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| Posted by yeper uskidscompute.com 5/21/2003 09:05:08 Play online chess |  Subject: what good are ratingsMessage: I've won against player rated over 2100 and lost to some below 900 - not to mension those where my trigger finger misfired :)) If your looking for an interesting team, join Topcocks |
Chess news: The Catalan Chess Opening, part 2: the g2 bishop -- How can White best exploit the potential of his fianchettoed kingside bishop? RB I'm a Catalan virgin, but I'm beginning to see some themes, in particular the power of the bishop on g2. Unfortunately the bishop's dominance of the h1-a8 diagonal is contested by the black bishop on b7. If I could somehow block its scope, my own bishop's potential would be enhanced. That's why I'm fixating on the c6 square. Ideally, I'd like to land a knight on c6, and maintain it there or force Black to swap off his bishop. The trouble is that ... Gata Kamsky qualifies for 2011 candidates -- American chess has a munificent sponsor, Rex Sinquefield. The retired fund manager has bankrolled the last two US chess championships, the latest with a $170,000 prize fund, in his Missouri home city Saint Louis where he has created a state of the art chess club which hosted the title event. The 2009 chess champion, Hikaru Nakamura, was stimulated to hone his inconsistent talent and is now ranked in the world top 20. Its format, a 24-player Swiss, included top US women plus Ray Robson, 15, who has since become a grandmaster. The 2010 championship last month went to Gata Kamsky, the former chess prodigy who went close to the world title in 1996, gave up to become ... Chess Notes -- The decisive game in the Anand/Topalov chess match, Game 12, was oddly a well-trodden Queen’s Gambit Declined, the Lasker Variation. However, Anand as black varied slightly from the normal variation, electing to defer equality for a move and then getting a bishop for a knight but putting a queen bishop pawn at risk. In effect on move 21, Anand seemed to be willing to take a draw with the black pieces, but Topalov would not repeat moves. Topalov had weakened his king side slightly, and apparently ... | |