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| Posted by greyrabbit play-online-chess.com 5/01/2005 02:36:08 Play online chess |  Subject: To every story...Message: Cheers Charlie | ||||
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| Posted by greyrabbit play-online-chess.com 5/01/2005 06:15:29 Play online chess | Hmmm.... Message: Cheers Charlie ——— A Math Study Provides Hints About the Gender Gap in Chess — The findings of a new study about mathematics may explain why there are so few women among the chess elite. It concluded that cultural factors, not biological ones, are the reasons why boys outperform girls in math. The study, by Jonathan M. Kane and Janet E. Mertz, both professors in the University of Wisconsin system, was published in the January issue of the journal Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Kane and Mertz wanted to see if they could identify why there are performance gaps between men and women in mathematics. They examined student assessment scores from 86 countries and found that although boys always outperformed girls, the gap was narrower in some countries. That suggested that ... Posted by i_play_slowly | play-online-chess.com 5/01/2005 07:45:39 Play online chess Chess Related TopicMessage: * Many a tactic is successful in the opening, simply because the opponent is lulled into a false sense of security this early in the game. Traps are possible, as are pawn forks, fork tricks, etc. * I would recommend buying a good chess dictionary, like "The Oxford Companion to Chess". ——— On Chess: Nakamura's style backfires at times — Hikaru Nakamura is the whirling dervish of the chessboard — whose pieces seem to assail his opponents from all directions. Playing for fun is his credo. Victories against top chess players are frequent for him — including a recent one against reigning world chess champion Viswanathan Anand. Nakamura’s fondness for double-edged moves has prompted Garry Kasparov, his recent mentor, to urge him to play more solidly. But taming Nakamura is “like tethering a wild stallion,” according to columnists Harold Dondis and Patrick Wolff of The Boston Globe. In a recent chess tournament in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Nakamura jumped off to an early lead. With three rounds to go, he was two points ahead of a field that included ... Posted by indiana-jay | play-online-chess.com 5/01/2005 08:59:31 Play online chess Message: documented in someone else's database. Midgame is when anyone start to divert or make his own variation and the other party start to find the refutation. Endgame starts when anyone of the players knows what the (theoritical) end result gonna be, a win a lose or a draw. So if you play with mateintwo, you reach the endgame right from the start :)) ——— Matthew Sadler continuing his impressive comeback at Wijk aan Zee — Matthew Sadler is the only UK chess grandmaster competing at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee, which passes halfway this weekend and attracts more than 7,000 viewers daily to its live games on the internet. The 37-year-old, originally from Kent but now a Dutch resident, is top seed in the C group, where he currently stands on 3/5 after a slow start. Sadler was ranked in the world top 30 and had the current world chess champion, Vishy Anand, close to defeat at Tilburg in 1998 just before he suddenly abandoned chess for an IT career. His impressive 2011 comeback when he won first prizes at Barcelona and Oslo occurred during his normal work holidays. In an interview for ChessVibes just before Wijk, Sadler explained that ... |