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Posted by jstevens1 goclub.org 4/27/2008 07:35:36 Play online chess	Subject: Jo's "Expert Safari Land" Adventure Continues Message: Here I am, the tiny kitten, still on Expert safari territory - the going has been very tough so far, I have just stepped out of the safari park and have found a short stretch of desert land. I am really thirsty and my skin is thoroughly scratched from attacks from Heinzkats, Leo the Lion and am still swollen through hornet stings from that frightful swarm of Chrisobee. I desperately need water - I need to find an oasis fast, but, wherever I look I am being blinded by the scorching hot sun. I looked to the right and I am blinded by the light - (yes, this is exactly what happened in a training game against Lighttotheright. I did not know which way to turn with my king and paid for my dithering - this game was annotated as "An Expert Lesson in Castling". I stumbled on and found myself back on safari land only to encounter yet another swarm of Chrisobee! Please find another annotated game against the Master. It is called "Caught offside" because this is another trap that beginners/intermediate players can fall into and even GM Tringov fell into once - it is letting your queen get offside so she cannot go to the defence of her other half when he desperately needs her! Needless to say I got stung again by a mating attack which did not force mate but brought about ruinous loss of material and resignation from me. Have any of you left your queen offside and paid the price? Please feel free to PM me if you do not wish to post it on the forum. I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Bye for now. Joanne
Chess news: Defence, part 3: How can white avoid checkmate? -- Kramnik-Carlsen, Moscow 2007. Black threatens … Qh3 mate. How can White defend? Former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and 19-year-old Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen will be the favourites to win the London Chess Classic, which runs from 8-15 December at the Olympia Exhibition Centre. Kramnik has just triumphed at the Tal Memorial, while Carlsen has been training with Garry Kasparov and is now No 1 on the world rating list. The top four English chess players – Short, Adams, Howell and McShane – will face a stern test. Visitors are welcome: there will be live commentary and side events to play in. In this encounter Kramnik and Carlsen ... An Ill-Timed Cigarette Break Trips Up Two Grandmasters -- Turns out that smoking is not just bad for your health; it may be bad for your game. At the World Chess Cup, which is being held in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, two top Chinese grandmasters, Wang Yue and Li Chao, showed up late for tie-breaker games in their third-round matches because they had been smoking. Under new World Chess Federation rules, they had to forfeit. The forfeits cost Wang and Li their matches, and they had to go home. In an interview published on the chess tournament’s Web site, Wang said he understood the decision but thought it was unfair. He expressed remorse for what happened to Li, who started smoking only to keep him company during ... World cup in Russia -- How would you like to take a long airplane trip to Moscow in order to play two or three chess games, study up on chess openings to the fullest, try to arrange space to go by air to a town in Siberia (Khanty-Mansiysk, pop. 62,347), face cancellations, get to the airport in Moscow without taking a cab (they are unavailable or may break down on the way to the airport), find a flight, fly in a tiny plane, land, take transportation to the hotel, wait a day, play two or three chess games against a Grandmaster, lose, and then travel all the way back to the United States? This was the privilege of a number of Americans who received invitations to play in the World Chess Cup (128 players) ...