Feb-12-11
 | | HeMateMe: An attractive woman, placed third at the world championship of problem solving. Nunn, of course, was first. I'm always surprised these people (aside from Nunn) aren't more prominent as chess players. |
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| Apr-18-11 | | BLarsen1967: Impressive performance by Alina in the Thailand Open,6 out of 9
http://chess-results.com/tnr48109.a... |
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| May-25-11 | | Caissanist: Somebody convinced a beer company in Angola to sponsor two chess tournaments, one for men and one for women, with surprisingly good prizes for such a poor country. L'Ami was the only woman rated higher than 1916 who showed up, so she's going to get $3,000 for taking a week to defeat nine women that she could probably have beaten in a simul. Nice work if you can get it. |
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| May-25-11 | | bartonlaos: She frequently tweets:
http://twitter.com/#!/alinalami |
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Feb-20-12
 | | Penguincw: < "Why go to the North Pole if it will come here to us." > ---Alina L'Ami
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Jan-12-13 | | waustad: It is interesting that she has no picture, since she does photography for a living. Her pics are all over chessbase. |
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| Jan-12-13 | | waustad: She even has her own website: http://www.alinalami.com/?m=1 |
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| May-01-14 | | waustad: She's leading now at the Heroes Day Festival in Barbados. I expect a chessbase aticle with lots of pictures soon. http://fideamerica.com/index.php/ba... |
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May-15-14
 | | ketchuplover: I like her enthusiasm :) |
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| Sep-06-14 | | waustad: She just got the IM title at the August board meeting. From her player card: International Master Presidential Board Meeting August 2014 YES. |
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May-02-15
| | Penguincw: Great save by Alina L'Ami at JAPFA in Jakarta (although this game was played on April 16th). Alina L'Ami (2397) - Sean Winshand Cuhendi (2428)
Black to move
click for larger viewIn this position, without thought, black played 29...f2+. However, a better move, (as will be seen) would be 29...Kg7. 30.Rxf2 Bh2+ 31.Kh1 Bg3+ 32.Kg1 Bxf2+ 33.Qxf2 Rxf2 34.Kxf2 
click for larger viewDoing a body count, white is down a full knight for queen. However, this game is a <draw> because the best black can do is give a perpetual check, as white has 3 threats at the same time: 1.Ne7+ (followed by promotion), 1.Nxb6 (followed by promotion) or simply, promotion. Note if the king is on g7, black can play 34...Qc8, threatening to take the pawn should white move the knight. However, here, even if 34...Qd7 is played, then 35.Ne7+, followed by promotion due to deflection (or if the knight is not taken, promotion anyway). The game finished up 34...Qf5+ 35.Ke2 Qc2+ 36.Kf3 Qd1+ 37.Kf2 Qd2+ 38.Kf3 1/2-1/2. 
click for larger viewhttp://en.chessbase.com/post/japfa-... |
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| Dec-23-15 | | PhilFeeley: That game should be in the database here, but it's not. Great save. |
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| Mar-12-16 | | BIDMONFA: Alina L'Ami L'AMI, Alina
http://www.bidmonfa.com/lami_alina....
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| Aug-24-16 | | PhilFeeley: Why is she not playing in the Dutch Championships? |
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| Aug-24-16 | | sonia91: <PhilFeeley: Why is she not playing in the Dutch Championships?> According to her FIDE card, her federation is Romania. |
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| Feb-17-17 | | The Kings Domain: Attractive gal, sure puts a good face to the game. |
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| May-24-17 | | PhilFeeley: Her favourite game (over GM Hernandez Holden of Spain at the Barbera Open 2011) is not here. I'll have to hunt it down. |
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| Jul-03-17 | | PhilFeeley: Found it here:
http://www.2700chess.com/games/l%27... couldn't download it. |
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| Jul-03-17 | | whiteshark: <PhilFeeley> Here you are: [Event "Barbera del Valles op 34th"]
[Site "Barbera del Valles"]
[Date "2011.07.10"]
[Round "7"]
[White "L'Ami, Alina"]
[Black "Hernandez Carmenates, Holden"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "2312"]
[BlackElo "2570"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. Nge2 Ba5 8. a3
Bb6 9. e5 dxe5 10. Bg5 exd4 11. Ne4 Ba5+ 12. Kf1 h6 13. Nxf6+ gxf6 14. Bxh6 Re8
15. b4 f5 16. h4 Bxb4 17. axb4 Nxb4 18. Qd2 c5 19. Rh3 Kh7 20. Ra3 Rg8 21. Bb1
Bd7 22. Rag3 Qa5 23. Nf4 Nc6 24. Qd1 Rxg3 25. Rxg3 Rg8 26. Bg5 1-0 :) |
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| Sep-24-17 | | virginmind: She has defeated Ivan Sokolov at Isle of Man Open.
A L'Ami vs I Sokolov, 2017 |
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| Jul-17-18 | | PhilFeeley: I haven't seen one of her reports lately on Chessbase. I always look forward to them - photos and interesting locales. |
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Kibitzing
