I liked game number 10, but which is the best game of the match?

Gruppen, Who is the winner here in this match between Vlad. Kramma & Vaseline Topsis Managert? uh? Let me know through the usual channels gruppe. Thks. ..

Ha Ha Ha, There was again a bit of improvement done. Now The GetClub Game now will give advantage to 2 Bishops than knights. So Nomorechess will face difficulty winning the games. Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html Well if he plays with Beginner & Easy levels then he may survive but if he plays with Normal Level I am sure he has to loose Matches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqIXLoVD7sc http://tinyurl.com/ya6yjr

USCF is very powerful. Part of the secret deal to keep Kirsan in power was the agreement to convert all FIDE documents to "REDNECK"! http://tinyurl.com/y92kt3 See for yourself! Sam SLoan should get to the bottom of this!

Have a look: http://youtube.com/watch?v=R3rryxkgx9g --Duncan

Is there a summary of the results of the six-piece endgame tablebases that gives the general result of each (i.e usually a win, usually a draw)? I think I've seen this somewhere, but I can't find it again. In fact, I think someone posted a link in this newsgroup a few months ago, but I can't find it. Thanks. --- Replace you know what by j to email

a neat and small (1.1 MB) chess playing software "Der Bringer" (play, analysis, set up position, etc) can be downloaded at http://chess.kearman.com/bringer/bringer19.zip

Kramnik is not a perfect player and he has to have a weakness. So what is his weakness and what kind of position do you have get into to beat him? Is he not good tactically? Shirov beat in that match in 1998 in sharp positions. Topalov won 1 game by forfeit and he just won 1 game now. But it had been a struggle for him. So what does he have to do win again ?

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I have a question as to why GMs play one opening all the time in their games. If I master an opening, does that mean that I understand chess? If there is a 2500 GM who plays the Pirc all the time, does that mean he can also play the French at the 2500 as well? If not, doesn't that mean that he really don't understand chess? Don't the GMs get bored playing the same positions over and over...

Just wondering what happened to the American representative in the Boys section?

I would like to intoduce myself to the forum. I is Earl. cynical-old-hard core Marine-average IQ-elite common sense. Go4Broke on ICC. Want to get better so I can play USCF tournaments. Just to win a point or two, or three, would be great. Now that we have been properly indroduced; FIRE AT WILL!

With paintings and links to the game http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Elista_2006/base.htm

Hi. Are there any modern (say, since about 1950), titled players with a Morphy-like style? I like the way Morphy played, and think it could be very effective at club level, but often his opponents seemed to possess less skill than today's strong club players. This makes studying his games a little less educational than it would have been if he played stronger opposition, IMO.

Chessmaster 9000 analyzed the classic game Capablanca v Marshall, New York 1918. It was in this game that Marshall introduced the Marshall Gambit. I used the factory settings for CM, including a hash table of 4MB. The analysis was done by the Chessmaster 9000 personality. I set the time alloted to analyze a move at 180 seconds to simulate classical time control. My machine has 256M memory...

The 2006 edition of the European Club Cup is over and it is time to take a loot back through history of this competition. Recent times we have intensified efforts to do thorough research on this exacting task. Unfortunately, not only plenty of important data is missing, but we are facing major difficulties while working on standarization of team names. This is why you are cordially asked to...

Both players have performed quite a bit of piece dancing, perhaps Topa more so. Anyway, wouldn't 24.h3 or even 22.h3 buy Kramnik some decisive time for pressing on the queen side? Now, after 24.h3 or 22.h3, if Topa played g4, Kramnik responds with h4. Then Topa may insist on g-7-g5 but

As can be read he http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3401 Topalov's spokesman Danailov considers it suspicious that there is a similarity between Kramnik's moves and the recommendations of the Fritz9 computer engine. Trying to check Danailov's results, I analyzed game 2, where he claims that after the end of the book line, from move 18 thru the end of the game at move 63,...

Wow, second time in a row Topalov is "lucky" enough to have Kramnik slam into his home preparation. This one was all but over by the sixteenth move, and shows what happens when a player establishes superiority in the opening: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nh4 Bg6 7.Nxg6 hxg6 8.a3 Nbd7 9.g3 Be7 10.f4 dxc4 11.Bxc4 0-0 12.e4 b5 13.Be2 b4 14.axb4 Bxb4 15.Bf3 Qb6 16.0-0 e5 17.Be3...