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GAMES

Rapid Match
      New York

Round 2
    2002.12.19
Kasparov v
        Karpov

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nf6
3. Nxe5 d6
4. Nf3 Nxe4
5. d4 d5
6. Bd3 Nc6
7. O-O Be7
8. c4 Nb4
9. Be2 O-O
10. Nc3 Bf5
11. a3 Nxc3
12. bxc3 Nc6
13. cxd5 Qxd5
14. Re1 Rfe8
15. Bf4 Rac8
16. c4 Qe4
17. Be3 Bf6
18. Rc1 b6
19. h3 Bg6
20. c5 Ne7
21. Ba6 Rcd8
22. Bg5 Qc6
23. cxb6 Qxb6
24. Bxf6 gxf6
25. Qa4 c6
26. Bf1 Kf8
27. Re3 Rb8
28. g3 Red8
29. Bg2 Nf5
30. Rxc6 Qb2
31. Rec3 Kg7
32. Qxa7 Qa1+
33. Rc1 Rb1
34. Rxb1
         Qxb1+
35. Kh2 Qa2
36. Qc7 Re8
37. Rc2 Qxa3
38. Rd2 Nd6
39. Qc5 Qa6
40. Nh4 Rc8
41. Qd5 Rc1
42. Rb2 Be4
43. Qxe4 Nxe4
44. Nf5+ Kf8
45. Bxe4 Rc8
46. d5 Qa4
47. Bf3 Qa3
       0-1

Round 3
    2002.12.20

Karpov v
      Kasparov

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 g6
3. Nc3 d5
4. Nf3 Bg7
5. Bf4 dxc4
6. Rc1 O-O
7. e3 Nbd7
8. Bxc4 c5
9. dxc5 Nxc5
10. O-O Be6
11. Bxe6 Nxe6
12. Be5 Qxd1
13. Rfxd1 Rfd8
14. Kf1 Nd7
15. Bxg7 Kxg7
16. Nd5 Nb6
17. Nxb6 axb6
18. a3 Rxd1+
19. Rxd1 Rc8
20. Ke2 Kf6
21. Ne1 Rc4
22. Rd7 Nc5
23. Rc7 b5
24. f3 e5
25. b4 Na4
26. Rxb7 Rc6
27. e4 Ke6
28. h4 h5
29. Nd3 Rc2+
30. Ke3 f5
31. g3 fxe4
32. fxe4 Rg2
33. Rxb5
           Rxg3+
34. Kd2 Rg2+
35. Ke1 Nc3
36. Rb6+ Ke7
37. Nxe5 Re2+
38. Kf1 Rxe4
39. Nxg6+ Kf7
40. Kf2 Nd5
41. Rc6 Nxb4
42. axb4 Rxb4
43. Ne5+ Kg7
44. Rc4 Rb5
45. Nd3 Kf6
46. Rc5  1-0

 

 

 

 

 

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Volume 1 Issue 29                                                         December 22nd, 2002
In This Issue
Position of the Week

New At Chessville
NEW:  FantasyChess!!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
Poll: Who Will Win at Wijk ann Zee?
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net

 

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Position of the Week

[FEN "8/7p/1kP2K2/8/8/1p2p3/1P2P3/8 w - - 0 1"]

White to move and draw - Find the Solution
 

New At Chessville

Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess

FantasyChess: Play Fantasy Chess, starting with the upcoming Corus Super-Tourney at Wijk ann Zee!

Annotated Game: French Defense, Alekhine-Chatard Gambit Accepted!  Jose Soza annotates his win from the ICCF's Champions League.

Review: e-Book The Caro-Kann 3.f3!? by IM Jan Pinski & NM Rafal Przedmojski, reviewed by Peter Dove.
 

FantasyChess
www.chessville.com/fantasychess

Hi and welcome to the wonderful world of Chessville's Fantasy Chess!  "What is FantasyChess?" I hear you say.  Ever heard of Fantasy Football, Fantasy Baseball or any other Fantasy Game?  Well, now you know what it is, except Fantasy Chess is of course, based on your beloved board game!

For all those who have never heard of Fantasy Games, they take real life sports and games, such as baseball etc. and then let you pick your own team of "all-stars" to be your "fantasy" team.  Then, based on how those players do in real life, you score points for your fantasy team and compete against other fantasy managers who are trying to do the same thing.  The fantasy team with the most points at the end of the season is declared the winner!

So how does FantasyChess work?  We take the top tournaments in the world, such as the upcoming Corus Tournament in Wijk aan Zee  (January 10-26, 2003), and let you pick your very own FantasyChess Team to represent you during this tournament.  You have to choose players based on who you think will do best in categories such as "White wins", "Black wins", "White Losses", "Black Losses" and three "Bonus Players".  You then score points based on the actual tournament and how accurate your selections were.

