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I cannot remember how many chess games i have played but there is one fact i'm certain about... i have lost more games playing with white than playing with black. I admit that there are a lot of great openings for white but there are just as many counters and it's not easy defending a counter attack as white. Does anyone agree that using white is difficult, or is there some skill that must be mastered.... or better still should i always insist on using black.

There are thousands of forums online debating what the best chess opening is. Everyone seems to have a favorite. I seem to change my mind about this all the time but my opening of the month is the English Opening. I find that it sets up my bishops very early and I like my bishops. What's yours?

I admit that I'm a sucker for bad jokes, I will laugh at anything even when the person telling the joke doesn't think it's funny. I took it upon myself to comb the internet for chess jokes and I was suprised at how many bad jokes I found. In fairness some of them were good but don't get me started on the rest. I'm going to post a few of the good ones and a lot of the bad ones on this forum. Anyone can share their jokes too. Let's see if chess players have any sense of humour.

GHANA - Flag bearers with premier membership 6SJ10 WilCheckmate EddieThompson nrogers206 Flantastic_flan Richardmka elikemattah mojorobi GMAndre maskedking TexasAlamo jkawotwi CSBello Pepra Slopadoe GRELO kwasiofori-anti c_999 Africanfuturist denofwill BestOutOfFive kinggboat RoderickWilliams KofiAgyekum NiiLaryea kojomercy JasonKobi KojoTheSage

Hello team Ghana, was wondering if we could each annotate our games for this team match when its over and get some analysis from a higher rated player who will point out parts of the game we need improvements on and some tips. What do we think?

See the following representation in Team Africa: LINK TO GROUP - Version 3 13 AUGUST 2018 COUNTRY TOTALS Algeria 43 Angola 11 Benin 7 Botswana 13 Burkina Faso 4 Burundi 2 Cabo Verde 7 Cameroon 8 Central African Republic (CAR) 2 Chad 1 Comoros 1 Congo - Brazzaville 3 Congo - Kinshasa 3 Cote d'Ivoire 9 Djibouti 2 Egypt 142 Equatorial Guinea 1 Eritrea 5 Ethiopia 3 Gabon 4 Gambia 2 Ghana 6 Guinea 1 Guinea-Bissau 0 Kenya 31 Lesotho 8 Liberia 1 Libya 3 Madagascar 5 Malawi 1 Mali 2 Mauritania 3 Mauritius 3 Morocco 20 Mozambique 4 Namibia 7 Niger 2 Nigeria 99 Rwanda 3 Sao Tome and Principe 3 Senegal 6 Seychelles 1 Sierra Leone 3 Somalia 4 South Africa 318 South Sudan 1 Sudan 8 Swaziland 1 Tanzania 4 Togo 2 Tunisia 25 Uganda 6 Western Sahara 2 Zambia 7 Zimbabwe 29 Other 38 929

Happy new year all' Follow this link to view our results and standings for the 2014 world league. http://chessleagues.com/2014/wl/f/ We have much to improve but we didn't do too bad either. If you have any comments, suggestions or ideas about how to improve our standings in the upcoming 2015 league, please leave your comments below. Best Regards Nana

Message from Daws74 -World league director: Happy New Year everyone! The 2014 season of the World League will be getting underway shortly. A few changes/reminders for everyone to be aware of: All matches will be scheduled to autostart on the scheduled dates. The top 3 divisions will remain 10 teams and a round robin format, the bottom 3 divisions will have 20+ teams and a 9 round swiss system format. Players are only allowed to play official World League matches for 1 team each season and will now have their match scores adjusted if they violate this rule multiple times. All closed accounts will continue to be included in the adjustments to the final team match scores. Here are the divisions based on the WL2013 standings as of Jan 1, 2014. Please note that these are not the final standings for the 2013 season, just the interim standings used for setting the divisions this season. Final standings for 2013 will be announced when all matches have a decisive result. A couple notes on the divisions: Some teams were shifted between divisions in order to meet the minimum number of player requirements. New teams were placed into divisions based on the best current estimation of their strength. There is currently an odd number of teams in Division F, so a new team may be added to balance the schedule.

Re-evaluating all of Team Ghana's matches, you will notice that most of the team matches we lost was because of TIME OUTS (Sometimes painfull in games we almost won). I am as guilty as the next person, but I soon realised that this could be avoided. I also noticed that some players who used to time out a lot aren't anymore. It may seem that some players have found a way to beat the time out. This forum is just to share tips on how to beat the time out. Chess is a beautiful game and I enjoy playing it but not as much as I enjoy winning (on occassion). Best regards everyone

