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GAMES

Pablo's Picks
 

Germany 
      vs  Greece

Schmaltz -
        Banikas
    Round 4
 3 Sept 2002

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Nc3 e6
4.d4 cxd4
5.Nxd4 Qc7
6.f4 a6
7.Nxc6 Qxc6
8.Bd3 b5
9.Qe2 Bb7
10.Bd2 Rc8
11.a4 b4
12.Nd5 f5
13.c4 Kf7
14.exf5 exd5
15.Qh5+ g6
16.fxg6+ hxg6
17.Qxh8 dxc4
18.Qh7+ Bg7
19.Qxg6+
    ....     Qxg6
20.Bxg6+ Kxg6
21.0-0-0 c3
22.bxc3 Be4
23.Rhe1 d5
24.Re3 bxc3
25.Rg3+ Kf7
       0-1
 

Oral,T (2549) - Kristjansson,S (2428) [C07]

Match Game 1
14 Sept 2002

1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5
3.Nd2 c5
4.exd5 Qxd5
5.Ngf3 cxd4
6.Bc4 Qd6
7.0-0 Nf6
8.Re1 Nc6
9.Ne4 Nxe4
10.Rxe4 Qc5
11.Bd3 Bd7
12.Nxd4 Nxd4
13.Be3 Bc6
14.Rxd4 Qe5
15.b4 b6
16.Rc4 Qd5
17.Qf1 Bb5
18.Rd1 Bxc4
19.Bxc4 Qf5
20.Bb5+ Ke7
21.Qc4 Kf6
22.g4 Qf3
23.Rd3 Kg6
24.Bc6 Rc8
25.Be4+ Kf6
26.Qd4+ 1-0
 

Kristjansson,S (2428) - Oral,T (2549) [B47]

Match Game 6
19 Sept.  2002

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Qc7
5.Nc3 e6
6.Be2 a6
7.0-0 Nf6
8.Kh1 Nxd4
9.Qxd4 Bc5
10.Qd3 b5
11.Bg5 Bb7
12.a3 h5
13.Bxf6 gxf6
14.f4 h4
15.h3 Rc8
16.Rad1 Ke7
17.Bg4 Rhd8
18.Rd2 Ba7
19.e5 f5
20.Bxf5 exf5
21.Qxf5 Rg8
22.Rfd1 Rcd8
23.Rd5 Rg6
24.Qh5 Rdg8
25.Qxh4+ Ke8
26.R1d2 Bxd5
27.Nxd5 Qc5
28.Rd4 f6
29.Qh7 Rxg2
30.Nxf6+ 1-0

Pelletier,Y (2571) - Naiditsch,A (2581) [E15]

Switzerland vs. Germany Match Zurich (1), 07.09.2002

1.d4 Nf6
2.c4 e6
3.Nf3 b6
4.g3 Ba6
5.Qb3 Nc6
6.Nbd2 d5
7.Bg2 Be7
8.Qa4 Bb7
9.cxd5 exd5
10.Nc4 dxc4
11.Ne5 Bb4+
12.Kf1 0-0
13.Nxc6 Qd7
14.Bg5 Rfe8
15.Bxf6 gxf6
16.Bf3 a6
17.Rd1 b5
18.Qxb4 Bxc6
19.d5 Re5
20.Qc5 Bb7
21.Kg2 Qd6
22.Qxd6 cxd6
23.Rd4 Rc8
24.g4 a5
25.Rc1 Ba6
26.e4 Re7
27.Be2 Rec7
28.Rd2 Rc5
29.Rdc2 b4
30.Kf3 a4
31.a3 Rb8
32.Ke3 Rb6
33.Bxc4 bxa3
34.bxa3 Bxc4
35.Rxc4 Rb3+
36.Kf4 Ra5
37.R1c3 Kg7
38.Rxa4 1-0

 

 

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September 22nd, 2002
 

In This Issue
Position of the Week

OnlineChessLeague Update
New At Chessville
Scholastic Instruction: Pattern Recognition
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net

