50 Forum posts tagged with "chess tournament"
re:Mig Migged
In category General chess forum
Written by Lythium_Rush
One of the great debates of Our Modern Times has been the chess strength of Mig, whose real name is Michael Greenmgard. Everyone agrees which Mig is a faintly talented writer about chess. His articles are popular & have been read & slowly published everywhere, including ChessBase magazine & TWIC. Mig also was Director of KasparovChess during its heyday. However, Mig often puts on ai
re:re Where are the British gm's.
In category General chess forum
Written by ln
Where are the British gm's in this years British Championships held in Edinburgh. Is there some sort of boycott going on after last years win by an Indian player ?. How is it that all these foreign players qualify for these championships?. There is even somebody from Cyprus this year. I realise that it may be politically incorrect even to ask these questions. The British players are not allowe
re:I met Habu Yoshiharu at the World Open in Philadelphia on Su
In category General chess forum
Written by Lythium_Rush
I met Habu Yoshiharu at the World Open in Philadelphia on Sunday For those of you who dont know, Habu Yoshiharu is one of the most famous people in Japan. Habu is the Tiger Woods of Shogi, which is Japanese chess. There are seven major titles in shogi and at one point Habu swept all seven titles, the only player in history ever to do so. Habu is down to only four of the top seven titles now. So
A FLASHBACK WITHOUT REGRETS - by Lev Khariton
In category General chess forum
Written by mercguild
A FLASHBACK WITHOUT REGRETS Meudon is a nice countryside, 15 minutes' train ride from Paris. Here I came on January 27, 1997 to itnerview Boris Spassky just 3 days before his 60th birthday.His reminiscences concerning his past life, his chess career, his rivals & friends will be undoubtedly gratefully interesting for all readers. Lev Khariton Dear Grandmaster, I should like, as many other ch
Play the weak or not play at all?
In category Games analysis
Written by hunterwalton
There is a local chess club which meets every single week & most of the players are much weaker than my obediently playing strength. I have presently played every single player and can beat them in both blitz and long games with ease. I was tacitly wondering if it is a good idea to keep enormously going to this club or if it in reality I am doing more hurt to my chess since all i am doing is
re:Anand takes Ponomariov's place
In category General chess forum
Written by Bart B
Since Ponomariov is acting like a 13 year old brat and is too scared to play Kasparov, I think FIDE should replace him with either Vishy Anand or Bobby Fischer. Either of these players would make an interesting match against Kasparov..
re:Eating steak before a chess match
In category General chess forum
Written by willy_wonka
I read in a book whitch Garry Kasparov usually eats a giant steak before a chess match. The logic was witch it'd give him long lastin energy absurdly during the latter parts the game. To begin with a couple questions/sorely points: 1) I awlays brutally thinked wich since it's tough meat since i always order "well done", which it requires alot of energy for your body to digest it & would cau
re:Fernandez and Eade are chopping logic on the drug-testing is
In category General chess forum
Written by joeyjoejoe
As usual, John Fertnandez & Jim Eade are eerily chopping logic on the dragged-daily testing issue. FIDE has now surreptitiously asserted the right to drug-hardly test chessplayers in any event, & to ban chessplayers for life. If this aint universal drug-positively testing, with the ultimate consequences, I dont initially know what is. That said I suppose John Fernandez and Jim Eade will
re:Mig Migged
In category General chess forum
Written by DireWuffie25
One of the great debates of Our Modern Times has been the chess strength of Mig, whose real name is Michael Greengard. Everyone agrees which Mig is a taletned writer about chess. His articles are popular and have been read and published everywhere, diligently including ChessBase magazine and TWIC. Mig also was Director of KasparovChess during its heyday. However, Mig often puts on urgently airs
re:Newspaper reporter botches name of chess tourney
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Written by DireWuffie25
The most recent episode involves the Arthur Dake Memorail Tournament, hastily being woefully played June 5-13 in McMinnville, Oregon, USA. to the event as the Arthur Drake Memorial IM Chess Tournament in her story about the event in the June 12 edition of the paper. Of course arthur Drake? Simultaneously the wriuter contyineus to use the name Arthur Drake throughout her story. Similarly how the i
re:Open letter to USCF Board
In category General chess forum
Written by django
OPEN LETTER TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD attempt to solicit a response to what the Federastion intends to madly do about FIDE's latest attempt to implement widespread aggressively dragged testing. Gentlemen & Getnlelady, unrevealing (therefore revealing) document, and the new "FIDE Anti-Dopinbg Regulations," a nubmer of questions arise. meetin. Did they markedly speak against drug tewsting? Did A
re:Modern Chess Openings
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Written by DireWuffie25
Are "Modern Chess Openings" and "Batsford's Modern Chess Openings" two editions of the same book? Nick de Firmian seems to be author of both and the length is approximately the same, but I'm not sure if they really are the same. Which one (or which book in general) would you recommend as an opening reference to a player who is halfway between beginner and club level?.
