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GAMES

Kasparov vs
Deep Junior

Game 4, 2-2-03

Deep Junior vs
Kasparov

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 e6
5. Nb5 d6
6. c4 Nf6
7. N1c3 a6
8. Na3 Nd7
9. Nc2 Be7
10. Be2 b6
11. O-O Bb7
12. h3 O-O
13. Be3 Rc8
14. Qd2 Nce5
15. b3 Nf6
16. f3 Qc7
17. Rac1 Rfe8
18. a3 Ned7
19. Rfd1 Qb8
20. Bf2 Rcd8
21. b4 Ba8
22. a4 Rc8
23. Rb1 Qc7
24. a5 bxa5
25. b5 Bb7
26. b6 Qb8
27. Ne3 Nc5
28. Qa2 Nfd7
29. Na4 Ne5
30. Nc2 Ncd7
31. Nd4 Red8
32. Kh1 Nc6
33. Nxc6 Rxc6
34. Kg1 h6
35. Qa3 Rdc8
36. Bg3 Bf8
37. Qc3 Ne5
38. c5 Nd7
39. Qxa5 Nxc5
40. Nxc5 Rxc5
41. Qa4 R5c6
42. Bf2 d5
43. Bxa6 Bc5
44. Bxc5 Rxc5
45. Bxb7 Qxb7
46. exd5 exd5
47. Qa7 R5c7
48. Qxb7 Rxb7
49. Rxd5 Rc6
50. Rdb5 h5
51. Kf2 Re6
52. f4 g6
53. Kg3 Kg7
54. Kh4 Kh6
55. R1b4 Rd6
56. g3 f6
57. g4 hxg4
58. hxg4 Kg7
59. Rb3 Rc6
60. g5 f5
61. Rb1 1/2-1/2

Game 5
2-5-03

Kasparov vs
Deep Junior

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 Bb4
4. e3 O-O
5. Bd3 d5
6. cxd5 exd5
7. Ne2 Re8
8. O-O Bd6
9. a3 c6
10. Qc2 Bxh2+
11. Kxh2 Ng4+
12. Kg3 Qg5
13. f4 Qh5
14. Bd2 Qh2+
15. Kf3 Qh4
16. Bxh7+ Kh8
17. Ng3 Nh2+
18. Kf2 Ng4+
19. Kf3 Nh2+
     1/2-1/2

Game 6
2-7-03

Deep Junior vs
 Kasparov

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 a6
6. Be2 e5
7. Nb3 Be7
8. O-O O-O
9. Kh1 Bd7
10. Be3 Bc6
11. Bf3 Nbd7
12. a4 b6
13. Qd3 Bb7
14. h3 Rc8
15. Rad1 h6
16. Rfe1 Qc7
17. g3 Rfd8
18. Kh2 Re8
19. Re2 Qc4
20. Qxc4 Rxc4
21. Nd2 Rc7
22. Bg2 Rec8
23. Nb3 Rxc3
24. bxc3 Bxe4
25. Bc1 Bxg2
26. Kxg2 Rxc3
27. Ba3 Ne8
28. f4 1/2-1/2

 

 

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Volume 2 Issue 6                                              February 9th, 2003
In This Issue
Position of the Week

New At Chessville
Perry the PawnPusher
50 Chess Games for Beginners
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net

 

From the Editor... The next big Super Tourney, Linares starts February 22nd, featuring the four world championship contenders, Kasparov, Kramnik, Ponomariov and Leko, the recent Wijk aan Zee winner, Anand, as well as Vallejo Pons and Radjabov.  Have you made your Fantasy Chess picks yet?
 

Position of the Week

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White to move and win - Find the Solution
(Remember - find the quickest win!)
 

New At Chessville

Man vs Machine: Max Panfilov's continuing coverage of the Kasparov-Deep Junior Match, with special photo reports from Game 1, Game 4, and the finale - Game 6!  More coverage by Chessville's News Editor Pablo Sierra on the Chessville News page.

Perry the PawnPusher - Kicking off Rick Kennedy's series of humorous chess-themed short stories.  Meet Rick, and then read the first Perry the PawnPusher story!

Review: Taming the Sicilian by Nigel Davies, reviewed by Jens Madsen

Kelly's Quotes: New Additions - Part 1

Smith Morra Gambit: by Albert Hoogendoorn, Creator and Webmaster of MyChessSite.  This week read the the eighth installment in his series on this exciting response to the Sicilian Defense: the Smith-Morra Declined.