 

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Position of the Week

[FEN "1n3rk1/5ppp/4p3/1p2Nb2/1P2N3/2bR4/5P1P/r2B1KR1 w - - 0 1"]

White to move and win - Find the Solution
 

OnlineChessLeague Update

Fall 2002 Tourney Registration closes October 6th.  If you enjoy great competition, building camaraderie with your teammates, meeting new friends from all over the world, and standard time controls (60-15), register today!  Bring your buddies and form your own team, or let the OCL Registrars add you to an existing or forming team.  The camaraderie of playing as part of a team is one of the greatest benefits of playing in the OCL. Getting together online with your teammates, analyzing each other's games, and helping each other prepare for upcoming matches can all be a part of the experience. In the OCL you'll make new friends, learn about chess, and improve your game.

The Online Chess League's (OCL) Summer 2002 Tourney is swiftly drawing to a close.  Two of the three sections have already completed play, and only the larger Under-1800 section is still finishing up the last round.

The Open Section victor, Resistance Is Futile (Sonny Kamberi, Keith Hayward, Ben Miramontes, Aldo Lopez, Max McLeieer, and Captain Bob Kraemer - team rating 2179) edged out their closest competitors by a single match point, 5˝ to 4˝.  The NDV All-Stars and the Knights of the Square Table finished 2nd & 3rd, respectively.

The inaugural tourney for the Under-1400 section saw The Poison Pawns (Captain Kenneth McPherson, Suman Kota, Baldev Ghuman, Daniel Barber, Bob Chmilnitsky and Steven Maloney) go undefeated to take clear first place.  Gaining Tempo and Simply Blunderful finished 2nd & 3rd, respectively.

The Under-1800 finishes play this week.  After six rounds five different teams were all bunched together, but going into the final round Amateur Minds and Beam Me Up Scotty have managed to squeeze a half-point ahead of Team Botvinnik & Light Squares.  All results for the Summer 2002 Tourney can be found here.
 

New At Chessville

Problem of the Week: (N.B.: This is not the same series of problems which appears in The Chessville Weekly.)

Developing Basic Pattern Recognition by Jim Mitch.

Annotated Game: Steinitz v. Lasker, WC Game 6.

CD-ROM Review: The Chess Machine, reviewed by Bill Whited.
 

Scholastic Instruction
Developing Basic Pattern Recognition
by Jim Mitch

This article is primarily intended for readers involved in teaching chess to young players. Included are suggested activities for helping students imagine and force checkmate from controlled endgame positions.  For those interested in reproducible assessment and teaching materials, 33 pages of exercises are provided for free downloading. Readers who prefer to skip the details or save them for later, may preview the pages and downloadable files.

Novices may become proficient at making legal moves, capturing material, playing opening tricks, and chasing their opponents' kings. At what point are they playing chess? Since the object of the game is to force checkmate, it's only when students begin to imagine and try to create specific checkmates in the heat of a game that they become chess players.  Read the full article here.
 

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

First To Worst:  After Vitaly Tseshkovsky won the USSR championship in 1978, he finished last in the 1979 tournament.  He did the same thing nearly a decade later, winning the championship in 1986, and finishing last in 1987.

Time Consuming:  German master Friedrich Samisch lost all 13 of his games in the 1969 Linkopping tournament by failing to meet the time control in each game.

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

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European Club Cup - 1st Game Report

Svidler,P (2690) - Gofshtein,L (2519) [B33] European Club Cup Halkidiki (1), 22.09.2002  1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6 5.Nb3 Nf6 6.Nc3 e6 7.Bd3 a6 8.Be3 Qc7 9.f4 Bb4 10.Qd2 e5 11.0-0 0-0 12.fxe5 Nxe5 13.Bd4 Bxc3 14.Bxc3 d6 15.Nd4 Re8 16.h3 Be6 17.Rf4 Nfd7 18.Be2 Nc5 19.Nf5 Rad8 20.Bd4 f6 21.Qc3 Rd7 22.Rd1 Rc8 23.Qg3 Kh8 24.Qe3 ˝-˝

