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| Jul-14-11 | | TheFocus: <oh,and DIMDANIEL,its no good insulting me when you think iv already gone...i could return,and <cosmofrantically impltst your imotutalites when frasmothally disinhimterinisting> Would it be worth it to ask for a translation of that last part, or should I just forget about it? |
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| Jul-14-11 | | Thanh Phan: <OhioChessFan: ..misanthrope routine.> Would it not be misanthropic routine? |
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Jul-14-11
 | | OhioChessFan: I almost used misanthrophic but decided to go with the colloquial noun usage. |
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| Jul-14-11 | | Thanh Phan: These multiple noun lines would make me fear to learn English. lol
~Many thanks |
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Jul-14-11
| | OhioChessFan: <Who are these people that don't? I want names and e-mail addresses. It's that <WannaBe> character, right? He put you up to this, right? Wasscally wabbit!> He didn't put me up to it. He begged me not to out him. I think you should exact vengeance. |
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Jul-14-11
 | | Domdaniel: Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord. Those of you without titles should probably refrain. Why does this 'benbook' character have to drag innocent books into it, when he's clearly never read one? Must be running out of socks. It's time Mark went bye-bye, permanently. |
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Jul-15-11
 | | WannaBe: I banter with a lot of people, (Okay, maybe it's just <technical draw>, <OhioChessFan>, and just about every one on this site, (especially if you hang out at the Odd Lie page, or like baseball... Oh, that would include <Phony Benoni> and <jim bartles>.) But I can put up with it, and dish it out (all in humour, and on top of that, <Good Humour>!!) Hey, look, if you don't like a certain topic/page/tournament or whatever, don't visit that page. I don't walk into bars that have bikers wearing leathers, tatoos, chains, and hand-cuffs... I know better. If things here really, really, really, really bothers you that <MUCH>, maybe you should/could/would consider picking up Sudoku. |
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Jul-15-11
| | OhioChessFan: http://th443.photobucket.com/albums... |
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| Jul-15-11 | | WinKing: I don't know if this helps chessgames but here is something on the World Chess Team Championship (2011): http://www.fide.com/images/stories/... Hopefully the information you seek is here. The player list is not here but all the rules seem to be. Your right an official site is hard to locate but if FIDE is sponsoring it maybe this is it. |
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Jul-15-11
 | | kingscrusher: Hi Chessgames.com
On BBC news today, the Queen gives tribute to those that worked on Bletchley park Enigma code breakers which potentially saved many thousands of lives by shortening World War II. Many of these code breakers were chess players. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14164529
In particular Hugh Alexander should perhaps be given a special tribute for his contributions. This article is very interesting: http://www.englishchess.org.uk/?p=3...
It indicates:
"After the war Alexander was recruited into GCHQ, and that basically killed off his chess ambitions. In a radio-match he beat the Russian champion Mikhail Botvinnik (who was regarded as the strongest player in the post-war world, and two years later becoming World Chess Champion). Unfortunately Alexander’s commitments to the British intelligence community mean that playing international tournaments in the Soviet Block was far too risky to national security. So the British chess community were deprived of a potential World Championship candidate and potential grandmaster" Perhaps a game of the day can be set out for Hugh Alexander soon. Best wishes
K |
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| Jul-15-11 | | Tomlinsky: Especially worthy of mention, with regard to KC's request, would be one of the leading codebreakers Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart... |
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Jul-15-11
| | kingscrusher: I have posted to a thread about it on Chessworld which has some relevant information: http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub... I know Cuppablanca personally and I don't think he will mind my quoting him: "During WW2 the British set up at Bletchley Park a major organisation whose purpose was to try to crack the sophisticated German codes (i.e. those using the 'Enigma' machine). A number of notable academics and mind-gamers were employed, including chess players, mathematicians and crossword-puzzle solvers. They succeeded in their task, and it has been seriously suggested that this single breakthrough shortened the war in Europe by 2 years. The Germans never believed that such a thing was possible. Among the chess-players based at Bletchley park were C.H.O'D (Hugh) Alexander (a British Champion) Stuart Milner-Barry (who gave his name to more than one 'gambit' variation) Harry Golombek (distinguished chess-player and author), N A Perkins, and James McRae Aitken (10 times Scottish Champion). Other people at Bletchley Park included the mathematician Alan Turing (whose theories led to the development of artificial intelligence and computers), politician Roy Jenkins (subsequently a leader of the Labour and Social Democratic parties) and Professor Donald Michie (who later brought chessplayers Danny Kopec and Ivan Bratko to Edinburgh University to research AI techniques using chess)." |
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| Jul-15-11 | | twinlark: On another note, is there any chance of posting the 2011 Australian Championship games in the database? The PGNs for the tourney are here http://ratings.fide.com/view_games..... |
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Jul-15-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Is this where I cast my vote for winner of the <Nobel Peace Prize>? I vote for this man:
User: once |
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Jul-16-11
 | | chessgames.com: <kingscrusher: On BBC news today, the Queen gives tribute to those that worked on Bletchley park Enigma code breakers which potentially saved many thousands of lives by shortening World War II. Many of these code breakers were chess players. ... In particular Hugh Alexander should perhaps be given a special tribute for his contributions.> That's really great, and we couldn't agree more.
