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GAMES

Ponomariov -
         J. Polgar

Bali 2002

1 Nf3 Nf6
2 c4 e6
3 Nc3 c5
4 g3 b6
5 Bg2 Bb7
6 0-0 Be7
7 Re1 d6
8 e4 Nbd7
9 d4 cxd4
10 Nxd4 Rb8
11 b3 a6
12 Bb2 0-0
13 h3 Qc7
14 Qd2 Nc5
15 Rad1 Rfe8
16 f4 Ba8
17 Qf2 Ncd7
18 g4 h6
19 g5 hxg5
20 fxg5 Nh5
21 g6 Bf6
22 gxf7+ Kxf7
23 Bf3 Nf4
24 Bg4 g5
25 Nde2 Qc5
26 Nxf4 gxf4
27 Qxc5 bxc5
28 Rxd6 Bd4+
29 Kf1 Ne5
30 Rxa6 Nxg4
31 hxg4 Rh8
32 Ra7+ Kg6
33 Kg2 f3+
34 Kg3 Be5+
35 Kxf3 Rh3+
36 Ke2 Rh2+
37 Ke3 Rxb2
38 Na4 Rxa2
39 Rh1Bd4+
40 Kf3 Rxb3+
41 Kf4 e5 mate
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Volume 1 Issue 27                                                         December 8th, 2002
In This Issue
Position of the Week

New At Chessville
Chess and Art: Two Expressions of One Man's Life
Poll: Who Will Win The World Chess Championship?
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net

 

Position of the Week

[FEN "3q1rk1/p2nppb1/r1np2p1/2p5/1p2PN2/3PB1PB/PPPQ3P/1R3RK1 w - - 0 1"]

White to move and win - Find the Solution
 

New At Chessville

Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess!

IM Smerdon Annotates: IM David Smerdon annotates a recent game with English GM Keith Arkell.

Chess and Art - Two Expressions Of One Man's Life: The Remarkable Story of Paul Smith

"Rapid" Correspondence Chess by Cem Berk
 

Chess and Art:
Two Expressions of One Man's Life
by Jim Mitch

Paul outside at chessboard

Except in cases involving Spock or prayer, observable movements are required for people to communicate. This can be as subtle as a raised eyebrow or a whispered word, but there must be some muscle movement for one person to convey a thought or feeling to another.

It follows that an impairment that reduces a person's ability to move the muscles of the face and hands should, among other things, diminish the person's potential for self-expression. While this is generally true, the fellow pictured on the right taught himself some remarkable ways to express himself to the world, despite having severely limited muscle control.

Born with severe spastic cerebral palsy, Paul Smith must rely on others to feed, dress, and bathe him. His speech is difficult to understand, even for those who know him well. Movements of his hands are jerky to the point that when he plays chess he can't move a piece by himself without risking knocking several others over. And yet Paul has excelled not only as a chess player, but also as an artist -- an artist that can hold neither a pencil nor a paintbrush.  Read the rest of Paul's remarkable story.
 

Poll: Who Will Win
The World Chess Championship?

Today we mark the first Chessville Weekly Poll.  Each week we'll offer you the opportunity to sound off on a chess topic, and report back the results from last week's poll.  Each poll will be found at the Chessville Forum.  I'll open the poll as part of Sunday's updates, and close it sometime the following Saturday.    This week's poll question:

Who will win next year's Chess World Championship Reunification?
     A)  Garry Kasparov
     B)  Vladimir Kramnik
     C)  Peter Leko
     D)  Sam Sloan
     E)  Ruslan Ponomariov
     F)  No one; the reunification process will fall apart.

So what are you waiting for?  Vote Now!
 

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

From Amateur To Professional:  The 1911 San Sebastian tournament was the first international tournament at which all competitors were reimbursed for their fares and living expenses.

More On Morphy:  In the course of his brief career, Paul Morphy played in only one tournament. This was the inaugural American Chess Congress, a 16 player knockout held in New York in 1857. Morphy defeated Louis Paulsen in the final (+5, -1, =2).