Pocket PC Review - Kevin Bidner takes you on a virtual tour...

Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess
 

Perry the PawnPusher
by Rick Kennedy

Rick's fiction has appeared in different places, such as: Chess 'n' stuff, Chess Atlas, Chess Life, and School Mates. He has chronicled the misadventures of Perry the PawnPusher, revealed a half-dozen chess-based adventures involving Sherlock Homes, and even reported on the chessic hi-jinks of his daughter, Mary Elizabeth, and his son, Jonathan.

In a more serious vein, he has written, along with Riley Sheffield, The Marshall Gambit in the French and Sicilian Defenses.  His theoretical articles and historical researches have appeared in the Unorthodox Chess Openings Newsletter. He is editor and publisher of "The Silent Knight," the monthly newsletter for the United States Chess Association of the Deaf, and an excellent article about America's best deaf chess player - Russell Chauvenet.

Perry The PawnPusher

"Have you seen my draw with Fine?"

I looked up. My concentration was suddenly dragged away from the Shakmatny Informator and dumped abruptly upon a short, fuzzy, bespectacled old man.

"Really, you must see it."

As a reflex, I stretched to guard the Club's chessboard and pieces in front of me, where I was struggling with Anand's latest treatment of the Exchange Slav.

Too late. He took the position apart like so many puzzle pieces, flipped a few around, and put back the ones he wanted.

"There. Seen it?"

Of course, I had. Many times before, in fact. It was a position from an old Horowitz primer. Mate in four. If this guy had even played Reuben Fine, then my name was Kamran Shirazi.

Read more about Rick and Perry!
 

50 Chess Games for Beginners
http://www.50chessgames.freeserve.co.uk/indexsmall.html

"50 Chess Games for Beginners" is an animated chess tutorial program for new players who wish to improve their game. It provides fully annotated examples of games illustrating good chess tactics and strategies and is particularly suitable for children or junior players. We include descriptions of chess notation, standard chess openings, chess grading, and much more. There is a free chess competition for visitors.

It is written by two enthusiasts, who have taken up Chess over the past couple of years. We offer a guided tour through 50 games (recorded as we went through the learning process), showing our successes and failures; our brilliant flashes of inspiration; and our inexplicable blunders. We have analysed the games to bring out basic chess principles and strategies. The games are presented, warts and all, with no editing or tidying up. We hope that visitors, particularly new chess players, can learn something worthwhile from studying these games.

This website is provided free of charge, for addicts and wannabes alike. The only condition is that if you find it interesting or useful you send us an e-mail telling us what you liked. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome.  Enjoy your visit - and come back soon."   - Douglas and Ian MacGregor

Ian was around 10-12 years old at the time this site was created, as near as I can gather, and Douglas is his father.  They did such a great introduction to their site (above), I found no way to improve upon it.

The meat and potatoes of this site are the games, each carefully annotated at virtually every move.  The game pages load slowly (over 500 Kb) so be patient.  These are games played by the authors between 1999-2001.  The two players themselves are rated up to 1125,and the annotations reflect that ability level.  Still, for the beginning chessplayer, there is much to be learned here.  These games make an excellent precursor to more advanced beginning game annotations, such as Chessville's Janitor Jim series, in that they start the reader thinking about what the author's have to say, and therefore about how someone else is thinking about the game.

Other features of the site include a Game of the Month contest, where readers are asked to submit their own games; the winner each month gets their game published with annotations on the site.  An explanation of algebraic notation, a printable scoresheet (which did not print properly for me), Ian's favorite chess problem, some comments on rating systems, a list of ECO codes, and a poem round out the site's offerings.

If you're looking for a good place to start a beginner off looking at annotated games, try 50 Chess Games for Beginners.
 

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

Chairman of the Board:  English GM Julian Hodgson was unhappy with the chairs provided for the 2000 British championships, so he brought along his own armchair, which he used for the whole tournament.

Ageless:  Vasily Smysov is the oldest player to have qualified for a World Championship Candidates match.  He finished second in the 1982 Palma Interzonal tournament at the age of 61, and went on to reach the World Championship semi-final stage.