WL2013 Schedule and Results - Division J Round 1 (challenge/accept by Mar 5, lock/start by Mar 15) El Salvador vs Cuba (4) Team Zimbabwe vs Team Ghana (6) Team MonteNegro vs Team Korea (5) Somalia vs Bahrain Chess Team (1:0 default) Sri Lanka Team vs Team Hong Kong (3) Team Iceland vs Cameroon (5) Cuba vs Cameroon (7) Team Hong Kong vs Team Iceland (8) Bahrain Chess Team vs Sri Lanka Team (3) Team Korea vs Somalia (6) Team Ghana vs Team MonteNegro (3) El Salvador vs Team Zimbabwe (3) Round 2 (challenge/accept by Mar 21, lock/start by Mar 31) Team Zimbabwe vs Cuba (9) Team MonteNegro vs El Salvador (3) Somalia vs Team Ghana (3) Sri Lanka Team vs Team Korea (3) Team Iceland vs Bahrain Chess Team (3) Cameroon vs Team Hong Kong (5) Round 3 (challenge/accept by Apr 5, lock/start by Apr 15) Cuba vs Team Hong Kong (9) Bahrain Chess Team vs Cameroon (0:0 double default) Team Korea vs Team Iceland (10) Team Ghana vs Sri Lanka Team (4) El Salvador vs Somalia (3) Team Zimbabwe vs Team MonteNegro (6) Team MonteNegro vs Cuba (5) Somalia vs Team Zimbabwe (4) Sri Lanka Team vs El Salvador (3) Team Iceland vs Team Ghana (7) Cameroon vs Team Korea (4) Team Hong Kong vs Bahrain Chess Team (1:0 default) Round 4 (challenge/accept by May 5, lock/start by May 15) Cuba vs Bahrain Chess Team Team Korea vs Team Hong Kong (12) Team Ghana vs Cameroon (6) El Salvador vs Team Iceland (4) Team Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka Team (5) Team MonteNegro vs Somalia (1:0 - default) Round 5 (challenge/accept by Jun 5, lock/start by Jun 15) Somalia vs Cuba (0:0 - double default) Sri Lanka Team vs Team MonteNegro (10) Team Iceland vs Team Zimbabwe (9) Cameroon vs El Salvador (0:0 - double default) Team Hong Kong vs Team Ghana (6) Bahrain Chess Team vs Team Korea (5) Round 6 (challenge/accept by Jul 5, lock/start by Jul 15) Cuba vs Team Korea (11) Team Ghana vs Bahrain Chess Team (4) El Salvador vs Team Hong Kong (0:1 - default) Team Zimbabwe vs Cameroon (3) Team MonteNegro vs Team Iceland (8) Somalia vs Sri Lanka Team (double default) Round 7 (challenge/accept by Aug 5, lock/start by Aug 15) Sri Lanka Team vs Cuba (6) Team Iceland vs Somalia Cameroon vs Team MonteNegro Team Hong Kong vs Team Zimbabwe Bahrain Chess Team vs El Salvador Team Korea vs Team Ghana (6) Round 8 (challenge/accept by Sep 5, lock/start by Sep 15) Cuba vs Team Ghana El Salvador vs Team Korea Team Zimbabwe vs Bahrain Chess Team Team MonteNegro vs Team Hong Kong Somalia vs Cameroon Sri Lanka Team vs Team Iceland Round 9 (challenge/accept by Oct 5, lock/start by Oct 15) Team Iceland vs Cuba Cameroon vs Sri Lanka Team Team Hong Kong vs Somalia Bahrain Chess Team vs Team MonteNegro Team Korea vs Team Zimbabwe Team Ghana vs El Salvador

Admin guys....when should we expect to register for a team match?.....lets get active and start kicking some........hmmmm

The number of members on team Ghana is growing slowly, however most of our highly rated players especially >1800 are inactive and don't often take part in team matches. This is not good for our world league rating because most of the teams we play against have players >1800. I suggest that until we have more highly rated active players, we should limit the ratings of some team challenges to <1600 or <1800 and only accept challenges with the same limitation. I think this way, we can win more group matches. I need to know how many players agree and if anyone has any other suggestions.

Hello , If you are in Accra on saturday, this might be good practise. This notice was posted on ghanachess@yahoogroups.com OPEN CHESS COMPETITIONNATIONAL OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPCATEGORY: OPEN A (STANDARD PLAYERS)OPEN B (BEGINNERS)DATE: SATURDAY MAY 28,2011VENUE:MEDIA CENTERACCRA SPORTS STADIUMTYPE: 5 ROUND SWISS45 MINS PER PLAYER PER GAMEPARTICIPATION FEES: GHC 5.00note: this competition is for standard players only elite players are bared from contesting.The elite players will play in the masters

This may be long overdue, but I would like to welcome the following players to Team Ghana. jamice, elikemattah, illogical454, dakoldheat, robandygh, is144real and Henryabeku I hope you enjoy playing for the team on chess.com. Please take part in Team matches and vote chess. You can always share your thoughts about the team, your games, or anything you feel like getting off your chest (preferentially about the game ofcourse). I will encourage you to also take part in Open Chess Matches near you if you can. I will try to post notices about the games i hear about, you can also let us know if you hear anything (or you can organise a competition too and invite the rest of us - just a thought) Chess is more than just a game, and we love playing it. Best regards and goodluck

Here you can set up some puzzles!

Hi folks, please follow this link to a new Team Vote Chess Game just started http://www.chess.com/votechess/game.html?id=18533 All the best and maximum respect... Ben

Hi, I'm not an admin of this group. I think it would help if we keep playing frequent games against other groups to improve our teamwork. I know only few of us are online regularly. So I suggest we play with fewer team members, say 3-5. At least that way we show some activity here... Come on folks!!!

Date: 18/09/2010 time: 9:30 am Venue :Accra sport stadium Participation fee: Ghc.5.00 Prizes: Cash plus Certificates

END OF YEAR OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP COMES ON NEXT SATURDAY 02/01/10AT THE OHENE DJAN STADIUM. FULL DETAILS:TITLE: OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPVENUE: OHENE DJAN STADIUM - ACCRAPAIRING: 6 ROUND SWISS @ 90 MIN. PER GAME / 45 min. per playerDATE:JANUARY 02, 2010TIME:09.00 AMPARTICIPATION FEE: GH¢ 5.00AT STAKE: TROPHY AND CASH PRIZES DONATED BY THE PATRONS.NOTE:REGISTRATION AND BALLOTING IS AT EXACTLY 09.30AMTHIS COMPETITION WILL SERVE AS ONE OF MANY TO SELECT PLAYERS FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.THE 2010 CHESS OLYMPIAD IS IN SEPTEMBER IN KHANTY MINSK (RUSSIA)GET READY Eddie Thompson

This are the rules for the world vote chess tournament.. (http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/world cup---general-rules)