Not junior or women's title, either. Love the reference to Judit Polgar
winning the Hungarian championship in 1960!!

Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory...ORTS&oid=54959

Wonder girl bags H.K. title

By Manny BenitezTODAY Chess Columnist


A 13-year-old Eurasian girl, Anya Corke, has won the National Chess
Championship of Hong Kong, scoring 9.5 points from 11 games.


The only child of an English father and a British-Chinese mother, Anya could
be the world's youngest person -- and a girl at that -- ever to win a
national chess crown (Hong Kong, a former British colony, is now a special
administrative region of China, with its own national chess federation
separate from that of the mainland).


Hong Kong's wonder girl is its first female chess champion. She swept
through the 11-round tournament with nine wins, one draw and only one loss.


The first girl to wear her country's national chess crown was Judit Polgar
of Hungary, who did it at 15 in 1960, enabling her to break by three months
American legend Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest person to earn the
grandmaster's title.


Corke, whose parents are lecturers at the University of Hong Kong who moved
to the former British colony from France three years ago, was adjudged
second best junior, next only to Wen Gehua of China, in the Bangkok Open,
won by GM Joey Antonio.


As Hong Kong champion, she is expected to be its board one player in the
upcoming 36th World Chess Olympiad in Calvia, Majorca, Spain, in October.


A Filipino engineer, Edwin Borigas, finished fourth in the Hong Kong title
series, next to Corke, Brian Dew and Jeff Leclercq. Borigas played on board
one in the Asian Cities held in Tagaytay three months ago.


Meanwhile, World Chess Championship finalists Michael Adams of England and
Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan rested on Friday (Saturday in Manila),
with the score tied at 1.5-1.5 from one win, lone draw and one loss each.In
the 12th World Computer Chess Championship being held at the Bar-Ilan
University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, Deep Junior led after six rounds with 5.0
points from four wins and two draws, followed by Shredder with 4.0 and
Fritz, along with six other machines tied for the third to eighth places
with 3.5 each.


Here is a model game won by Junior, with White against Sjeng in the sixth
round:

After 21.Rfc8

22 Nxb5! Better than 22 Bxb5, e.g., .Nxe4 23 Bd2 axb4 24 Bxd7 Qxd7 25 cxb4
f5!, and Black has equalized Bxb5 23 Bxb5 axb4 24 cxb4 Nxe4 25 Bc6 Qb8 26
Rxa8 Qxa8 27 Qd3 f5 28 Qb5 Rb8 29 Qf1! Qa3 30 Ra1 Qxb4 31 Rb1 Qa3 32 Rxb7
Rxb7 33 Bxb7 f4 34 Qc1 Qc3 35 Qxc3 Nxc3 36 Bd2 Ne4 37 Ba5 Nc5 38 Bc8 Nb3 39
Be6+! Kf8 40 Bb4 Nc5 41 Bxc5 dxc5 42 Nxe5! Ke8 43 Kf1 Bf8 44 Ke2! 1-0.



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"Ray Gordon" wrote in message
...
Not junior or women's title, either. Love the reference to Judit Polgar
winning the Hungarian championship in 1960!!

Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory...ORTS&oid=54959

Wonder girl bags H.K. title

By Manny BenitezTODAY Chess Columnist


A 13-year-old Eurasian girl, Anya Corke, has won the National Chess
Championship of Hong Kong, scoring 9.5 points from 11 games.


The only child of an English father and a British-Chinese mother, Anya
could
be the world's youngest person -- and a girl at that -- ever to win a
national chess crown (Hong Kong, a former British colony, is now a special
administrative region of China, with its own national chess federation
separate from that of the mainland).


Hong Kong's wonder girl is its first female chess champion. She swept
through the 11-round tournament with nine wins, one draw and only one
loss.


The first girl to wear her country's national chess crown was Judit Polgar
of Hungary, who did it at 15 in 1960, enabling her to break by three
months
American legend Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest person to earn the
grandmaster's title.


Corke, whose parents are lecturers at the University of Hong Kong who
moved
to the former British colony from France three years ago, was adjudged
second best junior, next only to Wen Gehua of China, in the Bangkok Open,
won by GM Joey Antonio.


As Hong Kong champion, she is expected to be its board one player in the
upcoming 36th World Chess Olympiad in Calvia, Majorca, Spain, in October.


