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GAMES Svidler,P (2723) - Timofeev,A (2575) [B81] 1.e4 c5 Motylev,A (2634) - Dreev,A (2698) [B19] 1.e4 c6 Shipov,S (2589) - Grischuk,A (2732) [E32] 1.d4 Nf6 Morozevich,A - Shipov,S 1.e4 e6 Volokitin,A (2585) - Gaprindashvili,V (2475) [C10] 1.e4 e6 Greenfeld,A (2556) - Vainshtein,V (2338) [D11] 1.Nf3 c6 Lugovoi,A - Balashov,Y [E52] 1.d4 Nf6
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Volume 2 Issue 36
September 7th, 2003 In This Issue
from the editor... "Details". "My Details". "Your Details". "Thank you!" "Your Application". "Approved". "That Movie". "Wicked Screensaver". I must have received about a zillion email messages in the past couple of weeks with one variation or another of the above titles. Often it's preceded by a "re:" or two, indicating that it was a reply, right? Nope! These are just some of the virus messages that are circulating around the web these days, waiting to infect the unsuspecting recipient. The alleged sender's email address is almost always either non-existent or used without their knowledge or consent (I've even seen some that purport to be from Chessville!). Don't ask me how, I'm technologically challenged enough not to be able to explain it. I do encourage you though, if you haven't already protected yourself, to make sure your computer has the latest Anti-Virus software loaded. And watch out for the latest iteration: I've seen a few lately that say they're from Microsoft (although the actual email address on the ones I saw had a .ru file extension) and a subject line that reads: "Use This Patch Immediately". There are some patches from Microsoft that are important to have in place, but go to their site and download them directly. Never ever open attachments from a sender you don't know or aren't expecting. All these viruses replicating themselves has clogged up the internet's email system in places too. I've been getting some email s that were as much as 10-12 days old! So if you've written to us here at Chessville in the last couple of weeks, please be patient with us. We may not even have seen your message yet! Now, can we all get back to playing chess, please? Black to move and win - Find the
Solution (9/7) Site Review: Chess Problem Curiosa - a collection of fascinating chess problems, each with a special twist! (9/7) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. (9/6) New additions to the MyChessSite downloads page: Korchnoi's Games: 227 games (played from 2000-2003) by the veteran GM and nearly World Champion Viktor Korchnoi, a 29 kb zipped cbv format file. Master Games: 2-for-1 - 132 games played in the 1996 & 1998 Villa Gesell Clarin Masters. A 16 kb zipped cbv format file (9/6) The New York Masters Game of the Week, with commentary by John Fernandez. With Jaan Ehlvest the only 3-0 and Greg Shahade the only 2.5-0.5, Ehlvest was very happy to make a draw with the White pieces, take his money and go home. Shahade doesn't like calling it an early day, whether he's in the recording studio or at the chessboard. But how to play for a win with Black against a player who is going to be back in the top 100 in all likelihood in October? Let's see...
Sicilian Defense, Rossolimo Variation Be sure to read the message from IM Greg Shahade, too!
(9/3)
The Kennedy Kids:
Another new series by Master Storyteller
Rick Kennedy. These
stories recount the adventures of Rick's kids, Mary Elizabeth and Jon, and
their continuing chessic battles. Today Mary Elizabeth
takes her turn letting everyone know that her brother is
A Royal Pain.
"He calls me a pawnpusher. I call him a wood-shifter. He says
I'm a rabbit. I say he's a fish. If I'm a tyro, then he's a
patzer." Solve the positions and read all about
The Kennedy Kids! Chessville proudly debuts a new series of short stories by Master Storyteller Rick Kennedy, of Perry the PawnPusher and Sherlock Holmes fame. These stories recount the adventures of Rick's kids, Mary Elizabeth and Jon, and their continuing chessic battles. The inaugural story, A Royal Pain, features Mary Elizabeth taking her turn letting everyone know that her brother is, well, a royal pain! "My brother is a pain. He calls me a pawnpusher. I call him a wood-shifter. He says I'm a rabbit. I say he's a fish. If I'm a tyro, then he's a patzer. "Speaking of pots," says Mom from the living room, "you two wash the dinner dishes, and be nice to each other." Once, I accidentally called a Knight a "horsie," and he teased me about it for three days. I made sure when he called a Rook a "castle," the whole school knew about it! He beat me two straight times with a 4-move checkmate, until my friend Sara explained it to me. I got him back by gluing his King Pawn to the board. The next time he played, his game rose up and then fell to pieces!" Read the rest of
A Royal Pain
and see if you can solve the curious problem Jon set for Mary Elizabeth.
