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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. |
| Posted by eqj2 goclub.org 2/20/2008 12:10:22 play online chess | For me Message: |
| Posted by wschmidt goclub.org 2/20/2008 13:07:57 play online chess | I don't typically contibute much anyway, Message: |
| Posted by doctor_knight goclub.org 2/20/2008 14:43:11 play online chess | Message: |
| 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. |
| Posted by cairo goclub.org 2/21/2008 02:20:17 play online chess | Vacation Message: Thanks for asking Craig! Best wishes Cairo |
| 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 news: Telegraph chess: Short shrift by short shift -- The B and C groups at Wijk aan Zee produced a feast of entertaining chess as the traditional combination of experienced Grandmasters and young and ambitious chess players produced many decisive games. The organisers also added some of the world’s best young female chess players into the mix. Group B was won by Sergei Movsesian and Nigel Short shared second place with Etienne Bacrot. In the following game Short employs the sharp McCutcheon Variation of the French Defence characterised by 4…Bb4 and seeks complications at every turn. Jan Smeets started well but then lost his way in the chess tournament. ... Telegraph chess: Big money at stake -- Fide have announced details of six new chess tournaments which will form Grand Prix in 2008 and 2009. All will be 14 player all play alls and held at Baku (Azerbaijan), beginning April 20th 2008, Krasnoyarsk (Russia), Doha (Qatar), Montreux (Switzerland), Elista (Russia), Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) beginning December 7th 2009. Each chess event has a prize fund of over £100,000 and there will be a Grand Prix prize fund to be divided between the participants of over £200,000. Unfortunately England’s number one Michael Adams has just missed out on automatic qualification and is first reserve. The qualifiers are: Vishy Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Gata Kamsky, Alexey Shirov, Magnus Carlsen, Sergei Karjakin, Vassily Ivanchuk, Shakriyar Mamedyarov, Peter Leko, Alexander Morozevich, Levon ... Telegraph chess: Whiteley shows his class -- International Master Andrew Whiteley the number one seed was a comfortable winner of the 1st English Senior Chess Championships just completed at the Izaak Walton Hotel, Dovedale in Derbyshire. This was by far the strongest individual chess tournament for Seniors, defined as over 60 in chess, held in the United Kingdom. Past British Senior chess champions; John Littlewood, Michael Cook, Roelof Westra, Norman Stephenson and George Ellison took part as did reigning joint champion David Anderton but none could challenge Whiteley, a former England international. Whiteley was one of the leading lights of the King’s Head Chess Club in its heyday when chess was played continually at the pub of the same name which was, appropriately enough, sited in Moscow Rd, Bayswater, a suburb of ... | |