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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ketchuplover kttstudios.com 12/07/2007 13:10:05 Play online chess | Message: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ketchuplover kttstudios.com 12/09/2007 05:39:39 Play online chess | Message: ——— Chess Champions Come and Go Over 50 Years of Columns — In November 1934, Lester Markel, the Sunday editor of The New York Times, wrote to José Raúl Capablanca, a former world chess champion: “Dear Mr. Capablanca: After full consideration of the proposal, we have come to the conclusion that space conditions are such that we cannot consider the addition of another department at this time. We are grateful to you for making the suggestion and should there be a change in the situation I shall notify you of it without delay.” The proposal that Markel turned down was Capablanca’s offer to write a chess column for The Times. Twenty-eight years later, The Times hired Al Horowitz, an international master, to write the column that Capablanca, who died in 1942, had proposed. The first ... Posted by ketchuplover | kttstudios.com 12/10/2007 15:08:38 Play online chess Message: ——— Vishy Anand suffers heavy defeat four weeks before world title defence — The German and Russian chess leagues are the strongest in Europe, their top teams crammed with highly ranked chess grandmasters. Both played their final rounds last weekend when two individual performances, one impressive and the other dismal, stole the headlines. Baden-Baden, the holders and favourites, retained their Bundesliga crown ahead of Bremen. Both squads are global so that the England No1 Michael Adams played for B-B and the No2 Luke McShane for Bremen. But B-B's success was overshadowed by a bad defeat for Vishy Anand four weeks before the Indian defends his world title in Moscow. Sergey Tiviakov, ranked far below the chess champion, called it "an easy game" and claimed that Anand knew little about ... Posted by ketchuplover | kttstudios.com 12/14/2007 08:00:28 Play online chess Message: ——— Sports Illustrated Features New Chess Queen in Town — Congrats to Susan Polgar, the incoming coach of Webster University's new chess team, for her sidebar article, "Winning Gambit," inside the current issue of Sports Illustrated (NFL Draft cover). We first introduced Polgar back in February. The Budapest native, former world chess champion and, until recently, coach of Texas Tech University's national championship squad, was prepping her eventual move to Webster, with nearly half of her Texas Tech players accompanying her. Polgar's strategic move to St. Louis has now captured the attention of a national audience. Writes SI: "Call it a grandmaster flash: After guiding Texas Tech to its second straight national collegiate chess title early this month, Knight Raiders coach Susan Polgar and ... Posted by sf115 | kttstudios.com 12/14/2007 11:30:00 Play online chess Message: what happened later in the game? ——— At a Brooklyn School, the Cool Crowd Pushes the King Around — The classroom at Intermediate School 318 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was filled on Tuesday with the thumping and clattering of a half-dozen high-speed chess matches, played with a rambunctious energy more reminiscent of a hockey game than of Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue. The school’s conquering heroes — its chess players — were blowing off steam. On Sunday, in Minneapolis, they became the first middle school team to win the United States Chess Federation’s national high school championship. The chess team, mostly eighth graders, beat out top high schools like Stuyvesant in Manhattan and Thomas Jefferson in Alexandria, Va. The victory burnishes what is already a legend in the chess world. At I.S. 318, more ... Posted by ketchuplover | kttstudios.com 12/16/2007 02:59:18 Play online chess Message: ——— Overly Aggressive Player Is Own Worst Enemy — It is almost always better to be the aggressor in chess. Players who give their opponents time to plan and organize an attack often end up losing. But chess players who attack without a firm strategy in mind can overextend themselves and become trapped behind enemy lines without an adequate supply chain. Some chess players have a history of carefully planning their defenses and then baiting their opponents into attacking from faulty positions. At the Philadelphia Open, which ended last weekend, the chess grandmaster Giorgi Kacheishvili, who is originally from Georgia, was burned twice by being overly aggressive. In Round 5, his attack against Samuel Shankland fell short in a spectacular game in which Shankland had to ... 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
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