These stories and the problems may be intended for the younger pawnpushers
amongst us, but tyros of all ages will enjoy Rick's writing, and the
interesting puzzles too!
Chess Problem Curiosa
Robert F.A. Zwaal is a Professor of Biochemistry at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Medical Faculty, Maastricht University, in The Netherlands. His site contains some fairly esoteric (for me, anyway) topics, including "Regulation and physiology of membrane phospholipid asymmetry" and "Membrane phospholipid dependent reactions in blood coagulation." We're more interested in the page containing "Chess Problem Curiosa". Curious, indeed! One of his problems we featured in a previous issue of The Chessville Weekly, and it generated more reader mail than any other to date. Chess Problem Curiosa has seventeen more to offer, gathered from various sources, including the famous Professor Raymond Smullyan (author of, among other things, Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights and The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes), as well as some of Zwaal's own compositions. All of the problems contain some very unusual situations, or requirements, such as "White to move and not checkmate in one", or the seemingly innocuous "White gives mate in one", which is not nearly so easy as it sounds. Chess Problem Curiosa is a pleasurable site to visit: the pages load quickly, and the diagrams are easy to see. The pieces used in the diagrams are not exactly Staunton, but they are easy enough to understand, and do not hinder the enjoyment of the problems. See the diagram below, which is from the Chess Problem Curiosa site. We'll
conclude this short review by leaving you with another problem from Robert's
collection, credited to some fellow named "unknown":
White begins and wins For the solution to this problem,
click here. Enjoy all of the problems at
Chess
Problem Curiosa!
Chess Endgame Quiz
I was sent this book by the Editor, as he was tired of hearing my constant moaning about getting into good positions only to throw them away with my poor endgame technique. Thus, my mission was to learn if the writings of Larry Evans in this book could help me with my endgame dilemma, or would it be a dogma instead of a dilemma?
GM Larry Evans is a former 5-time US Chess Champion and also a prolific writer. Looking at his Bibliography there are over 50 books either written or co-written by Evans. Some readers may be familiar with his long-running column in Chess Life magazine, and his internet column at the World Chess Network. He also served as Bobby Fischer's training partner in preparation for his 1972 match with Boris Spassky. The book contains 200 puzzles, laid out one to a page. Each position offers the reader three options, two are wrong and one right. The answers (explained fully) are tucked away right at the back of the book, to discourage cheating. Not that I would stoop so low! Here is an example of the puzzles and in particular, my favorite one... Read
Andy's complete review of
Chess
Endgame Quiz.
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Who Am I #1: I was my country's best player for 20 years, and in my prime, I was one of the best dozen players in the world. I burst onto the chess scene at the age of 18, winning my country's national championship, an international tournament and competing at a Chess Olympiad. I impressed onlookers at the Olympiad with my fresh, sparkling attacking style, which was at odds with the more positional and cautious play of my fellow countrymen. All up, I won my national championship 8 times, and competed in 11 Olympiads over the space of 30 odd years. I was at my peak in the decade immediately after World War Two. My best result was finishing 2nd in an Interzonal tournament, with 5th places in 2 other Interzonals. My best result in the subsequent Candidates tournaments was an equal 3rd. I continued to play in international tournaments in the 1960's and 1970's. winning several. I retired from OTB play after my final tournament in 1979. Who Am I #2. I was a true chess professional , taking part in more than 120 tournaments and 50 individual matches. I made my international debut prior to World War One, placing in several tournaments, and winning a couple of "thematic" tournaments. After serving in the Austrian Army during World War One, I commenced my most successful period, winning several major tournaments and matches. By the end of the 1920's I was considered one of the top 10 players in the world. I was not a follower of the hypermodern movement that was in "vogue" when I was playing. I preferred open games, with a direct attack against the enemy king. I had the reputation of being one of the best attacking players of my generation, relying on intuition rather than calculation when sacrificing material. While this lead to many victories, losses would lead to a loss of confidence, and I could record some abysmal results. I fled Europe both because of failing health and to avoid Nazi persecution, and spent the rest of my life in Sweden. I was given the nickname of the "Last Knight of the King's Gambit".
