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GAMES

Curacao
1962 - 2002

Round 5
    11-23-02

Korchnoi vs
        Sequera

1. Nf3 f5
2. c4 Nf6
3. g3 e6
4. Bg2 Be7
5. O-O O-O
6. Nc3 c6
7. d3 d6
8. b4 e5
9. Rb1 Kh8
10. b5 c5
11. Ne1 Qe8
12. f4 Nbd7
13. Nc2 Qh5
14. Ne3 exf4
15. gxf4 Rf7
16. Rf3 Ng4
17. Rh3 Bh4
18. Qf1 Ndf6
19. Qf3 h6
20. Ncd5 Nxd5
21. cxd5 g5
22. Nc4 Qg6
23. fxg5 hxg5
24. Nxd6 Rh7
25. Bb2+ Nf6
26. Qe3 Bd7
27. Qe5 Rf8
28. Rf1 g4
29. Rxh4 Rxh4
30. Nxf5 Bxf5
31. Rxf5 Rh6
32. d6 1-0

Round 4
11-21-02

Sequera vs
        Macieja

1. e4 g6
2. d4 Bg7
3. Nf3 c5
4. c3 cxd4
5. cxd4 d5
6. e5 Bg4
7. Nbd2 Nc6
8. h3 Bf5
9. Bb5 Qb6
10. Qa4 Bd7
11. Bxc6 Bxc6
12. Qa3 Bb5
13. Nb3 Qc6
14. Qc5 Qd7
15. Bd2 b6
16. Qc2 Rc8
17. Qd1 f6
18. Rc1 Kf7
19. Rxc8 Qxc8
20. Qc1 Qf5
21. Kd1 Nh6
22. Re1 Rc8
23. Bc3 Kg8
24. Qe3 Nf7
25. e6 Nd8
26. Kd2 Rc6
27. g4 Qxe6
28. Qf4 Qd7
29. h4 Re6
30. Re3 Rxe3
31. fxe3 Ne6
32. Qg3 Qc7
33. Qg2 Qc4
34. Nc1 Nd8
35. b3 Qc6
36. a4 Ba6
37. Na2 Bc8
38. Nb4 Qd6
39. Nd3 a5
40. g5 Bf5
41. Nfe1 Nf7
42. Nf4 fxg5
43. hxg5 e6
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Volume 1 Issue 25                                                         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

 

Position of the Week

[FEN "r3r1k1/ppp2p1p/4bBpQ/1q6/8/2P3R1/1P3PPP/5RK1 b - - 0 1"]

Black to move and win - Find the Solution
 

New At Chessville

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.

Online Chess League's Hall of Champions:  A new page celebrating past winners from the best standard time control league on the Net!
 

Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess?
by Svetozar Gligoríc, Reviewed by David Surratt

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.  Read the full review.
 

Prof. Chester Nuhmentz

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;
 identifying strong and weak opening moves; distinguishing between checkmate, stalemate (or neither!); systematically looking for the three ways to get out of check; and using basic chess notation skills.  Higher level materials work on skills such as visualization, identifying features of opening positions, basic tactics, and responding calmly to checks.

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
From Graham Clayton

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 Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville
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    coverage of:  Curacao 1962 - 2002 Chess Tournament
                         1st Saturday (Belgrade) Tourneys

other online chess news resources
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Jeremy Silman - John Watson: Latest Chess News
The Chess Oracle Monthly International Chess News
The Chess Report Another great chess news site
The Campbell Report Correspondence Chess News
Net Chess News - News and More

New On The Net

Chessbase - Mig on Chess # 181

British Women's Chess Association - Heather Lang's Bled Diary

The Chess Cafe
     Review: Essays in American Chess History by John Hilbert
    
Excerpt: Curse of Kirsan by Sarah Hu
     Endgame Study:
V. Kartvelishvili Nadareishvili 80MT 2001
    
Late Knight  Richard Forster
    
An Arbiter's Notebook Geurt Gijssen
    
Informant @ChessCafe.com Most Important Novelty of Vol. 84
    
Novice Nook Dan Heisman
    
Chess Notes Edward Winter

The Atlantic Online: Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame

Jeremy Silman
     Instruction for Tournament Players: The Locked Center
     IM John Donaldson reviews
         
The Nimzo-Indian: 4.e3
          Play The 2.c3 Sicilian
          I Play Against Pieces
          KID: Mar del Plata Variation
     Silman helps you Test Your Positional and Tactical IQ

Correspondence Chess News
 - Latest Issue (78):  VIEW  PDF / DOWNLOAD PDF

Steve Lopez's T-Notes - Fritz Endgame Trainer - Pawn Endings

About.com Chess - Match Wits with Bobby Fischer!

