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Dinesh De Silva    (2006-04-12 07:24:22)
TITLES

I think the answer is obvious. FICGS titles should be named FICGS EM, FICGS IM etc, so that it's clear from where the titles are got from. By putting the organization's name in front of the title this way, I don't see any problems. I think the majority are bound to agree, and there won't be any sorta arguments with other organizations. After all, the world is a very big place.... there's enough room for everybody! I find FICGS a very friendly place. Also, organizations like IECG, ICCF, LIAPE etc. are very hardworking, dedicated organizations too, and I enjoy playing in them too. My thanks to you all.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-04-12 09:42:18)
Tournament formulas

I personally think such tournaments are too slow..... a real drag. 10 moves per 40 days seems exactly right for standard tournaments. Kind regards, Dinesh.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-04-12 12:27:56)
FEM,FIM,FSM,FGM

I saw the rating list, with the title changes....Interesting idea......But what will the titles be called when some of us eventually gain FICGS titles?


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-04-12 12:52:51)
FEM,FIM,FSM,FGM

How about contacting IECG, ICCF etc and reaching an amicable solution regarding how to name the titles on FICGS?!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-04-12 14:15:16)
Solution...

I have 2 suggestions which might be viable..... *The FICGS decision making committee should make a decision regarding it. OR *Have some sorta poll/voting on FICGS to decide on it.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-04-15 06:19:08)
Money Tournaments

How much is 1 EURO compared to a US $ ?!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-04-17 08:54:33)
About Glen's observations

Thibault, I think Glen has a point there. IF any players are using/might use such fraudulent script writing, a system can be found to detect it!?


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-04-17 09:47:09)
Quite a good answer

Thibault, that was quite a good answer. We'll have to wait and see if there's any more thoughts on the subject by Glen.


Glen D. Shields    (2006-04-17 19:01:10)
Thanks for the Comments Guys

Dinesh - since computer use is allowed I have no problem if someone uses a "script" to automate moves. I don't think that would be fradulent. Actually I think it would be clever :) The point I was trying to ask is anyone concerned (besides me) that we created a chess medium (server chess) where it's so easy to make moves that the games move too fast? I dread the start of a new section, particularly large sections with 10+ players. It's impossible to keep one's inbox empty for even a minute. I know I should show more discipline and walk away, but it's almost like an illness "just one more move then I'll stop" and I don't! One practice I've been using lately is to make a move in a notebook and sit on the move for a day or two before sending it. That helps slow things down. I wonder if a delay send option on the server would make any sense? One could make a move and then click a delay send button for 24 or 48 hours. One would be charged time during the delay, but it would automate the slow down and make tournament startups a little less hectic. Maybe I'm the only one who sees this as an issue> If so, then label this just one crazy man's thoughts :)


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-05-14 07:43:13)
An alternative to Cup Championship

In my opinion, instead of a Cup Championship, perhaps a Knock Out Rapid Championship maybe more interesting!? This is simply an idea. (Otherwise, FICGS might begin to look too similar to other correspondence chess sites, don't you think?!)


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-05-14 16:07:16)
"Blitz" cup...

Thank you Heinz Georg, for the files you sent to me.

Now I understand better the work and ideas of Reimund Lutzenberger in Chessfriend.com, a great experimentation field for sure...

I first concluded some things not to do in FICGS WCH. In example, a player rated 2500 (even provisional rating from fide) shouldn't have to play in the first stage against a low-rated player in a world championship [but that could be possible in a cup tournament cycle]. So I'll add special rules for high rated players (who are not qualified for the WCH knockout tournament) to begin directly in a 2nd stage tournament...

I agree with Dinesh, the aim is not to use the same formulas, even good ones. Anyway I think we can find new interesting (better :)) ones. But as the WCH is already a rapid tournament cycle, the CUP could be an unrated "blitz" (30 days per game with no increment, or even 10 days + 1 hour / move) knockout (2 games / match + playoffs) !! Something quite "brutal" and unfair between correspondence chess & classical rythms. What do you think ?


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-05-15 13:49:57)
Team Championship

I like Sebastien Marez's idea, for a team championship somewhere in the near future. It could perhaps be termed FICGS Team World Championship. It's a good way of building camaraderie between chess players too!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-05-15 13:53:13)
Blitz Cup

I think you're quite correct, Thibault! It seems conducting such a tourney has some practical problems. Nevertheless, it was good discussing ideas.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-06-06 05:11:01)
Trent, Here's An Interesting Question!

Trent, IF future teams are named after countries, under what country would I fall?!??? (As I'm from Sri Lanka, and as far as I know I'm the only player actively playing on FICGS, ICCF, IECG etc). Then the only option would be for me to play under another country's banner, eh?! Quite an interesting idea, I might say!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-06-06 11:17:47)
Good Suggestion!

Paul, That's a very good idea too!


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-06-06 18:07:22)
Rules for team championship

I was thinking about... The possibility for players to defend another country is very interesting, but it may have many consequences that could complicate a lot the process for building teams and the choice for players who want to support a team or another, waiting for leaders decision etc... Furthermore, there could be confusion in the crosstables.

Sorry about that Dinesh, but teams should be 4 players from the same country. Maybe you could invite some other players from Sri Lanka ?

So, rules :

- All games (rated) will be played in 40 days + 40 days / 10 moves.
- If several players ask to lead the same team, the current chess rating will decide.
- Leaders will choose players for their team (4 players by team) and the "board" (1, 2, 3 or 4) they will play.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-06-07 00:33:53)
To be or not to be...

Hello Marc.

That's an interesting point of view ! The first reason such a championship could be interesting IMO is, as Dinesh said, it may be a good way of building relationship and camaraderie between players... I don't think this tournament will be a kind of stake for countries (so nationalism is probably very far from here, if it changes I'll reconsider this point), it's not very important and has positive points, so I just say "why not ?"


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-06-07 06:59:09)
Interesting Debate!

Hi, everyone It's quite an interesting debate......regarding whether to name teams after countries or not. Marc, for players like you and I, perhaps we could find some sorta compromise if the team rules allow it. As Thibault says, the problem is that even though our (small)countries hardly have any players interested in correspondence chess to form national teams, playing under another national/country banner is kinda a unique situation (IF allowed). It all depends on whether future FICGS team championship rules might allow it or not. Any creative ideas/suggestions left to make?!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-06-09 17:55:32)
Good debate regarding team championships

Thibault, it was good discussing these ideas. I too think that postponing team championship might be a good idea, until some of the issues have been sorted out and some sorta common concensus is reached.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-06-20 16:48:35)
Re: "Revolver" movie......

Thibault, I saw the movie "Revolver' too. It was very interesting...... a kind of psychological thriller. If I remember correctly, the last few memorable words of the movie were: "To Pull Off The Greatest Con Of All"......where the casino empire boss is conned/fooled into shooting himself!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-06-21 15:06:12)
Yahoo Mail problems today!?!

Has anyone else been experiencing Yahoo mail login problems today?! I can't access my Yahoo mail today for many hours now.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-07-02 14:51:28)
Re: France vs Brazil soccer match

I watched the match. France deserved it's 1:0 victory over Brazil, as France were clearly the better team on the day. Zinedine Zidane was at his very best, and he easily outshone the Ronaldos, Ronaldinhos etc.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-07-10 09:03:46)
Re: Italy vs France.......

What the tv replays showed was that the Italian player was holding Zidane from behind a bit. Zidane walked forward after a few seconds, turned around and headbutted the Italian player's chest. Perhaps it was one of those rare moments of uncontrolled tantrum/anger by him. A pity it happened in this final. (FIFA rules allow straight red cards for intentional hitting, butting, stamping, two legged fouls etc). Let's wait and see what the two players have to say/reveal about their incident later on. (It must be mentioned that Italy's penalty kicking was excellent in the penalty shootout. The shots were fast, had good height & spot on. A pity for France that Trezeguet hit the penalty too high).


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-07-10 11:37:06)
Re: Marco Materazzi.......

Rodrigo, Thanks for the link! I watched it just now. "The truth is out there" about the past (mis)deeds of Marco Materazzi for all to see.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-07-12 14:50:41)
Re: " What Materazzi said "

World renowned lip-reading experts are in agreement as to what Materazzi has said to Zidane, which provoked Zidane's headbutt. This was in the news the last few days. What Materazzi has said is horrible! FIFA has opened an investigation into this.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-07-20 06:06:51)
Re: page rank.......

Thibault, Is Google the most well known search engine on the internet?! Is the page ranking of a website on it decided purely on the number of visitors clicking on any particular website?!


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-07-20 14:39:21)
Google pagerank

Hi Dinesh.

Ironic ? ;)

Google is definitely the best search engine for several years. Maybe his statistical concept will be outdated soon (or already), but it's the most powerful one (speed, capacity, accuracy...) and most : it still represents 85 % of visitors from search engines (for all websites). Yahoo represents 9% .. the others nothing. About 30 % (only) of FICGS visitors come from search engines, but it will undoublty increase and over 90 % as time passes.

Pagerank is decided on the value (Pagerank) of the links towards a website.. Actually this is a complex formula based on many parameters, but first of all the Pagerank of the websites referrers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagerank


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-07-20 15:35:39)
Re: pagerank........

Thibault, Thanks for the info.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-07-23 15:47:26)
YAHOO MAIL PROBLEMS TODAY?

Hello, any Yahoo mail users I can't access my yahoo mail for many hours today. Is there any problems at Yahoo mail today? A bug?


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-07-23 16:05:25)
Yahoo mail problems today...

Hi Dinesh.

The answer is yes, obviously.

Quite funny, each time it happens, there are several "googlers" coming from this keyword 'yahoo mail problems today' ;)


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-07-23 16:11:57)
Re: Yahoo mail problems.....

Thanks for the quick reply. I hope Yahoo fixes it soon. (I just wanted to make sure it wan't a problem with my computer).


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-07-24 11:13:10)
Re: Future of correspondence chess......

I foresee that in the future there'll be teleconferencing & chatting live with the opponent/multiple opponents while making one's moves, analysing, drinking coffee etc. Well, players may be making faces at each other trying to scare off each other and/or rattling off bizarre variations to make it seem that the opponent has no option but to resign the game/s. Haha!!!!!


Glen D. Shields    (2006-07-24 17:11:03)
LOL Dinesh

Dinesh - definitely think you're on to something :) If we ever play, you can send still pictures as attachments until the live chatting technology is commonly used to play!


Glen D. Shields    (2006-07-24 17:18:17)
LOL Dinesh

Dinesh - definitely think you're on to something :) If we ever play, you can send still pictures as attachments until the live chatting technology is commonly used to play!


