Play chess online, chess games, online games, chess games database, free chess online, board games, chess puzzles, chess teams, free online chess games, chess clubs, chess league and more...

Tags: online chess, play chess online, play chess, play chess online, play chess, play chess online, scrabble

Chess Forum
uskidscompute.com << - < - > - >>

From	Message
Posted by jstevens1 uskidscompute.com 4/27/2008 07:35:36 play online chess	Subject: Jo's "Expert Safari Land" Adventure Continues Message: Here I am, the tiny kitten, still on Expert safari territory - the going has been very tough so far, I have just stepped out of the safari park and have found a short stretch of desert land. I am really thirsty and my skin is thoroughly scratched from attacks from Heinzkats, Leo the Lion and am still swollen through hornet stings from that frightful swarm of Chrisobee. I desperately need water - I need to find an oasis fast, but, wherever I look I am being blinded by the scorching hot sun. I looked to the right and I am blinded by the light - (yes, this is exactly what happened in a training game against Lighttotheright. I did not know which way to turn with my king and paid for my dithering - this game was annotated as "An Expert Lesson in Castling". I stumbled on and found myself back on safari land only to encounter yet another swarm of Chrisobee! Please find another annotated game against the Master. It is called "Caught offside" because this is another trap that beginners/intermediate players can fall into and even GM Tringov fell into once - it is letting your queen get offside so she cannot go to the defence of her other half when he desperately needs her! Needless to say I got stung again by a mating attack which did not force mate but brought about ruinous loss of material and resignation from me. Have any of you left your queen offside and paid the price? Please feel free to PM me if you do not wish to post it on the forum. I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Bye for now. Joanne
Chess news: Four share the spoils -- There was a four way tie for first at the 9th Karpov Poikovsky chess tournament in Siberia. Alexey Shirov could not hold onto his lead after an eighth round defeat at the hands of the 21 year old Azerbaijani GM Vugar Gashimov who was a surprise winner of the inaugural FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament at Baku earlier this year. Gashimov joined Shirov on the winning score of 5.5/9 and the leading quartet was completed by 2005 Russian chess champion Sergei Rublevsky and 2006 co winner Dmitry Jakovenko. A Volokitin – A Shirov; 9th Karpov Poikovsky chess ... Teenager causes angst -- The top seeds Evgeny Alexseev and Magnus Carlsen met in the second round at Biel with Carlsen black. The teenage chess prodigy managed to stir up huge complications from a quiet position when he broke out of his cramped formation but his opponent, a former Russian chess champion managed to defend himself and reach a drawn endgame despite the invasion of a black knight into the heart of his position. E Alekseev – M Carlsen; 41st Biel Festival (2); Queen’s Indian. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.Qa4 Bb7 6.Bg2 c5 7.dxc5 bxc5 8.0–0 Be7 9.Nc3 0–0 10.Rd1 Qb6 11.Bf4 Rd8 (11...Qxb2 12.Rab1 Qxc3 13.Rxb7 Nc6 14.Bd2 traps the queen) ... Carlsen is in luck -- A little good fortune for Magnus Carlsen gave him victory over French chess number 1 Etienne Bacrot in the 3rd round at Biel and the lead on 2.5/3. Bacrot’s solid defence to the Queen’s Gambit was working out very well but when Carlsen complicated matters with a dubious pawn sacrifice his opponent collapsed and was lost just a few moves later. M Carlsen – E Bacrot; 41st Biel Festival (3); Queen’s Gambit. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.cxd5 exd5 7.e3 Be7 8.Qc2 Nh5 (This simplifying and solid line was favoured by Ulf Andersson, it is notoriously hard to beat) ...