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Posted by tag1153 uskidscompute.com 2/11/2008 11:02:58 Play online chess	Subject: Unrated Consultation Match Message: Inspired by similar matches here in the forums, I am seeking players for a consultation match (unrated of course). I need a partner and two opponents. Old friends get preference, and I would prefer players rated 1600+. This is strictly a learning exercise, as I expect honest, shared human analysis. Sign in here if you are interested......... tag1153
Posted by marinvukusic uskidscompute.com 2/11/2008 11:30:39 Play online chess	Count me in Message: :)
Posted by premium_steve uskidscompute.com 2/11/2008 11:37:04 Play online chess	Message: i'd like to try to... :D thanks ——— Chess: the bishop sacrifice — RB: My second nomination for chess book of the year is Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice by Jon Edwards (Russell Enterprises). It always looks so tempting: the enemy knight chased from the key defensive square at f6, our bishop unobstructed on the b1-h7 diagonal, knight on f3, queen on its starting square ready to race to h5 or d3. Most of us have tried Bxh7+ at one time or other, and most of us probably have experience of messing it up. When is the sacrifice sound? What forces does White need to press home the attack? What defensive resources can Black conjure up to frustrate us? These are the questions Edwards addresses. Divided into ...
Posted by tag1153 uskidscompute.com 2/11/2008 11:39:08 Play online chess	you're in Message: When I get two more, I'll try to set the teams equally by rating (1 and 4 vs. 2 and 3). The highest rated player will be on the black side. Be prepared to teach:) tag1153 ——— Chess Tournament in Chicago Teaches Discipline — The 120 elementary school children sat so quietly and intently that you might have assumed this was a mass detention period. But it was chess, not confinement, in an Oak Brook hotel ballroom on Columbus Day. And the lessons learned might assist school leaders everywhere, including those attempting a systemwide resuscitation for Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s very disciplined, if impatient, mayor. “My dream is to get in front of education decision makers and convince them to make chess part of the curriculum for K through second grade,” said Susan Polgar, the star of the show. “That’s when thinking patterns and habits are formed. It should be mandatory, like physical education.” Ms. Polgar, ...
Posted by premium_steve uskidscompute.com 2/11/2008 11:57:45 Play online chess	Message: sure. :) i'm not sure how much i'd be able to teach a player like marin, for example, but i'll do my best. ——— Magnus Carlsen recovers from slow start to win Grand Slam in Bilbao — Magnus Carlsen is very strong in the decisive final rounds of chess tournaments, and the world No1 again showed his quality this week in the home stretch of the Grand Slam final at Bilbao. The Norwegian recovered from his drab start to the chess event, overhauled the runaway leader Vasily Ivanchuk with the win below, then again defeated the Ukrainian 1.5-0.5 in a speed tie-break to clinch first place. Carlsen, 20, rarely dominates chess tournaments, but he is tough through skiing and soccer, inventive in a crisis, and has a will to win on a par with the ultimate chess legends Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. Ivanchuk, 42, tired after his fine start. World chess champion Vishy Anand was uninspired and ...
Posted by tag1153 uskidscompute.com 2/11/2008 12:05:22 Play online chess	sit tight steve....... Message: .....we evidently posted at the same time.....that message was for Marin.........as stated, I'm giving preference to friends.......I hope you are not offended.....let me give it a little time to see who else signs in........you are my #1 alternate:) I hope you understand........ tag1153 ——— Chess: Magnus Carlsen Is Master of the Late Rally — When he was ranked No. 1 a few years ago, Veselin Topalov got into a strange habit of falling behind in chess tournaments before storming back to win. Magnus Carlsen, the current top chess player, is following a similar pattern. He won the Bilbao Chess Masters event on Tuesday, but he had to rally to do it. He won two of his last three games, including one over the early leader, Vassily Ivanchuk, to tie for first. He then beat Ivanchuk in a two-game blitz playoff. It was the third time in the last two years that Carlsen had to overcome an early deficit to capture first place. In 2010, he did the same thing at the Tata Steel chess tournament in the Netherlands and the London Chess Classic. He also made ...
Posted by far1ey uskidscompute.com 2/11/2008 12:44:49 Play online chess	Message: yamn, raskerino, craig and I are currently in a correspondence game - you might like to take a peak: gameknot.com Also perhaps would help would be the forums which craig and I wrote before we reverted to using PM's. gameknot.com gameknot.com Hope your game works out - and be prepared for a very long battle :) PS: A long time control is usually necessary :P ——— Magnus Carlsen Wins Chess Masters Final with a Blitz Game — They flew from Europe to Brazil, played five rounds in Sao Paulo, crossed the equator again on the way to Bilbao, Spain, where they played another five rounds. After the world's best chess grandmasters have done all this traveling and playing, the outcome of the Chess Masters Final was still up in the air. It came down to a tiebreaking blitz game in which Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the world's top-rated chess player, defeated Ukraine's Vassily Ivanchuk, at 42, the oldest participant. Ivanchuk had a blistering start with one draw and three wins in the first four games, but things changed in a hurry. He lost to Carlsen in the next round and suddenly the Norwegian GM had a chance to catch up. The first part of ...
