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| Posted by acne ability-tw.com 7/16/2002 23:19:59 |  Subject: Sicilian DefenseMessage: 1.e4 c5 2.f4 Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.Bb5 d5 5.Nc3 if you were Black, would you move Nf6 or Ne7 or others? | ||||||
| Posted by acne ability-tw.com 7/17/2002 01:01:38 | Message: i've already lost that game hee | ||||||
| Posted by acne ability-tw.com 7/17/2002 04:48:33 | Message: i moved Ne7 in that game. was nf6 better? ——— Team Championship Rewards the Whimsical and the Skilled — Amateur team championships are held every year over the Presidents’ Day weekend in four cities, and they are the most popular chess tournaments of the year. For some players, it is the only tournament they enter all year, and people plot for weeks to come up with the ideal team lineup. They must keep in mind that results are based on the score of the four players on each team, whose average ratings cannot exceed 2,200, the level of a chess master. For all the planning, though, winners get only congratulations and a set of chess clocks. The biggest of the four chess events this year was held in Parsippany, N.J., and attracted almost 1,200 players. The chess tournament, as usual, had ... Posted by philaretus | ability-tw.com 7/17/2002 06:11:07 None of the aboveMessage: 5...d4 looks the strongest move. ——— On Chess: As his fame grows, Nakamura hopes others take up game — A little more than four years ago, Hikaru Nakamura wrote: "We shall see what the future holds for me, but, as of right now, playing chess professionally is not on my mind." After his astonishing victory last month at the Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands - ahead of stars such as Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik - the 23-year-old American expressed hope that other young U.S. players might see a future in chess because of his success. Nakamura, indeed, is an inspiring phenomenon. He is fearless. As he once explained, "There is no point in taking draws." He is also relentless, quickly putting even painful losses behind him and ... Posted by acne | ability-tw.com 7/17/2002 06:22:01 Message: thank you philaretus ——— Chess Music — For absolutely no good reason, I found myself wondering what a chess game would sound like if played on the piano. One can’t help but notice that algebraic chess notation maps almost perfectly to scientific pitch notation… The eight columns of a chess board correspond to the eight audible octaves. E.g., C4 is a middle square on the chess board and C4 is “middle C” on the piano… NOTATION: I know what you’re thinking: the diatonic scale has seven notes “A” through “G,” but the chess board goes up to “H.” So how can we overlay chess notation with pitch notation? Fear not! We’ll simply use the Northern European system of musical notation, where ... Posted by atrifix | ability-tw.com 7/17/2002 14:18:05 Message: 4... d5?! after 4. Bb5 looks incorrect, White should maintain an advantage in all lines with a timely Bxc6. 4... Nd4 is more in the style of the sicilian, and 4... Nge7 would have given you a fine position. Another consideration would be the fairly promising pawn sacrifice 2... d5!?, which is the reason most GPA players avoid 2. f4 and use 2. Nc3. Atrifix ——— For Anand, learning is an ongoing process — At 41, Vishwanathan Anand has to keep up with a lot. A whole breed of chess players who've learned the game from computers. Opponents who often call him 'uncle' before building fierce attacks on the board. And 20-year-old chess prodigies like Norway's Magnus Carlsen, with whom he's in constant battle for the world No. 1 ranking. If that isn't enough, the reigning world chess champion, who's virtually patented the term 'whiz kid', now ironically has to battle the ravages of middle age. Life in the 40s, Anand knows, is challenging. "I've been called 'uncle' sometimes! It's amusing but what's interesting is that the sport of chess is getting younger. I understand that I have to work hard to ... |