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January 26th, 2003 In This Issue Position of the Week New At Chessville Gambit Chess Openings Wagering On Chess The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Poll: Kasparov or Deep Junior? Pablo's Chess News New On The Net From the Editor... Several of our readers wrote to advise us of a technical problem last week - our mail list host sent some of our readers multiple copies of last issue in error. I have been told that the problem was isolated and corrected, and hopefully will not happen again. Our apologies to everyone for the inconvenience, and our appreciation for your patience with these occasional technical glitches. White to move and win - Find the
Solution Balogh Counter Gambit, Part 2 IM-CC Keith Hayward's look at this unusual Black Gambit opening. Free eBook! Canadian Chess Problems by C.F. Stubbs. 206 Chess Puzzles, taken from actual games as well as compositions. Originally published in 1890, now reproduced in electronic form and converted to algebraic notation by Anders Thulin. Strange Chess News: More Weirdness From the pages of the JAX Chess Newsletter - Even the Editor Has His Doubts! Review: Gambit Chess Openings by Eric Schiller, reviewed by David Surratt
More Annotated Games of Russell Chauvenet, the
Silent Knight: Smith Morra Gambit: by Albert Hoogendoorn, Creator and Webmaster of MyChessSite. This week read the the sixth installment in his series on this exciting response to the Sicilian Defense. FEN (Forsyth-Edwards Notation): Learn how to read or write position descriptions using this standardized system.
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Gambit Chess Openings Eric Schiller's books have been dismissed in some circles as "data dumps", nothing more than a compilation of games culled from computer databases. It would be easy to preemptively dismiss this book as just another of that same genre. That would be a mistake. Schiller is into Gambits. He is also the author of a number of quite good books, with one on the Goring Gambit coming immediately to mind. And the cover of Gambit Chess Openings (GCO) promises a lot: "Explanations, Important Concepts and Thinking behind Every Gambit Opening...Openings Include Move List, Sample Position, Overview, Analysis, Variations and Illustrative Games." Then there's the sub-title of the book: "The Complete and Definitive Reference Guide to Gambit Chess Openings, More Than 2,000 Opening Gambit Strategies Inside." It would be an equally erroneous assumption to believe the
publishers hype.
Read the entire review, and find out what this book is all about. Grandmasters Disagree Over Favorite In Betsson.com, the online betting exchange that allows people from across the World to bet against each other, reveals a split in opinion among top Grandmasters as to the favorite for the match. English GM Keith Arkell has placed 200 Euros on Deep Junior. He said, “Kasparov’s main strength is to calculate, but this won’t help him against a computer, which can calculate thousands of times quicker than him. There are players, who have a superior positional feel to Kasparov, who I believe would have a better chance against Deep Junior.” Denmark’s strongest player, GM Peter Heine Nielsen, disagrees and has placed 200 Euros on Kasparov. He said, “Kasparov is the strongest player of all time and I think he learnt his lesson when he played against Deep Blue. We saw during the Kramnik v Fritz match that it is possible for humans to totally outplay the computers; I think Kasparov will use his great experience to do just that.” Markets are now open for the Kasparov v Deep Junior chess match starting on January 26th. Kasparov is favored to win at odds of 1.82 (5/6), Deep Junior is 2.25 (5/4) while the draw should not be discounted (remember Kramnik v Deep Fritz) at 6 (5/1). There will be markets available on all games and a LIVE winners market available throughout the duration of the match. Simply register and your account will be updated with your FREE 5 Euro bet on the match.
News Flash: The
latest information (1-25-03) on the match is: Kasparov has been backed
heavily and is now at odds of 1.76 (3/4), Deep
Junior is 2.75 (7/4) while the draw should
not be discounted (remember Kramnik v Deep Fritz) at 6 (5/1). Poll: Kasparov or Deep Junior? Kasparov or Deep Junior,
we
asked. 57% think Garry will avenge his defeat to the silicon
monsters, while just 13% expressed confidence in DJ. 10% didn't care,
and 7% think the match will be postponed! The remainder of the voters
expect another sister-kisser, as in Kramnik's latest effort at the Man vs.
Machine genre.
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Swiss USSR Champ: There were only 2 occasions when the USSR chess championship final was run using the Swiss system. The 35th USSR championship (Kharkov, 1967) was held as a Swiss tournament with 126 players, rather than a "closed" round-robin tournament. The "experiment" was not a success, as the Swiss format was not employed again until the 58th and last championship (Moscow, 1991). Capa Never the Champ: Jose Raul Capablanca's only appearance in the Cuban championship was when he played in the 1901 tournament. He finished 4th, 4 points behind winner Juan Corzo. Capablanca defeated Corzo in a match, but the Cuban title was determined by an annual tournament, and not by match play. Submit your trivia to the
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Ebralidze,A - Lubienski,T 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Nd7 5.Nf3 f5 6.Qc2 Nh6 7.Bd2
Bd6 8.Rc1 0-0 9.Bd3 Kh8 10.Ne2 Nf6 11.a3 Ne4 12.Bb4 Nf7 13.Bxd6 Qxd6 14.cxd5
exd5 15.h4 Bd7 16.Nf4 Rae8 17.Be2 Bc8 18.0-0 Qe7 19.g3 Rg8 20.Kg2 g5 21.hxg5
Nfxg5 22.Ne5 Ne6 23.Rh1 Qc7 24.Bh5 Re7 25.Rh3 Nxf4+ 26.exf4 Reg7 27.Rch1 Be6
28.Qe2 Qe7 29.Qd1 Qc7 30.b4 a6 31.Qc2 Qe7 32.Qb2 Bd7 33.Re1 Be8 34.Be2 Qd8
35.Bd3 Qd6 36.Reh1 Qd8 37.Qa1 Qb6 38.R1h2 Re7 39.Bxe4 fxe4 40.f5 Bd7 and now
we have reached the diagrammed position. 41.Rxh7+ Rxh7
42.Rxh7+ Kxh7 43.Qh1+ Kg7 So far these moves were all too obvious; but
how many of us saw the denouement that now follows? 44.f6+ Kxf6 45.Nxd7+
1-0 Herr Fritz found an even better line: 45.Qh6+ (45.Qh4+
leads to mate also, just one move slower than the text.) Ke7
(45...Kf5 and 45...Rg6 both lead to mate one move sooner than 45...Ke7)
46.Qh7+ Kf6 (46...Rg7 47.Qxg7+ and mate in two) 47.Qf7+ Kg5 48.Qf4+
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