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GAMES Aeroflot Chess Open Moscow Rd 1 11.02.2003 Svidler,P (2693) - Belov,V (2540) [B12] 1.e4 c6 Morozevich,A (2678) - Savchenko,S (2539) [B30] 1.e4 c5 Zvjaginsev,V (2671) - Riazantsev,A (2538) [A17] 1.c4 Nf6 Rd 2 Bologan,V (2630) - Smirnov,P (2572) [C88] 1.e4 e5
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February 16th, 2003 In This Issue Position of the Week New At Chessville The Renaissance Man Speaks Ponomariov & FIDE: What A Meeting! Hikaru Nakamura - Youngest Ever American GM Pro Chess: The Video Chess Mentor The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Pablo's Chess News New On The Net From the Editor...Last week we told you about the website 50 Chess Games for Beginners. The authors of the site advise that the url I gave was slightly inaccurate. The correct url is:
http://www.50chessgames.freeserve.co.uk/ [FEN "4q1k1/p6p/1p2n2B/2p2rp1/2P5/2P2P2/P2Q2PP/4R1K1 w - - 0 1"] White to move and win - Find the
Solution Interview: Dan Heisman - You've read his Novice Nook column at Chess Cafe, you've listened to him on Chess.fm, and you've asked him questions in the Chessville Forum. Forum Host Kelly Atkins recently sat down for a lengthy conversation with this Renaissance Man. Read Part I today. Free eBook: English Chess Problems, Edited by James Pierce and W. Timbrell Pierce (1876) Review: Pro Chess, The Video Chess Mentor by Yasser Seirawan. (DVD), reviewed by David Surratt Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess Annotated Game: Lasker-Steinitz Game 13. Annotations by Steinitz! Kelly's Quotes: New Additions - Part 2 Fact or Fiction?: Foul Play, a story reprinted from SHADOWS, a publication by inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary, April 1936.
Free eBook: Download the first five installments of the Smith-Morra series
in this 283 kb zipped pdf eBook. Kelly Atkins reports: National Master Dan Heisman is truly a Renaissance man. He’s the author of the popular Novice Nook column at ChessCafe - winner of four Chess Journalists Of America awards in 2002, has his own talk show every Monday night on Chess.fm, has authored numerous chess books, is a well respected chess coach, a former investment adviser and software expert, the author of several short stories, and is an exceedingly likeable & nice guy to boot! Over the past year or so, I’ve gotten to know Dan fairly well and become friends with him, but this was the first time I’d had the pleasure of talking to him this in-depth. Atkins: First thing, how did you get interested in chess? Heisman: My father taught me when I was 7 - I don't remember if I asked him, but I assume I did. That is different from when I started to play seriously at 16. Atkins: What started you playing seriously at 16? Heisman: My father was a member of the Village Players in Hatboro - a theatrical group. During rehearsals people used to play chess. One day a gentleman came in and beat everyone easily - my father invited him over to play me. That was Bob Shumsky - he was a 1700 player. He beat me easily but said, "You are pretty good for someone who doesn't play in tournaments." I said "What's a tournament?" He said "There is one downtown next weekend" and I went in my suit and tie and that was the start. Atkins: How'd you do?Heisman: I was the only one there in a suit and tie, even in 1966. I won 1, lost 4, and lost 1 by forfeit when I showed up late for a round since I thought each day's rounds were at the same time. I was one of the worst 10 players in a 150-player tournament. I got the low (for that time) rating of 1385. Atkins: Did this result discourage or challenge you? Heisman: Challenge! I thought "I'm pretty smart, but there must be something more to this game than brains!" Now looking back, it was that I was playing "Hope Chess." Smart Hope Chess players get slaughtered by even low Real Chess Players. Atkins: From that point, chart your progress to master, please.
Read the first part of Kelly's conversation with Dan.
Ponomariov Meets FIDE Ponomariov, Ilymzhinov Meet In Moscow The news is more or less as follow: On Feb 12 Ruslan Ponomariov arrived in Moscow, the capital of Russia. There he met Omuku and Balgabaev, and two representatives of the Ukrainian Federation, including its President Petrov [Note that Ukrainian Federation has the large duty to pay FIDE]. Ruslan Ponomariov's personal representatives (including his lawyer) were not allowed by FIDE side to take part in negotiations, that started at approx 18:00. Omuku have spoken a lot in English, but there were no interpreters. Ilyumzhinov there emerged at approx 22:00, and negotiations continued until approx 6:00, Feb 13. In the end, when Ponomariov hardly could speak, he signed some paper. It seems that in accordance with the signed declaration, Ponomariov withdrew his demands (draw odds, FIDE control) and in exchange was somehow ensured that Ponomariov-Kasparov and Kramnik-Leko matches will be organized by the same formula. The final decisions regarding Ponomariov-Kasparov match (official contract, etc) will be taken after the Linares tournament ends. On Feb 13 Ponomariov left Moscow for Ukraine. Kasparov (or the Kasparov side) was not represented in Moscow negotiations, according to reports. There was no official confirmation of these news till now, and the FIDE-Ponomariov document is not yet published, as it seems. (M.G., 14.2.2003). Sources in Russian:
