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| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 7/31/2004 14:20:08 Play online chess |  Subject: superfriends team forum #1Message: go superfriends |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 7/31/2004 14:28:23 Play online chess | Message: where should we go first? |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 7/31/2004 14:29:44 Play online chess | Message: i vote the other one, it already has two posts. i think we need more players ——— For Many People, Holidays Are a Time for Playing — The period around the new year has become one of the busiest times for chess players. Holiday chess tournaments have a long tradition. One of the oldest, the Hastings International Chess Congress in England, has been held every year since 1920-21, with a break during World War II. This year’s tournament began on Dec. 28 and ends Jan. 5. After six rounds, Andrei Istratescu of Romania, Yuri Drozdovskij of Ukraine and Zbynek Hracek of Czech Republic were leading the top section with 5 points, and being chased by a group of eight chess players, including three grandmasters, three international masters and two masters who each had 4.5 points. Hastings is no longer ... |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 7/31/2004 16:36:07 Play online chess | Message: agreed. ——— A Bold Opening for Chess Player Magnus Carlsen — Vladimir Kramnik, former world chess champion and current No. 4, is playing in the first round of the London Chess Classic, the most competitive chess tournament to be played in the U.K. capital in 25 years. Tall, handsome and expressionless, he looks exactly as a man who has mastered a game of nearly infinite variation should: like a high-end assassin. Today, however, he is getting methodically and mercilessly crushed. His opponent is a teenager who seems to be having difficulty staying awake. Magnus Carlsen yawns, fidgets, slumps in his chair. He gets up and wanders over to the other games, staring at the boards like a curious toddler. Every now and then, he returns to ... |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 7/31/2004 19:41:47 Play online chess | Message: when is everybody else joining ——— Game of the Year Nominee — This is the time of the year when it seems as if everyone and everything is getting nominated for best this, or worst that. The chess world has been part of the action since 1967, when a group of chess experts starting bestowing a “Chess Oscar” on the best player of the year. The competition is now run by the Russian chess magazine “64.” The winner of the Chess Oscar for the last two years was Viswanathan Anand of India, the world champion. (Anyone want to wager that this year’s winner will be Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the 19-year-old who has become the youngest chess player to be ranked No. 1 in the world?) Choosing a best player seems like a reasonable idea. But ... |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 7/31/2004 20:15:26 Play online chess | Message: We're up to four so far. ——— Norwegian teenager to be crowned new chess king — The chess world's new number one 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen plots 20 moves ahead and can remember chess matches he played six years ago move-for-move, but insists he is still pretty much your average teenager. The brightest talent in a generation according to his Russian coach and chess great Garry Kasparov, Norway's Carlsen will officially become the world's youngest ever top ranked chess player when new rankings come out at the start of 2010. Dubbed the "Mozart of chess," Carlsen plays with a healthy dose of natural intuition on top of deep analysis and pursues other interests that he believes help his game. He brushes aside comparisons ... |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 7/31/2004 20:28:27 Play online chess | Message: i invited a couple more people. chris said he'll join. i still haven't heard from sublateral. also i asked another guy to join, but he turned me down ——— Great intuitive sacrifice — The exchange sacrifice -- trading a rook for a knight or a bishop -- is a magnificent tool in today's chess. It seldom wins outright. It is played for positional gain and calculation is often not required. Former world chess champion Tigran Petrosian loved it because he used it to get squares from which he could suffocate his opponent. The sacrifice is best suited for the black pieces in the Sicilian defense where the semi-open c-file tempts the black rook to eliminate the white horse on c3 before it can gallop off and do some damage. White is left with an unpleasant, immobile double-pawn and with holes into which black pieces can easily slide. Sometimes it destroys ... |
| Posted by home_alone_marv uskidscompute.com 7/31/2004 20:38:41 Play online chess | shouldn't we change our names? Message: If we are the "super friends" does that mean that we should change our names to superhero names like "Muhr Mayhem Man" and "Captain Obvious"? Or does this mean we are super quakers? |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 8/01/2004 21:16:55 Play online chess | Message: your pick. we're up to 7 team members and growing. check out the off-site team forum at sfchess.blogspot.com/ and follow the instructions if you would like to have access to post messages on that site. it will give us quite a bit more flexibility than the gameknot forums. |
