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GAMES

Curacao 1962 - 2002 Chess Tournament

Rd 9, 11-28-02

Mensing v          
      S. Polgar

1. d4 d5
2. Nf3 Nf6
3. Bf4 g6
4. h3 Bg7
5. e3 c5
6. c3 b6
7. Be2 Bb7
8. Nbd2 O-O
9. Ne5 Nfd7
10. Ndf3 Nc6
11. Nxc6 Bxc6
12. O-O e6
13. a4 a6
14. Qc2 Qe7
15. Rfc1 h6
16. h4 f5
17. c4 Kh7
18. a5 dxc4
19. axb6 Nxb6
20. dxc5 Qxc5
21. Nd4 Bd5
22. Nf3 Be4
23. Bd3 Bxd3
24. Qxd3 e5
25. Bh2 e4
26. Qd6 Qxd6
27. Bxd6 Rf6
28. Be5 exf3
29. Bxf6 Bxf6
30. Rd1 Bxb2
31. Rab1 c3
32. Rd6 0-1

Salman v Broehl

1. d4 d5
2. c4 c6
3. Nf3 Nf6
4. Nc3 dxc4
5. a4 Bg4
6. Ne5 Bh5
7. g3 e6
8. Bg2 Bb4
9. Nxc4 Nd5
10. Qb3 O-O
11. e4 Nxc3
12. bxc3 Qxd4
13. Bd2 Qd3
14. f3 Bxf3
15. Bxf3 Qxf3
16. Rf1 Qxe4+
17. Be3 b5
18. Qxb4 bxc4
19. Kf2 Nd7
20. Rae1 Ne5
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Volume 1 Issue 26                                                         December 1st, 2002
In This Issue
Position of the Week

New At Chessville
The Road Not Taken - Balogh Counter Gambit
Online Chess League Update
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net

 


 

Position of the Week

[FEN "8/6q1/2k2r2/8/1K6/8/4R3/5Q2 w - - 0 1"]

White to move and win - Find the Solution
 

New At Chessville

New on Our Site this Week (12/1)

Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess!

The Road Not Taken: IM-CC Keith Hayward starts a new column on less frequently seen openings.  Today - the Balogh Counter Gambit!

Chess Today: GM Baburin's fantastic daily email newsletter.  Read our review, then download issue #751 - November 28th, 2002!

Lasker vs Steinitz Game 10 of the 1894 World Championship Match, annotated by Lasker himself, with additional comments by The Kentucky Lion - former US Champion Jackson Showalter!
 

The Road Not Taken
IM-CC Keith Hayward

from the editor...  Welcome ICCF-IM Keith Hayward, Chessville's newest contributor.  Today marks Keith's inaugural column documenting his ongoing search for opening roads not taken.  Enjoy!

       
       I shall be telling this with a sigh
       Somewhere ages and ages hence:
       Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
       I took the one less traveled by,
       And that has made all the difference.

- from "The Road Not Taken", by Robert Frost

When it comes to chess openings, I prefer to play less popular, less traveled lines. For over two decades, I have mostly played the Bird’s Opening, the Dutch Defense, and the French Defense, which are all well known, solid openings. These are my more solid, sane opening choices. However, I must confess I have a passion for opening study and experimenting. Recently I have been experimenting, again...

Read today's opening investigation: Part One of The Balogh Counter Gambit.  1.e4 d6 2.d4 and now instead of 2…Nf6, Black plays the shocking 2…f5!?, ECO code B07.
 

Online Chess League
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Big fights brewing in the Online Chess League!  More action to start soon - the registration deadline for the Winter 2003 Tourney was just announced - it's January 12th.  Now is the time to start forming new teams, or our registrars can add you to an existing or newly forming one.