For instance, if you choose "Ponomariov" as your "White wins" selection, you score two "fantasy" points for every win that Ponomariov scores with the white pieces.  The same applies for the other win/loss selections.  For the "Bonus Players", you score points based on their actual final points standing in the tournament.  If I choose "Anand" as my "Bonus Player 1" and he finishes on 12˝ out of 13 (a very good performance!) then I would score 12˝ "fantasy" points for this selection, and so on for all of the selections.

"This sounds too easy, I'm going to choose Kramnik to win everything, and Radjabov to lose everything!"  Well, we have a small rule that prevents you from doing just that.  You are only allowed to choose a player once.  This means you are not allowed to choose Kramnik in both the "White Wins" and "Black wins" selection.  It also means you may have to choose players that you are not too familiar with, especially when it comes to the "losing" selections when you may have to choose players from closer to the bottom of the rating list!

FantasyChess only takes two minutes to participate in!  Visit www.chessville.com/fantasychess and you will see the tournament details for the Corus Tournament.  There, you will also find an entry form where you make your particular selections.  Once you have made them, and double checked to make sure you didn't choose the same player in more than one category, hit the "Submit" button and you're away!  Within 48 hours, your name should make the list of "Current Entries" and then it's a case of sitting back and waiting for the tournament to begin.  Remember of course to root for your players during the tournament, meaning you will be wishing certain players to win, and certain players to lose!

I hope to see your entry soon, and Good Luck!  - Chris Bird
 

Poll: Who Will Win at Wijk ann Zee?

Last week's poll asked the question "What's the best online live-play chess server?"  While the Internet Chess Club (ICC) led for most of the week (leading 2nd place FICS by a roughly 2-1 margin), presumably a call was put out to Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) aficionados, as a late surge lifted FICS into the lead. Final results:

  • FICS 43%

  • ICC 34%

  • All Other Servers Combined 22%

  • I never play chess online 1%

This Week's Poll:  Who will win the Corus Tourney at Wijk ann Zee in January?  Scheduled to compete: Kramnik, Anand, Topalov, Bareev,  Ponomariov, Ivanchuk, Grischuk, Shirov, Karpov, J. Polgar, Timman, Krasenkow, van Wely, and Radjabov.

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

Still Going Strong:  At the age of 90, Edward Lasker took part in the telex match held between London and New York on September 11 1976, making him one of, if not the oldest person to compete in a major international chess event.

For Medicinal Purposes Only:  Mikhail Chigorin had a bottle of brandy next to the board, which he drank from, when he played Wilhelm Steinitz for the World Championship title in 1889 and 1892.

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville
    Recent Chess News  News & Notes, including Chessville
    coverage of:  Rapid match: Kasparov vs. Karpov (December 19th-20th / New York, USA);
 
- World Junior Championships (Goa, INDIA) Levon Aronian won the title / Zhao Xue took the girls title; - Chess Festival "Christmas 2002" - Simultaneous of Boris Spassky; 1st Saturday Tourneys (Budapest, Hungary);  GM Patrick Wolff - the Rest of the World; Chess Battle at FICS

other online chess news resources
The Week In Chess (TWIC) The most complete Tournament News
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

The Chess Cafe
     Review: The Book of The First American Chess Congress, New York 1857 edited by Daniel Fiske
     The Sixth Annual ChessCafe Holiday Quiz
    
Endgame Study O. Dehler 1908
    
Chess Notes Edward Winter
    
Late Knight Richard Forster
    
An Arbiter's Notebook Geurt Gijssen
    
Informant @ ChessCafe.com Most Important Novelty of Vol. 84
    
Dan Heisman: The 10 Biggest Roadblocks to Improvement

Jeremy Silman
     Andrianov's and Silman's On-Line Scholastic Chess Magazine
     Silman's Introduction To Great Players, Move-By-Move. The spotlight is on: Louis Charles Mahe de la Bourdonnais
     IM John Donaldson reviews
Meeting 1.d4, Secrets of Chess Intuition, The Classical Dutch and Understanding the Sacrifice

Chessbase - Tactics training: 18.12.2002: Junior WCh Goa

World Chess Network
     John Henderson: The Scotsman
     Larry Evans On Chess: The Saavedra Position

Steve Lopez's T-Notes - Rapid Transit

About.com Chess
     Match Wits With Bobby Fischer Part 2
     Russians on Olympus

Pakistan Chess Player
     Lev Khariton's 200 Words: The Mis-Treatment of Bobby Fischer
     Road to New York by Abdul Karim

Chessopolis
     Randy Bauer Reviews: Chess Brilliancy by Iakov Damsky
     New Links Added

Mechanics' Institute Chess Room
     IM Donaldson's Newsletter #118, Dec. 18th, 2002

Seagaard Chess Reviews
     Can you be a Positional Chess Genius (Dunnington)

RusBase Part Two - Added More From 1950, 1978-1980

USCF
     National Scholastic K-12 Grade Championships
     The Pan-American Amateur Championship Bermuda January 27th - February 5th, 2003.

