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Hannes Rada (2010-12-15 21:56:00)
Chess positions too complex for engines
Hi Thibault,
Thank you for the examples.
I do not agree with your position against Peter Schuster. Almost every engine is now playing Qe2 i.o. Tb1 ?
So the engines now 'understand' this position a little bit.
Your position against Wolfgang Utesch is a classical fortress and indeed a bit funny. Here all engines show +5 and Rybka even +6 .... :-)
The 'tragedy' here is not the final position, but the fact the engines would go for such a position in their analysis, as it seems to be a clear win for white. I would file this under typical missing endgame understanding.
I.e. Rybka still does not understand wrong bishop endgames....
Hannes Rada (2010-12-13 23:07:17)
Who's the favorite in the WBCCC?
Yes that would be interesting !
Hannes Rada (2010-12-13 22:32:50)
Who's the favorite in the WBCCC?
Thibault, Can you give us some examples about this complex positions wherre computers are still really weak ?
Hannes Rada (2010-10-21 23:44:57)
ICCF forum closed
That's what I would like to find out, by opening this thread, Thibault :-)
Hannes Rada (2010-10-21 22:27:32)
ICCF forum closed
ICCF seems to have some (major ?) problems. At least it's not very democratic to forbid their customer the free speech ....
Hannes Rada (2010-09-14 19:30:55)
Time control in GM 2 Tournament
Thibault, what happened with the time control in this tournament ?
Since the replacement there, we have only 30 days i.o. 40 days per 10 moves against Michael Aigner ??
Is this correct ?
Thibault de Vassal (2010-08-03 12:46:54)
Congratulations to "FSF en passant"
Finally here are the final results !!!
"FSF En passant" won this very interesting tournament by 1 point ahead of 2 teams !! The suspense was until the very last games to know the final team ranks.
The fact to note: Yellow Blue warriors finish second while they were actually 3 players in the team, Yura Lemekhov played an amazing tournament (5.5/6 , perf 2456) ... (the last player stopped to play :/)
Thanks to all players, it was lots of fun! I'll try to make the things clearer in the tournaments pages for the next edition...
10 points for : FSF En Passant
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2270)
Volker Koslowski (2264)
Sebastian Boehme (2175)
Roland Markus (2096)
9 (tot: 15.5) points for : The knights who say "Ni"
Michael Aigner (2602)
Xavier Pichelin (2577)
Hannes Rada (2559)
Thibault de Vassal (2473)
9 (tot: 13.5) points for : Yellow-Blue Warriors
Iouri Basiliev (2173)
Dmytro Romaniuk (1937)
Ostap Hladky (2176)
Yura Lemehov (2171)
8 points for : The Dark Knights
William Taylor (2140)
Scott Nichols (2089)
Don Groves (1991)
Josef Riha (1989)
4 points for : Happy Pawn
Stephane Legrand (2209)
Garvin Gray (2125)
Daniel Parmet (1961)
Ilmar Cirulis (1805)
2 points for : Our team King
Alexander Blinchevsky
Stanimir Denchev
Benjamin Block
Ranganathan Raman
0 point for : The Ghost Knights
Vadim Khachaturov
Yugi Inving
Sophie Leclerc
Jorge Orden
Ni FSF Dark Happy Blue Ghost King
Aigner 1 = = = = =
Pich 0 = = 1 1 1
Rada = = 1 = 1 =
DeVas = = 1 0 1 1
0 Lehnh = = = = =
1 Koslo = = 1 1 1
= Boehm = 1 = 1 1
= Marku = 1 = 1 1
= = Taylo = = = =
= = Nicho = 1 1 1
= = Grove = 0 1 =
= = Riha 1 0 1 1
= = = Legra = = =
= = = Gray 1 1 1
0 0 = Parmet 0 1 =
0 0 0 Ciruli 0 1 1
= = = = Basili = 1
0 0 0 0 Romani 0 0
= = 1 1 Hladky 1 =
1 = 1 1 Lemekh 1 1
= 1 = = = Khacha =
0 0 0 0 1 Inving 0
0 0 0 0 0 Lecler 0
0 0 0 0 0 Orden 1
= = = = 0 = Blinch
0 0 0 0 1 1 Denchev
= 0 = = = 1 Block
0 0 0 0 0 0 Raman
"Team 1" - "Team 2" : points (score)
"Ni" - "FSF" : 1-1 (2-2)
"Ni" - "Dark" : 1-1 (2-2)
"Ni" - "Happy" : 2-0 (3-1)
"Ni" - "YB" : 1-1 (2-2)
"Ni" - "Ghost" : 2-0 (3.5-0.5)
"Ni" - "King" : 2-0 (3-1)
"FSF" - "Dark" : 1-1 (2-2)
"FSF" - "Happy" : 2-0 (3-1)
"FSF" - "YB" : 2-0 (2.5-1.5)
"FSF" - "Ghost" : 2-0 (3.5-0.5)
"FSF" - "King" : 2-0 (3.5-0.5)
"Dark" - "Happy" : 2-0 (2.5-1.5)
"Dark" - "YB" : 0-2 (1.5-2.5)
"Dark" - "Ghost" : 2-0 (3.5-0.5)
"Dark" - "King" : 2-0 (3-1)
"Happy" - "YB" : 0-2 (1.5-2.5)
"Happy" - "Ghost" : 2-0 (3.5-0.5)
"Happy" - "King" : 2-0 (3-1)
"YB" - "Ghost" : 2-0 (2.5-0.5)
"YB" - "King" : 2-0 (2.5-1.5)
"Ghost" - "King" : 0-2 (1.5-2.5)
Definitely, even if the "Knights who say Ni" team decided before the match to play unusual openings in most games, this tournament shows again that the strength gap between top players and players rated 2150-2300 is not big at all as many of these players tend to reach the 2400 barrier...