Mechanics' Institute Chess Room
     IM John Donaldson: Newsletter #114, Nov. 20th, 2002

Malta Chess Federation
     Alekhine - Tabac Original Chess Tournament

FIDE Online
     World Youth Championships 2002
     Record Participation in World Youth
     Best World Youth Championship Ever
     Interview: GM Sergey Yanovsky, head coach of Russian Jr Team
     Titles awarded at the 73rd FIDE Congress in Bled, Slovenia

Seagaard Chess Reviews
     New In Chess Yearbook 64
     Understanding the Leningrad Dutch
by Valeri/Beim

World Chess Network
     John Henderson's The Scotsman
     Evans On Chess: No Place To Go

RusBase Part Two - More of 1979 Added

Annotated Games

Robert Byrne (NY Times): Wang - Nguyen, Bled 2002

Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post):
     Seirawan-Rowson, Bled 2002
     Nielsen-Sadvakasov, Bled 2002

Puzzles & Problems

Chessville - Problem of the Week
Sack the King! - A new tactical puzzle every day!
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

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Position of the Week: Solution


From Rabinovich-Grigorieff, Moscow 1916.  White has just played Qh6, anticipating mate in one.  Overlooked was:

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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GAMES

Curacao
1962 - 2002

Round 5
    11-23-02

Grimm vs
        Broehl

1. Nf3 d5
2. g3 c6
3. Bg2 Bg4
4. b3 Nf6
5. Bb2 Nbd7
6. O-O e6
7. d3 a5
8. a3 Bc5
9. Nbd2 O-O
10. h3 Bh5
11. e4 b5
12. Qe2 Ne8
13. Kh1 Nc7
14. d4 Be7
15. g4 Bg6
16. Ne5 Nxe5
17. dxe5 f6
18. f4 fxe5
19. Bxe5 Bd6
20. Bxd6 Qxd6
21. f5 exf5
22. gxf5 Bf7
23. e5 Qh6
24. e6 Bh5
25. Qe5 Qxd2
26. Qxc7 Rac8
27. Qg3 Qd4
28. Rae1 Rce8
29. Qg5 g6
30. f6 Rc8
31. e7 1-0

Polgar vs
      Hernandez

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 a6
4. Ba4 Nf6
5. O-O b5
6. Bb3 Be7
7. d4 d6
8. c3 Bg4
9. Be3 Na5
10. dxe5 Bxf3
11. Qxf3 dxe5
12. Bc2 Nc4
13. Bc1 Bc5
14. b3 Nd6
15. Rd1 O-O
16. Nd2 Qc8
17. h3 Qb7
18. Re1 b4
19. Nf1 bxc3
20. Bg5 Nd7
21. Qg4 Qc8
22. Rad1 Bd4
23. Ng3 Nc5
24. Nf5 Nxf5
25. exf5 f6
26. Be3 Bxe3
27. Rxe3 Nd7
28. b4 Nb6
29. Rg3 g6
30. Qh5 Kg7
31. Rxg6+ hxg6
32. Qxg6+ Kh8
33. Qh6+ Kg8
34. Bb3+ 1-0

Round 3
11-20-02

Ligterink vs
          Timman

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nf3 b6
4. a3 Ba6
5. Qc2 Bb7
6. Nc3 c5
7. e4 cxd4
8. Nxd4 d6
9. g3 Nbd7
10. Bg2 Qc7
11. b3 a6
12. O-O Be7
13. a4 O-O
14. Bb2 Rfe8
15. Rfe1 Rac8
16. Rac1 Bf8
17. Qd1 Qb8
18. Nc2 Nc5
19. Nd4 g6
20. f3 Bg7
21. Rb1 h5
22. Bc1 h4
23. g4 Ncd7
24. Bg5 d5
25. Bxh4 dxc4
26. bxc4 Rxc4
27. Nde2 Qc8
28. Qb3 Nxg4
29. fxg4 Bxc3
30. Rbc1 Bxe1
31. Rxc4 Nc5
32. Qxb6 Bxh4
33. Qxc5 Qd8
34. Rd4 Be7
35. Qc2 Qb6
36. Kh1 Rc8
37. Qd1 Bf6
38. Rd7 Bc6
39. Rd3 Qb4
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