My Chess Site - Smith-Morra Gambit

Annotated Games

Chessbase - Karpov-Kasporov Rapid Match, New York 2002

Chess Siberia - Aleksandrov - Adams  Bled 2002

Robert Byrne (NYTimes): Shabalov- Bengtson, Philadelphia 2002

Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Byvshev Bishops, as seen in...
     Keres-Kotov, Budapest 1950
     Rouleau-MacArthur, Philadelphia 2002

Puzzles & Problems

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Sack the King! - A new tactical puzzle every day!
MagnateGames - A problem each day
Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day
Mastermove - Endgame Compositions
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Chesshaven - Tactical Exercise of the Day
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Position of the Week: Solution

What became of M. Zinar?
This week's position is reprinted with the kind permission of Tim Krabbé, and appeared in his Open Chess Diary, entry #196:

"Harold van der Heijden and I wonder whatever became of M. Zinar (no first name known) who, from 1974 to 1990, published around 300 studies, almost all king-and-pawn endings, and many of high quality. He was, perhaps still is, a worthy successor to N.D. Grigoriev - a modern Pawn Wizard.

In the diagram left, White loses his c-pawn, and stopping Black's h-pawn seems to give Black access to White's fortress: 1.Kg5 Kxc6 2.Kh6 Kd5 3.Kxh7 Ke5 4.Kg6 Kf4 and Kg3 etc. And after 1.Ke5 Kxc6 2.Ke4 Kd6 3.Kxe3 Ke5, Black wins easily with his outside passed pawn.

Only the stunning 1.Kg7, almost pushing the h-pawn into the race, works. 1...h5 After 1...Kxc6? 2.Kxh7 Kd5 3.Kg6 Ke4 4.Kg5 White is in time to stop Black - and even wins, but that is beside the point. 2.Kf6  Having given the passed pawn a free march, White now executes a Réti manoeuvre to catch it after all.  2...h4 If Black doesn't run, he loses. 3.Ke5 h3 4.Kd6 h2 5.c7 h1Q 6.c8Q and Black cannot escape a perpetual, e.g. 6...Qd1+ 7.Ke5 Qxe2 8.Qb8+ Kc6 9.Qc8+ Kb5 10.Qb7+ Ka4 11.Qa7+ Kb4 12.Qa3+ or even Qe7+ etc.: draw.

Anyone know anything about Zinar?

PS: Thanks to the readers who found out the following about Zinar.  His first and father's name are Mikhail Afanasyevich, he was born in 1951, and in 1990 he published a book in Kiev titled Harmony in Pawn's Studies.  The question remains: why did he stop composing in 1990?"

If you have information about the author of this study, please write to  Tim Krabbé.  Tim's Open Chess Diary is a part of his excellent site, Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities, well worth checking out!
 

 

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GAMES

XV Carlos Torre Wimbledon, Merida Mexico

Rd 1, 12/13/02

Ehlvest  v
        Gonzalez

1. d4 Nf6
2. Nf3 e6
3. e3 d5
4. c4 c5
5. Nc3 Nc6
6. a3 a6
7. b3 Bd6
8. Bb2 O-O
9. cxd5 exd5
10. Be2 cxd4
11. Nxd4 Bc7
12. O-O Qd6
13. g3 Bh3
14. Re1 Rfe8
15. Rc1 Nxd4
16. Qxd4 Bb6
17. Qh4 Bd7
18. Bf3 Qe6
19. Ne2 Ne4
20. Nf4 Qf5
21. Rcd1 d4
22. Bxd4 Bxd4
23. Rxd4 Bc6
24. Qh5 Qf6
25. Qg4 Qh6
26. Bg2 a5
27. Rc1 Nf6
28. Qf5 Bxg2
29. Kxg2 1-0

 

Mitkov  v
      Hernandez

1. e4 c5
2. Nc3 e6
3. Nf3 Nc6
4. d4 cxd4
5. Nxd4 Nf6
6. Nxc6 bxc6
7. e5 Nd5
8. Ne4 Bb7
9. Be2 c5
10. O-O Qc7
11. Nd6+ Bxd6
12. exd6 Qc6
13. Bf3 c4
14. Bxd5 Qxd5
15. Qxd5 Bxd5
16. f3 f6
17. b4 a6
18. Be3 Kf7
19. Rfd1 g5
20. Kf2 Rhg8
21. Rab1 Rab8
22. Ba7 Rb7
23. Bc5 h6
24. a4 Bc6
25. Ra1 e5
26. Ra3 Ke6
27. Rc3 Bd5
28. Re3 Rbb8
29. Rb1 Bc6
30. Ra1 h5
31. Rc3 Bd5
32. Rb1 Rgc8
33. Be3 Kxd6
34. b5 axb5
35. axb5 Ra8
36. h4 gxh4
37. Rh1 f5
38. f4 Rg8
39. Rh2 Rg4
40. fxe5+ Kxe5
41. b6 f4
42. Bc1 Rag8
43. b7 Rxg2+
44. Rxg2 Rxg2+
45. Kf1 Rg8
46. Ba3 Bxb7
47. Kf2 Rg2+
48. Ke1 f3
49. Re3+ Kf5
50. Bd6 Be4
          0-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

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