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Posted by jstevens1 austinfilmfestival.org 10/16/2008 05:39:45 play online chess	Subject: An Expert Lesson in Piece Overload Message: Here is the scenairo, you are playing an Expert about 300-400 points north of you. You use the World Database for guidance but as soon as the Expert takes you out of it you can be mightily stumped for a plan. Where do I go from here? Well, after this game with Marin, a very strong Expert I think the thing to do is to check what pieces are covering what, do you have any overloaded pieces. If so, sort it before the Expert sorts you! I have annotated this game on the Public Gallery to demonstrate this point. Have a nice day all of you. Cheers. Joanne
Posted by blake78613 austinfilmfestival.org 10/17/2008 10:56:59 play online chess	Message: You should analyze the position first and chose a move, then go to the database. Before rejecting your own move, convince yourself that you understand why the database move is much stronger. You need to have your head in the game, before your book or datebase runs out; or your first move on your own is liable to be a disaster.
Chess news: Modern Chess Players Prove Bobby Fischer Was Wrong -- Bobby Fischer once famously remarked that "chess is dead". What he meant was that so much had been discovered about the game of chess that creativity and innovation were waning. Chess players are certainly better prepared than ever because databases and computers are widely used to analyze and dissect openings. Players can sometimes reel off 20 or more moves before they leave their preparation. That seems to have sucked the life out of some chess openings. Most top players know a couple of lines in the Petroff Defense through more than 20 moves, and it is not uncommon for them to play that out and agree to a draw, if that is the result they want. But there are ... Magnus Carlsen joins Vladimir Kramnik -- Vladimir Kramnik had to engineer an escape from a difficult endgame as Alexey Shirov brought the former world chess champion to the brink of defeat at Wijk aan Zee. Shirov remains half a point behind Kramnik and world number one Magnus Carlsen with two to play. Carlsen defeated Lenier Dominguez, somewhat fortuitously, to join Kramnik on 7.5/11. Carlsen has the easier finish as Kramnik must play black against Vishy Anand in the penultimate game. Carlsen faces Peter Leko with black and teenager Fabiano Caruana with white. ... Carlsen Conquers Corus -- With a bit of luck and nerves of steel, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the world’s top-ranked chess player, won the annual Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, which ended Sunday. Carlsen finished with a score of 8.5 points out of 13, a half point ahead of Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Alexei Shirov of Spain. Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Hikaru Nakamura of the United States, were tied for fourth and fifth, another half point back. The chess tournament is named after the Dutch company, which is the second largest steel producer in Europe, according to the company’s Web site. The tournament is one of the highlights of the year ...