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| Posted by kansaspatzer nikto.net 4/04/2008 23:27:21 Play online chess |  Subject: Chess tattoosMessage: I was wondering if anybody else had any or knew anybody who has any. I haven't come across anyone else but surely I'm not the only one. I know somebody who got a certain poker hand (Jack-Ten) tattooed on his arm. I feel that mine is less "tacky", although people approach mine with mixed results. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ccmcacollister nikto.net 4/05/2008 22:10:44 Play online chess | NO ... Message: *** Seems like an interesting idea & your Knight looks good ... maybe more players will go in for it if they see yours. Doesn't seem tacky at all to me. Personally, I see it as expressive Art, like the game itself. Are you thinking of adding to the "set" ? }8-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman nikto.net 4/06/2008 13:22:24 Play online chess | Let's see... Message: I hope i haven't sarted anything... ;-) Ion ——— Gelfand Wins World Chess Cup — Boris Gelfand of Israel is the 2009 World Cup champion. Gelfand won the title by beating Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in a playoff on Monday. The first four games of the playoff were rapid games (25 minutes per player per game) and Gelfand took the lead by winning the second game. But Ponomariov, with his back to the wall, won the last rapid game to tie the match up again. The playoff then went to blitz chess (5 minutes per player per game) and Gelfand once again took the lead by beating Ponomariov in the first game when he managed to trap Ponomariov’s queen in 21 moves. Ponomariov rallied again, winning the second game. But Gelfand won the third and Ponomariov ... Posted by kansaspatzer | nikto.net 4/10/2008 22:35:38 Play online chess Message: I do think that more players should get a chess tattoo. At the very least, it makes for an interesting conversation piece ——— 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 ... Posted by tag1153 | nikto.net 4/11/2008 00:52:00 Play online chess Guilty........Message:  gameknot.com ——— 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 ... Posted by wschmidt | nikto.net 4/11/2008 12:26:08 Play online chess how about...Message: ——— 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 ... Posted by eqj2 | nikto.net 4/11/2008 14:03:03 Play online chess ????????Message: ——— Bennett and King on chess: Carlsen-Nakamura, BNbank Blitz, 2009 — The London Chess Classic, the strongest chess tournament to be held in this country for 25 years, begins today at Olympia. Magnus Carlsen, the brilliant 19-year-old Norwegian, is one of the favourites, but he was dealt a psychological blow when he lost to one of the other participants, US chess champion Hikaru Nakamura, in a blitz tournament in Oslo 10 days ago. Carlsen played the classier chess, but Nakamura proved to be the better hustler. This was the game that turned the match around. Carlsen is threatening to queen the pawn, but Nakamura, with just a few seconds on his clock, found a win. RB: One of the first chess books I owned was Practical Chess Endings by ... Posted by ionadowman | nikto.net 4/11/2008 14:20:18 Play online chess Wha' hoppen??Message: Curious... Posted by tag1153 | nikto.net 4/11/2008 19:17:38 Play online chess eh?Message: ion - ???? huh?????? The knight tat is about 3 years old....i got it after my first 4/4 performance OTB.....I have a few others as well, but surely will be banned for posting them:) Posted by chessnovice | nikto.net 4/11/2008 19:21:53 Play online chess ...Message: I'm sure he meant to link to his own profile: gameknot.com Posted by eqj2 | nikto.net 4/11/2008 22:55:04 Play online chess YepMessage: Posted by heinzkat | nikto.net 4/12/2008 03:24:13 Play online chess Does anyone else have a...Message: Posted by ogedei | nikto.net 4/12/2008 11:46:01 Play online chess Message: Posted by chessnovice | nikto.net 4/12/2008 13:07:02 Play online chess ...Message: The only kind of tattoo I've considered getting is something along the lines that Tyler Florence (from Food Network) got. He says his favorite is this tattooed script that he got from a Buddhist monk. It sounds cool. But then I figured that the ink probably has some kind of metal in it. If I ever have to undergo an MRI, I'd rather it be as painless as possible. Posted by kansaspatzer | nikto.net 4/12/2008 15:26:54 Play online chess Message: j/k. I like Gameknot, but not THAT much. Posted by wschmidt | nikto.net 4/13/2008 16:42:17 Play online chess My stepson is a tattoo artist Message: * That was a few days ago. He came home from work yesterday and said someone had come in and asked for a large pawn on his back. Interesting timing and interesting choice of images. * And actually, this thread has got me thinking..... |