Chess Forum / General Topics / October 2004

The Libyan Men's Chess team employed interesting tactic to strive to
garner individual honors for several of their players. This involved
having their highest rated players--Hussien Asabri  (2286), and  FM
Ibrahim Chahrani (2273)--play on the **lowest** boards, so that they

http://www.olimpbase.org/2004/2004ukr.html
Sergey Karjakin is 14 years old and put together a rating performance of
2900+. Incredible. This must be the best performance by anyone that age
ever. Karjakin seems to be the real deal.

Account for domain
www.chessdiscounters.com
has been suspended
So says the homepage of Chess Discounters. Perhaps the posts here had

Does anyone know of a list of norms achieved at the Olympiad?
Thanks
GB

The following interview has pictures too if you don't read German
http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=3707

Preferably in pdf format.
Thanks in advance. Alex.

In my continued effort to resolve my continuing problems with USCF, I
discovered a couple of days ago that my USCF membership is still
invalid after five months of trying to correct the problem. Has anyone
ever received a return call from the phone morons that are supposed to

Sure, he isn't anybody's idea of a "real" world champion. But a performance
of 2799,  +4-0=4, including wins against Shirov and van Wely is an
indication that he, nonetheless, very strong.
http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/asp/turniere.htm?tnr=1881&art=23&snr=30

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ESSID=9218713b4852a7e4f2b3a2e53129e0f6>

Would somebody please translate Kramnik's interview?
http://www.sport-express.ru/art.shtml?94040
There are voices saying that the short English synopsis on ChessBase is
slanted, which is also what I feel, ChessBase has connections to Kasparov.

Kramnik just won the match with Leko and he's already making excuses
to avoid playing Kasparov... is he just too scared?
If Kasparov agrees to the four-way match, I wonder if Kramnik will
come up with a new excuse to avoid playing him...

Ivanchuk and Volokitin with a performance rating of 2800+ play for Ukraine
today, but not Ponomariov, perhaps he did not sleep in his own bed last
night
Russia is playing with their strongest team formation, but Super GM Grischuk

Noticed that the time control in the HB Foundation Tournament is
30/90, SD/1.  I was wondering if they're planning on encouraging
players to use a time delay of, say, five seconds before the player's
"main" time starts to run down.

13 is allegedly Kasparov's lucky number, but I guess, I don't feel lucky for
Ukraine today. Instead of Ivanchuk, a rested (?) Ponomariov played first
board, and he played a non-game of only 10 moves! #%&(^* !!! Can't stand
these short draws !!!  %&**&(# !!!

Today`s top pairings :
Ukraine (32) - Poland (27)
Georgia (26.5) - Russia (29.5)
Armenia (29) - USA (27.5)