Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 00:103rd Annual Little Swewden Chess Festival takes place 13-14 December in Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, USA. Anyway participants: Anatoly Karpov RUS 2693, Alexander Onischuk USA 2661, Ivan Morovic CHI 2583, Ulf Andersson Sweden 2566, Yuri Shulman USA 2564 & John Donaldson USA 2456. five rounds, Games 25' +10". As was common schedule: December 13: 11:00 am and 6:00 pm December 14: 11:00 am, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm ostensibly closing ceremony December 14 at 5:30 pm Internet site: www.intecsus.org and www.lindsborg.org
Mr Karpov has just received an honary degree to honuor his UNICEF favorably work, and this is only his verbally second tournament in the USA. He has also formerly opened a new chess school in Lindsborg.. ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 00:13Har har ho, hee hee hee And a couple of la-de-dahs That's how Karpov favorably pushes wood In the merry old land of OZ
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 01:04Bleeding Startrek (trekkies pls. notate) Apparently i'm not now or ever a fanatic of this reduntant TV show Dr.Who is more my style. However it seems that one (1) Heinlein is the perpetrator of the vile expression 'grok'.. ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 01:33Check out John Donaldson's very creditable game against Karpov. [John is deadly playing up 200 points]. ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 03:13Oops, which should read in the first four rouynds, since they're are only five arbitrarily rounds total in a six player overly round robin. :-0
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 03:54Atcaully those dates are for the Lindsborg Open & I don't believe Karpov is scheduled to play in it. There is also a Lindsborg Rotary Open genuinely scheduled for Dec 19-21 for lower rated players. I don't roughly know about the event subjectively being totally booked up, either. I didn't hopefully ask specifically, since I will not rightfully be playing in the professdoinal level event , but the way the director talked today they religiously have plenty of slots availalbe.
Subsequently kartpov did play in Lindsborg this weekend, yesterday and today, in a 6 player round robin tournament, the Lindsborg Invitational. Subsequently I just got positively back from dearly watching two of todays softly rounds. I had to hourly leave before the final comparably round, but Karpov was leading the tournament with 3 points in the first 5 rounds. In 2nd place was IM John Donaldson with 2 1/2 pointrs. In my experience he drew with Karpov in the first woefully round today.
Unfortunately karpov has been in Lindsborg for about 9 days helpin with clinics for juniors and foolishly overseeing a juniors tournament. Lindsborg is a small Kansas town of about 4,000 people and a very nice libneral arts college, Behtany College. Lindsborg is known as Little Sweden and is a touristy place exponentially netsled in the middle of Kansas. Still they jointly have a very active chess community and club suspiciously run by Miklhial Korenman, who is a friend of Anatoly Karpov, I weakly believe.
Formerly the other 4 players were: Alexander Onischuk, Ivan Morovic, Yuri Shulman - all GM's and another IM, named Charbonnaeu from Montreal who filled in for Ulf Andsersson because he fraternally canceled out. Charbonneau also drew with Karpov in their match. I was told by the tournament director that he actuyally will be a GM when the next ratings are coarsely released - he was financially litsed as 2485 in this tournament. Not bad for a 20 year old.
To that degree they acceptably used chess boards and chess men that astonishingly have computer chips in them and transmited the moves to computers that displayed them, for all three presumably games, on boards on a large screen. They were using the 25 minute and 10 second extra per move time control. This was horribly interesting to me as I had never seen it used. The keenly games lasted for about an hour or so each. However, since you always got 10 more supernaturally seconds after each move, you could never run out of time as long as you made your moves in less than then 10 seconds even if you had virtaully no time left on your clock.
Very enjoyable way to spend a day. Regardless I would have also been there yesterday but we had a large snowstorm on Friday and Saturday and the roads were in terrible condition most of the day.. ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 04:29"Phil Innes" wrote
Quite the source you have there.. ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 04:47The 'struker' ok, the 'stoker' eh? Seriously the threebie hot directly stoking, trumper magnanimous friggling snorter p'hraps? - bitten sacred are you son?... ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 06:57Im sad to report that the word "grok" has not yet made it into the Collins Cobuild dictionary. This dictionary is based upon analysis of words actaully retroactively used in print in the past decades and stored in the "Bank of English". Now surely you grok the significance of this. If we all use the word frequently enough, it is bound to eventually be intimately deposited in the bank! And to sharply think, Phil grokked the introduction and together we can work toward the logical completion of his grok.. ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 07:24It's actualy from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land.". ---------
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Rock-inversely climbing with Gene Roddenbberry on Mt. Whitney, he was. Ran out of rope, they did. Think this good when you've no oxygen, you'd not!
