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Headline Archives The headlines below do not include our regular weekly features:
Each of which can be seen at it's respective archive page. Here's what was New at Chessville
between 1 January 2005 and 31 March 2005: (3/31) The Age of Learning Chess: Bill Wall's latest article on the age to learn chess. "What's the best age to learn chess? No one really knows. Perhaps the earlier, the better. Maybe there is no difference at a very young age (for example, age 4) and a young age (for example, 10). And who did the chess masters learn the game of chess from? Here are some the ages and who taught the masters the game of chess..." See other articles by Bill Wall.
(3/27) Links Update: New additions to our world famous chess links collection. We've been adding new sites all week, and will continue to add more in the week to come. Be sure to check back often, as there's something for everyone in these great new sites - from shopping to tactics, from play sites to study sites, from computers to how to beat the silicon monsters, we've got it all!
Free at Last!!! (3/24) MISSION COMPLETED: The seven active members of the Icelandic RJF Committee received the following good news message, with great thrill and contentment, from Bobby Fischer's lawyer Masako Suzuki early Thursday morning, March 24:
(3/17) Open Letter: Written to the US Ambassador to Iceland, on behalf of the the RJF Committee - Iceland. "For three months you have delayed in providing an answer to the simple question of who, other than Bobby Fischer, has been indicted for violating the so-called economic sanctions against the countries formerly known as Yugoslavia...former President Bill Clinton has been unable to do otherwise than to admit your government’s violation of those same sanctions. But as you know, the violations of the United States government did not involve playing chess. The US government’s violations involved paving the way for arms shipments to the very battlefields of the bloody war being fought in that country..."
(2/27) More Famous People Who Played Chess: Russell Miller has been researching chess in the Pacific Northwest, and sends in this brief report about US Army officers who were in Pacific Northwest before the Civil War: Check out his report, and see all of the other Famous People Who Play (or played!) chess. (2/24) Annotated Game: Manakov-Starostits, Untergrombach Open, Germany 2005; with annotations by Ilya Manakov. "Hello dear chess friends! Let me introduce myself, my name is Ilya Manakov, I am from Russia, Saint-Petersburg, I am a web-master of the site "Russian chess" - www.ruschess.com and besides, I am a chessplayer with ELO=2335. I would like to tell you about one of my games which I played recently..."
(2/20) Bill Walls' Wonderful World of Chess: Chessville is proud to introduce you to Bill Wall's Wonderful World of Chess! On these pages you'll find entertainment, enlightenment, and plenty of just plain old fascinating stuff. To kick things off Bill offers a trio of fascinating tidbits - Addicted to Chess; Quick French Lessons; and Strange But True. (2/19) Tactics in the Openings: Richard Schollar has taken nearly a thousand games with a tactic in the first 10 moves (although there are some 13 movers too.) and made them available to all as a free downloadable database in ChessBase format. He's included training questions and an analysis of the winning combination (thru CB8). This is a great way to study an overlooked part of opening preparation and sharpen your tactical vision at the same time. Download this 96 kb zipped ChessBase format file from our Miscellaneous Downloads page.
(2/18) Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia: Another batch of fascinating chess facts from the old master himself, Graham Clayton, including isolation & languages, PhDs & Christmas presents, music & ballet, banning & blindfolds, and much, much more! Also see the Mad Aussie's archives:
(2/13) Review: Chess Openings Ancient and Modern by Freeborough and Rankin, and Chess Endings by Freeborough, reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "Clicking my way through the Internet a while ago, I ran across the following: "Discover How Information Contained In Long Lost c1900 Manuscripts Reveal Amazing Chess Secrets For Today's Budding GrandMasters! Master your chess strategy and amaze your opponents at the same time, without paying for years of professional coaching." Now, I’m quite impervious to ads for “enhancement” nostrums or diet elixirs, and I’m not likely to suffer from male pattern baldness any time soon, but I’ve always been a sucker for claims of esoteric chess arcana. So I looked further..."
(1/26) Chesssport: The January 2005 newsletter from Chess Express Ratings. "CXR ratings provide you with more information than any traditional rating. As you use our service, you'll find that you have numerous statistics (not only a rating) that can give you advantages never before available. These statistics can help you decide what you need to study and practice for further improvement." Check out this Review of CXR, by someone who actually uses their service, Pete Blanchette.
