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Subject: Re: Russian female championship

Author: Marc D

Date: 01:47:29 05/23/05

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On May 23, 2005 at 03:16:07, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

Hello Uri

If even Kramnik blunders a lot and does stupid mistakes then one could
expect that a 2398 player can do this also

Marc



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