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| Posted by jstack kttstudios.com 12/03/2007 10:49:50 Play online chess |  Subject: Kamskys winMessage: - 26. c3!? Here is where I get confused. I would almost automatically play BxN followed by Nf5 where it appears to be the classic case of Good Knight versus bad bishop. I am curious what my fellow gameknotters think of the position(especially those above 2000). Oh by the way Kamsky goes on to win a same colored biship ending. Here is the chessbase link.  www.chessbase.com | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Posted by ketchuplover kttstudios.com 12/09/2007 05:39:39 Play online chess | Message: ——— 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 ketchuplover | kttstudios.com 12/10/2007 15:08:38 Play online chess Message: ——— 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 ketchuplover | kttstudios.com 12/14/2007 08:00:28 Play online chess Message: ——— Time stops for no man — Almost everyone, chess player or not, is fascinated with the chess clock. Explaining how the device works to a new class is always a challenge. The two main problems are: 1.Most people think the chess clock times each move, when it actually times the whole game. 2.Most people think the device is one clock, and I have to inform them that a chess clock actually contains two separate clocks. Analog chess clocks were the norm for years until the digital chess clock was introduced. Above: A circa-1920s chess clock from the German manufacturer Schachverein Balingen Below: A digital chess clock made by Saitek is set for a five-minute blitz game of chess. The way it works is quite simple. The chess player with ... Posted by sf115 | kttstudios.com 12/14/2007 11:30:00 Play online chess Message: what happened later in the game? ——— World still trying to peg Fischer — Bobby Fischer is a phenomenon whom we see through a glass darkly. Yasser Seirawan, a former U.S. chess champion, said in his book "No Regrets" that, after spending a day and a half with Fischer in 1992, he was convinced that 60 percent of what had been written about him was incorrect. Two meritorious — even brilliant — accounts of Fischer’s life were recently released: the book "Endgame" by Frank Brady and the HBO documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World" by Liz Garbus. Both deservingly generated praise. But, according to some readers and viewers, neither biography provides a gut understanding of his complex behavior. Garbus seems to attribute Fischer’s difficulties in later life to ... Posted by ketchuplover | kttstudios.com 12/16/2007 02:59:18 Play online chess Message: ——— Topalov Takes on the Irish National Team — When elite chess competitors take on a number of weaker opponents in simultaneous exhibitions, the stronger chess player has to move from board to board and has little time to formulate strategies. Rarely are the weaker players even on the master level. But in the 1980s, Garry Kasparov, who was then world chess champion, began giving exhibitions in which he took on groups of top-level chess players. They were timed, so Kasparov had to move faster than his opponents. After losing the first of the so-called simuls against a strong club team from Germany in 1985, Kasparov won every other one he played. Between 1987, when he won a return match against the Germans, and 2001, when he beat ... Posted by ketchuplover | kttstudios.com 12/16/2007 05:14:01 Play online chess Message: Posted by calmrolfe | kttstudios.com 12/17/2007 06:14:47 Play online chess Message: Kamsky seems to have finally brushed the cobwebs off his opening preparation and Topalov seems to have gone off the boil since Danailov came under scrutiny from the Arbiters. Danailov may appear mad at times but my money is on Rustam being even madder when the chips are down.....Mind you, if I was Gata I'd leave "Dad" firm instructions to remain at home as he would be an unsettling influence.... Bring it on !!! Posted by ccmcacollister | kttstudios.com 12/22/2007 01:01:26 Play online chess I was ...Message: So perhaps I must think Topalov to come out on top, which I guess seems to fit. Tho I was originally thinking and hoping it to be close with a real chance for Kamsky. On the other match-up, I take Rustam by TKO in round one .... }8-)) chesslab.com
Posted by ccmcacollister | kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 00:00:51 Play online chess Does Message: Posted by ketchuplover | kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 04:06:50 Play online chess Message: Posted by fmgaijin | kttstudios.com 1/18/2008 14:48:44 Play online chess Kamsky in BulgariaMessage: |