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| Posted by spclpnngslknc beck-web.com 10/30/2008 14:04:20 Play online chess |  Subject: pawn valuesMessage: Rook pawns: 0.90 Knight pawns: 0.95 Bishop pawns: 1.05 central pawns: 1.10. Is this correct? |
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Chess news: Chess Grand Prix -- Ukraine grandmaster Pavel Eljanov, probably the least-known of the world's leading chess players, won the sixth Grand Prix chess tournament in Astrakhan, Russia. Eljanov's 8-5 score in the round robin gave him a distinct edge over his 13 rivals, who all finished between 7-6 and 5 1/2 -7 1/2. Eljanov, who turned 27 during the chess tournament, won five games, mostly by superb handling of Queenless middlegames. This success unofficially boosts him to sixth in the world rankings. He modestly said, "Today I am in the top 10, and tomorrow I can be far, far away." Thus the trouble-plagued 2008-2009 Grand Prix cycle ends, six months behind schedule. Levon Aronian of ... Gelfand Wins Leon Rapid -- Boris Gelfand of Israel is not older than dirt, but he is also not young, at least in chess terms. He will be 42 later this month, but he shows no signs of slowing down. Still ranked among the world’s best chess players (where he has been for 20 years), he added another feather to his cap by winning the elite Leon Rapid chess tournament, which ended Monday. The event was limited to four invited players: Gelfand, Levon Aronian of Armenia, Leinier Dominguez Perez of Cuba, and Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain. All of them are rated over 2,700, the rough cut off line for the world’s super grandmasters. The chess tournament was organized into two semifinal matches, with the winners ... The Catalan Chess Opening part 3: the queenside -- In this chess opening, the action is often on the queenside. How best to make use of that knowledge? RB The themes of the Catalan are coming through loud and clear even for those as innocent of the opening as I am. Last week I was struck by the duel of the bishops along the h1-a8 diagonal and here again the bishops are squaring up. A second theme seems to be recurring: activity on the queenside. Does the Catalan tend to drag play to the queenside, or is it just a quirk of the games we've been looking at? So, armed with this general knowledge, let's see if we can find a way forward for White. The answer, depressingly, is no. Black's position looks ... | |