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(1/16)
Update: Two new updates for you - first Einar S. Einarsson,
Secretary of the RJF Committe – Iceland, provides a status report of
efforts to free Fischer from the Japanese prison where he has languished
for more than six months now. Next we offer an
interesting article, “Six months in a Japanese prison over a passport”
by one of our group Mr. Gudmundur G. Thorarinsson, former Member of the
Icelandic Parliament and the former President of the Icelandic Chess
Federation, and chief organizer of the “Match of all times” between
Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. "...It must certainly
represent a dubious honor for the Japanese legal system if its behavior
results in permanent damage to the chess master’s health. When
Fischer’s attorney approached the Japanese bureaucracy asking for an
answer to the question of how long they intend to hold him there, the
official replied, “We can keep him as long as we like. We can eat him
if we choose to.”..." |
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Review:
Excelling at Chess Calculation: Capitalising on tactical chances by Jacob Aagaard,
reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "A tourist wanders the streets of
Manhattan, finally asking a passer-by, “How do you get to Carnegie
Hall?” The answer arrives with a knowing smile. “Practice,”
says the New Yorker, “practice!” You knew that was coming,
didn’t you? So, club player that you are, one day you pick up
Jacob Aagaard’s new Excelling at Chess Calculation – maybe you
know him from his well-received Excelling at Chess (2001), or
you’ve heard of his more recent titles, Excelling at Positional Chess
(2003), Excelling at Combinational Play: Learn to Identify & Exploit
Tactical Chances (2004), Excelling at Technical Chess (2004)
or even his DVD Basic Positional Ideas (2004), or CDs,
Attacking Chess 1 & 2 (2004), and Right Decisions [with Lund]
(2004) – and you drool over the back cover, which inspires you..." |
(1/09) Interview: Chessville plays 20 Questions with GM Maurice Ashley. Born March 6, 1966 in St. Andrew, Jamaica, Maurice's family moved to Brooklyn when he was 12. He is the first and only African-American to attain chess’ highest title of International Grandmaster. Active in many different areas of chess promotion now, Ashley remains dedicated to promoting chess with children. Find out who motivates him, what challenges he faced as a pioneering Black chess player in the USA, the latest in his fight against the so-called "GM-draw", what he thinks needs to change for the US to produce more home-grown GMs, and what he thinks is really going to make the difference in chess. Read 20 Questions with GM Maurice Ashley. |
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(1/7) Remembrances: Arnold Sheldon Denker, 1914-2005, by Jude Acers. "January 2, 2005 Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA: Legendary CHESS grandmaster ARNOLD S. DENKER DIES of brain cancer at his home at age 90. Jude Acers comments: "when an old man dies a library vanishes" ....the colossal dean of American chess is gone... a human chess history encyclopedia (and golden gloves boxer!) A.S. Denker personally met ALL WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONS 1894-2004..." |
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(1/7) Free download: 436 games (in pgn format) by the late great Dean of American Chess, GM Arnold Denker (1914-2005). Find here his games with greats from a wide spectrum of chess eras (1933 to 2001) including Arthur Dake, Reuben Fine, Fred Reinfeld, Isaac Kashdan, Samuel Reshevsky, Mikhail Botvinnik, George Thomas, Saviely Tartakower, Max Euwe, Miguel Najdorf, Vassily Smyslov, Salo Flohr, David Bronstein, William Lombardy, Bobby Fischer, Pal Benko, Robert Byrne, Walter Browne, Jan Timman, Larry Evans, Viktor Korchnoi, Miguel Quinteros, Susan Polgar, Leonid Shamkovich, Maurice Ashley, Michael Adams, Roman Dzindzichashvilli, Joe Gallagher, Patrick Wolff, Gregory Kaidenov, Josh Waitzken, Sergey Kudrin, and Lubomir Kavalek, just to mention a few. Find this free download on our Download Games by Players page.
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(1/6) The 2004 Gothic Chess Computer World Championships: by Ed Trice. "The first annual Gothic Chess Computer World Championship was held in Pennsylvania from November 13 - 21, 2004. Players from four countries were represented in this event, which was punctuated with high caliber play and many surprises. THE WINNER OF THIS EVENT WOULD BE GIVEN $10,000 DONATED BY THE GOTHIC CHESS FEDERATION..." New to Gothic Chess? Check out the basics of
Gothic Chess,
a chess variant that involves an 8x10 board, and two new pieces - the
chancellor and the archbishop. |
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Crowley Versus Whitaker 1916: Rediscovered!: Robert Tuohey's (with
the generous research assistance of John S. Hilbert) latest Past Pawns article. |
"As alluded to in my
article
Aleister Crowley…Chess Master?! apocryphal Great Beast games are
“Legion, for their name is many” (to paraphrase a certain Good Book
which good old Uncle Al would have nothing to do with). In fact, as
soon as the piece was published the credulous and the crooked alike
began sending me their spurious “finds”. (Oh, that I might digress
and detail the marvelous Bela Lugosi – Crowley game, played out using
the Frankenstein-Dracula variation, and drawn in 66 moves…or the even
more gruesome Crowley- Bloodgood battles… but my tale is sufficiently
recondite already.) I thank my lucky stars, however, that I did
not bypass the pdf file sent to me by one Colin S. Mcleod (a faithful
visitor to
http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/). Herein, amidst a lot of other stuff,
I found..." |
(1/2) Review: Challenging the Sicilian with 2.a3!? by Alexei
Bezgodov, reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "Perhaps I am showing my age, but rather than sit through a “Girls Gone
Wild!” movie, I would prefer any number of possible videos from a
“Grandmasters Gone Wild!” collection, especially those dedicated to creative
chess openings. I like to imagine classics like “GGW: The Rice
Gambit,” based on the infamous King’s Gambit variation that received
attention from top GMs in the early 20th Century. Other titles might
include a study of Bronstein on a good day, Miles on almost any day, and
Tartakower even on a bad day. Who wouldn’t want “GGW: The Hypermoderns”? A full shelf of such videos would of necessity include a
contemporary feature on GM Alexei Bezgodov, “Grandmasters Gone Wild:
Challenging the Sicilian with 2.a3!?” Unfortunately for us all,
there is no such movie series – at least not yet, any way.
Fortunately, there is such a book, recently released by Chess Stars
press..." |
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