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| Posted by empalor nsa-hitachi.com 2/16/2004 06:28:31 play online chess |  Subject: Ukrainian team has been created!Message: I am the captain of the new (and only) team from Ukraine: Ukrainian Cossacks. All Ukrainian players who wish to play for us are welcomed. |
Chess news: Send in the pawns -- An England junior chess team is competing with success at the World Under 16 Chess Olympiad at Mersin in Turkey. Despite being younger than most of the other chess teams and considerably out-rated by many, the team climbed as high at joint fourth before succumbing to a very highly rated chess team from Azerbaijan. The ninth round won’t provide any respite as their next opponents are the Philippines who have the world’s youngest GM, Wesley So, on top board. England are represented by Yang Fan Zhou, Callum Kilpatrick, Felix Ynojosa, Subin Sen and Elliot Auckland. Peter Leko joined Alexander Morozevich at the head of the Tal Chess Memorial at Moscow after five of ... Shock of the new -- Alexander Morozevich swatted the former Fide Chess Champion Ruslan Ponomariov off the board in the sixth round of the Tal Chess Memorial, maintained his lead, and moved to the top of the unofficial live rating list, at least for today. Morozevich played a new move in the opening, and when his opponent was unable to adapt to the changed situation on the chess board he was close to beaten after only 11 moves. The last 20 moves of the 37-move chess game were superfluous. A Morozevich (2788) – R Ponomariov (2718); Tal Memorial Moscow (6); Nimzo Indian. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.Nf3 c5 6.dxc5 Na6 7.c6 (Black was going to take on c5 next move anyway. Now if ... Ivanchuck surges to lead -- Alexander Morozevich was defeated by Vasily Ivanchuk in the seventh round of the Tal Chess Memorial. Morozevich’s sojourn at the top of the unofficial live rating list was short lived and it is Ivanchuk, on 5/7 who is now half a point ahead with two to play. Morozevich sacrificed two pawns but only had enough compensation for one and his grim resistance ended in the king and pawn endgame. There was further evidence of Vladimir Kramnik’s poor chess form as he gained a clear advantage against Boris Gelfand but then played a combination in which Gelfand found a tactical flaw and the former world chess champion was then fortunate to escape with half a point. This was the only draw of ... | |