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GAMES

Corus Chess Tournament Wijk aan Zee

Karpov,A  vs
         Polgar,J
Rd 4, 1-15-03

1.d4 Nf6
2.Nf3 e6
3.c4 b6
4.a3 Bb7
5.Nc3 d5
6.cxd5 Nxd5
7.Qc2 Nxc3
8.Qxc3 h6
9.e3 Nd7
10.b4 Be7
11.Bb2 0-0
12.Rd1 a5
13.b5 Rc8
14.Qb3 c6
15.bxc6 Bxc6
16.Bb5 Bb4+
17.axb4 Bxb5
18.bxa5 Bc4
19.Qa3 bxa5
20.Qd6 Bb5
21.d5 Rc2
22.Rd2 Qc8
23.Qa3 Rxd2
24.Kxd2 Nb6
25.Qc3 Nc4+
26.Kc2 e5
27.Kb1 Qg4
28.Rc1 Rb8
29.Rc2 f6
30.d6 Qxg2
31.Nd2 Qh1+
32.Ka2 Nxd6
33.Qc5 Rc8
        0-1

Ponomariov,R
      vs Shirov,A
Rd 4, 1-15-03

1.d4 d5
2.c4 c6
3.Nf3 Nf6
4.Nc3 e6
5.Bg5 dxc4
6.e4 b5
7.e5 h6
8.Bh4 g5
9.Nxg5 hxg5
10.Bxg5 Nbd7
11.g3 Bb7
12.Bg2 Qb6
13.exf6 0-0-0
14.0-0 c5
15.d5 b4
16.Na4 Qb5
17.a3 exd5
18.axb4 cxb4
19.Be3 Nc5
20.Qg4+ Rd7
21.Qg7 Bxg7
22.fxg7 Rg8
23.Nxc5 Rxg7
24.Nxd7 Qxd7
25.Rxa7 Rg6
26.Rfa1 Re6
27.Bd4 Re2
28.h4 Rd2
29.Be3 Rxb2
30.R1a5 b3
31.Rc5+ Kd8
32.Rxb7 Qxb7
33.Rxd5+ Qxd5
34.Bxd5 Rb1+
35.Kg2 b2
36.Be4 Rd1
37.Bg5+ Ke8
38.Bf6 b1Q
39.Bxb1 Rxb1
40.h5 Kf8
41.g4 Rd1
42.Bb2 Kg8
        0-1

 

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Volume 2 Issue 3                                                         January 19th, 2002
In This Issue
Position of the Week

New At Chessville
Fantasy Chess Standings
Russell Chauvenet - Silent Knight
Dan Heisman - Renaissance Man
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
Poll: Kasparov or Deep Junior?
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net

 

From the Editor...  After reading about Dan Heisman's site in today's site review, check out the incredible offer he posted at the  Forum.
 

Position of the Week

Black to move and win - Find the Solution
 

New At Chessville

Silent Knight: A visit with Russell Chauvenet, "the best Deaf chess player in America", by Rick Kennedy

Annotated Game: Chauvenet - Myers, Milwaukee 1953, Annotations by Rick Kennedy

Smith Morra Gambit by Albert Hoogendoorn, Creator and Webmaster of MyChessSite.  This week read the the fifth installment in his series on this fascinating reaction to the Sicilian Defense.

Nimzowitsch Defense: Recent games and analysis in a critical variation, by Sören Jensen

Chess Posters: Eleven different chess-themed posters now available.

Editorial: Reunification Ruminations, and a letter/article from Ukrainian GM Mikhail Golubev.

Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess

Links:  New Links and New Link Categories, including Scholastic, Non-English Language Sites, and Bughouse links.

Check Your Fantasy Chess Standings
Top Five - Round 6
David Grobler, England 24
Andy Howie, Scotland 23.5
Jan Pottie, Belgium 23.5
John Migliore, USA 23
Rakesh Rai, India 23
 

Silent Knight
by Rick Kennedy

“I find Russ a very charming person,” my friend’s letter reassured me, “and easily approachable. He will be happy to sit down at a table anytime if one challenges him with a chess game, no matter the strength…”

Standing in the drizzle outside a warmly inviting brick house in Silver Spring, Maryland, I had come to challenge Russell Chauvenet, the best Deaf chess player in America.

A deaf chess player?

“Why not?” writes Emil Ladner, Dean of American Deaf chess players and co-author of the illuminating history, Silent Knights of the Chessboard. “We don’t play with our ears, but with what’s in between them.”

Chauvenet had set me straight in a letter: “Most players presume that deafness is no handicap in chess. I try to explain that the problems a deaf person encounters socially, educationally, and in earning a living are such as to minimize the time and energy available to become a good chess player. I might as well sit beside a mountain stream and ask the water to flow uphill.”  Read the rest of the story ...
 

