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GAMES

Games From 35th Olympiad, Bled, Round 8
 

Acs (2591) vs Vajda (2576)

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Nc3 d6
4. d4 Bg4
5. Bb5 exd4
6. Qxd4 Bxf3
7. gxf3 Nge7
8. Bg5 a6
9. Bxc6+ Nxc6
10. Qe3 Qd7
11. Nd5 Be7
12. O-O-O f6
13. Bh4 O-O-O
14. f4 Qg4
15. Bg3 f5
16. f3 Qh5
17. e5 Rhe8
18. e6 Bf6
19. Rhe1 Re7
20. Nxe7+
             Bxe7
21. c4 Bf6
22. Re2 Re8
23. a3 b6
24. Red2 Nd8
25. c5 Rxe6
26. Qd3 bxc5
27. Bf2 Qxh2
28. Qxa6+ Kd7
29. Qa4+ Ke7
30. Bxc5 Qg3
31. Qa7 Ke8
32. Qxc7 Qxf4
33. Bxd6 Qa4
34. Bc5 Bg5
35. f4 Bxf4
36. Qxd8+ Kf7
37. Qf8+ 1-0
 

Johannessen (2534) vs Zelcic (2554)

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 Bb4
4. e3 b6
5. Nge2 c5
6. a3 Ba5
7. Rb1 Na6
8. f3 O-O
9. d5 exd5
10. cxd5 b5
11. e4 Re8
12. Ng3 b4
13. axb4 cxb4
14. Nb5 b3+
15. Bd2 Nxd5
16. Nd6 Re6
17. Nxc8 Rxc8
18. Bd3 Ne3
19. Qe2 Nc2+
20. Kf1 Bxd2
21. Qxd2 Nab4
22. Be2 d5
23. exd5 Nxd5
24. Qd3 Qb6
25. Qb5 Nce3+
26. Kg1 Qxb5
27. Bxb5 Rc2
        0-1
 

Marin (2556) vs Almasi (2672)

1. c4 c5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Qb6
5. Nb3 Nf6
6. Nc3 e6
7. g3 Ne5
8. e4 Bb4
9. Qe2 d6
10. Bd2 O-O
11. O-O-O a5
12. f4 Nc6
13. Be3 Qa6
14. Na4 e5
15. f5 Bd7
16. Qc2 Ne7
17. Nb6 a4
18. Nxa8 Rxa8
19. Nd2 a3
20. b3 Rc8
21. Bg5 b5
22. Bxf6 gxf6
23. Kb1 Qb7
24. Bd3 Nc6
25. Nf3 Na5
26. Ka1 bxc4
27. bxc4 Ba4
28. Qc1 d5
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Volume 1 Issue 22                                                                    November 3rd, 2002
In This Issue
Position of the Week

New At Chessville
Sinister Gambits
First Saturday Chess Tourneys
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net

Plus Games, Kelly's Quotes, and the latest from the Forum
 

Position of the Week

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White to move and draw - Find the Solution

Last week's Position of the Week, by "Gulyayev", has some more history now, or at least the composer does.  Thanks go to Harold van der Heijden for providing the following information:

Aleksandr Pavlovich Gulyayev (1908-1998) of Moscow was a top composer, using the pseudonym (A.P. Grin) for many years.  The original source of the study is: 2nd commendation Sverdlovskty 1946.  Gulyayev also won a 12/13th shared place with it in the best studies of USSR composers during 1946/1947 (USSR study composition championship).  The Dutch endgame study society ARVES issued a book about him, written by the British endgame study expert Timothy Whitworth: Whitworth,T (Margraten 1991: ARVES/7): Gulyaev/Grin Chess Endgame Studies.
 

New At Chessville

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

Book Review: David Surratt takes a look at some Sinister Gambits . . .

New Links: Recent additions.

New Downloads: a few more additions to the games collections sorted by opening.

Sinister Gambits
A Review by David Surratt

In the July 21st, 2002 issue of The Chessville Weekly I looked at a web site, Chess Stories, dedicated to short stories with chess-related themes. It must say something about my tastes in chess books that I chose another collection of such stories for this review, although this collection is the good old-fashioned (in more ways then one!) paper and ink variety. Bear in mind that one need not be a chess player or even know a rank from a file to enjoy this collection.  For those of us who play, however, that knowledge of the game lends a certain intimacy to the enjoyment of these stories, as though there is a secret you share just with the author.

