly low percentage. After six rounds, Nana Dzagnidze of the Republic of Georgia leads with 5.5 points, a point ahead of Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia. Tatiana Kosintseva of Russia is ...