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November 24th, 2002 In This Issue Position of the Week New At Chessville Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess? Professor Chester Nuhmentz The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Pablo's Chess News New On The Net [FEN "r3r1k1/ppp2p1p/4bBpQ/1q6/8/2P3R1/1P3PPP/5RK1 b - - 0 1"] Black to move and win - Find the
Solution Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess! Dan Heisman Shares His Personal Annotated Database of 500 Games! Forum regular NM Dan Heisman posted this message: "I have just typed in the 500th game in my personal ChessBase database (all entries are my games and a couple of my problems). While not all 500 entries are slow games, 90%+ are, almost all annotated ... in some cases to great depth)." This zipped fie is in Chessbase format. Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess? by Svetozar Gligoríc, reviewed by David Surratt Annotated Game: First of a pair of discussion games between your humble Editor and IM-CC Keith Hayward.
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Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess? Are you tired of studying openings, memorizing the latest theoretical wrinkle fifteen moves deep in your pet line, only to have your opponent play the Grob? Long for the days when computer assisted opening research wasn't even a concept? Or do you just plain lack the time to learn detailed opening analysis to the depth necessary to reach a playable middlegame? In September 1993 Bobby Fischer formalized his rules for what some have referred to (derisively, or so it seems) as shuffle chess. The year before he had recommended shuffling the pieces on the back row randomly, but this story goes back much further. As long ago as 1792 the idea was broached by Zuylen van Nieveld. Yet it was Fischer, two hundred years later, whose name has been lent to this variant of the classical game. The basics of Fischer Random Chess (FRC) are pretty simple:
shuffle the pieces randomly on the back rank, so long as the bishops are on
different colors, and the king stands between the two rooks. The resulting
960 positions, which ironically includes the classical chess starting
position, are meant to level the playing field by removing the advantage so
often gained by the player with the better opening preparation.
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the full review. Jim Mitch has created an entertaining and instructive series of engaging training materials for the younger crowd. Writing under the pseudonym Professor Chester Nuhmentz (rhymes with "chess tournaments") Jr., these materials target the scholastic crowd (K-7). Mitch started writing chess instructional material when he coached his kid's school chess team, and says both his web site's content and the commercially available training materials "...can help players to work on fundamental skills at an appropriate degree of difficulty. They're adaptable to many styles of chess instruction, and are flexible enough to use just about anytime, anywhere." Exercise books are written for six different skill levels (Pawn through King). The chess exercises in Level 1 are intended for students who already know how chessmen move and how they make captures; understand basic chess concepts such a check, checkmate, stalemate, and castling; have played at least a few full games of chess; and are familiar with the basic idea of how squares on a chessboard can be identified by using letters and numbers.
The exercises in Level 1 help students to practice
these skills: recognizing key patterns -- checks, checkmates, stalemates,
pins, forks, skewers; using a king and rook to give checkmate; All of the Level 1 training materials are available through
the USCF at their site. Upper
level training
materials are available through the Professor Chess site. These
training materials are an excellent resource for the
scholastic coach, as well as fun for the budding Bobby Fischer.
Scholastic Coaches can also find additional resources in Jim's article "Scholastic
Chess Instruction: Developing Basic Pattern Recognition".
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Original Grandmasters: The first 5 players to be given the title "Grandmaster" were Alexander Alekhine, Jose Capablanca, Siegbert Tarrasch, Emanuel Lasker and Frank Marshall. After the conclusion of the 1914 St Petersburg tournament, Czar Nicholas II of Russia officially bestowed the title of "Grandmaster of Chess" on these 5 players. Correspondence Correspondent: Between mid 1940 and the end of 1972, Swiss master Henry Grob played a total of 3,614 correspondence chess games, often playing 60-70 games at once. His total score was +2,703 -430 =481 (81.4%). All of the games were played against readers of the Zurich newspaper Neuen Zurcher Zeitung. Grob's moves would be printed in the newspaper, and his opponents would then post their moves back to him. Submit your trivia to the
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1... Qxf1+ 2. Kxf1 Bc4+ and all White can do is delay the inevitable with 3. Rd3 Bxd3+ 4. Kg1 Re1 mate.
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