From The Chessville Forum Dan Heisman discussing his Improvement Plan Article Fischer vs Women: 357.78 The Evolution of Chess: 479.1 Who Is the World's Oldest GM? - 478.1 Promoting Chess - 476.1 Can Anyone Fill Chessbelle in About Arliss? Evan's Trading Booth - 327.15 Elo Performance Rating - 469.1 Analyzing With Stronger Players Counting Imbalances - Minor Pieces Heisman: The Interesting Cases of Yu and Reilly Blitz Anyone? The Chessville Weekly - What Do You Like? Easyfish's Chess Bookaholics GM Norm: 389.6 Chess Player's Battle Manual Opinions On New In Chess Series - 480.1 Turnerfeck Wants Comments On His Game King's Gambit Minerature Another Game Russia vs Rest of the World Heisman Blitz! Altmax Chess Battle London System Blackmar-Diemer Gambit To Increment, Or Not To Increment Pablo's Picks Shipov,S (2613) - Zhang Pengxiang (2550) [D17] ICC Blitz Championship (3.2), 24.08.2002 1.d4 d5 Labollita,M (2392) - Dreev,A (2676) [D10] ICC Blitz Championship (3.3), 24.08.2002 1.d4 d5 Back issues of The Chessville Weekly can be viewed at
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August 25th, 2002 In This Issue A Word From The Editor: Wow! I can't believe it, but this is our 12th issue already. The Chessville Weekly (TCW) has evolved since it's inception, and we'd like to know which features you are enjoying and using, and which features you could live without. Please visit Chessville's Forum and let us know. Thanks for taking your time to help us keep TCW fresh and useful for you! Black to move and win - Find the Solution
Alexandra Kosteniuk Speak to me, so that I can see you,
This is her official website, and is organized along familiar lines - a series of links along the left side of the page mirror those near the top of the page, underneath an advertising banner. Major sections include: About Alexandra, Photo Album (!), Shop, Learn Online, Chess Calendar, Fan Club, poems, best games, guestbook, forum, chat, and contact info. The site has a number of interesting features (you must visit the photo album) including pages from her book, How I Became A Grandmaster At Age 14. They post another page each week. There is information about taking lessons from Alexandra at the Internet Chess Club ($25/hour), and a selection of chess postcards & software, and her book, of course. The seemingly obligatory links collection is fairly small, and could be improved by the addition of Chessville! Although parts of the site (like the forum for example) are still rather sparse, other parts (see the photo album) have a fair amount of both quantity & quality. I tend to see this site as a work in progress, just like it's subject. The de facto webmaster, Diego Garces, seems very open to suggestions for improvement, and I look forward to revisiting Kosteniuk's site. The site does offer coverage of her current chess events though, with links to home pages of tourney's she participates in. The Best Games page could be improved by the addition of a means to play through the games presented, but they can fairly easily be pasted into whatever pgn viewer you use. Some annotations to these games would be nice too. I leave you with one of the games she's posted: Kosteniuk Alexandra (RUS) - Nikolaidis Konstantinos (GRE), Ikaria (Greece), It (Open), 1998: 1.e4 c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 e6 6.Nge2 Nge7 7.d3 d6 8.O-O O-O 9.Rb1 Rb8 10.Be3 Nd4 11.b4 b6 12.f4 Bd7 13.Qd2 Qc7 14.Rfc1 Rfc8 15.Qe1 e5 16.Bd2 a6 17.Nd4 ed 18.Nd5 Nd5 19.cd Bb5 20.Bf1 Qd7 21.Qe2 Re8 22.Qf3 Rbc8 23.g4 Qe7 24.g5 f6 25.Bh3 Rc7 26.Be6 Kh8 27.h4 Rf8 28.f5 Bd7 29.Rf1 c4 30.gf Bf6 31.Bh6 Re8 32.fg Be6 33.Qf6 Qf6 34.Rf6 hg 35.de cd 36.Rd1 Rc3 37.Rf8 Rf8 38.Bf8 Kg8 39.Bd6 Ra3 40.e7 [1:0]
Annotated Game: Lasker v. Steinitz, World Championship Match, 1894, Game 3. Annotations by the players themselves.
Introduction to Chess Strategy for the Novice Player: Bill Whited
continues his series with "Exploiting Open and Half-Open Files (Part I)."
Exploiting Open and Half Open Files One of the more interesting concepts in positional chess
involves open, half open and closed formations. A formation is classified
based on the pawn structure and the whether a file is open, i.e. has no
pawns blocking it. A semi-open or half open file has one pawn blocking it
while a closed file is blocked by both pawns. Depending on the game, the
formation may change as it progresses. Control of file will often decide the
outcome of a game. This is because the side that controls the file has a
natural invasion route for their pieces down the file. But seizing an open
file is not easy, as your opponent can often trade off the heavy pieces and
create a drawn position or even a lost end game for you!
