yes, the practice is the most important in my opinion

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:10:57 -0700 (PDT), Sanny <softtanks@hotmail.com Which are the top 5 best players in the world? What is the rating of each player? Here is what I think I suppose Best Player is Anand. Second best is Kasparov Third best is Kramnik Fourth best is Topalov Fifth best is Karpov I do not know rating of each I have chosen them as per their populatity. Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html From a website I got more details about best players of the world. Cu...

An interview with Albena and Maxim in Russian magazine 'Otdohni" /Relax/ I tried to do the translation but neither my English or Russian are perfect and i hope you'll understand most of it. http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...untitled-7.jpg http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t12/vani4kabg/o.jpg http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t12/vani4kabg/am.jpg http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t12/vani4kabg/ma.jpg Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski "It is one thing to skate together and another -to live...

What follows an attempt to illustrate the move orders in the debate over the e3 before …e6 issue that has bubbled up in a couple of threads in the d-Pawn Specials Forum. At the very least the placement of the Colle Zukertorte order has been put in question. I hope I’ve clarified the parameters of this issue so some excellent chess minds can cast some light on whether …e6 before e3 really matters?   Decisions about move orders and lines used in this repertoire file were made using the "Selection...

Anyone who plays creep will agree that if there is something more annoying than a chain mezz, its a 95% slowdown to a snail speed. I raise a question, why is one side allowed to reduce the movement speed of the other side so drastically? Arent the mezzes, stuns and roots enough? In my opinion, PvP combat is much more satisfying, if both sides can move at high speed, dynamic combat is more fun, opens for more skill in play, calls out for clever skill use and strategy both in duel, and in raid. If...

To all chess community: Recently we had a very long discussion on chess database logics and what quality means for different kind of chess players (although on different forum www.talkchess.com) But it still worth to mention it. The post started innocently with posting 52,000 games for free on A00 - Irregular Openings and informing chess community where to download it. (you can still find at http://www.openingmaster.com ) One of the last topics raised by James Constance was talking about dedupli...