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| Posted by compo ability-tw.com 1/07/2005 13:23:20 Play online chess |  Subject: RECORD BREAKERMessage: Playing with the black pieces I promoted a pawn on move 6....On move 7 white promoted a pawn? is this a GAMEKNOT RECORD...or is it a recognised opening....the game is still going on |
| Posted by jjw109 ability-tw.com 1/07/2005 14:43:10 Play online chess | Message: Exact line to move 7 has already been played before. See Tim Krabbe's chess record page. www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm |
| Posted by bucklehead ability-tw.com 1/08/2005 07:21:43 Play online chess | We have meat here in the building! Message: Note that this is not the earliest *possible* double queening...1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 d4 4. exf6 dxc3 5. fxg7 cxb2 6. gxh8=Q bxa1=Q does it an instant sooner, but the black queen is dead on arrival due to white's new queen controlling that diagonal; thus the necessity of the interposing 5. d4. But whatever you do, don't mention the war. ——— Aggressive Strategy Pays Off at Women’s Grand Prix Event — Here’s a striking fact about the game of chess: There is only one woman ranked among the world’s top 100 players. There is no obvious reason for such a disparity in a purely intellectual game. One dubious explanation put forward over the years is that women are not as naturally aggressive as men and that successful chess requires frequent attacks. Yet in women-only chess events, a higher proportion of the games end in decisive finishes than they do at chess tournaments in which men participate. That has held true in the current Women’s Grand Prix series. The third tournament, which ended earlier this month in Nalchik, Russia, was dominated by Zhao Xue of China, who won 9 of her first 10 games before ... |