Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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Round 1 Games

The Cobras are playing San Francisco tonight at 8:30pm Eastern. It's such a shame because my bed time is at 9pm; I might make it to 10pm before crashing.

Go Cobras!

Two games have started:

Malugu-CAR vs. Naroditsky-SF

A Sicilian - I only played closed/grand prix and have no understanding of any other sicilians so I can't comment much on it.





Friedel-SF vs. Milman-CAR

A Ruy Lopez. The Marshall they've said. Move 17 - Friedel has an hour and Milman has 38 minutes.




Pruess-SF vs. CraigJones-CAR

A French, I only play exchange as white - so another game I don't know much about. :)




Zaikov-CAR vs. Bhat-SF

A Nimzo-Indian - something else I don't play - at least not yet. (Forget about this mention future d4 opponents)


Sunday, August 26, 2007

1. Aug 29: Black vs San Francisco Mechanics (8:30 ET)

1. GM Patrick Wolff: 2623 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15542
http://www.wolffchess.com/php/home.php3
2. IM Josh Friedel: 2535 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=10172
http://beta.uschess.org/frontend/news_7_502.php
3. IM Vinay Bhat: 2465 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=19912
http://www.eastbaychess.com/about/vinay.html
4. IM Vince McCambridge: 2502 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15509
5. IM David Pruess: 2452 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=36826
http://www.calchess.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=78000
6. IM John Donaldson: 2460 - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15461
http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_jd/donaldson_bio.html
An NY Times Article
7. Daniel Naroditsky: 2076 - http://www.calchess.org/chessbio_index.php
8. Gregory Young: 2043 - http://www.calchess.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=93000

Cobras' 2007 Schedule

2007 Schedule

1. Aug 29: Black vs San Francisco Mechanics (8:30 ET)
2. Sept 5: White vs Baltimore Kingfishers (7:15 ET)
3. Sept 12: Black vs Miami Sharks (7:30 ET)
4. Sept 19: Black vs Dallas Destiny (8:15 ET)
5. Sept 26: White vs Seattle Sluggers (9:00 ET)
6. Oct 3: Black vs New Jersey Knockouts (7:00 ET)
7. Oct 10: White vs Tennessee Tempo (8:00 ET)
8. Oct 17: White vs San Francisco Mechanics (8:30 ET)
9. Oct 24: White vs Miami Sharks (7:45 ET)
10. Oct 31: Black vs Tennessee Tempo (8:15 ET)