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| Posted by andy94 nsa-hitachi.com 11/19/2008 05:21:47 Play online chess |  Subject: November 19th, 1888.Message: World champion 1921-1927. His stats: Games played: 583 Games won: 302 (52%) Games draw: 246 (42%) Games lost: 35 (6%). What else to say about this Great Champion? |
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Chess news: Defence, part 2: how does White save himself? -- When defending, capturing can take the sting out of an attack. Is that the case here? Fedorov-Maletin, St Petersburg 2009. Continuing our theme of defence, how can White, to play, save himself? RB What's the threat here? 1... Nxg1 2 Qxg1 gives Black nothing, except a pawn down in a queen and rook endgame. Nothing there. What else? Oh,yes. 1... Qg3. This is very bad. The only thing White could do then is 2 Qxf3, but 2...Rxf3 3 gxf3?? Qxh3 is mate. OK, we need to stop the black queen getting to g3. Is it bonkers to take with the queen? 1 Qxf3 Rxf3 2 gxf3 and White has two rooks for the queen, which is not terrible. Let's try consider ... So tackles Kamsky after booting out Ivanchuk -- Filipino chess Grandmaster Wesley So claimed the biggest scalp of his young chess career Wednesday night, sealing a 1.5-.5 victory over super GM Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine to barge into the third round of the 2009 World Chess Cup at the Khanty-Mansiysk Center of Arts. Continuing his strong showing against higher-rated chess players, the 16-year-old So held Ivanchuk to a fighting draw in the second game of their second round encounter to forge a showdown with defending chess champion GM Gata Kamsky of the United States. So stunned the sixth-seeded Ivanchuk (Elo 2739) with the black pieces in Game 1 Tuesday night. His confidence boosted, So then ... Magnus Carlsen's star continues to rise in Norway -- Magnus Carlsen's World Blitz victory in Moscow has made the 19-year-old the darling of the Norwegian media. Carlsen scored 31/42 in the double-round event against the chess elite, with a rating performance close to 2900. He finished three points clear of world chess champion Vishy Anand, and six ahead of Sergey Karjakin in third. Despite this impressive performance, it was one of Carlsen's few defeats which really put him on the front pages and raised his fame quotient in Oslo to a par with Bobby Fischer. In an early round he lost to the world woman champion Alexandra Kosteniuk after blundering a rook, briefly attempting to substitute another move, and resigning ... | |