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Afternoon All

Just been thinking of chess match i like to see and one of them is Yang -Fang Zhou V Felix Ynojosa

What do you think? who would win it?

I would say yang fan is a strong favourite- felix came onto the scene with a bang but has not played much high level stuff for a few years, plus his surname is impossible to pronounce so another reason I would be against him.

Joey Stewart wrote: felix came onto the scene with a bang but has not played much high level stuff for a few years

He has become an IM since returning to Venezuela by coming equal first in a "sub-zonal". His rating is 2371 which is well within IM territory.

http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=3900258
http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_repo ... nt16=67316

Joey Stewart wrote:felix came onto the scene with a bang

No quite the "bang" as you may have thought - soon after he arrived in England in 2007 he played in the Under-125 at Kidlington with an estimated grade of 50 (yer right!) and managed a draw with yours truly then graded a massive 109. That's a game I would like to see!!

Why not post it here now, and then we can see your IM scalp draw.

I remember finding one of those old chess yearbooks in a bin somewhere back when yang fan was at primary school, and his game that was published there had a really nice tactical finish. I wish I had kept it now, but I suspect the book returned to whence it was found after I was done.

Felix played the 11 round continental championship in Bolivia which finished yesterday. He scored 7.5/11 for a 2500+ performance.

Joey Stewart wrote:Why not post it here now, and then we can see your IM scalp draw.

[Event "Kidlington U-125"] [Site "?"] [Date "2007.02.04"] [Round "5"] [White "Gilbert, David"] [Black "Ynojosa Aponte, Felix"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [BlackElo "50"] [ECO "A20"] [WhiteElo "110"] 1.c4 e5 2.g3 Nc6 3.Bg2 f5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.e3 e4 6.Nge2 Ne5 7.O-O Nxc4 8.d3 exd3 9.Qxd3 Ne5 10.Qxf5 d6 11.Qc2 Be7 12.Qb3 c6 13.Nf4 Qb6 14.Qc2 O-O 15.b3 d5 16.Bb2 Bd6 17.Rfd1 g5 18.Nfe2 { Wow I could have played Ncxd5 or Nfxd5. Never in a million years! } 18...Bg4 19.h3 Bf3 20.Rf1 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 Rae8 22.Nd4 Qa6 23.Rad1 b5 24.Qe2 Qb6 25.Nf3 Nxf3 26.Qxf3 Qb7 27.Qe2 b4 28.Nb1 Ne4 29.Nd2 c5 30.Nxe4 Rxe4 31.f3 Re6 32.Qd2 Be5 33.Bxe5 Rxe5 34.Rde1 Rfe8 35.Re2 h5 36.Rfe1 a5 37.Qd3 R8e6 38.e4 g4 39.exd5 gxf3+ 40.Qxf3 Rxe2+ 41.Rxe2 Rxe2+ 42.Qxe2 Qxd5+ 43.Kh2 Kf7 44.Qf2+ Kg7 45.Qg2 Qxg2+ 46.Kxg2 a4 47.bxa4 c4 48.a5 c3 49.a6 c2 50.a7 c1=Q 51.a8=Q Qd2+ 52.Kh1 Qd4 53.Qa6 Qe4+ 54.Kh2 1/2-1/2

Joey Stewart wrote:I remember finding one of those old chess yearbooks in a bin somewhere back when yang fan was at primary school, and his game that was published there had a really nice tactical finish. I wish I had kept it now, but I suspect the book returned to whence it was found after I was done.

I have a nice picture of Yang -Fan when he was 8 with the Richmond Junior team after we won the Under 18 team section.I was lucky to have meet him when he first joined Richmond Juniors and got to play a few friendly games with him where he crushed me.

The ECF should sponsor this match game. yang fan v Felix

Felix is very attacking it be a great match.

Peter D Williams wrote:Afternoon All

Just been thinking of chess match i like to see and one of them is Yang -Fang Zhou V Felix Ynojosa

What do you think? who would win it?

I was hoping that I might have both playing at Big Slick this year but it's now looking unlikely that Felix will be there

Matches zthat would be valuable for English chessplayers
Yang Fang Zhou
Jonathan Hawkins
Stephen Gordon
They are very valuable. The problem is that they are not cost effective.Perhaps the last two are close enough in strength to play each other a match. Jonathan of course wants to concentrate on getting his last GM norm. He needs one with enough foreigners. I told him I thought he should play in the European Individual.

Stewart Reuben wrote:Matches zthat would be valuable for English chessplayers
Yang Fang Zhou
Jonathan Hawkins
Stephen Gordon
They are very valuable. The problem is that they are not cost effective.Perhaps the last two are close enough in strength to play each other a match. Jonathan of course wants to concentrate on getting his last GM norm. He needs one with enough foreigners. I told him I thought he should play in the European Individual.

The ECF should put up some money for a match with Yang Fang V Felix a lot of people would want to see it.

You still in Croatia?

Peter D Williams wrote:The ECF should put up some money for a match with Yang Fang V Felix a lot of people would want to see it.

How much of your own money would you be willing to pay to see it?

Mick Norris wrote:

Peter D Williams wrote:The ECF should put up some money for a match with Yang Fang V Felix a lot of people would want to see it.

How much of your own money would you be willing to pay to see it?

£30 how about you?

Do you post at weekends?

I would pay nothing, and I wouldn't want the ECF to pay anything either