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Posted by tag1153 creativejoomladesign.com 2/11/2008 11:02:58 Play online chess	Subject: Unrated Consultation Match Message: Inspired by similar matches here in the forums, I am seeking players for a consultation match (unrated of course). I need a partner and two opponents. Old friends get preference, and I would prefer players rated 1600+. This is strictly a learning exercise, as I expect honest, shared human analysis. Sign in here if you are interested......... tag1153
Posted by marinvukusic creativejoomladesign.com 2/11/2008 11:30:39 Play online chess	Count me in Message: :)
Posted by premium_steve creativejoomladesign.com 2/11/2008 11:37:04 Play online chess	Message: i'd like to try to... :D thanks ——— The f-pawn, part 2: is f5 the answer here? — Does White have a better option than moving the f-pawn? Continuing our look at the chess equivalent of route one football – the f-pawn advance... RB Well, let's see what happens when we push – 1 f5. The answer comes back faster than Manchester United on the break, not much. Black is under no compulsion to take the pawn and can instead centralise with 1…Nd4 or even 1…Qd4, or start getting the queen's rook into play with 1…Rac8, and 1…Nb4, hitting the d-pawn, would be irritating. All right, let's try to be logical. What's wrong here is that even if we could swap off pawns on the f-file, the f1-rook would remain blocked by the bishop. Let's ...
Posted by tag1153 creativejoomladesign.com 2/11/2008 11:39:08 Play online chess	you're in Message: When I get two more, I'll try to set the teams equally by rating (1 and 4 vs. 2 and 3). The highest rated player will be on the black side. Be prepared to teach:) tag1153 ——— Big Surprises in Europe — Europe has been a center of chess activity over the last month with a series of major open tournaments. The first was the Gibtelecom Chess Festival in Gibraltar, which ran from Jan. 26 through Feb. 4. Among the world-class chess players who competed were Etienne Bacrot of France, Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia, Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain, Michael Adams of England, and Gata Kamsky of the United States. The chess tournament ended in a nine-way tie for first, with Adams winning a four-person playoff to take the title. The Moscow Open, which overlapped with Gibtelecom and ended on Feb. 7, was divided into four sections — A, B, C and D — with ...
Posted by premium_steve creativejoomladesign.com 2/11/2008 11:57:45 Play online chess	Message: sure. :) i'm not sure how much i'd be able to teach a player like marin, for example, but i'll do my best. ——— Topalov Closes In on Linares Title — After eight rounds, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed, holds a one point lead in the annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain. Alexander Grischuk of Russia, the defending champion, is in second place after beating Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan in Round 8 on Sunday. Levon Aronian of Armenia is in third, having managed, like Topalov, not to have lost a game in the chess tournament. Unlike Topalov, who has won three games, Aronian has not won a game either. So far, 25 percent of the games have been decisive, but that does not mean that the other 75 percent have been dull. Quite the contrary. The games have mostly been hard fought and exciting, even ...
Posted by tag1153 creativejoomladesign.com 2/11/2008 12:05:22 Play online chess	sit tight steve....... Message: .....we evidently posted at the same time.....that message was for Marin.........as stated, I'm giving preference to friends.......I hope you are not offended.....let me give it a little time to see who else signs in........you are my #1 alternate:) I hope you understand........ tag1153 ——— Weekend of Fun and Friends Between Battles on the Chess Board — The highlight of the year for many chess players is Washington’s Birthday weekend, when four amateur team championships are held across the country. There are no cash prizes, but the chess tournaments are popular because of the camaraderie. Players walk back and forth chatting before, after and even during the games. Some renew friendships with competitors they see only once a year. The World Amateur Team East tournament in Parsippany, N.J., the biggest and oldest of the chess events, celebrated its 40th birthday this year. There were 1,150 players and 271 teams, down from 283 teams last year, said Steve Doyle, the tournament’s director, who ...
