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| Posted by bunta www6conf.org 3/03/2007 16:18:53 Play online chess |  Subject: Sydney International OpenMessage: Anyone playing in this tournament? Tell me if you are because I will be there! =] | ||||
| Posted by far1ey www6conf.org 3/03/2007 16:49:33 Play online chess | Message: | ||||
| Posted by ccmcacollister www6conf.org 3/03/2007 17:15:27 Play online chess | bunta... you're still here at GK ! Message: ***** That looks like a really great tournament. They certainly know how to put their advertisements together there in Australia too. Photographs, profiles, rankings, games ... fantastic. Wish I were going to be there to play in that one ... but no such luck. So will settle for wishing you an excellent tournament; Good Luck and Good Skill to you~! }8-) PS// Hope to see you annotate the game here on GK, after you finish punishing a GM there in Sydney ! Remember, no one can defeat you unless you allow them to. That's all there is to it ... ——— Karpov the boa constrictor — The Russian is not ranked among the great masters of attack, but has a keen eye for an opportunity. Our final column in this series on the attack comes from Anatoly Karpov's My Best Games (Progress in Chess, 2007 – there are few better ways to improve your chess than by playing through games annotated by the greats). Karpov is not usually ranked among the great masters of attack, his style being more often likened to that of a boa constrictor. Artur Yusupov, whose own books are well worth a look, wrote after losing to Karpov in the 1983 USSR chess championship that he had not often felt that he had been outplayed, but in this game that's exactly what he did feel. "However," he ... Posted by dozy | www6conf.org 3/07/2007 23:44:31 Play online chess SIOMessage: At the moment there are 72 entries with the total expected to pass 100, probably 120, in the next few weeks. There are 26 titled players so far with the possibility of more to come. It's likely there'll be another high-profile entry announced in the next couple of days. So far there are about 12 players rated below FIDE 1800 and more are expected, so you'll find that not every game is against a chess-muscled world-beater. This isn't just a tournament, it's an event, and we've never seen anything quite like it before in the Land of Oz. I wouldn't miss it for quids. Maybe I'll see you there. ——— New York State's Chess Champion? He's 14 — Many states hold their chess championships over Labor Day weekend, among them New York State. Its championship is said to be the oldest chess tournament in the country. This year was the 132nd edition and it ended Monday. Many top chess players have been New York State chess champion, including Jose Raul Capabalanca (in 1910, before he became world champion), Reuben Fine (1941), William Lombardy (1954), Pal Benko (1961 and 1962), Robert Byrne (1987), Hikaru Nakamura (2004 and 2007), Gata Kamsky (2005), and Joel Benjamin (nine times between 1985 and 2002). In this year’s championship, Benjamin again finished atop the field, tying for first with Marc Esserman ... Posted by far1ey | www6conf.org 3/15/2007 23:47:03 Play online chess Message: Top seed GM Sergei Shipov for the Sydney International Open will be playing simul in Canberra! He has been in top 100! Then again he is no match for Far1ey... ;) ——— Shirov Wins Shanghai Masters — Alexei Shirov of Spain has won the Shanghai Masters chess tournament, with a round to spare. Tuesday, he beat Wang Hao of China, clinching first place. It was Shirov’s third consecutive win. Under the scoring system used in Shanghai (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw), Shirov has 11 points (three wins and two draws). Levon Aronian of Armenia and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia are tied for second with 6 points each (one win, one loss and three draws), while Wang has 2 points (three losses and two draws). The top two scorers advance to the Bilbao Final Masters next month in Spain, which means that the final-round games on Wednesday will be pivotal. Aronian will be Black against ... |