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| Posted by ccmcacollister goclub.org 2/20/2008 11:16:41 Play online chess |  Subject: WHERE have all the Chessplayers GONE??Message: This is more than simple nosiness, and goes back to my time as a Tournament Director and organizer, when I noted that you cannot get as many tournament entrants during the Summer it seems. At least around Omaha. And further, attendance may also be down during the fall if there is a particularly good Football game of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. (Tho many diehard Player+fans will show up with a radio & earpiece). So to further my demographic understanding of Where The Chess Players GO ... when they are not around... In this case, not around Here at GK forums ... I'd like to ask ... What you been doin' ? Me ... I've had a stiff fingers week, just getting limbered up a bit more now. | ||||||||
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| Posted by wschmidt goclub.org 2/20/2008 13:07:57 Play online chess | I don't typically contibute much anyway, Message: ——— For Want of a Draw, a Player Loses the U.S. Chess Title — Yury Shulman forgot the old saying that a tie is better than a loss during his quest to win the United States Chess Championship last week. And that opened the door for Gata Kamsky to capture his second straight title. Kamsky and Shulman met in the tournament final, as they did last year, when four competitors competed in round robin play. Kamsky and Shulman emerged as the top scorers of that round and met in an Armageddon game, in which White has more time but Black only has to draw to be declared the winner. No Armageddon was needed at this year’s final, which ended Wednesday in St. Louis, because Kamsky won the first game and the second was drawn. The first game would ... Posted by doctor_knight | goclub.org 2/20/2008 14:43:11 Play online chess Message: ——— Yang-Fan Zhou breaks English international master drought — England used to produce one or two teenage international masters a year in the 1970s and 1980s, the golden era when the Olympiad team advanced to world No2 behind the Soviet Union. Now Russia and India lead in junior chess while, since David Howell became a grandmaster in 2007, the only new English GMs and IMs have been adults. Yang-Fan Zhou, 16, broke the drought last week when he scored his final IM norm at Coulsdon. It followed Zhou's eye-catching 9/9 at Brighton in February and the International Chess Federation (Fide) should formally award him his IM title in a few weeks' time. The sixth-former from Whitgift School in Croydon has made an 80-point surge up the world chess ratings, reflecting ... Posted by chessnovice | goclub.org 2/20/2008 15:14:30 Play online chess ...Message: Well, that and I usually reply to posts instead of start new ones. ——— Kamsky Defends U.S. Chess Title — It was deja vu all over again for Gata Kamsky as he carved through the field of his opponents with relative ease and defended his title at the 2011 U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis. Miss, this week. The 36-year-old world championship candidate defeated GM Yuri Shulman, 35, in the final match 1.5 - 0.5. From the $170,000 total prize fund, Kamsky brings home $42,000, Shulman gets $30,000. In the battle for third place between two 19-year old chess players, GM-elect Samuel Shankland beat GM Robert Hess 2-1. The top four chess players qualified from two 8-player preliminary groups. The field included 14 grandmasters and two International Masters. The 2011 Women's Chess Championship went to ... Posted by cairo | goclub.org 2/21/2008 02:20:17 Play online chess Vacation Message: Thanks for asking Craig! Best wishes Cairo ——— Kamsky to Defend Title in Finals of U.S. Chess Championship — Over the weekend, experience triumphed over youth at the United States Chess Championships. Robert Hess and Samuel Shankland, two 19-year-old chess grandmasters, were eliminated in the semifinals of the championship, which is being held in St. Louis, by older, seasoned former chess champions. Shankland lost to Gata Kamsky, 36, the defending champion, while Hess was beaten by Yuri Shulman, 35 (who will be 36 on Friday), the 2008 champion. In a reprise of last year’s final, Kamsky and Shulman will play for the title on Tuesday and Wednesday. The winner will earn $40,000, while the runner-up will receive $30,000. Hess and Shankland will play for third place, which ... Posted by ccmcacollister | goclub.org 2/25/2008 10:36:54 Play online chess Thanks ! ... Message: Walt: It's funny about that around Omaha. In the Autumn it turns 40 or 50 and we are all in coats or jackets. But coming out of the Winter (a lot of sub-zero here this month) into early Spring, and it turns 30 degrees like this week ... and it feels fine to walk about in your shirtsleeves & comment how Nice it is. :) I noticed You got 50's instead tho. Eddie: It does sound like you have a lot going on with 2 special projects and the Team. It seems work is often a factor in Chess time. But the Team factor is one I had not considered, and wonder if many of the players liking Forum posting may also be many of the Team Captains. As well as team players who may use some of their posting time on Team Threads. doctor_knight & chessnovice School does seem to be a big factor limiting Chess time. In general, and I know another 4 or 5 players who have said it is especially so for them recently. I can relate to the time it may take for any classes containing the words Statistics or Measurement :) Soren ...Holiday in France, and you did not stop by to take me along ?! You must remember next time! :) But I hope your trip was safe and entertaining. Perhaps with some Chess !? Or if not, then plenty of "eat, drink and be merry" instead ~! }8-) ——— Chess: Pure beauty of the pawn endgame — The shadow of the pawn endgame hangs over all chess endgames. DK: After the splendid chaos of the King's Gambit, we turn to the purity of pawn endgames. It's worthwhile studying pawn endgames as their shadow lies behind every other kind of endgame that we play in chess. This may be a constructed position, but it illustrates highly practical themes. RB: The first move is obvious: 1 Kc3, gaining the diagonal opposition. But I'm making the move instinctively when what I really need is a plan. Am I trying to queen my a-pawn or my h-pawn? Or do I make a feint on one flank, then dash to the other wing? At the very point when precision is most needed, I often ... |