The Fall 2002 Tourney is nearing completion in the Open Section, with the defending champions, Resistance Is Futile, leading the NDV All-Stars by a single match point.  Those two teams are locking horns in the final round, taking place right now.  The top boards pair up heavyweights such as IM Smurfo, and IM-CC Drawyah.  The Under 1800 Section is about two-thirds complete, and the Under 1400 Section has just one round left.  The Under-1800 Section has perennial contenders Beam Me Up Scotty narrowly leading the surprising Chess Companions-B team.  As for the Under-1400 Section - fugedaboudit!  It's a total dog fight, with every team having been bitten at least twice.  This section is definitely going down to the wire.  Here are the tourney leaders in each section:

                    Open Section (through Round 4)
                         4.0  Resistance Is Futile
                         3.0  NDV All-Stars
                         2.5  Brave Connected Pawns

                    Under 1800 Section (through Round 6)
                         5.0  Beam Me Up Scotty
                         4.5  Chess Companions - B
                         4.0  Tundra Rats

                    Under 1400 Section (through Round 5)
                         3.0  Gaining Tempo
                         2.5  Simply Blunderful
                         2.5  The Patriots

For more information about the Online Chess League, or to sign up for the Winter 2003 tourney (registration closes January 12th), click here.
 

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

Elo Champion:  Arpad Elo, the originator of the rating system that bears his name, was champion or co-champion of the American state of Wisconsin 9 times between 1935 and 1961.

Delayed Comebacks:  English Master Henry Atkins had a 20 year gap between his final two international tournaments - Hanover (1902) and London (1922).  There were also twenty years between Bobby Fischer's two matches with Boris Spassky, in 1972 and 1992.

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville - Recent Chess News  News & Notes, including Chessville
    coverage of:  I Benidorm Championship (SPAIN)
      
Karjakin, Polgar & Ponomariov lead after 8 rounds (6/8) / Shirov and Karpov chase them
    
1st Saturday Tournaments (Budapest, HUNGARY)
     Los Inmortales IV, Great Cup NA (from Nov. 29th / Dominican Republic) featuring Svidler, Short, Dreev, Krasenkow, Kasimdzhanov, Vescovi, Tiviakov, Milov, etc.
     World Youth Chess Championships (Heraklio, GREECE)

Curacao 1962 - 2002 Chess Tournament
40 Years Later, Kortschnoj Triumphs At Last!

After 9 rounds GM Viktor Korchnoi and GM Yona Kosashvili ended up on top with 7/9. Korchnoi had played stronger opponents and accumulated more Bucholtz points and so after 40 years got his revenge.  Kosashvili ended as runner up and GM Bartlomiej Macieja finished 3rd.  Here is Korchnoi's last round win over Finnish FM Riku Molander:  Molander,R (2301) - Kortschnoj,V (2634) [C02] Curacao 1962-2002 Open Willemstad (9), 28.11.2002  Annotations by David Surratt and his friend Fritz.  1.e4 c5 2.c3 e6 3.d4 d5 4.e5 Now we have completed the transposition to an Advance Variation of the French Defense. Viktor must have been very satisfied at this point - his experience with the French gives him a decided edge.  This was born out by a report from Tourney Official Ger Jan Meijer that "Molander played the opening pretty well, but used a lot of his time. He came in time trouble and Korchnoi used that opportunity to launch a deadly attack." 4...Qb6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.a3 The most popular approach, but not the only one. 6.Bd3 and 6.Be2 each still have their advocates. 6...Nh6 7.b4 cxd4 8.cxd4 Nf5 9.Bb2 Be7 Psakhis contends Black also has a satisfactory game after 9...Bd7 10.Be2 (or 10.g4 Nh6 11.h3 Rc8 12.Nc3 Na5 13.Na4 Qc6 14.Nc5 Nc4 with chances for both sides, Haba-Dizdar, Bundesliga 1991) 10...h5 11.h4 Be7 12.Qd2 Rc8 13.g3 0-0 14.0-0 f6 with equality, Landa-Danielyan, Yurmala 1991. 10.Bd3 a5 11.Qa4 Molander varies from 11.Bxf5 exf5 12.Nc3 Be6 13.b5 a4! with a good game, Sveshnikov-Moskalenko, Norilsk 1987. 11...0-0 12.b5 f6 13.0-0 fxe5 14.dxe5 I am of the opinion that once Black solves the problem of his light-squared bishop, this position is strategically won for him. Of course, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip! 14...Bd7 15.Nc3 Ncd4 16.Nxd4 16.Qd1 Nxf3+ 17.Qxf3 with equal chances. 16...Nxd4 17.Rad1!? 17.Qd1 Nf5 ( 17...Nxb5 18.Nxb5 Bxb5 19.Qb3 with advantage to White.) 18.Rc1 and White has a small edge. 17...Rf4 18.Kh1 Raf8 Also possible was 18...Ne2 19.Qc2 Nxc3 20.Bxc3 Bxa3 21.g3 ( 21.Bxh7+ Kh8 22.Qd2 Rh4 23.Bd3 with approximately equal chances.) 21...Rf3 22.Bd4 Qd8 23.Bxh7+ Kh8 24.Qe2 and White has the initiative, perhaps, but not much else. 19.Bc1 Better was 19.g3 Rxf2 20.Nxd5 Rxf1+ 21.Bxf1 exd5 22.Bxd4. 19...Ne2! 20.Qc2 An equally unpalatable alternative was 20.Nxd5 exd5 21.Bxf4 Nxf4. 20...Nxc1 21.Bxh7+ Marginally better was 21.Qxc1 Rxf2 22.Rxf2 Qxf2 still leaves Black in the driver's seat. 21...Kh8 22.Rxc1 Rxf2 Also effective was 22...Bxa3 23.Rb1 Bb4 23.Rxf2 Qxf2 24.Qd3 Bg5 A faster execution would have been 24...Bxa3 25.Rb1 Bc5. 25.Rd1 Be8 26.Ne2 The final mistake, but Black was winning in any event. 26...Bh5 0-1