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Anand,V (2755) - Ponomariov,R (2743) [D27] Chess Classic Mainz 2002 (8), 18.08.2002 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.0-0 a6 7.a4 Nc6 8.Qe2 Be7 9.Rd1 0-0 10.dxc5 Qc7 11.b3 Bxc5 12.Bb2 b6 13.Nbd2 Bb7 14.Rac1 Nb4 15.Ng5 Qe7 16.Ndf3 h6 17.Nh3 Rfd8 18.Nf4 Rxd1+ 19.Rxd1 Rd8 20.Rxd8+ Qxd8 21.Ne5 Nbd5 22.Nh5 Be7 23.h3 Qc7 24.e4 Nb4 25.Nxf7 Kxf7 26.Nxg7 Bc8 27.Nf5 b5 28.axb5 axb5 29.Nxe7 Kxe7 30.Bxb5 Qc2 31.Ba3 Qc3 32.Qc4 Qa1+ 33.Kh2 Qxa3 34.Qxc8 Qa5 35.Qc5+ Kd8 36.Qd6+ Kc8 37.Qxe6+ Kb8 38.Bc4 Qc7+ 39.e5 Ne4 40.f4 Nd2 41.Qxh6 Nxc4 42.Qf8+ Ka7 43.Qxb4 Nb6 44.e6 Nc8 45.Qd4+ Kb8 46.Qe5 1-0 The Week In Chess (TWIC) The most complete Tournament NewsThe Chess Oracle Monthly International Chess News The Campbell Report Correspondence Chess NewsAmateur vs
World Chess Champion/Advanced Chess BCM Coverage of the Ron Banwell Masters Chess Federation of
Canada forbids girls from playing in boy's section of CYCC, but will
reconsider! Promoting Chess: "I'm an avid public chessplayer. I'll play anybody, anytime, anywhere. I've played chess in city parks, in pubs, in libraries, on a bench at the shopping mall. I've played in medical waiting rooms, on the beach, in restaurants. I've played in comic shops, at auto dealerships, at bookstores. And do you know how often I've heard a disparaging remark about chess? Once, in a bar, said by a guy trying to pick a fight...I never have trouble finding people who want to talk about chess -- in fact, it's extremely difficult to get them to stop talking about it." From Steve Lopez's "The Crossroads", not exactly new, but still very topical! "Going Crazy for Go" offers another perspective.
The Chess Cafe Notes on the Upcoming Kasparov-Deep Junior Match Chessbase Steve Lopez's Latest T-Notes: The Fine Art of Annotation - Part 1 Interview With Kramnik: Include Anand & Ivanchuk Chess Prodigies The Burgermeister vs the Chess Champion Chess Siberia - Leko - Adams, Dortmund (1.6) 2002 Robert Byrne in the NY Times: Leko-Topalov, Dortmund 2002
Lubomir Kavalek in the Washington Post Jack Peters in the LA Times: Anand - Ponomariov, News & Notes Chessopolis - New Links! Chess Sector - Ukrainian Chess OnlineSergey Karjakin - the Youngest Grandmaster in chess history GM Mikhail Golubev - Anand-Ponomariov rapid chess match GMChess Chess Summer - Ruminations on Kasparov-Deep Junior Kenneth Curmi - Queen's Gambit FIDE Online - 35th Chess Olympiad Chathurangam: Chess In India Update on the World U16 Olympiad - China, Ukraine in the lead. Correspondence Chess News - #74 in pdf Seagaard Chess Reviews Secrets of Chess Intuition by Beliavsky & Mikhalchishin Endgame Training: Theory and Practice of Chess Endings by Panchenko & Chess Endgame Training Alpert World Chess Network Larry Evans - Mate In Two, Unifying the Title Womens Week events from August 26th September 1st. WGM Susan Polgar will compete in Banter Games and Master Challenges each and every evening throughout the event. Multiple daily events featuring female chess stars like WGM Elena Donaldson will run throughout the entire week. The Scotsman - John Henderson's Entries for 8/19, 8/20, & 8/21 RusBase Part Two - More Entries for 1976 Jeremy Silman Review - FISCHER WORLD CHAMPION! By Euwe & Timman John Henderson's Chess News - Mainz, Prodigies, More...
Position of the Week: Solution
Viakhireff - Alekhine, 1908 The future World Champion allows his queen to become trapped, then gives her up for a unique mate: 1...Qh1+ 2.Bg1 [ 2.Kf2 Bh4#] 2...Bh4 And now there's any number of ways for White to end the game. The actual game went... 3.Rh2 Qg2+ 4.Rxg2 fxg2#
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Sutovsky,E (2658) - Reinderman,D (2523) [C10] ICC Blitz Championship (3.4), 24.08.2002 1.e4 e6 Polgar,J (2681) - Macieja,B (2607) [C42] MVM Cup Budapest (8), 22.08.2002 1.e4 e5
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Kelly's Quotes What is the object of playing a gambit opening? To acquire a reputation
of being a dashing player at the cost of losing the game. Siegbert
Tarrasch Life is like a game of chess, in which there are an infinite number of complex moves possible. The choice is open, but the move made contains within it all future moves. One is free to choose, but what follows is the result of one's choice. From the consequences of one's action there is never any escape. Shelley Smith Life is like a game of chess: we draw up a plan; this plan, however, is conditional on what - in chess, our opponent - in life, our fate - will choose to do. Artur Shopenhauer
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