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| Jul-19-07 | | Hannibal: it's amazing how a 2500 ELO player missed that combination. On the other hand , if the rook goes to c4, the move Rb4 was very logical. But, I think she's gonna win it anyway |
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| Jul-19-07 | | percyblakeney: Melekhina doesn't resign early... |
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Jul-19-07
 | | tarek1: Ok, Krush finally won, but as Hannibal said she missed the combination.
From the diagram posted above, (Rybka analysis)
40.Rxc5! and now if 40...dxc5
41.Qxe5 Qxh6
42.Bxc5!! (even stronger than Qe8+)
click for larger viewand now, black is an exchnage up, but completely powerless and practically in zugzwang... |
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| Jul-19-07 | | Youjoin: Zatonskih wins |
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| Jul-19-07 | | SniperOnKN2: What is the time limit for FIDE rapids? |
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| Jul-20-07 | | ajile: < ganstaman: <ajile: Having separate tournaments for men and women is stupid. Are women banned from the regular US Championship?>
It's really not so stupid. Women are allowed to compete in the regular US Championship (at least I believe so). The point is that less women play chess in the US (and everywhere else...), so they make these events to promote women chess players. It's the same reason they have senior events, or scholastic events, or the deaf event at the World Series of Poker -- if you want to try to get some group of people more involved in an activity, you give them their own special event. Some see it as insulting, but many don't. There's no pleasing everyone anyway, but it really isn't so bad.> OK then I will be sponsoring a tournament next week for 1 legged janitors since they don't number as much and we need more of them to play. If we want to promote equal rights between the sexes we shouldn't have women's only chess tournaments. It clearly infers that women aren't as smart as men and can't compete on an equal level. I bet if you asked Judit Polgar what she thought of separate tournaments she would shake her head in disgust. |
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Jul-20-07
 | | ganstaman: <ajile: If we want to promote equal rights between the sexes we shouldn't have women's only chess tournaments. It clearly infers that women aren't as smart as men and can't compete on an equal level.> This is not at all 'clearly' inferred. Women can and do compete with men all the time. Look, it's a fact that some women feel weird in most chess tournaments because there are so many males around and nearly no females. Having some women-only tournaments keeps their interest in the game. Many females do disagree with this, but that doesn't mean the females who like it don't exist. Do you think we should get rid of scholastic and senior events too? We don't have them because those players are weaker -- a 1300 rating is a 1300 rating no matter who owns it. The point isn't about promoting equal rights (which already exist...), it's about promoting the game. It's real simple when you think like the head of some chess organization. You look at your membership list and see that some large part of the population is only a small part of your organization. How else do you get them to join then by giving them an event for themselves? |
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| Jul-20-07 | | percyblakeney: <Having some women-only tournaments keeps their interest in the game. Many females do disagree with this, but that doesn't mean the females who like it don't exist> I think all active women players except Judit Polgar compete in the women's world championship and other women only tournaments. |
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| Jul-20-07 | | percyblakeney: It would be a luxury to be against tournaments where you actually have a good chance to win prize money. In Sweden Pia Cramling has been the only woman strong enough to compete with the men, but she has still been participating mainly in women only tournaments all her career. In Azerbaijan the strongest women are 2300 something. Forcing them to only compete against Radjabov, Mamedyarov and so on is maybe not a good idea. It's another thing that most women also compete in general tournaments when given the chance (but then they are sometimes given this opportunity for being women, and creating more interest in the tournament, since higher rated men are available). |
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Jul-20-07
 | | jtd200: Krush just delivered a pretty nice tactical blow... Although, Abrahamyan probably shouldn't have placed her queen in front of a black knight with black bishop lurking behind it... |
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| Jul-20-07 | | wanabe2000: Katerina Rohonyan only needs a win against Melekhina in the last round to claim a share of the Championship. Go Roh! |
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Jul-20-07
| | tarek1: Rohonyan-Melekhina was drawn.
Irina Krush, who won her game against Abrahamyan, is the new Champion. |
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| Jul-20-07 | | percyblakeney: Melekhina was a positive surprise, finishing even with Baginskaite (from the Olympiad team in 2006) in spite of being (just) below 2100. |
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Jul-20-07
| | collodi: Congratulations to Irina!!! Look at that million dollar adorable smile at www.uswcc.2007.com Every chess journalist should bombard the news agencies across the country with the news + that photo!! Isn't that a better role model for young gals than all the other bimbo + celeb models constantly pushed by the media on young women?? Irina has the star power to increase the popularity of the game among young people. It's up to all of us to publicize her as much as we can!! |
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| Jul-20-07 | | Pulse: Is it just me, or does her face look really sunburned? By the way, <collodi>'s link almost works; you just need to get rid of the second dot. The link is actually http://www.uswcc2007.com/ Anyway, congratulations to Irina for a well-deserved win. |
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Jul-20-07
 | | WannaBe: Who is the lovely gal seated, second from left with the black shoulderless dress? |
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| Jul-20-07 | | chessmoron: That's me in drag. |
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| Jul-21-07 | | Jim Bartle: I thought it was Rudolph Giuliani. (Very American joke...) |
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Jul-21-07
 | | alexmagnus: <If we want to promote equal rights between the sexes we shouldn't have women's only chess tournaments. It clearly infers that women aren't as smart as men and can't compete on an equal level> There is NO correlation between intelligence and chess ability. It's like mental calculation vs. solving equaltions - they may bothz be good/bad in one person, but they must not be. |
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| Jul-21-07 | | zanshin: <WannaBe: Who is the lovely gal seated, second from left with the black shoulderless dress?> I'm pretty sure it's Vicary. |
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Jul-21-07
| | WannaBe: <zanshin> Thanks, I'm her newest and number 1 fan! =) |
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Jul-22-07
 | | AgentRgent: Congratulations to Irina! It couldn't happen to a more splendid person. She is a tremendous talent, but an even more tremendous lady. Ever since working with her (even if in a minimal way) on Kasparov vs the World I've been a fan of hers. She treated everyone involved in the analysis with the utmost respect, regardless of their chess strength. Congrats again to this wonderful young lady. Hopefully this will lead to bigger and better things! |
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| Jul-22-07 | | TheBB: <WannaBe: Who is the lovely gal seated, second from left with the black shoulderless dress?> The names under the picture kind of gives it away. |
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| Jul-24-07 | | ajile: <percyblakeney: It would be a luxury to be against tournaments where you actually have a good chance to win prize money. In Sweden Pia Cramling has been the only woman strong enough to compete with the men, but she has still been participating mainly in women only tournaments all her career. In Azerbaijan the strongest women are 2300 something. Forcing them to only compete against Radjabov, Mamedyarov and so on is maybe not a good idea.
It's another thing that most women also compete in general tournaments when given the chance (but then they are sometimes given this opportunity for being women, and creating more interest in the tournament, since higher rated men are available).> So basically you are making a blanket statement of fact that men ARE better at chess than women across the board. Correct me if I'm wrong but it appears that this is what you are saying. |
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| Jul-25-07 | | percyblakeney: <So basically you are making a blanket statement of fact that men ARE better at chess than women across the board. Correct me if I'm wrong but it appears that this is what you are saying> Indeed, why it is like that is another matter, and the difference is smaller now than once upon a time. Still the top 10 among the men average 2750+ while the top 10 among the women average below 2550, so it's still a rather big difference. Apart from Judit Polgar no other woman is really close to the top 100 at the moment, but that will surely change in the future. |
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