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-07-24 17:36:05)
Thanks Glen

Thanks for these sharp remarks and this piece of correspondence chess story. That's very interesting discussing...

I make good notes of what you said about correspondence chess servers !

About what Dinesh said... he just invented Chess Cyber Sex :))))


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-07-25 09:26:14)
Re: what Glen D. Shields said.....

Glen, I think correspondence chess keeps on evolving. Seriously speaking it's hard to guess what the next biggest addition to it will be that will be of any benefit to the correspondence chess community.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-07-26 20:46:02)
New profile feature : Photos :)

Just added this new feature in 'Preferences'. You can now upload a photo... (JPG format, 100 ko max)

Thanks to Dinesh for the idea (indirectly). By the way, for live video chat you can use other services... :) (we are still there to play chess ;))


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-02 16:10:49)
Inactive Rating List

Thibault, I see that some players don't seem to be playing in any of the tournaments! though they are listed in the Rating List. Any future plans to list them under an Inactive Rating List perhaps?! Just a suggestion.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-08-02 16:38:07)
Inactive player list

Hi Dinesh.

That's planned. I'll add an inactive player list in september...


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-07 22:23:56)
Suggestion (sponsors)

Thibault, Are you looking at the possibility of getting some sponsors for this FICGS website in the near future?! If it materialises, it'll be a win-win situation for all.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-08 09:49:06)
Re:

Hi, Brian! Just FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD. Haha! Click on "Waiting lists", then click on "FICGS Go Tournaments. It's that simple.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-08-08 12:09:40)
Suggestion (sponsors)

Hi Dinesh.

I'm looking at everything of course, it would be great to get sponsors and prizes for free tournaments ie. WCH... The more success, the more chances, so still working. It will take time anyway...

In a near future : Tournaments with entry fees & money prizes should start in October, I have many new ideas to make it attractive for the most, titled players as beginners, and it should bring something to the whole site.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-08 13:08:04)
Re: sponsors..........

That's great to hear.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-09 07:47:30)
Re: download

Hey, Graham When you click the game number, it takes you to a page where there's a "download" link down at the bottom. When you click it, the game file will download in pgn format. ( Yes, altogether it would be two clicks. If you mistakenly click it for a third time, you'll launch a nuclear bomb! Haha! Just kidding ).


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-09 09:51:47)
Re:

The download button should appear on the first attempt. Your situation seems an exception (having to click twice for the "download" button to appear). Check with Thibault. He might know an answer.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-21 12:17:10)
Re: How can i send a message to another.

I tried smoke signals, but nobody answered. Haha!!!!!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-22 12:32:21)
Re: Thematic Blackmar......

Hey, Marc & Thibault! Look at this: 1. d4 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Nc3 c6 4. Nxe4 Bf5/Nd7/Nf6 (It's still a Caro-Kahn!). OR 1. d4 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Nc3 e6 4. Nxe4 Nf6/Nd7 (It's still a French Defence!). Haha!


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-08-22 14:36:59)
Re: Thematic Blackmar......

Hi Marc & Dinesh... You're right. Anyway it's too late, already 5 (!) players in the waiting list. So we'll see...


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-22 18:29:41)
Re:

Yes, the Goering ain't boring. (hey, it rhymes!). It's a very exciting gambit!!.... probably only second to the King's Gambit.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-23 05:25:13)
Re: What about this case...

Hey, Don I'm sure he reads these forums! So he might have already seen the post of yours.


Don Groves    (2006-08-23 06:48:55)
True, but...

Thanks, Dinesh. But that is not the same to me as being able to send a personal message. -- don


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-23 07:27:34)
Re: True, but...

Don, Check with Thibault. He might perhaps later decide to include a feature where post-game communications may be possible with an opponent. (I think ICCF has this particular feature).


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-24 14:01:52)
Re: Premove (conditional moves).....

I think such issues as CONDITIONAL MOVES & VACATION TIME ALLOWED are sure to be debated in the future too. Some sites allow conditional moves , some don't. Some sites allow vacation time of 30 or 30+ days per year per tournament (and sometimes even special leave), some sites don't. These issues are sure to be hotly debated for a long time.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-25 01:31:24)
Re: Re: Why do you play corr-chess ?....

You zee, I play zees thing calld corr- chess becawse I'm a firm beleever in zi phrase: " Off With Zi King's Head ".


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-08-25 13:33:40)
Re: bug: en-passant captures.......

Weird. Somebody better squash that bug soon.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-02 11:39:12)
Re: FICGS titles update...........

As a fellow correspondence chess player, let me take this opportunity to CONGRATULATE Marius Zubac for achieving the title norms. Well done!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-03 14:04:49)
Re:

All the players I've come across on FICGS are quite friendly: 1. Some of them keep a good chess conversation going. 2. Some of them ask & answer questions. Oh, I almost forgot! 3. A few say nothing at all.... absolutely nothing..... silent mode.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-06 06:33:09)
Re:

32 seconds, on Pentium 3, ADSL connection.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-06 18:07:31)
Re:

I don't think Kram. will repeat it again. He's a very shrewd, master strategist. He'll keep Top. guessing. He would have found a weak point in Top. by now & aim to exploit it to the hilt. Experience in this sort of stage is on Kram.'s side because he has already faced the likes of Kasp. in lengthy battles. He even had the tenacity to win a last crucial game against Leko, if you remember. Kram. fears no one.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-06 18:24:47)
Re:

I think if there's enough positive feedback about inclusion of such games, you could go ahead and expand the website in the near future.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-09-06 23:44:33)
Vladimir Kramnik vs. Peter Leko

Hi Dinesh.

I still can't explain myself this incredible outcome in Brissago. First, this "extraordinary" Marshall gambit, Leko leading the whole match... At last Kramnik winning the very last game. Then Peter Leko smiling, just saying (~) : "I'm glad about my play." .. and that's finished.

It just reminded me the second match Kasparov vs. Deep Blue ...

Anyway, it's always time to be paranoid :-)


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-07 06:40:18)
Re:

I'm almost certain that Kram. will dump the 1.e4 opening, as his only Achille's Heel seems to be all out tactics (which Top. is brilliant at), and some blunders (but that was when he was ill). Regarding Leko.......he might fancy his chances if he meets Kram. again, but I don't see any sorta match up, as Anand is waiting in the wings to have a shot at either Kram. or Top.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-07 12:21:55)
Re: Best Game.........

Hey, everyone! I would like to see more people checking out the "best game" section & voting for his or her favourite game.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-07 13:12:14)
Re: Best game......

Thibault, I think that's a good idea! ( There are hundreds & hundreds of chess players at IECG, but only a handful seem to be voting! )


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-07 13:13:08)
Re:

Oops, sorry! I meant FICGS.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-09-07 13:32:05)
IECG

A "tell-tale" lapsus ? :)

There will be an update for the 'Best game' in a few minutes...

(Dinesh, you told me you were playing a candidates final at IECG !? .. Will you play the final ? .. In good way ?)


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-07 14:11:14)
Re:

Thibault, regarding your question..... I was 3rd in that Candidates Final. I was just 1/2 point short of getting into the top 2 and automatically qualifying for the FINAL. But as the first placed Nigel Robson is also qualified by another cycle, and as my rating is quite high now, I might get a chance to play in the FINAL there.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-10 13:02:14)
Suggestion: A best game prize in future

I suggest there should be a BEST GAME PRIZE in the future (if Money Tournaments are a success in the future, which I'm sure it will be. That itself might generate some extra cash needed for this). A prize of.... say....US $ 100+ would be nice! Contenders for best game should be judged by a competent panel appointed by FICGS. Best Game could be selected once every month or once every two months. I think only one game should be submitted per each player, so that there's time enough for the panel to make a proper evaluation of the submitted games.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-09-10 14:13:09)
Re: Best game prize

Hi Dinesh !

Of course, there are many things like this to envisage.. ie. Wch prizes. It will all depend on money tournaments (working on) & eventual sponsors.

However, I'm not so favourable to such suggestive results... We'll see. If the idea is plebiscited in the future, I just say why not...


Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff    (2006-09-10 14:41:52)
Money torunaments

Hi Dinesh !

I doubt that more money tournaments as free tournaments will take place. And in the moment the waiting lists aren't filling very fast. The period of the first registration up to the start of a tournament gets only even longer by the additional money tournaments.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-10 16:19:37)
Re: Money Tournaments.......

I'm optimistic! Probably double-player matches might be more popular than multi-player tournaments in Money Tournaments category, as it gives a better chance to win. Some players might play it for fun too, if GMs could be challenged for a fee. Many possibilities why it'll be a success.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-11 05:32:27)
Re:

Well, maybe a better idea might be to not allow d4 opening or e4 opening or Nf3 opening, and to allow other openings. Then there maybe a better chance for a result.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-11 14:16:54)
Re:

If the one game is tied, have a very short game (perhaps 5 days or less each with Fisher time increment!?


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-11 14:23:17)
Re:

Only board games are considered?!? What about some other stuff..... like Bridge (cards) or solving tough riddles (riddles championship)?! Just an idea, of course.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-09-11 14:28:51)
Gambits + Time controls

Ulrich : There's no line without a major mistake, even in these gambits, that really offers 50% chances to both sides this way (win & win OR draw) in my opinion. That's why I thought about these mad lines...

Dinesh : As I responded to Gino, time can't be an acceptable compromise. I thought about it already in order to find the best way to decide between players who tie in the WCH tournaments. It depends too much on personal parameters. There will probably be a kind of "infinite challenge", where the game starts again until one looses.. but it may be long in some cases :)


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-09-11 14:40:57)
Chance & casino games

Hi Dinesh.

Problem is FICGS shouldn't become a casino.. (with stud poker, blackjack, roulette or whatever chancy game like this :)) It's legally difficult already to organize tournaments with prizes for "mental sports"... Adding confusion may create some problems.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-11 15:12:08)
Re:

Yes, that's true. Then it might be a situation like "GOING WHERE NO PERSON HAS GONE BEFORE" ("star trek"king). Haha!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-11 18:38:45)
Re: Big Chess name.........

Historically speaking, it was a choice of naming such a variant of chess as either FAT CHESS, BULKY CHESS, LARGE CHESS, GIGANTIC CHESS, HUGE CHESS, OH- MY-GOSH! CHESS or BIG CHESS. Finally, it must have been decided that BIG CHESS was the most suitable, politically correct/diplomatic name.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-18 13:32:15)
Re:

Hey, Thomas! That was nicely said. As it's a friendly match, I think the right spirit of sportsmanship will prevail. By the way, why were some players thrown out of GameKnot?!? When you say some of them were a "nuisance", what exactly did they do?!? I don't think a single player of FICGS has so far been thrown out by FICGS officials.