Posted by far1ey creativejoomladesign.com 2/11/2008 12:44:49 Play online chess	Message: yamn, raskerino, craig and I are currently in a correspondence game - you might like to take a peak: gameknot.com Also perhaps would help would be the forums which craig and I wrote before we reverted to using PM's. gameknot.com gameknot.com Hope your game works out - and be prepared for a very long battle :) PS: A long time control is usually necessary :P ——— 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 tag1153 creativejoomladesign.com 2/11/2008 12:54:14 Play online chess	far1ey Message: it was this match which inspired me.........in retrospect, it may have been a bad idea to announce my intentions as I did......I hope no one is offended if left out.....and I fully anticipate a long time control:)
Posted by ionadowman creativejoomladesign.com 2/11/2008 13:25:09 Play online chess	Room for one more? Message: ... I'd like to join in if there's a spot available... Cheers, Ion
Posted by tag1153 creativejoomladesign.com 2/11/2008 13:36:35 Play online chess	ion Message: you're in......that's you, me, and marin so far.............
Posted by tag1153 creativejoomladesign.com 2/12/2008 18:46:13 Play online chess	ok Steve..... Message: ......thanks for your patience. You're in (and again, no hard feelings:) The teams will be Ion and Steve (white) vs. Marin and Tag (black). This will be a good teaching and learning experience for all of us. Ion - please challenge Marin to an unrated game with a 14 day control. Steve, you do the same with me (we are essentially going to play the same game on two boards, and this way we will each have easier access to the analyze the board feature.) Gentlemen, start your engines:) Thomas
Posted by marinvukusic creativejoomladesign.com 2/13/2008 03:52:00 Play online chess	Erm... Message: It is kind of complicated to have 2 boards IMHO, you can use "analyze the board" on games in other profiles without difficulty (I do it all the time). Ion and myself started the game, I propose that this is the only active board and we will communicate through messages before we play the moves :)
Posted by ccmcacollister creativejoomladesign.com 2/13/2008 07:43:29 Play online chess	A nice feature ... Message: Which we did not have starting out, but you guys will: The way that now it shows the TIME situation when looking at someone elses game. When we started, I would never know how much time we had to move. (Unless we discussed it specifically, which is kind of cumbersome.). And I'm slow anyway~! That is the main detriment that I found with the concept, is the difficulty conveying ideas using print. Mine would want to be 3 pages long...but. So, I wanted one of those programs that you speak and it types!! (I do have one now, that reads out loud for me. But have not tried to read a chess game notation yet!?! Should be very interesting. Maybe I'll do that soon)
Posted by marinvukusic creativejoomladesign.com 2/13/2008 08:12:13 Play online chess	Only for premium users? Message: I don't have that option it seems - but the game is on my profile anyway :) In any case the "carriers" (Ion, me) will inform their partners so it shouldn't be a problem.
Posted by ccmcacollister creativejoomladesign.com 2/13/2008 10:10:59 Play online chess	marinvukusic ... Message: I do not know if it is premium only. But it is a bit hard to find if you don't know it is there. Look at any active game. Right after DATE STARTED.... it then show the Time Control being in use for that game. But right after that is a little "?" Question Mark. And if you put your cursor on THAT, it shows the actual time each player has left~! I only found it about a week or two ago. So have no idea if it has been there ever since the "?" marks arrived on GK? I am going to start testing out some of them tho ... since that is certainly a useful one!
Posted by ccmcacollister creativejoomladesign.com 2/13/2008 10:22:03 Play online chess	PS// UPDATE re "?" & TIME SHOWING ... Message: I thought I was going crazy here for a moment. Since I just went and looked for more of the "?" games showing time and could not find any. I have only seen it in my consult with far1ey , which is the game board of yanm vs far1ley . That is game so you can see what I mean. As mentioned, I cannot say if it is only for Premium Members. But I do see games between two "Premiums" and it is not THERE either. What I suspect is that it is ONLY in use for games that use a "Fischer Time Control" off Total Time + Days Added per Move. Since that is what the above game is using. Can anyone confirm that? Aor if Premium makes any difference?
Posted by marinvukusic creativejoomladesign.com 2/13/2008 10:26:02 Play online chess	I see it Message: It must be the "Fischer Time Control" thing. It is pretty cool actually :)
Posted by ccmcacollister creativejoomladesign.com 2/13/2008 10:29:14 Play online chess	OH GREAT~!! Message: Make me look crazy GK~! {....makes sounds of Elmer Fudd, then sputtering-spittle by repeated fingering of the lips, while rolling eyes and rubbing stomach ... } For some reason the LINK to board/game I gave in the last, is not showing the "?". So here is where I got mine from ... Actually I have it BOOKMARKED from Far1eys Actives. Maybe you gotta BOOKMARK to get it ??!? gameknot.com gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=7735920