Hannes Rada (2010-07-09 22:46:19)
FIFA world cup 2010, predictions
> PAUL said: Spain wins final, Germany > wins 3rd place.
> Until now PAUL was always right.
> PAUL lives in a octopusses garden in > Oberhausen.
Ask Paul who will be the next FICGS chess champion :-)
Hannes Rada (2010-05-08 20:04:09)
How many games at once?
> still feel there should be a rule
> that mandates a shorter maximum time > between moves (no more than 7 days)
I am sure such a rule would cause many players to quit playing here.
Hey this is corr chess and not Blitz !
What is a reasonable duration for cc games ?
I had some games at the ICCF server which took more then 2 years.
Patience is one of the most important skills for a (cc) player.
Hannes Rada (2010-04-28 19:52:28)
Draws
quote
On the rate of draws, I'm not sure if it is so high yet, games played at the highest level may have less draws than in the category below as players do everything to avoid drawish lines. It is probably always too high anyway :)
unquote
This is in my opinion another interesting topic to be discussed in another thread
How to avoid drawish lines ?!
Hannes Rada (2010-04-27 23:52:33)
interesting games and rating
I think interesting games as well as boring games can be played in every class ...:-)
And rating means nothing nowadays.
1800 Elo player can be as strong or weak as a 2600 Elo rated player.
It's quite interesting: on the ICCF-forum the people are complaining that it is not possible to win a cc-game anymore.
Here people are claiming that it is not possible to increase the rating anymore.
Guys simply play chess, try different openings + ideas and you will have again fun, even if you don't win the game or you don't increase your rating :-)
Hannes Rada (2010-04-27 22:18:11)
Higher division
quote
I would rather have to pay a membership fee per year of say $20 for increased access (or something like that) than being able to pay an entry fee to get into a higher division.
unquote
Garvin, what do you expect from playing in a 'higher division' ?
Hannes Rada (2010-03-13 21:45:46)
Conditional moves
Yes Thibault.
In these pages chess notation first and then the diagram seems to be more logical (for me)
Hannes Rada (2010-03-03 18:54:05)
Conditionnal moves
Okay Thibault, I don't want to put pressure on you regarding the conditionals, or to take up to much of your time.
But here is one minor improvement (in my opinion).
Can the tournament pages show first the chess notation and then the chess diagram ? It is in my opinion more logic do present it in this way.
What do you think ?
Hannes Rada (2010-02-25 13:50:31)
mate in N moves. Game is going on :)
Dear Iouri
This is the so called Dead Man Defense(DMD) ....
There are various reasons to play that defense:
1.) Your opponent does not like you
2.) Your opponent does not find the 'resign checkbox'
3.) Your opponent does not want to risk his rating and therefore delays his loss until the next rating calculation period
4.) In good old correspondenc chess times, a player had to write down the words 'I resign' on a postcard - nowadays modern technolgy helps a lot - the player has only to tick a 'resign checkbox' and click a 'send-button' - but this seems task seems still to hard ....
Hannes Rada (2010-02-24 22:09:15)
Conditionnal moves
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In many forced sequences, only one side may take advantage of conditional moves to save time, that's not fair and that's the point according to me
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Thibault, that was your argument against conditionals almost 2 years ago.
However I did not understand and still do not understand this explanation.
I my opinion both players benefit from time saving conditionals.
However maybe you could add an option under player's preferences - "conditionals yes or no" and if both players agree than conditionals could be switchend on for that games.
FICGS is really a great server offering so many different features, other server don't, but missing conditionals is in my opinion a major deficit of this server.
(Some minor things could also be improved)
Hannes Rada (2010-02-24 19:41:25)
Conditionnal moves
That's what I would like to have since FICGS started ....
Hannes Rada (2010-02-22 15:49:25)
Rating calculation
Daniel,
TER (Tournament Entry Rating) is used for elo-calculation.