Thomas Gilbreath    (2006-09-18 13:52:13)
Dinesh

FYI it was not I who brought up GameKnot players being expelled from our site, but I can comment on it. Players have been expelled from GameKnot for numerous reasons. Some include 1) ratings manipulation, 2) using computers to recommend moves (our webmaster investigates all complaints re: games where, say, a 1300 player defeats a master, etc...), 3) foul language and/or intimidating behavior, and 4) general behavior that is unsportsmanlike. We pride ourselves at GameKnot on playing honorably, and do not tolerate otherwise. :) Thomas


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-18 14:31:11)
Re:

Thomas! Thanks for the info. I hope the FICGS vs GAMEKNOT match will be a success! Hope there'll be some very exciting games!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-19 11:54:41)
Re:

Marc, I think more important than that is listing whether a member is male or female. That seems to be missing.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-19 12:41:35)
Re:

Now that's what I call a NOVELTY!!!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-24 20:41:53)
2:0

I just heard that it's 2:0 now.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-26 16:49:51)
2 1/2: 1/2

3rd game was drawn. So it's 2 1/2: 1/2


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-27 18:23:24)
4th Game Drawn., It's now 3:1

4th game drawn. Top. slips again in a decisive moment of calculation, when he could have gone into a line where his knight could have outgunned Kram.s Bishop. After that chance went abegging, Kram. counter-attacked to steer the game into a clear draw. His subtle Queen manouevres were noteworthy.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-29 13:03:02)
Psycho(logical) games by Topalov's team?

[moderator : please don't copy exact content (news, articles..) from other websites]

Common toilet for both players.

29.09.2006 The Appeals Committee of FIDE has taken a decision on protest by the Bulgarian delegation who, after viewing the video tapes, stated that Kramnik would visit the toilet too often. A common toilet will be opened for both players.

The Appeals Committee : FIDE Deputy President IM Georgios Makropoulos, Continental President for Americas FM Jorge Vega, FIDE Vice President Zurab Azmaiparashvili.

More - http://www.chessbase.com


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-29 13:41:10)
Re:

BOTH Topalov's team & Kramnik's team had clearly agreed to a set of legally binding rules, regulations & facilities prior to the World Championship match up. But now suddenly Topalov's team fires accustation after accusation DURING the match. Personally I think if they can't prove a thing, they should not make accusations. The world likes to see exciting chess games, not verbal fights.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-09-29 13:45:49)
Re:

Dinesh, you sure about that ? ;)


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-29 13:59:13)
Re:

Thibault, Haha! You're correct! I almost forgot....The media certainly relishes verbal accusations, controversies etc!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-29 13:09:10)
Psycho(logical) games?...........

Silvio Danailov., Manager of the Bulgarian team says:

To all mass media

Ladies and Gentlemen,

After we got acquainted with the ruling of the Appeals Committee of the Topalov vs. Kramnik world championship match we deem it necessary to point out the following:

The ruling in its present form is not satisfactory to us since it practically does not result in any change. Mr. Kramnik will be able to visit the new bathroom an unlimited number of times without being subject to further control.

We would accept the current relaxation rooms to continue to be used provided that the presence of controllers in both rooms is ensured.

When the two players need to go to the bathroom, they should be accompanied by an assistant arbiter.

The checks carried out in the relaxation rooms were made only by experts of the Organizing Committee, whereas our experts were present as observers and only after the second game.

We find it difficult to understand why is it that the accredited journalists are denied access to the video tapes from the relaxation rooms.

The World Champion Veselin Topalov is outraged by the suspicious behavior of his opponent Mr. Vladimir Kramnik who in actual fact takes his most significant decisions in the bathroom.

Despite the above, in the name of the chess game and out of respect to FIDE, to Kalmikia and the millions of chess lovers, Veselin Topalov is willing to continue his participation in the match provided that measures to guarantee fair play are taken.

If the match were to continue, the World Champion would refrain from shaking hands with Mr. Kramnik before the games and would not take part in joint press conferences with him. Veselin Topalov will make statements for the media separately.

We look forward to receiving your response by 14.30 h hoping that it will give concrete answers to the questions that we pose.

28.09.2006
Elista Sincerely:
Silvio Danailov
Manager of the Bulgarian team


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-29 13:14:25)
Kramnik's team says...........

Kramnik threatens to stop playing the match......

29.09.2006 Statement from the team of Vladimir Kramnik, rejecting the decision of the Appeals Committee of FIDE : "The protests of the Topalov team and the suspicions in the press release of Mr. Topalov are utterly disgraceful and are touching Mr. Kramnik’s privacy."

Elista, 29 September 2006

Open Letter to FIDE President H.E. Kirsan Iljumshinov

Copied to Executive Committee of Kalmykia Mr. Valery Bovaev, Chief Arbiter Mr. Geurt Gijssen, Russian Chess Federation

Dear Mr. President,

The Appeals Committee of the World Championship Match between Veselin Topalov and Vladimir Kramnik made the following decision on the protest of the Topalov Team:

“to close both the toilets in the players rest rooms and to open another toilet that will be available only to the two players”

The Kramnik team received the mentioned decision a few hours before the start of game 5 and was officially informed about the protest of Mr. Topalov only yesterday evening, 10 p.m., 28 September 2006. With such a decision the WCC Committee is clearly violating both the rules and regulations of the WCC match and the rights of Mr. Kramnik.

The relevant clause in contract of Mr. Kramnik expels: “FIDE shall provide a rest room and toilette for the players during the WCC match in the playing hall and close to the stage (if possible backstage) to be equipped with a live monitor furnished with coffee and tea as well as with light refreshments.”

The reasons that Mr. Kramnik is entering his own bathroom often is simple: The restroom is small and Mr. Kramnik likes to walk and therefore uses the space of the bathroom as well. The Appeals Committee has been informed about the issue before they decided. It should also be mentioned that Mr. Kramnik has to drink a lot of water during the games.

On the request of Mr. Topalov the agreed live monitors have been removed as well as the shower cabines in the bath rooms. The moves are provided on demonstration boards only. The substance of Mr. Topalov protests (dated 22, 24 and 28 September 2006) were basically always met by the approval of the Appeals Committee. Everything has been done here to satisfy Mr. Topalov’s requests.

On a regulary basis the restrooms and toiletts are heavily checked by specialists, obviously local police forces. This goes together with the arrival of the players. The arbiters are observing all the measures. One representative of each team has the right of being present in order to observe the activities. The playing area is banned from signals and the glas wall protects from any kind of view contact and/or body language. There is not a single reason or evidence to believe that a player would have any kind of cheating possibilities.

It is and was no problem for the organization to assure all necessary measures in order to avoid any kind of cheating. By starting the match both participants agreed all the playing conditions de facto and de jure and the conditions are therefore legally binding. Any change of the playing conditions without a good reason would in our understanding request the approval of both players which is not the case here.

Mr. Kramnik believes that the latest decision should increasingly concern the world of chess as it shows very clearly and once again the biased stand of the Appeals Committee members involved. In person: Mr. Makropolous, Mr. Azmaiparashivili (well known as a close friend to Mr. Danailov), Mr. Gelfer (now replaced by Mr. Vega). Therefore Mr. Kramnik requests to exchange the mentioned persons immediately. Enough is enough.

We would like to add that the recent decision not only insults Mr. Kramnik but is clearly critizing both the excellent work of the local organisation at Elista and the nominated arbiters. Yesterday evening the chief arbiter and the head of the excutive committee once again confirmed that the indirect accusations of cheating are nonsense.

The protests of the Topalov team into the direction of Mr. Kramnik and the suspicions in the press release of Mr. Topalov are utterly disgraceful and are touching Mr. Kramnik’s privacy. We do not think that the Topalov team has any right of getting access to the recordings. This shall be job of the nominated arbiters only.

The Topalov team includes a parapsychologist and more people which are obviously having no other tasks as to distract and to insult Mr. Kramnik especially since their team is realizing that Mr. Topalov finds himself in a difficult situation. This is what we call an utterly unfair behaviour which is not in accordance with the FIDE Code of Ethics. The decision taken by the Appeals Committee can only be seen as another attempt to disturb Mr. Kramniks concentration since it is difficult to understand what kind of improvement it shall be to have one toilet instead of two.

Our team does not trust the objectivity of the Appeals Committee anymore. Therefore it makes no sense for us to bring a protest to this table and Mr. Kramnik strongly insists once again that the members of the Appeals Committee will be changed immediately and that the heads of the Organizing Committee are taking their responsibilities.

In the meanwhile Mr. Kramnik will stop playing this match as long as FIDE is not ready to respect Mr. Kramnik’s rights, in this case to use the toilet of his own restroom whenever he wishes to do so.

Further and more detailed legal investigations are already in process.

On behalf of Vladimir Kramnik
Yours sincerely,
Carsten Hensel
(Manager to Vladimir Kramnik, Classical World Chess Champion)


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-29 14:16:19)
Re:

Very comical situation indeed!!!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-29 16:56:32)
Re:

If game number 5 is declared a loss for Kramnik due to forfeit, then Kramnik made a bad choice by not playing, as it's almost a free point for Topalov who was 2 points adrift. It would seem Topalov's team's psychological warfare/psychological trap has won over by closing the gap. If game number 5 is replayed, Kramnik has gained the upper hand in psychology, and Topalov's team's supposed psychology has backfired on them. I think FIDE is in a very awkward position. FIDE should clearly state who's accusations are true or false and make immediate, clear decisions regarding the whole situation. Otherwise, the World Championship will be seen as a real fiasco.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-09-29 23:40:07)
Re:

Nigel, you seem to have a good point there. If the members of the appeals committee have clear connections to Topalov's team, then the situation is clearly tilted in Topalov's favour.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-01 07:34:31)
Re:

Hello! What's the latest news?!....... Is the Kramnik vs Topalov match going ahead?


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-02 13:30:08)
Re: Kram. vs Top. match......

Game 6 just started with the score standing at Kram. 3: Top. 2. ( Kram. playing "under protest" regarding the earlier game number 5 status ).


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-02 16:33:57)
Re:

Thibault, I'm sure Kramnik is continuing the match NOT mainly for the prize money, because if information I've gathered is correct, the prize money is financed from Kramnik's side. By managing to draw the 6th game, Kramnik has shown that he certainly ain't pyschologically down because of his opponent's antics. If Kramnik goes on to win the championship, the majority of the world is bound to accept him as the one true champion.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-03 01:01:03)
Re:

Thibault, you have made a good observation there. But there's some news that Kirsan might hand over FIDE professional match organization part to Besel Kok, who ran against him at FIDE elections. Kok might decide to have a candidates style of qualifying, instead of knockout.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-07 16:45:18)
Kramnik loses 9th game too.......

