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| Posted by maca ability-tw.com 2/05/2003 06:38:07 play online chess |  Subject: you will never know...Message: How can you keep analyzing these Gk - DJ - games when they are not finished? these are so top - class games that you can only see what was bad and what was good after the game finished. You will never know what move jumps out from Gary's pocket! |
Chess news: Karpov and Kasparov Rekindle Rivalry in Spain -- Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov rekindled their chess rivalry last week with a 12-game exhibition match in Valencia, Spain. It was held on the 25th anniversary of the two Russians’ first title duel, a contest that stretched on for five months and 48 games before it was halted by Florencio Campomanes, the president of the World Chess Federation. Karpov was leading 5 wins to 3, with 40 draws. Six wins were needed to clinch the title. Karpov appeared on the verge of collapse at the time, having lost Games 47 and 48. In stopping the chess match, Campomanes said it was unwinnable. Kasparov was furious, and he and Karpov, who had never been close, became ... The Magnificent Queen, The Remarkable Kings -- According to the late Spanish grandmaster Ricardo Calvo, modern chess did not originate in Italy but in the Spanish port city of Valencia. The biggest change from the old chess was the powerful queen, born from a piece that resembled a slow, stumbling pedestrian, walking diagonally one square at a time. A Spanish historian, Jose Antonio Garzon, who studied Italian and Spanish books published between 1450 and 1530, pointed out a Valencian poem from 1475, "Scachs d'Amor" ("Chess of Love"), in which the oldest published chess game is described. It shows the black queen flying in full glory to the center of the board (1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5). Chess was not a quiet ... Chess player of the year? Levon Aronian -- Today's column features a game by Levon Aronian of Armenia, the most successful chess grandmaster of the year. Aronian recently won the Grand Prix organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE) and the Grand Slam Masters run by the rival Grand Slam Assn. Aronian has a California connection: The trainer who helped him win the World Under-12 Championship in 1994 was Melikset Khachiyan, now a grandmaster and chess instructor in Glendale. Aronian, nearing his prime at age 26, is third in world rankings. The game is typical of Aronian's style. He is not an openings specialist, but he knows how to steer for a complicated middlegame ... | |