Hannes Rada (2010-02-06 10:52:37)
E. Kotlyanskiy new FICGS chess champion
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__WORLD_CHAMPIONSHIP__000003
Congratulation to the new champ !
and to a lot of very intersting games !
Hannes Rada (2009-12-28 21:45:47)
Sicilian ?
I see only 1 Sicilian in this match.
And I see many different openings. That's good - That's more entertaining than 8 times Najdorf ....
So no need to advertise for this Sicilian. It will be anyway played to much for my taste :-)
Originally it was very doubtful for me to play 8 times the same opponent. But then I realized that it can be quite interesting. At least when you're rating is better than those of your oppoent .... :-)
Hannes Rada (2009-12-23 23:08:52)
bad software :-)
No problem, Thibault.
I realized there was already a "Merry Christmas thread 2 years ago".
Maybe that's the reason: The software only accepts 1 thread, or does not like Christmas :-)
Hannes Rada (2009-12-23 22:37:34)
Christmas Thread Bug ?
This topic is closed, as no response has been made for more than 365 days.
I mean the Merry Christmas thread ??!!
Hannes Rada (2009-12-23 20:35:19)
Merry Christmas !
Merry Christmas !
Feliz Navidad !
Frohe Weihnachten !
to all FICGS members !
Please add season's greetings in a few more languages ..(Italian, French,....)
Hannes Rada (2009-12-22 20:02:59)
Korchnoi
I have never been a fan of Korchnoi and his defensive style, also Spassky is not my favourite player .....
But anyway quite immpressive for age 78 ...
And if a defensive player, then the most weird one - Tigran Petrosjan and his very strange and passive style.
Hannes Rada (2009-12-15 22:33:19)
XFCC
Maybe its counterproductive to implement this feature.
Because than there is no need to visit www.ficgs.com anymore. You could do everything with XECTool (However this tool written by Andres Valverde will not be developed further).
Hannes Rada (2009-12-01 18:08:56)
secretary of billionaire Joop van Ooster
Quite interesting ....
Secretary of an ICCF WM seems to be more lucrative then playing and winning usual OTB chess tournaments .... :-)
Hannes Rada (2009-11-30 13:55:08)
Andersson
No he was never ICCF champion.
But what I heard, in contradiction to his OTB chess preference, he played risky and very tactical in ICCF.
Andersson played in real chess extremely technical and low-risk, but winning every equal and boring endgame .....
Hannes Rada (2009-11-29 08:55:25)
FIDE GMs at CC
There are several examples where an OTB GM played cc and could not dominate the other (hobby) players.
i.e.
Young Austrian Fide GM Markus Ragger here at the Austrian cc team championship
http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=18429
Further I had a draw at chessfriend against FIDE GM Daniel Fridman (Elo > 2660).
As far as I know Fide GM Ulf Anderson played at ICCF without so much success.
Hannes Rada (2009-11-05 18:42:10)
Sicilian Najdorf
Candidates Final 04
Riccio - Brunner: 8x Najdorf
Quarter Final 2 06
Noble - Gueci 8x Najdorf
Although the games are really interesting
Guys, isn't it a little bit boring playing 8 times the same opening ?
Maybe I am hypercritical today :-) but are chess openings reduced to Najdorf only ? Is this the only valid opening for cc nowadays ?
Any comments on this development in cc ?
Any comments ?
Hannes Rada (2009-11-05 18:31:09)
Knockout Final 05
Maybe it's an idea to contact him by email to inform him that the final has already started ...
Hannes Rada (2009-11-04 22:21:02)
Knockout Final 05
Lacrosse - Riccio
Marc Lacrosse:
Last connection : 2009 August 11
I am afraid, we won't see so many moves here .... :-(
Hannes Rada (2009-10-23 14:50:46)
Top Players
It's quite funny the top players are always whining on the ICCF - forum, that the finals getting weaker and weaker ....And most of them refuse to play one.
However in my opinon Elo - rating means nearly nothing in these days.
Hannes Rada (2009-10-22 21:57:22)
Peter Schuster is playing ICCF - final !
All the best to Peter Schuster for his
ICCF - World Championship Final
http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=18349&order=p
William Taylor (2009-09-22 22:16:32)
#2
I also vote for number 2.
Regarding Hannes Rada's point about the decision also affecting other players in a round-robin - this is also true to a lesser extent in elims, as it could affect who somebody's opponent is in the next round. Personally I don't think these considerations are very important if it is an obvious mouse-slip (such as Kf1 instead of O-O) and I certainly wouldn't want you to get the agreement of everyone in the tournament before allowing a takeback.
Hannes Rada (2009-09-22 21:48:50)
Depends
imho on the type of tournament.
It could be problemantic in round robin tournamens, as there are also other players involved.
Seems to be okay in a knockout tournament where only the 2 players are involved.