Kramnik loses another game in quick succession with the Black pieces this time. His 10th move of ....., dxc4?! was anti-positional, allowing White to expand in the centre with the Bishop pair backing it. Aftre some more mistakes, White broke through the f file by aiming at the weak f7 square.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-08 16:42:04)
Kramnik wins ultra sharp 10th game

Kram. won the 10th game just now. It was a very sharp, complicated game. A real tactical melee! Top. resigned as he was exchange down in an ending.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-11 05:07:06)
Re:

Thibault, IF it goes to a tie break, what's the time limit per game, and how many games?


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-12 14:27:47)
Re:

Game twelve is proceeding. Kram. (White) has a launched a minority attack on the queenside, while Top. (Black) is trying for a kingside attack. Because of the sharp, unbalanced characteristics of the position, this may well turn out to be the deciding game of the championship.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-12 16:57:29)
Re:

The 12th game ended in a very exciting! draw in 47 moves. It goes to a tie-break now.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-12 17:15:04)
Re:

Thibault, what has been the rapid playing form of Kram. & Top. in previous tournaments?!?


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-13 13:54:02)
Tie Break Game No. 1 Is A Draw

Top. (White) & Kram. (Black) drew their 1st tie break game in 47 moves just now.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-13 14:57:27)
Kram. Wins Tie Break Game No. 2

Kram. (White) strategically outplayed Top. (Black) in tie break game no. 2 in 45 moves just now. After Top. conceded the bishop pair, he was forced on the backfoot in an ending, and went down a bishop for just two pawns, at which point he resigned.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-13 16:23:31)
Re: Top. beats Kram in tie break no. 3

Top. attacked and won tie break game no. 3.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-13 17:29:48)
Kram. is World Champion!

Kram. won the decisive tie break game no. 4, and with it the world championship! A fitting end. Hail king Kram. !!! My predictions came true after all.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-14 06:45:39)
Re:

Hi, Utesch, Rada & Thibault, I guess this thread is about me?! Let me clarify...... I am in over 80 games at this time in FICGS, ICCF, LIAPE, and IECG. Quite a few of the games are world championship final matches, world candidate matches & world champioship matches. So I have to naturally concentrate on those critical middle games & end games matches mainly. I'm only human. I have a severe case of catarrh due to break of rest. So in ccertain games I get into time trouble, but as you can see I try to be very creative/original in my games & try to find new variations even in openings.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-14 07:16:49)
Re:

Hi, chess friend Utesch! I have no leave time left, as FICGS only allows 30 days leave, and I had to use it up in the early part of this year. So, there's not a single day of leave for this year. (If you check with Thibault, you'll see that I haven't entered for any new tournaments since more than two months).


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-25 12:55:01)
Re: Rating / 8-game match........

What Utesch says is quite true. But of course it's not the fault of the players of the duels. Simply, the duels system does seem to be a flawed concept!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-10-29 16:13:10)
JUDIT POLGAR ..........

Thibault, Is it possible for Judit Polgar to try/ask for a title shot versus Kramnik?!! If it becomes reality, it might turn out to be a huge attraction. Judit seems to nearing peak form right now. What do FIDE rules say about such a possibility?! Any obstacles?!


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-30 08:54:15)
Re: JUDIT POLGAR

Hi Dinesh.

Seems to be a question a money ?! .. If I remember correctly, Sergey Karjakin was to play Topalov with a 1 M$ prize fund (?), so why not a Judit Polgar vs. Vladimir Kramnik match...

She (probably) only needs a good sponsor and a serious preparation to create such an interesting event... I'm sure Kramnik would play it. I don't remember Judit playing a 6+ game match, but I feel it would be hard for her, first because of Kramnik style (& Judit's).

Anyway, great performance at Essent with a 2-0 mini-match against V. Topalov and I. Sokolov !


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-05 14:12:43)
Re: Fischer : "Now chess is ............

Fischer's case is one which shows that there's a very thin line between brilliancy & lunacy. Lol!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-05 15:06:43)
Re:

Sebastian, tha's an interesting thought. Maybe you're right. If Fischer just stuck to chess only/continued with chess playing, chess analysis & chess commentating (without getting mingled up with other worldly issues & many bizarre views), he would have been better off in life.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-06 05:59:08)
Re:

What was the last tournament Fischer played in?!...... the rematch with Spassky in the 1990s?!?


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-07 15:45:25)
Re:

Charlie, I'm almost certain that Fischer played some sorta return match versus Spassky somewhere in the ninetees in Yugoslavia!?? & won. Maybe Thibault knows some details about it.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-10 14:26:37)
Re:

A translation in English about what was discussed in this forum thread would be useful.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-13 07:41:10)
Re:

Yes, the informations regarding Mr Macarsindale is very interesting! I did some quick research & found out that he speaks quite a number of languages.......English,French,German,Dutch,Portugese.......


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-15 02:17:33)
Re:

He will most probably play semi closed openings & defences, which gives a slight/miniscule advantage or equality somewhere, avoiding early tactical open positions. So we might not see any Sicilian at all as Black in his repertoire. He'll try his best to outwit the computer by sometimes introducing deviations or novelties in the first 25 moves or so.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-11-16 01:56:57)
Something to be changed

Hmmm... Dinesh has his fans :) ... (just a joke)

This has been discussed before : Server chess has clear time rules, some players may "play" with the slow time controls, sometimes for a good reason, sometimes not... It can't be totally prevented (or feel free make suggestions).

Looking at your clocks, that all reached 100 days, I suggest you to play rapid tournaments. This problem won't happen often this way !

Best regards.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-22 05:54:24)
Re:

How much clock time per game per player???


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-22 13:08:37)
Re:

Henceforth there's a good chance of Almira S. and Alexandra K. being dubbed "Pokerhontas" and "Pokermon" respectively in the chess world. Haha!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-23 04:14:40)
Re:

I think I figured it out: 1. A player has to log in to that site at least once every 7 days. 2. A player does not know whether his/her opponent has made a move until he/she logs in to check out. 3. A player who fails to make a move within 7 days loses the game. What I haven't figured out is whether computer analysis is allowed or not. Is it totally banned there???


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-11-23 07:54:47)
Re:

Mr Bell, Thanks for the info! It's a bit different from other sites, but I now have an understanding of it's structure of play. I have registered on your site. I will start playing my first tourney there soon. Best regards.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-12-10 17:37:05)
Re:

I fully agree with the view that the candidates match should be played in 6 games at least, and the knockout tournament should be at least 2 or 3 rounds long.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-12-16 05:39:02)
Re:

The DF 10 vs Kramnik game was a bit disappointing (probably because of Kramnik's shocking blunder & his loss in the last game which gave DF 10 a spiffy looking 4:2 win), but I guess the games were quite interesting to analyse. A World Championship match every 6 months is much too soon. Maybe every 10 months might be more reasonable.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-12-17 04:13:25)
Re:

Thibault, What's the current top 10 correspondence chess websites according to Google?!


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-12-21 10:40:17)
Re:

A real cliffhanger! My opponent Krol is a very good player. When endings are interesting as this, correspondence chess is the ultimate winner.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-12-28 14:04:04)
Re:

There'll obviously be sound detectors, metal detectors etc. in major chess tournaments in the near future to catch cheaters. So, I think that though the bluetooth case is a setback to the integrity of the sport right now, such cases can be detected successfully most of the time.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-12-29 18:33:20)
An English translation needed......

Could any Spanish speaking player please translate the following to English? It would be much appreciated: "Estimados amigos, A fin de evitar mayores problemas en vuestra partida, he decidido que ambos jugadores envíen copia de sus mail obligatoriamente a mi dirección hasta el final de la partida. Yo recibiré esos mails y los archivaré en una carpeta especial."


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-12-30 04:05:26)
Re:

Hi, Thibault No, it's a message from a TS on another correspondence chess website to an opponent & me regarding a game. I need a translation in English as I don't know what the message says.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-12-30 11:41:18)
Re:

Marc! Thanks for the translation! Best regards.


Dinesh De Silva    (2006-12-30 18:06:47)
Re:

Elmer, Thanks.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-01-02 16:36:42)
Re:

Hi, Marc or Elmer I need an English translation for the following message too: " Queria aclararle solamente que yo no había recibido el mail que esta reenviando. Por favor, asegurese que su servidor este funcionando bien. A partir de este momento, de no recibir alguno de vuestros mails, si despues hay un reclamo de parte de alguno de ustedes, deberé tomar como que el mensaje no se envió, cargando el tiempo perdido al jugador en falta. Esta medida la tomaré de ahora en mas a fin de evitar inconvenientes y que la partida finalice de la mejor manera posible. Pasando en limpio, en caso de no tener copias de vuestros envios, deberé decidir a favor del reclamante sin más tramite. Saludos cordiales y Feliz Año Nuevo."


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-01-02 17:58:39)
Re:

Hi, Miguel! Thanks.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-01-02 18:26:09)
Re:

Elmer, Thanks. The translations seem to be correct.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-01-17 14:49:23)
Re:

I had some interesting conversations with Nigel during some games on FICGS last year. It was great that a GM like him played on this site. Best wishes to him.


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-01-18 11:58:31)
Titles update from FIDE / ICCF / IECG

Hello to all.

A reminder : "It is possible to update the best title obtained from FIDE, ICCF or IECG just by sending an email to FICGS."

Rule 11.8 - http://www.ficgs.com/membership.html#rating

I just updated titles from IECG for Dinesh de Silva (FIM), Harry Ingersol (FIM) and Wolfgang Riemer (FEM). Congrats :)


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-09 11:58:30)
Re:

Does Illya Nyzhnyk carry the teddy bear at all times while he plays?! Do you think it's a lucky mascot or something?!


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-10 08:36:07)
Re:

Do you think Illya Nyzhnyk's feelings would be hurt if chess officials ban him from carrying a teddy bear in future tournaments?! Or will they scan/ monitor or even interrogate the teddy bear?! Will Illya lodge a complaint citing cruelty to kids & teddies?! Will this divide the chess world in two?! Lastly, will there be a sizeable increase in sales for similar teddy bears by chess players who might think that these teddies might make them very strong players?!?


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-13 08:45:07)
Re:

What's the latest on this saga?! Does these gestures of Danailov seem to suggest certain precise moves like pawn captures, pawn pushes, piece captures etc?!