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville
    Recent Chess News  News & Notes, including Chessville
    coverage of:  - Los Inmortales IV, Great Cup NA (from November 29th / Dominican Republic)  Igor Khenkin won the tournament (7.5/9)  * Chessville coverage (results and standings)
- I Benidorm Chess Championship (Benidorm, SPAIN)  Judit Polgar won the tournament after winning the play-off vs. Ruslan Ponomariov  * Chessville coverage.
  1st Saturday Tournaments (Budapest, HUNGARY)

Dan Heisman On ChessFM: Dan posts at the Forum: This evening I talked to Tony Rook at www.chess.fm and he agreed to put me on Chess Radio on (every) Monday at 7:30 PM Eastern on a trial basis!!  So pass the word, tune in at www.chess.fm and call: 1-800-742-9799 from the US and 207-797-3148 outside and ask questions.  It will be a Q&A format on any chess topic: Improvement, Computer Chess, Tournaments and Rules, Rating System, Chess Books, USCF Politics, "I may be not always be right, but I will have an intelligent opinion."  If the show is a hit, then it will keep running, so tune in and call.  Thanks for all your support!  Regards, Dan H

Congratulations to Simply Blunderful, winners of the OCL Under-1400 Section in the Fall 2002 Tourney!

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 Nimzo-Indian: 4 e3 by Carsten Hansen
     Team Spirit - US Amateur Team Tournaments, by Glenn Petersen
     Endgame Study -
A. Troitzky Deutsche Schachzeitung 1911
     Edward Winter's Chess Notes #2815-2817
     Susan Polgar - Women Take Center Stage In Bled
     Carsten Hansen - Reviews:
King's Indian Defence Mar del Plata Variation by Svetozar Gligoric; King's Indian with h3 (CD) by Martin Breutigam; King's Indian Attack (CD) by Don Maddox; New in Chess Yearbook 64 by Genna Sosonko & Paul van der Sterren et al.
     Gary Lane - Opening Lanes
     Yasser Seirawan
Annotates: Timman - Piket Wijk aan Zee 2000

Chessbase
     Look who's become a movie star! It's Alexandra Kosteniuk, women's vice champion of the world, photo model and internationally famous chess babe.
     Mig On Chess #182: Open Letters, Closed Minds, and Karjakings in Spain
     Jan Louwman, 1924 – 2002  On December 4 the computer chess world lost a distinguished personality...
     Kortchnoi's victory came 40 years late.  He first played there in 1962, coming in fifth, behind Petrosian, Geller, Keres and Fischer. Now, 40 years later, Viktor Kortchnoi returned to the Caribbean island of Curaçao and won the tournament outright.
     Fritz tops the computer ratings – yet again

Chess Sector - Ukrainian Chess Online
     Interview With FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov
     Annotated Game: Karjakin - Shirov, Bali 2002
     Annotated Game: Golubev - Klyuner, Belgian ChT 2002/3
     IM Fedor Bohatirchuk, MD., Persona non grata in Soviet chess

Bohatirchuk - Botvinnik, Moscow 1935  1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Bg5 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Qe7 9. Re1 a6 10. Bc4 Na5 11. Nd2 h6 12. Bh4 Be6 13. Bb3 Nxb3 14. axb3 g5 15. Bg3 Ne8 16. d4 f6 17. Nf1 Ng7 18. c4 Rad8 19. Ne3 Qf7 20. Re2 Qg6 21. f3 Rd7 22. Rd2 exd4 23. Rxd4 Re7 24. Be1 f5 25. Bc3 Rfe8 26. Qd3 Bc8 27. Rf1 fxe4 28. Rxe4 Rxe4 29. fxe4 Qxe4 30. Nd5 Qxd3 31. Nf6+ Kf7 32. cxd3 Rd8 33. Nd5+ Nf5 34. g4 Re8 35. gxf5 Re2 36. Rf3 Rc2 37. Be1 g4 38. Rf1 1-0

