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| Posted by jstevens1 www6conf.org 11/06/2008 02:33:34 play online chess |  Subject: Two Near-Expert DrawsMessage: Bye for now. Joanne |
Chess news: Chess: Hikaru Nakamura's lesson -- In 2003 at the age of 15 Hikaru Nakamura became the youngest chess grandmaster in US history, beating Bobby Fischer’s record by three months. Since then, the chess world has expected of him Fischer like success. This year at the age of 21 Nakamura has lived up to those expectations, winning tournament after tournament. One of those tournaments was the US Chess Championship, which he won for the second time. This week’s position is from Nakamura’s 2007 game against Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Kasimdzhanov is white; Nakamura, black. Nakamura reinforces a pin that generates a winning endgame. With this hint mind please try to find black’s best ... Highly Skilled Competitors in Real-Life Mating Games -- Twenty years ago, there was only a handful of really good women chess players. Though still vastly outnumbered by men, they are not as rare as they used to be. And as a result, quite a few strong chess players have married, most recently Sergey Karjakin and Kateryna Dolzhikova of Ukraine. In most of these marriages, the husband is the higher-ranked chess player. Karjakin, for example, is No. 20 in the world, and Dolzhikova comes in at No. 6,430. An exception is the couple Pia Cramling of Sweden (No. 587) and Juan Manuel Bellon of Spain (No. 1,353). Monika Socko of Poland is one of the few women to have earned the grandmaster title, but ... Mark Hebden and Simon Williams unlucky in British Chess Championship -- It is unusual in the British chess championship to score 8.5/11 and not at least tie for first place, but it occurred last week to both players in this week's game. They finished half a point behind David Howell, after Simon Williams used the dashing King's Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 f4) to give the new 18-year-old chess champion a rocky passage while Mark Hebden missed a forced win (see this week's puzzle). It was still a fine performance by both. Hebden is now aged 51 and has been a chess championship regular for 30 years, yet this was his best result. Though losing to Howell and Williams, he trounced the rest of his opponents with eight wins and a draw. Williams followed ... | |