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-02-13 15:15:14)
Stage 2

Wladylav and Dinesh just agreed a draw in game 1755 !

Stage 2 will begin thursday.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-17 07:33:13)
Re:

A "Schliemann" variation, isn't it?! Two of the most interesting correspondence chess players I've come across on FICGS are Peter & Krol because they play very exciting lines.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-19 01:02:03)
Re:

Valer's idea is very good. There certainly should be a team from FICGS to take part in the champions league 2007-2009 season.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-23 08:59:26)
Re

What is more interesting is Top. hardly looks like he'll be able to score a full point against anyone in this tourney. Hmm. I wonder why. Ran out of lucky teddy bears perhaps?!!..... Maybe manager demanding a salary increase perhaps? lol.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-23 10:15:35)
Re:

Nicola, Thanks for the update. Yes, this particular Morelia-Linares tourney seems to be the most interesting tourney amongst SuperGMs we have witnessed for quite some time.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-23 13:28:31)
Re:

Nicola, I bet Kasparov will see your comments and will be mighty pleased! Who knows, he just might even give you some free chess lessons. One thing is certain., Kasparov will NOT give Vladimir Putin of Russia any free chess lessons. Haha!


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-24 06:58:50)
Re:

...., Qd5+ leads to an easy draw. How did Topalov miss it? A mystery.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-26 17:49:46)
Re:

Thibault, here's the wager/bet: If your prediction is wrong, you can give me 1000 Euros. If your prediction is right, I can be given 1000 Euros by you.


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-02-26 21:55:34)
:-)

Hi Dinesh. I'm afraid you're a too good statistician ;)


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-02-27 06:46:46)
Re:

Haha! I just had to play that joke on you! Wordplay is such good fun sometimes.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-03-03 17:52:41)
Re:

Interesting & witty observation!


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-03-04 06:53:19)
Re

Samy, best wishes to you., Hope you'll do well at that tourney!


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-03-14 20:18:50)
Re:

Perhaps Sarkozy might win as he's "a Bove" Bayrout, Voynet, Besancenot, de Villiers, Aignant & Nihous. It might be proven again that (the)Pen is mightier than (the) Royal Buffet. Lastly, LaGuiller(tine) will face the chop.


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-03-14 21:24:05)
:-)

haha ! .. well done, do you know a bit of french, Dinesh ? :)


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-03-15 04:51:12)
Re:

A bit........mostly popular words & phrases. I've heard a lot of French songs, and it sounds nice. I plan to learn more of the French language.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-03-16 05:41:41)
Re:

"FIN DE SIECLE", "TOUT LE MONDE", "TU AMOR" (there are French versions, English versions & English+French versions of this song) & "JOE LE TAXI" are amongst my favourites.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-03-16 20:10:47)
Re:

Haha! What you mean is probably Bayrou is the only one with farming skills!? The others can't even ride a bicycle, I suppose?!


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-03-18 06:14:25)
Re:

I have an opinion. It is that no opinion polls should be held at all. To substantiate my opinion, we should hold an opinion poll to decide if there should be or should not be any opinion polls. Whatever the final opinion, the opinion doesn't count. Those who have no opinion at all should let their opinion be known too. Hehe!


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-03-18 14:50:13)
Re:

Well, as opinions might change quickly in a voter's mind even until the final moments of casting a vote, lets call an an election a DECISION POLL.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-05-07 11:44:31)
Re:

Hi, IDA Click on "Waiting lists" & choose a tournament that fits your rating. Once you get used to it, it's easy.


Garvin Gray    (2007-06-04 11:41:42)
Wch 3 in rating order


KAZ Balabaev, Farit 2580

FRA de Vassal, Thibault 2512

USA Ingersol, Harry 2502

NZL Noble, Mark 2497

DEU Schuster, Peter 2480

POL Ostrowski, Leszek 2458

ARG Brunsteins, Daniel 2452

CAN Zubac, Marius 2415

ROU Mathe, Iosif 2414

UKR Khokhlov, Igor 2370

MLT Sammut, Ronald 2362

ROU Helmer, Janos 2343

PRT Pires, Miguel 2270

LKA De Silva, Dinesh 2235

POL Sanner, Zdzislaw 2219

RUS Dyakov, Alexander 2217

DEU Schiller, Wilfried 2217

DEU Koslowski, Volker 2204

DZA Ould Ahmed, Samy 2195

FRA Appendino, Jérome 2192

GBR Taylor, William 2182

GRC Bleker, Frits 2171

DNK Jorgensen, Poulerik 2168

DEU Kesselheim, Peter 2149

CAN Repa, Jason 2144

PRT Louro, Eugénio 2123

USA Kotlyansky, Edward 2114

DEU Markus, Roland 2103

FRA Czekaj, Christophe 2098

AUT Dudulec, Konstantin 2084

CAN Plante, Marc-Eric 2079

LVA Borisovs, Leonids 2078

AUT Mueller, Robert 2069

DEU Unger, Peter 2065

AUT Riha, Josef 2019

POL Skwarczylo, Marek 2018

MUS Stephenson, Andrew 2000

CZE Stanislav, Musil 1990

SCG Vidanovic, Djordje 1966

USA Burden, Don 1959

DEU Haluschka, Rainer 1950

CAN Rotaru, Dan 1937

GBR Wyborn, Graham 1890

GBR Burrows, Nick 1884

POL Broniek, Mariusz Maciej 1879

BIH Dautovic, Dzenan 1875

AUS Gray, Garvin 1863

USA Minkin, Alexander 1850

GBR Josse, Mark 1806

ARM Khachaturov, Vadim 1803

USA Kotlyanskiy, Ilya 1800

DEU Krueger, Karsten 1800

PRT Vasquez, Fernando 1775

DZA Toutaoui, Khaled 1763

DEU Wosch, Arkadiusz 1746

TUR Yuvarlak, Ugur 1732

ROU Hrubaru, Mircea 1726

ARG Carrizo, José 1724

USA Phillip, Lennox 1700

ROU Kondort, Mihai 1700

ROU Ioan, Bucsa 1700

BRA Miranda, Marcus 1691

VEN Flores, Luis 1680

RUS Ruzin, Mikhail 1639

DEU Faust, Dieter 1627

MYS Behrmann, Klaus 1617

FRA Bellanger, Michel 1606

POL Bester, Kazimierz 1600

DEU Nent, Alexander 1593

PRT Oliveira, Carlos 1586

HUN Nagy, Attila 1549

ROU Ionescu, Catalin 1535

HUN Kis-Kos, Laszlo 1512

ITA Lupinacci, Nicola 1492

BEL De Groof, Pieter 1465

DEU Odendahl, Marcel 1462

USA Hendricks, Richard 1459

BRA Queiroz, Florencio 1444

CZE Pech, Jaroslav 1433

USA Goodwin, Adam 1415

HUN Csoma, Robert 1400

USA Gillz, Nicolas 1400

BGR Toktas, Ibrahim Ugras 1400

IND Veeraiah, Karuppaiah 1400

MEX Ortiz Durán, Esteban 1400

TUR Ilhan, Alper 1400

CHE Margot, Alain 1400

TUR Erdonho, Erdinç 1400

USA Lipsits, Sasha 1400

BRA B. Lima, Edmilson 1400

DEU von Buttlar, Paul 1386

HUN Fenyves, Adam 1330

BGR Stoianov, Stoian 1316

GRC Serd, Than 1300

TUR Ak, Murat 1300

GBR Willoughby, Peter 1294

ARG Orden, Jorge 1264

GBR Neil, Charlie 1212

NLD Oldenhof, Dwight 1203

USA Greer, Stephen 1200

BRA Barradas, Anderson 1194

IND Malvankar, Vikrant 1188

BEL Tuteleers, Bruno 1145

DEU Bothe, Matthias 1143

BGR Stoyanov, Zdravko 1136



Dinesh De Silva    (2007-06-26 09:33:10)
Re:

I think there should be at least an option of an extra 10 days to the current 30 days per year. The point is that there are such things as computers breaking down, computers hit with viruses, business travel commitments, planning a holiday etc. I think the majority are not glued to the internet all the time. These factors far outweigh other things. So to relieve the situation, an extra 10 days might be a good idea.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-06-26 13:08:40)
Re:

Alexander has explained it excellently.


Miguel Pires    (2007-06-26 18:23:36)
Vacation

Hi, I ask to Thibault to discuss this in the forum because, like Dinesh De Silva have sayed, you can have a some sort of (i don't have a better word) problems that make you postpone your games. In ICCF at any tournament you have 30 days/vacation for ich tournament. My problem is not with the tournaments with 10/40 Days are in the 30+1. In this first 6 months i've a lot of issues to solve (professional and personal thing's) that i've to postpone a lot. Now thing's are more or less calm, but if we have more time or the rules are equal to ICCF my new tournaments can have 30 days, and if i need to postpone now i can't postpone the oldest and the new tournaments because i've not more days. I now that is the rules but i think more time (Like Gamknot) or the same rule like ICCF can help a lot. Another idia is do like (i think) IECG or IECC, that if you need a special live they can give you that (i think if you have someone in the hospital, important biseness to a long period can feet in the "special leave"). Is only my opinion. Best Regard's Miguel Pires


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-06-27 04:02:55)
DMD / DMA : Dead Man's Attack :)

You know the DMD - Dead Man's Defense... but do you know the Dead Man's Attack ? :))

Dinesh opponents may know this "funny" situation, but this time I prefered to wait the next rating calculation... Sorry Dinesh, I hope you did not sacrifice your sleep this last month (sure not) ;) .. Quite strange anyway, I'm curious to understand.

http://www.ficgs.com/game_2931.html


Wolfgang Utesch    (2007-06-27 06:52:53)
Rules

I think, all we need are rules against unreasonableness! It is impossible a find right rules for Miguel or Dinesh.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-06-27 07:26:44)
Re:

It seems someone is trying to force issues by always trying to be confrontational. Any player who tries to be high & mighty & aggressive is surely unstable. What people like I & Miguel Pires were doing is just making a suggestion & making friendly debate. Maybe there should be a poll to determine if the vacation period should be increased or not. It's all upto Thibault, of course. Whichever way he decides, we as players would accept it in a friendly, calm, peaceful manner, unlike a very few who try to impose their will on matters by thinking they are ALWAYS correct..


Wolfgang Utesch    (2007-06-28 13:40:40)
Thinking in decades of moves

There are many specialists here who are thinking in decades of moves. I mean not the extreme of this, Dinesh, but many other players do it in a moderate way. I accept in principle that it is more effective to use to full capacity of thinking time, because there is a chance, that some players will forfeit in that more time. I think in WCH-Cycle it is much better, because there is no period to control as every move. Perhaps it will be better, if this method can transfused to all other tournaments without changing the average total time for all different types of tournament we have. Just a question.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-06-29 18:19:35)
Re:

Thibault is "Emmanuel Hadet" ???!?


