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| Posted by kansaspatzer blitzbrain.net 4/04/2008 23:27:21 Play online chess |  Subject: Chess tattoosMessage: I was wondering if anybody else had any or knew anybody who has any. I haven't come across anyone else but surely I'm not the only one. I know somebody who got a certain poker hand (Jack-Ten) tattooed on his arm. I feel that mine is less "tacky", although people approach mine with mixed results. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ccmcacollister blitzbrain.net 4/05/2008 22:10:44 Play online chess | NO ... Message: *** Seems like an interesting idea & your Knight looks good ... maybe more players will go in for it if they see yours. Doesn't seem tacky at all to me. Personally, I see it as expressive Art, like the game itself. Are you thinking of adding to the "set" ? }8-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman blitzbrain.net 4/06/2008 13:22:24 Play online chess | Let's see... Message: I hope i haven't sarted anything... ;-) Ion ——— Le Quang Liem produces second shock win at Moscow Aeroflot — Moscow Aeroflot is the strongest and most fiercely competitive open chess tournament in the world, with a €20,000 first prize and nearly 50 entrants rated above 2600, the level of a high-class grandmaster. So it was remarkable that the winner in this week's Aeroflot 2011 should be the same Vietnamese teenager who scored a shock victory there in 2010. Last year Le Quang Liem won Aeroflot at 18, finished second in an elite chess event at Dortmund ahead of the former world chess champion Vlad Kramnik and soared up the world rankings. Le's hot streak then subsided until the second half of Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee last month, where he almost caught Luke McShane at the post. Now he ... Posted by kansaspatzer | blitzbrain.net 4/10/2008 22:35:38 Play online chess Message: I do think that more players should get a chess tattoo. At the very least, it makes for an interesting conversation piece ——— Ugandan girl, Phiona Mutesi leads chess revolution from the slums — Despite background the 15-year-old girl is already country's number two chess player and has competed at World Chess Olympiad. In a rickety church in a Ugandan slum, a girl's hand thrusts forward and a black bishop falls. The girl shows no emotion, though she knows the end is near. Striking quickly, silently, the black queen is toppled, and then the king. Only then does she smile. "You attacked too much," she tells the boy sitting opposite her on the wooden bench, a homemade board between them. Phiona Mutesi is 15. She has just finished primary school and is still learning to read. Her family is so poor they have been evicted from tiny, rented shacks more times than she ... Posted by tag1153 | blitzbrain.net 4/11/2008 00:52:00 Play online chess Guilty........Message:  gameknot.com ——— First Came the Machine That Defeated a Chess Champion — Before there was Watson, there was Deep Blue. In 1997, Deep Blue, another computer built by I.B.M., defeated the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in a six-game match. At the time, it was considered a stunning achievement and a significant step forward in the field of artificial intelligence. Some people said that a new era would be ushered in, one in which computers would perform many tasks — like air traffic control — that it once seemed only humans could do. That era has not quite materialized. But almost 14 years later, chess programs running on an average desktop computer can play better than Deep Blue, making its victory no longer seem as implausible. And while the research that ... Posted by wschmidt | blitzbrain.net 4/11/2008 12:26:08 Play online chess how about...Message: ——— Chess: How to play like a world champion — The latest study of Vishy Anand concentrates on the world chess champion's outstanding strategic judgment. We'd all like to play like a world chess champion. So what's Vishy Anand doing that's so special? Last week we highlighted his depth of calculation, this week we focus on his strategic judgment. RB: I have no idea what to do here. I have no idea if Black is better or worse and I have no idea what Black's plan might be. Is the white queen trappable? It certainly looks locked in, but without a light-squared bishop it's hard to see how to exploit this. Is there anything in 1...Nc5...? No, apart from a lost piece. Opening the a-file with 1...axb4 might be an option, but ... Posted by eqj2 | blitzbrain.net 4/11/2008 14:03:03 Play online chess ????????Message: ——— One Coach, Many Young Chess Champions — In the last five years, two Americans have won world youth chess championships: Daniel Naroditsky, who took the under-12 title in 2007, and Steven Zierk, the under-18 champion last year. Both are from Northern California, and at one point or another, they both had the same coach, Michael Aigner. They are not the only chess champions who have been trained by Aigner. Others include Gregory Young, who tied for first in the 2008 United States Junior Championship, and Yian Liou, who tied for first in the United States Cadet Championship (for players under 16) last year. He has also coached Saratoga High School to six straight California chess titles. Aigner, 36, is a master, and ... Posted by ionadowman | blitzbrain.net 4/11/2008 14:20:18 Play online chess Wha' hoppen??Message: Curious... Posted by tag1153 | blitzbrain.net 4/11/2008 19:17:38 Play online chess eh?Message: ion - ???? huh?????? The knight tat is about 3 years old....i got it after my first 4/4 performance OTB.....I have a few others as well, but surely will be banned for posting them:) Posted by chessnovice | blitzbrain.net 4/11/2008 19:21:53 Play online chess ...Message: I'm sure he meant to link to his own profile: gameknot.com Posted by eqj2 | blitzbrain.net 4/11/2008 22:55:04 Play online chess YepMessage: Posted by heinzkat | blitzbrain.net 4/12/2008 03:24:13 Play online chess Does anyone else have a...Message: Posted by ogedei | blitzbrain.net 4/12/2008 11:46:01 Play online chess Message: Posted by chessnovice | blitzbrain.net 4/12/2008 13:07:02 Play online chess ...Message: The only kind of tattoo I've considered getting is something along the lines that Tyler Florence (from Food Network) got. He says his favorite is this tattooed script that he got from a Buddhist monk. It sounds cool. But then I figured that the ink probably has some kind of metal in it. If I ever have to undergo an MRI, I'd rather it be as painless as possible. Posted by kansaspatzer | blitzbrain.net 4/12/2008 15:26:54 Play online chess Message: j/k. I like Gameknot, but not THAT much. Posted by wschmidt | blitzbrain.net 4/13/2008 16:42:17 Play online chess My stepson is a tattoo artist Message: * That was a few days ago. He came home from work yesterday and said someone had come in and asked for a large pawn on his back. Interesting timing and interesting choice of images. * And actually, this thread has got me thinking..... |