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| From | Message | Posted by jstevens1
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7/31/2008
11:58:26
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Hi everyone, just to let you know that at 1956 BST on 31 July 2008 I achieved my 1700 rating for the first time in my chess career. My current rating is 1705.
Have a nice evening everyone.
Cheers and bye for now.
Joanne
| Posted by tim_b
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7/31/2008
14:18:09
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Well done, Joanne! :)
| Posted by chessnovice
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7/31/2008
14:57:31
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Congrats!
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Posted by cascadejames
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7/31/2008
21:36:51
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:-)
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Onetime Chess Prodigy Shows Renewed Signs of Promise — Tennis players fantasize about drubbing the top-ranked Rafael Nadal. Luke McShane, an English grandmaster, got to live out the chess version of such a dream last week at the London Chess Classic, where he soundly defeated Magnus Carlsen, the world’s No.1 chess player, in the first round. McShane, 26, is on the outskirts of the game’s elite, ranked No. 100 in the world. But when he was a boy, he was anointed as England’s next great chess prodigy. He won the under-10 world championship when he was 8 and became a grandmaster by 16 — the youngest, at the time, to ever do so in his homeland. He has not achieved what has been expected of him. Maybe he was not as talented as ...
Posted by spurtus
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8/02/2008
13:48:12
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congratulations, but beware every 50 rating points or so now may take years now. so dont be afraid in going down in rating in order to improve long term.
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Posted by apastpawn
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8/02/2008
15:28:13
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Congratulations in your achievement.
You have annotated numerous games here at GK. Apparently this has helped. May you continue to improve. When I first met you here your rating was almost 200 points lower. This is a fantastic improvement but you worked hard for it.
If I can be of any further help, please let me know.
Wayne
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McShane Retains Lead at London Classic; Anand Beats Carlsen — Luke McShane, who won his first two games, did not win in Round 3 of the London Chess Classic on Friday. But he managed to draw against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the former world chess champion, and thus remained in the lead. After three of the four games in each of the first two rounds ended decisively, Friday was relatively quiet, with three games ending in draws. The exception was a win by Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, over Magnus Carlsen of Norway. It was the second loss for Carlsen, who actually had an advantage early in the game before making two bad moves that allowed Anand to shatter his kingside pawns and then infiltrate with his queen and rook. Carlsen could ...
Posted by chessnovice
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8/02/2008
16:23:45
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Annotating probably helped a lot, yeah, but I think the major source of your success is playing well above your rating and asking lots of questions.
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Surprising Leader at London Chess Classic — The torrid pace continued at the London Chess Classic on Thursday as three of the four games again ended decisively. Luke McShane of England, who had pulled off a big upset by beating Magnus Carlsen of Norway in Round 1, won again in Round 2, beating Nigel Short, another Englishman. It was Short’s second loss. Carlsen bounced back by upending Michael Adams, one of the four English chess players. Hikaru Nakamura of the United States, who had managed to draw a long game against the world chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India in Round 1, had Black for the second game in a row. It was also his 23rd birthday. His opponent, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the former world chess champion, ended up ...
Posted by ketchuplover
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8/03/2008
10:11:45
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kudos :)
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