Wolfgang Utesch    (2007-06-29 18:31:28)
Thibault

If Dinesh is right, we've played already together in one tournament (IECG).


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-06-29 20:24:16)
Unsolved

Sorry Dinesh... I'm surprised. I thought it was not so hard :)


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-06-30 02:08:36)
Re:

Rene Teboul


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-06-30 09:49:40)
Re:

Any free beers or soft drinks or fruit drinks being passed around there? I feel very thirsty when I cheer a lot. Hahaaa!!!!!


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-06-30 14:18:41)
Re:

Amir! Best regards on the project. It's a long time since we last heard from you here. I guess you've been busy the last few months taking part in o.t.b. tournaments. Hope things are going well for you.


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-07-04 11:19:11)
:-)

Well done Marc ! .. No, actually Montviel is only the 2nd part of my name "Thibault de Vassal-Montviel" .. a bit long :) .. Still unsolved, Dinesh.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-07-04 12:40:35)
Re:

Utesch is correct......there's no trace of any "Montviel" playing at IECG or ICCF. I have a strong feeling that either Utesch or I have already guessed Thibault's real name somewhere in this thread


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-07-04 22:31:48)
Re:

Utesch, I think you've solved it. "Thibault de Pierrefeu" seems to be correct.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-07-11 13:29:46)
Re:

Zzzzzzzzzzz......and more zzzzzzzzz.


Garvin Gray    (2007-07-11 13:55:22)
nudges all round


Hey Dinesh,

Would you mind giving both Nick and I a nudge when the games start please? :) lol



Dinesh De Silva    (2007-07-11 14:04:49)
Re:

I doubt it.......I'm fast asleep.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. The only one who's almost always awake is Ilmars. Let's tell him to wake us all up when the tourney starts.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-07-13 04:48:27)
A certain email chess website.....

Dear chess friends, I want to bring to your attention that there's a certain chess website (which plays only by email) of a certain South American country where the main Arbitor who owns the website cheats and favours certain players in a world championship final. Playing there is at your own risk.

1.He protects certain players by saving them when they even have stepped the time limit twice. (He cunningly sends the game into adjudication etc., instead of dealing with the proof). 2.When requesting that an opponent should provide email proof in certain critical situations, he protects them by refusing that at all times. 3.He blames the persons who make a claim by saying "Don't Be Rude!", instead of taking action against those who clearly break rules. 4.The website keeps popping in and out on the internet, and the website says its under construction most of the time! 5.He does not send monthly reports to players. 6.He does not show finished games. 7.He stays silent for months and says he has lost files due to a virus. 8.He does not include some finished games in some reports. 9.At least 3 other players have already withdrawn from the tourney. 10.He has extended the tourney twice already! obviously trying to favour his favourite playes who are very slow players to climb up in the list. Pathetic!


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-07-13 13:53:11)
A certain email chess website

Hi Dinesh... May I not know this chess website ?!

Maybe a chance to remind to everyone all chess servers & sites which organize a "correspondence chess world championship" ? .. That could help, without naming it :)

ICCF, FICGS, IECG, ... ?


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-07-13 14:31:34)
Re:

In my opinion, the best chess websites include FICGS, IECG & ICCF, all 3 which I enjoy playing in & where I've never had problems regarding tournaments. Lets hear from other players which good chess websites they enjoy playing in & can recommend.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-07-14 03:59:29)
Re:

Yes, we need help, big time!..... a chip in the brain perhaps. Haha!


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-07-14 09:36:25)
Re:

Yes, Utesch has a point there.


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-07-16 13:54:06)
Dead Man's Attack

Finally, it didn't work... After more than 40 days with less than 9 hours (then 4 hours) at his clock, Dinesh easily reached the time control at move 40 !

Do you ever sleep, Dinesh ? :)


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-07-17 04:53:18)
Re:

Haha! Good point! I actually do sleep. In the game you refer to, I was actually lucky to make the time control. Nevertheless, I had earlier lost a few games due to sleep! as I sometimes missed moves by a mere few seconds to time control. Some of those games I had some good positions Anyway, the main thing here is I enjoy my games win, draw or lose.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-07-17 23:46:42)
Re:

Have to cut down playing too many games, for sure. That's the only answer, methinks.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-08-03 09:39:16)
Re:

I couldn't make any sense out of what this particular thread is about. It sounds like "R2 D2 Computer Speaking". A space fight?!? Some "command" problems in Moscow?!? Some killers & narcotic addicts attacking some game & a god wannabe??!


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-08-03 09:51:36)
Re:

Really? So a serious situation has arisen then? A matter for the police in Moscow to investigate probably.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-08-05 06:45:36)
A translation needed

Can anyone translate for me the following into English: "El final es claramente tablas, no hay forma de forzar la posición, ya que el Rey blanco está mal ubicado y no puede zafar del perpetuo de la Dama negra. El análisis de Luzuriaga comienza con la jugada 48.Qe5+ por lo que se presume que ésa hubiese sido su jugada de continuarse la partida. La réplica negra 48. ... Kg8 que él indica es mala y lleva a una posición perdida para las negras, pero si las negras juegan 48. ...Kh7 como bien indica De Silva en sus análisis no hay forma de ganar el final. He comprobado todas las variantes en la computadora y en todas ellas el resultado es el mismo TABLAS."


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-08-05 08:12:35)
Re:

Tano-Urayoan! Thank you very much for the translation. It seems accurate.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-08-09 06:51:22)
Real names in chess websites

I have some critical suggestions: 1. Chess websites should allow players only to play under their REAL NAMES. Using any nicknames or fake names should be prohibited, as it leads to all sorts of confusion at one point or another. 2. In chess websites, whenever a question of which player to give captaincy arrives, the highest rated player should always be given first choice, UNLESS that player declines or that player has been proven to have broken rules or rules state a specific way of choosing a captain. 3. In chess websites, accusations against any player should be rejected IF there is no clear proof. 4. Players who still continue abusing each other after some warnings should be disqualified/thrown out. There should be no favourations whatsoever. 5. When awarding titles, it should be clearly stated from where the title was earned fom. For example, if a player gets an IM title at Igame, it should be stated as Igame IM.


Ivan Pljusnin    (2007-08-10 01:06:34)
2 Dinesh De Silva

As an IGAME player I express my opinion. Everything is not so simple!

1. Some strong chessplayers like Morozevich on ICC would not like to show their real names. Should they all be driven away from all chess cites? I am not sure. :-)

2. Your rating-leader is Viktor Savinov, he have not played a single game here. Our rating-leader is Polina. Are you sure that they should be the captains of our teams?

3,4. Legendary chessplayers like Viktor Kortchnoj or Bobby Fischer are sometimes abusive. But I am not sure that they should be driven away.

5. There is no any titles on IGAME. We are anonymous Russian amateours.

In general, I think that chess cites of all kinds are necessary and useful. And a chessplayer must have a choice: FICGS, IGAME, ICCF, GAMEKNOT, PLAYCHESS.DE, CHESSHERE and so on. Each cite has its own customs and traditions.

By the way, it makes matches between them more interesting. I believe in IGAME anonymous fighters. :-)

Best wishes, Mobutu (my IGAME nickname)


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-08-12 23:28:00)
Re: Your Best Quotes

"At Last I Discovered The True Beauty Of Chess. So I Proposed To Her!"


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-08-13 06:11:01)
Re: Your best quotes!

"The 'MOVERS & SHAKERS' Of This World Are Those Who Play Chess In The Mornings & Go To The Disco In The Evenings."


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-08-13 06:14:26)
lol

You're inspired tonight, Dinesh :)


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-08-20 06:04:54)
Re: Your Best Quotes

"Kasparov's greatest move was showing the rest of the world that the darkest part of Rasputin still survives & terrorises Russian politics."


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-08-21 06:05:03)
Re: Your Best Quotes

"All Politicians Must Be Presumed Guilty Until They Are Proven Innocent."


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-08-21 10:59:39)
Re: Your Best Quotes

"The World Started Laughing The Day My Funny Bone Decided To Go On A Global Joke Trip."


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-09-15 12:59:08)
IECG WC 2006 final

As the IECG WC 2006 final just started, this is a good time to end the game. Quite surprising but finally, after 2 or 3 discussions about it, noone solved it and found me (some really looked for though) ;)

Clues were : Playing this year in a world championship final, birthdate (1973-04-13), first FICGS rating (2407, IECG rating), movies (a few players at IECG and FICGS knew about it, the trailer of 'A Clockwork Orange' where the other name is mentioned...


Here is the message I sent to my opponents :

"Dear chessfriends,

That's a real pleasure and honor to play my first IECG WC final with you all. Dinesh, Carlos, Farit, Massimiliano and John, nice to play again :)

I'm 34, single, living in the center of France... I play correspondence chess since 2002, IECG is the place I started with.

I made a few strange movies and videos a few years ago (soon available on the internet) :)

http://www.ficgs.com/psi/download/psi_divx411_vost_720x360.avi
http://www.ficgs.com/psi/download/A_clockwork_orange_2005__teaser.avi

http://www.ficgs.com/psi/download/Aphex_Twin_-_Inkeys_video_clip.avi


I wanted to play correspondence chess under my director's name but I'm now more known in our small CC world as Thibault de Vassal... I'm the webmaster of FICGS - http://www.ficgs.com , another Correspondence Chess Server, where I knew some of you :) .. Sorry about the confusion. I don't know how IECG rules will apply, I hope I can play this tournament anyway.

Best of luck to all !

David Gordh."


