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GAMES Radjabov,T (2656) - Leko,P (2722) [D00] 1.d4 Nf6 Shirov,A (2737) - Topalov,V (2735) [E11] 1.d4 Nf6 Stellwagen,D - Skripchenko,A 1.e4 c5 Baklan,V (2606) - Istratescu,A (2590) [B01] 1.e4 d5
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(2/18) No New additions to the MyChessSite downloads page: Sad news! I received the following email from Albert Hoogendoorn: Hi David, Albert Hoogendoorn here! Today I must announce that the file-by-email service will be stopped per april 1st, 2004. When you receive this message you have already received all files from this system. I must stop this service because Jon Sveinsson is not in the position to produce new databases or PDF files. I am sorry but this is beyond my control. Thank you for your loyalty. Best regards, Albert Hoogendoorn Thanks Albert and Jon. Best wishes to you both. (2/17) Introduction to Correspondence Chess Part 4: From Part 1 of this series we learned the basic premise of correspondence chess (CC). In Part 2 we looked at the fundamental rules of CC. In Part 3 we looked at some of the "venues" to play CC. Now our tour guide, Steve Ryan, finishes off this portion of the tour with his personal "philosophy" or approach to the game along with some tips for better play.
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I blame it all on Walden. Not the pond, nor the essay that grew from it. I have, in fact, often asked my students, were they to spend their time as Thoreau did, in arboreous solitude, if they could bring along but one chess book, what might be their choice? I, for one, would unhesitatingly take Fine's Basic Chess Endings and return it, updated, to a clamoring chess world, where there is far more need for such a polished gem than yet another horrid monograph on the latest ephemeral ruse or gambit. Not that I am beyond taking advantage of such interest in the "Well-I've-sat-down-to-play-whatever-shall-I-do-now?" mentality. Recently, in fact, to help the Chess Club raise funds to expand its library, I had donated 20 hours of analytical time, to be auctioned off. As expected, it sold well. So, when young Walden (of the Club) happened to sit down to play his two-game match against the highest bidder, he was unaware that he was facing an opponent who was fully-prepared with analysis for play with both the White and the Black pieces. That would have been nothing of consequence - love's labor well spent, I say - had I had to tutor Walden's opponent in the ways of the Catalan, or the English Opening vs. 1...e5, or even the Berlin Defense in the Spanish. Walden, however, was a juvenile practitioner of the dark arts of the irregular, baroque and largely irrelevant chess opening - committed to the detritus constantly being swept to the side of the road along Caissa's path. And I had found myself having to prepare an equally arcane opening and defense to face him - for Perry, the execrable PawnPusher... Read
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Intro to Correspondence Chess: Part
4 From Part 1 of this series we learned the basic premise of correspondence chess (CC). In Part 2 we looked at the fundamental rules of CC. In Part 3 we looked at some of the "venues" to play CC. Having explained the basics of correspondence chess in parts 1-3, I would like to finish off with my personal "philosophy" or approach to the game along with some tips for better ( I won't say "good") play. I do not have a high enough rating to advise anyone on chess tactics or strategy. I need all the advice I can get myself in those areas. But before getting into "tips" I would like to deal with the subject of the relative merits of CC vs. OTB play. As I noted previously the two forms of the game have many "switch hitters", or people who play and enjoy both CC and OTB. Nonetheless, you can sometimes detect a slight attitude of "condescension" on the part of the OTB crowd (a statement that might cause howls of outrage) because, let's face it, CC just does not have the high public profile of a face-to-face tournament, of a Fischer-Spassky encounter, or even Kasparov vs. the latest deep, deeper or deepest Blue. Part of this attitude may arise from the huge amount of assistance a CC player may legally use with the game IN PROGRESS. The "assistance" comes from all the chess literature, databases, game collections, and similar items a CC player may use. An OTB player has access to all the same material of course but must have it all in his head when he sits down to play. I (among others) personally believe the two forms of the game compliment each other though I have the feeling that you would have an easier time of it switching from OTB to CC than the other way around. So, while you won't get any advice on tactics, strategy, end game play, or any of that stuff I can still pass along a few words of general wisdom... Read Steve's advice, in
Introduction to Correspondence Chess Part 4
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GAMES Kasparov,G (2831) - Radjabov,T (2656) [B30] 1.e4 c5 Shirov,A (2736) - Topalov,V (2735) [E11] 1.d4 Nf6 Gustafsson,J - Bezold,M 1.d4 d6
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