From the Switzerland vs Germany Match

Lutz,C (2650) - Pelletier,Y (2571) [C18] Switzerland vs. Germany Match Zurich (2), 08.09.2002  1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Ne7 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.Qg4 0-0 8.Bd3 Nbc6 9.Qh5 Ng6 10.Nf3 Nce7 11.dxc5 b6 12.c6 Qc7 13.0-0 f5 14.exf6 gxf6 15.c4 dxc4 16.Bxc4 Qxc6 17.Bb3 Kh8 18.Nd4 Qe4 19.Rd1 Rd8 20.Be3 e5 21.Ne6 Bb7 22.Qh3 Rg8 23.Bg5 fxg5 24.Nxg5 Qh4 25.Qxh4 Nxh4 26.Bxg8 Rxg8 27.Rd8 Rxd8 28.Nf7+ Kg7 29.Nxd8 Bxg2 30.Rd1 Bd5 31.c4 Bxc4 32.Rd7 Kf8 33.Rxa7 Ke8 34.Nb7 Nhf5 35.a4 Nc8 36.Ra8 Kd7 37.a5 Bd5 38.a6 Kc7 39.Kf1 Nfe7 40.Ke1 Bf3 41.Kd2 Nc6 42.Ke3 Bd5 43.f4 exf4+ 44.Kxf4 N6a7 0-1

The Week In Chess (TWIC) The most complete Tournament News
     # 410, September 16th, 2002 - # 411, September 23rd, 2002

The Chess Oracle Monthly International Chess News

Jeremy Silman - John Watson: Latest Chess News

The Campbell Report Correspondence Chess News

Net Chess News - News and More
 

New On The Net

About.com Chess - New Guide: Mark Weeks!  Mark is an ICCF Master who maintains several of his own chess web sites, including The World Chess Championship, and publishes the fantastic "Chess History On the Web" newsletter.  Welcome Mark!
     Title Reunification Recap
     Build An Opening Repertoire
     Man vs Machine In October

Chessbase
     Searching For Vladimir Kramnik
     Chess Tournament Calendar
     Mig On Chess # 179

Philadelphia Enquirer - Shelby Lyman On His 15 Minutes of Fame

The Chess Cafe
     Review: Chess Choice Challenge 2 by Chris Ward
     Endgame Study: A.A. Seletsky, 1933
     Edgar Winter's Chess Notes: Fischer errata
     Richard Forster: Boden's Mate
     Geurt Gijssen: An Arbiter's Notebook - Rapids In Moscow
     Chess Informant: van Wely Annotates
     Dan Heisman: Novice Nook - A Positional Primer

Russian Chess - Vladimir Kramnik interviewed by Mark Crowther

Chess Siberia
     Schipkov Annotates: Schipkov - Ruban, Novosibirsk Rgn ch 1986
     Reviews: August 2002 Events Recounted

Robert Byrne in The NY Times
     A Teenager To Watch - Hikaru Nakamura

NYTimes - Interview With Garry Kasparov

Lubomir Kavalek in The Washington Post
     Annotated Game: Polgar-Kasparov

Australian Chess Columns - Akopian-Kasparov, Polgar-Kasparov

Sack the King! - A new tactical puzzle every day!

Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day

Key Moves - #127

Mastermove - Endgame Compositions

Chess Sector - Ukrainian Chess Online
     Chess Composition Tournament Open To All

Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler
     The French Connection

Mechanics' Institute Chess Room
     Imre Konig Memorial GM Invitational
     Games From the Konig Invitational Annotated By the Players

FIDE Online
     Leong Gets VP In Exchange For Withdrawing Presidential Bid

National Scholastic Chess Foundation - Problem of the Week

Correspondence Chess News - Issue #76 (pdf format)

Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary
 - #186 & 187: Ultimate Blunder & King Hunt, The Case For Cheating

