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| Posted by kumpan uskidscompute.com 5/17/2003 10:23:35 play online chess |  Subject: challenges to teammatchesMessage: As next Monday the IKQ-Cup will begin (with actually 54 subscribed players) I'm gonna start the next teamchallenges only after this date to help all the cupplayers to be able to start their first games. I'm very sorry for all challenges of the past few days, what I couldn't accept therefore right in time. Thanks and good luck to all in this great tourney engaged friends! (The results will be published regularly in this forum: id=gameknot.com/fmsg/chess4/547.shtml Chessfriendly Yours Daniel aka kumpan. sarmale & fuebue |
Chess news: Indian chess champ braves volcano chaos -- World chess champion Viswanathan Anand will square off against his Bulgarian challenger Veselin Topalov in Sofia Saturday in a marathon final starting a day late due to Europe's volcano crisis. Anand will take his seat for the first of 12 games after having had to travel by road from Frankfurt airport after being stranded there by the shutdown of Europe's airspace because of volcanic ash from Iceland. The 40-year old chess grandmaster finally made it to the Bulgarian capital by bus on Tuesday, four days later than planned. The international chess federation FIDE agreed to a one-day delay to the match, less than the three days Anand had sought but hopefully ... Volcanic ash checks Vishy Anand's preparations for world chess championship -- Volcanic ash made the first move at the world championship match in Sofia, where Veselin Topalov has the white pieces in game one, starting at 1pm UK time today. All games are live on the internet. Topalov and the titleholder, Vishy Anand, play best-of-12 for a massive Bulgarian government prize fund of €1.2m for the winner, €800,000 for the loser. Anand was trapped by travel chaos at Frankfurt last Saturday and had to take a 40-hour car journey, extended due to visa problems, to the Sofia Hilton. After the tired Indian appealed for a three-day postponement, which the Bulgarian organisers brusquely rejected, the World Chess Federation (Fide) ruled a compromise ... Topalov Wins First Game of World Chess Championship Match -- Veselin Toplaov of Bulgaria got off to a great start in the world chess championship match as he won Game 1 after Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, blundered. The game was barely out of the opening stages when Anand erred in a dynamically balanced position. Facing checkmate, he resigned after only 30 moves. It was a startlingly quick and unexpected beginning to a match that many experts have said is too close to call. Anand, who has been world chess champion since 2007, is ranked No. 4 in the world, but has been ranked No. 1. His ranking has slipped recently as he prepared to defend his title. Topalov is ranked No. 2 and was ... | |