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Old 09-09-2011, 11:35 AM  
Socks
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Beat my first 2500+ rated chess player...

Momentus feeling for me! When we started playing he was exactly rated 2500, with a highest rating on Chesscube of 2623. If you don't play chess - that's a lot. The highest rated player I've seen on there is 2900.

The ratings per server aren't like real life, but it's an indication. In real world ratings the best super-grandmaster's (leko, anand, carlsen, topalov, gelfand, nakamura, kamsky, aronian, etc) are in the 2700's. Three players in the world right now are over 2800. Magnus Carlsen is the highest - 21 years old from Norway. He's a beast.

Anyways I won 4 games, and lost 19 against this guy. The first game I won was on time, but I was winning the position too and had both my rooks on his seventh rank, and was a rook up.

They were 960 chess games, 10 seconds + 1 second per move. 960 chess is a variant created by Bobby Fischer (sometimes it's just called Fischer Chess too) where all the pieces behind the pawns are randomized, but both sides start with the same setup. So if white's rook is on a5 to start, black will also have a rook on h5, etc.

960 chess is considered to be more dependent on raw skill, because you can't use your memory as far as openings and common positions go. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960
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