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GAMES Milov,V (2574) - Luther,T (2580) [D11] 1.d4 d5 Gonzalez,J (2510) - Ramirez,A (2483) [D15] 1.Nf3 d5 Hernandez,R (2415) - Nisipeanu,L (2675) [E43] 1.d4 Nf6 Hernandez,G (2538) - Gelfand,B (2703) [D38] 1.e4 c5 Gelfand,B (2703) - Quesada,Y (2475) 1.Nf3 Nf6 Kravchenja - Burtasova [B42] 1.e4 c5 Shadrina - Meshcheriakova [B28] 1.e4 c5
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Volume 2 Issue 51
December 21st, 2003 In This Issue "Achievement - seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton from the editor... The ChessBrain Network is an exercise in distributed computing, where thousands of PCs all over the world are linked together via the internet to make a single supercomputer chess engine. You too can join in the battle with this non-profit project. Check it out! Lars Balzar reports that ChessGamesLinks, the link collection to millions of free downloadable chess games has been updated. You will find new and updated links to many free games! Just have a look! [FEN r2qr1k1/pp3ppp/2n2n2/8/2P2Pb1/3P4/P1PBB1PP/R2Q1KNR b - - 0 13] Black to move and win - Find the
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(12/21) KID Fireworks - Part 3: Andrew's new book, King's Indian Pressure Play, published by Thinkers Press, will soon be appearing on the bookshelves. To whet the appetite, this month's Bits and Pieces column includes a few snippets from the book - four illustrative games, one each week, fully annotated with Andrew's unique commentary and opening insight. This week's game looks at the line beginning: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4 Nh5 10.Qc2 Kh8!? (12/21) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. (12/21) Chessprint for December 21, 2003 "for the sheer joy of chess"
(12/16) New Marshall Game?: Has Rusty Miller discovered a "new" game by former American Champion Frank James Marshall (1877-1944)? Check it out for yourself!
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Starting Out: The Pirc/Modern The Pirc is an all-purpose counter-punching defense to 1.e4. Like the King's Indian, it is among the family of openings that pretty much ignore what White is doing for the first few moves while digging into a solid defensive position. GM Yasser Seirawan recommends this defense for beginners as a way to reduce opening preparation. It has a reputation for rewarding the understanding of ideas rather than rote memorization. I've been struggling with it for three years. Books written by Joe Gallagher top my chess book wish list (my copy of Starting Out: The King's Indian has more dog-ears than an Iditarod) so when I heard GM Gallagher contributed a book on the Pirc/Modern to the mostly excellent Starting Out series by Everyman Chess, I leapt at the chance to review it. This book carries on the traditional Starting Out series format ( e.g. Starting Out: The King's Indian, Starting Out: The Nimzo-Indian, and Starting Out: The Sicilian). The binding is durable and allows for the paperback to lie open on your desk without much trouble. Plenty of diagrams of the critical positions litter the book, though not enough to read the book without a board handy... Read the rest of the review:
Starting Out: The Pirc/Modern
"New" Frank Marshall Game? Russell "Rusty" Miller has been a pillar of the Pacific Northwest chess community since before I learned the game back in 1970. Now semi-retired, Rusty does a lot of research for various chess projects. Recently Rusty emailed me about a discovery he may have made: "While looking online at the Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper (1841-1902) I think I have found a NEW Frank Marshall game, apparently played as part of a Brooklyn Chess Club Championship. It was in the Brooklyn Eagle for January 6, 1901 on page 13 in a column by Helms. He had two columns that day I believe." Here is the game: Marshall,F - Howell,C [A85] 1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 0-0 6.Nf3 b6 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.0-0 Ne4 9.Bxe7 Qxe7 10.Bxe4 fxe4 11.Nd2 d5 12.cxd5 exd5 13.Qb3 Qf7 14.f3 exf3 15.Rxf3 Qe6 16.Rxf8+ Kxf8 17.e4 Nc6 18.Rf1+ Kg8 19.Nxd5 Nxd4 20.Qc4 c5 21.Nb3 Kh8 22.Nd2 Rd8 23.Kh1 h6 24.Nc3 Qxc4 25.Nxc4 b5 26.Ne5 Kg8 27.Ng6 b4 28.Nd5 Bxd5 29.exd5 Kh7 30.Nf8+ Kg8 31.Ng6 Rd6 32.Ne7+ Kh7 33.h4 Rd7 34.Re1 Nb5 35.h5 c4 36.g4 c3 37.Ng6 Rd8 38.bxc3 bxc3 39.Rc1 Rxd5 40.a4 Rd2 41.Ne5 c2 42.Nd3 Nd6 43.Ne1 Rd1 44.Kg2 Rxc1 0-1 "Marshall felt that he could have won with 18.Nxd5, and later held the draw with 35.b3." Neither Rusty nor I have been able to find this game anywhere else, but of course that doesn't mean someone else might not be aware of it. I searched the ChessBase MegaDataBase 2003, as well as the Pitt U. Chess Archive, the ChessBase - Online Database, the ChessLab site, and the games database at the Frank James Marshall Electronic Archive and Museum. The only games I can find between these two combatants that year (1901) were in the NYSCA Masters at Buffalo, New York. Seems Howell owned Marshall at that event too, winning both games. I was able to find a reference to Marshall participating in a Brooklyn Chess Club Championship in 1901 on the FJMEA&M, which shows only a partial crosstable for the event, so the game score is at least plausible. However, we can't seem to find the above game, and would
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Andrew's new book, King's Indian Pressure Play, published by Thinkers Press, will soon be appearing on the bookshelves. To whet the appetite, here are a few snippets from the book. A new game from the book will be published here at Chessville each week throughout December.