A Filipino engineer, Edwin Borigas, finished fourth in the Hong Kong title
series, next to Corke, Brian Dew and Jeff Leclercq. Borigas played on
board
one in the Asian Cities held in Tagaytay three months ago.


Meanwhile, World Chess Championship finalists Michael Adams of England and
Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan rested on Friday (Saturday in Manila),
with the score tied at 1.5-1.5 from one win, lone draw and one loss
each.In
the 12th World Computer Chess Championship being held at the Bar-Ilan
University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, Deep Junior led after six rounds with 5.0
points from four wins and two draws, followed by Shredder with 4.0 and
Fritz, along with six other machines tied for the third to eighth places
with 3.5 each.


Here is a model game won by Junior, with White against Sjeng in the sixth
round:

After 21.Rfc8

22 Nxb5! Better than 22 Bxb5, e.g., .Nxe4 23 Bd2 axb4 24 Bxd7 Qxd7 25 cxb4
f5!, and Black has equalized Bxb5 23 Bxb5 axb4 24 cxb4 Nxe4 25 Bc6 Qb8 26
Rxa8 Qxa8 27 Qd3 f5 28 Qb5 Rb8 29 Qf1! Qa3 30 Ra1 Qxb4 31 Rb1 Qa3 32 Rxb7
Rxb7 33 Bxb7 f4 34 Qc1 Qc3 35 Qxc3 Nxc3 36 Bd2 Ne4 37 Ba5 Nc5 38 Bc8 Nb3
39
Be6+! Kf8 40 Bb4 Nc5 41 Bxc5 dxc5 42 Nxe5! Ke8 43 Kf1 Bf8 44 Ke2! 1-0.



--
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play Libya, which banned the Israeli players from competing. Shame on the
Americans who went!

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http://www.cybersheet.com/library.html
The Seduction Library

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"Ray Gordon" wrote in message
...
Not junior or women's title, either. Love the reference to
Judit Polgar winning the Hungarian championship in 1960!!

Given the fact that Judit Polgar was born in 1976, her *reported* victory
in 1960 might well be evidence of her supernatural precocity in chess. :-)

Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory...ORTS&oid=54959

Wonder girl bags H.K. title
By Manny Benitez TODAY Chess Columnist

A 13-year-old Eurasian girl, Anya Corke, has won the National Chess
Championship of Hong Kong, scoring 9.5 points from 11 games.

The only child of an English father and a British-Chinese mother, Anya

Congratulations to Anya Corke.

To comment on an issue of journalistic practice, I have to say that I do
not understand why describing Anya Corke's 'racially mixed' background in
such detail was necessary or relevant to writing a news story about her
victory in the Hong Kong chess championship. (By the way, it's hardly
unusual--or 'newsworthy'--to find 'Eurasians' who reside in Hong Kong.)

If GM Joel Lautier were to win France's chess championship, then should
the French media emphasise the fact that he's 'Eurasian', the son of a
French father and a Japanese mother? Would the news story begin like this?
"A (his age) Eurasian man, Joel Lautier, has won the national chess
championship of France. The son of a French father and a Japanese mother,
Joel Lautier..."

I doubt that would happen in Joel Lautier's case,
so why should it have happened in Anya Corke's?

For the record, I do *not* regard Manny Benitez's description of
Anya Corke's racial or ethnic background to be a racist comment.
But I wonder why he considered it important enough to lead his story about
Anya Corke's winning a chess tournament by describing her 'racial' background.

By the way, I have been waiting for Jerzy Ciruk to write here and express
his personal objection against Manny Benitez for "tr(ying) to make racial
divisions between chessplayers" (to quote what Jerzy Ciruk wrote about
Ian Burton on 8 July 2004). In the RGCM thread "Garry Kasparov's Diary",
Jerzy Ciruk recently accused Ian Burton of having a racist motive, as
Mr Burton understood Mr Ciruk to say, in asking a question about which
Jewish players had participated in a FIDE tournament in Libya.

But Jerzy Ciruk, who likes to claim that he opposes 'racism' in chess,
has written nothing to complain about the new Hong Kong chess champion
Anya Corke's unprovoked identification as 'Eurasian' by the news media.

So why would Jerzy Ciruk evidently have a 'double standard'?

