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| Posted by usethepawn play-online-chess.com 5/13/2005 18:31:46 Play online chess |  Subject: Longest winning streakMessage: I know that sorceress_queen has 241 games up in a row but can anyone better that? |
| Posted by usethepawn play-online-chess.com 5/14/2005 02:42:51 Play online chess | New Leader Message: |
| Posted by magna68 play-online-chess.com 5/14/2005 05:50:23 Play online chess | Meaningless Message: Superman123 should have maybe added that this 308 consecutive wins were obtained playing only white against players preferrably not over 1200. What for? Hardly something to mention or to be proud of. |
| Posted by usethepawn play-online-chess.com 5/14/2005 20:39:46 Play online chess | So sorry Message: |
| Posted by honololou play-online-chess.com 5/14/2005 21:37:20 Play online chess | usethepawn… Message: occasions by superman himself. As you can see, it's kind of a hollow stat. sorceress_queen's record is impressive, though. |
| Posted by thumper play-online-chess.com 5/14/2005 22:57:56 Play online chess | Just my opinion....... Message: I'm more interested in who playes the toughest people here. Who has the highest 'average opponent' rating? |
| Posted by invincible1 play-online-chess.com 5/15/2005 02:14:54 Play online chess | thumper, Message: |
Chess news: For Many People, Holidays Are a Time for Playing -- The period around the new year has become one of the busiest times for chess players. Holiday chess tournaments have a long tradition. One of the oldest, the Hastings International Chess Congress in England, has been held every year since 1920-21, with a break during World War II. This year’s tournament began on Dec. 28 and ends Jan. 5. After six rounds, Andrei Istratescu of Romania, Yuri Drozdovskij of Ukraine and Zbynek Hracek of Czech Republic were leading the top section with 5 points, and being chased by a group of eight chess players, including three grandmasters, three international masters and two masters who each had 4.5 points. Hastings is no longer ... All that chess -- Magnus Carlsen, 19, walks into the new decade as the world's top-rated chess player. His January FIDE rating is 2810, five points ahead of Veselin Topalov and 20 points ahead of the world chess champion, Vishy Anand. An incredible accomplishment! In 2004, Carlsen played a brilliant game in Holland. His victory made a great impression and I called him the Mozart of chess. He was 13 at that time and, according to my good friend, the late Washington Post music critic Joseph McLellan, he was too old to be compared to the great music composer. But it was too late. The name stuck. From club players to grandmasters, from recreational enthusiasts to world champions -- a great spectrum of chess players ... A Year With No New Champs but Plenty of Big Winners -- Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia, the women’s titleholder, were able to rest on their laurels in 2009. That was because for the first time in six years there was no world championship match or tournament. That did not mean there were fewer big matches. In some ways there were more than ever. In addition to the traditional elite chess tournaments in Linares, Spain; Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands; and Moscow, upstart events in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Nanjing, China, thrived, and a chess tournament had its debut in London. And Russia played host to the World Chess Cup. Buoyed by victories in Nanjing and London, Magnus Carlsen, ... | |