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Kevinfons at the Forum, discussing Elements of Positional Evaluation 81.1:

Well I have the book! I was trying to get this one for awhile now. It was providential that the timing is now. I do not think I would have been prepared for it a year ago. I have read through the first thirty pages and I must say I am impressed. Page 12 has a passage about overprotection. It was simply put, but the lights went on! I can see the point. Thanks Dan.

June 9th, 2002
Keeping You Up To Date!

In This Issue
A Passion For Chess
Site Review
New At Chessville
Think Like A Grandmaster
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net
Kelly's Quotes

A Passion For Chess

Passion.  That’s how it all started, with a passion for chess.  That passion brought together three friends and one great idea.  That passion grew the idea, nourished it, crafted it, and encouraged it.  And the Chessville community continues to grow.  What started as an idea for a weekly ezine now encompasses an entire web site filled with information, instruction, and just plain old fun.  Oh yes - there’s plenty of passion, too!

Chessville is designed to meet a wide variety of chess-related needs.  We have instructional materials for all phases of the game, book and software reviews, games collections and other downloads, one of the largest and best organized collection of chess-related web links, annotated games, a huge collection of chess quotes, the latest news from around the world of chess, a collection of chess wisdom, and much more.  There’s even a friendly Forum, where you can discuss every aspect of this game we all love, and ask questions, voice your opinion, or just plain rant about whatever chess topic you like.  Ask author, instructor, and NM Dan Heisman about his books, or his opinions on increasing OTB tourney participation.

New content is being added every Sunday, and soon we’ll annex two entire new neighborhoods.  Our Editor won’t let me tell you about these last two just yet, so keep a close eye out for these two new additions to Chessville.

Who are we?  We are chessplayers.  We at Chessville firmly believe that titled players, while clearly achieving high levels of chess ability, do not necessarily make the best chess teachers.  That is why our primary contributors are experienced and reflective amateurs.  We believe that such players understand the game more than sufficiently to provide instruction to the “average” chess player.  More importantly, they better understand what it is that the typical chess amateur wants and needs, and can communicate the relevant information as well or better than most GMs.  We at Chessville make no claim to authority, nor do we attempt to rest on the laurels of official titles or ratings.  Rather, we intend our instruction and information to stand on its own merits.

Please join The Chessville Team, and visit Chessville. Share our passion!

Site Review

Each week we take an in-depth look at a chess web site.  This week's review is our feature article above: A Passion For Chess!  Look for our review of other sites starting next week.

New At Chessville

Chess Quotations:  A HUGE collection of chess-related quotations, from the entertaining to the instructive to the bizarre.

Basic Tactics:  The next in our series for beginners, an introduction to a few of the most basic and common tactical motifs

Online Etiquette Part Two:  More advice, especially about how to deal with those occasional people you'll meet who lack manners . . . (Part 1)

And more Book Reviews!

Book Review: Think Like A Grandmaster

Reviewed by Leopold Lacrimosa.  Kotovs classic work, edited by John Nunn and reprinted by Batsford, 2001.  A brief excerpt from Leopold's review:

"This book is a companion to his other book “Play Like a Grand Master”, but offers a different insight into the game of chess. Here Kotov takes the reader through a journey of several of the greatest chess minds in order for us to learn how to develop our chess thinking through analysis, selection of candidate moves, positional judgment, general formulae and concrete analysis, developing a plan of attack or defense as well as a look at the endings and the selection of an opening repertoire."  Read the entire review here.

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville
    Recent Chess News  News & Notes, including Chessville
    coverage of:
          FIDE Moscow Grand Prix
          32nd Bosnia Tournament - Sarajevo
          4th Julian Borowski International - Essen
          Sigeman & Co - Malmo
         
Leonid Stein Memorial (Lviv, Ukranie / 17-27 June): Ivanchuk,
               Svidler, Grischuk, Beliavsky, Romanishin & Macieja
              
TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
    
          (source: GM Peter Svidler)

British Chess Magazine Online
     3rd European Women's Individual Championship Won by
          Bulgarian IM & WGM Stefanova Antoaneta.

The Week In Chess (TWIC)
     TWIC395 of June 3rd 2002  Mark Crowther reports.

New On The Net

The Week In Chess (TWIC)
     John Watson CD Review

The Chess Cafe
     Fred Wilson reviews Dan Heisman's new book A Parent's
          Guide To Chess

     Frank Brady responds to claims that Bobby Fischer's mother
          was a Communist spy.
     Endgame Study
     Carsten Hansen Checkpoint: Informater, The Lion,
          ECO-B 4th Edition
     Gary Lane Opening Lanes
     Yasser Seirawan annotates Kramnik-Kasparov
     Edward Winter Chess Notes

Chess Siberia
     Boris Schipkov annotates Grischuk-Polgar 2002

Chessbase
     Ruslan Ponomariov interview with the FIDE WC
     Mig Greengard annotates Kasparov-Radjabov,
                                             Moscow 2002
     2nd CSVN Computer Tourney - Fritz rules!

Lubomir Kavalek in The Washington Post
     Annotates Radjabov-Dizdarevic, Sarajevo 2002

Chess World
     Jeroen van Dorp Annonymity on the Internet

Chessopolis
     Randy Bauer reviews Michael de la Maza's book
          Rapid Chess Improvement

ChessMate
    
Koneru Humpy interview.  Humpy just became the youngest woman (15 years 1 month. 27 days) to qualify for the GM title.

Tell us about your favorite site that you would like us to keep an eye on for you.  Write: Newsletter@Chessville.com

Kelly's Quotes

GMs are so far removed in playing strength from class players that their advice is often misguided. For the same reason that a university mathematics professor will probably not be able to teach addition as well as a first grade teacher, a GM will probably not be able to teach the basics of chess as effectively as a pedagogically inclined player who is much weaker.  – Michael de la Maza

 

 

 

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When the clock is ticking and there's someone sitting on the other side of the board who wants to win as much as you do, you don't rise to the level of your desire; you sink to the level of your training. – Kelly Atkins

 

 

 

 

Dan Heisman at the Forum (125.9) :

mrbishop, Absolutely, that is why reading annotated games, like Chernev's is 2nd only to doing basic tactical problems in terms of helpfulness. The top five things to know at your level are:

1. Tactics
2. Piece Activity
3. Thought Process
4. Time Management, and
5. General Principles

If you know those five well, you can play near 2000 strength no matter how many or few opening lines you know or whether you know the Philidor or Lucena endgames (which I only learned AFTER I became an expert!). That is not to say that learning opening lines is harmful (so long as you don't get upset when people don't play them), it is just that they are not very helpful, and you get diminishing return on your study time, which you do not do for the items above.

Regards,
NM Dan Heisman
Phillytutor on ICC

 

 

 

 

 

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