Posted by tag1153 uskidscompute.com 2/11/2008 12:54:14 Play online chess	far1ey Message: it was this match which inspired me.........in retrospect, it may have been a bad idea to announce my intentions as I did......I hope no one is offended if left out.....and I fully anticipate a long time control:)
Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 2/11/2008 13:25:09 Play online chess	Room for one more? Message: ... I'd like to join in if there's a spot available... Cheers, Ion
Posted by tag1153 uskidscompute.com 2/11/2008 13:36:35 Play online chess	ion Message: you're in......that's you, me, and marin so far.............
Posted by tag1153 uskidscompute.com 2/12/2008 18:46:13 Play online chess	ok Steve..... Message: ......thanks for your patience. You're in (and again, no hard feelings:) The teams will be Ion and Steve (white) vs. Marin and Tag (black). This will be a good teaching and learning experience for all of us. Ion - please challenge Marin to an unrated game with a 14 day control. Steve, you do the same with me (we are essentially going to play the same game on two boards, and this way we will each have easier access to the analyze the board feature.) Gentlemen, start your engines:) Thomas
Posted by marinvukusic uskidscompute.com 2/13/2008 03:52:00 Play online chess	Erm... Message: It is kind of complicated to have 2 boards IMHO, you can use "analyze the board" on games in other profiles without difficulty (I do it all the time). Ion and myself started the game, I propose that this is the only active board and we will communicate through messages before we play the moves :)
Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 2/13/2008 07:43:29 Play online chess	A nice feature ... Message: Which we did not have starting out, but you guys will: The way that now it shows the TIME situation when looking at someone elses game. When we started, I would never know how much time we had to move. (Unless we discussed it specifically, which is kind of cumbersome.). And I'm slow anyway~! That is the main detriment that I found with the concept, is the difficulty conveying ideas using print. Mine would want to be 3 pages long...but. So, I wanted one of those programs that you speak and it types!! (I do have one now, that reads out loud for me. But have not tried to read a chess game notation yet!?! Should be very interesting. Maybe I'll do that soon)
Posted by marinvukusic uskidscompute.com 2/13/2008 08:12:13 Play online chess	Only for premium users? Message: I don't have that option it seems - but the game is on my profile anyway :) In any case the "carriers" (Ion, me) will inform their partners so it shouldn't be a problem.
Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 2/13/2008 10:10:59 Play online chess	marinvukusic ... Message: I do not know if it is premium only. But it is a bit hard to find if you don't know it is there. Look at any active game. Right after DATE STARTED.... it then show the Time Control being in use for that game. But right after that is a little "?" Question Mark. And if you put your cursor on THAT, it shows the actual time each player has left~! I only found it about a week or two ago. So have no idea if it has been there ever since the "?" marks arrived on GK? I am going to start testing out some of them tho ... since that is certainly a useful one!
Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 2/13/2008 10:22:03 Play online chess	PS// UPDATE re "?" & TIME SHOWING ... Message: I thought I was going crazy here for a moment. Since I just went and looked for more of the "?" games showing time and could not find any. I have only seen it in my consult with far1ey , which is the game board of yanm vs far1ley . That is game so you can see what I mean. As mentioned, I cannot say if it is only for Premium Members. But I do see games between two "Premiums" and it is not THERE either. What I suspect is that it is ONLY in use for games that use a "Fischer Time Control" off Total Time + Days Added per Move. Since that is what the above game is using. Can anyone confirm that? Aor if Premium makes any difference?
Posted by marinvukusic uskidscompute.com 2/13/2008 10:26:02 Play online chess	I see it Message: It must be the "Fischer Time Control" thing. It is pretty cool actually :)
Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 2/13/2008 10:29:14 Play online chess	OH GREAT~!! Message: Make me look crazy GK~! {....makes sounds of Elmer Fudd, then sputtering-spittle by repeated fingering of the lips, while rolling eyes and rubbing stomach ... } For some reason the LINK to board/game I gave in the last, is not showing the "?". So here is where I got mine from ... Actually I have it BOOKMARKED from Far1eys Actives. Maybe you gotta BOOKMARK to get it ??!? gameknot.com gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=7735920