On one hand, Jerzy Ciruk has vehemently denounced the exclusion of the
Israeli players--*which I also believe was wrong*--from the FIDE World
Championship tournament in Libya, and Jerzy Ciruk has repeatedly accused
both the Libyan government and FIDE (not to mention some other writer(s)
in the chess newsgroups) of anti-Jewish 'racism'. In fact, as Roman
Parparov, a member of Israel's Chess Federation board (Would Jerzy Ciruk
like to denounce him too as an anti-Jewish 'racist'?), has written here,
several Jewish players did compete in the FIDE tournament in Libya.
As far as I know, those Jewish players have *not* made any complaints that
the Libyans ever discriminated against them because they were Jewish while
they were playing in the FIDE World Championship tournament in Libya.

Of course, I am *not* asserting that Libya is free of anti-Jewish prejudice.
Indeed, the United States, for example, is *not* free of anti-Jewish prejudice.
But I do *not* know of any evidence, or even of any specific complaints, that
the Jewish players in Libya suffered from any 'racist' discrimination while
playing there recently. In my view (though perhaps not in Jerzy Ciruk's),
it's unfair to condemn all Arabs (or even all Libyans) as anti-Jewish
'racists' in all cases on the basis of sweeping stereotypes rather than by
citing specific evidence of anti-Jewish prejudice in those specific cases.

On the other hand, after I have asked him to comment on that matter,
Jerzy Ciruk has *not* criticised the United States government for excluding
players from Iran and Syria from participating in the FIDE world championship
tournament in Las Vegas. Given his evidently continuing refusal to criticise
that exclusion of Iranian and Syrian players--which stands in contrast to
Jerzy Ciruk's many vehement criticisms of the exclusion of Israeli players--
I have to say that Jerzy Ciruk seems to condone or approve of the United
States's exclusion of players from Iran and Syria (and perhaps other
countries perceived as hostile) on the basis of their nationalities
from participating in a FIDE tournament in the United States.

--Nick

could be the world's youngest person -- and a girl at that -- ever to win a
national chess crown (Hong Kong, a former British colony, is now a special
administrative region of China, with its own national chess federation
separate from that of the mainland).

Hong Kong's wonder girl is its first female chess champion. She swept
through the 11-round tournament with nine wins, one draw and only one loss.
The first girl to wear her country's national chess crown was Judit Polgar
of Hungary, who did it at 15 in 1960, enabling her to break by three months
American legend Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest person to earn the
grandmaster's title.

Corke, whose parents are lecturers at the University of Hong Kong who moved
to the former British colony from France three years ago, was adjudged
second best junior, next only to Wen Gehua of China, in the Bangkok Open,
won by GM Joey Antonio.

As Hong Kong champion, she is expected to be its board one player in the
upcoming 36th World Chess Olympiad in Calvia, Majorca, Spain, in October.
A Filipino engineer, Edwin Borigas, finished fourth in the Hong Kong title
series, next to Corke, Brian Dew and Jeff Leclercq. Borigas played on board
one in the Asian Cities held in Tagaytay three months ago. ...

(Nick) wrote in message . com...
"Ray Gordon" wrote in message
...
Not junior or women's title, either. Love the reference to
Judit Polgar winning the Hungarian championship in 1960!!

Given the fact that Judit Polgar was born in 1976, her *reported* victory
in 1960 might well be evidence of her supernatural precocity in chess. :-)

Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory...ORTS&oid=54959

Wonder girl bags H.K. title
By Manny Benitez TODAY Chess Columnist

A 13-year-old Eurasian girl, Anya Corke, has won the National Chess
Championship of Hong Kong, scoring 9.5 points from 11 games.

The only child of an English father and a British-Chinese mother, Anya

Congratulations to Anya Corke.

To comment on an issue of journalistic practice, I have to say that I do
not understand why describing Anya Corke's 'racially mixed' background in
such detail was necessary or relevant to writing a news story about her
victory in the Hong Kong chess championship. (By the way, it's hardly
unusual--or 'newsworthy'--to find 'Eurasians' who reside in Hong Kong.)

If GM Joel Lautier were to win France's chess championship, then should
the French media emphasise the fact that he's 'Eurasian', the son of a
French father and a Japanese mother? Would the news story begin like this?
"A (his age) Eurasian man, Joel Lautier, has won the national chess
championship of France. The son of a French father and a Japanese mother,
Joel Lautier..."

