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| Jul-23-05 |
| jamesmaskell: This was from the Sunday Express two weeks ago.
"There were more than a few raised eyebrows 2 years ago when 13 year old Kateryna Lahno decided to take part in the European Championships in Turkey.
Although women were allowed to play in the open champs most chose to play in the separate womens championship.
A lot of people underestimated her and the talented Ukrainian notched up several scalps against strong GMs to finish in the middle of the table.
Of course Lahno has improved a lot since then and this year decided to play in the Women's European event. She proceded to share first place with the Russian Nadezhda Kosintseva but won on tie-break.
Meanwhile England's only player, Sovanka Houska also finished highly to score her third and final IM norm, suficient for the title, which should be awarded soon. Jonaka has probably also qualified for the next Women's WCC. She rounded off the finishing minature against Gaponenko from Ukraine with a very pretty tactic." |
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| Jul-23-05 |
| TruthHurts: <csmath>, he is studiing math and philosophy in oxford university, he has not so much time for chess. This can explains his latest bad results, he's not improving since he entered the faculty, even more, maybe getting worst. |
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| Jul-24-05 |
| jamesmaskell: His article today was about the awards for British players. Adams and Short both won. |
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Aug-02-05
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| AdrianP: Luke McShane's Wu-Name is "Jive-talking choirboy."
http://test.recordstore.com/wuname/... |
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| Aug-03-05 |
| Pretzel Logic: It would seem that this Ukrainian woman (Lahno) is going to be challanging Judit Polgar sometime in the not so distant future. |
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Aug-08-05
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| jahhaj: 2703 performance from Luke in the European Team Championship. http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/asp/... |
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| Aug-20-05 |
| Koster: Nice win today against Beliavsky. Persistence pays off. |
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| Aug-20-05 |
| TruthHurts: I would not say nice win at all, Beliavsky just blundered a piece in a drawish position, an incredible blunder even if he was in time pressure ... |
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| Aug-20-05 |
| Koster: Just the position Young Luke was aiming for. No doubt he studied all of Beliavsky's games and spotted a weakness in defending against knights. |
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Aug-22-05
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| iron maiden: McShane also beat Korchnoi in the last round, so he's the clear winner of the tournament with +2 =4 -0. |
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| Aug-22-05 |
| azaris: Looks (Luke's?) like the slump is over, even if he had to do it by beating up old geezers. |
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Aug-22-05
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| iron maiden: Careful now. Every time someone says McShane's slump is over, he starts playing poorly again. |
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| Aug-27-05 |
| Pretzel Logic: Odd style--look at his wins in this recent tournament he just won--makes a ton of knight moves, reminds me a bit of Karpov, although I'm sure'Tolya does it better. |
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| Nov-12-05 |
| Kaspy2: lucky Luke is seeded board #1 in chess Bundesliga 2005 of reigning Champion "Werder Bremen". City of Bremen has the ruling national chess team in Germany. |
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Dec-23-05
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| waddayaplay: McShane is too arrogant to become a top class player. Above all he plays very meek as white, which may work if his opponent blunders but hardly against the top bunch. |
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| Dec-23-05 |
| WMD: <McShane is too arrogant to become a top class player. Above all he plays very meek as white..> Slight disconnect there. Please explain. |
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| Jul-12-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Luke McShane
McSHANE, Luke
http://www.bidmonfa.com/mcshane_luk...
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Jul-12-06
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| Appaz: <waddayaplay <McShane is too arrogant to become a top class player.>> Yeah, you have to be humble like Fischer, Karpov or Kasparov to reach the top. |
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| Sep-30-06 |
| Brown: McShane play and insight is lauded in Rowson's new book Chess for Zebras, in case anyone is interested. |
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| Feb-27-07 |
| PieceArtist: Luke loves to move his knights |
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Dec-08-07
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| acirce: Anyone other than <Mameluk> who noticed that McShane drew Anand with Black in Bundesliga (again! and once again with the Berlin) today? http://www.schachbundesliga.info/
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/inde...