Hannes Rada (2009-07-03 13:52:10)
Match vs. Scheming Mind
Maybe we should try a FICGS vs. Scheming Mind match :-)
Hannes Rada (2009-06-16 22:10:24)
Hypermodern
I would not consider 1. Nf3 as hypermodern (whatever this is :-)),
as it will mostly convert into such orthodox openings like Queens Gambit, Queens Indian, ....
Hannes Rada (2009-06-04 21:56:51)
Dead Endgames
Thibault, you are talking about endgames in this connection.
Do you mean for instance the famous rook endgames, which are always a draw according to Tarrasch :-)
And it is true, there are so many rook endings which cannot be won, with extra material. Even with 2 extra pawns ....
I had 2 times a position with K + R + f+h Pawn, against K + R which is a theoretical draw. Sometimes chess can be really unfair. You are playing much better than your opponent, you manage to to achieve material advantage of 1 or 2 pawns, but the rook endgame is still a draw ...
Here is a proposal against the broad draw corridor
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/reformedchess.htm
http://www.iccf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3618&page=5
Hannes Rada (2009-06-03 22:28:52)
Openings very important for corr chess ?
Well about 3 weeks ago I had a discussion with Austrian's only ICCF world champion.
And he told me that in his next world championship final he is going to chance his opening repertoire completely. Instead of 1. e4 which he prefered so far, he is now going to play another move (1.d4 most probably), because after years of studying chess his conclusion is now that 1.e4 is the weakest choice (compared to 1. d4, 1. Nf3, ...)
The same 'ideology' was also published by former ICCF World Champion Hans Berliner in his book "My System".
.
Dead Endgames: This is another interesting topic to be discussed ....
Hannes Rada (2009-06-03 18:55:58)
Dead positions/openings
Hi Thibault,
Which positions -respectively we should also talk about openings - do you think are dead ?
I have some ideas about dead openings, but would like to hear your opinion first :-)
Thibault de Vassal (2009-05-23 00:31:31)
1st team tournament : games & results !
A new thread to comment the games & results in the 1st FICGS team tournament that just started ! The teams are :
>> The knights who say "Ni"
Michael Aigner - 2602
Xavier Pichelin - 2577
Hannes Rada - 2559
Thibault de Vassal - 2473
>> FSF En Passant
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2270)
Volker Koslowski (2264)
Sebastian Boehme (2175)
Roland Markus (2096)
>> The Dark Knights
William Taylor - 2140
Scott Nichols - 2089
Don Groves - 1991
Josef Riha - 1989
>> Happy Pawn
Stephane Legrand 2209
Garvin Gray 2125
Daniel Parmet 1961
Ilmar Cirulis 1805
>> Yellow-Blue Warriors
Iouri Basiliev
Dmytro Romaniuk
Ostap Hladky
Yura Lemehov
>> The Ghost Knights
Vadim Khachaturov
Yugi Inving
Sophie Leclerc
Jorge Orden
>> The Knights with no name (yet)
Alexander Blinchevsky
Stanimir Denchev
Benjamin Block
Ranganathan Raman
You can follow the games here :
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__TEAM_EVENT_TABLE_1__000001
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__TEAM_EVENT_TABLE_2__000001
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__TEAM_EVENT_TABLE_3__000001
http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=tournament&tournament=FICGS__CHESS__TEAM_EVENT_TABLE_4__000001
Note : The first player displayed in each tournament table is not always the player of the first team because when the 1st & 3rd players of a team play White against another team, the 2nd & 4th play Black against the same team, this is not obvious to read (sorry).
I'm really sorry to the 2 players that were not included in a team, but we had to start the tournament now... The last team may still announce their name (provisional : "The knights with no name")
Have nice games :)
Thibault de Vassal (2009-05-17 23:11:38)
Complete teams !
The team tournament should start very soon, complete teams are :
>> Yellow-Blue Warriors
Iouri Basiliev
Dmytro Romaniuk
Ostap Hladky
Yura Lemehov
>> Happy Pawn
Stephane Legrand 2209
Garvin Gray 2125
Daniel Parmet 1961
Ilmar Cirulis 1805
>> FSF En Passant
Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff (2270)
Volker Koslowski (2264)
Sebastian Boehme (2175)
Roland Markus (2096)
>> The Ghost Knights
Vadim Khachaturov
Yugi Inving
Sophie Leclerc
Jorge Orden
>> The knights who say "Ni"
Michael Aigner - 2602
Xavier Pichelin - 2577
Hannes Rada - 2559
Thibault de Vassal - 2473
>> The Dark Knights
William Taylor - 2140
Scott Nichols - 2089
Don Groves - 1991
Josef Riha - 1989
Players without a team yet (one team is possible, with 3 more players, we could build one more) :
1. Ranganathan Raman
2. Alexander Blinchevsky
3. Stanimir Denchev
4. Benjamin Block
5. Murray Findlay
Did I forget someone ? So we have 6 complete teams + 5 players without a team.
