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| Posted by bravesfan4ever ability-tw.com 1/15/2004 16:24:55 play online chess |  Subject: ALEKHINEMessage: umm... would anyone be interested in joining our team, the Alekhine and help us get stronger? ...and team mates, I know you guys are never online, but post stuff in here when you are online heh-heh =) |
| Posted by badhorse ability-tw.com 1/18/2004 09:45:47 play online chess | New team member Message: I am happy to be invited to join Alekhine. I will do my best for my team, to continue to learn about the greatest board game on the planet and to have some fun along the way. |
| Posted by bravesfan4ever ability-tw.com 1/19/2004 13:21:02 play online chess | nice Message: cool, welcome aboard sir =) |
Chess news: Leko holds the lead -- Peter Leko, emerged as the likely winner of the Sparkassen chess tournament at Dortmund as Vasily Ivanchuk and Vladimir Kramnik failed again to impove on a 50% score. Leko outplayed Jan Gustafsson, the lowest rated player in the tournament and replaced him as leader. Gustafsson played a quiet line with white and sought simplifications but was outplayed from a level endgame position. Kramnik tried to put one of his positional squeezes on Ian Nepomniachtchi but was unable to make any progress while Ivanchuk had to play very accurately to maintain the balance against Shak Mamedyarov. Loek Van Wely’s disastrous chess tournament got a lot worse in the sixth round as ... Chess boxers slug it out -- A Russian man has been crowned world champion in the novelty sport of chess boxing, a game that requires equal skill at moving pawns and throwing punches. Mathematics student Nikolai Sazhin, 19, competing under the name "The President'' knocked out a 37-year-old German policeman Frank Stoldt, who served as a peacekeeper in Kosovo until recently. The loser said he was simply too punch-drunk to fend off checkmate. "I took a lot of body-blows in the fourth round and that affected my concentration. That's why I made a big mistake in the fifth round: I did not see him coming for my king,'' he said. Berlin is home to the world's biggest chess boxing club with some 40 members and ... Back to the drawing board -- Peter Leko rather predictably took no risks with the white pieces and secured chess tournament victory at Dortmund by steering play into a known drawing variation in the Marshall Attack to the Ruy Lopez. Of course Leko needed the cooperation of his opponent, Dortmunder Arkady Naiditsch but Naiditsch probably felt he had already given his home crowd enough entertainment by defeating former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik in round three. Leko finished clear first, undefeated on 4.5/7, half a point ahead of the field. Kramnik had a terrible chess event and finished on a negative score after losing a middlegame battle against Vasily Ivanchuk. The position was roughly ... | |