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| Posted by ccmcacollister nikto.net 4/17/2006 04:24:05 Play online chess |  Subject: Alekhine: man & Chess playerMessage: Thus this thread is born for discussion about the Chess player, the man, and perhaps (hopefully) some games (annotations!! ?), and Hyperlinks!? Regards, Craig }8-) | ||||||||||||
| Posted by ccmcacollister nikto.net 4/17/2006 04:27:32 Play online chess | PS// Message: A Great Chess player! That he sometimes fudged in his annotations, or changed a move here or there?! Born Russian!? Died choking on a piece of meat, eaten at home sans utinsels !? (somewhere this has been disputed too. And believe I have even seen it claimed that it was pretty much forced down his throat?! ) | ||||||||||||
| Posted by bucklehead nikto.net 4/17/2006 06:10:19 Play online chess | A couple of articles Message: There was also a recent ChessBase item on Alekhine's death: -> chessbase.com . ——— Mission to Moscow — I am writing this column from the fabulous Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow, which is about a five-minute walk from Red Square. My mission in Moscow is to help Hikaru Nakamura do well in the 2011 Tal Memorial. This chess event is the elite-of-the-elite playing in an all-play-all (round robin) format of 10 players. Nakamura is ranked No. 7 at the start, as all the top chess players in the world were invited to duke it out for first prize. Why am I in Moscow, and what can I do for Hikaru? Well, I am what as known as a "second." I help Hikaru prepare the chess games each day by looking at previous games of his opponent in an effort to figure out what each will do, mainly in the opening phase of the game. Of course, since his opponent ... Posted by ccmcacollister | nikto.net 4/17/2006 07:21:34 Play online chess thanks bucklehead .... Message: (But then there is a guy in town who has Paul Morphy's hand! Identical looking, not the part itself :) ——— On Chess: Pleasure of pursuit keeps Gelfand going — Israeli chess grandmaster Boris Gelfand anticipates his world title match with reigning world chess champion Viswanathan Anand with his usual aplomb. He does so, in part, because of a rational, well-ordered approach to each game. He is superbly prepared, impossible to intimidate and unwilling to make the slightest concession each step of the way. If Gelfand maintains the form that gained him the right to play for the title, Anand will have to battle for every square and then some when they meet in May in Moscow. Gelfand is described on the website www.chessintranslation.com as “good-natured, well-mannered — . . . a pleasant man to know.” But he is also dauntlessly hardworking; ceaselessly striving; and ... Posted by thunker | nikto.net 4/17/2006 10:10:41 Play online chess ClassicMessage: Can be found at my little web site... -> home.ionet.net ——— Hou Yifan, Defending Women's Champion, Is Likely to Keep Title — The match for the Women’s World Chess Championship is all but over. On Monday, after six games of the best-of-10 match, Hou Yifan, the defending chess champion, led her challenger, Humpy Koneru, 4 points to 2. Hou only needs 1.5 points in the last four games to clinch the title, making her lead almost insurmountable. The chess match, which began Nov. 14 in Tirana, Albania, is in some ways as much a competition between the two most populous countries as it is a contest between two individuals. Hou is Chinese and Koneru is Indian. The overall world chess champion is Viswanathan Anand, another Indian, and Koneru is ranked No. 2 among women, while Hou is No. 3, so Indians may ... Posted by taborov | nikto.net 4/17/2006 13:30:08 Play online chess Александр Александрович АлхинMessage: Alekhine's first chess accomplishment was when, in 1909, at the age of seventeen, he won the All-Russian Amateur Tournament in St. Petersburg with a score of twelve wins, two losses and two draws. He was awarded a national master title for this performance. The tournament was held concurrently with the more famous professional international event won by Emanuel Lasker and Akiba Rubinstein. Meanwhile, in the United States, later that year a twenty-three-year-old Cuban by the name of Jos Ral Capablanca shocked American chess players by thrashing Frank Marshall in a match. The lives of Alekhine and Capablanca would soon intertwine. In 1914, after Alekhine finished 3rd behind Lasker and Capablanca in a tournament in Saint Petersburg, Tsar Nicholas II named him as one of the five original grandmasters. Alekhine also served in World War One, and was wounded. He became cosmopolitan in his life, living in many countries, and speaking Russian, French, German, and English. Following the Russian Revolution, in 1919 he was suspected of espionage, arrested and imprisoned in Odessa, though he was eventually freed. He won the 1st USSR Championship in 1920. In 1921 Alekhine left Soviet Russia never to return, moving to France, where four years later he became a French citizen and entered the Sorbonne Faculty of law. Although his thesis on the Chinese prison system went uncompleted, he nevertheless claimed the title of "Dr Alekhine". From 1921 to 1927, Alekhine amassed an excellent tournament record, winning or sharing 12 out of 20 first prizes in the tournaments he played. -> en.wikipedia.org ——— Milestone for a Benefactor of Historic Matches — Jacqueline Piatigorsky, one of the most important figures in American chess in the 1960s, turned 100 this month. Piatigorsky, a member of the Rothschild banking family, was married to the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and together they sponsored three significant chess events. The first was a 1961 match between Bobby Fischer and Samuel Reshevsky, the two best American chess players. It was a best-of-16 match, and after 11 games, each man had won twice and the other games were draws. And that is how it ended. Fischer quit after a fight with Mrs. Piatigorsky over the scheduling of the 12th game. (Fischer wanted an afternoon game so he could sleep in, and she wanted a morning game so she ... Posted by ionadowman | nikto.net 4/17/2006 16:37:02 Play online chess Why was Ferriera's note written in English?Message: ——— Joys of Chess: From Krabbé to Hesse — Christian Hesse's book The Joys of Chess: Heroes, Battles & Brilliances, published by New in Chess, was endorsed by the world chess champion Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. It is a compilation of chess stories, biographical sketches, chess games and fragments with references to art and science. The author is a professor of mathematics, and the book was first published in German. It resembles work previously done by Tim Krabbé, a prominent Dutch writer, on his website Chess Curiosities. Krabbé was born in the same year as Bobby Fischer (1943) and on the same day as Garry Kasparov (April 13). The combination of the two could have made him a strong chess player, but when he ... Posted by ccmcacollister | nikto.net 4/17/2006 22:38:02 Play online chess One win? Message: -> www.chessgames.com Posted by ionadowman | nikto.net 4/18/2006 14:15:20 Play online chess That finish...Message: |