http://www.chessvibes.com/?p=1443 |
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Dec-08-07
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| whiteshark: But of course, <acirce>! [Event "BL 0708 Werder Bremen - OSC Baden Baden"]
[Date "2007.12.08"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Anand,Viswanathan "]
[Black "McShane,Luke James "]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2801"]
[BlackElo "2592"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5
8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. Nc3 h6 10. h3 Bd7 11. b3 Ne7 12. Bb2 c5 13. Rad1 Kc8 14. Rd2
b6 15. Ne2 Ng6 16. Rfd1 Be6 17. Ng3 Kb7 18. Nh5 Rg8 19. Rd8 Rxd8 20. Rxd8 c6
21. g4 Kc7 22. Rd1 Be7 23. Ne1 Nh4 24. Kh2 g5 25. f4 gxf4 26. Nxf4 Bg5 27. Bc1
c4 28. Nxe6+ fxe6 29. Bxg5 hxg5 30. bxc4 Rf8 31. Kg1 Rf4 32. Rd6 Re4 33. Nd3
Rxc4 34. Rxe6 Rxc2 35. Re7+ Kd8 36. Rxa7 Nf3+ 37. Kf1 Nh2+ 38. Ke1 Nf3+ 39. Kf1
Nh2+ 1/2-1/2
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Feb-13-08
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| percyblakeney: McShane's nice win with black against Kasimdzhanov in the Bundesliga a few days ago: [Event "BL 0708 Werder Bremen - Godesberger SK"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.02.10"]
[Round "9.1"]
[White "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Black "McShane, Luke James"]
[WhiteElo "2690"]
[BlackElo "2592"]
[ECO "E95"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5
7. O-O Nbd7 8. Re1 h6 9. Bf1 c6 10. Rb1 Nh7 11. b4 Ng5
12. d5 c5 13. Nxg5 hxg5 14. Nb5 Qe7 15. Be3 b6 16. a3 a6
17. Nc3 f5 18. f3 Bf6 19. bxc5 bxc5 20. Qa4 g4 21. Qc6 Ra7
22. fxg4 Bh4 23. Re2 f4 24. Bf2 Bxf2+ 25. Rxf2 Nf6 26. h3
Rc7 27. Qa4 Bxg4 28. Qxa6 Bc8 29. Qa4 g5 30. Rb8 g4 31. Nb5
Rd7 32. Qc2 Qh7 33. Be2 gxh3 34. Bf3 Kh8 35. Qc3 Qh4
36. Re2 Qg5 37. Rb6 Rh7 38. Nxd6 Bg4 39. Nf5 Rg8 40. Rb3
Bxf3 41. Qxf3 Ng4 42. Qxh3 f3 43. Rxf3 Qc1+ 44. Rf1 Qxc4
45. Qf3 Nh2 46. Qe3 Nxf1 47. Kxf1 Rh1+ 48. Kf2 Rg4 49. g3
Rh2+ 50. Kf3 Qxe2+ 51. Qxe2 Rxe2 52. Kxe2 Rxe4+ 53. Kd3 Ra4
54. d6 Kh7 55. Kc3 Ra7 56. Kc4 Kg6 57. g4 Kf6 58. Kxc5 Ke6
59. Kb4 Ra8 60. a4 Rg8 61. Kb5 Rxg4 62. Ne3 Rg3 63. Nc4 e4
64. a5 e3 65. Nxe3 Rxe3 66. Kc6 Ra3 67. d7 Rc3+ 68. Kb7
Kxd7 69. a6 Rb3+ 70. Ka8 Kc7 71. a7 Kb6 72. Kb8 Rh3 73. a8=N+ Kc6 74. Ka7 Rb3 0-1 |
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Jun-05-08
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| Knight13: May have drawn Anand, but he didn't beat him... |
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Jun-07-08
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| Knight13: But of course I would pay Anand under the table for a draw... Or, actually, pay under the table and HOPE for a draw... |
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