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Jan-10-06
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| percyblakeney: <Laskerfan82> Torkil Nielsen was the Chess Champion of the Faroe Islands and scored the winning goal for the national football team against Austria in a qualification match for the European Championship. Here Tim Krabbé writes about the subject and mentions some other names as well: http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/... |
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Jan-10-06
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| percyblakeney: ...none of them even remotely comparable to Agdestein, though, and Nielsen was "only" 2128 on the last FIDE list. |
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| Apr-27-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Simen Agdestein AGDESTEIN, Simen
http://www.bidmonfa.com/agdestein_s...
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| Jul-09-06 |
| pinto123: Agdestein is my pick for the Norwegian Championship. Football is the flavor of the season! LOL!! |
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| Jul-16-06 |
| pinto123: You beat him last year, you can do it again. Good luck for the playoff, Simen! |
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Jul-27-06
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| aragorn69: <chessgames.com> One of Agdestein's most spectacular wins (and one of his favorite combinations according to http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/... ) is not in this database. I have no idea how to upload it. Maybe you could do us the favor...? Here is the score:
Agdestein - Dolmatov, Tilburg 1993
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Bd3 0-0 6.Nge2 Nc6 7.0-0 Nd7 8.Be3 e5 9.d5 Nd4 10.Rc1 c5 11.dxc6 bxc6 12.b4 f5 13.exf5 gxf5 14.Bxd4 exd4 15.Na4 Qg5 16.f4 Qg6 17.c5 Kh8 18.Ng3 Nf6 19.Qf3 d5 20.Rfe1 Bd7 21.Re7 Rae8 22.Rce1 h5 23.Rxe8 Rxe8 24.Rxe8+ Qxe8 25.Qe2 Qb8 26.Nxh5 Qxb4 27.Nxg7 Kxg7 28.Qe7+ Kg6 29.h4 Qxa4 30.Be2 Qa3 31.h5+ Kh6 32.Qxf6+ Kh7 33.Qe7+ Kh6 34.Qd6+ and Black resigned |
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Jul-27-06
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| aragorn69: In the above game, I find 30.Be2! particularly pretty. One great variation is: 30.-Ng4 31.h5+ Kh6 32.Qf7 (32.Qg5+ Kh7 33.Qg6+, though less spectacular, wins also) Be8! (only move) 33.Qf8+! Kh7 (33.-Kxh5 34.Qf6!! and mate in two) 34.Qxf5+ Kg7 (34.-Kh6 35.Qf8+ followed by Bd3+ mates) 35.Qxg4+ with an easy win. |
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| Oct-20-06 |
| positionalbrilliancy: "Remember Simen Agdestein? Seven times Norwegian national chess champion? Trainer of Magnus Carlsen? Ballroom dancer? In a former life Simen was a national soccer player. Now the chess grandmaster is returning to the football pitch, as part of a team of super nerds. Here is some remarkable video footage."
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...
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| Oct-20-06 |
| cuendillar: It's more than a little ironical that him, of all chess proffesionals, got handpicked when they were looking for a bunch of complete beginners... |
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| Oct-20-06 |
| mack: Yes, I rather think chessbase.com's assumption that the producers didn't know Simen was a footballer is a bit mad. I'm doing a lot of research into the links between chess and football. It's quite well known Ossie Ardilles plays (Ray Keene has mentioned he played a Nimzo-Indian against him once); Andrei Kanchelskis (formerly of Man Utd, Rangers and Everton) is a very decent player, though being Russian he probably had it pounded into him from a very young age; Eric Cantona has mentioned chess more than a few times, and once compared Platini to Kasparov; Rafael Benitez (Liverpool manager) is very strong, according to his biographer; Zlatko Zahovic (who missed in the 2001 Champions League penalty shootout) plays; as does Czech Republic manager, Karel Bruckner. Any more for any more? |
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| Oct-20-06 |
| jamesmaskell: A British Prime Minister was an avid chessplayer (it says on the Downing street website). Chess also featured in the System of a Down video "Lonely Day". |
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| Oct-20-06 |
| cicero1974: <A British Prime Minister was an avid chessplayer> James Callaghan, I think. |
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Oct-20-06
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| percyblakeney: <chess and football> GM Lars Bo Hansen and IM Bela Soos supposedly played football for their respective countries at some level. Torkil Nielsen was not only the chess champion of the Faroe Islands, but also scored the winning goal when they won against Austria in 1990. |
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Oct-20-06
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| Domdaniel: Here's a game actually played in Downing St, between a (future) PM and the chess editor of The Observer. 11 Downing St, c.1920
White: Andrew Bonar Law
Black: Brian Harley
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.d4 exd4 6.Nxd4 Nd6 7.Re1+ Be7 8.Qg4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Nxb5 10.Qxg7 Rf8 11.Bh6 d5 12.Qxf8+ Kd7 13.Qxf7 Kd6 14.Rxe7! 1-0
(if 14...Qxe7 15.Bf8)
Callaghan played chess, as did Disraeli, Gladstone and Churchill - but Bonar Law was easily the strongest chess-playing PM. |
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| Oct-20-06 |
| jamesmaskell: Chess-playing British PMs:
-Charles Wentworth, 1765-66, 1782
-William Petty, 1782-3
-William Pitt the Younger 1783-1801, 1804-6
-Herbert Henry Asquith 1908-16
-Clement Attlee 1945-51
-Sir Winston Churchill played board games, but not specific mention of chess. |
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Oct-20-06
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| Domdaniel: <jamesmaskell> Winston Churchill did play - he wrote a letter home when he was a 12-year-old schoolboy saying "Dear Mamma... do not forget to get the set of chess for me..." Later he reached the semi-final of a tournament played on a ship to India. There's also a story of him playing against fellow politician Asquith and using the battle-cry "Marshal your Baldwins" - apparently this was Churchillian slang for pawns. |
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| Oct-20-06 |
| cicero1974: <chess and football> I believe that David Beckham is approaching GM strength |
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| Oct-20-06 |
| mack: I don't quite know how we've got onto the subject of British PMs, but it's fascinating regardless. If you read Gladstone's diaries, especially the early volumes, there are constant references to chess - he played with his son Stephen a great deal, and read a lot of chess magazines in his first year at Oxford. |
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Oct-21-06
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| Domdaniel: <cicero1974: <chess and football> I believe that David Beckham is approaching GM strength> As are we all. |
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| Oct-27-06 |
| code13: So how did Simen do in the dancing? Did he win the competition, was he eliminated early? |
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| Nov-01-07 |
| TheGladiatres: He was eliminated rather early I'm afraid...
But he put up a strong performance against Grischuk in Blitz in Oslo recently. 2-2 after 4 games and then he sadly lost as black in armageddon. He crushed Peter Heine in their match for third place. |
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| Feb-06-08 |
| The beginner: There is and interwiev with Simen on chessvibes.com He is really a likeable guy. He also talk a lot about Magnus Carlsen http://www.chessvibes.com/videos/in... |
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May-15-08
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| brankat: Certainly a very talented player. Earned a GM title at the age of 18, Norwegian Champion at the age of 15. A good soccer player, too :-)
And, now, doing a great job with Magnus Carlsen!
Happy Birthday GM Agdestein! |
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| May-15-08 |
| Paalsa: Gratulera med dagen Simen! |
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| Apr-30-09 |
| mack: Denis Irwin comes out as a chess player... http://www.red11.org/mufc/irwinfact... |
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