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Subject: Re: Russian female championship

Author: Marc D

Date: 02:19:06 05/23/05

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On May 23, 2005 at 05:11:21, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

But then this girl is ranked way under World Champion Kramnik :-)

Marc



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