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| Posted by alberlie nsa-hitachi.com 2/03/2006 13:38:02 Play online chess |  Subject: Check this out!Message: look here and check out the video feed at the bottom. Hilarious :o)) :o)) -> chessbase.com |
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Chess news: Great intuitive sacrifice -- The exchange sacrifice -- trading a rook for a knight or a bishop -- is a magnificent tool in today's chess. It seldom wins outright. It is played for positional gain and calculation is often not required. Former world chess champion Tigran Petrosian loved it because he used it to get squares from which he could suffocate his opponent. The sacrifice is best suited for the black pieces in the Sicilian defense where the semi-open c-file tempts the black rook to eliminate the white horse on c3 before it can gallop off and do some damage. White is left with an unpleasant, immobile double-pawn and with holes into which black pieces can easily slide. Sometimes it destroys ... Norwegian teenager to be crowned new chess king -- The chess world's new number one 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen plots 20 moves ahead and can remember chess matches he played six years ago move-for-move, but insists he is still pretty much your average teenager. The brightest talent in a generation according to his Russian coach and chess great Garry Kasparov, Norway's Carlsen will officially become the world's youngest ever top ranked chess player when new rankings come out at the start of 2010. Dubbed the "Mozart of chess," Carlsen plays with a healthy dose of natural intuition on top of deep analysis and pursues other interests that he believes help his game. He brushes aside comparisons ... Game of the Year Nominee -- This is the time of the year when it seems as if everyone and everything is getting nominated for best this, or worst that. The chess world has been part of the action since 1967, when a group of chess experts starting bestowing a “Chess Oscar” on the best player of the year. The competition is now run by the Russian chess magazine “64.” The winner of the Chess Oscar for the last two years was Viswanathan Anand of India, the world champion. (Anyone want to wager that this year’s winner will be Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the 19-year-old who has become the youngest chess player to be ranked No. 1 in the world?) Choosing a best player seems like a reasonable idea. But ... | |