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| Posted by demuziekdoos ability-tw.com 1/24/2004 14:50:42 Play online chess |  Subject: How about a 'join team match' button?Message: Hello all teamcaptains (and others who read this as well) At this moment if you want to join a personal game you just have to click the 'join game' button and you can see if you can join a game. Would it be an idea to ask Mike to make something like that for teammatches as well? A teamcaptain can start an open team match and other team captains can join if they want. One thing must be said. The way things go at this moment that the challenging team must accept the players from the other team must stay in this form as well. It's only an idea, if you all think it's not usefull then we don't ask Mike. If a lot of you think something like this would be usefull perhaps we can ask Mike to put it on his 'to do list'. My opinion on this matter is that perhaps it would be a nice idea but I'm not sure if it will work. Let me know what your opinion is in this matter. Please keep to the point and respect the opinions of the others. Enjoy your (team) chess games! Paul (demuziekdoos) | ||||||||||||
| Posted by astinkyfart ability-tw.com 1/24/2004 15:02:30 Play online chess | now that Message: is a cool idea. i like it | ||||||||||||
| Posted by demuziekdoos ability-tw.com 1/25/2004 06:23:33 Play online chess | Thank you astinkyfart Message: for your words. Are there other teamcaptains who (dis)like this idea? Please let me know. Paul (demuziekdoos) ——— World still trying to peg Fischer — Bobby Fischer is a phenomenon whom we see through a glass darkly. Yasser Seirawan, a former U.S. chess champion, said in his book "No Regrets" that, after spending a day and a half with Fischer in 1992, he was convinced that 60 percent of what had been written about him was incorrect. Two meritorious — even brilliant — accounts of Fischer’s life were recently released: the book "Endgame" by Frank Brady and the HBO documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World" by Liz Garbus. Both deservingly generated praise. But, according to some readers and viewers, neither biography provides a gut understanding of his complex behavior. Garbus seems to attribute Fischer’s difficulties in later life to ... Posted by gohan2535 | ability-tw.com 1/25/2004 06:35:36 Play online chess goodMessage: idea never thought of that,another thing is how your oppenents cannot see who is available and it takes even more time sorting out who you have available,do you think we could get a bar on the side saying "max team games"? anyone like this? ——— Topalov Takes on the Irish National Team — When elite chess competitors take on a number of weaker opponents in simultaneous exhibitions, the stronger chess player has to move from board to board and has little time to formulate strategies. Rarely are the weaker players even on the master level. But in the 1980s, Garry Kasparov, who was then world chess champion, began giving exhibitions in which he took on groups of top-level chess players. They were timed, so Kasparov had to move faster than his opponents. After losing the first of the so-called simuls against a strong club team from Germany in 1985, Kasparov won every other one he played. Between 1987, when he won a return match against the Germans, and 2001, when he beat ... Posted by demuziekdoos | ability-tw.com 1/25/2004 12:44:54 Play online chess to gohan2535Message: Your idea sounds good too! I don't know if you need to know how many teamgames the player from the opposing team has available but it would be very handy to see the available players from a team I intend to challenge. Paul (demuziekdoos) ——— Vasily Ivanchuk seizes on rivals' blunders to lead Grand Slam final — In a rare form upset both the world chess champion, Vishy Anand, and the world No1, Magnus Carlsen, were beaten on the same day at the Grand Slam final which has just switched from São Paulo, Brazil, to Bilbao, Spain, for its last five rounds. Anand got his queen trapped while Carlsen made a mega-blunder which is featured in this week's puzzle. The major beneficiary was Vasily Ivanchuk, 42, who beat both Anand and the world No3, Levon Aronian, and since the chess event is using football-style three points for a win he was briefly six points clear until losing to Carlsen in the final São Paulo round. It seemed that Ivanchuk would have fond memories of São Paulo but next day, as ... Posted by demuziekdoos | ability-tw.com 1/27/2004 15:18:12 Play online chess other teamcaptains?Message: What is your opinion? Let's hear your opionion please. Paul (demuziekdoos) ——— The Most Treacherous Defense in Chess — Named after the Austrian chess master Ernst Grunfeld, the defense has been around for nearly 90 years. At first, it was looked upon with suspicion: giving white a strong pawn center that could only be tickled by black's dark bishop and other chess pieces didn't seem to be a fair deal. Those who played the Grunfeld defense knew that it could turn into a nightmare in an instant. But the defense also brought them bright moments, tempted them again and again, and they could not live without it. Bobby Fischer created the "game of the century" in 1956 against Donald Byrne and he almost beat the world chess champion Mikhail Botvinnik at the 1962 olympiad in Varna, Bulgaria, with the Grunfeld ... Posted by demuziekdoos | ability-tw.com 2/01/2004 06:42:42 Play online chess I believe ....Message: you're not intrested at all. If you would be intrested I would get a response ——— Chess piece value — When I teach a class of beginning players, it is customary to explain the “value” of the chess pieces. If both sides exchange pieces, knowing their approximate value will help explain who gets the better deal. Some things are pretty obvious, like if I capture a queen and my opponent captures a bishop, we both know who is doing better. But some things are not so clear. I try to make analogies when I teach. Some hit the mark, and some confuse the student even more! But before I try to confuse my readers, let us look at standard values: Queen = 9, Rook = 5, Bishop = 3, Knight = 3, Pawn = 1. The king does not have a capture value, since we do not capture the king. (You can’t say, “I captured his knight and two pawns for... Posted by blanka | ability-tw.com 2/01/2004 07:22:33 Play online chess PaulMessage: I think you have posted in the wrong forum. I saw it only by accident. Improvements for this site should be discussed in the Gameknot forum (although this is team related). About the idea itself: I do not know yet if I would like it. I usually select the teams iI want to play for a reason, not at random. Examples are to get revenge on a negative score... :-) That would be lost with this scheme, so I am not sure if I would use it. Blanka Posted by magique | ability-tw.com 2/13/2004 16:53:29 Play online chess sah forumMessage: acum am in final inteleg cum sa ajung aicia si osa mai vin... multumesc, magique |