www.facts.kiev.ua/Feb2003/1402/02.htm#7 English Language Reports Check out the New On the Net Section below for reports on Kramnik speaking out in support of Ponomariov. Hikaru Nakamura is the youngest American GM ever! He earned his third & final norm at the Bermuda International (GM-B) event, which concluded 5 Feb 03. Nakamura scored 7.5-3.5 to finish in clear 2nd place in this 12-player Round Robin, just one-half point behind the winner, GM Daniel Fridman (LAT-2572) with an 8-3 score. At 15 years, 58 days, Hikaru is the youngest American Grandmaster ever, eclipsing Bobby Fischer's 1958 record of 15 years, 185 days. Here is his 3rd round victory: Nakamura,H (2520) - Moreno Carnero,J (2508) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4 Nh5 10.Re1 a5 11.bxa5 f5 12.Nd2 Nf4 13.Bf1 fxe4 14.Nb3 Nd3 15.Bxd3 exd3 16.Ne4 c5 17.Qxd3 h6 18.Bd2 Nf5 19.Rab1 g5 20.Nc1 Ra6 21.f3 Nh4 22.Ne2 Rf7 23.N2g3 Bf8 24.Rb5 Be7 25.Reb1 Qf8 26.Rb6 Ra8 27.R1b3 Qd8 28.Qb1 Bf8 29.Be1 Ra7 30.Ra3 Ra8 31.Nf1 Nf5 32.Ne3 Nd4 33.Nxd6 Bxd6 34.Qg6+ Rg7 35.Qxd6 Qe8 36.Qxh6 e4 37.fxe4 Qxe4 38.Qh5 Bf5 39.h3 Rf8 40.Bg3 g4 41.Rh6 Bh7 42.Nxg4 Nf5 43.Rf3 Rxg4 44.Rxh7 1-0 And his 11th round victory as well: M Mulyar - H Nakamura 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Be3 e6 7 Qf3 Nbd7 8 Be2 Qc7 9 0-0-0 b5 10 a3 Bb7 11 Bg5 Rc8 12 Bd3 Be7 13 Qg3 Qd8 14 Bd2 Ne5 15 Kb1 0-0 16 h4 Nfd7 17 Bg5 Rxc3 18 bxc3 Nb6 19 Bc1 Na4 20 Ne2 Qc7 21 f4 Nd7 22 Qe3 Bf6 23 Bd2 Rc8 24 g4 d5 25 e5 Be7 26 Bc1 d4 27 cxd4 Bxh1 28 Rxh1 b4 29 Qe4 g6 30 Ka2 bxa3 31 f5 Rb8 32 c4 Ndc5 33 dxc5 Nxc5 34 Qf3 Qxe5 35 Bxa3 Nxd3 36 Qxd3 Bxa3 37 Nc3 Qa5 38 Qc2 Rb2+ 39 Qxb2 Bxb2+ 40 Kxb2 Qb4+ 0-1 Chessbase Report NY Journal Report NSCF Report Congratulations Hikaru!! Pro Chess About 15 years ago someone gave me a chess video - Pro Chess, The Video Chess Mentor. I plugged it into the VCR and faithfully watched Yaz explaining time, space, force, and (pawn) structure. It was hard to follow though, as it was all interspersed with a lot of clips not directly related to chess-teaching. Now sivideo.com has re-released Pro Chess in DVD format, and all of that extraneous - stuff - has been stripped out. What's left is vintage Seirawan. Almost four hours (220 minutes) of mostly instruction, broken into four major segments (the older videotape format included segments one & two on one tape, segments three & four on another) as follows...
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Championship Focus: Between 1886 and 1894, Wilhelm Steinitz did not compete in a single international tournament. His only international chess during that period were several matches for the World Championship title (1886 Zukertort; 1889 Chigorin; 1890-91 Gunsberg; 1892 Chigorin; 1894 Lasker). Championship White Out: When the 6th American Chess Congress was held in New York in 1889, Wilhelm Steinitz agreed to play the winner of the tournament in a match for the World Champion Title. The Congress resulted in a tie for first between the Russian player Mikhail Tchigorin and the little-known American Max Weiss. Amazingly, Weiss declined the opportunity to play Steinitz in a World Championship match, and he never again got as close to the World Championship. Submit your trivia to the
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1.Rxe6 Qxe6
Objectively best is 1...Kf7 but who would play such a move? 2.Qd8+
Kf7 3.Qf8+ Kg6 4.Qg7+ Kh5 5.g4+ Kh4 6.Bxg5+ Black Resigns. Play
might have continued 6...Rxg5 (6...Kh3 7.Qxh7+ Qh6 8.Qxh6 mate) 7.Qxh7+ Qh6
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From His Newest Additions, Part 2 It is also important to remember that he was a real chess gentleman during games. He was always very fair and very correct. – Mikhail Tal (on Fischer) Oh, go and play your silly game. – Cheryl Ryan (and millions of other chess widows) Paradoxically, what one often needs in these 'positional' lines is a sharp tactical eye. – John Watson (on the English Opening) You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position. – Grigory Sanakoev (World CC Champion) To play for a draw, at any rate with
White, is to some degree a crime against chess. One must choose opening systems of small popularity because the positional themes of these systems are not well known. – Mikhail Botvinnik. The art of treating the opening stage of the game correctly and without error is basically the art of using time efficiently. – Svetozar Gligoric. If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage. – Mikhail Tal To get squares you gotta give squares. – Bobby Fischer. Perceiving when a game reaches a crisis is one of the greatest skills in chess. – Ludek Pachman. Strategically bad, but it's not a positional game any more. You just close your eyes and attack. – Peter Leko Avoid marriage and family life if you want to keep improving. – Lev Psakhis Strong chess players get married all the time, but how often do married people become strong chess players? – Randy Carson All the answers are on the board. Just like in life, whatever you give out in this game is what you get back. – Orrin Hudson You know that the estimated number of electrons in the universe is a measly 10 to the 79th power, whereas the number of distinct 40-move games in chess is 25 x 10 to the 115th power. – Larry Parr Another reputation that I helped to make! – Arthur Bisguier (on his 1975 loss in a brilliant game to a 15 year old Seirawan)
GAMES First Saturday FM/A February (1), 2003 Wemer,D (2150) - Meszaros,A (2030) [B85] 1.e4 c5
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