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Posted by estebanw jagbytes.com 11/15/2007 09:30:44 Play online chess	Subject: "Analyze the board" curse Message: I enjoy tremendously playing at GK. It is great to play at your own pace and not having pressure with time. My ranking has been steadily rising lately (> 1550) and you know how happy that makes us feel. However, one of the main reasons for my success is my frequent (addiction) use of the wonderful "Analyze the Board" feature. I do not have the opportunity to play a live person, but I am sure that the quality of my play would decrease significantly in a live tournament. Am I condemned to be a GK player? Can someone else tell their experiences and opinions?
Posted by sf115 jagbytes.com 11/15/2007 10:12:06 Play online chess	Message: I wouldn't worry about it too much. Although you're not allowed to use an "analyze the board" feature a match, actual chess pieces are easier to analyse (English spelling). Also all you need is experence on the chess board. If you play a lot you can analyse in your head just as well as you can now on GK. If you are worried then maybe analysing the position as much as you can in your head and then use the "analyze the board" feature.
Posted by lighttotheright jagbytes.com 11/15/2007 11:07:23 Play online chess	Message: There is something about physical 3-D pieces that makes is easier to find good lines of play. Whenever I find myself in a difficult situation in one of my GK games, I sometimes break out one of my umpteen gillion boards and set-up the position. This helps me. But make sure is is the exact position. Set-up mistakes of this nature can be costly. I also practice quick 10 minute time limit chess, every now and then. The GK experience is actually improving my chess skills tremendously in quick chess. Maybe because I'm forced to analyse more carefully. Quick play on GK can be an asset too. People not used to playing fast will sometimes try to mimic the fast play and get themselves into trouble. Playing quick and slow improves both kinds of play in my experience. ——— Magnus Carlsen's chess rating continues to rise after another tournament win — Magnus Carlsen is on a roll, tearing up the record books. In the past year the Norwegian, 22, has triumphed in four major chess tournaments, losing only one game in the process. His 2872 rating is 20 ahead of Garry Kasparov's peak, 60 in front of his nearest rival and nearly 90 up on Bobby Fischer's best. Carlsen's 10/13 total at Tata Wijk last week equalled Kasparov's 1999 record for the premier Dutch event. He scored with incisive attacks, squeezed full points from tight endgames, and exuded casual self-confidence. In the past he has often been self-critical but after Wijk he said: "I feel I got the maximum out of every game." Yet nagging questions remain as Carlsen prepares for the €510,000 candidates chess tournament starting ...
Posted by wschmidt jagbytes.com 11/15/2007 12:51:25 Play online chess	estebanw, Message: I'm a much weaker player OTB. Nerves, time-trouble, oversights and opening problems - I suffer from them all. I still enjoy the battle though, especially as I get a little older and I have less ego involvement in the event. * I'll second sf115's suggestion that you can use the GK experience to strengthen OTB play. Using the analysis board only after I do the visualization myself is something I do a lot. Another, which someone suggested on these pages long ago, is to strengthen your opening play by replaying the opening moves of the game each time you look at a GK game. It is a great help in learning a repertoire. * I haven't tried light's suggestion of setting up a board for GK analysis, but I like that idea too. I'll be giving it a try. ws ——— Magnus Carlsen Eyeing the World Chess Title — After triumphing in two major chess tournaments, in London in December and in Wijk aan Zee in January, Magnus Carlsen is a clear favorite to win the eight-player Candidates event in London (March 15-April 1). The world's top-rated chess player is the only Western-born competitor in the field, all his opponents having been born in the Soviet Union. The winner of the double-round robin will play in the world chess championship match against the titleholder Vishy Anand. Why should Carlsen win? Let's have a look at his recent victory at the 75th Tata Steel Chess tournament in the Dutch coastal town of Wijk aan Zee. After seven rounds Carlsen was neck and neck with the world chess Champion Vishy Anand, both at 5/7. But in the last ...
Posted by suzyfromflorida jagbytes.com 11/16/2007 00:30:32 Play online chess	Analyse the Board Message: I use the "Analyse the Board" feature BIG TIME! I never said this to anyone, but, in my heart of hearts, I feel like it's cheating -- even though I know it's not cheating. Now please understand, I use it and will continue to use it and love it very much because it's really a great learning aid. But I think it's cheating -- well let me rephrase that!: I suspect it's a KIND OF cheating, or a COUSIN to cheating because suppose I'm playing chess in real life and then my opponent makes his/her move. Now suppose I pull out another board and start making all the moves I look at in the "Analyse the Board" feature. I can't imagine the look on my opponent's face if I did that! WAIT!!! I JUST FIGURED IT OUT! But what if my opponent could do the same thing and what if we agreed beforehand that we would allow practicing on the side? Then, it would NOT be cheating, because this would become the new RULE of our game. And each side could practice and we would accept it as part of the game. Okay, thanks! I feel better now! Using the "Analys the Board" feature here is definitely NOT cheating! Thanks for clearing this up in my mind for me! ——— Carlsen steamrolls elite chess field in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands — Not since the days of Thor has a Norwegian wielded such a mighty hammer. Obliterating a world-class field, Norway chess superstar GM Magnus Carlsen has taken the first major chess tournament of the year, winning the elite Tata Steel “A” Tournament with a stunning 10-3 score, matching the record total for the event set by former world chess champion and onetime Carlsen coach Garry Kasparov. With a last-round draw against Dutch GM Anish Giri, Carlsen finished 1½ points ahead of Armenian chess star GM Levon Aronian and two full points clear of world chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Russian GM Sergey Karjakin. The Norwegian was the only player to get through the 14-grandmaster premier section without ...
