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| Posted by jstack beck-web.com 12/03/2007 10:49:50 Play online chess |  Subject: Kamskys winMessage: - 26. c3!? Here is where I get confused. I would almost automatically play BxN followed by Nf5 where it appears to be the classic case of Good Knight versus bad bishop. I am curious what my fellow gameknotters think of the position(especially those above 2000). Oh by the way Kamsky goes on to win a same colored biship ending. Here is the chessbase link.  www.chessbase.com | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Posted by ketchuplover beck-web.com 12/09/2007 05:39:39 Play online chess | Message: ——— At Halfway Point, Topalov Leads at Linares — The annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain began earlier this week, and after five rounds — or halfway through — Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed and No. 2 chess player in the world, is leading with 3.5 points, a point ahead of the field. Linares has been among the world’s elite chess tournaments since the early 1990s, when Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov were regular competitors. This year’s tournament has only six players, though they are all among the world’s best. The format is a double round robin in which each chess competitor faces all the others twice, playing once with White and once with Black. Aside from Topalov ... Posted by ketchuplover | beck-web.com 12/10/2007 15:08:38 Play online chess Message: ——— The f-pawn, part 1: cheap, crude and obvious? — Is an f-pawn advance the chess game's equivalent of route-one football? RB For some time I've been nagging Dan to do a series of columns on the f-pawn advance. He's been resistant, partly, I suspect, because pushing the f-pawn is a bit like route-one football, the long ball punted down the park in hopes of a quick goal. The advance can sometimes be crude, obvious and speculative, but, like the infamous route-one game, it can also produce results, and, as we will see over the next few weeks, some very classy chess players have used it. We start with one of the classiest of all time, Botvinnik, in a chess game played in the decade before he became world chess champion. Having ... Posted by ketchuplover | beck-web.com 12/14/2007 08:00:28 Play online chess Message: ——— At Gibraltar Chess Event, Women Begin to Close Gender Gap — Why aren’t there more great female chess players? One theory is that men are physically stronger and more aggressive by nature and therefore better suited at a game that simulates warfare. Another is that the talent pool among women has not been big enough to produce many great chess players. That has been changing over the last 20 years. And the results of the Eighth Gibtelecom Chess Festival in Gibraltar, which ended on Feb. 3, seems proof of that change. The chess tournament had a strong field that included 35 grandmasters, 5 of them ranked among the world’s top 40 players. The festival offered special prizes for women, and ... Posted by sf115 | beck-web.com 12/14/2007 11:30:00 Play online chess Message: what happened later in the game? ——— Lines from Linares — The 27th edition of the Linares tournament is underway in the Andalucian town but the chess event has been affected by the economic slowdown. It was no surprise that the planned tie up with Dubai fell through and the organisers responded to budgetary pressures by reducing the size of the field. The chess tournament will be a six-player double round all play all and I am delighted to see that Francisco Vallejo, one of the strongest players Spain has ever produced, has been invited back. Veselin Topalov will be aiming to recapture the number one spot from Magnus Carlsen while Alexander Grischuk the Russian chess champion returns as winner of ... Posted by ketchuplover | beck-web.com 12/16/2007 02:59:18 Play online chess Message: ——— Moscow hordes — Luke McShane has braved the Moscow winter, the hordes of seriously under-rated Russian GMs and is the first English chess player to enter the Aeroflot Open for many a year. As well as under-rated chess players there are also 14 of the world’s top 100 competing. After two rounds McShane has 1.5/2. The prize fund this year is € 180,000 and there are some qualifying places available in the World Blitz Chess Championship which will take place straight after the event. The Botvinnik Variation is a very sharp line which seems to defy all logic. Black loses a pawn, his kingside is wrecked and his king forced to run to the queenside. Despite this the second player often wins as ... Posted by ketchuplover | beck-web.com 12/16/2007 05:14:01 Play online chess Message: Posted by calmrolfe | beck-web.com 12/17/2007 06:14:47 Play online chess Message: Kamsky seems to have finally brushed the cobwebs off his opening preparation and Topalov seems to have gone off the boil since Danailov came under scrutiny from the Arbiters. Danailov may appear mad at times but my money is on Rustam being even madder when the chips are down.....Mind you, if I was Gata I'd leave "Dad" firm instructions to remain at home as he would be an unsettling influence.... Bring it on !!! Posted by ccmcacollister | beck-web.com 12/22/2007 01:01:26 Play online chess I was ...Message: So perhaps I must think Topalov to come out on top, which I guess seems to fit. Tho I was originally thinking and hoping it to be close with a real chance for Kamsky. On the other match-up, I take Rustam by TKO in round one .... }8-)) chesslab.com
Posted by ccmcacollister | beck-web.com 1/18/2008 00:00:51 Play online chess Does Message: Posted by ketchuplover | beck-web.com 1/18/2008 04:06:50 Play online chess Message: Posted by fmgaijin | beck-web.com 1/18/2008 14:48:44 Play online chess Kamsky in BulgariaMessage: |