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October 20th, 2002 In This Issue From the Editor...Instructor, Author, Award Winning Columnist, and National Master Dan Heisman has often pointed out the importance of working with a coach/instructor if you want to improve: "one of the most important aspects of improvement: That in chess, like any potentially complicated long-term learning subject, all the high level practitioners got there by receiving expert help over long periods of time. Musicians go to the Academy of Performing Arts or Julliard. Basketball players play in junior high, HS, college, summer, and the pros, with coaches all the way. Kasparov attended Botvinnik's school and so did most other top Soviet GMs." Check out Dan's latest
Novice Nook
column at Chess Cafe:
"Finding a Good Instructor"
for Dan's advice on the why's, where's, and how-to's of selecting the right
instructor for your needs. [FEN "1r2kb2/p4p2/b1p1p3/8/3P4/8/qBKN1PPP/Q6R b - - 0 1"] Black to move and win - Find the
Solution Problem of the Week: (N.B.: This is not the same series of problems which appears in The Chessville Weekly.) Annotated Game: The latest installment of David Surratt's excellent Janitor Jim series New Links: Recent additions, with more to come next week New Downloads: more games collections sorted by opening Interface Reviews: A new semi-regular series by J. Varsoke Computer Misevaluations: Kelly Atkins gives hope to the human race Book Review: Test Your Endgame Thinking by Glenn Flear
Interview: Dr. Hsu gives the inside scoop behind Deep Blue, and more
Interface Reviews There are two basic elements that define your on-line chess experience: the quality of competition and the interface you play with. The first is pretty easy to evaluate: are they tough to beat but not impossible; do they like to play similar time controls; do they (c)heat. The second is like comparing cars; some people relish the control of manual transmission, others prefer automatic because they don't want to have to think about anything. Neither is particularly 'better' than the other, but lots of people will get all up in a huff over the topic. I'll tell you up front, none of the interfaces I've reviewed were the end-all be-all of on-line experiences. Some hand you a set of custom Staunton ebony and ivory only to make you sit under a blinking, buzzing florescent light. Others drop a Milton Bradley box-set in your lap but are more than willing to make your coffee and light your cigarette. There are lots of features to choose from, sound effects, customizable boards, multiple boards, pre-move, smart-move, seek graphs, etc, but no interface seems to have them all and the ability to turn anything you don't like off. Over the next few months I'll be posting reviews of all the major and a lot of the minor interfaces out there which are used for ICS type chess servers (FICS, ICC, & USCL are such servers). The reviews will be a long-winded subjective comparison of the pros and cons of each interface. I'll have screen shots for you to look at, opinions on ease of use, maturity of the interface, and annoyances. Read the rest of Jason's
article, and his review of the ICC interface Blitzen,
here.
Uncrowned Kings Webmaster Phil Hughes, who is also the Editor of the BCCS's Chess Post, has assembled a collection of downloadable databases of games of a number of very strong players, along with some of their tournament/match records While the concept originally intended to focus on "a select group of players who were not granted the opportunity, for various reasons, to play a match for the world title" (Victor Korchnoi - 2746 games, Bent Larsen - 2605 games, Paul Keres - 2011 games, Aron Nimzowitsch - 609 games, Akiba Rubinstein - 946 games) the site has been expanded to include other fine chessplayers as well. There is a section dedicated to the Hypermoderns (Saviely Tartakower - 1282 games, Richard Réti - 717 games, Ernst Grünfeld - 508 games, and Gyula Breyer - 170 games), and another for British Champions (Howard Staunton - 353 games, Henry Atkins 125 games (is he the forebear of our illustrious editor?), Frederick Yates - 531 games, Sir George Thomas - 605 games, Mir Sultan Khan - 138 games, William Winter - 194 games, C.H.O'D Alexander - 384 games, and Doctor Stefan Fazekas 165 games) along with a page charting every British Men's and Woman's Champion since 1866. Many of the sections contain images of the players. The game files themselves are zipped files in the .cbv Chessbase format. The site contains a link in their links collection for downloading the free ChessBaseLight program so you can view these files even if you don't have the commercial version of Chessbase. While Hughes doesn't claim to have the definitive collection for these players (although he thinks his collection of 2011 games by Paul Keres may well be complete, except for a problem with the dates in this particular file caused by a bug in an earlier version of ChessBase), he does intend to continue collecting games and adding to the collection until they are complete. There have been three updates this year, the most recent to the collection of Sir George Thomas on September 4th. The site is pretty straightforwardly organized, with easy to
find and follow links to the other pages. There isn't a lot of
discussion of the players themselves, so it you are looking for biographical
information you will need to look elsewhere. Still, the games
collections are a valuable resource if you want to study a particular player
or are looking for a particular game by one of these great players, and the
images are interesting for their historical value. Visit
Uncrowned Kings today.