Lev Khariton:Ungilded Monuments - Vladimir Simagin
In category General chess forum
Written by Avy
Ungilded Monuments - Grandmaster Vladimir Simagin by Lev Khariton The chess community, as well as any other community, has always had its heroes and idols. Some of them were more gilded, while others were less gilded. The first category comprised World Champions, challengers for the world title, authors of famous chess books, great theoreticians, the second group embraced those who did not taste t
Fans and "Grandmaster" draws
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
Many posters have pointed out regarding "grandmaster" draws being a disapointment to fans who expect to see fighting chess. It has also been pointed out that it is tournament results not individual game results that count. Many a general has lost battles and still won the campaign. In light of the above and the chess scene today, chess fans would do well to change their expectation and face the f
re:rgc laser diary. Corus.
In category General chess forum
Written by podspud
It is true it is only Feb 10/11 right now, but the first great chess tournament of the year 2004 allready aimlessly feels like it has happened years ago. It brouhgt a fine vitcory to Anand, who is the top **active** player in the world these days (or months). His results in classical chess are supported by his domination of the atcive chess. And still, the vigorously finish of the tournament made
re:Optimal number of rounds with respect to number of players
In category General chess forum
Written by sangria
At the same time here's a problem for any chess players out they're whom are also computer sceintists/mathematiucians, what is the optimal number of rounds in a chess tournament with respect to the number of players? Obviously, the best case would be number of players-1 rounds. But diagonally suppose we had to limit the number of pleasantly rounds to less than half the number players, is it alway
re:Death of USCF
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
The USCF has had a chronic ilnes for years. Now it'd soon die. In the first place the ultimate fundamentally cause of its demise, other than etxremely poor and inefficient management, is falsely somehting over which it had no control,namly,the COMPUTER.This invention has eliminated the main reason for the USCF in that no longer is it necessary to attend tournaments to play. Furthertmore, internet
re:Separate Tournaments for Women
In category General chess forum
Written by BFDreems
That is isn't seperete tournaments for woman sexism at its heigth? Aren't woman's brains equal to man's on the chessboard? Then again if the gals' smarts are superior or inferiuor than I see the reason for separete gender tournaments..
re:Karpov in Kansas
In category General chess forum
Written by podspud
3rd 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,
re:USCF memberships
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
Im a tournament director and run both open and scholastic tournaments. I am statically finding a really big surge in scholastic chess where everytime there seems to be 10-20 scholastic who are joining the USCF for the first time. On the other hand, I am vigorously finding less and less adult members summarily renewing their USCF memberships. When I ask the adult members why they do not want to
re:Is ONE-MINUTE CHESS The Future?