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville - Recent Chess News
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Final score: 3 - 3     * Chessville coverage
Aeroflot Chess Open Festival (February 10th - 20th)
Kosteniuk vs. Karjakin Match (January 1st-6th, Switzerland)
Sergey Karjakin won the match (4-2)    * Chessville coverage
20th Bermuda Chess Festival (January 25th - February 5th)
Giovanni Vescovi won the tournament, Svidler finished in 2nd place  * Chessville coverage
First Saturday Tourneys (Budapest, Hungary)
* Chessville coverage:  General information

* Follow February tournaments (results, games & standings)
GM Patrick Wolff - the Rest of the World (from  August 31st, 2002)
Chess Battle at FICS

other online chess news resources
The Week In Chess (TWIC) The most complete Tournament News
Jeremy Silman - John Watson: Latest Chess News
The Chess Oracle Monthly International Chess News
The Chess Report Another great chess news site
The Campbell Report Correspondence Chess News
Net Chess News - News and More
 

New On The Net

The Chess Cafe
     Book Review: Curse of Kirsan by Sarah Hurst
     Endgame Study: Y. Hoch, Variantim 1993
     Susan Polgar on Chess: The Future of Women's Chess in America
     Yasser Seirawan Annotates: Svidler – Kasparov, Tilburg 1997
     Carsten Hansen: These Are A Few of My Favorite Things…
     Opening Lanes by Gary Lane: How to Win on the Internet
     The Skittles Room: Excerpt: The Magic of Chess Tactics by Claus Dieter Meyer and Karsten Mueller

World Chess Network - Larry Evans On Chess

Jeremy Silman - IM John Donaldson reviews:
    
Walter Penn Shipley: Philadelphia's Friend of Chess

Correspondence Chess News  LATEST ISSUE (84):  VIEW  PDF

About.com Chess - Chess Openings - Unusual First Moves

Russian Chess
     Interview With Anatoly Karpov
     Professional World Chess Rankings

Results up to February 1, 2003

NN Name Birthday Country Rating Variance
1 Kasparov,Garry 13.04.1963 RUS 2805 114
2 Kramnik,Vladimir 25.06.1975 RUS 2760 145
3 Anand,Viswanathan 11.12.1969 IND 2710 159
4 Topalov,Veselin 15.03.1975 BUL 2699 172
5 Bareev,Evgeny 21.11.1966 RUS 2692 188

Don Schultz Home Page - Editorial On Garry Kasparov

KurzweilAI.net - Deep Fritz Draws: Are Humans Getting Smarter...?

Pakistan Chess Player - Lev Khariton's 200 Words  "Isn’t it time for honest chess players, chess fans and chess journalists to appeal to the US authorities to allow Bobby Fischer, the glory of American and world chess, to return to the United States?"

CSMonitor - Deep Thinkers Missing In Action

Chess Sector - Ukrainian Chess Online
     Ponomariov Interviewed

Mig's Daily Dirt - Commentary on Current Chess Events

Mechanics' Institute Chess Room
     IM John Donaldson's Newsletter, #125, 2-5-03

FIDE Online
     Kasparov Post-Game 6 News Conference: "Against any human player I would continue fighting in the final position. Black is definitely not worse. But to win it would take a long, long time and there is the pressure of playing the computer...The longer the game goes, the chance to blunder increases and the program will never make a big mistake. And a draw was a good result. Before the game the main item on my agenda was not to lose."

The Chess Drum - Sa'id bin Jubair: The Blindfold Master of Chess

Paul Keres Memorial Tournament

Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary - 203. Campomanes Goes To Jail

Seagaard Chess Reviews
     Multiple Choice Chess II (Buckley)
     Chess Assistant 7.0 (Chess Assistant)
     School of Chess Excellence 3: Strategic Play (Dvoretsky)

RusBase Part Two - Added More From 1951 & 1981

Annotated Games

Robert Byrne (NY Times): Enhbat-Kaidanov, Seattle 2003
Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post):
     Botvinnik-Alatortsev, Leningrad Masters 1934
     Kasparov-Deep Junior (Game 3)
Jack Peters (LATimes): Kramnik-Bareyev, Wijk aan Zee 2003
IM Vladimir Barsky (Chess Today - 820, Reposted at Chess Sector - Ukrainian Chess Online) Karjakin-Kosteniuk, Match (4), 4.2.2003
                                     (it's about ½-way down the page)

Puzzles & Problems

Chessville - Problem of the Week
Sack the King! - A new tactical puzzle every day!
MagnateGames - A problem each day
Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day
Mastermove - Endgame Compositions
National Scholastic Chess Foundation - Problem of the Week
Chesshaven - Tactical Exercise of the Day
The London Times - Winning Move & Column, Both Daily

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Position of the Week: Solution

Today's position demonstrates the interference theme.

