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| Posted by sportsgirl ability-tw.com 7/17/2002 20:13:57 |  Subject: Gambits?Message: What is a gambit nd who invented it anyway? How long has chess existed? I love the game | ||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by persianelephant ability-tw.com 7/17/2002 20:22:54 | Message: A gambit is an opening tactic where one player sacrifices a pawn for a different kind of gain (example: rapid development, better position, etc.) Nobody knows who invented chess, but it said to have originated in Persia. In the 8th century chess has spread to China and in the 10th century to Europe. The rules have evolved a lot since then, and the game is completely different. Chess was invent around the 6th century. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by elodie ability-tw.com 7/18/2002 05:51:19 | sportsgirl Message: have a look at " www.eudesign.com/chessops/ " :-) ——— Boris Gelfand and Alex Grischuk step up battle to face Vishy Anand — The favourites were eliminated, so two outsiders are competing Saturday in the candidates final to decide who meets India's Vishy Anand, the holder, in the 2012 world chess championship match. Israel's Boris Gelfand and Russia's Alex Grischuk play game three of their six-game series in Kazan. Gelfand, ranked world No16, is a 42-year-old veteran who has a career record of doing well in major chess events without winning. Grischuk, 27, world No12, divides his time between chess and poker and was only included among the eight candidates as a late substitute. But the Muscovite has knocked out Levon Aronian and Vlad Kramnik, the two prime favourites, while Gelfand eliminated the US chess champion Gata Kamsky ... Posted by elodie | ability-tw.com 7/18/2002 05:54:24 sportsgirlMessage: Nice site to learn something!… Albert ——— Gelfand to Play Grischuk in Candidates’ Finals — The final two players in the World Candidates Matches in Kazan, Russia, were anything but expected when the chess event began. Alexander Grischuk of Russia and Boris Gelfand of Israel won playoffs on Monday to advance to the final, which begins on Thursday. Grischuk beat Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, a former world chess champion, and Gelfand defeated Gata Kamsky of the United States. Kramnik was one of the favorites before the candidates matches began, but he could not beat Grischuk in the regulation part of their match. He came close in the fourth and last game, until an oversight by Kramnik allowed Grischuk to escape from a losing position. From the beginning, Grischuk’s strategy seemed ... Posted by tulkos | ability-tw.com 7/18/2002 08:39:47 well---Message: won't nobody tell us where chess started?;-) ——— Chess: When going gung-ho doesn't work — Subtlety is often the key to unlocking pawn endgames. We continue our theme of pawn endgames. White may be a pawn up, but care is required to force a win. RB: It's tempting simply to go 1 Kb4, gobble up Black's queenside pawns and hurl the a- and b-pawns down the chess board to promote. But that would mean allowing Black to capture the two e-pawns and queen on f1. White would still have an extra pawn, but in a queen endgame it would take more technical skill than I possess to be confident of victory. So instead I'm looking at 1 Kd3 and 1 e4. I think both work, but I'm going to go for the immediate pawn advance because it has the added advantage of ... Posted by sportsgirl | ability-tw.com 7/18/2002 17:16:11 Message: ; ) ——— Underdogs on Top in World Chess Championship Candidates Matches — The first round of the World Chess Championship Candidates Matches in Kazan, Russia, produced several surprises. The biggest was the elimination of Levon Aronian, who is ranked No. 3 in the world, by Alexander Grischuk (No. 12), whose recent play has been inconsistent but who prevailed in the tiebreaker games. Gata Kamsky, fresh off winning the United States title, produced another upset by beating Veselin Topalov, a former world chess champion. Topalov (No. 7) has not played much in recent months, and that hurt him. He was outplayed by Kamsky (No. 18) in Game 2, which Kamsky won, and in the last game, when Kamsky forced a draw. Boris Gelfand (No. 16), who will be 43 next month and ... Posted by knightrider7 | ability-tw.com 7/18/2002 19:59:01 Message: some say chess was given to us poor dumb humans as a gift from aliens from outer space. shortly after they gave us the knowledge to build the pyramids. ——— Bobby Fischer: from chess prodigy to pariah — He played some of the most sublime chess ever seen. Then, as a new book and film illustrate, he disappeared from view. What made such a brilliant mind go into freefall? In 1999, I spent three days sitting in a variety of thermal baths dotted around Budapest. As grand and attractive as the Hungarian capital's spas are, I wasn't stewing myself for therapeutic or leisure purposes. Instead, I was waiting for someone I'd been told frequented the baths, someone who was said to be a genius and a paranoid obsessive, the greatest chess player who ever lived and an obnoxious crackpot. I was looking for Bobby Fischer. For the last four decades of his life, that's what people ... Posted by acne | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 07:35:27 Message: which gambit? Posted by tulkos | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 07:43:29 AND EACH STILL EXIST TODAY---Message: though the piramids are only a tourist attraction.;-) Posted by sportsgirl | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 21:51:24 i have no ideaMessage: even what a gambit is still can you give examples? Posted by snyper | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 21:54:54 example of a gambitMessage: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 e5xf4 This would be the King's Gambit, one of the oldest and most popular gambits. Posted by jbmac | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 01:56:31 Danish GambitMessage: 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd 3.c3 This is my favourite gambit! |