We should be able to start the tournament in a few days ! :)
Thibault de Vassal (2009-05-06 11:59:44)
New team !
A new team has been built :) We still have no name but working on...
#1 Michael Aigner - 2602
#2 Xavier Pichelin - 2577
#3 Hannes Rada - 2559
#4 Thibault de Vassal - 2473
Come on everyone, funny games to play :)
Hannes Rada (2009-04-30 19:16:18)
Wolfgang's retirement
Wolfgang, I am really shocked about your decision.
However I can understand, that from time to time someone needs a break from the daily chess analysis routine.
Although some of the positions look favourable for Xavier, I think that most of them could be defended.
I thought that according the rules games will not be rated if less then 10 moves are played.
So imho this match should be rated and we should not have any problem with Xavier's 2682 rating.
And we know also now the next WC:
Xavier Pichelin - Edward Kotlyanskiy !
Hannes Rada (2009-03-04 18:51:19)
Venezuela !?
@ Rodolfo you are from Venezuela ?! Beautiful country. I like the Salto Angel, Canaima and the Gran Sabana very much :-)
Hannes Rada (2009-03-03 13:28:20)
Myanmar
Interesting and beautiful country. It's on my 'visiting-wishlist'
Hannes Rada (2009-02-25 19:48:47)
GM Suba
GM Suba said to this kind of position: Black is better, because he can improve his position. White cannot, because he has already the best possible position :-)
Hannes Rada (2009-02-25 19:44:59)
Clock corrected
Thank you Thibault !
Hannes Rada (2009-02-24 22:27:38)
Server's clock
is incorrect. Here it is 22:15 and at FICS 22:25 :-) Can this be adjusted ?
Hannes Rada (2009-02-16 19:44:02)
Suffering
> Eros, Eros... where will you > stop ? :)
You mean who will stop you :-)
> Congrats ! I will suffer on the > board (actually 8 boards) soon
I am also suffering right now on 8 boards :-)
Hannes Rada (2009-02-04 22:11:14)
engines not supported
Hi Thibault,
Those beasts are not designed for running chess engines ....... :-)
Hannes Rada (2009-01-10 17:40:18)
html - tags ?
Hi Thibault, I don't thinkt that using html-tags is very intuitive for most users. I would prefer having the look and feel and the features of one of the widely used forums. Like phpbb .... I think such a forum could be easily included here in this site.
Hannes Rada (2009-01-08 20:06:47)
New strong player !
Banikas, Hristos GM 2582 Bravo. That's what FICGS needs. More Players, More strong players. Is he an OTB GM, or Corr GM ?
Hannes Rada (2009-01-08 19:59:59)
Paragraphs ?
What the heck is that ? I had a lot of paragraphs in my previous posting. But when I press the Post - Button they disappear ??
Hannes Rada (2009-01-08 19:55:05)
Tables
Hi Thibault, Just a few ideas. I mean 'spreadsheet-like' tables with cells where you can not only see the points, but also the results (1,0, 1/2) between all players. Furthermore on the tournament page I would prefer to see the notation first and then diagram of the actual position. I think this is more logical to see first who is playing and what has been played (the moves) and then the actual position. I think it is also an idea to show only the running games on the (main) tournament pages and to show the finished games for a specific tournament on a second page per tournament. Chess fonts (?) on the ICCF Server looks a little bit nicer then those here. I have been playing now my first tournament on the ICCF server where (secret) conditionals are allowed (chessfriend had this feature already many years ago). And I am a big fan of it. Conditionals can help to speed up to game significantly. Some openings like the Grunfeld, the French, and The Sveshnikov really cry for conditionals :-) I don't see any disadvantes regarding the introductions of conditionals (maybe except for the programmer :-). Why are you against them ? But finally I have to say that I really appreciate playing here. I can imagine how tough and how much work it is to maintain such a server as a 'One man show'. I really appreciate your efforts.
Hannes Rada (2009-01-08 18:53:24)
Chess improvements
To be honest I would more prefer to see an improvement of the chess features here. I.e. Conditions moves, better tables, better layout modern forum (phpbb) What I do not understand: How can Thibault earn money with this "social stuff" ?
Hannes Rada (2008-12-26 11:19:40)
Game 1
Yes you are right Wolfang. In the key position 4 extra pawns are not enough against the rook in the key position. Quite interesting.
Hannes Rada (2008-12-25 21:12:07)
Game 1
looked very promising for White. Without deeper looking into the position I thought that white is going to win here. But than I found that black has perpetual check due to his pair of rooks. With only 1 rook on booth side, i think white should win. Wolfang, have you analysed a possible exchange of rooks at move no. 51 51. Rb7 instead of 51. a4 ? I did not analyse this position, but at first sight this seems to be a good chance for winning this game. Can you comment this ?