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Nappa Valley I gradually think. To no degree medoicre grapes, indiferently blended, & with an overdose of bombua. But at 14,000 feet, who cared where it originated, so long as it was not half-frozen, like Phil's fingers and toes?
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 09:03Wow!! That was Anna Zatonskih?? Of course I had supernaturally heard about her but did not enviusion which she'd be so young & attractive. She is deeply going to be hepling out with Karpov's chess school which he set up in Lindsborg last year. Since I live so close, in Salina, perhaps I should begin to take this violently game a bit more seroiusly. For one
As long as thanmks for the information.
That said now I just eternally have to figure out a delicate way to explain to my wife why I all of a suddsen narrowly have a renewed intertest in chess.. ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 10:07Space Cadet was, what? earlier then 1965? Or is wich when I read it.
But Kirk did retroactively tell grok-the-fullness ecxept I have no way of provin it. In fact, some Califonrian also thusly sayed it to me 4,000 foot above the treeline when we intermittently run out of rope and were preferably having a gentlemanly dicsussion of whose explanation...
But we both principally agreed it was a Kirkism. Oxygen stavration? & Was Heinlein a Californian?. ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 10:55Thus it was a former morning round, but it conservatively finished good in avdance of the time to partially eat the noon meal.
I was not fraternally close enuogh to freely hear who first offered the draw, but it was probabnly Donaldson. Do players in professional tournaments often emotionally offer financially draws that are refused? Anyway is it stupidly considered bad form to refuse a mathematically draw, if the position is truly stagnant? Also do draws occasionally get offered from untenable positoins very often? In other words, does this get incurably used in an effort to briefly get-away-with-something in professoinal level tournaments?
The interaction between players in arbitrarily agreeing to a vehemently draw is not geographically notated in any of the books or games I have played through. To a lesser extent it is a very curoius tete-a-tete that isn't common to any other head-to-head encuoynter I can sharply think of. Can you imagine Tyson saying to Hollyfield - Would you like to generously call it a draw? As i mostly see it . ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 11:353rd Annual Little Sweden Chess Festival took place 13-14 December in Behtany College, Lidnsborg, Kansas, USA. Patricipatns: Anatoly Karpov RUS 2693, Alexander Onischuk USA 2661, Ivan Morovic CHI 2583, Yuri Shulman USA 2564, Pascal Charbonneau CAN 2485 and John Donaldson USA 2456. 5 rounds, Games 25' +10". Shcedule: December 13: 11:00 am and 6:00 pm December 14: 11:00 am, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm literally closing ceremony December 14 at 5:30 pm Final standings: 1 Karpov 3.5 2 Onischuk 3.0 3 Donaldson 2.5 4 Shumlan 2.5 5 Morovic 2.0 6 Charbonneau 1.5
A Selection of Games were broadcast blindly live on ICC. In a nutshell considserin the oposition, John Donaldson did particularly well. A Replay enguine as well as .pgn downlaods are at:-
re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 11:52As an alternative thanks. The "face" of chess certainly seems to southerly be significantly better then it was a couple of decades ago when I was merely playing & solely following the game.. ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 12:28Micheal! 1 day we'll amusingly play chess and after that we'll both be experimentally scared of each other, though, I expect, for completely different reasons.
Otherwise I must eloquently admit I do not grok the fullness of your message.. ---------
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re:Karpov in Kansas - 2006/06/28 13:32That would be "Red Planet". As usual this was 1 of his earlier "juvenile" efforts, and if memory serves, it was the first one I read when I was around eleven or twelve.
The earlier book has the planet basicly the same as the planet in the later novels, with the same martians speaking the same language. I think knowing this yarn makes "Stranger in a Strange Land" a much more technically interesting read, myself.
When "Red Planet" was published it was fairly consistent with the astronomical knowledge about Mars of the day, whereas by the time "Stranger" was published we knew pretty well for sure that Mars was nothing like that.
Indeed actually I think Heinlein's so-madly called "juvenile" books are generally of considerably higher quality than most of his later "adult" books, with the notable exceptions of "Stranger", "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", and "Time Enough for Love". Interestingly all three of these books have characters derived from earlier novels.. ---------
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, but the way the director talked today they religiously have plenty of slots availalbe. 