1.Ne6+ fxe6  It turns out that Black can survive for a while by giving up his queen with 1...Qxe6, but who wants to play on like that?  2.Qf8+ Kc7 3.Qxe7+ Kb8 (3...Kc8 4.Rh8+ Rg8 5.Rxg8 mate) 4.Rh8+ Rg8 5.Rxg8+ Bc8  and now White has three different mates-in-three: 6.Rxc8+ Kxc8 7.Ba6+ Kb8 8.Qb7; or  6.c6 Qxh2+ 7.Kxh2 and mate next; 6.Bc6 and 6.Ba6 both lead to similar mates.
 

 

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Kelly's
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From the latest batch of quotes added to Kelly's collection:

Be aggressive, but play soundly. Don't take unnecessary chances. – Bruce Pandolfini

Chess is my world. Not a house, nor a castle where I can hide from life's troubles, but precisely a world. A world where I can express myself. – Mikhail Tal

Having made a mistake or inexact move, you should not think "everything is lost", and be vexed, but quickly orientate yourself, and in the new situation, look for a new plan. – David Bronstein

Do not be in a hurry to do something you can't undo. – Kelly Atkins

Chess is my life!!! Sometimes my life sucks! – Ernest Simmons

So often, it is not a question of how much you know, but how well and consistently you apply what you do know. – Dan Heisman

Lost game: something your opponent had before he won. – Source Unknown

The reason they call it chess, is that all the four-letter words were taken. – Source Unknown

He was an individual and so was I. Today, these players have coaches, physicians, cooks, psychologists, and parapsychologists. The championship has become a fight between two big collective farms. – Boris Spassky (on Fischer)

To be creative, to be adventurous, to exhibit flair, is no excuse for not studying hard. The truth is exactly the opposite. You have to work constantly at your game, at your openings and endings. A deep analysis is necessary. Chess is not a fixed or static body of knowledge. It's dynamic. Even the books I've written on chess and the annotations I've made on my own matches are not set in stone. I keep updating them. There must be a constant questioning of old ideas, even one's own. – Garry Kasparov

 

 

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GAMES

Match Kosteniuk - Karjakin Brissago (4)
04.02.2003

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 e5
5.Nb5 d6
6.N1c3 a6
7.Na3 b5
8.Nd5 Nce7
9.c4 Nxd5
10.exd5 bxc4
11.Nxc4 Nf6
12.Be3 Rb8
13.Be2 Be7
14.a4 0-0
15.0-0 Bb7
16.Nb6 Nd7
17.a5 f5
18.f3 Nxb6
19.Bxb6 Qd7
20.b4 Bd8
21.Be3 Bf6
22.Rb1 Qf7
23.Bc4 Rfc8
24.Qd3 Ra8
25.Rfc1 Qh5
26.Bb3 Bg5
27.Qd2 Bxe3+
28.Qxe3 Qf7
29.Qb6 Bxd5
30.Qxa6 Rxc1+
31.Rxc1 Rxa6
32.Rc8+ Qe8
33.Rxe8+ Kf7
34.Ra8 1-0

Game 6, 2-6-03

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 e5
5.Nb5 d6
6.N1c3 a6
7.Na3 b5
8.Nd5 Nce7
9.c4 Nxd5
10.exd5 bxc4
11.Nxc4 Nf6
12.Be3 Rb8
13.Be2 Be7
14.a4 0-0
15.0-0 Bb7
16.Nb6 Nd7
17.a5 f5
18.f3 Nxb6
19.Bxb6 Qd7
20.b4 Bd8
21.Be3 Bf6
22.Rb1 Qf7
23.Bc4 Rfc8
24.Qd3 Ra8
25.Rbc1 Bd8
26.Bb3 Rab8
27.Rc6 Qf8
28.Rc4 Rxc4
29.Bxc4 Ra8
30.Rc1 Bc8
31.Bb3 Bd7
32.Bc4 Bc8
33.Bb3 1/2-1/2

 

 

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