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| Posted by triangulator ability-tw.com 2/02/2003 19:11:37 Play online chess |  Subject: a way to boost? uscfMessage: i have a 1200 rated friend, he is going to play a rated match/ simul with 10 players rated 900. suprisingly this is allowed if I wanted to I could play ( being under rated as is he)50 1200 players at the same time! as long as there is 400 points between you and the person you play a match with it is allowed, this was told to me by a 1900 rated td mabye there should be a rule to prevent that? |
Chess news: Ivanchuk and Carlsen Tie for First at Amber -- Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine tied for first in the 19th Amber CHESS tournament, which ended on Thursday in Nice, France. Vladimir Kramnik of Russia was third, 1.5 points behind the leaders, and Alexander Grishuk of Russia finished fourth, a half point behind Kramnik. It was Ivanchuk’s second victory at the Amber; the first was in the inaugural tournament in 1992. Ivanchuk is the only chess player to compete every year the Amber has been held. Carlsen, the No. 1 player in the world, has now competed four times at the Amber, and it was his first win. His previous best was a tie for second in 2008. The victory ... Magnus Carlsen overcomes queen blunder to record Amber win -- The world No1, Magnus Carlsen, lost his queen to a one-move blunder on Thursday, but still notched up another important chess tournament victory. The annual Amber chess tournament sponsored by the computer millionaire Joop van Oosterom is the most opulent occasion on the grandmaster calendar. The invitees stay and play at a top Nice hotel and compete for a near-£200,000 prize fund. Half the games are blindfold chess, with the players seated in front of computer screens showing just an empty chessboard and notation for the opponent's last move, and half are rapid chess, one hour for the whole game. World ranking points are not at stake. The blindfold chess ... Vasily Smyslov, Former World Chess Champion, Dies at 89 -- Vasily Smyslov, the seventh world chess champion, who was known for both the artistry of his play and the solidity of his technique, died Saturday at a hospital in Moscow. He was 89. The cause was heart failure, according to the Russian television station NTV. Mr. Smyslov, though he held the chess championship for just a year, from April 1957 to May 1958, was one of the most successful and durable tournament and match players of the generation that came of age after World War II. In 1984, when he was 63 and most of his contemporaries, like Mikhail Botvinnik and David Bronstein, had long ceased to be important chess players on the world stage, Mr. Smyslov made it to ... | |