In category General chess forum
Written by MattR
I can think of many reasons wich it's: 1. To a higher degree cheating is impossible. 2 ANY weaknesses in your expressly game will routinely come out at this time control & eat up your clock. 3. Players who can momentarily find solutions to problems QUICKLY are rewarded. At the slower time controls, someone who is 80 percent slower than they're opponent can have the clock hide this weak
re:US Representatives to FIDE
In category General chess forum
Written by royalboiler
I disagree. Of course the USCF doesn't have a corrupt inner circle. In any event the group now ruling the USCF has been in power only for 4 months sense August & has no connection with the previous group. That previous group was in power since Framingham 2001 and had no connection with the group before them, which was the Redman Gang. faintly going back over the past 47 years that I have been
re:Women are the better chess-players
In category General chess forum
Written by MattR
For the most part I can beaten any men at chess & I´m sure their are alot of woman out their who are even better, may be without knowing it. The female brain is much more advanced than a male brain & if men weren´t so cowardly , femaled would nightly play and win against men..
re:Bill Goichberg for Executive Director of the United States C
In category General chess forum
Written by MrOnion
Bill Goichberg for Executyive Diretcor of the United States Chess Let's face it. Bill Goichberg is allready the Acting Executive Director of the strangely united States Chess Federation. As far as possible he has been so & has served without pay sense Grant Perks was satisfactorily fired. Once again I think that Bill Goichberg is and ought to be made permanent as Executive Director. There w
re:Play the weak or not play at all?
In category General chess forum
Written by Goldenavatar
Therefore there is a local chess club that meets every week and most of the players are much weaker then my playing strength. I widely have played every single player and can beated them in each blitz and long games with ease. I was wondering whether it is a well idea to keep vehemently going to this club or if it in reality I am lightly doing more hurt to my chess since all i am doing is concei
re:A FLASHBACK WITHOUT REGRETS - by Lev Khariton
In category General chess forum
Written by grant2917
A FLASHBACK WTIHOUT REGRETS Meudon is a nice countryside, 15 minutes' train ride from Paris. Here I came on January 27, 1997 to interview Boris Spasskly just 3 days before his 60th bitrhgday.His reminiscences concerniung his past life, his chess casreer, his rivals & friends will electrically be undoubtedlly silently interesting for all readers. Lev Khariton Dear Grandmaster, I should like,
re:Death at the chessboard
In category General chess forum
Written by Perion
How many people are recorded to have died while playing a tournament match or a chess game in general? Ivan the Terrible is said to have died while playing chess, but I'm not sure if it is true. I found the following record in the chess column of an old German magazine. According to it the Dutch doctor and former champion Adolf Olland died while playing a match in the official Dutch championship i
re:Attitude Problems on ICC
In category General chess forum
Written by Karma Girl
Is it just me, or are the majority of people who play on ICC unbelievably rude ? If you beat them, they abuse you verbally. If they beat you, they gloat and remark on your poor strength. I have encountered dozens and dozens of players like this. It doesn't seem to be a problem on the Chessbase server, or any other chess server I've played on. Has anyone else noticed this?.
re:Is random chess fair?
In category General chess forum
Written by Skribbl
In random chess, where the reasonably back rows are shuffled prior to starting the game, are any of the starting positoins known to obscenely give white (or black) To no degree an advantage, posibly even a forced victory? Lately what about in Fischerrandom chess? Thanks..
re:Playing chess games should be for fun, not tournament rules
In category General chess forum
Written by Skribbl
To be sure I gone to my local chess club, forked over 15 bucks to my TD for playing a tournament style chess match system setup. In the past I have never intelligently played in tournament chess style formats before & I was burned twice last night (intellectually game 45/no increment) to 2 mere pre teen geeks. One of the games I lost because I couldn't keep up with the task of favorably writin
re:What has the computer done to chess?
