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| Posted by jstevens1 austinfilmfestival.org 4/07/2008 02:48:18 Play online chess |  Subject: My 5 successful endgamesMessage: 1. jstevens1 v chesscommander. 2. jstevens1 v negoflor. 3. The carpenter v jstevens1. 4. jstevens1 v gothicgirl 5. jstevens1 v zamzaweck. Hope you've all enjoyed your weekend. Whew I bet you will find reading the above a bit of a marathon, but I hope you enjoy it! Cheers and bye for now. Joanne |
Chess news: Defence, part 3: How can white avoid checkmate? -- Kramnik-Carlsen, Moscow 2007. Black threatens … Qh3 mate. How can White defend? Former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and 19-year-old Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen will be the favourites to win the London Chess Classic, which runs from 8-15 December at the Olympia Exhibition Centre. Kramnik has just triumphed at the Tal Memorial, while Carlsen has been training with Garry Kasparov and is now No 1 on the world rating list. The top four English chess players – Short, Adams, Howell and McShane – will face a stern test. Visitors are welcome: there will be live commentary and side events to play in. In this encounter Kramnik and Carlsen ... An Ill-Timed Cigarette Break Trips Up Two Grandmasters -- Turns out that smoking is not just bad for your health; it may be bad for your game. At the World Chess Cup, which is being held in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, two top Chinese grandmasters, Wang Yue and Li Chao, showed up late for tie-breaker games in their third-round matches because they had been smoking. Under new World Chess Federation rules, they had to forfeit. The forfeits cost Wang and Li their matches, and they had to go home. In an interview published on the chess tournament’s Web site, Wang said he understood the decision but thought it was unfair. He expressed remorse for what happened to Li, who started smoking only to keep him company during ... World cup in Russia -- How would you like to take a long airplane trip to Moscow in order to play two or three chess games, study up on chess openings to the fullest, try to arrange space to go by air to a town in Siberia (Khanty-Mansiysk, pop. 62,347), face cancellations, get to the airport in Moscow without taking a cab (they are unavailable or may break down on the way to the airport), find a flight, fly in a tiny plane, land, take transportation to the hotel, wait a day, play two or three chess games against a Grandmaster, lose, and then travel all the way back to the United States? This was the privilege of a number of Americans who received invitations to play in the World Chess Cup (128 players) ... | |