It’s Saturday Open Forum! What would you like to discuss? Kramnik – Leko? Magnus Carlsen? Ivan Cheparinov? Fritz vs. Junior? Irina Krush? Anand and his preference of WC tournament format? The USCF election?
The forum is yours!
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Could you comment on how strong players think during a game? I don’t mean calculations – much has been written about how some strong players go through each variation but how do they start assessing a position. I work in medicine and many clinicians use a systematic way of assessing a patient. For example, they use the SOAP system: S – subjective: “Why are you here to see the doctor today? – I slipped and hurt my leg” O – objective: Patient reports left ankle pain. Exam shows a hematoma over the left ankle, lateral foot and tenderness over tibia. A – assessment – patient has sustained trauma to left lower leg. P – plan: Will order imaging to check for a break, order pain and anti-inflammatory medication and support for the leg.
Do players use a systematic approach like this or do they just get a “feel” for the position?
Thanks for running the forum!
I have a suggestion – You should consider making any links on your blog page open a new window instead of taking people away from your site. Most other sites do this. I like to keep a tab of your blog open at all times!
Has the final roster been announced for the US Championships, which begin in a couple of weeks? Who replaced Kamsky, Polgar, and Zatonskih?
Susan, in this fhoto your face looks sweet. You have a non common beauty.
Susan is hot
😉
Tr0piiic.
i think match format is better for qualifying for the championship . why would anand want tournament format. to respond to this guys comment great players like fischer see the whole board not just one small area. they get there pieces in the right positions on the board then launch there attack with precision which involves alot of calculations. just remember fischer he said tactics flow from positions. if you understand that statement youll better understand the game. theres also no getting around hard work. most games are won before they start. practice, practice ,practice. once you get to the game your preperation will determine your outcome. i dont believe great players just get a feeling for which is the best move. they work it out in there head during the game and nowadys with opening preperation before the game begins.the two hardest workers in the game fischer and kasparov and there results speak for themselves.
Hey Anon (12:52:00 PM), read the books REASSESS YOUR CHESS and THE REASSESS YOUR CHESS WORKBOOK by Jeremy Silman. Those will give you good ideas to build your own custom Chess Algorythm! 🙂
greets
George. Do this way: click with right mouse button on the link and choose “open in a new window”.
I’ve been amazed to see the growth of poker as compared to chess. Now obviously people play poker for gambling purposes and “wager” money on outcomes.
However chess can and could also be used for wagering. I’ve been wondering whether or not for chess to thrive…the time limits have to be shortened even further and perhaps include poker chips during matches for “wagering”.
During critical moments in the match…someone on his/her turn throws chips during the chess match, denominations depending on the limit. The opponent has to either accept the wager or lose the match if he/she refuses. Suddenly chess gets very serious because money is then wagered on the outcome of certain endgames, middlegame tactics, etc. This use of poker chips during chess matches would add a element of psychology and uncertainty into the game.
Hello george and turba,
Use Firefox and the the middle button (that’s the mouse wheel) from your mouse to open links.
That’s much more easier than right-clicking and selecting….
Jochen
PS: Susan your captcha really makes problems sometimes….. perhaps you could take a look at it, I mostly have to enter a (correct!) code more than once because the first time it alomst never accepts it (although the code is definitely right!), sometimes it even won’t work after numerous tries!
I knew some people who play blitz with a backgammon doubling cube. They’d bet some amount on each game, usually 25 cents in the cheap coffeehouse where I hung out. Then during the game either player could use the cube to double the stakes like in backgammon. The other player would have to either accept the double (raise the stakes to 50 cents) or resign. If s/he accepts then s/he has control of the cube and can later double again (to $1.00) so the first player has to accept or resign. The cube can keep going back and forth doubling over and over til the stakes get quite high, and that occasionally happens in backgammon but it seemed rare in chess when the players were any good.
That’s an amazing picture of Susan. Yes she is beautiful and the picture shows her beautiful face, and it calls attention to other beautiful attributes of hers as well ;-).
Here is a funny photoshop contest, the topic being ‘Obvious Cheating.’ Look at the very first entry:
Cheaters.
Just wondering how the field of 16
candidates were chosen to challenge
Kramnik, Anand, Svidler, and
Morozevich for the world title.
Most are qualified, but I wonder
especially how Bareev (FIDE rank
of 69) and Gurevich (ranked #77)
are candidate worthy?!
Maybe it’s time Kramnik puts his title on the line against…Rybka, Fritz or Junior in a match. This would be the ultimate test for Kramnik. Either tie or beat the computer to retain the title or relinquish it to the computer. It’s inevitable this kind of match will at some point take place. I say let Kramnik get his chance to go into the history books as being the first human being to defeat a computer for the Chess World Championship.
No, Susan is not overweight at all!
And yes, it is a very beautiful
picture which distracts us
from the focus of the Forum.
Quick CAPTCHA test: When I was not signed in to Google, my few words were not posted before asking me to do a second CAPTCHA. If these are posted /now/, then signing in makes a difference.
sssssssssssssssso sexy!!!
SUSAN! I LOVE U!!! 😀
I’ve always wanted to go to Alaska.
OK, actually, I never have, but I do now, for some reason.
Seriously, are you really 37? I mean, I’m 39 and I’m old.
a happy photo
Why do portraits include head and breasts for women, but just the head for men?
Just look at Susan Polgar and Irina Krush on this blog, and compare to Leko, Anand, Cheparinov…
Wow
Maybe is the best photo that I´ve seen of you, very sweet, very beautiful 😀