Magnus just won Nanjing with a performance over 3000! He also crossed the 2800 rating mark. Former Women’s World Champion Xu Yuhua won the Nanjing Women’s Grand Prix. Anna Zatonskih is leading the 2009 US Women’s Championship.
It’s Saturday Open Forum. The forum is yours. What would you like to discuss?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
The chess notations on your puzzles, seem to be gibberish. Can you point me to a web site that explains them.
Thanks Jim
I would like to talk about a concept, which makes me think for many years. Supposedly top chess players are on the top, because they can think ahead more than their opponents. Let’s assume that it doesn’t matter how and why, but they can.
How many famous chess players made an impact in anything else, other than chess, by being able to think ahead more than other people?
Take perhaps the most significant example, Kasparov. If he really were able to think ahead that much more than anyone else, in politics, shouldn’t he have known that he has zero chance to become president of Russia, or even play any significant role?
Jim, the “notation” under the diagrams are FEN strings, which can be copy-pasted into most chess programs to produce the diagrams.
JC
‘I would like to talk about a concept, which makes me think for many years.’
You need to think a few years more.
“You need to think a few years more.”
Hahahahahaha!
“Supposedly top chess players are on the top, because they can think ahead more than their opponents. Let’s assume that it doesn’t matter how and why, but they can.”
This is rubbish. They don’t look ahead any more than we patzers do.
And this isn’t either supposingly or assuming – it’s a fact.
‘This is rubbish. They don’t look ahead any more than we patzers do.’
Hahahahahaha!
‘Hahahahahaha!’
Yes, I can hear beginners shouting anonymously. Loud and clear.
“Yes, I can hear beginners shouting anonymously. Loud and clear.”
Aw don’t go away mad!
Just go away.
hahahah