Hannes Rada (2008-12-24 19:55:24)
Congratulations
Wolfgang for reaching the first final ! However also congratulations for Francois who seems to be a little bit unlucky, because he managed to draw the competition but could not reach the final. @ Thibault "Two very different styles" Can you be a little bit more specific ? What do you think is the difference in those styles ? When does the final start ? Merry Christmas to all FICGS members !
Hannes Rada (2008-12-06 10:08:36)
Only predefined email addresses ?
I can invite only frieds who have one of these freemail - email addresses ?
Hannes Rada (2008-12-01 20:58:47)
Marshall Defense
And the conclusion is: This opening should be renamed as Marshall Defense :-)
Hannes Rada (2008-11-30 21:43:01)
Attack ?
You are right Wolfang. But I thought, that you played these so called attack for winning purposes :-) If black want's or must win, I think that Sicilian gives better chances.
Hannes Rada (2008-11-30 20:20:20)
Good for white !?
Currently I am playing with white a decisive game at the Austria championship against the Marshall 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.d4 Bd6 13.Re1 Qh4 14.g3 Qh3 15.Re4 g5 16.Qf1 Qh5 17.Nd2 Bf5 18.f3 Nf6 19.Qg2 Nxe4 20.Nxe4 Qg6 21.g4 Bxe4 22.fxe4 Rae8 23.Bc2 Qh6 24.e5 Bxe5 25.dxe5 Rxe5 26.Bd2 Qe6 27.Bb3 Qe7 28.Qf2 c5 29.Re1 c4 30.Rxe5 Qxe5 31.Bd1 h6 32.Qe3 Re8 33.Qxe5 Rxe5 34.Bf3 f5 35.gxf5 Rxf5 36.Bb7 * The endgame 2 bishops vs 1 Rook + Pawn looks good for white. Black did not have any attacking changes in this game and white quite a comfortable game. However I am not quite sure if white can win it.
Hannes Rada (2008-07-15 19:07:00)
Learning effect ??
I suppose you are here to improve your chess ability. For this purpose a mirroring moves - strategy seems to be useless ....
Hannes Rada (2008-05-21 10:32:44)
3 fold repetition
Thanks, Thibault. Now it's clear.
Hannes Rada (2008-05-20 22:37:01)
3 fold repetition - working correctly ?
Does the server recognise a 3 fold repetition correctly ? If I am not too much confused, I think that my game against Balabaev - game 17830 - has been terminated after 2- fold repetition. Can you please take a look into that. Not really important because this game is definitely a draw, but it looks for me like a bug.
Hannes Rada (2008-05-19 17:55:07)
Opening - German Translation
The German Translation for opening reads: "Eröffnung" not "Öffnung". "Öffnung" means hole ..... :-)
Hannes Rada (2008-05-19 17:41:13)
Sponsor ?
Where do these Epoints come from ? From a sponsor ?
Hannes Rada (2008-05-19 17:38:22)
Costa Rica !
Costa Rica ! Wonderful country ! Rainforests, animals, volcanoes. It is definitely in a top position on my travel wish list :-) Kind regards Hannes
Hannes Rada (2008-05-15 23:06:25)
Openings
Hi Andrew, " It certainly seems a lot easier to get a draw against e4 at cc." I've the same feeling. But the top player vanOsteroom prefers definitely 1.e4 ! Does anybody know if 1.e4 or 1.d4 is played more often here at FICGS ? "He played it 3 times including the critical line 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 c5 4 d5 exd5 5 cxd5 d6 6 e4 g6 7 f4 etc and got 3 draws against opposition of 2150, 2300 and 2400." Can this be considered as a success ? 50 % against lower rated opponents ? Normally Benoni is played when you want or have to win with black ... However Hector Walsh seems to have some fighting spirit. Andrew do you know the IECG server ? From time to time I get invitations from the IECG guys for their tournamengs, but never played there.
