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| Posted by mrskywalker nsa-hitachi.com 3/27/2004 14:40:26 play online chess |  Subject: gothicgirl-team rankingsMessage: Well plurality not majority chose ratings over wins. There is a large difference. Oh yes, there has been a giant dropoff in team challenges sent to me. I'll bet there has been a major drop in team challenges??? |
| Posted by gothicgirl nsa-hitachi.com 3/27/2004 15:21:56 play online chess | to mrskywalker Message: I didnt really understand, what you wanted to say, but nevertheless the team table rearrangement by team rating remains nonsensical to me. to climb in table hasnt to do anymore with winning team games, but with an understanding of higher mathemathics or something like that. but everytime, when I have a look at team table I click on the little arrow and then the table is rearranged for the "normal" IQs. |
Chess news: Shirov's costly blunders -- While Magnus Carlsen coasts to chess tournament victory at Foros, Alexey Shirov is suffering. Shirov’s play has been highly creative but in several games, at critical moments he has blundered. Shirov started with 2/2 but has since garnered just three draws from seven games and is languishing near the bottom of the table. We saw his remarkable attack against Sergey Karjakin on Monday but even there he might have won rather than drawn. Carlsen’s stellar performance aside, he leads by 1.5 points with two to play, the Ukrainians are doing well on home soil and outperforming the Russians. Aerosvit scores: 1 Carlsen (Norway) 7 / 9; 2 Eljanov (Ukraine) ... Barden on chess -- Bobby Fischer was 23 when he became world No2 behind Boris Spassky. Garry Kasparov was 19 when Fide ranked him second to Anatoly Karpov. Last weekend Norway's chess wunderkind Magnus Carlsen eclipsed the immortal pair when daily Fide ratings showed that, after elegantly solving the chess puzzle below, he had jumped over Russia's Vladimir Kramnik and was now No2, only five points behind the world chess champion, Vishy Anand of India. Carlsen is aged 17 years and six months. The Anand v Kramnik title match in Germany this October was billed as the ultimate showdown between the two current active chess greats after Kasparov's retirement. Now, however, it ... Grand Slam list finalised -- Last year the organisers of the Corus Wijk aan Zee, the MTel Masters and Linares chess tournaments developed the idea of a Grand Slam, as distinct from the Fide Grand Prix. The plan was to add two more chess events and culminate with a final to be staged in Bilbao in September. The finalists would be chosen from the leading performers in the preceding chess tournaments. Last month the Mexico City Grand Slam chess event was cancelled and so the organisers had to add a sixth chess player for the final and the line up will be as follows. Vishy Anand (India), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Teimour Radjabov ... | |