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GAMES Davies,N (2482) - Lputian,S (2623) [E09] 1.c4 e6 Svidler,P (2723) - Bologan,V (2650) 1.e4 c5 Krasenkow,M (2585) - Conquest,S (2560) [D94] 1.d4 d5 McShane,L (2619) - Sutovsky,E (2639) [A45] 1.d4 Nf6 Epishin,V (2642) - Hebden,M (2544) [E97] 1.d4 Nf6 Parker,J (2541) - Rasmussen,K (2437) [A00] 1.d4 d5
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Volume 2 Issue 40
October 5th, 2003 In This Issue
[FEN r4r2/2p2pk1/b1n1pN2/p1p1P1B1/2p5/5R2/PPB3PP/RN4K1 w - - 0 20] White Mates In Six - Find the
Solution
(10/5) Crime Doesn't Pay: Chessville is proud to welcome respected opening analyst and instructor International Master Andrew Martin to the neighborhood! In today's inaugural column IM Martin explores the English Opening while looking at the fantastic 22-move miniature Popov-Svidler, from the 2003 Russian Championships. (10/5) New additions to the MyChessSite downloads page:
(10/5) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. (10/2) Reverse Re-Incarnation Reported: From the annals of the JAX Chess News, as reported by Elliotte Wisanski. "Reverse re-incarnation assumes time is not unidirectional, a belief we have because we haven't observed non-linear time yet." (The editor, Bradley Zang, would like you to know that some of these stories are so unbelievable even he doesn't believe them.) (9/30) Guest Essay: 12-year old Stuart Solomon shares his thoughts on "Chess Similes": "I’m like the pieces in a chess set. Each piece has different qualities and I express all of them at different times of my life depending on the situation. I’m like the game of chess. I use strategy to achieve my goals. I’m very good at chess and all the pieces have special meanings to me. I’m like the king because..." Read the rest of this intriguing essay! (9/29) Pawnfully Obvious: More chess fiction in The Kennedy Kids series from Master Storyteller Rick Kennedy (Perry the PawnPusher, Sherlock Holmes). These stories are aimed at the younger crowd, and each contains a chess lesson hidden within the delightful story without. Enjoy, and learn!
Chessville is proud to welcome highly respected opening theoretician and instructor IM Andrew Martin to the neighborhood. Martin writes regularly for www.jeremysilman.com, Chess Publishing, and Chess Magazine, and has authored a number of books. He is also well known for a large number of chess instructional videos, including Accelerated Dragon Assault!, The Scheming Scandinavian, and many more. In this month's debut article, he turns his critical eye on the English opening, as seen in the 22-move miniature Popov-Svidler from the recent Russian Championship. Martin writes: It's an odd game, the quality of which would leave old-time Grandmasters, brought up on Classical Chess, trembling in the wheelchair. White pushes the boat out, confronts the basics and gets crushed...Which leads us inexorably to the question of why White played so riskily. A question of character I think, and of courage... Read the rest of Martin's comments and follow along on an
interactive JavaScript board, as he dissects the opening play in this
amazing game by the new Russian Champion, and shows that
Crime Doesn't Pay! Look for a new contribution from IM Martin the
first Sunday of each month, right here at Chessville.
The
Kennedy
Kids The adventures of Rick's kids, Mary Elizabeth and Jon, and their continuing chessic battles. Their latest story, Pawnfully Obvious, has Mary Elizabeth lamenting: Anything I can do, my brother can do better. Ask him. He’ll tell you. The other day, I played a game of chess with Susan. I ended up with a king, and she had a king and a pawn. I lost. “Draw!” my brother said, when I told him about it. “Not always!” I said back. “MY King is the equal of ANY old King and pawn,” he bragged. “Why, he once fought off a King and SIX pawns, and STILL got a draw.” He wasn’t kidding. I had to think that one over... Read
Pawnfully Obvious and try to solve the mystery! Other stories in
this series include
A Royal Pain and
Like, Unlike. Rick Kennedy is also the author of the
Perry the PawnPusher series as well as the
Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
Chess Similes Editor's note: The following essay by 12-year old Stuart Solomon, was submitted by his mother, who wrote: "Hello, My son, Stuart Solomon, is 12 years old. He attends the 7th grade at Albany Middle School in Albany, California. He plays and studies chess with teachers from the Berkeley Chess School at different locations several times a week. Stuart [would] much rather play chess than do homework. I share with you what he wrote for his English class assignment. His proud mom, Cindy Solomon" Enjoy this intriguing essay... I’m like the
pieces in a chess set. Each piece has different qualities and I express all
of them at different times of my life depending on the situation. I’m
like the game of chess. I use strategy to achieve my goals. I’m very good at
chess and all the pieces have special meanings to me. Read all of Stuart's essay,
Chess
Similes.