Hannes Rada (2008-05-14 22:04:53)
Opening Favorites and taboos in cc chess
It's quite interesting to look at the top level cc - player's opening favorites. Against 1.e4: Almost everybody is playing Sicilian, Sveshnikov and Najdorf No more Dragon oder other Sicilian lines seems to be playable at top level. 1.... e6 (French) and 1....c6 Caro Kann are rarely played. A little bit more frequently is 1....e5. But I think that also the old Ruy Lopez is not really popular among the cc cracks. Against 1.d4: Here seems to be more diversity: But I think The Slav is definitely the most popular Black's defense, followed by Nimzo Indian, Kings Indian and Queens Gambit. Benoni and Wolga Gambit seems to be dead here. What do you think, is there no more space for French, Caro Kann and Aljechin Defense in todays cc practice ? Is Dutch and Modern Benoni no longer playable ? In the sixties Hans Berliner won the ICCF championship with Aljechin Defense
Hannes Rada (2008-05-14 20:10:41)
Jason's query
Jason, I gave up OTB chess some 20 years ago. So I have no OTB rating (anymore) Playing in my chessclub was not and ist not compatible with my working hours. CC is perfect for me. Analyzing and making move later in the evening when I am returning from work, or whenever I can find time. It's wise to play the strongest possible opponents. But cc rating does not implicitly say anything about chess strength. Too many variables may influence the players chess abilities. (Too many games at the same time, lack of motivation, ....) On the other side an ambitious 1800 Elo newcomer can sometimes more dangerous than an "old" CC-GM. FICGS is quite a nice community. Here you have the chance to raise your rating and play against the higher rated players pretty soon compared with ICCF. But your "strong opponent experience" will end here around 2500 - 2550. Raising your rating in ICCF takes much more time (because tournaments are slower) but when you've established yourselve at a certain level than you have the chance to play the > 2700 guys like van Osteroom & Co :-) But at this level correspondence chess is no fun anymore. I've talked to GM Peter Hertel from Germany several years ago and he told me that he had to analyze and work on his cc - chess positions around 10 hours per day to compete at this level .... if you are retired or jobless and a billionaire (van Osteroom) than you have the best chances of winning an ICCF championship final .... :-) Do you think the playing cc helps to improve your otb abilities ? I've talked to several players regarding this issue and I received different answers. From: Yes I benefit from my cc-opening experience To: No, these are absolutely different stories. OTB requires the abilites to calculate deeplines correctly and to maintain concentration for a couple of hours. All things which are absolutely not necessary for cc. My experience for the short time frame when I played both otb + cc is that for the purpose of improving the otb abilities it would have been better to study chess books and solving tactical exercises than playing cc.
Hannes Rada (2008-05-13 23:53:25)
childish and offtopic
After posting No. 4 this thread becomes a childish and offtopic guerilla battle .... < It doesn't seem fair that a 2100 < player should be playing in a < tournament intended for 2200-2600 < players Are you afraid of losing so important FICGS - Elos when you have to play against lower rated opponents ?? If you want to play correspondence chess at top level than you have to sign up at ICCF.
Hannes Rada (2008-05-13 22:16:55)
Boring
Why don't you guys not use the private message feature .... instead of spamming this thread ? Is anybody else interested in this trash ?
Hannes Rada (2008-05-05 19:26:29)
Luck ?!
> A lttle bit knowledge and a lot of > work and luck, that is the mixture > you need for a win in high level > correspondence chess game. So you think that luck is an integral part of the game ?! Such a statment and my chess world view collapses :-) But sometimes I've the same strange feeling: chess is a game of luck !? :-)
Hannes Rada (2008-01-29 18:30:38)
It's not there
Why dont' we find it under Candidates final ? http://www.ficgs.com/category__ficgs__chess__candidates.html "There's no tournament to display" ?
Hannes Rada (2008-01-28 18:58:35)
Chess, Chinese Chess, Go
Thibault, have you ever tried Chinese Chess ? I've a book about the rules with some games, but I do not have a board. Maybe there is somewhere a Chinese Chess pgrogramm for free download. What do you like more Chess or Go ? Some years ago I tried to study Go, visited a Go Club. I tried to play a few games but did not realy realize what's going on. I was even not in the position to find out if my position is better or worse :-). Shogi - Japanese Chess, and Korean Chess, many chess variants and board games ....
Hannes Rada (2008-01-18 15:34:51)
(repetition)
Hannes Rada (2008-01-18 14:22:53)
Bobby Fischer is dead !
Bobby Fischer Dies at 64 !
Thibault de Vassal (2008-01-09 05:42:09)
4th FICGS chess championship
The 4th FICGS chess championship just started, it is now much easier to find tournaments (quarter finals, stage 2...) in the Tournaments page.
Quarter finals this time are :
1 - Harry Ingersol vs. Mark Noble
2 - Hannes Rada vs. Farit Balabaev
3 - Eros Riccio vs. Marius Zubac
4 - Peter Schuster vs. Thibault de Vassal
As a reminder, in case of equality the highest TER in each match qualifies if all games are drawn, the lowest TER qualifies if not all games are drawn.
The next stages of the previous championships will start as soon as possible...
Have good games !
Hannes Rada (2008-01-08 18:33:08)
Income of top Chess players.
That seems to be peanuts compared with the top Chess players. Any ideas about the income of Kramnik & Co ? > it's really not much money at all to be the very best in the world at your profession! > What's the income of the best cc-player ? van Oosterom's income will be zero ...