Posted by ssisyphus jagbytes.com 11/16/2007 00:59:54 Play online chess	OTB Message: I use the 'analyze the board' feature a lot too - most of my time online on GK is spent on it. I love the new version. But I have the same apprehension that I would not be good enough for OTB. For example, I cannot spot a mate four moves ahead unless I spend 15 minutes on analyze the board, physically moving pieces around & thinking. How does this work in OTB? Do experienced players spot patterns/mates etc out of experience/memory or are their brains/eyes just quicker? Having never played serious OTB I have no idea how this works. ——— Two of the World's Best in a Game for the Ages — Some chess games have been played so brilliantly that they have been given nicknames like the Immortal and the Evergreen, each of which is remembered for a stunning series of sacrifices culminating in checkmate. Those two games were won by Adolf Anderssen, a German who was one of the greatest chess players of the 19th century. They were played only a year apart (in 1851 and 1852), the Immortal against Lionel Kieseritszky of France and the Evergreen against Jean Dufresne of Germany. Other names evoke the games’ settings, like the Opera in 1858. That match took place during a performance of Bellini’s “Norma” at the Paris Opera House, and the American chess champion Paul Morphy beat a German duke and a French count who ...
Posted by spurtus jagbytes.com 11/16/2007 01:23:47 Play online chess	Message: I must say I've been playing OTB once and suddenly been frustrated I couldnt move the bits about! ——— A Victory Made Possible by a Blindfolded Warm-Up — Just before New Year’s, Timur Gareev won the North American Open in Las Vegas with a score of 8 (out of 9) points — a full point ahead of his nearest rival. In an article on the United States Chess Federation’s Web site, Gareev said an important part of his training for the tournament was a simultaneous blindfold exhibition against 27 opponents in Hawaii the week before. “Try blindfold exhibition matches and see how you can handle one game,” Gareev said in the article. Gareev — a chess grandmaster originally from Uzbekistan who now lives in the United States — said in another article on the federation’s Web site that he was training to simultaneously play 64 opponents in blindfold chess matches next New Year’s Eve. It would be a world ...
Posted by sf115 jagbytes.com 11/16/2007 14:40:39 Play online chess	Message: In reply to the comment by ssisyphus, when good players play OTB they have lots of patterns that they remember. This helps them to find mating patterns. To find more patterns and generally improve you need experence and you need to study. GK gives experence.
Posted by kewms jagbytes.com 11/16/2007 16:58:25 Play online chess	Message: I'll repeat the advice others have given. Analyze as far out as you can in your head, then use the second board to check your analysis and/or go out even further. Over time, your visualization will get better. FWIW, I scored a significant upset in my last OTB tournament. For me, being able to look at a position very deeply at GK helps me analyze more efficiently OTB. Because I've gotten used to looking at all of the options, it's easier for me to prune the analysis tree and spend the limited time looking at the most important lines.
Posted by premium_steve jagbytes.com 11/16/2007 19:11:31 Play online chess	Message: being able to calculate variations well is probably one of the most important skills to learn in chess, i think. for that reason, i try to keep away from using the 'analyze the board' option altogether. i'd hope that having to calculate on my own would help my vision in OTB chess, where you can't move pieces and time is more of a factor.
Posted by estebanw jagbytes.com 11/17/2007 10:14:24 Play online chess	Thanks for the comments Message: As I imagined, many of us have the same mixed feelings about the feature. I think that "Analyze the Board" is great and has allowed me to increase my level and learn much and have more fun. I love it and plan to use it in the future. Susyfromflorida has a good point, but if the opponent is using it half the time as we use it, it would make a big difference in OTB where time is a factor. In the end, I have to agree (and admire) with premiun_steve. If he can beat me in GK, imagine what he can do in OTB! The point is that I can't go around saying that my ranking is 1550 because if I play a "real" 1550 in OTB, I will probably lose. I guess I need to try.
Posted by ganstaman jagbytes.com 11/17/2007 10:28:36 Play online chess	Message: Well, you could never equate the ratings on this site to ratings anywhere else. We are a different pool of players (most likely) than another group of rated players. Also, the format of the game does matter -- correspondence ratings differ from standard OTB time controls which differ from rapid which differ from blitz. I see you are from the US -- as far as I know, your USCF rating wouldn't even be the same as your FIDE rating if you have them. Also, different people do better with different time controls. My USCF rating is 1538, and that's based on only some G/30 tournaments against mostly the same 10 or less players. Here, I'm over 1800, and I think I'll probably stay hovering around there or 17XX.