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia First Correspondence Games: The oldest correspondence chess games for which the moves have still survived were played in the Netherlands in 1804. The games were played by army officer in the Hague named Fredrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon, and another unknown army officer stationed in Breda. Mauvillon won the 3 games in which the moves have survived. First Correspondence Championship: Alexander Alekhine was a member of a working party set up in 1936 by the Internationaler Fernschachbund (IFSB) to determine a system for determining a world correspondence chess championship. Alekhine had played correspondence chess in his younger years in Russia prior to World War 1. World War 2 put an a stop to the IFSB's plan, and the inaugural World Correspondence Chess Championship was started in 1950, under the umbrella of the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF). Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie! Pablo's Chess News Chessville coverage of:
Kasparov Loses in 22 Moves!! Huzman,A (2574) - Kasparov,G (2830) [D45] 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 a6 6.b3 Bb4 7.Bd2 0-0 8.Bd3 Nbd7 9.Qc2 Bd6 10.Ne2 c5 11.0-0 b6 12.cxd5 exd5 13.Ng3 Bb7 14.Nf5 Bc7 15.dxc5 bxc5 16.b4 c4 17.Be2 Ne4 18.Bc3 Nxc3 19.Qxc3 Nf6 20.Rfd1 Bc8 21.Rxd5 Qe8 22.Bxc4 1-0
12th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International Agdestein (7/9) 1st on tiebreaks over Lputian. Congratulations to GM Nigel Davies (Ask the Tiger!) who finished just a point back (6/9) with a TPR of nearly +100! Davies,N (2482) - Grant,A (2270) [E09] 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 b6 4.Bg2 Ba6 5.0-0 d5 6.b3 c6 7.c4 Be7 8.Qc2 0-0 9.Nbd2 Nbd7 10.e4 Rc8 11.e5 Ne8 12.Re1 Nc7 13.Bb2 c5 14.Rad1 Re8 15.h4 b5 16.dxc5 bxc4 17.b4 Ra8 18.Nd4 Qb8 19.Bc3 Nb5 20.Nxb5 Qxb5 21.a4 Qb8 22.c6 Nf8 23.b5 Bc8 24.Nxc4 1-0
other online chess news resources
The Chess Cafe Like to play in the European Championship? The great chess opera - This you have to hear to believe! Plaskett's Puzzle - in the puzzle section
The Telegraph Chess Club Times of India: Blind moves: It’s there in the mind Russian ChessPROFESSIONAL WORLD CHESS RANKING Results up to October 1, 2003
Best Players And Games Of Month Viorel Bologan is the best player of August 2003. Best game: Anand,V (2774) - Bologan,V (2650) [B17] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6 6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3 Bd6 8.Qe2 h6 9.Ne4 Nxe4 10.Qxe4 Qc7 11.0-0 b6 12.Qg4 g5 13.Qh3 Rg8 14.Re1 Bf8 15.Qf5 Bg7 16.h4 Kf8 17.Qh3 Rh8 18.hxg5 hxg5 19.Qg4 c5 20.Bxg5 cxd4 21.Rad1 Bb7 22.Rxe6 fxe6 23.Be7+ Kxe7 24.Qxg7+ Kd6 25.Nxd4 Qc5 26.Bf5 Qe5 27.Nf3+ Qd5 28.Qg3+ Ke7 29.Rxd5 Bxd5 30.Qg5+ Kd6 31.Qf4+ Ke7 32.Be4 Rh5 33.Nh4 Rg8 34.Ng6+ Kd8 35.Qf7 Re8 36.Bd3 1-0 Chess City"Chess City is the new incarnation of Chess City Magazine. We are no longer a magazine on a monthly schedule, but will be updating the site whenever we have something interesting to share with you. Over the next year we plan to add hundreds of new articles, so visit frequently!" Here's what is ready so far: Opening Theory