Dan Heisman
http://www.danheisman.com

Renaissance Man.  That's what comes to mind after you get to know Dan a bit.  Author of seven chess books and assorted science-fiction short stories, award-winning journalist, baseball statistician & writer, Scholastic Coordinator, chess instructor, Internet Radio commentator, International Computer Chess Association, former Software Manager, Quality Manager, and Registered Investment Adviser,  USCF Senior TD, USCF National Master, the list goes on and on.  Needless to say, his personal web site is both interesting and varied.  Let's concentrate on the chess stuff though.

If you've been reading The Chessville Weekly for very long, you are already aware that Dan is a frequent visitor to the Chessville Forum where he answers all questions posed to him, as well as posting some thought-provoking ideas of his own.  His well-known column for Chess Cafe, Novice Nook, has garnered international praise and awards.  Now Dan has a regular program on Chess.fm, which airs Mondays at 7:30 PM ICC time and is rebroadcast on Tuesday & Wednesday.  Call 1-800-742-9799 to join in the fun!

Dan's primary vocation, dare I say - avocation, is as a full-time chess teacher.  Dan's site not only lists his teaching credentials for you to review, he also posts an extensive explanation of his teaching philosophy and a Chess Teacher's Credo.  A key page to check out is his Adult Chess Guide, which describes the teaching process, and talks about things like if your chemistry & his would work well together.  They say the proof is in the pudding (that one's for you, JDMARINO!), so be sure to check out his student's successes, including the incredible story of Scott Kerns, a B-player who won the 2002 New Mexico State Championship!

Dan has written a number of chess instruction articles, and he posts many of those on his site as well.  Sample titles include: Tips for Everyone; Avoid the Seeds of Tactical Destruction (the prequel to his current Novice Nook column); Using the Computer to Improve Your Chess; and Dan's Book Recommendations.  There are also articles aimed at Tournaments & Scholastic Chess,  Interactive Lecture Pages, and a slew of chess-themed as well as Science-Fiction short stories.  The site includes information for scholastic players, the Philadelphia Chess Hall of fame, and external links.  He provides links to all of the archived articles from his Novice Nook column at Chess Cafe, voted "Best Instruction" by the Chess Journalists of America last year.

Dan teaches on the Internet Chess Club as Phillytutor, or you may contact him directly at the email address or phone number listed at his site.  You will find Dan highly accessible and personable.  Are you ready to watch your rating shoot up?  Visit Dan's website today!  Be sure to check out the special offer he has exclusively for Chessville Readers; details are posted at the Chessville Forum.
 

Poll: Kasparov or Deep Junior?

I know, I know.  I said February.  What can I tell you?  I just couldn't wait!  Voice your opinion on the up-coming match in New York between the World's #1 Rated Human Chessplayer and Deep Junior.
 

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

Olympiad Past:  The Swiss system was first used for the Olympiads at the 1976 Haifa, Israel, tournament, as the number of competing countries made it impossible to use the previous group system.

Olympiad Present:  The 2002 Olympiad in Bled, Slovenia, featured the unusual occurrence of 2 members of the same family playing for 2 different teams.  The Hungarian women's team featured WGM Szidonia Vajda, while her brother, IM Levente Vajda played for the Romanian men's team.  Thanks to Gabor Gyuricza of Budapest for this trivia!

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville's Recent Chess News  including coverage of:
2003 US Chess Championship (from January 9th / Seattle, USA)
  
8 players are tied before the last round!  * Chessville coverage
Corus Wijk aan Zee 2003 (January 10th - 26th)
  
Round 6 in play: Krasenkow beats Shirov  * Chessville coverage
First Saturday Tourneys (Budapest)  * Chessville Coverage

other online chess news resources
The Week In Chess (TWIC) The most complete Tournament News
Jeremy Silman - John Watson: Latest Chess News
The Chess Oracle Monthly International Chess News
The Chess Report Another great chess news site
The Campbell Report Correspondence Chess News
Net Chess News - News and More

New On The Net

The Chess Cafe
     Dan Heisman: Revisiting the Seeds of Tactical Destruction
     Holiday Quiz Winners!
     Richard Forster: So what's all the fuss about Fischerandom Chess?
     Review: Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated
                  the World Chess Champion
by Feng-hsiung Hsu
     Endgame Study: H. Keidanski Deutsche Scachblätter 1925
     Geurt Gijssen: Unusual Events or Are There Still Normal Games?
     Informant @ ChessCafe.com: Viktor Bologan Annotates
     Late Knight by Richard Forster: Freischach

Chessbase
     FIDE Executive Director Emmanuel Omuku replies to Ponomariov

World Chess Network
     John Henderson - The Scotsman
     Larry Evans On Chess: Ugly Moves

Jeremy Silman
     IM John Donaldson reviews Understanding the Leningrad Dutch

Redneck-Puters: Rival Chess - Free Chess Playing Program Download

NagaSkaki: A Free Chess Program for Windows.  Just released -  a new version of NagaSkaki with chess clocks and more levels.