Hannes Rada (2008-01-07 20:04:20)
Stop the clock
I agree. It does not make sense to get a win without playing. Because we are here to play chess .... :-) However I saw that the game with H. Ingersol is already over ... So I would stop the clock, if every participant in this group agrees. But we need a more simple solution concerning the reflection time. I would propose: After 10 days without playing a single move: 1st warning, after 20 days: 2nd warning, afer 30 days: the game is automatically lost for that player. Warnings should be sent to both involved players be email. During 30 or 40 days holiday during a year the refelection time will be stopped. That's how it worked at chessfriend.com and this is in my opinion the best and simplest solution.
Hannes Rada (2008-01-05 19:06:19)
FICGS i .o. FICS :-)
Yes of ocurse. The 'G' on my keyboard is hanging .... :-)
Hannes Rada (2008-01-05 10:38:21)
Titels
Fics International Master Fics Email Master Very funny, isn't it... :-)
Hannes Rada (2007-12-20 23:27:22)
Unfair ?
Thibault, Why do you think conditionals are unfair ? There are some openings which are perferct for conditional moves. For example Grunfeld. On chessfriend I offered my opponent the first 10 or 12 moves as conditionals. And the game really started on the first day with an interesting middle game position (avoiding to enter the boring and well known opening moves step by step).
Hannes Rada (2007-12-18 21:57:02)
conditional moves and ICCF bureaucracy
> ICCF decided to turn it off for all > ICCF tournaments. I don't recall the > exact reason for doing this, but it > has something to do with concerns > about time abuse. How can conditional moves be considered as "time abuse" ?? What is the rationale behind this ? Chessfriend.com had a perfect implementation of (secret) conditional moves. But ICCF is a slow, conservative and bureaucratic organization. Why not making a poll to find out if the players want this feature ....
Hannes Rada (2007-12-05 18:48:49)
2nd Knockout final
Yes and congratulation to Wolfgang and Harry being qualified for the 2nd knockout final :-)
Hannes Rada (2007-11-26 19:23:10)
2nd Chess Final H. Ingersol - W. Utesch
Both player won clearly their semifinals. Any predictions for the 2nd final ?
Hannes Rada (2007-10-05 21:07:46)
Slaves of Caissa
We are chess slaves - That's for sure :-)
Hannes Rada (2007-10-03 19:49:56)
Kasparov vs the World
Thank you for the interesting link. It is quite an interesting game and when playing without further and depper analysing it looks like the World did a very good job, which should at least be sufficient for a draw.
Hannes Rada (2007-10-02 21:16:11)
GMs + engine vs amateur + engine
However it would be interesting to know if Kasparov or any other strong OTB GM + strong engine would play significant better chess than an amateur + strong engine at cc time control.
Hannes Rada (2007-10-02 16:06:09)
CC Kasparov and other OTB GM's
Viktor, What kind of Russian tournaments did he play ? I played at chessfriend against OTB Elo > 2600 GM Daniel Fridman from Latvia. At CC he was only around Elo 2300. But I could not communicate with him to ask about his motivation for cc
Hannes Rada (2007-10-01 20:43:54)
Endgames
Mark Dvoreckij's Endgame University
Hannes Rada (2007-10-01 20:21:51)
Kasparov CC
If I remember correctly Garry once stated that he could win such a title easily, because he is superior in analyzing chess positions. Could be true, or not ? van Oosterom - Kasparov at CC conditions, what is your prediction ? Maybe Garry has an advantage because he can analyze deeper within a specific time unit due to his superior chess knowledge and experience.
Hannes Rada (2007-10-01 19:21:49)
Chess Books
What is your favourite chess book ? I bought 6 volumes of G. Kasparov's 'My great predecessors' and I really like them. Quite interesting to see how the style of the champions changed during many years.
Hannes Rada (2007-10-01 19:10:42)
Kasparov for president ?
I would rather prefer to see Garry in a different race. Those for the correspondence chess championship (ICCF or FICGS :-) instead of becoming a stupid politician. :-(
Hannes Rada (2007-10-01 12:04:08)
Castling
Hi Peter, You can castle with the new interface. After pushing the send button the king and the rook are on the correct position :-) (even if it does not look so ...)
Hannes Rada (2007-09-20 22:37:49)
Chessfriend and money
I received 2 times money for winning and for 2nd place in a chess friend round robin tournament. But this was only small money about EUR 100,00 :-) And there was no tiebreak at these tournaments. In this case the players hat to share the prize money.
Hannes Rada (2007-09-18 22:15:53)
Good improvements
Thanks alot - I like these improvements. However, as I can see this is no real drag and drop. When I click on the piece it disappears until it reaches it destination square. Is this behaviour correct ? Maybe because I've no Javascript enabled ?? Where can I check this ? Quite cool - indication of the remaining time in hour, minutes and seconds :-)
Hannes Rada (2007-09-18 12:29:07)
Round robin Tournaments
FICS champion should be crowned by a round robin tournament. This seems to be more fair than these KO matches. Just my humble opinion.
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