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| Posted by astinkyfart ability-tw.com 1/25/2004 17:51:34 play online chess |  Subject: looking for team challengeMessage: i have the following rateings available. 1319, 1359, 1404, 1522, 1533, 1579, 1585, 1591, 1599, 2048. it would be nice to play a team we havent played before or a team that has no current games against us. if you can match two or more of the players please send a challenge. team is global bounty hunters. :) |
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 ... | |