Sinister Gambits is Richard Peyton's compilation of 17 short stores bearing chess-related themes, divided into three sections. The first section is Grandplayer's Nightmares, in which great players' dreams - and lives - are troubled by Caissa's demons. From Fritz Leiber's The Dreams of Albert Moreland, to J. G. Ballard's End-Game, this section delves into the tricks our minds can play when taxed past their breaking point. Or are they tricks? Beware The Three Sailor's Gambit! The second section of stories, Bizarre Chessmen, deals with chess pieces that seem to have a life of their own. In The Queen of the Red Chessmen in fact, they do come to life, while the pieces seem to be played by an unknown force in A Set of Chessmen. A particularly satisfactory genre for such authors as August Derleth, and Poul Anderson. The concluding section, Blood Chess, is devoted entirely to stories of bloodshed and death. What better sleuth to start the section off then, but Agatha Christie's famed Hercule Poirot in A Chess Problem. Other stories contain their own twisted games of death, including American Journalist Fredric Brown's The Cat From Siam, and British ghost story writer Herbert Russell Wakefield's Professor Pownall's Oversight.  Read the full review here.
 

First Saturday Chess Tourneys

Budapest, Hungary

Starting on the first Saturday of each month, Chess Organizer and Tournament Director László Nagy organizes a series of tournaments with the intent of providing title norm and FIDE rating opportunities.   Separate events are held simultaneously:

  • GM Tourney - at least a Category VII - VIII event.  Possible norms: GM, IM

  • IM Tourney - at least a Category I - III event.  Possible norms: IM, FM

  • FM Tourney - all players FIDE rated.  Possible norm: FM, also unrated players can establish a FIDE rating

These round-robin events are played at the headquarters of the Hungarian Chess Federation, in Budapest.  The web site offers information on accommodations for players &/or guests, as well as practical tips like the best methods of transportation around Budapest, places to eat, and recommended currency exchange businesses.

Players from all over Europe, and occasionally other parts of the world as well, flock here each month to fight over those coveted title norms, and as you might imagine, the fighting gets fierce at times.  Take this game, for example: going into the final round of the October GM Tourney, Hungarian IM Gergely Antal sat at 7.0 points, one full point short of this Category VIII tourney's GM-norm.  He already led the field by a half-point though, and could have contented himself with a draw, earning at least a share of 1st place.  He was paired against one of the three GMs participating - Yugoslavian GM Goran Todorovic:

Antal, G. (2465) - Todorovic, G. (2465), ECO B33:  1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bf4 d6 7. Ndb5 e5 8. Bg5 a6 9. Na3 b5 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Nd5 f5 12. c3 Bg7 13. exf5 Bxf5 14. Nc2 O-O 15. Nce3 Bd7 16. Bd3 f5 17. Qh5 e4 18. Bc2 Qe8 19. Qh4 b4 20. O-O bxc3 21. bxc3 Ne5 22. f3 Ng6 23. Qh5 Rc8 24. fxe4 fxe4 25. Rxf8+ Nxf8 26. Qh4 Ng6 27. Nf6+ Kf8 28. Nxh7+ Kg8 29. Nf6+ Bxf6 30. Qxf6 Kh7 31. Rf1 Qe6 32. Qd4 Bc6 33. Bb3 Qe5 34. Qa7+ Kh8 35. Rf5 1-0

And so another title norm was achieved.  Untitled Hungarian Victor Erdos also achieved a last-round victory (over German FM Juergen Brustkern) to lock up an IM norm.  In the IM-A Group tourney, untitled Hungarian Gellert Papp won his last round game to secure an IM norm, while Israeli FM Zeev Dub did likewise in the IM-B Group.

With plenty of fighting chess, and beautiful historic Budapest to explore, these tourneys make a great vacation idea for the chess enthusiast, as well as creating otherwise hard to come by opportunities for title norms and FIDE ratings.  Visit the First Saturday site today, and plan your trip to Budapest! 

Chessville's News Editor, Pablo Sierra, is in Budapest right now.  Look for his special report next week at Chessville News.
 

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

A Matter of Priorities:  One evening  during the 1922 London tournament, which featured both Capablanca and Alekhine, both players were taken to a local theatre production. Capablanca spent the entire evening with his eyes focused on the stage, and the pretty actresses.  Alekhine spent the entire evening analyzing games and positions on a pocket chess set, never once looking at the stage.

An Economy of Moves:  1st World Correspondence Chess Champion C.J.S. Purdy's entire correspondence career consisted of a mere 46 games. Many CC addicts have more games than this in progress at once!  Yet these 46 games netted Purdy two Australian titles and a World Championship.  His overall record was +34 -2 =10.

