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Top 100 FIDE April 1st Rating List -- could not find my name. :-( Korchnoi is still in the top 100! Chuck, what happens with all that fish after it's been caught? :-))) ...
Bobby Fischer is Checkmated. -- Nothing like seeing the wind taken out of a blowhard, eh!? Polgar was trying to make, is that it's kinda sad, that the only time chess gets press is when something like this happens. She was trying to ...
Gary Kasparov -- My official statement on this, at this point when information is sketchy, is whu-u-huh?!? After all that wrangling about the unification process, after Gary making so much of how he was backing out so ...
Your Chess Opening Reportoire -- I open with 1.Resigns & ...1.Resigns :) Why prolong the agony :) ...by Steve Giddins is a good book (Gambit Publications). It doesn't tell you what to play, but it guides you in the decision-making progress ...
Top 50 Womens List -- where are the pictures!?!? :D And if such a idiotic contest get's attention then why isn't there a male beauty contest as well... the GK male chess G-d contest. I don't put my picture in my profile ...
twice castling?! -- www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm#greatest number of castlings Definitely not legal but apparently was not noticed/challenged during the game. Crazy things can happen in the heat of a game especially ...
french defense -- f4 is fine vs the French! John Lutes' book on the McCutcheon variant of the French gives some ananlysis (the footnotes in his books frequently have a lot of info & are well-researched). I've not essayed ...
Trompowsky Attack -- Has anyone considered 2...Ng8 !? A reasonably successful variant of the Alekhine proceeds thus: Black can entertain attacking chances vs White's over-extended pawn. With the Trompowsky, a similar move, ...
Smothered mates -- Just thought I mimght start a thread about smotherd mates or other good mating patterns. See my second game against ukfeds. I know it is easy to get out of, but he didn't see it. I remember playing blitz ...
attacking -- is Art of Attack in Chess by Vukovic. It's out in a spiffy new edition edited by John Nunn, one of the great chess authors of our time. It's on my short list of chess books to study soon. If you're ...
For those of you who use Fritz... -- I've recently started having Fritz analyse and annotate my completed games. I then go through and add my own annotations and thought processes, and then save the game to my GK database. My question is ...
Extreme Chess -- Inspired by David Letterman's affirmation, "There just isn't enough televised chess," I thought we might brainstorm some ideas for making chess televisible. Extreme Chess is just one possibility. ...
Last minute changing opening OTB -- I usually use the Queen's gambit, though I occasionally use Ruy Lopez and the Danish Gambit. spurtus mentioned opening transitions.. did he?? ...
About Bobby Fischer -- I think that Fischer is not sane in the sense that we think people are sane But who are we to judge what is sane. Here we have a tolarance that what ever you say or write is your reponsability, you are ...
true or not -- One of my chess friend say "You cannot checkmate your opponent's king while your king is in check".Just wonder this statement is true or not. since checkmate immediately ends the game I guess ...
Opening with Black -- Are you interested in trying Team play here at GK? I know it is not super aggresive to start with, as white usually will have the initiative for awhile (but that is true in any defense) but black immediately ...
Your Chess Resume' or Background -- .deadofknight , let's be seeing that Resume' up here pronto now ! ! ! }8-) :-)) Chuck of 7 now 13 :( Taught myself. Played in HS and casually, Max Pavey chess club Marshall Chess Club and other chess ...
Calling all 1700+ Boffins out there..... -- It has been my experience that one of the best ways to improve at chess is to teach it! There is something about verbalizing and showing someone what you already know about chess which reinforces your ...
Interesting? -- I kept on going and eventually it lead me to harpov does this mean if i can beat alekhine101 and he can beat a8h6 etc etc and this lead me all the way up to harpov that I logically should be able to beat ...
The opening that baffles and eludes you... -- Didn't know what it was called, but I played it as black a while back and got destroyed! As my opponent slowly but surely brought his pieces in for the kill, I was left with simply jostling my rooks back ...
Baffled by unsportsmanlike behaviour -- I believe the concept is that if one runs out of time, their opponent could not truly claim to be better than them, the win would only be a technicality. I always forfeit a losing position. I always see ...
