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- Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:22 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: When to Resign
- Replies: 28
- Views: 46462
Hello Neric, Looking at the games I can only say that stardom does not show any indication that he will time out in your games, nor that he will play on in an obvious losing game. This is also obvious looking at stardom's history of games, where he resigned most of the his losing games. Have some p...
- Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:20 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: For gmiller
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11346
Excellent Idea!
I religeously use aggressive premove (premove that allows you to set up a string of advance moves) in my real-time fast games on PlayChess, but never thought about the possibility of having it in email chess. The way premove works in real-time chess is that your premove will execute regardless of wh...
- Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:10 pm
- Forum: Chess News
- Topic: Fischer summary.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 25514
Re: Fischer summary.
I put this together to quiet a lot of the Fischer politics talk on our local club's website. There's not much chatter here about it, but it should be useful as an overview as to what's going on. (This information was just gleamed from reading articles. I am by no means an authority on the matter.) ...
- Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:32 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: When to Resign
- Replies: 28
- Views: 46462
Re: When to Resign
:?: I'm down a knight in an email game at IECC. Should I resign? Technically, if we're equal players, and my opponent doesn't make any mistakes he should win, right? What's the consensus out there about when one should resign? Down a knight? Down a rook? A queen? Is it positional? Positional can ge...
- Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:19 am
- Forum: Chess News
- Topic: chess in cinema
- Replies: 4
- Views: 23980
Re: chess in cinema
This week ChessBase news has directed its readers to two short chess films at Atom films. Both use chess as a vehicle for exploring male/female relationships. Both of those short movies were unbelievably bad. Very weak plots, predictable, horribly over-acted productions with no *suspension of disbe...
- Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:02 am
- Forum: Chess News
- Topic: The latest news on Fischer is available here:
- Replies: 2
- Views: 17523
The latest news on Fischer is available here:
August 14, 2004 Bobby moved from airport, documents at Germany embassy Bobby Fischer has been moved out of Narita airport (east of Tokyo) to a facility north of Tokyo, in a step that makes it more difficult for him to be sent to the United States. The Committee to Free Bobby Fischer had demanded th...
- Sun Aug 15, 2004 10:08 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Excellent Chess Discussion Group!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6125