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Inarkiev,E (2582) - Morozevich,A (2679) [C14] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bxe7 Qxe7 7.f4 a6 8.Nf3 Nb6 9.Qd2 Bd7 10.0-0-0 Bb5 11.Nxb5 axb5 12.Bxb5+ c6 13.Bd3 Rxa2 14.Kb1 Ra4 15.g4 Nc4 16.Bxc4 dxc4 17.Ng5 b5 18.Qe3 Na6 19.c3 Nc7 20.Ne4 Nd5 21.Qf3 0-0 22.f5 b4 23.Rhf1 bxc3 24.Nxc3 Nxc3+ 25.Qxc3 Rb8 26.Rf3 Rb3 27.Qc2 Qa7 28.Qf2 c3 0-1
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(Hungary 1917----) [back to: The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia] Position of the Week: Solution
Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov,
1912-1974, USSR. "Simply the most brilliant chess attacker of all
time." See Xplor's site dedicated to "Super
Nez". Here is but one example of his strong attacking style:
Polugaevsky,L - Neshmetdinov,R 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.e4 e5 4.Nc3 exd4 5.Qxd4 Nc6 6.Qd2 g6 7.b3
Bg7 8.Bb2 0-0 9.Bd3 Ng4 10.Nge2 Qh4 11.Ng3 Nge5 12.0-0 f5 13.f3 Bh6 14.Qd1
f4 15.Nge2 g5 16.Nd5 g4 17.g3 fxg3 18.hxg3 Qh3 19.f4 Be6 20.Bc2 Rf7 21.Kf2
Qh2+ 22.Ke3 Bxd5 23.cxd5 Nb4 24.Rh1 [Diagram] 24...Rxf4 25.Rxh2
Rf3+ 26.Kd4 Bg7 27.a4 c5+ 28.dxc6 bxc6 29.Bd3 Nexd3+ 30.Kc4 d5+ 31.exd5
cxd5+ 32.Kb5 Rb8+ 33.Ka5 Nc6+ 0-1 As an added bonus for you,
click here to download a zipped pgn file containing 305 games from
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King vs King, Bishop, and Rook Pawn The Lucena Position
The sign of a great master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly. – Irving Chernev You can pick out two essential qualities in which those with higher titles are superior to others: the ability to sense the critical moment in a game, and a finer understanding of various positional problems. – Artur Yusupov A lot of the difference between an IM and GM is a seriousness to the game. The GM is willing to go through all this. He's willing to put up with anything. This shows his dedication. One other thing is the GMs superiority in tactics...If you're a GM you should be able to overpower the IM tactically. The GM will often blow out the IM in this area. – Nick de Firmian It is often supposed that, apart from their "extraordinary powers of memory", expert players have phenomenal powers of calculation. The beginner believes that experts can calculate dozens of moves ahead and he will lose to them only because he cannot calculate ahead so far. Yet this is utter nonsense...Most of the time it is something quite different that is required in chess, something more akin to "understanding" or "insight". – David Norwood It may be that stronger players actually consider more 'stupid' moves than weaker ones - dismissing most of them, but not ruling them out without a glance! It may be that this is the only possible explanation for, say, some of Tal's moves. – Simon Webb It is unequivocal that depth of calculation cannot be the prime distinguishing characteristic between the grandmaster and the expert player. – Adrian de Groot Where a mediocre chess player sees ten moves to continue his game, a master may see only two or three. He discards the others as not of sufficient merit. The further the master progresses in skill and foresight the more he is restricted in his choice of moves. It is very similar in other machees. If a mediocre pianist plays a piece before a musical audience he will imagine that he is able to execute his task in a variety of styles. But for Rosenthal or Paderewski only one way of rendering the piece will exist. The higher the class of the artist, the less is his liberty. – Emanuel Lasker
GAMES Conner,D - Heisman,D [B30] 1.e4 c5 Barkashki,M - Sinabov,D [D40] 1.e4 d5 Kaidanov,G (2638) - Fiorito,F (2422) [E74] II American Continental Buenos Aires ARG (5), 22.08.2003 1.d4 Nf6 Bocharov,D - Shomoev,A [D73] 1.d4 Nf6
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