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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 [FEN "3q1rk1/p2nppb1/r1np2p1/2p5/1p2PN2/3PB1PB/PPPQ3P/1R3RK1 w - - 0 1"] White to move and win - Find the
Solution 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:
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 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
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The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia 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
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Chessville 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!
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The Chess Cafe 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 SilmanSet 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 TalKasparovChess - 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 0-1The Philadelphia Inquirer - FBI Hounded Chess King (Fischer) Clean Sheets - Making Moves: Erotic Chess Chess CityErnest 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
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