Hard chess puzzle! -- Seem GK's member dont have enough brain power :(. have the queen move to g2 instead of g1! Then however, Nf1 is no longer forced... Qg1 isn't a check if we place a white knight on f1, and in the final ...
Defence Books -- I'm looking for a good book on defending... Any suggestions? "The Art of Defence in Chess" by Lyev Polugayevsky & Iakov Damsky Cadogan Chess copyright 1988 ISBN 187441540 was very helpful for ...
Speed of eye movements -- new territory, but, I am in agreement with bucklehead. GM's have muscle memory. They have acute awareness of structures and memory of positions and use, like Buckle intimated, mental pictures to call up. ...
Mini-tournaments win/loss table -- Well ... uhm.. no. Try Mike. There have alread been threads about this strange rule-change in the past... -> "withdrawal from Tournament" "Ridiculous rule change" and so on... i ...
Looking to Commit Some Heresy -- I occasionally play at a very small club that meets at the local library. I'd recommend starting with something like that.....ask the library if they've got a public room available where you could meet ...
It MIGHT Be cheating, IF ... -- If might be cheating if your opponent tells you: "You need to resign. Fritz says Mate in 9!" Was that opponent a former member of VB-XXXX team, until he was kicked off. Then tried to join another ...
chess and athletics -- I was wondering how many athletes there are on gameknot. By athlete I mean someone who competes in some physical sport on a regular basis. Of particular interest are those who compete in OTB chess in addition ...
how far you can go...? -- A quick look through his games reveals not that he "never studies" but rather that he seems to specialize in obscure lines in which he hopes to know more than his opponents (but can limit the ...
What is NOT FUN about Chess ...?? -- its not fun when you have so many good moves to make and you cant decide which one is the best so you move one and it turns out its the wrong one and you end up losing !!!!! that is not fun When my opponent's ...
Aggressive Tactical/Open lines for Black vs. 1.d4 -- I agree the budapest gambit is a good choice. But, don't rule out the dutch. It is true the stonewall variation is very positional. But, you can get good tactical games with the leningrad variation. In ...
Sicilian Najdorf question: -- for this game is board #2268902 I meant to say after 23....Bc8 then 24.Re8 threatening 25.Ne7++# or 25.Rxf8+ both ... etc. The Q goes to f6 so close. No mate. I gotta start using the analyze board function! ...
"Different" OTB Chess Tactics... -- the 11th is not allowed you can tell the referee and you get a warning for that... you cant offer a draw after each move... but there are items who are true... and ill tell you one that my club team started ...
Chess Coaching Club? -- for making use of the new club feature. I noticed that one of the features of the club function is that one or more people (the founder and any moderators?) can delete posts. So one of the things I see ...
"The dark secret to promoting chess" -- . . . memberships, club affiliations, etc. You (or your federation) pays fees when you play in a FIDE tournament, earn a FIDE rating, earn a FIDE title, etc., but you can't "join" FIDE and start ...
solid sacrifice -- I have this idea that a solid sacrifice happens more often in OTB chess then in correspondance chess. What is your opinion and if so why is that? What is the best sacrifice in correspondance chess..played ...
Rook ending Question -- I see nothing wrong with using algebraic notation. let the computer play your position?? i dont know how good it is but see what it does. ok my friend. if that's the way you feel. though it sure looked ...
Stupid game stallers! -- Resigning a won game sends the message "if I stall every lost game, my opponent will lose patience, resign and I will gain points" which just worsens the problem. I suggest grinding it out like ...
Fischer is now free -- For details: www.newscuts.com/Japan.News.shtml. if comments like "They should be hung" really help your cause... He is just no longer in prison. www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_omalley/20050325.html ...
Learning openings, is it worth it? -- The thing about knowing an opening well is not knowing the moves, but knowing the concepts! Hence you'll improve most openings as you research one, and not only improve the opening you research. Knowing ...
Playing bad chess -- 34 wins, a single loss, and an 1802 rating, if this is what you call "bad chess", I hate to see ya when you play "good chess". Anyways, I'm playing "bad chess" lately, considering ...
SysFader -- Much appreciated ...
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