Seagaard Chess Reviews - The Grünfeld Defence by Nigel Davies

World Chess Network - Evans On Chess: The Best Beasts, Puzzle

Hampshire Chess Association - Playing Against Steinitz

RusBase Part Two - More of 1977

Jeremy Silman
     Benko's Brain Twisters
     Silman: Face the Firing Squad! (Tournament Player Instruction)

WorldChessRating - Russia vs ROW Rematch Challenge

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Position of the Week: Solution


Training Position #1

This not too subtle mate-in-four combines three tactical themes in one neat package: a pin followed by removal of the guard allows a back-rank mate:

1. Nf6+ Kh8 2. Nxf7+ Rxf7 3. Rd8+ Rf8 4. Rxf8 Mate.
 

 

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Reuben Fine's 15 Endgame Rules:

1. Doubled, isolated and blockaded pawns are weak: Avoid them! 

2. Passed Pawns should be advanced as rapidly as possible.

3. If you are one or two Pawns ahead, exchange pieces but not Pawns.

4. If you are one or two Pawns behind, exchange Pawns but not pieces.

5. If you have an advantage do not leave all the pawns on one side.

6. If you are one Pawn ahead, in 99 cases out of 100 the game is drawn if there are Pawns on only one side of the board.

7. The easiest endings to win are pure Pawn endings.

8. The easiest endings to draw are those with Bishops of opposite colors.

9. The King is a strong piece: Use it!

10. Do not place your pawns on the color of your Bishop.

11. Bishops are better then Knights in all except blocked Pawn positions.

12. Two Bishops vs. Bishop and Knight constitute a tangible advantage.

13. Passed Pawns should be blockaded by the King; the only piece which is not harmed by watching a Pawn is the Knight.

14. A rook on the seventh rank is sufficient compensation for a Pawn.

15. Rooks belong behind passed Pawns.

 

 

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GAMES

Pablo's Picks
 

Naiditsch,A (2581) - Korchnoi,V (2620) [C82]

Switzerland vs. Germany Match Zurich (2), 08.09.2002

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 Nf6
4.0-0 Nxe4
5.d4 a6
6.Ba4 b5
7.Bb3 d5
8.dxe5 Be6
9.Nbd2 Nc5
10.c3 Bg4
11.Bc2 Be7
12.Re1 0-0
13.Nb3 Ne6
14.Nbd4 Ncxd4
15.cxd4 g6
16.Be3 f5
17.Qd3 f4
18.Bd2 c5
19.Bd1 c4
20.Qc3 b4
21.Qc1 Bxf3
22.Bxf3 Nxd4
23.Bxf4 Nxf3+
24.gxf3 Rc8
25.e6 d4
26.Be5 Rf5
27.Qd2 d3
28.Rad1 c3
29.bxc3 Rxe5
30.Rxe5 bxc3
31.Qf4 c2
         0-1
 

Lutz,C (2650) - Korchnoi,V (2620) [C17]

Switzerland vs. Germany Match Berlin (3), 14.09.2002

1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5
3.Nc3 Bb4
4.e5 c5
5.a3 Ba5
6.b4 cxd4
7.Qg4 Ne7
8.bxa5 dxc3
9.Qxg7 Rg8
10.Qxh7 Nbc6
11.f4 Qxa5
12.Nf3 Bd7
13.Rb1 0-0-0
14.Qd3 d4
15.g3 Kb8
16.Be2 Ka8
17.Kf2 Be8
18.Rd1 Nf5
19.Qc4 a6
20.a4 Rd5
21.Bd3 f6
22.Bxf5 exf5
23.Rb5 axb5
24.Qxd5 Rh8
25.axb5 fxe5
26.fxe5 Qa4
27.Re1 Nb8
28.Nxd4 Rxh2+
29.Kg1 Rh7
30.e6 Bxb5
31.Nxb5 Qxc2
32.Bh6 Nc6
33.Ra1+ 1-0

 

 

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