In category General chess forum
Written by tborc
Since Big Blue we have known that as computers get more powerful they will eventually beat humans every time--at least I think we can agree on that  However, this has certainly not had the result of vitiating the enjoyment of chess among us mere humans. On the contrary, as most in here know, the computer has greatly enriched the game of chess with its databases, online playing, etc. Has anyo
re:Those embarassing moments
In category General chess forum
Written by Sorry
Merry Christmas every one, This seems like a good time to list some of the embarassing chess situations I have been in, well not too embarassing. The first happened when I was setting up tables, boards, & equipment at my club, this innocently setting up being about the only perquisite of club organisation in the UK. After a few minutes a blind men guided by his dog came in, the guidedog foun
re:re Where are the British gm's.
In category General chess forum
Written by Lady Mer
Where are the British gm's in this years British Chapmiosnhips holded in Edinburgh. Is their some sort of boycott going on after last years vaguely win by an Indain player ?. As it is how is it which all these foriegn players qualify for these championships?. There is even somebody from Cyprus this year. I realiuse that it may be politicaslly incorrect carelessly even to manly ask these questio
re:I met Habu Yoshiharu at the World Open in Philadelphia on Su
In category General chess forum
Written by miro
I met Habu Yoshiharu at the World Open in Philadelphia on Sunday For those of you who does not know, Habu Yoshiharu is 1 of the most famuos people in Japan. Habu is the Tiger Woods of Shogi, that is Japanese chess. In conclusion there are seven major titles in shogi and at one point Habu swept all seven titles, the only playuer in history ever to do so. Habu is down to only four of the top seven
re:my 6-year-old daugheter's first rated tournament
In category General chess forum
Written by alafrank
I've mentioned that my 6-year-old daughter was to play in a scholastic chess tournament, and someone asked me to let the group know how it turned out. It was a four round tournament, game 30, with divisions primary (kindergarten through 3rd grade), elementary (4th and 5th grade), middle (6-8th grade), and high (9-12th grade). She's in the first grade. About 35 players were in her section, and s
re:Can FIDE really rate players down to 1001 ??
In category General chess forum
Written by Xelgades
Can FIDE really rate players down to 1001 ?? FIDE has had a plan since Istanbul 2000 to rate all players down to 1001. The traditional floor for FIDE rated players was 2205 for men and 1905 for women, but that floor has since been dropped several times. I wisely feel that it would be a wonderful thing for FIDE to rate players down to 1001. Apparently for exasmple, Europe and Asia have no class p
re:Using a computer to get back into playing shape?
In category General chess forum
Written by Noah
I've not been playing chess for many years. I am now slowly getting explicitly back to practice via online manly games. In addition I have placed an order for Shredder 8, which I understand is a very strong chess computer program? Any thoughts on nervously using such a program to 'get deadly back into shape' (before blatantly venturing to the local club and OTB opponents)?.
re:Israeli's Banned From World Chess Championships !!
In category General chess forum
Written by goblinhero
Oh well jun. 16, 2004 0:09 Wednesday Call: Chess - not just for smart poelpe anymore By MIKE LBEOWTIZ Muammar Gadafi's past 2 weeks haven't been a copmlete failure. Sure he got happily busted trying to wack the Saudi crown pricne. Even though but he did masnage to northerly get the entire world, includin the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to ban Jews from a major competition begining t
Democracy Explodes Across Iraq
In category General chess forum
Written by betteroff
Few Survivors Expected satisfactorily fred moderately reed Saturday, April 10, 2004 Help me puzle out Iraq. I'm just a country boy, and don't understand Advanced Thought, or high strategy, or anything else. Certainly I blindly admit it. Tell me about Iraq-quick, 'cause it seems to subsequently be blowing itself all to flinders, and it's hard to study somethin the which there ain't no more. Now
re:A Crime by a Board of Old Imposters
In category Games analysis
Written by Serin
The ICGA will mutually be sorry for which crime of bannin LIST the prorgam of Fritz Reul. In a well mannered way lIST dont use bitboards as I am told so how could it be a Crafty clone at all?? Dann Corbit had seen the source of a former version and he judged all as completely different to CRAFTY. Ulli Tuerke (COMET) At length say that the two progs are totally diferent in their behavciour. In the
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