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville
    Recent Chess News  News & Notes, including Chessville
    coverage of:     Chess Olympiad (Bled, Slovenia)
                           First Saturday Tourneys (Budapest)         

The Week In Chess (TWIC) The most complete Tournament News
     TWIC416 of Oct. 28th 2002 & TWIC417 of Nov. 4th 2002

Jeremy Silman - John Watson: Latest Chess News

The Chess Oracle Monthly International Chess News

The Campbell Report Correspondence Chess News

Net Chess News - News and More
    

New On The Net

Jeremy Silman
     Review: The Grunfeld Defence by Nigel Davies
     Review: Play the 2.c3 Sicilian by Rozentalis & Harley
     Review: Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess? by Svetozar Gligoríc
     Interview With A Swami: (Including Recollections of Fischer)
     The Insanity of Drug Testing In Chess

Scholastic Chess Update: Volume 2 Issue 8, October 2002

Chessbase
     Is Garry All Washed Up? (Don't Bet On It!)
     Vlad Tkatchiev rules in Corsica
     Mig Greengard: Zombie Attack!
     Sea, Sun, and Chess: Cap d'Agde
     20 Tactical Problems From Bled
     The Great Russian Chess Joke
     SSDF Rating List

About.com Chess
     Improve Your Middle Game (Part 2)
     Brains in Bahrain

British Chess Magazine Online
     Fischer v Spassky - The Greatest Rivalry?
     13th NATO Chess Championship, Brest (FRA), 7-11 Oct

Russian Chess
     "The M.I.Chigorin Memorial" - complete report
     Open letter of Vladimir Kramnik to the FIDE delegates in Bled.

PROFESSIONAL WORLD CHESS RANKING
Results up to November 1, 2002

1. Kasparov,Garry 13.04.1963 RUS 2795 117
2. Kramnik,Vladimir 25.06.1975 RUS 2789 124
3. Topalov,Veselin 15.03.1975 BUL 2712 171
4. Ponomariov,Ruslan 11.10.1983 UKR 2709 154
5. Leko,Peter 08.09.1979 HUN 2696 170

Chess Siberia
     Shirov Best Player of Sept., Vote for Best Player/Game of Oct.

Mechanics' Institute Chess Room
     IM John Donaldson: Newsletter #111, Oct. 30, 2002

The Chess Cafe
     Review: Chess Lists (2nd ed.) by Andy Soltis
     Endgame Study:
A. Selesniev 1920
     Edward Winter:
Oct. 28 '02: # 2792-2794 Oct. 30 '02: # 2795

Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary - #193: Youngest & Oldest GMs

Seagaard Chess Reviews
     The Scheming Scandinavian with 2...Qxd5 (Andrew Martin)
     Endgame Challenge (John Nunn)
     The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked (Soltis)

World Chess Network
     John Henderson's The Scotsman
     Evan's On Chess: Righting Two Wrongs

RusBase Part Two - More of 1978 Added

GM Square
     GM Alexander Baburin's Bled Olympiad Diary

Annotated Games

Nick Beqo's Website: From 2002 BCCF (Canada) Closed Ch.

Robert Byrne (NY Times): D. Fritz-Kramnik, Bahrain Game 5

Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Xu Jun-Sasikiran, Hyderabad '02

Puzzles & Problems

Chessville - Problem of the Week

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

William Harvey's Chess Puzzles
     W Brown vs Gibbs, London, 1918
     Jose Capablanca vs Marc Fonaroff, New York, 1918
     Harry Borochov vs McCudden, New York, 1918
     Jose Capablanca vs Harry Borochov, New York, 1918
     Jose Capablanca vs NN, New York, 1918
     Solutions

Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day

Mastermove - Endgame Compositions

National Scholastic Chess Foundation - Problem of the Week

Chesshaven - Tactical Exercise of the Day

The London Times - Winning Move & Column, Both Daily

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

Position of the Week: Solution

From Richard Reti, 1921.  Besides his contributions to opening theory and the so-called Hypermodern School of play, Reti was also a talented and prolific composer.

1. Kg7 h4 2. Kf6 h3 3. Ke6 h2 4. c7 and each side queens.  Black can also try: 1...Kb6 2. Kf6 h4 3. Ke5 h3 4. Kd6 h2 5. c7, and again, both sides queen.
 

 

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You learn what to do from studying GM games; and what you've been doing wrong - and thus what to correct - from studying your own games. – Kelly Atkins



Don't be afraid of losing. Be afraid of playing a game and not learning something. – Dan Heisman



You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. – Jose R. Capablanca



After having lost a game at chess, it is my custom to ponder on the past moves until I find out the false step that led to my defeat. – An 18th century Hindu Rajah



Save all your tournament games and run though them after the event. The best way to make progress in chess is analyzing your own games, especially the lost ones. – Sergei Shipov



A critical approach to one's games in essential. Once you become happy with your chess, you're finished. Some people think it's tough to analyze the games you lost. For me it felt even worse to have played what seemed like a great game only to discover some huge mistakes in the analysis! – Alex Yermolinsky



Significant chess improvement requires objective self-discovery and self-examination, finding and eliminating weaknesses. – Taylor Kingston



The pinnacle of insanity is to play chess exactly the same and expect a better result. Look at your losses and make the changes necessary – Harl Myers

 

 

 

 

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