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Volume 2 Issue 8
February 23rd, 2003 In This Issue Position of the Week New At Chessville Critical Lines In the Halloween Gambit Tigerchess! With GM Nigel Davies The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Pablo's Chess News New On The Net I know the price of
success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you
want to see happen. [FEN "1r6/R7/5p1k/5Qp1/4n1B1/4P2P/2q2PP1/6K1 b - - 0 1"] Black to move and draw - Find the
Solution Halloween Gambit: Part 1 of a comprehensive look at this fascinating gambit, by Paul Keiser Smothered Mates: An instructive look at a very useful, as well as esthetically pleasing, form of checkmate, by David Surratt Review: Accelerated Dragon Assault! by Andrew Martin. Bad Bishop Chess Videos, reviewed by David Surratt Another Story: Another adventure of Perry the PawnPusher, by Rick Kennedy Review: New York 1936, the First Modern United States Chess Championship, by Hilbert & Laude, reviewed by James Schroeder Kelly's Quotes: New Additions - Part 3
Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess
Critical
Lines
in the Halloween Gambit
The name is founded on the fact that players who are for the first time confronted with the surprising and unexpected fourth move of White become so shocked as if they were suddenly confronted with the horror of some scary Halloween mask. Indeed, this fourth move is shocking. After : 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 when Black is expecting a normal Four Knights Game with 4.Bb5, White surprisingly takes the pawn on e5: 4.Nxe5! A lot of short games how deadly this gambit could be. One example : 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5 Nxe5 5.d4 Nc6 (this is one main line, the other one is 5 ..Ng6), 6.d5 Nb8 7.e5 Ng8 8.d6 c6 9.Bc4 f6 10.Qh5+ g6 11.exf6 Qxf6 12.Qe2+ Kd8 13.Ne4 and Black resigned Brause (2355)-Betrueger (2315),ICC,1997,1-0(13).
Read the rest of Part 1, including analysis of the Gambit Declined, and
the Gambit Accepted lines with 5...Nc6.
Tigerchess!
This is GM Nigel Davies' site, devoted to chess teaching. Davies, among other credits to his writing resume, has just begun a monthly column for Chess Cafe. Read his current column here. Let's learn a bit about GM Davies, quoting from his bio page: "Born in...the UK on July 31st 1960, I learned chess at the age of 9 and thereafter fostered this interest at school and Southport Chess Club. I became Southport Chess Club Champion aged 15, Merseyside Champion aged 17 and qualified for the International Master title in 1982. At the time I was the UK's youngest IM. It would be some time before I went on to capture the title of International Grandmaster, 11 years in fact. The breakthrough came after living in Israel for several years and rubbing shoulders with some strong Soviet immigrants, such as two-time Soviet champion Lev Psakhis. In 1993 I scored two GM norms in quick succession amidst as string of other good results." GM, author, editor, instructor, husband and father. Let's look at his site. A simple navigation bar on the left side of each page contains the following choices: Home Page, Books & Reviews, Articles, Problems, Training, About Nigel Davies, and of course a links collection. The Books & Reviews page lists book recommendations in various categories, e.g. Beginners, General Instruction, The Endgame, etc. Included are snapshot reviews, one or two sentences each. As Davies says in the introduction to this page, "Despite the massive number of chess books on the market, relatively few of them are really worth buying and reading." Nevertheless, he vows