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Posted by jstevens1 austinfilmfestival.org 4/27/2008 07:35:36 play online chess	Subject: Jo's "Expert Safari Land" Adventure Continues Message: Here I am, the tiny kitten, still on Expert safari territory - the going has been very tough so far, I have just stepped out of the safari park and have found a short stretch of desert land. I am really thirsty and my skin is thoroughly scratched from attacks from Heinzkats, Leo the Lion and am still swollen through hornet stings from that frightful swarm of Chrisobee. I desperately need water - I need to find an oasis fast, but, wherever I look I am being blinded by the scorching hot sun. I looked to the right and I am blinded by the light - (yes, this is exactly what happened in a training game against Lighttotheright. I did not know which way to turn with my king and paid for my dithering - this game was annotated as "An Expert Lesson in Castling". I stumbled on and found myself back on safari land only to encounter yet another swarm of Chrisobee! Please find another annotated game against the Master. It is called "Caught offside" because this is another trap that beginners/intermediate players can fall into and even GM Tringov fell into once - it is letting your queen get offside so she cannot go to the defence of her other half when he desperately needs her! Needless to say I got stung again by a mating attack which did not force mate but brought about ruinous loss of material and resignation from me. Have any of you left your queen offside and paid the price? Please feel free to PM me if you do not wish to post it on the forum. I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Bye for now. Joanne
Chess news: Space chess -- A unique chess match is underway between Earth and Space as International Space Station astronaut Greg Chamitoff challenges all the planet’s inhabitants. Chess players from Earth will take their lead from the Stevenson Elementary School Chess Club in Bellevue, Washington State USA. The children will select up to four possible moves for Earth and an online vote will determine which one is played. Chamitoff, a flight engineer, brought a chess set with him when he arrived on the STS-124 space shuttle in June. While speeding about 210 miles above the Earth at five miles a second he has defeated all comers from the mission’s base stations and needs some tougher chess ... Topalov back on top -- Veselin Topalov has regained the top spot on the Fide ranking list after his success at the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao. His fine victory over Ivanchuk in the last round, which we have already seen, was ultimately decisive as Topalov gained five points and Ivanchuk, who is now third, lost five. Alexander Morozevich remains in second place and the Norwegian teenager Magnus Carlsen is up to fourth. The results at Bilbao and the Tal Memorial mean that the forthcoming world title contest between Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik will be between the fifth ranked and six ranked chess players. Both Anand and Kramnik were doubtless distracted by the preparations for the title match and this explains ... 1.b3 or not 1.b3? -- The Russian Chess Championship Superfinal starts today in Moscow with twelve chess Grandmasters, eleven ranked in the world’s top 100, competing for a 5 million rouble (about $200,000) prize fund. The top seed is world number two Alexander Morozevich. Most of Russia’s leading chess players will compete apart from Vladimir Kramnik whose title match against Vishy Anand begins in eleven days time in Bonn. I detailed my long standing prejudice against the move 1.b3 yesterday, here is some more recent ...