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GAMES

Ponomariov,R (2743) - Anand,V (2755) [B33]

Chess Classic Mainz 2002 (3), 16.08.2002

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 e5
6.Ndb5 d6
7.Bg5 a6
8.Na3 b5
9.Bxf6 gxf6
10.Nd5 f5
11.Bd3 Be6
12.0-0 Bxd5
13.exd5 Ne7
14.c3 Bg7
15.Qh5 e4
16.Bc2 0-0
17.Rae1 Qc8
18.Bb3 Ng6
19.Nc2 Re8
20.f4 exf3
21.Rxe8+ Qxe8
22.Qxf3 f4
23.Re1 Qd7
24.Nb4 a5
25.Nc6 Re8
26.Rxe8+ Qxe8
27.Kf1 b4
28.cxb4 axb4
29.Qe2 Qd7
30.Bc2 Ne5
31.Qe4 f3
32.Qxh7+ Kf8
33.Qe4 fxg2+
34.Kxg2 Ng4
35.h3 Ne5
36.Ba4 Kg8
37.Qxb4 Ng6
38.Bc2 Qe8
39.Qe4 Qa8
40.a4 Bxb2
41.Qg4 Kh8
42.Bxg6 fxg6
43.Qxg6 Qxa4
44.Ne7 1-0

Alexandra Kosteniuk (IM) vs David Howell (FM)

Chess Classic Mainz 2002 (4), August 2002

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 a6
4.Ba4 Nf6
5.0-0 Be7
6.Re1 b5
7.Bb3 0-0
8.a4 Bb7
9.d3 d6
10.Nd2 h6
11.Nf1 Re8
13.c3 Bf8
14.Ne3 Na5
15.Ba2 c5
16.b4 cxb4
17.cxb4 Nc6
18.Qb3 Qd7 19.Bb2 bxa4
20.Qxa4 Nd4
21.Qxd7 Nxf3
22.gxf3 Nxd7
23.Nd5 Rc8
24.Bc4 Ra7
25.Ra5 Bxd5
26.Bxd5 Nb6
27.Bb3 d5
28.Ra1 Bxb4
29.Rxa6 Rxa6
30.Rxa6 Nd7
31.Bxd5 Rc2
32.Ra7 Rxb2
33.Rxd7 Bc5
34.Rxf7 Kh7
35.f4 Rxf2
36.Rc7 Rc2
37.Kf1 exf4
38.e5 Rc1
39.Ke2 Be3
40.Be4 Kg8
41.Rd7 Rc2
42.Kf3 h5
43.Bg6 Kf8
44.e6 Rf2
45.Ke4 Bc5
46.Rf7 Kg8
47.Kd5 Ba3
48.e7 Re2
49.Rf8 1-0

 

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August 18th, 2002
 

In This Issue
Position of the Week

Chess Curiosities
New At Chessville
Basic Opening Strategy For the Beginner
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net
Position of the Week Solution
 

Position of the Week

Black to move and win - Find the Solution
 

Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities
http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/chess.html

'The moment was still there when he had seen two boys playing chess, and there had been an explosion of certainty that he wanted that too, forever, whatever it would turn out to be.'

So begins one of the most interesting and varied pages of the internet chess world.  Tim Krabbé has assembled an incredible collection of chess-related stuff.  I'll review some of the stuff in a moment, but first let's meet Tim.

Born in Amsterdam in 1943, married with one son, Tim comes from an artistic family of painters, actors, directors, and writers.  While he did some acting and also studied psychology, Tim's primary careers have been as a journalist and a novelist. Several films have been based on his novels, and his articles have appeared in chess as well as in mainstream publications.  Tim has been among the top chessplayers in Holland.  He composes chess problems, and has been building his Chess Curiosities website since June, 1998.  His Open Chess Diary is an on-going compilation of musings and meanderings in the world of chess; you may have seen links to it from time to time in The Chessville Weekly's New On the Net section.

The Chess Curiosities home page is just one long list of links to his other pages, 54 links in all.  Some example page titles include The Kuwait Immortal, Defending Humanity's Honor, The 100 Greatest Moves Ever Played (this week's Position of the Week, above, comes in at #3 all time!), The Mother of all Forks, Diagram of the Century, and so on.

One of my favorite pages on Tim's list is his Chess Records (longest, latest, shortest, mostest) where you can find out the records for things like the longest game, the greatest number of castlings, longest series of checks, latest first capture, and earliest stalemate.  An interesting article about "Strangest Coincidence Ever - Or Hoax?" deals with the authenticity of one of the finest queening combinations I have ever seen.  Hoax or not, you have to check out the combination.

