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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 [FEN "7K/8/k1P5/7p/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1"] 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. 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 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. 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:
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 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!
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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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