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Subject: Re: Russian female championship

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:11:21 05/23/05

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On May 23, 2005 at 04:47:29, Marc D wrote:

>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

3 stupid mistakes in the same game is a lot of mistake and avoiding stupid
tactical mistake is harder than avoiding mistake of not going to drawn pawn
endgame.

Uri



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