to put more work into this page in the future, with more extensive reviews of new books. The problems page contains 30 tactical puzzles for you to solve, all taken from GM competition. The diagrams are clear, and the solution hidden until you ask for them. A variety of training options are offered by GM Davies, including games assessments, telephone lessons, and so on. The Articles section is a real gold mine, with 40 articles, most including an annotated game which can be played over online or downloaded as a pgn file. Some sample titles: Reversing Poor Form, That Man Bobby Fischer, The Miracle, Avoiding Small Mistakes, and Finding the Right Squares. There's plenty of free wisdom in these articles to whet your appetite for instruction, entertainment, and just plain old fun! Tigerchess is one of those sites that
you hope to find amid the glut of sites on the internet. Well
organized but not cluttered, instructive and entertaining, clear easy-to-see
diagrams. Become a hunter, visit
Tigerchess today, and sharpen your claws!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Super "K's": Every World Championship match between 1894 and 1999 featured a player who had a "k" in their surname. The 1894 match was between Steinitz and Lasker, while the 1999 match was between Akopian and Khalifman. In 2000, the Anand versus Shirov match broke the sequence. A "K" On Display: The National Museum of Sports in Havana, Cuba has on display the table, board, pieces and chairs used during the 1921 World Championship match between Jose Capablanca and Emanuel Lasker. Submit your trivia to the
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Kasparov Kasparov,G (2847) - Radjabov,T (2624) [C11] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 a6 8.Qd2 b5 9.a3 Qb6 10.Ne2 c4 11.g4 h5 12.gxh5 Rxh5 13.Ng3 Rh8 14.f5 exf5 15.Nxf5 Nf6 16.Ng3 Ng4 17.Bf4 Be6 18.c3 Be7 19.Ng5 0-0-0 20.Nxe6 fxe6 21.Be2 Ngxe5 22.Qe3 Nd7 23.Qxe6 Bh4 24.Qg4 g5 25.Bd2 Rde8 26.0-0-0 Na5 27.Rdf1 Nb3+ 28.Kd1 Bxg3 29.Rf7 Rd8 30.Bxg5 Qg6 31.Qf5 Qxf5 32.Rxf5 Rdf8 33.Rxf8+ Nxf8 34.Bf3 Bh4 35.Be3 Nd7 36.Bxd5 Re8 37.Bh6 Ndc5 38.Bf7 Re7 39.Bh5 Nd3 0-1 Ponomariov vs Kramnik, Round 2 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. h3 Bg7 6. d3 Nf6 7. Nc3 Nd7 8. Be3 e5 9. Qd2 h6 10. O-O Qe7 11. a3 Nf8 12. b4 Ne6 13. Na4 b6 14. Nh2 f5 15. f3 f4 16. Bf2 h5 17. bxc5 b5 18. Nb2 g5 19. d4 exd4 20. Nd3 Nxc5 21. Nxc5 Qxc5 22. Rfd1 Be6 23. Qb4 Qb6 24. a4 c5 25. Qxb5+ Qxb5 26. axb5 Kf7 27. Ra5 Rhb8 28. Nf1 Be5 29. Rda1 d3 30. Rxa7+ Kf6 31. Rxa8 Rxa8 32. Rxa8 dxc2 33. Rf8+ Kg6 34. Re8 Kf7 35. Rf8+ Kg6 36. Re8 Bc4 37. Rxe5 c1=Q 38. Rxc5 Qxf1+ 39. Kh2 Qxf2 40. Rxc4 g4 {Black wins} 0-1 Ciudad de Linares, 2003.02.22 Round 1, Anand vs Ponomariov 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. Nc3 Be7 10. Rd1+ Ke8 11. Bg5 Bxg5 12. Nxg5 Ke7 13. Rd3 h6 14. Nf3 g6 15. Rad1 Ng7 16. h3 Be6 17. Nd4 Rad8 18. f4 Bc4 19. R3d2 c5 20. Nf3 Nh5 21. b3 Rxd2 22. Rxd2 Be6 23. Ne2 c4 24. Kf2 cxb3 25. cxb3 c5 26. g4 Ng7 27. Nc3 h5 28. Kg3 hxg4 29. hxg4 Rd8 30. Rxd8 Kxd8 31. Ng5 Ke7 32. Nge4 b6 33. Kh4 Bd7 34. Nd5+ Kf8 35. Nd6 Ne8 36. Nc4 b5 37. Nce3 Ng7 38. Kg5 Bc6 39. Nc7 a5 40. f5 gxf5 41. gxf5 Bd7 42. Na6 c4 43. Nc5 Bc8 44. bxc4 bxc4 45. Ne4 Bd7 46. Nc5 Bc8 47. e6 c3 48. e7+ Ke8 49. f6 Ne6+ 50. Nxe6 Bxe6 51. Kf4 Kd7 52. Ke5 Bg4 53. Kd4 Bd1 54. Kxc3 Ba4 55. Kd4 Ke6 56. Nd5 Kf5 57. Kc5 Ke5 58. a3 Ke6 59. Nc7+ Kxf6 60. e8=Q Bxe8 61. Nxe8+ Ke6 62. Kb5 Ke5 63. Kxa5 f5 64. Ng7 {White wins} 1-0
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1...Rb1+ 2.Kh2 Rh1+ 3.Kxh1 Ng3+ 4.fxg3 Qxg2+ 5.Kxg2 stalemate. ½-½.
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