Mechanics' Institute Chess Room Nicolas Yap-Laura Ross, Internet Match 9-28-03 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. c3 Bg5 12. Nc2 Rb8 13. Be2 O-O 14. O-O a5 15. b4 Be6 16. a4 bxa4 17. Rxa4 axb4 18. cxb4 Ne7 19. Bc4 Qd7 20. Ra6 Qc8 21. Qe2 Ng6 22. g3 Rd8 23. b5 Bxd5 24. exd5 Ne7 25. Nb4 Nf5 26. Nc6 Nd4 27.Qd3 Nxc6 28. dxc6 e4 29. Qd5 1-0 The Chess DrumIn Search of Luzhin's Defence 8th All-Africa Games 227. 2 October 2003: A 99 year old record Seagaard Chess Reviews My Great Predecessors Part 1 The Isolated Queen's Pawn World Chess Network John Henderson's "The Scotsman" Larry Evans On Chess: Death of a Gambit RusBase Part Three - New Material From 1988, 1989 Problemesis - No 35, October 2003Annotated Games Peter Svidler: Popov-Svidler, Russian Ch 2003 The Telegraph Chess ClubMalcolm Pein: Kasparov-Jobava, ECC Rethymnon Nigel Short: Halkias-Zatonskih, Isle of Man, 2003 David Sands (Washington Times): Azmaiparashvili-Kasparov, Rapid Exhibition Match, Gerapotamos, Crete, 2003 World Chess RatingBest of the Early Rounds, European Club Cup: Shipov Best of the Third Round, European Club Cup: Shipov Game of the Week, Posted October 1 Robert Byrne (NY Times): Bonin-Ibragimov, New York Ch. 2003 Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Studnicka-Cernousek, Prague 2003 Jack Peters (LA Times): Khachiyan-Akobian, Denver 2003 Jonathan Berry (Globe and Mail): Zhao Xue/Nigel Short vs Zhu Chen/Yasser Seirawan, Yong Chuan China, 2003 Puzzles & Problems
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Position of the Week: Solution
Morphy,P - Carr 1.e4 h6 2.d4 a5 3.Bd3 b6 4.Ne2 e6 5.0-0 Ba6 6.c4 Nf6 7.e5
Nh7 8.f4 Be7 9.Ng3 d5 10.Qg4 0-0 11.Nh5 g5 12.fxg5 hxg5 13.Bxh7+ Kh8 14.Nf6
dxc4 15.Bc2 Qxd4+ 16.Qxd4 Bc5 17.Qxc5 bxc5 18.Bxg5 Nc6 19.Rf3 Kg7
[Diagram] 20.Bh6+ Kxh6 [ 20...Kh8 21.Rh3 and mate next.] 21.Rh3+ Kg5
[ 21...Kg7 22.Rh7 mate] 22.Rh5+ Kf4 23.Kf2 A very elegant move.
23...Rg8 24.g3+ Rxg3 25.hxg3 mate. |
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He is a superior man who can watch a game of chess, not saying a word. – Jan Pot Misfortune is clearly coming up the avenue, but this move saves the unwelcome visitor from knocking at the door. – William Norwood Potter A diabolical concoction! Alekhine serves up his b-pawn, but if White partakes, he dies of indigestion. – Lev Alburt Now I have the pawn and the compensation. – Roman Dzindzichashvili And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they were all isolated. – Hans Kmoch There is a strong taste of Prussic acid about this move. – William Norwood Potter Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard
chess notation, +-. Games like this always remind me of the teachings of the Puritans in
pre-Revolutionary America. Remember how they'd preach that sinners hung by a
slender thread over perdition's boiling cauldron of eternal damnation? Sort
of describes my position to a "T", I think. And now Hope says she has an appointment elsewhere. – William Norwood Potter Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head. – Siegbert Tarrasch
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GAMES Davies,N (2482) - Hunt,H (2402) [D03] 1.d4 Nf6 Ivanchuk,V (2710) - Van Wely,L (2661) [B33] 1.e4 c5 Sakaev,K (2655) - Kasparov,G (2830) 1.d4 d5 Prasad,D (2407) - Lputian,S (2623) [C16] 1.e4 e6 Agdestein,S (2571) - Mikhalevski,V (2523) [A16] 1.c4 Nf6
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