Jeremy Silman
     Set Two: Test Your Positional and Tactical IQ
     IM John Donaldson reviews Understanding the Sacrifice, Chess Lists, New In Chess Yearbook 63, Endgame Challenge and Play the 2.c3 Sicilian
     The Portuguese Attack, alive or dead? Analysis by Silman and Watson, with a little help from Grandmaster Murray Chandler

Scholastic Chess Update - Vol 2 Issue 9, November 2002

Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Chess Develops Thinking, Self-Esteem

Steve Lopez's T-Notes - World Champion Mikhail Tal

KasparovChess - The page cannot be displayed!!

Chess Siberia - Vote for November Player & Game of the Month.  Peter Acs is the best player of October 2002.  The best game of October:  Van Wely, Loek (2681) - Acs, Peter (2591) [E48]  Hoogeveen Essent (6) 2002  1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Nge2 Re8 8. O-O Bd6 9. a3 Ng4 10. h3 Nh2 11. Re1 Nf3+ 12. gxf3 Qg5+ 13. Kh1 Qh4 14. Nf4 Bxh3 15. Ncxd5 Re6 16. Nxe6 Bf5+ 17. Kg1 Qh2+ 18. Kf1 Bg3 0-1

The Philadelphia Inquirer - FBI Hounded Chess King (Fischer)

Clean Sheets - Making Moves: Erotic Chess

Chess City
     Ernest Bramah - The Three Recorded Judgements of Prince Ying, from Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry-Tree, 1940

Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler
     University Challenge Corstorphine
     Pentland Hills - Part 2

Chess Beast - ChessBeast Xmas Special

National Scholastic Chess Foundation
     Hikaru Nakamura Earns His 2nd GM Norm

Seagaard Chess Reviews
     Mikhail Botvinnik - 6th WC (Sergei Soloviov...)
     Queen's Indian Defence (Aagaard)

World Chess Network
     John Henderson - Leko's Death "Greatly Exaggerated"
     Larry Evans On Chess - The Worst Mistake

RusBase Part Two - More of 1979 Added

Annotated Games

Robert Byrne (NY Times): Seirawan - Rowson, Bled 2002

Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Kosashvili - Korchnoi, Curacao 2002

Jack Peters (LA Times): Gretarsson - Sargissian, Bled 2002; Grischuk - Lputian, 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

Hug-Rogoff, from the final round of the 1971 World Junior Championship.  Hug needed only a draw to secure the title.  Play continued 1. Nxg6 fxg6 2. Be6+ and here Rogoff, realizing he was lost, accepted the draw offer from Hug, who decided to take the half point, and with it - the title.  Play could have continued 2...Kh8 3. Qg2 Rxf1+ 4. Rxf1 Nf8 5. Rxf8+ Qxf8 6. Qh3+ Bh6 7. Bxh6 with a hopeless position.  If instead 2... Kh7 then 3. Qg2 Rxf1+ 4. Rxf1 Nf6 5. Rxf6 and according to Fritz there are three different mates-in-four, and a pair of mates in three, along with a whole slew of mates in two. Enjoy working these out for yourself!
 

 

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First Saturday December FM Tourney

Round 1

Rummel, Z. vs
        Hoang, Tri

1. d4 d5
2. c4 c6
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3 dxc4
5. e4 b5
6. Qc2 e6
7. Bg5 Be7
8. a3 Nbd7
9. e5 Nd5
10. Ne4 O-O
11. Bxe7 Nxe7
12. O-O-O a5
13. g4 Ba6
14. Nfg5 Ng6
15. h4 h6
16. h5 hxg5
17. hxg6 fxg6
18. f3 Nb6
19. Qh2 Nc8
20. Qh7+ Kf7
21. Rh6 Ra7
22. Nf6 Ne7
23. Qxg7+ 1-0

 

 

 

 

 

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