The chess games of The World

The World

The World
Number of games in database: 23
Years covered: 1996 to 2012
Overall record: +7 -7 =9 (50.0%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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THE WORLD

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Chess games allowing for consultation are almost as old as chess itself, but only with modern technology can participants from around the globe be unified to make a group-effort of a truly large scale. In 1996, Anatoly Karpov took on the challenge of playing "the World"--i.e., a group of internet participants which included a spectrum of abilities ranging from beginner to grandmaster. Karpov won the game in only 33 moves. "The World" has taken on a number of notable players, and it has always been a good learning exercise for those who choose to participate.

The results for "the World" had been poor until January 11th, 2007, when the internet scored its first major victory: over 2500 members of Chessgames collaborated to defeat correspondence grandmaster Arno Nickel. Then, on July 7th 2007, Yury Shulman resigned his game against the Chessgames members.

On August 11, 2008, after 62 moves and over a year of play, the World (via Chessgames) defeated the 15th world correspondence champion, Gert Jan Timmerman.

An article about the World Team written by User: hms123 in consultation with Team members appeared in the August 2011 issue of <Chess Life> (starting at page 32): http://content.yudu.com/A1t744/Ches...

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. The World vs Karpov	0-1	32	1996	01, Internet Match, FIN	B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
2. Kasparov vs The World	1-0	62	1999	Kasparov vs the World	B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
3. The World vs Hao Yin	½-½	44	2000	The World vs. Yin Hao	C43 Petrov, Modern Attack
4. Hao Yin vs The World	0-1	28	2001	Internet Match	A30 English, Symmetrical
5. Kouatly vs The World	1-0	32	2001	Kouatly vs. The World	E76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack
6. DeFirmian vs The World	0-1	52	2002	De Firmian-The World	B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen
7. Carlsen vs The World	½-½	31	2002	Carlsen-The Net	C78 Ruy Lopez
8. J Knudsen vs The World	0-1	21	2003	Knudsen- The World	E59 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line
9. The World vs Kosteniuk	0-1	33	2004	?	B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
10. The World vs S Iuldachev	½-½	30	2004	corr TV game	C89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall
11. The World vs A Nickel	1-0	41	2006	Chessgames Challenge	B42 Sicilian, Kan
12. The World vs G Timmerman	1-0	62	2007	Chessgames Challenge	A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6
13. Y Shulman vs The World	0-1	47	2007	Chessgames Challenge	E15 Queen's Indian
14. N Davies vs The World	½-½	48	2008	Vote Chess Match	A20 English
15. A Nickel vs The World	½-½	42	2008	Chessgames Challenge	B67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7
16. N Pogonina vs The World	1-0	55	2009	Pogonina vs. World	B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
17. M Umansky vs The World	½-½	36	2009	Chessgames Challenge	D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
18. Carlsen vs The World	1-0	44	2010	RAW Chess Challenge	E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto
19. The World vs N Pogonina	½-½	62	2010	Chessgames Challenge	E10 Queen's Pawn Game
20. Akobian vs The World	½-½	33	2011	Chessgames Challenge	E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
21. Anand vs The World	½-½	22	2012	Anand vs The World	D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
22. The World vs Akobian	1-0	35	2012	Chessgames Challenge	B12 Caro-Kann Defense
23. Carlsen vs The World	1-0	38	2012	UNAM Carlsen-Mundo	B90 Sicilian, Najdorf


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May-19-11		ragtag: <Seek not to change The World, but choose to change your mind about The World. < What you see reflects your thin. And your thin but reflects your choice of what you want to see. > >

May-19-11		tamar: indness, uietude, ring o egrets, eace

May-19-11		Eric Schiller: There is a match going on now between the shuttle astronauts and The World at http://www.uschess.org/content/blog.... Rare line in Slav.

May-20-11		OhioChessFan: If things don't work out tomorrow, it's been nice knowing everyone.

May-20-11		HeMateMe: Then....the Gel/Gris match is a draw? People are right, there ARE too many draws...

Aug-13-11		hms123: Here's the link to the Chess Life article (August, 2011, pages 32-35) on the World Team: http://content.yudu.com/A1t744/Ches...

Aug-18-11		whiteshark: All the World's a stage we pass through.

Sep-11-11		whiteshark: Just remember, if The World didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

Sep-22-11		whiteshark: All The World 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Oct-17-11		whiteshark: Occupy The World!

Oct-20-11		OhioChessFan: It's been good, but apparently tomorrow is the end of The World http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/... <"The end is going to come very, very quietly probably within the next month...by October 21st," said Camping in a radio address delivered earlier this month. ">

Oct-20-11		BobCrisp: <New World in the Morning> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE0C...

Dec-14-11		whiteshark: The World can do better. < The future of social networking is waiting to be invented. <!!!>> http://ifindkarma.posterous.com/soc...

Dec-18-11		Dredge Rivers: Hey, at least it's still a planet. Unlike Pluto! :)

Dec-22-11		whiteshark: Today The World, and 2morrow the <Solar Systemsson>.

Jan-05-12		Fusilli: <OCF> <It's been good, but apparently tomorrow is the end of The World> Has this been rescheduled again? I'd like to be prepared to have nothing to do afterward!

Jan-17-12		whiteshark: The problem (of not winning for the last four games) can be simplified as such: The World is living a lie. A lie of infinite resources, a lie of fiat strength.

Jan-30-12		whiteshark: "I've never been as scared as now about The World. We do not know how deep this hole will be when the whole thing implodes on us." Donald Tsang - cheif executive of Hong Kong

Feb-01-12		whiteshark: Quote of the Day "Man has within a single generation found himself sharing The World with a <strange new species: the Computer s and Computer -like machines.> Neither history, nor philosophy, nor common sense will tell us how these machines will affect us, for they do not do "work" as did machines of the Industrial Revolution. " -- Marvin Minsky - - - - - - - - Wiki-Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin... "In November 2006, Minsky published <The Emotion Machine>, a book that critiques many popular theories of how human minds work and suggests alternative theories, often replacing simple ideas with more complex ones. Recent drafts of the book are freely available from his webpage." --> http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/

Feb-15-12		whiteshark: < Quote of the Day < I think that an opponent who relies only on the choice of a computer, and does not start from his own "natural" resources, will very quickly reach his chess-heights with no room for improvement. >> ~ Gert Jan Timmerman Right!!

Mar-18-12		whiteshark: To Shape The World is to be Immortal!

May-16-12		whiteshark: There are two different kinds of people in The World: those who finish what they start, and

Aug-05-12		e4 resigns: The World Vs NN <There are two different kinds of people in The World: those who finish what they start, and> 1+

Aug-12-12		whiteshark: Beer, a reflection of The World economy!? http://www.testosteronepit.com/home...

Nov-04-12		Xeroxx: What in the world are they spraying.

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