Chesstempo.com seems to be a rather new site and they are offering a rather nice PGN viewer. However I was unable to use it on this blog site, because you need to upload the PGN-file first. But I liked the way the pieces were moving very much.
On the mentioned website a Chess Tactics page can be found, which seems to use the same PGN viewer to solve tactics puzzles. This is somewhat similar to the more familiar Chess Tactics Server.
Both links may be worth visiting if you want to train some tactics, but the ultimate PGN-viewer has not been found yet.
Monday, 16 July 2007
Thursday, 5 July 2007
Daily updated chess puzzle
In my search for ways to publish chess games on a blog I came across Shredderchess.
Shredderchess.com offers a possibility to add daily updated chess puzzles on a chess page.
This results in the following diagram.
I think it looks rather nice, but I prefer to add my own chess puzzles and the internal frame is depending on another site.
The search continues.
Shredderchess.com offers a possibility to add daily updated chess puzzles on a chess page.
This results in the following diagram.
I think it looks rather nice, but I prefer to add my own chess puzzles and the internal frame is depending on another site.
The search continues.
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
New Fide rating
The new FIDE rating list has been published.
The list with the top 100 players only contains Grandmasters with the exception of number 78 on this list: Vladimir Afromeev, with only the title FIDE Master. This is rather remarkable, since you should have at least a rating of 2624 to be on this top 100 list.
Who is this Mr.Afromeev, whose birth year is listed as 1954?
I have found him in Chess Today of 3 september 2001:
It seems that he is a local businessmen from Tula (city about 120 km from Moscow) who has decided first to get and then to raise his Elo.
The list with the top 100 players only contains Grandmasters with the exception of number 78 on this list: Vladimir Afromeev, with only the title FIDE Master. This is rather remarkable, since you should have at least a rating of 2624 to be on this top 100 list.
Who is this Mr.Afromeev, whose birth year is listed as 1954?
I have found him in Chess Today of 3 september 2001:
It seems that he is a local businessmen from Tula (city about 120 km from Moscow) who has decided first to get and then to raise his Elo.
That guy - Mr. Vladimir Afromeev - has been so successful in his
fraud, that he now has an international rating of 2520! I call it a fraud,
because many know that the some of the tournaments, which he 'organised' never took place, while in some others certain players threw points at Mr. Afromeev.
But now I know something about Mr. Afromeev I'm curious about the rating of his driver and his cat.By the way, at some point Mr. Afromeev decided that his personal driver
should have Elo rating too. (who wants un-rated drivers nowadays?!). Now that guy has a rating in excess of 2440. Mr. Afromeev is even claimed to have said that if he wanted, his cat would get a rating like that too!
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