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GAMES

Pablo's Picks

Essent Tournament

 Round 2
Oct. 14,2002

Peter Acs vs Loek Van Wely

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 a6
6. Be3 e6
7. f3 b5
8. Qd2 Nbd7
9. g4 h6
10. O-O-O
              Bb7
11. h4 b4
12. Na4 Qa5
13. b3 Nc5
14. a3 Rc8
15. axb4
        Nxb3+
16. Nxb3 Qxa4
17. Kb2 d5
18. c3 dxe4
19. Na5 Bd5
20. Ra1 Qd7
21. Bxa6 exf3
22. Bxc8 Qxc8
23. g5 Ne4
24. Qc2 Bd6
25. Bd4 e5
26. Be3 hxg5
27. hxg5 Rxh1
28. Rxh1 Qg4
29. c4 Be6
30. Rh8+ Bf8
31. Qd3 Bd7
32. Nb7 f2
33. Nc5 f1=Q
34. Qxf1 Bf5
35. Qd3 f6
36. Nxe4 Bxe4
37. Qd6 Qe2+
38. Bd2 1-0

 

Round 4
Oct. 17, 2002

Alexander Khalifman vs Peter Acs

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nf3 d5
4. Nc3 c6
5. Bg5 h6
6. Bh4 dxc4
7. e4 g5
8. Bg3 b5
9. Be2 Bb7
10. h4 g4
11. Ne5 Rg8
12. Nxg4 Nxg4
13. Bxg4 Nd7
14. O-O Nf6
15. Be2 Qb6
16. a4 Bb4
17. Be5 Nd7
18. Bf4 Rd8
19. Be3 c5
20. axb5 Nf6
21. dxc5 Bxc5
22. Bxc5 Qxc5
23. Qc2 Rd4
24. Bf3 Rd3
25. Qe2 Rg3
26. Na4 Qd4
27. Rfd1 Bxe4
28. Bxe4 Nxe4
29. Nc3 Nd2
30. b6 Rxg2+
31. Kxg2 Qg7+
32. Kh2 Nf3+
33. Qxf3 Rxf3
34. Rg1 Rxf2+
35. Kh1 Qd4
         0-1

 

German Bundesliga, Halkidiki
Oct 20,2002
Round 2

Peter Svidler - Bartlomiej
     Macieja

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 e6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nc6
5. Nc3 Qc7
6. Be2 a6
7. O-O Nf6
8. Be3 Bb4
9. Na4 Bd6
10. g3 b5
11. Nb6 Rb8
12. Nxc8 Rxc8
13. c4 Nxd4
14. Bxd4 bxc4
15. Rc1 Qb8
16. Bxc4 a5
17. Qe2 e5
18. Be3 O-O
19. Bg5 Be7
20. Rfd1 Rc7
21. b3 Qb6
22. Bxf6 Bxf6
23. Rd5 a4
24. Rcd1 axb3
25. Bxb3 Qa7
26. Qf3 Re8
27. Rd6 Re7
28. h4 Qb7
29. Qf5 Qa7
30. h5 1-0

 

2nd FIDE World Cup, Hyderabad

 Quarterfinal Tiebreaks
Oct. 16, 2002
Nigel Short vs Alexey Dreev

1. e4 c6
2. Ne2 d5
3. e5 c5
4. d4 Nc6
5. c3 Bg4
6. Be3 Qb6
7. Qd2 cxd4
8. cxd4 Bxe2
9. Bxe2 e6
10. Nc3 Nge7
11. Na4 Qb4
12. Qxb4 Nxb4
13. Kd2 Nf5
14. a3 Nc6
15. Bb5 Be7
16. Rac1 Kd7
17. Kd3 Rhc8
18. g4 Nxe3
19. fxe3 Rc7
20. Rhf1 Rf8
21. e4 dxe4+
22. Kxe4 Kc8
23. Bxc6 Rxc6
24. Rxc6+ bxc6
25. b4 Kb7
26. Kd3 f6
27. exf6 Rxf6
28. Rxf6 gxf6
29. Kc4 f5
30. gxf5 exf5
31. Nc3 Kc7
32. d5 f4
33. dxc6 Kxc6
34. Ne4 Bh4
35. a4 Be1
36. Ng5 h5
37. Nf3 Bf2
38. Ne5+ Kd6
39. Nf3 Kc6
40. h3 Be3
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October 20th, 2002
 

In This Issue
Position of the Week

New At Chessville
Feature Article
Uncrowned Kings
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net

 

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.
 

Position of the Week

[FEN "1r2kb2/p4p2/b1p1p3/8/3P4/8/qBKN1PPP/Q6R b - - 0 1"]

Black to move and win - Find the Solution
 

New At Chessville

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
By Jason Varsoke

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
http://www.phileo.demon.co.uk/

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
From Graham Clayton

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!
 

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville
    Recent Chess News  News & Notes, including Chessville
    coverage of:
         
- Essent Tournament (October 13th - 19th / Hoogeveen,
               NETHERLANDS) Peter Acs won the tournament!
         
