If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
Policy / Politique
The fee for tournament organizers advertising on ChessTalk is $20/event or $100/yearly unlimited for the year.
Les frais d'inscription des organisateurs de tournoi sur ChessTalk sont de 20 $/événement ou de 100 $/année illimitée.
You can etransfer to Henry Lam at chesstalkforum at gmail dot com
Transfér à Henry Lam à chesstalkforum@gmail.com
Dark Knight / Le Chevalier Noir
General Guidelines
---- Nous avons besoin d'un traduction français!
Some Basics
1. Under Board "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQs) there are 3 sections dealing with General Forum Usage, User Profile Features, and Reading and Posting Messages. These deal with everything from Avatars to Your Notifications. Most general technical questions are covered there. Here is a link to the FAQs. https://forum.chesstalk.com/help
2. Consider using the SEARCH button if you are looking for information. You may find your question has already been answered in a previous thread.
3. If you've looked for an answer to a question, and not found one, then you should consider asking your question in a new thread. For example, there have already been questions and discussion regarding: how to do chess diagrams (FENs); crosstables that line up properly; and the numerous little “glitches” that every new site will have.
4. Read pinned or sticky threads, like this one, if they look important. This applies especially to newcomers.
5. Read the thread you're posting in before you post. There are a variety of ways to look at a thread. These are covered under “Display Modes”.
6. Thread titles: please provide some details in your thread title. This is useful for a number of reasons. It helps ChessTalk members to quickly skim the threads. It prevents duplication of threads. And so on.
7. Unnecessary thread proliferation (e.g., deliberately creating a new thread that duplicates existing discussion) is discouraged. Look to see if a thread on your topic may have already been started and, if so, consider adding your contribution to the pre-existing thread. However, starting new threads to explore side-issues that are not relevant to the original subject is strongly encouraged. A single thread on the Canadian Open, with hundreds of posts on multiple sub-topics, is no better than a dozen threads on the Open covering only a few topics. Use your good judgment when starting a new thread.
8. If and/or when sub-forums are created, please make sure to create threads in the proper place.
Debate
9. Give an opinion and back it up with a reason. Throwaway comments such as "Game X pwnz because my friend and I think so!" could be considered pointless at best, and inflammatory at worst.
10. Try to give your own opinions, not simply those copied and pasted from reviews or opinions of your friends.
Unacceptable behavior and warnings
11. In registering here at ChessTalk please note that the same or similar rules apply here as applied at the previous Boardhost message board. In particular, the following content is not permitted to appear in any messages:
* Racism
* Hatred
* Harassment
* Adult content
* Obscene material
* Nudity or pornography
* Material that infringes intellectual property or other proprietary rights of any party
* Material the posting of which is tortious or violates a contractual or fiduciary obligation you or we owe to another party
* Piracy, hacking, viruses, worms, or warez
* Spam
* Any illegal content
* unapproved Commercial banner advertisements or revenue-generating links
* Any link to or any images from a site containing any material outlined in these restrictions
* Any material deemed offensive or inappropriate by the Board staff
12. Users are welcome to challenge other points of view and opinions, but should do so respectfully. Personal attacks on others will not be tolerated. Posts and threads with unacceptable content can be closed or deleted altogether. Furthermore, a range of sanctions are possible - from a simple warning to a temporary or even a permanent banning from ChessTalk.
Helping to Moderate
13. 'Report' links (an exclamation mark inside a triangle) can be found in many places throughout the board. These links allow users to alert the board staff to anything which is offensive, objectionable or illegal. Please consider using this feature if the need arises.
Advice for free
14. You should exercise the same caution with Private Messages as you would with any public posting.
"MOSCOW – Russian news reports say a prominent young chess grandmaster has died after falling from a balcony apparently while undertaking the extreme sport of parkour.
The reports cited police as saying 20-year-old Yuri Eliseev died late Saturday after falling from the 12th story of his apartment building in Moscow.
Eliseev was the world under-16 chess champion in 2012 and was given grandmaster status at age 17.
The reports said Eliseev died while trying to reach the balcony of a neighboring apartment. He was described as a practitioner of parkour, which involves climbing, jumping to difficult perches and acrobatic moves.'
After someone’s death, there is still the story of his life and the friends who loved him:
Fedoseev stars in Eliseev Memorial
Vladimir Fedoseev conceded just a single draw to Maxim Matlakov as he won the Eliseev Memorial with a commanding 4.5/5. It was an unusual tournament, organised by Daniil Dubov in memory of his friend Yuri Eliseev, who died last year at the age of only 20. Daniil will have been pleased with the combative chess – out of 15 games only 4 were drawn – but also his own result. He beat Maxim Matlakov in the final round to finish in clear second place.
Yuri Eliseev was not a well-known chess figure outside of Russia, though in most countries his achievements would have made him stand out. He won the U16 World Youth Championship, became a grandmaster at 17 and won the 2016 Moscow Open (the most memorable game of that event was the only one he lost!). Then, just after turning 20, he died in tragic circumstances that were sensational enough to attract widespread media coverage. He slipped while attempting a parkour trick to get from a window to a 12th floor balcony and fell to his death on November 26, 2016.
It’s testimony to the impact Yuri had on those around him, though, that one year later Dubov both decided and was able to organise a top-level tournament to celebrate the life of his friend - with no prizes other than for beautiful games. In an article at the Russian Chess Federation the players remembered their contemporary, and we’ve selected extensive highlights (see link below for the rest of the tribute)
Daniil Dubov says he became close friends with Eliseev in 2013, after which they were almost inseparable:
He was probably the most all-round gifted person I know: he sang well, wrote poetry, had a great knowledge and love of the Russian language, and possessed an incredible memory – I remember that once we were travelling in a train, there was nothing to do, and he read half of Eugene Onegin to me from memory. Given time he could probably have read the whole thing.
We always helped each other out at tournaments, preparing each other; of course he had an incredible talent for analysis. Often I’d find an interesting idea the night before a game, note down a couple of variations and send it to him – and by the morning the file had tuned into a huge tree of variations in which (I checked more than once) there were no mistakes. That made a powerful impression: he didn’t stop where many would have cut off their analysis. In general, he had a drive towards perfection: whether in poetry, chess games or music – he always repeated that it was possible to do better. That’s very well illustrated by his best games: powerful play in the opening, accurate calculation of variations and clinical conversion.
That would all have been of no great significance if he wasn’t a good person and a devoted friend: we knew we could always count on him. For the sake of friends he was willing to do anything; I don’t know of a single case when he refused to help someone. We had a funny ritual: every night when he analysed something that might occur in my game in the morning I said “thank you” – and each time he came up with a new reply.
As with many highly talented people he could be absolutely unbearable in everyday life: he always wanted to play, to talk, to think – no doubt all of his friends came up against that. He simply couldn’t bear to be inactive – not a single journey, wait or dinner could go by without intellectual games. Once we were walking along during the Higher League in Kaliningrad and playing word games. At some point I looked at the water: “Let’s enjoy the scenery for a while!” I said. “Ok”. About 10 seconds later: “Well, did you enjoy it? Shall we get back to playing?”
At some point his fanatical love of chess was passed on to me as well – at least in part. We could study and play blitz for days on end, absolutely forgetting about everything: food, business, phone calls, our loved ones – from some point onwards all of that ceased to matter.
Yuri was a very vivid person – both in chess and in life; I hope that our tournament ends up being worthy of his memory.
Tweet
Comment