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| Posted by farhadexists uskidscompute.com 9/19/2006 23:54:34 Play online chess |  Subject: Kramnik v TopalovMessage: Farhad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by javel uskidscompute.com 9/20/2006 05:23:37 Play online chess | Message: probably a lot of site will follow the match | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by knightfly uskidscompute.com 9/20/2006 09:47:39 Play online chess | Message: The match has its own official site on worldchess2006.com ——— Shirov Wins Shanghai Masters — Alexei Shirov of Spain has won the Shanghai Masters chess tournament, with a round to spare. Tuesday, he beat Wang Hao of China, clinching first place. It was Shirov’s third consecutive win. Under the scoring system used in Shanghai (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw), Shirov has 11 points (three wins and two draws). Levon Aronian of Armenia and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia are tied for second with 6 points each (one win, one loss and three draws), while Wang has 2 points (three losses and two draws). The top two scorers advance to the Bilbao Final Masters next month in Spain, which means that the final-round games on Wednesday will be pivotal. Aronian will be Black against ... Posted by ganstaman | uskidscompute.com 9/20/2006 12:40:41 Play online chess Message: I believe you have to be a paying member there to see the game as it happens. Though the paying members may post the moves in a public forum for the rest of us to see. ——— A New Theory on the Origin of the Lewis Chessmen — The Lewis Chessmen are the most famous and important chess pieces in history. They have a long historical and scholarly record, part of which is that they were made in Norway roughly 800 years ago. But now two Icelandic men are challenging that belief and trying to prove that the chess pieces came from their country. The pieces were discovered on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in 1831 — hence their name. Carved mostly out of walrus tusk, they were found in a small carrying-case made of stone inside a sand dune. There are different theories about how they ended up there, including that they were left over from a shipwreck or that they were stolen and buried on the island and ... Posted by bucklehead | uskidscompute.com 9/21/2006 07:46:00 Play online chess Lots of sites will have itMessage: ——— Rapid Games Win Over New Fans — Many people who would like to see chess attract more fans agree that traditional games — which usually last several hours — are too slow for all but the die-hard. At the same time, blitz chess — where players have only five minutes for all their moves — are fun to watch and attract crowds on street corners, but they are riddled with errors. Rapid games, where each player starts with 20 or 25 minutes and then has additional time — often 10 seconds — added after each move, seem to be a happy medium. The format is becoming more popular, and there are now many chess tournaments that feature it. Two elite chess events last week used rapid-game time controls. One was the annual ... Posted by bucklehead | uskidscompute.com 9/21/2006 08:53:33 Play online chess And of course...Message: ——— Aronian Leads Shanghai Masters — In 2008, the Grand Slam Chess Final Masters was created to bring together the winners of the top chess tournaments of the year. Last year, the final was reduced to four competitors from six because of the economic downturn, but it still included the winners of the year’s elite chess events. This year the formula was changed. While the grand slam still includes top chess players, their selection is more arbitrary. And there are two events: A final that will be, as in the first two years, in Bilbao, Spain (and to which Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the world’s top-ranked chess player, are already invited), and a preliminary tournament in Shanghai, China, to ... Posted by ketchuplover | uskidscompute.com 9/23/2006 03:05:55 Play online chess Message: ——— Vishy Anand throws down the gauntlet to Magnus Carlsen — Vishy Anand set the agenda for top chess in 2010, and probably 2011, when he declared after retaining his world chess title that his ambition now is to regain the No1 spot in the global chess rankings. Anand thus laid down his gauntlet to Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian who leads the international list and whose current rating of 2826 is the second highest mark ever after Garry Kasparov. Anand's ambition might seem reasonable for a reigning world chess champion, but in reality it is highly ambitious and there will be many doubters. At age 40, the Indian's strength now seems to be increasingly in the slower pace of one-to-one matches rather than in the cut and thrust of chess tournaments ... Posted by ketchuplover | uskidscompute.com 9/23/2006 10:42:54 Play online chess Message: Posted by bucklehead | uskidscompute.com 9/23/2006 12:18:35 Play online chess First BloodMessage: Irina Krush delivered free, live, and competent commentary on the game courtesy of www.worldchessnetwork.com. This proved quite interesting since she was alone, in front of her home laptop, and more than occasionally eating an apple. Tomorrow the commentator will be Larry Christiansen. The interesting thing about this is that it was not necessary to register with their site to hear the broadcast. I accessed it by 1) opening Windows Media Player, 2) clicking File-->Open URL and then pasting http:// audio . worldchessnetwork . com : 8000 (stripping out the spaces!) into the box. Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 9/23/2006 18:24:15 Play online chess Thanks Bucklehead ! Message: Time to press the advantage now, lest it disappear~! And so I want to point out some stats presented last May here in Chess Forum; where I Clearly implied Kramnick INDEED definately, possibly, might win this! :) At least it does seem that the STATs were on his side. First is the hyperlink to the thread, which has departed its existance at GK Forums, but now resides in cyber- search land. Thus you can encounter many other astute remarks of the potentialities. ********** (Albeit, this was all prior to knowing of the Tinkle Test requirement, which both contestants have presumably er, passed with ease ?!) *** ##################################### -> austinfilmfestival.org Some interesting stats: Message: I thought some of these stats from a games d-base were interesting, however much they may or may not bear upon predicting the Topo-Kram outcome. For EG, that K enjoys a healthy +19 -9 =33 advantage in results vs ~Topo! Hmmm -> www.chessgames.com **** But besides the heads up results, how about comparing Topo vs Karpov since he can be very ferocious, brilliant, solid, and lets face it ...boring from time to time. So that sounds kinda like Kramnick, eh? Topo has 10-10=16 vs Karpov. Even up despite being the younger man. Kramnick vs KArpov has +8-5=23 . A little bit better. *** Results vs Leko are fairly close too. With Topo having +11-12=28 and Kramnick having +9-7=54 with Pete. A bit better here too. *** And finally vs Kasparov. Kramnick +21-22=79 vs Topo having +6-14=16 Hmm, not so impressive. I'd be interested to see any other mutual opponent records that anyone care to look into. **** Final thought for the day: What if Topo has been wildly spending his best ideas in tournament play, so to crack 2800 ... but Kramnick has been a bit drawish lately ... maybe keeping his Best thoughts at home, tucked under a mattress (or whereever GM's put their Improvements nowadays ...!?) , quitely watching, waiting to spring them upon the unsuspecting, overconfident match opponent. Say like a WC perhaps ..... Hmmm?!! }8-) ***** ######## Posted by d123 | uskidscompute.com 9/24/2006 06:58:18 Play online chess what a blunder!Message: why didn't he polay Kxf8??? Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 9/24/2006 07:47:08 Play online chess diagram after move 30 by BLACKMessage: d123 I couldnt see anything to take at f8 on move 31 of match game~1 , nor anything for White to take With on f8 ?! Posted by d123 | uskidscompute.com 9/24/2006 08:08:01 Play online chess sorryMessage: I ment game 2, I'm looking at it live and i was realy amazed, by kramniks 31th move .. The 2nd game is really amazing.. so many ups and downs.. many little blunders by both players... just a great game Posted by d123 | uskidscompute.com 9/24/2006 10:11:09 Play online chess Kramnik vs. Topalov 2-0Message: Posted by ketchuplover | uskidscompute.com 9/24/2006 10:43:57 Play online chess Message: Posted by zenbum | uskidscompute.com 9/24/2006 11:39:45 Play online chess Topalov is now in troubleMessage: Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 9/24/2006 11:48:01 Play online chess Lucky manMessage: Posted by cairo | uskidscompute.com 9/24/2006 13:39:15 Play online chess It Message: Bw. Cairo Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 9/24/2006 13:59:25 Play online chess But ... Message: }B-) Ya, okay I thought That was pretty funny :)))))) *** And just remembering them calling Fischer-Spassky #2 'second rate Chess' . And that now Topalov is pretty much in the Bent Larsen position of the first Fischer-Spassky WC Candidates Matches... but then again he's also in the Fischer position of the WC ... What to think? Is Topalov wishing he had not said they were not in the same league now? Posted by doctordee | uskidscompute.com 9/24/2006 14:11:48 Play online chess Kramnik-Topalov matchMessage: -Go to Playchess.com -Maybe you have to download the Playchess.com interface -Log in as guest -Klick on "Broadcasts" under "Rooms" -Klick on "Games" -Klick on the game you weant to watch There you can follow live comment by Yasser Seirawan on the games played in the match Topalov-Kramnik. The comments stay there, so you can read them and study the games whenever you want. Does it work the way I described ? Please let me know. Posted by bunta | uskidscompute.com 9/26/2006 11:47:39 Play online chess 3rd gameMessage: Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 9/26/2006 14:20:50 Play online chess Did Topalov ...Message: One thing's for sure. The lopsided scoreline so far belies the real competitiveness of this match... ;-) Posted by d123 | uskidscompute.com 9/27/2006 09:04:36 Play online chess 4th gameMessage: another draw |