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Tiger-Tough To Beat: Tigran Petrosian played in 9 Chess Olympiads between 1958 and 1974, and his only loss in that time was against German GM Robert Hubner at Skopje in 1972. Hubner abandoned his 1971 Candidates match against Petrosian due to excessive noise in the playing hall. When It's My Time To Go...: Former Australian OTB champion and inaugural World Correspondence Chess Champion Cecil Purdy died while playing chess. He was playing Ian Parsonage during the City of Sydney Championship in late 1979 when he passed away. Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie!
Chessville Fritz Strikes Back, Again!! Brains in Bahrain, 2002.10.15, Round "6", White Vladimir Kramnik, Black "Deep Fritz", ECO "E15", 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Bg2 c6 8. Bc3 d5 9. Ne5 Nfd7 10. Nxd7 Nxd7 11. Nd2 O-O 12. O-O Rc8 13. a4 Bf6 14. e4 c5 15. exd5 cxd4 16. Bb4 Re8 17. Ne4 exd5 18. Nd6 dxc4 19. Nxf7 Kxf7 20. Bd5+ Kg6 21. Qg4+ Bg5 22. Be4+ Rxe4 23. Qxe4+ Kh6 24. h4 Bf6 25. Bd2+ g5 26. hxg5+ Bxg5 27. Qh4+ Kg6 28. Qe4+ Kg7 29. Bxg5 Qxg5 30. Rfe1 cxb3 31. Qxd4+ Nf6 32. a5 Qd5 33. Qxd5 Nxd5 34. axb6 axb6 0-1 Anand Wins 2nd FIDE World Cup! 2nd FIDE World Cup (Final), Hyderabad, 2002.10.20, Round 9.2, Viswanathan Anand (2755) vs Rustam Kasimdzhanov (2653), ECO C42, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. c4 c6 9. Qc2 Na6 10. a3 Re8 11. Nc3 Bf5 12. Re1 h6 13. c5 Bc7 14. Bd2 Ba5 15. Bf4 Bxc3 16. bxc3 Nc7 17. h3 Ne6 18. Bh2 N6g5 19. Ne5 f6 20. Ng4 Qa5 21. Ne3 Be6 22. Rac1 Nxh3+ 23. gxh3 Bxh3 24. Nc4 Qxc3 25. Qxc3 Nxc3 26. Nd6 Rxe1+ 27. Rxe1 b5 28. Re3 Bg4 29. Bf5 1-0 The Week In Chess (TWIC) The most complete Tournament NewsTWIC414 of Oct. 14th 2002 & TWIC415 of Oct. 21st 2002 Jeremy Silman - John Watson: Latest Chess News The Chess Oracle Monthly International Chess News The Campbell Report Correspondence Chess NewsNet
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The Chess Cafe Mig Greengard: Did Kramnik Resign In A Drawn Position? Shakespeare vs Kramnik Review: Behind Deep Blue by Feng-Hsiung Hsu Pakistan Chess Player Lev Khariton's 200 Words: On the Brains in Bahrain Australian Chess Columns - Ian Rogers & Larry Parr New Website: ChessVideo.com Mechanics' Institute Chess RoomIM John Donaldson: Newsletter #109, Oct. 16, 2002 Seagaard Chess Reviews School of Chess Excellence 2 Tactical Play (Dvoretsky) Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games, 1902 - 1946 (Skinner & Verhoeven) Digichess Free WAP Service World Chess Network John Henderson's The Scotsman Larry Evans On Chess: Red Squares RusBase Part Two - Still Adding More From 1978 Jeremy Silman Instruction for Beginners: King Safety Instruction for Tournament Players: Facing the Firing Squad! Benko's Brain Twisters Daily Bulletin: Chess tournament loss alarming for Russians BBC: Chess Etiquette for Spectators Annotated Games Chess SiberiaDeep Fritz - Kramnik, Vladimir, Bahrain (3) 2002 (17.10.2002)
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Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Puzzles & Problems Chessville - Problem of the Week Sack the King! - A new tactical puzzle every day! Chathurangam: Chess In IndiaCGS Narayanan's Problem Corner Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day - Endgame Compositions National Scholastic Chess Foundation - Problem of the WeekChesshaven - Tactical Exercise of the Day The London Times - Winning Move & Column, Both Daily Tell us about your favorite site that you would like us to
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1...Rxb2+ 2.Qxb2 Bd3+ 3.Kxd3 Qxb2. 3.Kc3 allows 3...Bb4+ winning, while 3.Kc1 Ba3 pins the queen and 3.Kd1 Qxb2 and mate in two follows.
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