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| Posted by jstevens1 blitzbrain.net 3/07/2008 14:29:58 Play online chess |  Subject: A narrow squeak against a lower rated player!Message: Oh well, Friday today - have a nice weekend everyone! Bye for now. Joanne | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ravster blitzbrain.net 3/07/2008 14:33:36 Play online chess | Yes... Message:  gameknot.com
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| Posted by tugger blitzbrain.net 3/08/2008 11:23:06 Play online chess | Message:  game
ratings at the time were as follows... eldude (943) tugger (1709) a very lucky escape for me, i was beaten, but he timed out... i felt very guilty, but relieved at the same time! it was an odd game, i made a mistake and dropped a rook, then made a couple of excellent moves to pull back to within a pawn... then i messed up again, he seized upon my mistake and then timed out... a big shame for him really, it would've been his best win... to be fair to him, he's far better than his rating suggests, he has a 40% time out ratio, and as such his rating is much lower than it should be... i'd guess it should be around the 1400-1500 area. ——— Title Match Is Tied With One Game to Go in Regulation — There is one more regulation game left in the World Chess Championship match in Sofia, Bulgaria. If neither Viswanathan Anand of India, the titleholder, or Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, win on Tuesday, they will have to go to overtime. On Sunday, they drew Game 11. It was the seventh draw in the match, though, like some of the other draws, it was not without drama. Anand had White and opened with the English — the first time in the chess match he had done that. No doubt he switched openings to try to catch Topalov off-guard, but it did not work. The players followed well-known theory for 10 moves, and then Topalov deviated from earlier games, though it was a minor ... Posted by chessnovice | blitzbrain.net 3/09/2008 06:03:41 Play online chess ...Message: To make matters worse, when I hung my rook, the opponent was literally dancing in his chair! My teammates who looked over at me said I was literally turning red with anger. Those kinds of games just wear at my soul. :p ——— Anand's missed opportunity — The chess World Championship is on a knife-edge. But Anand could have made a mark in this game. Anand and Topalov go into the 12th game of their chess match today with scores level. If drawn, tie-break rapid games will be played on Thursday. Topalov's declaration before the match that he would neither offer nor accept a draw has clearly had a liberating effect on both players, resulting in one of the most entertaining world chess championship finals we have seen in years. All the games have been long and hard-fought, so it's hardly surprising that tiredness is affecting play. Anand missed several chances to win in game 9, Topalov had a promising endgame in game 10 but ... Posted by tugger | blitzbrain.net 3/09/2008 08:44:36 Play online chess Message: i play a lot of poker, and see some similar things happening there... there's always a bit of banter between us all, but sometimes it goes a bit far, and on one occasion the loudest one amongst us lost a big hand, he was down to just a few chips. the lad who won that hand said something rather rude to the loser, and you could see he was not happy. but, it was too early to be giving that kind of stick... he recovered and ended up knocking him out. the moral of the story... you only dish out the stick when it can't come back to haunt you! chessnovice, i'd have been delighted to win from a rook down, especially after my opponent was dancing in his chair, and i'd have made sure he knew how happy i was. ——— Playing for the World Title, Minus Any Fireworks — Before a world chess championship match, players spend months looking at their opponent’s games and studying opening systems, often with the aid of chess computers and databases. They also hire trainers, who are called seconds, to help. It is a time- and labor-intensive process. That is one of the reasons that fans look forward to the chess matches. They want to see what the players will do and what new ideas they have discovered, particularly in the openings. The current world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand of India, the titleholder, and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria has been as closely contested as predicted. But there have been no eye-opening innovations. Game ... Posted by chessnovice | blitzbrain.net 3/09/2008 10:17:08 Play online chess tuggerMessage: And honestly, I think they beat themselves up emotionally more than I ever would. The kid was certainly not dancing in his chair after the game ended. I've made kids cry OTB by fighting back from blunders, and it's not a pretty sight. ——— With Another Draw, Chess Championship Match Remains Tied — Game 10 of the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand of India, the titleholder, and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, ended in a relatively uneventful draw on Friday. With only two games remaining in the best-of-12 series, the players are tied with 5 points apiece. If the match should remain tied after the last two games — which is a real possibility at the moment — it would go to a tie-breaker of four rapid games (each player starts with 25 minutes and has 10 seconds added to his time after each move). Such a tie-breaker was used in the 2006 world chess championship match between Topalov and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. After each player won a game, and one ended ... Posted by ionadowman | blitzbrain.net 3/09/2008 12:51:39 Play online chess Round 1...Message: White: Mr Blaikie; Black: Yr Obdt Servant 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 d6 7.c3 d3!? 8.Qxd3 0-0 9.Nbd2 Ng4 10.Nb3 Nge5 11.Nxe4 Nxe4 12.Qf1 Nxc4 13.Qxc4 Kh8 14.Be3 f5 15.f3 f4 16.Bf2 Rf6 17.Nd4 c5? 18.Nf5 g3? 19.Bh4! ... Now I began to realize I had a fight on my hands... 19...gxf5 20.Bxf6+ Bxf6 21.exf5 Be5 22.Qf7 Qg1 23.Qh5 Bd7 24.Rxe5! ... Bold and courageous! The amazing thing about this was that White had just 6 minutes left on his clock to reach move 36 (Time control 36 moves in 90 minutes)! I still had 40 minutes... 24...dxe4 25.f6 Qe6 26.f7 Rf8 27.Re1 Qxf7? 28.Qxe4+ Qg7 29.Qxc5 Rg8 30.Re2 Bc6 31.Qf2 Qd7 32.Rd2 Qg7 33.Rd4 Qe5 34.h3 Re8 35.Qf1 Bb5 36.Qd1 Qe1+ Both sides make the time control with flags trembling... 37.Qxe1 Rxe1+ Now that the queens have come off, Black has a long and technically difficult ending with very problematical winning chances... 38.Kf2?? Rf1# OK, I was never in much danger of losing, but even a draw would have been sufficiently embarrassing. Good on my opponent, though, and he came very close to sharing the point! Cheers, Ion ——— Title Match Remains Tied After Champion Misses Win — With the world chess championship match having entered a critical stage, Viswanathan Anand of India, the titleholder, switched openings in Game 9, hoping to recapture momentum and the lead that he relinquished with a loss in Game 8. He almost did. But, with victory in sight, Anand faltered and missed a couple of winning continuations, which allowed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the challenger, to salvage the game and keep the best-of-12 match tied. In each of the previous games he had White, Anand had steered the opening into the Catalan system, which is solid, but not too dynamic. In Game 9, he played 3 Nc3 instead of 3 Nf3 for the first time. That gave Topalov ... Posted by lturner | blitzbrain.net 3/11/2008 05:33:02 Play online chess Nothing personalMessage: Posted by chessnovice | blitzbrain.net 3/11/2008 06:08:44 Play online chess ...Message: Posted by ionadowman | blitzbrain.net 3/12/2008 23:52:27 Play online chess But there can be other reasons...Message: Further, not only do 1500-level players play at 2000-level every now and then, but 2000-level player occasionally will play a 1500-level game. That's when interesting "human interest" things happen. Cheers, Ion Posted by g_one | blitzbrain.net 3/20/2008 03:01:16 Play online chess If only everyone .......Message: |