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| Posted by roland_l play-online-chess.com 4/28/2005 18:35:45 Play online chess |  Subject: Starting Real Life Chess Club help Message: I've decided to start a chess club here in Mongolia. Most folks here can't afford any sort of FIDE membership or anything like that, so I'd like to offer a 'club rating' (unofficial of course, but I'm sure people will like it), organize some Swiss-style tournies, and give out some training articles and such. I'd like to find some kind of software, or websites, that would help me with the Swiss Tournies, and especially something that would help me calculate club ratings for all involved. Any info/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Roland | ||||
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| Posted by bucklehead play-online-chess.com 5/04/2005 07:28:30 Play online chess | You mentioned in another thread... Message: ——— World Junior Championships still strong despite absence of British names — The World Junior Chess Championship has had some illustrious winners. Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Vishy Anand all captured the Under-20 contest en route to the supreme title. Nowadays some top teenage GMs bypass it, but it remains a strong chess event. England's only world junior gold medallist was the late Tony Miles in 1974. Nigel Short was second to Kasparov in 1980. The latest World Junior ended this week in Chennai, India, where UK chess players were absent due to the clash with the British Chess Championship at Sheffield. The World Junior's venue was no accident. Chennai is the home city of Anand and Indian officials, concerned at the steady rise of China, are becoming more ... Posted by chuckventimiglia | play-online-chess.com 5/04/2005 07:59:34 Play online chess Roland hello!!! Message: you can write them and they will gladly help you in your endevor. About Swiss style tourneys. You can buy software that will set up swiss style tourneys for you. You pt in the names and the program does the rest. The USCF can be of help if you seriously want to start what you are speaking of. ——— The lessons of history, in chess — The King’s Gambit is an aggressive chess opening for white that was popularized in the 1600’s by the Italians. The opening is still popular today. It begins with white advancing its e2 pawn to e4, black responding with pawn to e5, followed by white playing f2 to f4 and offering the pawn. Alessandro Salvio was Italian and the best chess player at about the same time Shakespeare was writing “Hamlet and King Lear.” Salvio, like Shakespeare, wrote poetry and also authored several books on chess and created the Salvio Gambit line in the King’s Gambit. This week’s position is from Salvio’s line and contribution to the King’s Gambit. The opening moves preceding this week’s position are ... Posted by roland_l | play-online-chess.com 5/04/2005 21:15:54 Play online chess Chuck and BuckleMessage: I'm working already at getting in touch with the Mongolian Chess Fed folks. Every single name on their list is out of date, but I've been able to find one of the replacements. Meeting with him today. ——— Carlsen’s too good even when he’s bad — Magnus Carlsen’s performance in the recent Biel Accentus grandmaster tournament in Biel, Switzerland, confirmed his increasingly taken-for-granted supremacy. Viswanathan Anand is still the official world chess champion, but Carlsen continues to be ranked No. 1, according to the statistical rating system used by the World Chess Federation. Carlsen’s winning score of five victories, four draws and a loss sufficed against a field that was weaker than usual, although veteran grandmasters Alexander Morozevich (second place) and Alexei Shirov (fourth) are still dangerous world-class chess players. On his blog, Carlsen admitted that his play was a bit below par. “I made too many ... |