Steve Lopez's T-Notes
     Jan 5 - New 3D Options in Fritz 8
     Jan 12 - Odds and Ends

GMChess - Who Had Best Year In 2002?

ChessMate
 - Aarthie  Ramaswamy, 21, became India's 3rd WGM

Seagaard Chess Reviews
     Taming the Sicilian (Nigel Davies)

RusBase Part Two - Added More From 1951, 1975, 1981

Annotated Games

Russian Chess - Games from Corus
     GM Konstantin Aseev annotates the games of the 1st round
     GM Mark Taimanov annotates the games of the 2nd round
     GM Valerij Popov annotates the games of the 3rd round.
     GM Sergey Ionov annotates the games of the 4th round.
     GM Konstantin Aseev annotates the games of the 5th round
     GM Mark Taimanov annotates the games of the 6th round

Boris Schipkov (Chess Siberia): Krasenkow-Karpov, Wijk ann Zee 2003

Robert Byrne (NYTimes): Nielsen-Tseshkovsky, Hastings 2003

Lubomir Kavelek (Washington Post):
     Perelshteyn-Kudrin, US Ch 2003 & Battsetseg-Tsai, US Ch 2003)

Puzzles & Problems

Chessville - Problem of the Week
William Harvey's Chess Puzzles - Solutions
     Brunnemer vs Patton, Corr USA, 1920
     Ernst Jacobson vs Heinrich Von Hennig, Goteborg, 1920
     Brunimir vs Fayli, 1920
     Donegan vs Hans Johner, St Gallen, 1920
     Max Euwe vs Richard Reti, Amsterdam, 1920
Retrograde Analysis Corner
     feenschach No. 148, Aug-Sep 2002
     StrateGems No. 21, January-March 2003
Sack the King! - A new tactical puzzle every day!
MagnateGames - A problem each day
Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day
Mastermove - Endgame Compositions
National Scholastic Chess Foundation - Problem of the Week
Chesshaven - Tactical Exercise of the Day
The London Times - Winning Move & Column, Both Daily

Tell us about your favorite site that you would like us to keep an eye on for you.  Write: Newsletter@Chessville.com

Position of the Week: Solution

Bakulin - Bronstein
Kiev, 1965

1...Bd3  Also winning, but less directly, is 1...Qd4.  2.Qxd3 Rg1+ 3.Kxg1 e2+ 4.Ne3 All other tries lead more or less directly to mate. 4...Rxe3 5.Qf5+  Fritz says the best try is 5.Kh1 since all other alternatives once again lead to mate.  5...Re6+ 6.Kh1 Qf2 and White, facing mate-in-five, resigned. 0-1
 

 

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Combinative vision manifests itself at an early age, and children are quick to notice and execute combinations, which chance to turn up. Preparing combinations, however, is more difficult for them. – Vladimir Zak

For in the perfect chess combination, as in a first rate short story, the whole plot and counter-plot should lead up to a striking finale, the interest not being allayed until the very last moment. – William Winter

A combination is a rearrangement of the connection of pieces of both sides, which forces a coordinated connection of contacts, which is advantageous to one side. – Yuri Averbakh

It’s hard to combine with the lone king. – Jack Winters

It is not by accident that the buildings of the most splendid chess games are erected either on the neglected ground of equal positions, or on the unsteady foundation of mutual mistakes. – Igor Zaitsev

 

 

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GAMES

Corus Chess Tournament Wijk aan Zee

Anand,V  vs
       Karpov,A
Rd 5 1-16-03

1.e4 c6
2.d4 d5
3.e5 Bf5
4.Nc3 e6
5.g4 Bg6
6.Nge2 Ne7
7.f4 c5
8.Ng3 cxd4
9.Nb5 Nec6
10.f5 Bc5
11.Nd6+ Bxd6
12.exd6 Qxd6
13.Bg2 f6
14.fxg6 hxg6
15.0-0 Nd7
16.Rf2 0-0-0
17.c3 dxc3
18.bxc3 Nb6
19.Nf1 Rd7
20.h3 f5
21.Rb1 Rf8
22.Qb3 Rff7
23.Qc2 Rc7
24.Qd3 Na4
25.Bf4 e5
26.Bh2 f4
27.Qxd5 Qxd5
28.Bxd5 Rfe7
29.c4 Nd4
30.Nd2 Nc3
31.Re1 b5
32.Ne4 Nxe4
33.Rxe4 g5
34.cxb5 Nxb5
35.Re1 Nc3
36.Bb3 a5
37.Kf1 a4
38.Bc2 Kb7
39.Bf5 a3
40.Rc2 Rc6
41.Bg1 Rc4
42.Bf2 e4
43.Rec1 Rec7
44.Be1   1-0

 

 

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