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| Posted by jstevens1 diddyonline.com 7/08/2008 02:48:19 Play online chess |  Subject: Retarded DevelopmentMessage: I hope you readers will find this helpful. Have a nice day. Bye for now. Joanne | ||||||||||||||
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| Posted by ketchuplover diddyonline.com 7/12/2008 13:23:43 Play online chess | Message: ——— Matthew Sadler makes remarkable comeback and sets sights on Istanbul — The recent impressive comeback by Matthew Sadler, England's No3 in the 1990s, is a major boost for England's prospects in the 150-nation biennial chess Olympiad whose next edition is at Istanbul in 2012. Sadler, now 37, won an individual gold medal at the 1996 Chess Olympiad where England finished fourth, and was the top scorer in the gold medal squad at the 1997 European teams. Then he gave up the game for an IT career with Hewlett Packard, and hardly played at all for a decade. But this year he has won first prizes at Barcelona in August and Oslo in October, going through both chess tournaments unbeaten and restoring his world ranking to around No80, not far short of his ... Posted by hubtom | diddyonline.com 7/12/2008 15:49:18 Play online chess gameMessage:  gameknot.com ——— Chess: Elite Players Struggle After Taking Break From Play — Tournament play after a long layoff is not easy, even for elite chess players. They can forget what they know about openings or fail to stay up to date. A larger obstacle is the crucible of competition: the pressure can be intense, and the mind and body have to be reconditioned. Gata Kamsky learned that lesson in 2004 when he returned after an eight-year layoff and his world ranking fell. Several top chess players have followed a similar course in recent months. One of them, Yasser Seirawan, 51, a former United States chess champion, had not competed on an elite level for eight years until he entered the national chess championship in April. He struggled then, but his results have improved. At ... Posted by doctor_knight | diddyonline.com 7/16/2008 19:50:09 Play online chess savage4731Message: ——— On Chess: Being hunter better than being prey — Aggressiveness pays in chess and other games, as well as in life itself. Bobby Fischer’s relentless will to win and engage the opponent until only naked kings were left is legendary. Few opponents were able to keep from flinching or ultimately collapsing under the pressure of his fierce and predatory intent. Mikhail Tal attacked, attacked and attacked. Playing him was like facing a brigade of octopuses, each of whose tentacles were firing a Gatling gun. Of course, he wasn’t merely aggressive. He also played with extraordinary artfulness and creative flair. In his bible for athletes and coaches, Coaching the Mental Game, sports psychologist Harvey Dorfman recalls that his father had advised him at ... Posted by lighttotheright | diddyonline.com 7/16/2008 20:43:37 Play online chess Message: Black missed an opportunity for a very slight advantage on move 12. ... Qxe2 instead. If you're Black in the Dutch, you are supposed to attack. If you don't attack, it is hard to defend. ——— The 2011 SPICE Cup — This week I am in Lubbock, Texas, for the annual SPICE Cup Chess Tournament. SPICE stands for Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence, an organization devoted to the promotion of chess education and outreach headquartered at Texas Tech University. Susan is a former Women's World Chess Champion who works alongside her husband, Paul Truong, (a strong chess master in his own right) to organize all sorts of tournaments, chess classes and chess camps. The SPICE Cup is, by far, the strongest chess tournament they organize, and it is one of the strongest tournaments held annually in the U.S. each year. This year there are three different sections, each with several grandmasters. The strongest ... Posted by savage4731 | diddyonline.com 7/17/2008 02:58:54 Play online chess doctor_knightMessage: I've never played either side of the dutch but locking all your pawns on light squares and putting the knight on the only square the bishop can move to isnt right is it? ——— Chess: the bishop sacrifice — RB: My second nomination for chess book of the year is Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice by Jon Edwards (Russell Enterprises). It always looks so tempting: the enemy knight chased from the key defensive square at f6, our bishop unobstructed on the b1-h7 diagonal, knight on f3, queen on its starting square ready to race to h5 or d3. Most of us have tried Bxh7+ at one time or other, and most of us probably have experience of messing it up. When is the sacrifice sound? What forces does White need to press home the attack? What defensive resources can Black conjure up to frustrate us? These are the questions Edwards addresses. Divided into ... Posted by loreta | diddyonline.com 7/17/2008 04:31:14 Play online chess ? lighttotherightMessage: So, lighttotheright, what would you propose insteed of 8. ... Bxf4? I see only two possibilities: 8. ... Be7 or 8. ... b6 I added a couple of notes into annotation (including about that) to beginning of that game: gameknot.com/annotation.pl/an-expert-lesson-in-development.pl?gm=17 --- I aggree with Ion, that the main problem was not Black's development, but no solution for c8 Bishop. To find a place to this Bishop is a cornerstone in the Dutch. Posted by lighttotheright | diddyonline.com 7/17/2008 04:38:06 Play online chess Message: Posted by loreta | diddyonline.com 7/17/2008 04:48:05 Play online chess yes, lighttotherightMessage: Anyway, what proposal would be :) |