As reported in the Australian Chess Federation Newsletter:  Eight-year-old Parker Zhao has created a sensation in New York, of all places, by beating a US National Master in a tournament game at the famed Marshall Chess Club. He's the youngest player ever to do so.  Here is the game, which is also viewable on the ACF site:

Zhao,P (1806) - Bierkens,P (2221) [D02]  13th Annual NY Fall Futurity!  Marshall Chess Club (1), 16.11.2002    1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c6 3.Bf4 Bf5 4.e3 e6 5.Bd3 Bxd3 6.Qxd3 Bd6 7.Bg3 Bxg3 8.hxg3 Nf6 9.Nbd2 Nbd7 10.c4 dxc4 11.Nxc4 0-0 12.0-0 c5 13.Rfd1 Qc7 14.Rac1 Rfd8 15.Nce5 Rac8 16.Nxd7 Qxd7 17.Ne5 Qa4 18.b3 Qb4 19.Rc4 Qb5 20.Qc2 Nd5 21.Rxc5 Rxc5 22.Qxc5 Qe2 23.Ra1 f6 24.Nf3 Qb2 25.Qc1 Qxc1+ 26.Rxc1 Rd7 27.Kf1 Kf7 28.Ke2 Ke7 29.a3 Kd8 30.Kd3 Rd6 31.e4 Nc7 32.a4 Na6 33.Rc4 Nc7 34.Kc3 b5 35.Rc5 bxa4 36.bxa4 Kd7 37.Nd2 Rb6 38.Nb3 f5 39.exf5 Nd5+ 40.Kc2 Nb4+ 41.Kc3 Nd5+ 42.Kb2 Nb4 43.fxe6+ Rxe6 44.Kc3 Na6 45.Re5 (and White won) 1-0

Chathurangam: Chess In India - Report: On the 10th Individual World Chess Championship for the Visually Impaired, Istanbul

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Position of the Week: Solution


Here's a gem from the highly respected composer A.A. Troitzky, which was published in Shahmatni Shurnal, 1898.

1. Re6+ Rxe6 2. Qa6+ Kd5 3. Qc4+ Kd6 4. Qc5+ and White will win the queen, with a won position.

 

 

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