Better yet, since they are computer files stored on my laptop (and other places) I can simply cut and paste what I want into whatever I write. This is simple and and even necessary should the Internet goes down in my area. Attached here is an PDF copy of an Excel file that I use ...
Many years later my niece took up the game in a relatively serious way. She started to play tournaments and I decided that I’d take up chess again so as to give her an opponent. There are a number of places to play chess on the internet. I currently playslow chessatGameknotandfast ...
Hungarian chess tournaments June - November 2003 1. 20-30th of June, BALATON , GM-IM-FM Open, Balatonlelle /130 km West from Budapest/, organizer: IM Rigo, e-mail: me-ri@matavnet.hu 2. 5th-18th of July, FS Budapest, 3. 19th-27th of July, Szombathely Summer Open, organizer: FM...
At chess tournaments, a skittles room is where one goes to play for fun while waiting for the next formal game. Smothered mate A checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move owing to it being surrounded (or smothered) by its own pieces. This could occur, ...
now spread throughout the chess world by grandmaster stressed : " I go to play somewhere abroad , and I'm doing and do in many places, my acquaintance , including those of decades , players no longer tell me "Hi " and start talking with Borislav Ivanov and scheming his way of playing...
Donotask for general help with the site on the discussion areas to games, players, tournaments, etc. For example, the post"Can somebody tell me how to post links to games in the database?"would best belong on theChessgames.com Chessforumor theKibitzer's Café. ...
Chief arbiter Chris Bird places the machine around Niemann and slowly scans him from top to bottom. Bird nods and asks Niemann to enter the tournament hall, where the club also uses a radio frequency machine, which detects infrared radiations -- signals to and from the players. ...
were played in apartments of of the players, mostly at home of the most active organizer V. Nenarokov, who became the tournament winner with 11/13. 2nd - 3rd place with 9 points was shared by Zubarev and Elyashiv. The next 3 places were taken by J. Cukierman, N. Grigoriev and me....
They were to be joined by the unsuccessful invitees to the 1948 Championship, but only Vasily Smyslov and Paul Keres took their places.<nescio> Smyslov: "3d place in the <Budapest 1950 Candidates Tournament> gave me the automatic right to a place in the next Candidates Tournament." <125 Ga...
Such explanations may seem convincing to the chess public, but not to experts. Does Alekhine’s failure to win one of the first places in two tournaments imply that he played weaker than the other leading entrants? It would be just as wrong a claim as to declare, after Alekhine’s triumph...