TS: Gordon Evans
+---------------------------------+---+----+----+---+---+----+----+------+-----+
|IECG WC-2006-F-00001 1 1 1 1 1 1 | | | |WC 2006 Tournament # 00001 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 | Tot | Plc |
+---------------------------------+---+----+----+---+---+----+----+------|-----|
| 18149 Robson, Nigel ENG 2646 | # | 0,0 | |
| 16702 Sirota, Anatoli AUS 2553 | # | 0,0 | |
| 19142 Pappier, Carlos ARG 2518 | # | 0,0 | |
| 18096 Chovanec, Milan SVK 2508 | # | 0,0 | |
| 15446 Makovsky, Petr CZE 2500 | # | 0,0 | |
| 11273 Blanco, Cesar GUA 2451 | # | 0,0 | |
| 13336 Gordh, David FRA 2443 | # | 0,0 | |
| 17738 De Silva, Dines SRI 2425 | # | 0,0 | |
| 10969 Rocca, Horacio ARG 2422 | # | 0,0 | |
| 17342 Perez, Brigilia PHI 2410 | # | 0,0 | |
| 16273 Fiala, Jaroslav CZE 2406 | # | 0,0 | |
| 13552 Claridge, John WLS 2403 | # | 0,0 | |
| 21524 Balabaev, Farit KAZ 2398 | # | 0,0 | |
| 15174 Massimini Gerbi ITA 2363 | # | 0,0 | |
| 18311 Bendig, Frank GER 2341 | # | 0,0 | |
+---------------------------------+-------------------------------+------+-----+
Rating Average = 2452 Category = 9 Start date: 12.09.2007


I didn't know that I would create FICGS when I registered at IECG and I prefered to use my director's name. I hope you don't mind. Sorry to Igor Khokhlov, Harry Ingersol and Farit Balabaev (I played them under both names).

Best wishes, Thibault


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-10-21 15:40:41)
Re:

Don, I think Kasparov didn't have much of a humour a few months back. But I guess he might have recently looked at the jokes we crack here regularly at FICGS & decided to join in the (humour) act at talk shows, joke shows, this show, that show etc. Hehe!


Don Groves    (2007-10-22 07:14:48)
Re: Kasparov and humour

Hi, Dinesh -- Kasparov seemed so relaxed and spontaneous with his humour on the show, it seemed like he had been that way all his life. Maybe he has been lurking on FICGS for quite a while ;-)


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-10-22 09:27:29)
Re:

Haha!!! You might be correct after all. Lets keep a look out for a humorous guy who likes to dabble in a lot of political talk & who has immense playing skill.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-11-22 03:57:13)
Is the IECG lss.chess-server down today?

Thibault, Is the IECG server down today? I tried to connect to make moves, but been unable to log in to it for hours now.


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-11-22 04:23:12)
IECG chess server

Hi Dinesh !

The server is not really down but I can't login, so Ortwin may be working on the site...


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-11-22 04:28:16)
Thanks

Thibault, thanks for your very quick reply. It's much appreciated.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-11-22 21:12:35)
Re:

I still can't log in. It's been almost a day now. Attempts to login to the server results in the login page being redisplayed without any error message. Attempts to open forum.chess-server.net results in "MySQLi error: 2002 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)"


Glen D. Shields    (2007-11-23 00:57:19)
I Can't Login Either

Dinesh - it's about 7 PM Eastern US time Nov 22nd and I'm not able to log in to the IECG server either. I'm sure that's frustrating if you want to get some moves entered. Good luck.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-11-25 02:34:36)
Re:

Svante, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-12-19 03:37:40)
Re:

"Methinks King Thibault should dub Marius Zubac a knight of the square board.....I mean table, henceforth addressing him as 'Sir Marius, and bestow on him a suitable land from the kingdom of FICGS & marry him off to a worthy, fair maiden, lest he slice our heads with his mighty sword in his wrath."


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-12-19 12:01:29)
Re:

My esteem gratitude to brave soldier Wolfgang for enlightening me on relevant matters. As thou spoke the truth, thou art bestowed with many titles, lands & fair maidens. For good measure, thou gets the chopping block too, free of charge."


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-12-19 18:08:38)
High level performance

Right, many congratulations to Marius, at least for beating Marc (who made a good tournament too) with the Black pieces !

And congrats to Dinesh for "submitting" new great quotes with an interesting Nietszche-like written style to FICGS files :)) (if you agree, of course)


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-12-20 11:11:23)
Re:

Thibault, as though spake with a truly righteous tongue, I conform to thy suggestion. Henceforth the cup of mirth overfloweth.


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-12-20 17:34:09)
Also sprach Dinesh

:))


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-12-22 09:22:06)
Re:

I think the player with the higher entry rating in that stage.


Thibault de Vassal    (2007-12-22 14:26:28)
Highest TER qualifies

Dinesh is right. There was many discussions to justify this rule in the forum. Statistically (for correspondence chess) the rating may be more important than performance to know who has more chances to win a tournament. Anyway this is only a rule.


Dinesh De Silva    (2007-12-25 07:52:34)
Re:

Seems like there's not much Christmas cheer this year!?! Maybe because Santa got run over by a stray reindeer yesterday , Mrs Claus ran away with billions of dollars collected over the years & the elves are on strike. No Christmas gifts for anybody!


Dinesh De Silva    (2008-01-06 11:04:48)
Re: FICGS i .o. FICS :-)

First it was "hanging chads" that became popular. Now it's a "hanging G", I guess. The "G" seems to be in the spotlight these days. Hence a G spot.


Dinesh De Silva    (2008-01-07 11:30:35)
Re: holidays and forfeit

"Verily I say that Viktor is a Victim of his own Vacation which is a long Voyage taken Voluntarily, due to non Visits that will cost him Victory!?"


Dinesh De Silva    (2008-01-09 11:42:24)
Re:

"Viva!!! It's great to see top players with such integrity here in the First FICGS GM tournament."


Dinesh De Silva    (2008-09-15 19:02:43)
Re: acronym for FICGS

FICGS = "Fricking Interesting Chess & Games Server". lol!


Dinesh De Silva    (2008-11-16 20:57:27)
Re:

Strange. I thought "experimented players" meant players abducted mysteriously by an elusive Dr Frankenstein, taken to a secret medical lab, experimented on, given a massive electrical shock & transformed into bizarre, horrific monsters.


Dinesh De Silva    (2008-11-19 06:31:14)
Re:

Hehe!


Dinesh De Silva    (2008-11-20 19:29:38)
Re: Are female chess players 'macho?'

Eureka!!! I think I've got it....I've solved a great, longstanding mystery! The aforementioned strong, 'macho' female chess players were actually MEN in WOMENS' DISGUISE! Whoa!!!!!


Dinesh De Silva    (2009-01-17 11:18:33)
GAMES STEALER ON THE LOOSE? LOL!

All my games have vanished! Even the established rating list has disappeared. Who's "THE GREAT ERASER?" lol!


Dinesh De Silva    (2009-05-04 12:09:54)
I have some new names for teams

1.Pickled Pawns.
2.Boasty Bishops.
2.Wicked Kings.
4.Dancing Doughnuts.
5.Terrible Losers.
6.Cheesy Nuts.
7.SquareOnTheHypotenus Rooks.
Hehe!


Dinesh De Silva    (2009-05-05 12:32:35)
Re:

I heard G.W. Bush was ghostwriting a horror book for Scott titled "Axes Of Evil".


Dinesh De Silva    (2009-07-21 07:00:52)
Re:

It's been widely rumoured that when the big "K" met the big "O", big "K" asked for some of the stimulus money that big "O" was dishing out at record speed. Unfortunately, that question proved to be end of their friendship. lol!


Dinesh De Silva    (2010-02-14 07:06:24)
Accept Draw and resign......

It's an act of confused consciousness, which might be made out of generosity or curiosity, but which ultimately leads to a loss of half a point for oneslf plus a loss of rating points for oneself which through the law of 'a reaction for every action' guarantees the opponent some gains, thereby making the initial decision maker a "bad clicker!".


Thibault de Vassal    (2011-11-13 19:52:28)
List ordered by rating

Here is, but as usual the new ratings (january 2012) will be taken in account...

Erwin Thiering 2515
Michael Bergmann 2475
Xavier Pichelin 2454
Thibault de Vassal 2449
Herbert Kruse 2436
Pavel Háse 2332
Ljubomir Tsenkov 2314
Rubén Cómes 2300
Wayne Lowrance 2266
Dariusz Fraczek 2261
Ramil Germanes 2255
Miroslav Gazi 2255
Alexander Blinchevsky 2253
Michael Sharland 2251
Sergey Kokoryukin 2251
Andrey Razumikhin 2250
Valery Nemchenko 2245
Lubos Fric 2241
Kevin D. Plant 2237
Christoph Schroeder 2236
Viktor Shishkin 2234
Slobodan Ilic 2218
Dmitri Mamrukov 2211
Vitaly Rudenko 2203
Alvin Alcala 2203
Carlos Sánchez 2203
Garvin Gray 2200
Scott Nichols 2189
Peter Unger 2181
Martin Zeman 2181
Christian Koch 2167
Stephen Hamby 2163
John Schutte 2136
David Evans 2132
Nelson Bernal Varela 2130
Darren DiAlfonso 2123
Ardiantez Polkwitzauer 2123
Thomas Dineen 2118
Peter W. Anderson 2112
Steve Lim 2110
Yu Ming Hoe 2100
Arkadiusz Wosch 2093
Djordje Kasabasic 2093
Luis Flores 2084
Daniel Parmet 2083
Lalit Kapoor 2080
Erik L. van Dijk 2074
Bernd Wolf 2072
Jose Lopez 2071
Sergey Uzdin 2064
Rodolfo d Ettorre 2064
Janos Helmer 2063
Om Prakash 2053
Mykola Simashkevitch 2043
Alexis Duenas 2037
Ireneusz Kasznia 2036
Mihail Larsky 2028
Joop Simmelink 2026
Pan Hardfeldt 2020
Henri Muller 2000
Jaroslav senior Pech 2000
Jaroslaw Gibas 2000
Bogoljub Teverovski 1997
Willy De Waele 1996
Fernando Vasquez 1992
Jose Moreira 1979
Andrew Endean 1975
Henri-Louis Muller 1972
Jose Maria Velasco 1972
Jordi Domingo 1969
Janeen Walden 1958
Andy Richard 1956
Roberto Migliorini 1949
Erika van Dijk 1943
Daniel Reboredo 1938
Coco Maceda 1938
Michael Rogers 1933
Aleksandr Aksenov 1927
Mariusz Maciej Broniek 1923
Robert Wilhelm 1901
Kieran Moore 1900
John Dyson 1889
Catalin Nita 1888
Daniel Jabot 1878
Johanes Suhardjo 1875
Mikhail Ruzin 1871
Benjamin Block 1863
Ilmar Ambos 1859
Vyacheslav Shchelykalin 1859
Jan Peter Lommler 1844
Stanislas Gounant 1840
Mircea Hrubaru 1838
Sasha Lipsits 1833
Nilson Pereira 1833
Aleksey Payzansky 1804
Jai Prakash Singh 1800
Fredi Brumec 1800
Gleen Duran 1800
Josef Strohmeier 1800
Ryszard Sternik 1776
Stepan Pech 1767
Dieter Faust 1764
Dmitriy Malish 1760
Dimitrios Ropokis 1743
Hasan Kirali 1715
Eddit Moreul 1700
Behzad Shahmiri 1700
Jaimie Wilson 1684
Dinesh Bhandarkar 1682
Philip Roe 1667
Olli Ylönen 1660
Graham Cridland 1655
Juan Alvar 1653
Jeremy Banta 1644
Luís Gonzaga Grego 1643
Pablo Siciliano 1623
Mariusz Jandula 1600
Sergey Biryukov 1598
Alejandro Canovas 1589
Jimmy Huggins 1577
Matthew O Brien 1575
Pablo Ruano 1565
Khaled Toutaoui 1528
Stanimir Denchev 1505
Leo Malagar 1500
Richard Hendricks 1479
Eric Price 1469
Antonio Pereira 1456
Angelo Piantadosi 1420
Simon Huxtable 1388
Peter Krakovsky 1326
Marc-Antoine Leurette 1243
Jorge Orden 1204
Hana Pechova 1204
Jorma Häkkinen 1192
Des Jefferis 1186
Deon Whittaker 1111
Matej Pech 1074
Jiri Mach 1022
Cédric Cavaillé 1003
Jay Melquiades 0909
Jaroslav Pech 0697


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (2013-01-10 05:47:43)
Chess Server Team Tournament

Iam interested


Neel Basant    (2013-01-10 14:40:30)
Chess Server Team Tournament

Confirmed( Interested) Players according to replies.