I doubt that would happen in Joel Lautier's case,
so why should it have happened in Anya Corke's?

Nor does it usually happen in Hikaru Nakamura's case.
He's usually just described as "Japanese".


For the record, I do *not* regard Manny Benitez's description of
Anya Corke's racial or ethnic background to be a racist comment.
But I wonder why he considered it important enough to lead his story about
Anya Corke's winning a chess tournament by describing her 'racial' background.

By the way, I have been waiting for Jerzy Ciruk to write here and express
his personal objection against Manny Benitez for "tr(ying) to make racial
divisions between chessplayers" (to quote what Jerzy Ciruk wrote about
Ian Burton on 8 July 2004). In the RGCM thread "Garry Kasparov's Diary",
Jerzy Ciruk recently accused Ian Burton of having a racist motive, as
Mr Burton understood Mr Ciruk to say, in asking a question about which
Jewish players had participated in a FIDE tournament in Libya.

But Jerzy Ciruk, who likes to claim that he opposes 'racism' in chess,
has written nothing to complain about the new Hong Kong chess champion
Anya Corke's unprovoked identification as 'Eurasian' by the news media.

So why would Jerzy Ciruk evidently have a 'double standard'?

On one hand, Jerzy Ciruk has vehemently denounced the exclusion of the
Israeli players--*which I also believe was wrong*--from the FIDE World
Championship tournament in Libya, and Jerzy Ciruk has repeatedly accused
both the Libyan government and FIDE (not to mention some other writer(s)
in the chess newsgroups) of anti-Jewish 'racism'. In fact, as Roman
Parparov, a member of Israel's Chess Federation board (Would Jerzy Ciruk
like to denounce him too as an anti-Jewish 'racist'?), has written here,
several Jewish players did compete in the FIDE tournament in Libya.
As far as I know, those Jewish players have *not* made any complaints that
the Libyans ever discriminated against them because they were Jewish while
they were playing in the FIDE World Championship tournament in Libya.

Of course, I am *not* asserting that Libya is free of anti-Jewish prejudice.
Indeed, the United States, for example, is *not* free of anti-Jewish prejudice.
But I do *not* know of any evidence, or even of any specific complaints, that
the Jewish players in Libya suffered from any 'racist' discrimination while
playing there recently. In my view (though perhaps not in Jerzy Ciruk's),
it's unfair to condemn all Arabs (or even all Libyans) as anti-Jewish
'racists' in all cases on the basis of sweeping stereotypes rather than by
citing specific evidence of anti-Jewish prejudice in those specific cases.

On the other hand, after I have asked him to comment on that matter,
Jerzy Ciruk has *not* criticised the United States government for excluding
players from Iran and Syria from participating in the FIDE world championship
tournament in Las Vegas. Given his evidently continuing refusal to criticise
that exclusion of Iranian and Syrian players--which stands in contrast to
Jerzy Ciruk's many vehement criticisms of the exclusion of Israeli players--
I have to say that Jerzy Ciruk seems to condone or approve of the United
States's exclusion of players from Iran and Syria (and perhaps other
countries perceived as hostile) on the basis of their nationalities
from participating in a FIDE tournament in the United States.

--Nick

could be the world's youngest person -- and a girl at that -- ever to win a
national chess crown (Hong Kong, a former British colony, is now a special
administrative region of China, with its own national chess federation
separate from that of the mainland).

Hong Kong's wonder girl is its first female chess champion. She swept
through the 11-round tournament with nine wins, one draw and only one loss.
The first girl to wear her country's national chess crown was Judit Polgar
of Hungary, who did it at 15 in 1960, enabling her to break by three months
American legend Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest person to earn the
grandmaster's title.

Corke, whose parents are lecturers at the University of Hong Kong who moved
to the former British colony from France three years ago, was adjudged
second best junior, next only to Wen Gehua of China, in the Bangkok Open,
won by GM Joey Antonio.

As Hong Kong champion, she is expected to be its board one player in the
upcoming 36th World Chess Olympiad in Calvia, Majorca, Spain, in October.
A Filipino engineer, Edwin Borigas, finished fourth in the Hong Kong title
series, next to Corke, Brian Dew and Jeff Leclercq. Borigas played on board
one in the Asian Cities held in Tagaytay three months ago. ...