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  • The FIDE World Chess Cup takes place 26th November - 18th December 2005 in Khanty Mansyisk, Russia.  Official site: http://www.worldchesscup2005.com/.  Ivanchuk, Bacrot, Aronian, Grischuk, Gelfand, Shirov, Akopian, Radjabov, Ponomariov, etc.


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UNITED STATES CHESS SCHOOL

This is a new chess training program designed for the strongest players in the nation. A few times per year, some of the most talented chessplayers in the country will be given a free week long training session with GM Gregory Kaidanov in Lexington, Kentucky. For now there will be two groups of students, one comprising of younger kids in the 9-12 age group and one that is aimed towards older players. The first session is already scheduled for January 2nd-8th!

11/14/2005 - Six top players have already accepted their invitations to the USCS

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Chess for Success
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Starting Out: The Dutch Defense
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Quarterly For Chess History Issue No.3, 1999, Edited by Dr. Vlastimil Fiala.
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(11/27)  Review Chess for Success by Maurice Ashley, reviewed by Rick Kennedy.  "Get this book.  Go through it.  Pass it on.  It’s that kind of a read...Quite simply, GM Maurice Ashley has written an exciting book about chess and young chess players - one that will be enjoyed by those who know the Royal Game, and perhaps just as much by those who do not.  Chess for Success will move people to participate in or support the growing world of scholastic chess.  It should be on bookshelves in the library, the classroom – and the board room...But Chess for Success is a candy store of a book, and I’ve already moved too fast.  Let me back up.  The book sports a Foreword by Will Smith, rapper, TV & movie star, whose wife gave him a special Valentine’s Day gift a few years ago: a personal chess lesson with Maurice Ashley.  (Is that true love, or what??)  Will Smith plays chess?  Why not?  ...The Introduction presents the book’s theme of the transformative power of chess, especially in the lives of children.  The author also presents and dispels seven Myths About Chess..."

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(11/27)  Critical Lines in the Halloween Gambit:  Paul Keiser has updated his exhaustive analysis of this fascinating and unorthodox chess opening.  First published in Unorthodox Chess Openings-13, Senior Editor Davide Rozzoni, Associate Editor Gary K. Gifford, reprinted by permission of the Author and the Publisher.  Keiser spends 48 pages covering both an introduction and model game, as well as looking at both accepted and declined variations of the gambit, and a zipped pgn file containing 819 Halloween Gambit games.

Writes Paul: "The name is founded on the fact that players who are for the first time confronted with the surprising and unexpected fourth move of white become so shocked as if they were suddenly confronted with the horror of some scary Halloween mask.  Indeed, this fourth move is shocking.  After : 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 when  Black is expecting a normal Four Knights Game move such as 4.Bb5...

...White surprisingly takes the pawn on e5:








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(11/27)  ReviewQuarterly For Chess History Issue No.3, 1999, Edited by Dr. Vlastimil Fiala.  Reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur.

"Dr. Vlastimil Fiala is a man obsessed with chess history.  His inner world is inhabited by the likes of Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine.  Dr. Fiala is also a man with a mission.  It is to inspire the modern player to rediscover the magic world of a vanished era.  Welcome to Quarterly For Chess History.  This issue is partly a tribute to Steinitz, the First World Champion, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death..."

 
(11/26)  Site Review: Ultimate Chess Collecting, a collector & memorabilia site by Lawrence Totaro.

"Lawrence Totaro has developed a site dedicated to improving the presentation of chess history as documented in autographs and memorabilia.  The site's Mission Statement says:  "The presentation of chess just got better."  Lawrence's main purpose of chess collecting is not only to share his collection but the collections of others in a multimedia feature presentation:  "I want people to be as close to chess history as possible.  I feel that the presentation of chess is just as important as collecting or understanding the game.  If we present chess in a new light more people will be inclined to play the game and to realize it's roots.""

 


(11/26)  The Parrot’s Cage:  has received three responses with partial information.  Check them out here.


