Team play forum
sitecolony.com << online chess - < chess - chess > - chess online >>
| From | Message |
| Posted by demuziekdoos sitecolony.com 5/27/2004 09:17:56 Play online chess |  Subject: new members for the Cynical CynicsMessage: Hello to all players. The Cynical Cynics are looking for some new players to join the team. We are a friendly group op people who enjoy the game of chess. We have our own forum, you can find it at www.cynicalcynics.co.uk/forum/ We play for fun, don't mind loosing but we like it if you would not time out in team games. If you are intrested in team play, please contact me. Please tell me something about yourself when you contact me. Paul (demuziekdoos), teamcaptain of the Cynical Cynics. |
| Posted by demuziekdoos sitecolony.com 6/12/2004 14:33:05 Play online chess | new members Message: Hello to all players. The Cynical Cynics are still looking for some new players to join the team. We are a friendly group op people who enjoy the game of chess. We have our own forum, you can find it at www.cynicalcynics.co.uk/forum/ We play for fun, don't mind loosing but we like it if you would not time out in team games. If you are intrested in team play, please contact me. Paul (demuziekdoos), teamcaptain of the Cynical Cynics. |
| Posted by demuziekdoos sitecolony.com 6/30/2004 13:56:09 Play online chess | come on.... Message: guys (and girls), nobody intrested? The last time I called out for players we had 5 new team members. Who is intrested? |
| Posted by demuziekdoos sitecolony.com 8/01/2004 15:43:21 Play online chess | paying members Message: Hello all, We are looking for some new teammembers, if possible paying members but that is not a must. Check this team out by contacting me (the captain) or one of the other team members. You also can read our forum www.cynicalcynics.co.uk/forum/ I hope to hear from some players soon. |
Chess news: Soviet training methods still reign in the chess world -- Two decades after the USSR broke up, Soviet training methods remain potent at the chess board. When the field of 128 was reduced to the quarter-finals in the current World Chess Cup, all eight grandmasters remaining had their education from Soviet coaches. The final four-game match now in progress to decide who qualifies for the 2010 candidates is between Ukraine's Ruslan Ponomariov, who won the 2002 World Cup as a teenager, and Boris Gelfand, the 41-year-old top seed. In the semi-finals Ponomariov beat Vlad Malakhov 4-2 while Gelfand eliminated Sergey Karjakin 2-0. In both the semi-final and in the game below the Israeli chess veteran defeated ... A Game Lasts 163 Moves, and That's Not Even a Record -- Chess professionals are conditioned to games that take four to five hours and last about 50 moves, but occasionally play lasts much longer and the contest becomes a war of attrition. That is what happened between Nigel Short and Luke McShane of England in the first round of the London Chess Classic, which started on Tuesday. McShane, who had White, got a tiny advantage out of the opening, but Short defended well, and after 60 moves it seemed as if the game would end in a draw. But McShane, 25, persisted and Short, 44, was forced to continue to defend. It took McShane seven hours, and 163 moves, but he finally broke Short and forced him to resign. That ... A tragic knight -- The London Chess Classic, a fabulously organized eight-player elite tournament, shaped up as a confrontation between two great chess grandmasters, the top-rated Magnus Carlsen of Norway and the former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. By the luck of draw, they met in the first round, and Carlsen won. The Norwegian GM was still in a clear lead on Sunday with four points in five rounds, a full point ahead of Kramnik. U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura drew four games and lost one. The tournament concludes Tuesday. The Carlsen-Kramnik duel looked like a perfectly played game by the Norwegian, who took advantage of Kramnik's stranded knight. "If one piece is ... | |