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GAMES Shirov,A (2713) - Kurajica,B (2528) [B01] 1.e4 d5 Bologan,V (2665) - Short,N (2712) [D58] 1.d4 Nf6 Short,N (2712) - Movsesian,S (2647) [B48] 1.e4 c5 Dizdarevic,E (2528) - Shirov,A (2713) [A05] 1.Nf3 Nf6 Sokolov,I (2690) - Bologan,V (2665) [E32] 1.d4 Nf6
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(5/23) Chessprint for 2004.05.23 "for the sheer joy of chess" (5/23) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle (5/21) Unbeatable Defense: Introducing a new member of The Kennedy Kids clan, big brother Matt! In Matt's debut, he faces the Unbeatable Defense. "It withstood all attacks, he said grandly; and it routinely led to a counter-attack that always won." (5/20) Annotated Game: Nimzowitsch-Schlechter, Hamburg 1910, with notes by Prof Nagesh Havanur
When John Watson’s book Secrets Of Modern Chess Strategy (SOMCS) was published five years ago it raised a stormy debate in the chess world. Here was a work that seemed to challenge every preconceived notion of positional play. The title deservedly won the 1999 BCF Book Of The Year Award and also the USCF Fred Cramer Award for The Best Book. Five years later John Watson has followed up with this sequel, which is no less compelling than the first book. Recently it has won the 2003 Chess Café Book Of The Year Award. The author has taken sufficient care to ensure that this work can be read independently of its predecessor. However, it would benefit the reader more if this sequel is read together with his first book, Secrets Of Modern Chess Strategy. According to Watson the two books stand in a theory-to-practice relationship, but they also have a volume 1 & volume 2 connection, with the second volume filling in gaps in theory left by the first. There is a wealth of ideas in both the books. Much of the debate on the books has revolved around Watson’s concept of rule-independence. According to Watson the modern GM does not depend on general rules. As he puts it: “…the movement in modern chess is away from general rules and towards a more open, concrete and realistic view of the board.” This does not mean that rules have become irrelevant, but rather that they are context-sensitive and that their application should depend on the position. But there has never been unanimity about rules or universal principles at any point of time in chess history. Tarrasch disagreed with Steinitz over the question of mobility versus pawn structure. Tschigorin clashed with both Steinitz and Tarrasch over the issue of centre and development. Lasker was a supreme individualist and refused to submit to dictate of rules... Read the Complete Review
of Secrets Of Modern Chess Strategy
Acers Remembers...
New Orleans. He is unknown. FORGOTTEN. "I am nothing Jude"....but he was everything. Make no mistake. He made the greatest chess master of all time........ LA CARRETERA (the highway) World famous New Orleans chess master Jude Acers ("the man in the red beret") tells the incredible true story of the man who started it all...one summer night... 1956 One summer night. This is it. The road to the Friday night Lee Circle YMCA chess club was an hour and a half ....via Harahan bus and the tracks. The sixth visit. 85 degrees, K-chug-a-chug coca machine, tiny chess room, four tables , four chess players, no air conditioning of course. Look at Robert E. Lee through the window...you are choking tears, virtually without a family, so hopeless a chess player that nobody in the chess club will even consider playing a game with you. The coke machine provides the blazing blue eyes fantasy- look at the chessplayers through empty bottles-kaleidescope self made entertainment before the sixth trip home. Totally alone Completely lost. It is all right Jude Acers, it's ok. Things will get better. Hang in there kid. No money for a coke an too proud to beg...come again next week. Shuffle. 'HEY YOUNG MAN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME OF CHESS?" Shock black hair. Grimy hands, works two jobs. ...a plumber, electrician. Dressed in his Pelican Plumbing Supply uniform of course, as always. The chess pieces were all wood, 6-8 inches tall. (They huffed and puffed.) Green and white board squares. Triple weighted HEAVY chess figures. A wooden chess board, naturally. "Anything less , young man , would not be civilized." BOOM! He whistled his pieces to checkmate twice. Then he carefully reset the pieces, FLASHED THROUGH BOTH GAMES INSTANTLY FROM MEMORY, providing simple improvement tips pronto. He was in rough clothes, had been working all day. But you KNEW instantly he was it, mind boggling world class. Nothing abrasive. (Jack Peters, Los Angeles Times chess editor for decades, might simply employ his well timeless, well tailored, favorite word here- "civil".) Kind, well mannered. He towered quietly above the room. He had built the room. Slide those pieces around with four fingertips. Sound now enters slowly. In the background "Hey Mac." "Hmm...those knights are coming in strong" "McAuley ...don't forget we have a tournament game next Friday. Your clock will be running if you're late ... And I hope you are late for God's sake - I need every advantage I can get!" Read More of
Acers Remembers - La Carretera...The Highway
Rose's Rants
It is all very well for a 49 year old to announce an ambition to become a very strong chessplayer, but is it even possible? There are plenty of examples of very strong players who retained their strength into their 50', 60's and even beyond ... Lasker, Korchnoy, Smyslov, Najdorf, but these are all people who were already outstanding as teenagers, or even as children. Where are the examples of players making huge leaps in ability in middle age and beyond? Are old folk are past it - if they ever had it?The society we live in would have us believe that what I am trying to do is NOT possible, that if you haven't 'made it' in your chosen field while you are still young then you never will. In chess if you were not a child prodigy, or at least a precocious teenage talent, you will never amount to anything. It is not often put that bluntly, but it is the unspoken belief of the general public, most chess players, and even a lot of chess coaches. I used to share that belief. "Obviously" my chess "talent" was only modest, otherwise I would have shown more promise as a teenager. Now it is too late. I no longer think that way. I do not expect it to be easy, but I am not so stupid that I would announce an impossible ambition to the world. There is work to do, and character defects to be overcome. But I do believe that it is possible. Why? What has changed? How can I justify that belief? Find Out How - Read Tom's Latest Rant: Can "old" players improve all that much? Read Tom's Other Rants:
Excuses and Fear
What Makes A
Strong Player Strong?
SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises
New in Chess (NiC) magazine is indisputably one of the finest chess periodicals in the world. The eight yearly magazine issues are brimming with contributions from the crème de la crème of the chess world. The same can be said about the quarterly NiC Yearbooks, which distill opening theory developments for a target audience consisting of stronger tournament players. Finally, in recent years our Dutch chessfriends seem to have increased their efforts to publish more English-language books. Quite a number of these titles are spun off from articles in the NiC magazine, for instance Russian Silhouettes and The Reliable Past; Genna Sosonko’s two fine books with his memoirs of great chess personalities from the past. SOS – Secrets of Opening Surprises collects the writings of strong Dutch IM Jeroen Bosch, taken from his identically named columns in the NiC magazine. Each installment of Bosch’s column presents an intriguing opening idea, which is designed to throw your opponent off balance early on. Here is what the back cover blurb says: Look at your opponent sitting there in blissful ignorance. Fully at ease, everything under control, not a worry in the world. Or so he thinks. He’s checked his repertoire, double-checked his main lines. He wanted to come well-prepared and he did. Or did he? Because what he doesn’t know is that today is not his day. For the simple reason that he’s playing you. And you are going to spring a surprise on him. No main variations today, nothing mainstream, he’s going to be initiated into a world of secrets: Secrets of Opening Surprises! The book contains 18 surprising ideas in a great variety of openings, so that there is almost certainly something to complement any repertoire. Most chapters are constructed around one stem game with meticulous annotations to consider most sensible deviations. Based on Bosch’s postscript, there does not seem to have been an urgent need to rework much of his original analysis. Compared with the contents of the magazine articles, only minor textual changes were made and recent games, played in the period between the publication of the original New in Chess article and the book, have been added. It bodes well for the quality of Bosch’s analysis that many of the recent games are from the hands of respected grandmasters...
Read the complete review of SOS – Secrets of Opening
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Unbeatable Defense While I was in school, a few years ago, I met a player who boasted that he had discovered the “unbeatable” defense. It withstood all attacks, he said grandly; and it routinely led to a counter-attack that always won. These claims impressed me greatly, and – since I had never learned about such a defense in any of my reading of “the books” – I was somewhat awed and frightened when I sat down to play against the mysterious player and his omnipotent defense. Matt – Anonymous 1.e4 d6 Going into some kind of Modern Defense? Was that his weapon? It can be played against anything. I didn’t know how to play against the Modern! 2.d4 b6 Or was he playing Owen’s Defense?? I didn’t know how to play against that universal defense, either. So I went on and developed a piece, aimlessly. I felt I was already doomed. 3.Nf3 h6
More shock: a “reversed” Grob Opening!? Clearly, Black plans …g5 and …g4 and then my game is already in ruins! My feeble next move put me in the position of being able to “castle into” the coming attack, and I was seriously demoralized – defeated already…
Read Unbeatable Defense, and see if Big Brother Matt recovers from his
early demoralization!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia A Model of Consistency: The Belgian master Count Alberic O'Kelly de Galway competed in the 1957, 1958 and 1959 Beverwijk international tournaments. His score over the 3 tournaments was an amazing +1, =25, -1. A Model of Futility: Paul Keres holds the unfortunate record for the most second place finishes in a Candidates tournament, with four (1953, 1956, 1959 and 1962). Only the winner of the tournament faced the defending world champion in a match for the title. Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie! Pablo's Chess News Chessville coverage of:
Foxwoods Open: 4-way tie for first among GMs Julio Becerra, Ildar Ibragimov, Alex Goldin and Jaan Ehlvest with 7-2. Ibragimov wins blitz playoff for the title. IM Renier Gonzalez earned a GM norm; IM norms were earned by FMs Lev Milman, Ilye Figler and Daniel Rensch. GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Blitz with a 9-1 score Sunday evening.
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The Telegraph Chess Club Zugz's Chess Website - Chess Player Survey Mechanics Institute Chess Room Newsletter by John Donaldson: #192, 05/19/2004: 1) Charles Powell Memorial; 2) MI Wednesday Night Blitz; 3) Santa Monica International; 4) Shamkovich and Lein to be inducted into USCF Hall of Fame; 5) BRAIN VERSUS BEAUTY - CLASH OF THE TITANS; 6) Winslow Annotates; 7) Here and There; 8) Henry Plotkin Annotates MyChessSite - Chess Opening Trainer
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The Telegraph Chess Club David Sands (Washington Times): Marshall-Pillsbury & Barry-Marshall, Cambridge Springs 1904 Robert Byrne (NY Times): Carlsen-Vladimirov, Dubai 2004 Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Vallejo Pons-Andersson, Baden-Baden 2004 Jack Peters (LA Times): Movsesian -Varga, France 2004 and Morozevich-Alekseev, Sochi 2004 Puzzles & Problems
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Correspondence chess is the perfect form of the game. – Ward I have always found postal players to be a bit out of touch with the realities surrounding chess understanding - they usually feel that their form of chess is better, more pure, more accurate, and…(their self congratulations seems to go on and on and on). My angst towards postal chess began when I read that many postal aficionados honestly felt that a postal World Champion would beat an over-the-board World Champion in a postal game. The postal caste never seemed to realize that their understanding of chess as a whole was so far below any over-the-board World Champion’s as to make the argument virtually laughable. – Jeremy Silman
GAMES Bologan,V (2665) - Dizdarevic,E (2528) [B19] 1.e4 c6
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