Chess Forum / General Topics / June 2005

... like in the old romantic era of chess played today by Karjakin in Round
12 of the European championship, but old hand Beliavsky equalized
conveniently, the hanky panky in the middle game are amusing. Karjakin
stumbled in the transition to the end game, Beliavsky could use ...

Chess Masterminds July 10th, 2005
There is an historic chess match taking place.
Four Russian Grandmasters vs Four American Grandmasters
It is being broadcast in 30 major US markets on broadcast Television.

  Does anybody know how many Tournaments Kortchnoi has won in his
career? I've read that Karpov hold the record with 120 wins (with all
due respect to John Curdo's 700+ tournament victories). Surely,
Kortchnoi must be approaching this, given that he has been playing on

I am in Chicago now. I am staying at the Exel Inn of Chicago O'Hare,
located at 2881 Touchy Ave., Elk Grove Village IL 60007 847-803-9400
Room 240.
A few days ago, Vince Hart offered to pick me up and take me to the big

For those who might not know, the "j" in Karjakin is a "y" in Cyrilic.
Jokes about car jacking, which I too have enjoyed, are just wrong.  They
should be about car yacking.

does anybody know the book Chernev: "Logical Chess Move by Move" ? I'm
looking for a book, which explains the ideas of the moves. There
shouldn't be several variations with dozens of plies for every move, so
you can't see the main idea.

I have noticed that not many of my fellow African-American brothers and
sisters are ever featured on the cover of Chess Life. I am not sure how many
blacks are members of Chess Life, however, I think that this issue needs to
be addressed.

 Now that Adams is getting spanked , id like to see a lady go up
against HYDRA and that would be Judith Polger ...
 Who would you like to see ?????

Congratulations to Sam Sloan for beating Bill Brock like a rented lesbian
mule. Not even Beatriz La Tortillera could lay down like Brock did.
Sam was all over him, had Brock bent over the rail and then applied the
checkmate like a veteran prison convict raping a young white boy on ...

A Sicilian wherein Hydra surprisingly consented to a Saemish bind with 9 ..
d6
A closed position in Hydra's opening book?
What trick does Hydra have up its sleeves?

Today we will see in action two Ukrainian chess stars figthing with each
other for the European Chess Champion title  :
Round 9 top pairings :
1 Karjakin Sergey vs. Ivanchuk Vassily

 a) on > http://pkchess.bizland.com/chesspress/nov-dec-04/geller.html
     Lev Khariton  writes that in 1965 the editor-in-chief of the
Russian chess-magazine "64" , the then World Champion Tigran Petrosian,
 wrote some very nasty remarks about Geller's readiness to substitute

Event Summary
Event   2005 US JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP  (200506176821)
Location  MASON, OH
Event Date(s)  2005-06-11 thru 2005-06-17