And we must not forget the father of all codebreakers, Alan Turing, who is a sort of person hero of Daniel's. |
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Jul-16-11
| | chessgames.com: <twinlark> Here you go: Australian Open (2011). |
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| Jul-16-11 | | cro777: Remarks from the ICCF Ratings Commissioner:
"With excellent results (201 evaluated games without a single defeat; four GM norms within two years) the Ukrainean grandmaster Nikolai Papenin climbed on the top of the ICCF ratinglist. He is the youngest player we ever had in this position and he will surely defend it for some time. Heartfelt congratulations !" |
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Jul-16-11
| | chessgames.com: cro777, that is remarkable. Thanks. |
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| Jul-16-11 | | Blunderdome: There's a women's tournament in Hangzhou going on right now, featuring Hou Yifan and other top women's players. I don't speak Chinese, though, so I'm having trouble finding the PGNS / anything else that would help you get the games on here. Susan Polgar and chess.com have both mentioned the event, but I didn't find any game scores. Just wanted to put it on your radar, since you guys are surely more resourceful than I am when it comes to locating this stuff. |
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| Jul-16-11 | | Thanh Phan: <Blunderdome>Re:Hangzhou Women's Tournament 2011, Maybe here: http://chess.sport.org.cn/ And games: http://webchess.3322.net/dgt/tfd.htm |
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| Jul-17-11 | | twinlark: Thanks <ceegee>. |
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Jul-17-11
| | Domdaniel: <CG> You seem to be missing one of Gawain Jones's games from the South Africa/ Commonwealth tourney, and thus have him in 3rd place. According to a report by Jon Speelman, he won on tiebreak from Nigel Short. |
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| Jul-17-11 | | positionalgenius: <CG> Since you have created articles for all the WCC matches and events, when will this extend to all major tournaments? Such as the famous 1962 candidates or Linares 1994? Is this in the works, so to say? |
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| Jul-17-11 | | I play the Fred: I have asked for this myself, <positionalgenius>, and I think they once said that they are coming around to that. I'm looking forward to that. |
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| Jul-18-11 | | bartonlaos: This should be of public interest. A beautifully-designed and interesting resource for Chess biographers, historians, and enthusiasts is available by <CG>'s Bill Wall, for free - "White Knight Review": Bobby Fischer Biography Part 1., History of Blindfold
http://issuu.com/visualdesigngraphi... Bobby Fischer Biography Part 2., Bent Larsen Biography
http://issuu.com/visualdesigngraphi... Larry Evans Biography, History of Automatons
http://issuu.com/visualdesigngraphi... Marcel Duchamp Biography, Chess in the Middle Ages
http://issuu.com/visualdesigngraphi... Famous Artists&Chess1, History of Chess Stamps
http://issuu.com/visualdesigngraphi... Reuben Fine Bio, Nicknames, Artists2, Spies/Codebreakers
http://issuu.com/visualdesigngraphi... Free subscription available at http://offthewallchess.com |
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