A download of all 415 known Morphy games,  ruminations on the famous Saavedra position, Alekhine's five-queens game, and much, much more are all here for you to enjoy.  I wish you many happy hours of browsing through Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities, and to Tim I can only say, Thank you, thank you, and thank you once again!
 

New At Chessville

Editorial: S. Evan Kreider gets on his high horse about "(C)heating."

Annotated Game: David Surratt brings us another instructive game in his Janitor Jim series.

Annotated Game: Steinitz v. Lasker, World Championship Match, 1894, Game 2.  Annotations by the players themselves.

Introduction to Chess Strategy for the Novice Player: Bill Whited continues his series with a discussion of the Premature Attack.

Basic Opening Strategy for the Beginner: S. Evan Kreider completes his look at the general principles of opening play.


Basic Opening Strategy for the Beginner
By Evan Kreider

General Principle #6: "Combine Developing Moves with Threats."

This puts your opponent on the defensive and gives you the initiative (that is, allows you to dictate the course of events).  Consider the following series of moves...

General Principle #7: "Don't Waste Moves."

This seems obvious, but it's surprising how often it happens in amateur games.  Every wasted move is like a free turn for your opponent, and before you know it, your opponent could end up with an advantage in development and / or central control.  Consider the following series of moves...

General Principle #8: "Don't Block the Development of Your Other Pieces."

Before you develop a piece, make sure that it won't inhibit the development of your other pieces.  Consider the following series of moves...

Read the entire article here.  Or start at the beginning of the series here.
 

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville
    Recent Chess News  News & Notes, including Chessville
    coverage of:  Mainz 2002 & First Saturday Tourney, Budapest

The Week In Chess (TWIC) The most complete Tournament News

The Chess Oracle Monthly International Chess News
 

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     Review: Solving in Style by John Nunn
    
Karsten Müller: The Riddle of Bird vs Morphy
     Endgame Study: B. Varady Magyar Sakkvilág 1934
     Edgar Winters: Chess Notes
     Karsten Müller: Endgame Corner - Bishops At Work (Part 2)
     Tim Harding: A Second Dram of the Scotch Gambit
     Mark Dvoretsky: An "Easy" Win

KasparovChess
     Interview With Ruslan Ponomariov

British Chess Magazine Online
     Rapid Match: Kosteniuk vs Howell
     British Championship - Surprising Win For Indian IM Ramesh

Chessbase
     Mig On Chess #177 - Men, Women, and Machines...
     Lev Khariton - The King's Odyssey: Murder English Style

The FIDE Elections: Why Ignatius Leong is Running for Fide President

Pakistan Chess Player
     Lev Khariton's 200 Words: The Soviet Chess School

Robert Byrne in The NY Times Shredder vs Deep Junior 7

Jack Peters in the LA Times
     Century City 2002: Hanley-Kraai; Akopyan-Ambartsoumian

Australian Chess Columns
     August 18th: Ian Rogers, Peter Parr

William Harvey's Chess Puzzles
     Lovas vs Lajos Asztalos, Budapest, 1915
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     Gaudin vs Guerineau, Bordeaux, 1915
     G Brach vs J Janos, Brunn, 1915
     Arthur Kaufmann vs Richard Reti, Vienna, 1915
     Solutions

Chess Sector - Ukrainian Chess Online
     Interview With Ruslan Ponomariov
     Chess Today Maxim Notkin's Curacao & Petrosian issue
     16...Qxc3 Dragon: The Full Truth Emerges?
    
Arechchenko-Miroshnichenko, Alushta 2002

Chess Problem of the Day Interactive Board - Very Cool!

GMChess
     Amazing and Unusual Dortmund

The Campbell Report
     News & More from the World of Correspondence Chess
     Site Review: Chessville

Seagaard Chess Reviews
     Fritz Powerbook 2002

World Chess Network
     Larry Evans: The Speed Limit

The Scotsman John Henderson's Chess Diary

Chessnews.org
     Seirawan Urges USCF To Replace FIDE Delegation
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Position of the Week: Solution

This position is from Levitzky,S - Marshall,F (Breslau, 1912).  Play starts 1...Rxh3.  White can't recapture the rook (2.gxh3 Nf3+) so he tries 2.Rc5  Marshall's rejoinder was so beautiful and unexpected, that spectators are said to have showered the board with gold coins in appreciation: 2...Qg3 White Resigns.  If White had captured the queen with 3.hxg3 then 3...Ne2 is mate.  Or if he tried 3.fxg3 Ne2+ 4.Kh1 Rxf1 mate.  Even 3.Qe5 Ne2+ is mate next.  Best play would have been: 3.Qxg3 Ne2+ 4.Kh1 Nxg3+ 5.Kg1 Ne2+ 6.Kh1 Rc3 and Black wins easily.
 