Ultimate Chess Collecting

Presenting chess history at it's finest.
"The presentation of chess just got better"

 

 

 


The mysterious Polish set displayed in the Cage a few weeks ago remains a mystery to most readers.  Maybe we need to offer a prize?  If it's so rare, it must be worth a fortune!

 
(11/23)  Letter to the Editor:  We received a letter addressed to the Editor, but...well, we really aren't sure what to make of it.  Perhaps you can help.  It starts "Dear Mr. Chess Editor,  I heard that the champion Alekhiney used to bring his cat, Chess, to matches with him, and I began to wonder if this was the secret to his success.  So the first thing I did was re-name my cat Chess.  Actually, there was some problem about this, as he would not come when I called him by his new name (the potzer!), and so I had to re-re-name him Buster-Chess.  This little bagatelle settled, I sat down with Buster-Chess and jumped on-line. In the name of progress, I felt justified in starting a new account at chess.net (although I have three already, Hope does spring Eternal, and, what the heck, they are free)..."

(11/23)  Thompson's Cousin:  A new Thompson Story, by Ron Canter.  "Last week Thompson invited me to meet his cousin Alf at The Ruddy Duck for a game of chess. Alf ’s unlikely occupation is that of a wrestling clown in a traveling circus, but he is also a keen chess player, having been introduced to the game by his cousin.  As Jonty the Jovial Clown, Alf has the gift of reducing circus audiences to helpless laughter with his antics with ridiculous hats, buckets of water, and zany musical instruments.  But later in the show this large, comical man is transformed into Crusher, a ravening monster whose slogan is “No quarter given or expected.”  The lights are lowered, Crusher makes a dramatic entrance and then the challenge is issued.  Anyone who can last a round against Crusher will receive a cash prize, and anyone who beats him will receive double the money.  His opponents can expect to be subjected to a specialty hold, the Half Crunch, which consists of being twisted into a knot and held in that position by the back of the neck to induce submission..."

(11/20)  To Tell the Truth:  Darren Dillenger shows us the evolution of a chess problem, "As a student of chess history, this is one of most intriguing positions I have ran across.  It is amazing that with White to move, White can force a win.  These are three versions of the same thematic problem that has been around for over 50 years.  Two of these positions were used in lectures by top Grandmasters for years, apparently not suspecting their version was flawed..."

(11/20)  ReviewStarting Out: The Dutch Defense by Neil McDonald, reviewed by Rick Kennedy.  "When I reviewed Neil McDonald’s earlier Starting Out: The English, I was favorably impressed: he had produced a very readable and instructive book that was going to help many club players (and up?) confidently open with 1.c4.  Now the author / Grandmaster / chess coach has come out with Starting Out: The Dutch Defence, and I am convinced that he has produced another winner.  McDonald strikes just the right balance of enthusiasm and caution, strategy and tactics, illustrative games (50) and analysis..."

(11/20)  Chess FictionA Dangerous Game of Chess, by James Crockett.  "One of the most exciting games I ever played in my life was against the champion of another ship, the “British Adventure”, while I was on her sister ship, the “British Talent”, both 28,000 ton supertankers of the 1950s!  And he was determined to beat me.  Our ships met up in Mena al Amadhi in the Persian Gulf and very quickly I received a signal from the “Adventure” requesting a challenge match from the senior apprentice Charles Mcleod of Glasgow.  I accepted and replied in the affirmative..."

(11/19)  Editorial:  Drug Use in "Intellectual Sports", by Dr. Stephen J. Press, DC, PhD, CCSP, FACSM, FICC, Past-Acting President and Founder, FIDE Medical Commission.  "The rationale behind banning of a substance is reasonable and fairly simple to understand.  If an otherwise healthy person can take a substance which is potentially detrimental to his/her health, and that allows him/her to improve performance over those not willing to expose themselves to this poison, then this is both foolhardy, and clearly cheating..."

 

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