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| From | Message | Posted by odonata
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5/19/2004
03:27:20
Play online chess |  Subject: Flying Zebra's page #2
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Dear Flying Zebra members, suggestions for our team (strategy, mini-tounaments,team size, etc.) are always welcome!
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Since a while we have a bitter rivalry with team "Pawn Stars" (Captain Xena). Feel free to challenge their team members in order to sink their rating. All dirty tricks on the board allowed (including our secret weapon called: 'time-out':))
| Posted by abegtrup
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5/27/2004
15:07:02
Play online chess | Where's the beef?
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There's not much on this page of yours... did all your herd fly home? =)
PAWN STARS RULE - ZEBRAS DROOL!!!
hee, hee, hee.... =)
| Posted by pawncrusader
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5/27/2004
17:53:24
Play online chess | Get lost!
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...and why should we care for some insignificant pony dressed in their ridiculous stripy pyjamas pretending to know how to fly?
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Great intuitive sacrifice — The exchange sacrifice -- trading a rook for a knight or a bishop -- is a magnificent tool in today's chess. It seldom wins outright. It is played for positional gain and calculation is often not required. Former world chess champion Tigran Petrosian loved it because he used it to get squares from which he could suffocate his opponent. The sacrifice is best suited for the black pieces in the Sicilian defense where the semi-open c-file tempts the black rook to eliminate the white horse on c3 before it can gallop off and do some damage. White is left with an unpleasant, immobile double-pawn and with holes into which black pieces can easily slide. Sometimes it destroys ...
Posted by xena
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5/28/2004
03:36:01
Play online chess | Find Your Zebra's ...Quick!
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Hey Eternal Rival, just as well you've got us to contribute to your page ...it's a pretty dismal affair without us isn't it ? Don't worry though because the Full Scale Confrontation is just days away. You had better round up your Zebra's before then...that's if you can find them. Captain xena
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Chess notes — The month of December has produced considerable drama and new champions for chess archives. First, the 128-player World Chess Cup field was, after knockout play, finally reduced to Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine and Boris Gelfand of Israel (formerly of Belarus), both of whom had survived six rounds. The subsequent struggle between Gelfand and Ponomariov was a real nail-biter. They drew their first four games at normal time controls. The rapids also produced a tied score. Play then moved on to Blitz, a full game in five minutes for each player. Here, both competitors played queen side openings, but Gelfand excelled, winning the first game by trapping Ponomariov’s queen, resigning ...
Posted by rogueknight
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6/17/2004
16:37:49
Play online chess | lowly zebras
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the time is shortly upon thee curs when you all will scatter to the four winds with your tails between your legs!!!! forewarned thou art!
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Victory Caps Breakout Year for a Player From Brooklyn — In most chess games between top players, victory is usually determined by a few minor errors by one of them. Blowouts are rare. That was not the case at the 93rd Marshall Chess Club Championship, which ended last weekend. The chess club, on West 10th Street in Manhattan, is one of the oldest and, based on its membership, strongest in the country. The club is named after Frank J. Marshall, the United States champion from 1909 to 1936. Marshall was a swashbuckling player, and he would have appreciated many of the games at this year’s tournament. The field included eight grandmasters and three international masters. The runaway winner was Alex Lenderman ...
Posted by gru88y
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8/06/2004
05:22:45
Play online chess | free flights from Atwerp
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it's all very quiet on this forum, can't this team type?
it's almost as quiet as the odonata Vs Abegtrup The Great games.
mmm nice new photo, who said Belgians have no dress sense.
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Jon Ludvig Hammer follows in Magnus Carlsen's footsteps as Norway gains in power — A world-class chess talent can often spark others in his or her country to raise their sights. This happened in England in the 1970s, and now Norway, formerly a chess backwater, is experiencing a boom due to Magnus Carlsen's exploits. The Norwegian government has just announced that it will give $12m (£7.5m) backing to the Arctic town Tromso to stage the 2014 world team Olympiad. Carlsen's first prize in the London Classic was matched in the open chess event by his countryman, Jon Ludvig Hammer, also a 19-year-old, who led all the way from a strong field. And England's No 2 woman Jovanka Houska, whose tied second was a career-best result, now lives in Norway. The game ...
Posted by abegtrup
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8/21/2004
22:32:40
Play online chess | free flights to eternal damnation (Antwerp)
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dress sense - maybe... but when I told him that dance was the hidden language of the soul,
I'm pretty sure he told me he couldn't dance.
Makes you wonder when you stop to think about it - dosen't it?!
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Magnus Carlsen: The 19-Year-Old King of Chess — At age 13, he was the third youngest chess grandmaster in history. A few years later, he was already beating the world’s top chess players. And on Jan. 1, 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen of Norway will officially become the youngest person in history to earn chess's No. 1 ranking. TIME caught up with the grandmaster at a tournament in London to probe the mind of a chess genius. When people find out that you are the top-ranked chess player in the world, do you have to deal with them assuming you are 40,000 times more intelligent than them? Yeah, that can be a little annoying. I try to tell people that I am like them. I am not some sort of freak. I might be ...
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