- First Saturday Chess Tournaments (Budapest)
         
 - Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz Match (Bahrain, October 4th-19th)
                  Final score: 4-4 (Last game drawn in 21 moves)

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 News
TWIC414 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 News

Net Chess News - News and More
    

New On The Net

The Chess Cafe
     Review: 64 Great Chess Games by Tim Harding
     Endgame Study:
J. Fritz Prace1947
     Richard Forster: Boden's Mate Revisited
     Geurt Gijssen: An Arbiter's Notebook
     Chess Informant: Adams-Bareev, Halkidiki 2002
     Edward Winter's Chess Notes:
Oct. 14, 2002: #s 2781-2783
     Dan Heisman: Finding A Good Instructor

About.com Chess - Improve Your Middle Game (Part 1)

Chessbase
     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 Room
     IM 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 Siberia
     Deep Fritz - Kramnik, Vladimir, Bahrain (3) 2002 (17.10.2002)

Robert Byrne (New York Times):
     Wojtkiewicz-Akobian, San Francisco 2002

Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post):
     Deep Fritz-Kramnik, Round 3, Bahrain 2002

Puzzles & Problems

Chessville - Problem of the Week

Sack the King! - A new tactical puzzle every day!

Chathurangam: Chess In India
     CGS Narayanan's Problem Corner

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

Tell us about your favorite site that you would like us to keep an eye on for you.  Write: Newsletter@Chessville.com
 

Position of the Week: Solution

This position is from Reinfeld's 1001 Brilliant Chess Sacrifices and Combinations, illustrating the theme of Removing the Guard.

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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Kelly's
Quotes


Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. – George Bernard Shaw


It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chess players, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit. – James Mortimer


Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler


It has been said - and is probably not true - that every great man has been a chess player. But was there ever a chess player who was also a great man? Of course not and never will be. It is impossible. Great skill at chess is not a mark of greatness of intellect but of a great intellect gone wrong. – New York Morning Telegraph


Surely chess is a sad waste of brains. – Sir Walter Scott


Chess never was, and while society exists, never can be a profession. – Howard Staunton


No fool can play chess, and only fools do. – Source Unknown
 

 

 

GAMES

Pablo's Picks

Essent Tournament

Round 5
Oct. 18, 2002

Peter Acs vs Judit Polgar

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 e6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nc6
5. Nb5 d6
6. c4 Nf6
7. N1c3 a6
8. Na3 b6
9. Be2 Bb7
10. O-O Ne5
11. Be3 Be7
12. f3 O-O
13. Qe1 Rc8
14. Qf2 Ned7
15. Rfd1 Qc7
16. Rac1 Rfe8
17. Kh1 Qb8
18. Bf1 Bd8
19. Bf4 Ne5
20. Bxe5 dxe5
21. Nc2 Nh5
22. b4 Qc7
23. Qd2 Be7
24. a3 h6
25. Rb1 f5
26. exf5 exf5
27. Nd5 Qd6
28. Nce3 Qe6
29. Nxe7+ Rxe7
30. Qd6 g6
31. c5 b5
32. a4 Bc6
33. axb5 axb5
34. Nd5 Bxd5
35. Qxd5 Rb8
36. c6 Nf4
37. Qc5 Rc7
38. Rd6 Qe8
39. Bxb5 e4
40. Bc4+ Kh7
41. Rbd1 Nd3
42. Bxd3 exd3
43. b5 Qe7
44. Rd5 d2
45. Qxe7+ Rxe7
46. R5xd2 Rxb5
47. Rd7 Rg7
48. Rxg7+ Kxg7
49. Rc1 Rb8
50. c7 Rc8
51. Kg1 Kf6
52. Kf2 Ke5
53. Ke3 f4+
54. Kd3 Kd5
55. h4 g5
56. hxg5 hxg5
57. Rc2 Ke5
58. Rc5+ Kd6
59. Kd4 1-0

 

Round 6
Oct. 19, 2002

Loek Van Vely vs Peter Acs

1. d4 d5
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 Bb4
4. e3 Nf6
5. Bd3 O-O
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

2nd FIDE World Cup, Hyderabad
Round 6
Oct. 15, 2002

Alexander Beliavsky vs  Sergei Rublevsky

1. Nf3 d5
2. g3 Bg4
3. Bg2 Nd7
4. c4 e6
5. d3 c6
6. Nbd2 Ngf6
7. b3 a5
8. a3 Be7
9. Bb2 O-O
10. O-O b5
11. Rc1 Qb6
12. Rc2 Rfc8
13. Qa1 Ne8
14. Rfc1 Qb7
15. Nd4 Nc5
16. Nxc6 Qxc6
17. cxd5 exd5
18. d4 Nxb3
19. Rxc6 Nxa1
20. Bxd5 Rxc6
21. Bxc6 Rc8
22. d5 Bf6
23. Bxa1 Bxe2
24. Bxf6 Nxf6
25. Re1 Bg4
26. Rb1 b4
27. axb4 axb4
28. Rxb4 Kf8
29. Ne4 Nxe4
30. Rxe4 Bf5
31. Rf4 Bg6
32. Rb4 Ke7
33. Rb7+ Kf6
34. f3 Ke5
35. Kf2 Kd4
36. g4 h5
37. Kg3 hxg4
38. fxg4 Be4
39. Kf4 Bxd5
40. Bxd5 Kxd5
41. Rxf7 Rh8
42. Rxg7 Rxh2
43. Re7 Kd6
44. Re4 Rf2+
45. Kg5 Rf8
46. Kh6 Rh8+
47. Kg7 Rh4
48. Kg6 Kd7
49. Kf5 Kd6
50. Re1 Kd5
         1-0

 

 

 

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