1.Daniel Parmet
2.Alvin Alcala
3.Bogoljub Teverovski
4.Nick Burrows
5.Wayne Lowrance
6.Neel Basant
7.Ostap Hladky
8.Niklas Hallqvist
9.Arkadiusz Wosch
10.Daniel Blike
11.Josef Zmolil
12.Jiri Mach
13.Jose Moreira
14.Om Prakash
15.John Worthington
16.Garvin Gray
17.Arnab Sengupta
18.Ray Downs
19.Valery Nemchenko
20.Dinesh Bhandarkar
21.Shih-Chu Liao
22.Frits Bleker
23.Thomas Hasyn
24.Sergey Demchenko
25.Maxim Genchev
26.Mathaios Vardoulakis
27.Claudio Cabrera
28.Kieran Moore
29.
30.

Wow..
What a response!!!!!
sure Within 2/3 days will be more than 100 players.
Thib will have a headache while selecting 30 players..


Daniel Parmet    (2013-01-10 18:11:49)
Chess Server Team Tournament

I volunteer to be team captain. But we now have 31 players wanting to play. Also I would point out that we will probably get slaughtered on the lower boards as things stand right now. I saw at least one person wanting an ICCF team average of 2300. I would point out that I think a 2000 player here is 2300 over there but as things stand our FICGS rating average is 1964 based on the top 30 players ratings. For the 9 players that do have ICCF ratings our rating average is 2235.

Here is what information I could collect on our team so far:
Name FICGS Rating ICCF ID ICCF Rating TITLE Comment
1 Ostap Hladky 2527 941012 FIM
2 Valery Nemchenko 2521 940836 2465
3 Frits Bleker 2313 220159 2395
4 Garvin Gray 2281 30503 1993
5 Alvin Alcala 2237 896046
6 Wayne Lowrance 2194 FIM
7 Maxim Genchev 2187 940752 2309 Wants ICCF average of 2300
8 Arkadiusz Wosch 2169 89923 2307
9 Neel Basant 2138 280279
10 Daniel Parmet 2098 514938 2300
11 Om Prakash 2091 280243
12 Bogoljub Teverovski 2083 862003
13 Niklas Hallqvist 2082 451419
14 Kieran Moore 2042 260252
15 William Fuller 2033 514688 2350
16 Dmitry Tsimbalenko 1959 142268
17 Sergey Demchenko 1955 142224 2077
18 Nick Burrows 1944 212164
19 Rich Pinkall Pollei 1900 515095
20 Daniel Blike 1874 515250
21 Jose Moreira 1831 Are you the IM Jose Moreira id#399007, Rating 2390?
22 Thomas Hasyn 1808 865001 1922
23 Mathaios Vardoulakis 1800
24 Dinesh Bhandarkar 1707
25 Shih-Chu Liao 1660
26 Josef Zmolil 1632
27 Ray Downs 1536
28 John Worthington 1510 515287
29 Claudio Cabrera 1462
30 Arnab Sengupta 1340 280192
31 Jiri Mach 1010


Don Groves    (2014-01-24 03:46:02)
Is this OUR Dinesh?

http://www.businessinsider.com/dinesh-dsouza-indicted-campaign-finance-fraud-2014-1
--
don


Thibault de Vassal    (2014-01-24 19:43:42)
Is this OUR Dinesh?

You mean Dinesh Bhandarkar ?!




There are 56 results for dinesh in wikichess.


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1726)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 d3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1726)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 d3 Bc5 Bg5

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1726)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 d3 Bc5 Bg5 h6 Bh4

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1726)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 d3 Bc5 Bg5 h6 Bh4 O-O Be2

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1726)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 d3 Bc5 Bg5 h6 Bh4 O-O Be2 Re8 O-O

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1726)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 d3 Bc5 Bg5 h6 Bh4 O-O Be2 Re8 O-O Be7 a3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1726)
e4 c6 d4 d5 Nc3 dxe4 Nxe4 Bf5 Ng3 Bg6 N1e2 e5

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1726)
e4 c6 d4 d5 Nc3 dxe4 Nxe4 Bf5 Ng3 Bg6 N1e2 e5 dxe5 Qxd1

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1726)
e4 c6 d4 d5 Nc3 dxe4 Nxe4 Bf5 Ng3 Bg6 N1e2 e5 dxe5 Qxd1 Kxd1 Nd7

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1726)
e4 c6 d4 d5 Nc3 dxe4 Nxe4 Bf5 Ng3 Bg6 N1e2 e5 dxe5 Qxd1 Kxd1 Nd7 Bf4 O-O-O

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 a6 Ba4 Nge7 c3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 c5 Nf3 d6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 Nf6 Nc3 g6 Bc4 Bg7

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 a6 Ba4 Nge7 c3 Ng6 d4

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 a6 Bxc6 dxc6 O-O Bd6 d4 f6 dxe5

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 c5 Nf3 d6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 Nf6 Nc3 g6 Bc4 Bg7 f3 Nc6

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 c5 Nf3 d6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 Nf6 Nc3 g6 Bc4 Bg7 f3 Nc6 Be3 O-O

Transpose to wikichess #15853#

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 a6 Bxc6 dxc6 O-O Bd6 d4 f6 dxe5 fxe5 Nxe5

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 a6 Bxc6 dxc6 O-O Bd6 d4 f6 dxe5 fxe5 Nxe5 Nf6 Nc4

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 a6 Ba4 Nge7 c3 Ng6 d4 b5 Bc2

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 Nge7 O-O a6 Bc4 Ng6 Nc3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 Nge7 O-O a6 Bc4 Ng6 Nc3 Bc5 Nd5

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 a6 Ba4 Nge7 c3 Ng6 d4 b5 Bc2 Be7 d5

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 a6 Ba4 Nge7 c3 Ng6 d4 b5 Bc2 Be7 d5 Nb8 a4

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 Nge7 O-O a6 Bc4 Ng6 Nc3 Bc5 Nd5 d6 c3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 d4 exd4 O-O Bc5 e5 d5 exf6 dxc4 Re1 Be6 Ng5 Qxf6

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 Be2 Bc5 O-O d6 a3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 Be2 Bc5 O-O d6 a3 a6 d3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 Be2 Bc5 O-O d6 a3 a6 d3 h6 h3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 c5 d4 cxd4 c3 dxc3 Nxc3 e6

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 Be2 Bc5 O-O d6 a3 a6 d3 h6 h3 Be6 Be3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 e5 Nf3 f5 Nxe5 Qf6 Nc4 fxe4 Nc3 Qg6 d3

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Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 e5 Nf3 f5 Nxe5 Qf6 Nc4 fxe4 Nc3 Qg6 d3 exd3 Bxd3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 e5 Nf3 f5 Nxe5 Qf6 Nc4 fxe4 Nc3 Qg6 d3 exd3 Bxd3 Qe6 Be3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 c5 d4 cxd4 c3 dxc3 Nxc3 e6 Nf3 Nc6

Transpose to wikichess #1989#

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 c3 e6

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Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
d4 d5 c4 dxc4 e3 e5 Bxc4 exd4 exd4 Nf6 Nf3

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Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 c3 e6 d4 cxd4

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 c3 e6 d4 cxd4 cxd4 d5

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 c3 e6 d4 cxd4 cxd4 d5 e5 Bb4

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 e5 Nf3 f5 Nxe5 Qf6 Nc4 fxe4 Nc3 Qg6 d3 exd3 Bxd3 Qe6 Be3 Bb4 O-O

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 c3 e6 d4 cxd4 cxd4 d5 e5 Bb4 Nc3 Nge7

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 c3 e6 d4 cxd4 cxd4 d5 e5 Bb4 Nc3 Nge7 Bd3 Nf5

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1682)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 Nge7 O-O a6 Bc4 Ng6 Nc3 Bc5 Nd5 d6 c3 O-O d4

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1654)
e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 c3 e6 d4 cxd4 cxd4 d5 e5 Bb4 Nc3 Nge7 Bd3 Nf5 O-O O-O

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 f5 Nc3 Nd4 Bc4 c6

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 f5 Nc3 Nd4 Bc4 c6 Nxe5 Qf6

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 f5 Nc3 Nd4 Bc4 c6 Nxe5 Qf6 f4 fxe4

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 f5 Nc3 Nd4 Bc4 c6 Nxe5 Qf6 f4 fxe4 Bf7 Kd8

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 f5 Nc3 Nd4 Bc4 c6 Nxe5 Qf6 f4 fxe4 Bf7 Kd8 O-O Nh6

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 f5 Nc3 fxe4 Nxe4 d5 Nxe5 dxe4 Nxc6 bxc6 Bxc6

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 f5 Nc3 fxe4 Nxe4 d5 Nxe5 dxe4 Nxc6 bxc6 Bxc6 Bd7 Qh5

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Nf6 e3 Bg4 Bxc4

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Nf6 e3 Bg4 Bxc4 e6 a3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Nf6 e3 Bg4 Bxc4 e6 a3 Nbd7 Nbd2

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Nf6 e3 Bg4 Bxc4 e6 a3 Nbd7 Nbd2 Bd6 Qb3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar


Dinesh Bhandarkar    (1707)
d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Nf6 e3 Bg4 Bxc4 e6 a3 Nbd7 Nbd2 Bd6 Qb3 Nb6 Bd3

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Contributors : Dinesh Bhandarkar






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