 

 

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GAMES

Svidler - Lobron

Ordix Open (4), 18.14.0019

1.e4 g6
2.d4 Bg7
3.Nc3 d6
4.f4 a6
5.Nf3 b5
6.Bd3 Nd7
7.e5 Bb7
8.Qe2 Nh6
9.a4 b4
10.Ne4 0-0
11.c3 bxc3
12.bxc3 c5
13.0-0 Qc7
14.e6 Nf6
15.Neg5 cxd4
16.exf7+ Nxf7
17.Ne6 Qxc3
18.Bb2 Qa5
19.Nfxd4 Rfe8
20.Nxg7 Kxg7
21.Ne6+ Kg8
22.f5 g5
23.h4 h6
24.hxg5 hxg5
25.Rae1 Ne5
26.Qe3 Nh7
27.Nxg5 1-0

Dautov,R - Vaganjan

Ordix Open (10), 18.14.0019

1.d4 Nf6
2.c4 e6
3.Nf3 d5
4.Nc3 Be7
5.Bg5 h6
6.Bh4 0-0
7.e3 b6
8.Bd3 Bb7
9.0-0 Nbd7
10.Qe2 Ne4
11.Bxe7 Qxe7
12.cxd5 exd5
13.Rfd1 Nxc3
14.bxc3 Nf6
15.a4 c5
16.Nd2 a6
17.Rdb1 Qc7
18.Nf3 c4
19.Bc2 Bc6
20.Nd2 b5
21.f3 Rae8
22.axb5 axb5
23.Nf1 Re6
24.Qe1 Rfe8
25.Qg3 Qe7
26.Kh1 Nh5
27.Qf2 g6
28.g4 Nf6
29.Qh4 Kg7
30.Qf2 Rxe3
31.Nxe3 Qxe3
32.Qxe3 Rxe3
33.Ra3 Rxf3
34.Kg1 Nxg4
35.Bd1 Rf4
36.Bxg4 Rxg4+
37.Kf2 Rh4
38.Kg2 Re4
39.Ra7 Re2+
40.Kg1 g5
41.Rc7 Be8
42.Ra1 Kg6
43.Raa7 Re6
44.Rc5 Rd6
45.Ra8 Bd7
46.Rd8 Kf6
47.Rxb5 Ke7
48.Rbb8 Ra6
49.Ra8 Rg6
50.Rdb8 Be6
51.Rg8 Rxg8
52.Rxg8 Kf6
53.Kf2 Kf5
54.Rh8 Ke4
55.Rxh6 Kd3
56.h4 Kxc3
57.h5 Kd2
58.Rf6 c3
59.h6 Bf5
60.Rxf5 c2
61.h7 c1Q
62.Kg2 Qe1
63.h8Q Qe4+
64.Rf3 g4
65.Qh6+ Ke2
          0-1

Svidler - Unzicker,F

Ordix Open (2), 18.14.0019

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 Nf6
4.Nc3 Bb4
5.0-0 0-0
6.d3 d6
7.Bg5 Bxc3
8.bxc3 Qe7
9.Re1 Nd8
10.d4 Bg4
11.h3 Bh5
12.g4 Bg6
13.Bh4 c5
14.dxe5 dxe5
15.Bg3 a6
16.Bc4 Nc6
17.Bh4 h6
18.Bd5 Rac8
19.Rb1 Rc7
20.c4 Bh7
21.c3 Kh8
22.Qe2 g5
23.Bg3 Nd7
24.Rb2 f6
25.Reb1 Rb8
26.Nd2 b6
27.Nf1 Nd8
28.Ne3 Bg6
29.Nf5 Bxf5
30.gxf5 Qe8
31.h4 Kg7
32.Kg2 Nf7
33.Rh1 Nd6
34.a4 b5
35.axb5 axb5
36.cxb5 Nb6
37.Be6 Na4
38.hxg5 hxg5
39.Qg4 Nxb2
40.Bxe5 Nxe4
41.Qxe4 Re7
42.Qg4 Rxe6
43.Qxg5+ 1-0

 

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