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| Posted by paulvalle ability-tw.com 8/24/2002 21:21:30 |  Subject: semi blindfold chessMessage: Hi, just invented a new way to play chess. Start with no pieces on the board. Then you start to play, and as each piece is moved, they enter the board. Eccept from this, everything else is straight forward chess. (I hate "chess variants") an example 1.e4 White puts a white pawn on the e4-square. The rest of the board is empty 1...e5 Black puts a black pawn on e5, now you just have one white pawn on e4, and a black pawn on e5. ...etc. get the picture? Atleast one of the players should keep a score sheet, just in case an argument arises of wether or not there is a pawn on h3, etc. I know that this idea seems kind of lame, but I urge you to try it out. (After you have mastered this kind of chess, then you can move on to playing with just the board, no pieces. Each player just says his move out loud. When you get of hang of that, it's time for pure blind fold chess!) Try it out and tell me what you think :) Me and a friend tried playing this form of chess for the first time, dead drunk, blitz, sunday 3:00 am. Extremly fun. | ||||||||||
| Posted by acne ability-tw.com 8/24/2002 21:56:15 | Message: that's a very good idea and i want to try it. | ||||||||||
| Posted by tulkos ability-tw.com 8/25/2002 04:34:44 | blimdfold chess is great for the memory. Message: you learn a lot from it.sounds like a nice Idea,paul! ——— Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to battle Karpov and Kasparov for Fide presidency — Fide, the International Chess Federation, holds its five-yearly presidential election in September and it is turning nasty. The incumbent since 1995 is Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, controversial ruler of Russia's semi-autonomous Caucasian state Kalmykia. In his early years as Fide president Ilyumzhinov built a 'chess city', made the game mandatory in Kalmyk schools, and financed grandmaster chess so generously that his dubious human rights record and eccentric claim to have met "humanoid aliens" were shrugged off. But recently Fide's excessive reliance on ex-Soviet tournament venues and an autocratic rule change where a chess player loses if not seated at the board at the start have ... Posted by honololou | ability-tw.com 8/25/2002 21:36:12 it seems…Message: that a good strategy would be to avoid moving your king for as long as possible ——— Gata Kamsky wins U.S. Chess Championship — Gata Kamsky of New York won the U.S. Chess Championship on Tuesday in St. Louis. In an odd finish to the 24-player event, Kamsky drew to break a tie with Yury Shulman of Chicago. The chess tournament began with seven conventional rounds. Then top scorers Kamsky, Shulman, Alexander Onischuk (Baltimore) and 2009 chess champion Hikaru Nakamura (St. Louis) qualified for a round robin to determine the top four places. Kamsky and Shulman scored 2-1, while Nakamura and Onischuk tied for third at 1-2. In the game that decided the title of chess champion and the $30,000 first prize, Kamsky chose to play Black with draw odds and 25 minutes against Shulman's 60 minutes. Shulman gained ... Posted by refutor | ability-tw.com 8/26/2002 07:00:10 why?Message: it's pretty easy to remember where the king is...especially with the board in front of you ;) ——— The Catalan chess opening part 1: how does White avert this crisis? — The classic chess opening served Anand well in his chess world championship matches. But how best to exploit its strengths? The Catalan opening gave Anand two wins in the world chess championship, and has long been popular among the world's elite. It is basically a Queen's Gambit in which White fianchettos. It can be reached via several different move orders, for example: 1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 g3, or 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 g3 d5 4 Bg2. The bishop is tricky on the long diagonal, and the fianchetto provides a safe king position after castling. RB I've always tended to get the Catalan confused with the Bogo-Indian, various Benoni systems, and even ... Posted by brunetti | ability-tw.com 8/26/2002 10:13:51 IMHOMessage: this game is quite easy to play, since the pieces you can't see, you know they're in their start squares, or either have been captured and, I think, you can see them at the side of the board. Alex ——— Kamsky Wins United States Chess Champion — It took almost 20 years, but Gata Kamsky is once again the United States Chess Champion. Kamsky won the title on Tuesday by drawing a one-game playoff against Yuri Shulman. Kamsky, who had Black, had draw odds, meaning that he only had to draw the game to be declared winner on tie-break. Though Kamsky has been one of the top chess players in the world since the early 1990’s, he had only won the U.S. Chess Championship once before — in 1991, when he was 17. Part of the reason for the long hiatus was that he almost completely quit playing chess between 1996 and 2004, a period in which he went to school and got a law degree. The playoff for the chess championship had ... Posted by honololou | ability-tw.com 8/26/2002 15:21:15 Now I see…Message: I thought the pieces didn't exist until they were placed on the board. That would be interesting but perhaps also a bit silly. ——— Eljanov Easily Wins Final Chess Grand Prix — The last Grand Prix tournament ended somewhat anticlimactically on Monday in Astrakhan, Russia, as Pavel Eljanov of Russia easily secured first place. (He had wrapped up at least a tie with a round to go.) The real drama was over who would gain enough points to earn a spot in the Candidates matches or tournament, as the format has still not been settled on. (Nor has a time or a place been announced, which is par for the course with the World Chess Federation.) With a tie for second, Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan finished second in the six-tournament series behind Levon Aronian of Armenia. Radjabov, who was tied for second place in the Grand Prix before the chess ... Posted by paulvalle | ability-tw.com 8/27/2002 16:53:17 brunettiMessage: You’re right brunetti, it’s quite easy. But I swear I had a hard time playing, that Sunday morning, drunk as hell. But I still think some of the 12-1400 players might get something out of it. |