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AuthorTopic: Be part of an extraordinary chess adventure on the (Read 335 times)
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Be part of an extraordinary chess adventure on the
« Result #1 on Sept 26, 2004, 1:52pm »		[Quote]
Young chess students around the world will soon battle for the title of Internet Scholastic Chess Champion. Over $10,000 USD in prizes, trophies, and memberships to WorldChessNetwork.com will be given away to the contestants. The main qualifying rounds take place online at WorldChessNetwork.com between October 20 - November 30, 2004.

Each child (or Junior) who will register to our tourney, will receive a free one year Gold membership on our play site (with full access to everything) + a very nice certificate of participation to the tourney signed by GM Yasser Seirawan (authentic autograph) and our CEO Mr. Patrick Connoy.

After the online elimination rounds, the final 8 (eight) students remaining in each of the two age divisions (5-9 yrs. and 10-16 yrs.) will be invited to compete in an exciting over-the-board finale held at the Mandalay Bay & Casino Resort in Las Vegas. WorldChessNetwork.com will carry a live broadcast of each and every move of all of these final round games ....live from Las Vegas!

Welcome on WCN!

Information on the tourney: www.worldchessnetwork.com [on the left side of the web page]
For more information please contact Mr. John Hoskin: hoskin@worldchessnetwork.com
PS: WCN is also pleased to give to chess club or school, accredited chess teacher, two free entries, one for a young boy and one for a young girl. You can contact WCN anytime on this matter.
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AuthorTopic: Middlegame! (Read 361 times)
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« Result #2 on Feb 4, 2004, 12:46pm »		[Quote]
Right! an example give you the chess engines. Fritz, Crafty, etc. The engines seem so programmed that without any strategy they create a good clean position after the first 12 moves. Open lanes, protected pieces, etc. I heard some people won Fritz! I cannot, I just can win Ruffian 105. That's all.

To train with software in middlegame maybe you can select games at move 12 and play from there onwards against the engine, provided that one has read some middlegame theories in advance.

Andy
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AuthorTopic: Opening Issues (Read 342 times)
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« Result #3 on Feb 4, 2004, 12:35pm »		[Quote]
Well, the best combination is Fritz 8 + the free SCID. The only small disadvantage is that you need disk space for both file formats (cbh and scid), otherwise you need some good money for CB. You can do all your chess works with these two. Both are hard to learn but free SCID has a 24h support service in SCID Forum. If you read some questions/answers you learn a lot.
You can train in Openings with SCID playing against the database! (You must create the database first).

Andy
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AuthorTopic: Best Wishes to THE CHESS BOARD! (Read 192 times)
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Re: Best Wishes to THE CHESS BOARD!
« Result #4 on Feb 4, 2004, 10:11am »		[Quote]
Thanks Andy! ;)

I will be sure to use your forum more when I get into SCID. And you're certainly welcome here!

-Brandon
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AuthorTopic: Books I Own (thus far) (Read 439 times)
Brandon Murray
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Re: Books I Own (thus far)
« Result #5 on Feb 4, 2004, 10:07am »		[Quote]
Overall, I'd say the Kasparov book is good. It has some nice historical info besides just the games.

One thing though, I have trouble going through entire games in algebraic notation. I can follow for maybe 10 moves and then I'm lost. ICC has all the games from the book on file, so one of these days I should start to go through the games that way. Then I can actually follow along and understand the analysis.

I have recorded several of my own games in a notebook, in algebraic notation. Doing that helps a bit, without doing that I might be able to just follow games a few moves into the opening. So it helps, but it must take ALOT of experience to be able to go through games totally in your mind.
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AuthorTopic: Middlegame! (Read 361 times)
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Re: Middlegame!
« Result #6 on Feb 4, 2004, 12:55am »		[Quote]
I'd say a clean position would have to give me an advantage as white, and allow me to equalize as black.
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Re: Opening Issues
« Result #7 on Feb 4, 2004, 12:45am »		[Quote]
I just bought Fritz 8, and I highly recommend using it for opening training.
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Re: Books I Own (thus far)
« Result #8 on Feb 4, 2004, 12:42am »		[Quote]
Hey Brandon, what do think of Kasparov's book? I've been thinking about getting it.
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AuthorTopic: Welcome to The Chess Board! (Read 397 times)
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Re: Welcome to The Chess Board!
« Result #9 on Feb 4, 2004, 12:36am »		[Quote]
Why thank you Brandon, I'd be honored. And I know what you mean about talking to yourself and playing chess! Hey, if you don't mind I'll try to get the word out some. Good luck, Good Chess!
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AuthorTopic: Middlegame! (Read 361 times)
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Middlegame!
« Result #10 on Jan 25, 2004, 5:09am »		[Quote]
Hi!

We shall see a lot here about Middlegame. I am not that expert, but what I can say to starters is try to get in the middlegame with a "clean position". What is a clean position?

See you later here,
Best Regards
Andy
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