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- Wed Aug 09, 2017 10:36 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
- Replies: 102
- Views: 7356
Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
33 .. Nxf3 from Aronian is worth a look, he's on the way again hopefully... 40...Rxf3 wasn't so great though. I can understand in some ways why Aronian played this instead of 40...Bg2+, but it feels like he bottled out of the logical conclusion to the combination he started with 33...Nxf3. Fingers ...
- Wed Aug 09, 2017 10:30 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
- Replies: 102
- Views: 7356
Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
33 .. Nxf3 from Aronian is worth a look, he's on the way again hopefully...
- Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:22 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
- Replies: 102
- Views: 7356
Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Yes indeed, to all of that.MartinCarpenter wrote:He's a genius when he's on form. It'd be really good to see match with Carlsen I think but goodness knows.PeterFarr wrote:Aronian on fire again, how did he conjure that up?
Rf6 (^Rxh6) then meeting h5 with Rh6 followed by Rxh5 is really quite amusing
- Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:59 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
- Replies: 102
- Views: 7356
Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Aronian on fire again, how did he conjure that up?
- Sat Jun 17, 2017 4:43 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 2017 World Teams 16-27 June
- Replies: 80
- Views: 6194
Re: 2017 World Teams 16-27 June
Kosteniuk has to go through the indignity of having to take off her wrist watch during play Whoever in FIDE dreamed up the "no pens or watches" rule is suffering from a case of paranoia against common possessions. Ban the sophisticated ones by all means, but what's the problem with an old fashioned...
- Fri Feb 10, 2017 10:44 pm
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: is the Vienna game sound?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9049
Re: is the Vienna game sound?
David Howell gave the g3 Vienna a whirl at Gibraltar against Matlakov a few days ago. Don't think it's an example that would tempt me to try it particularly.
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 2:48 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017
- Replies: 382
- Views: 26435
Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017
but I personally thought she felt that the pairings she received were not illegitimate, but should in one way or another have been avoided. Why could she possibly believe that the computer pairings should be altered to suit her wishes? Because she is World Champion? In any case, if it were shown th...
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 2:31 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017
- Replies: 382
- Views: 26435
Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017
Logic says that it is very unlikely for Hou Yifan to be paired against so many women, she clearly knew this and as the tournament went on she will have increasingly felt that something was not right. This will have been distracting for her in the games she played. By the end of the tournament she w...
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:36 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017
- Replies: 382
- Views: 26435
Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017
Good spot, it was Anton v Nakamura, round 7.Jonathan Rogers wrote:Check whether Naka played it earlier in this event? (Someone did)
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 7:43 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017
- Replies: 382
- Views: 26435
Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017
I'd like to think everyone is watching Hou Yifan's game (v. Ider). Absent a last minute blunder, it's heading for the anthologies. Hou's Immortal Indeed, the position after 45...Nf1 is quite startling. Ider can now win a pair of Rooks with double check. But he could more usefully resign instead! An...
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Now I've Seen Everything Dept - Scoresheets
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1683
Re: Now I've Seen Everything Dept - Scoresheets
It would probably make a fun challenge to try and reconstruct the game based only on the white moves - I know there are players out there who would take that sort of thing on. Cracker! My first thought too. Get on with it then. Great way to waste an evening I don't think it can be possible to arriv...
- Tue Jan 17, 2017 12:19 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Possible Voting Reform
- Replies: 82
- Views: 8523
Re: Possible Voting Reform
Speaking personally, and not that it matters, as one ECF member out of x thousand, but I might very well agree with Chris's views on omov if I knew more about what they were. I would guess that it's the elective dictatorship or monarchy model. You have, at least on paper, direct elections for Direc...
- Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:17 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Possible Voting Reform
- Replies: 82
- Views: 8523
Re: Possible Voting Reform
it is actually an ill informed talking shop of the self appointed. If you want to establish a consensus about voting reform, why is having views expressed in public not a good thing? Indeed. Speaking personally, and not that it matters, as one ECF member out of x thousand, but I might very well agr...
- Mon Jan 16, 2017 10:38 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Possible Voting Reform
- Replies: 82
- Views: 8523
Re: Possible Voting Reform
My proposals were and are designed for proper consideration in serious places and not intended for an Internet gossipfest and I have recently discussed them again with Board representatives but are therefore not for such a trivial place as this Your views fit excellently with a desire to move towar...
- Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:53 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Possible Voting Reform
- Replies: 82
- Views: 8523
Re: Possible Voting Reform
My proposals were and are designed for proper consideration in serious places and not intended for an Internet gossipfest and I have recently discussed them again with Board representatives but are therefore not for such a trivial place as this Your views fit excellently with a desire to move towar...