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| Posted by empalor sitecolony.com 2/16/2004 06:28:31 play online chess |  Subject: Ukrainian team has been created!Message: I am the captain of the new (and only) team from Ukraine: Ukrainian Cossacks. All Ukrainian players who wish to play for us are welcomed. |
Chess news: Chess, by Lubomir Kavalek -- The defending chess champion, the Dallas Destiny, won the 2008 United States Chess League, a 14-team Internet competition that ended this month. Dallas's final match against the Boston Blitz was tied 2-2, but IM Davorin Kuljasevic won the title for Dallas, defeating former U.S. chess champion Larry Christiansen in the last game of the blitz tiebreak. An Attacking Gem. Before the match went into the tiebreak, Christiansen smashed IM Marko Zivanic with a powerful attack, most likely to be the best game of the competition. It matters to the Boston grandmaster how he wins. He created many beautiful combinations and spectacular sacrifices during his successful ... Barden on chess -- Failure can be a great spur to improvement. This autumn David Howell, 18 and England's best young chess talent, was in the gold-medal position at the start of the final round of the world junior (U20) chess championship, but played passively, got short of time, and was crushed. A few weeks later Howell was No1 seed in the world U18, and again finished out of the medals. His chronically poor clock management played a major part. But come his next chess event, the Dresden Chess Olympiad, and Howell was, along with Nigel Short, the high scorer for England. He followed this up by an impressive 10.5/11 runaway victory in the British Rapidplay at Halifax, a chess contest which both ... Popularity of chess hindered by chaotic leadership -- Chess requires exceptional reasoning ability, but problems besetting the game seem to defy logic. In the last few weeks, disputes within the World Chess Federation have led two top players to withdraw from the world chess championship selection process, while another player faces a two-year ban for failing to take a drug test - although he almost certainly did not take any since there are few if any drugs that can enhance a chess player's performance. The episodes illustrate the struggles and foibles of a game that at times achieves immense popularity around the world and at other times - sometimes for reasons of its own making - falls by the wayside. Chess often ... | |