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Posted by jstevens1 www6conf.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: Veteran Has Staying Power, but 19-Year-Old Will Be No. 1 -- Two of the biggest chess events of the year ended last week with champions who are at very different stages of their chess careers. In Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, Boris Gelfand of Israel captured the World Cup, outlasting a field of 128 players. Though he is No. 7 in the world, and will be No. 6 when the new chess rankings come out on Jan. 1, Gelfand, 41, is not likely to be an elite player for many more years, particularly when chess is increasingly a young man’s game. His staying power — he has been among the world’s best chess players for two decades — is unusual. With the victory in the World Cup, Gelfand has qualified for the candidates’ matches to select a challenger for ... Another Dose of Chess Nostalgia -- Tis the season, or perhaps the year, for nostalgia. In September, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, the former chess champions and rivals, played a 12-game exhibition match in Valencia, Spain, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their first championship match. On Friday, another match between chess legends began in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, a region in southern Russia next to Kazakhstan. The match is between Boris Spassky, 72, the former world chess champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, 78, the two-time (or three-time, depending on whether the candidates final in 1974 is included) challenger for the world title. Like Kasparov and Karpov, Korchnoi and Spassky are old rivals, though ... Magnus Carlsen to the summit -- Magnus Carlsen has achieved his aim. With his victory in the London Chess Classic last week, the Norwegian grandmaster grabbed enough rating points to climb on top of the January FIDE rating list. What's next? The title of world chess champion, of course! But that might be out of his hands since FIDE often shuffles rules and regulations at whim. Magnus has to wait at least till 2011. For the time being, FIDE is scheduling the world chess championship match between the titleholder, Vishy Anand of India, and the challenger, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, next April in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. Carlsen was playing hard in London, perhaps pushing his luck in a few games. After defeating ...