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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 [FEN "8/6q1/2k2r2/8/1K6/8/4R3/5Q2 w - - 0 1"] White to move and win - Find the
Solution 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's installment - the Balogh Counter Gambit! Chess Today: GM Baburin's fantastic daily email newsletter. Read our review, then download a free sample issue!
Lasker vs Steinitz Game 10 of the 1894 World Championship Match,
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The Road Not Taken 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!
- 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 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:
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2002 Chess Tournament 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 Chathurangam: Chess In India - Report: On the 10th Individual World Chess Championship for the Visually Impaired, Istanbul
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GAMES 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
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