Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:16:07 05/23/05
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On May 23, 2005 at 00:19:08, Telmo C. Escobar wrote: >On May 22, 2005 at 13:51:10, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On May 22, 2005 at 13:23:56, Telmo C. Escobar wrote: >> >>> >>> The graphics to watch online are excellent, it's the first time I find a site >>>when it's really pleasurable to watch. >>> >>>http://www.chess63.com/online/ >>> >>> My beloved Alexandra is sharing the lead with Tatiana Kosintseva, Kovalevskaya >>>following. Despite her less successful result, Galliamova's games have been as >>>interesting as customary. >>> >>> Telmo >> >>I was looking only at one endgame that >>Elena Zaiatv lost. >> >>It seems that the level is very weak >> >>[Event "?"] >>[Site "?"] >>[Date "????.??.??"] >>[Round "?"] >>[White "New game"] >>[Black "?"] >>[Result "*"] >>[SetUp "1"] >>[FEN "6k1/6p1/8/8/4K1R1/8/5r2/8 b - - 0 1"] >>[PlyCount "23"] >> >>1... Kf7 2. Ke3 Rf1 3. Ke4 Kf6 4. Rg3 g6 5. Ke3 Kf5 6. Ke2 Rf4 7. Ke3 g5 8. Rg1 >>g4 9. Ke2 Kg5 10. Rf1 g3 11. Ra1 Kg4 12. Rh1 Re4+ * >> >>White had an easy draw more than one time >>4.Rf4+ >>6.Rf3+ >>8.Rf3 >> >>I did not check the rating of Elena Zaiatv but >>I expect even 1800 players to play endgames better. >> >>Uri > > You are right. I didn't examine this endgame before. > > Maybe it was extreme time trouble. Otherwise, a 1800 player surely would find >the draw- maybe not the first time, but the second or third. > > Telmo What is amazing for me is that the rating of Elena Zaiatv is 2398(I searched for the rating of the participants because I thought that the female championship is weak competition and was surprised to find that all the players except one have rating of more than 2300. Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2492 Kosintseva, Tatiana 2486 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina 2469 Galliamova, Alisa 2469 Kosintseva, Nadezhda 2459 Matveeva, Svetlana 2423 Korbut, Ekaterina 2399 Zaiatz, Elena 2398 Pogonina, Natalija 2355 Gunina, Valentina 2340 Kochetkova, Julia 2311 Yakovich, Yuliya 2068
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