Phil Innes wrote:

Check out John Donaldson's very creditable game against Karpov. [John is
playing up 200 points]

"Phil Innes" wrote in message
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3rd Annual Little Sweden Chess Festival took place 13-14 December in
Bethany
College, Lindsborg, Kansas, USA.
Participants: Anatoly Karpov RUS 2693, Alexander Onischuk USA 2661, Ivan
Morovic CHI 2583, Yuri Shulman USA 2564, Pascal Charbonneau CAN 2485 and
John Donaldson USA 2456.
5 rounds, Games 25' +10".
Schedule:
December 13: 11:00 am and 6:00 pm
December 14: 11:00 am, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm
Closing ceremony December 14 at 5:30 pm
Final standings:
1 Karpov 3.5
2 Onischuk 3.0
3 Donaldson 2.5
4 Shulman 2.5
5 Morovic 2.0
6 Charbonneau 1.5

A Selection of Games were broadcast live on ICC. Considering the
opposition,
John Donaldson did particularly well. A Replay engine as well as .pgn
downloads are at:-

www.ruschess.com

Phil Innes



Hi Phil,

The 'struker' ok, the 'stoker' eh? The threebie hot stoking, trumper
magnanimous friggling snorter p'hraps? - bit scared are you son?..

Hi Phil,

The 'struker' ok, the 'stoker' eh? The threebie hot stoking, trumper
magnanimous friggling snorter p'hraps? - bit scared are you son?..

Me?

Michael! one day we'll play chess and after that we'll both be scared of
each other, though, I expect, for completely different reasons.

Otherwise I must admit I do not grok the fullness of your message.

Phil

Check out John Donaldson's very creditable game against Karpov. [John is
playing up 200 points]

"Phil Innes"

I watched them play that game and was amazed when they agreed to draw after
only 16 (or was it 18) moves. Very few pieces had been removed from the board
and I was shocked when they stopped playing.

With the difference in their ratings, I would have expected Karpov to play on
hoping for some small positional blunder from Donaldson.

Dick Schneiders

Phil Innes wrote:

Hi Phil,

The 'struker' ok, the 'stoker' eh? The threebie hot stoking, trumper
magnanimous friggling snorter p'hraps? - bit scared are you son?..

Me?

Michael! one day we'll play chess and after that we'll both be scared of
each other, though, I expect, for completely different reasons.

Otherwise I must admit I do not grok the fullness of your message.

Phil

What is this 'grok' Phil? a totally ugly expression, who is responsible
for this manufactured execrance, this blight on the English tongue? &
'craick' - egads!..

(Dick Schneiders) wrote
Also, there was a very attractive young Russian female in the front row with a
large, ahem, sweater that added to my enjoyment of this event. She looked way
too young to be part of Karpov's entourage, so I assume that she was with
Onischuk. Anybody ever seen her at other events attended by him? She was
about 5' 6", very black hair and wore a sweater that was working well beyond
the normal duty expected - probably cashmere.

I never envisioned that I would go to a chess tournament and be distracted by a sexy female.

Actually, she was another GM, as I understood it, name of Anna
something-or other. I didn't see her play at all, but I think she was
going to be in the tournament the next weekend. She was introduced to
the scholastic players there for the scholastic tournament that
Saturday. But you're right about one thing, she's definitely someone
I'd like to take on over the board! So to speak!

And about those roads! I brought three boys down from Independence,
MO Friday night and the roads were clear until we hit Salina. But it
wasn't so bad even then. Saturday night going back the roads were
once again in good shape, until we hit the local roads once we got
back home.

But I guess the roads were too bad in other parts of the country. Two
schools cancelled out, and the expected crowd of 200 scholastic
players never made it. I think there were about 100.

Radishes

Actually, she was another GM, as I understood it, name of Anna
something-or other. I didn't see her play at all, but I think she was
going to be in the tournament the next weekend. She was introduced to
the scholastic players there for the scholastic tournament that
Saturday. But you're right about one thing, she's definitely someone
I'd like to take on over the board! So to speak!


Wow!! That was Anna Zatonskih?? I had heard about her but didn't envision
that she would be so young and attractive. She is going to be helping out with
Karpov's chess school that he set up in Lindsborg last year. Since I live so
close, in Salina, perhaps I should begin to take this game a bit more
seriously. :-)

Thanks for the information.

Now I just have to figure out a delicate way to explain to my wife why I all of
a sudden have a renewed interest in chess.

Dick Schneiders

"michael adams" wrote in message
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Phil Innes wrote:

Hi Phil,

The 'struker' ok, the 'stoker' eh? The threebie hot stoking, trumper
magnanimous friggling snorter p'hraps? - bit scared are you son?..

Me?

Michael! one day we'll play chess and after that we'll both be scared of
each other, though, I expect, for completely different reasons.

Otherwise I must admit I do not grok the fullness of your message.

Phil

What is this 'grok' Phil? a totally ugly expression, who is responsible
for this manufactured execrance, this blight on the English tongue? &
'craick' - egads!..

Kirk. He often says it about Spock to Jim.

Kirk. He often says it about Spock to Jim.


It's actually from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land."

Matt


Correct, and a wonderful book. Heinlein was my favorite author when I was into
science fiction back in the 1960's.

Dick Schneiders

"Phil Innes" wrote in message
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"michael adams" wrote in message
...
Phil Innes wrote:

Hi Phil,

The 'struker' ok, the 'stoker' eh? The threebie hot stoking, trumper
magnanimous friggling snorter p'hraps? - bit scared are you son?..

Me?

Michael! one day we'll play chess and after that we'll both be scared
of
each other, though, I expect, for completely different reasons.

Otherwise I must admit I do not grok the fullness of your message.

Phil

What is this 'grok' Phil? a totally ugly expression, who is responsible
for this manufactured execrance, this blight on the English tongue? &
'craick' - egads!..

Kirk. He often says it about Spock to Jim.


It's actually from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land."

Matt

I watched them play that game and was amazed when they agreed to draw after
only 16 (or was it 18) moves. Very few pieces had been removed from the board
and I was shocked when they stopped playing.

With the difference in their ratings, I would have expected Karpov to play on
hoping for some small positional blunder from Donaldson.

Dick Schneiders

Was it close to dinner time? Most likely Karpov wasn't in the mood
for a fight. I'm not taking anything away from Donaldson. He
probably played well enough where Karpov didn't feel like going to
war. Just an opinion.

EZoto