| Posted by eternal_shadow uskidscompute.com 8/02/2004 08:58:05 Play online chess | Message: hey all you ppl, just joined up today. Thought i would greet you all through here first, my name is Chris if you didnt know already and i have been playing this game since forever. |
| Posted by home_alone_marv uskidscompute.com 8/02/2004 09:07:22 Play online chess | HEY YOU GUYS!!! Message: Just pretend the subject is sounded off by Chunk from Goonies. If we are the super hero "super friends" I want my alias to be "Captain Obvious" and my war cry to be "Look, here I am". Welcom shadow, my name is Chris as well. |
| Posted by eternal_shadow uskidscompute.com 8/02/2004 09:39:31 Play online chess | Message: I take it you watch a lot of "Whose Line is it Anyway". |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/02/2004 14:53:01 Play online chess | Message: welcome to the team chris2....thats you eternal_shadow. |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 8/02/2004 22:40:13 Play online chess | Message: Looks like we're a real team now. If any of you have friends who play (or would like to) encourage them to come join us. Regarding super powers: I always wanted to watch the John Cleese video, "101 Ways to Be Annoying" or something like that. My mom wouldn't let me get it, so I had to come up with my own list. It's pretty complete and well-tested. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/03/2004 10:48:36 Play online chess | Message: i'm glad we're are a real team, but i still think we need players in the 1800+ area. if any of you guys know someone in this range, who is not currently on a team. send him a message. |
| Posted by home_alone_marv uskidscompute.com 8/03/2004 21:48:46 Play online chess | who's line? Message: Eternal Shadow, You are right on when you ask about Who's line, one of THE most funniest shows I have seen. However, I haven't watched it in quite a while... you? |
| Posted by home_alone_marv uskidscompute.com 8/03/2004 21:55:36 Play online chess | Message: So are we going to get any high ranked players? Other than Craig, who would be really high if Daleman hadn't beaten him!!! |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/03/2004 22:47:35 Play online chess | Message: i've tried, sublateral just ignores me. i've talked to a couple more people in the 1500-1800 range that i've played before, no response from anyone yet. |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 8/04/2004 08:49:36 Play online chess | Message: Dale, appreciate the work you are doing to attract higher ranked players. Another solution might be to get higher ranked ourselves. And the off-site forum will be a good way to support each other in that effort. If you haven't been there yet, take a look at sfchess.blogspot.com/. If you would like to have the ability to post questions, offer helpful links, or just chat, click on "Welcome" in the recent posts column on the right and follow the instructions there. |
| Posted by eternal_shadow uskidscompute.com 8/04/2004 19:15:10 Play online chess | Message: If ya'll give me a little while, i believe i can break 1500, almost there as we speak. Those sites that ya'll were talking about lookin interesting enough that i started reading them, hope they work. home_alone_marv: No i havnt watched that show in a good while either. |
| Posted by eternal_shadow uskidscompute.com 8/05/2004 06:47:57 Play online chess | Victory Message: Haha, I got one of my team matches won in seven moves! |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 8/05/2004 09:12:11 Play online chess | Message: That's our first team win! I looked at the board of your finished game. It's a testimony to the importance of controlling the center. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/05/2004 21:20:37 Play online chess | Message: openings can be our friends |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 8/06/2004 07:04:31 Play online chess | Message: Welcome to our new members: Rokhound and Rrocket joined our team yesterday, and adamski joined up this morning. Thanks again to eternal_shadow for our first team win. Feel like we should send out a certificate or something (suitable for framing, of course). If you haven't already done so, bookmark sfchess.blogspot.com If this forum seems a bit quiet, it's because most of the team talk is taking place over there. |
| Posted by rokhound uskidscompute.com 8/06/2004 08:12:41 Play online chess | Hello.... Message: Hello new teamates....thanks for the welcome! |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/06/2004 15:29:38 Play online chess | Message: thank you for joining us here at superfriends. |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 8/06/2004 21:44:34 Play online chess | Message: I'm also thankful, mostly because my last day at work is next Wednesday (counting down). |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/06/2004 22:17:31 Play online chess | Message: then you get the exciting life of a bus driver....wee |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/08/2004 12:23:48 Play online chess | Message: how are everybody's team matches going? |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 8/08/2004 14:56:23 Play online chess | Message: My team matches seem to be going okay, but I'm still mopping up assignments from our last team (from before the switch). |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/08/2004 16:22:50 Play online chess | Message: right now, i think i'm going to win at least 3 of the 4 i'm playing for this team |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 8/08/2004 19:29:08 Play online chess | Message: That's going to make a positive difference. Don't we have to complete 20 before we get a rating? |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 8/08/2004 20:35:00 Play online chess | Message: Welcome to our newest team member: pizzakeith. