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Posted by throneseeker www6conf.org 1/08/2008 09:18:07 play online chess	Subject: Problem expansion Message: I realize that most sites have limited resources but I recently have come to believe that problems resulting in the attainment of a winning edge (material, time, position, or some combination thereof) are really as important and exciting (indeed, sometimes more so) than many mating problems. Accordingly, I would truly like to see problems of that nature on this site. Regards, ThroneSeeker
Posted by heinzkat www6conf.org 1/08/2008 09:51:16 play online chess	On the long run... Message: ...I would say yes!! Do it. Then we can ask for selfmates, helpmates, retrograde analysis problems, fairy problems, and standard tactical problems, i.e. winning a piece. But let them first make this application better. It's not perfect yet.
Posted by throneseeker www6conf.org 1/08/2008 11:31:16 play online chess	Agreement Message: I agree with you, heinzkat. As you know I am certainly far from perfect myself and I seem to be losing more my of my analytical abilities each passing day. I guess that is to be expected (we grow older daily) and the doctors warned me that I would not be as sharp after my accident as I once was and my thinking might deteriorate (this part is happening faster than I would like). But still .......
Chess news: Final Four at U.S. Chess Championship Is Set -- Holding true to form, the top four players in the U.S. Chess Championship, based on their pre-tournament ratings, qualified for the final on Thursday. They will play a mini-tournament amongst themselves, with each player facing each of the other competitors once, to determine a chess champion. The other 20 players in the chess championship will continue in their Swiss system tournament for another two rounds. They will essentially be playing for places fifth through twenty-fourth. The four finalists — Hikaru Nakamura, Gata Kamsky, Alexander Onischuk and Yuri Shulman — each scored five points in their first seven games and they did it in the same way: They beat most ... In High-Stakes Chess, Rivals Can Suddenly Become Allies -- When it comes to strange bedfellows, politics has nothing on chess. The sight last week of Garry Kasparov at a New York City fund-raiser for his longtime rival Anatoly Karpov, who is running for president of the World Chess Federation, was odd enough. Then there was Viswanathan Anand’s revelation in an interview that Kasparov had given him advice and looked over some of his openings before and during his victorious world chess championship match against Veselin Topalov. Kasparov and Anand also have a history of rivalry, and they competed for the world chess championship in 1995, a match that Kasparov won. Kasparov once even dismissed Anand as a “coffeehouse player.” ... Kamsky and Shulman Win and Will Play for U.S. Title -- They’ll play one game for the title. And if it ends in a draw, they’ll play some more. Gata Kamsky and Yuri Shulman will square off Monday in a game that could determine the United States Chess Champion. Kamsky and Shulman are tied for the lead of the chess championship after both won Sunday. Kamsky, the No. 2 seed, was expected to be a factor in the tournament. Sunday, he beat Alexander Onischuk, the No. 3 seed, in the process breaking Onischuk’s 49-game unbeaten streak in U.S. Chess Championships. It was a tense contest, where neither player had much of an edge for most of the game. According to the Web site of the chess championship, Kamsky even offered ...