12th Monarch Assurance, Port Erin IOM (8), 2003 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4 Nh5 10.Qc2 Kh8!?
Hebden loves these 'constructive waiting' moves and of course, it's White's job to prove ...Kh8 useless now. What is the overall function of 10...Kh8?
See all of IM Martin's analysis on this variation of the King's Indian!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Famous Venue: The 2001 FIDE World Championship match in Moscow between Ruslan Ponomariov and Vassily Ivanchuk was held in the Metropol Hotel. The Metropol was also the venue of the 1925 Moscow International Tournament, won by Bogulyubov ahead of Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca. Different Venue: There was no USSR chess championship held in 1953, as all of the top players were competing in the Zurich Candidate's tournament. The next USSR championship was the 21st, held in Kiev in 1954. Submit your trivia to the
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Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler Chess India: 41st National 'A' Chess Championship
Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary Hindustan Times: Anand In Black and White
Seagaard Chess Reviews Mid-Day: First chess book in Braille launched
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USCF Annotated Games
Nigel Short (Telegraph Chess Club) David Sands (Washington Times): Bonin-Shabalov, 87th Marshall Chess Club Championship, New York, December 2003 Boris Schipkov (Chess Siberia): Paehtz-Schipkov, Miskolc Open 1989 Robert Byrne (NY Times): Azmaiparashvili-Radjabov
Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post) Jack Peters (LA Times): Solleveld-Bruzon, Santo Domingo 2003 Jonathan Berry (Globe and Mail): Nisipeanu-Vera, Santo Domingo 2003 Puzzles & Problems
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J. Schulten - Paul Morphy 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 e4 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.d3 Bb4 6.Bd2 e3 7.Bxe3
0-0 8.Bd2 Bxc3 9.bxc3 Re8+ 10.Be2 Bg4 11.c4 c6 12.dxc6 Nxc6 13.Kf1
[Diagram] 13...Rxe2! 14.Nxe2 Nd4 15.Qb1 Bxe2+ 16.Kf2 Ng4+ 17.Kg1 Nf3+
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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next. – Bobby Fischer (on delaying his resignation) Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard
chess notation, +-. – Mark Dvoretsky Backing up for a running jump, the initiative has passed to Black. –
David Bronstein Now I have the pawn and the compensation. – Roman Dzindzichashvili I wasn't sure what square to take the rook to. Because there were three
alternatives (e8, d8 and c8), I decided to go for the middle one. – Jan
Timman Just the kind of blunder with which this very wretched specimen of a game
ought to finish. – William Norwood Potter This game, now an obvious draw, was prolonged for 45 moves. Winawer should make his pedantic experiments at home and not insist on his opponents taking part in such uninteresting twaddle. – William Norwood Potter More Chess Quotes
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GAMES Gonzalez,J (2510) - Milov,V (2574) [E20] 1.d4 Nf6 Espinosz Flores,R (2415) - Dreev,A (2705) [B12] 1.e4 c6 VAJDA,L (2537) - TAYLOR,T (2385) [B14] 1.e4 c5 Kelemen,L - Nagy,L (2064) [C11] 1.e4 e6
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