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/08/2004 21:13:54 Play online chess | Message: we need 5 games for our rating, 20 to get on the established teams board oh and welcome to our party pizzakeith |
| Posted by eternal_shadow uskidscompute.com 8/09/2004 07:49:29 Play online chess | Message: As for my team matches, most could go either way. None are as easy as the seven-mover i pulled earlier on, that was more luck on my part that he didnt know that combination than anything. Oh, and hey pizzakeith. |
| Posted by 1987dodge uskidscompute.com 8/09/2004 18:12:27 Play online chess | Message: Kavjack joined our team today. Glad to have you, kavjack. Tell us a little about yourself if you get a chance and welcome to the team. |
| Posted by kavjack uskidscompute.com 8/09/2004 18:17:38 Play online chess | Personal Stuff. Message: I am an Englishman living in Texas. I am dead keen on English Football despite living over here many years. I played on the School Chess Team in Pontefract, England from 1959 to 1961. The player on this board 'Dawlish' played on the same team 10 years later. That's why I would love to give him a game but he turned me down. Said that he was too busy. We also follow the same Football Team in England, namely, Leeds United, even though Dawlish is a town in Devon which is a long way from Yorkshire in English terms. Nothing at all in Texas terms. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/09/2004 19:23:10 Play online chess | Message: well welcome to the team kavjack......super friends rock |
| Posted by kavjack uskidscompute.com 8/09/2004 19:35:22 Play online chess | General Natter Message: Thanks, Daleman, you're also in Idaho, I see. One of the few US states that I've never been to. I was close in May, though. Made my first ever trip to Yellowstone and Wyoming. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 17:22:34 Play online chess | General Natter Message: how many states have you been to? i've been to six. Idaho, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Utah. I'm actually planning on going to Texas next summer to see my brother, and nephew.....what part of texas do you live in? |
| Posted by kavjack uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 17:34:32 Play online chess | US Travel Message: I live in the northern section of the Dallas ~ Fort Worth metroplex region in a town called Flower Mound in Denton County. The US states that I have NOT been to are : Idaho, North Dakota, Minnesota, Indiana, Kentucky, and Vermont. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 17:42:08 Play online chess | Message: well, you're missing out, because those are all the good ones:) Is Flower Mound anywhere near Clyde? |
| Posted by kavjack uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 18:00:18 Play online chess | Clyde ? Message: The only Clyde I know is the river running through Glasgow, Scotland. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 18:25:54 Play online chess | Message: oh.....i'm pretty sure its in the dallas area as well. will look into it |
| Posted by kavjack uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 18:35:38 Play online chess | Clyde, Texas Message: I checked it on the Internet. It is near Abilene on Interstate 20 about 150 miles east of here. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 18:43:14 Play online chess | Message: so, how long have you been playing chess?? |
| Posted by kavjack uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 18:47:37 Play online chess | Chess Playing Message: I first learnt to play chess in 1959 when I played for the King's School team in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The were 6 of us on the team and we played local high schools. 'Dawlish' on this gameknot board was also a member of this same school team but about 10 years later so I don't know him. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 19:01:50 Play online chess | Message: i'm almost done with one of my team games (for a win!!). do you want to play one? they're on right so it should be quick |
| Posted by kavjack uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 19:12:06 Play online chess | Challenge Message: Yes, I would like to give you a game. I tried but I was informed that you were fully booked. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 20:15:41 Play online chess | Message: yeah, i got a team game down to 2 moves, but he got off. so maybe tommorrow we'll play. |
| Posted by daleman uskidscompute.com 8/10/2004 22:09:29 Play online chess | Message: i guess i'll just finish this forum off by saying GO SUPER FRIENDS!!!!!! |
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