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GAMES

Leko - Bareev

Amber2003 Monaco (1) 15.03.2003

1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5
3.Nc3 Nf6
4.Bg5 dxe4
5.Nxe4 Nbd7
6.Nf3 Be7
7.Nxf6+ Bxf6
8.h4 h6
9.Bxf6 Nxf6
10.Qd2 b6
11.Bb5+ Bd7
12.Bc4 c5
13.Ne5 Rc8
14.Ba6 Rc7
15.0-0-0 Qe7
16.g4 cxd4
17.g5 Nd5
18.g6 f6
19.Nxd7 Qxd7
20.Qxd4 0-0
21.Bc4 Rfc8
22.Bb3 Rc5
23.Rhe1 Qc7
24.c3 Kh8
25.Kb1 e5
26.Qg4 Rd8
27.Qe4 Nf4
28.Rxd8+
           Qxd8
29.Rd1 Qc8
30.Bf7 Rc7
31.Qb4 Qa8
32.Qd6 Rc8
33.a3 Qf3
34.Qd8+ 1-0

 

van Wely - Morozevich

Amber2003 Monaco (1), 15.03.2003

1.d4 d5
2.c4 c6
3.Nc3 Nf6
4.e3 a6
5.Nf3 b5
6.b3 Bg4
7.Be2 e6
8.h3 Bh5
9.0-0 Nbd7
10.Bb2 Bd6
11.Ne5 Bxe2
12.Nxe2 Qc7
13.cxd5 cxd5
14.Rc1 Qb8
15.Nxd7 Nxd7
16.e4 b4
17.e5 Be7
18.Nf4 0-0
19.Qg4 Qb7
20.h4 Kh8
21.Rc2 Rfc8
22.Re2 a5
23.Nh5 g6
24.Nf4 Qb5
25.Rd1 a4
26.h5 g5
27.h6 Rg8
28.Nh3 Rg6
29.Rc2 Rxh6
30.Nxg5 Rg6
31.Bc1 Kg8
32.Qh5 Nf8
33.Nh3 axb3
34.axb3 Qa6
35.Bh6 Rc8
36.Rxc8 Qxc8
37.Rc1 Qd8
38.g3 Qb6
39.Be3 Qa6
40.Nf4 Rg5
41.Qe2 Qa3
42.Qd1 Qa6
43.Qe2 Qa3
44.Qd1 Qa6
45.Rc7 Bd8
46.Rc2 Rf5
47.Nh5 Qa3
48.Rc8 Be7
49.Qg4+ Bg5
50.Bxg5 Qa1+
51.Kg2 Qxd4
52.Qxd4 1-0

 

Kramnik - Almasi

Amber2003 Monaco (1), 15.03.2003

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 a6
4.Ba4 Nf6
5.0-0 Be7
6.Re1 b5
7.Bb3 d6
8.c3 0-0
9.h3 Na5
10.Bc2 c5
11.d4 Qc7
12.Nbd2 Rd8
13.b3 Bd7
14.Bb2 Rac8
15.Rc1 Nc6
16.d5 Na5
17.c4 Rb8
18.Bc3 b4
19.Bb2 g6
20.Nf1 Nh5
21.Ng3 Ng7
22.Qd2 Nb7
23.Nh2 Rf8
24.f4 Bh4
25.Nhf1 f6
26.Rcd1 Nd8
27.f5 Nf7
28.Bc1 Qc8
29.Qe2 Kh8
30.Qg4 Bg5
31.Bxg5 Nxg5
32.Ne3 Nf7
33.Qe2 Nh6
34.Rf1 Qd8
35.Qd2 Ng8
36.h4 Qe7
37.Kf2 Nh6
38.Rh1 gxf5
39.Ngxf5 Ngxf5
40.Nxf5 Bxf5
41.Qxh6 Bg4
42.Rdf1 Rg8
43.Ke1 Rg6
44.Qe3 Rbg8
45.g3 Qg7
46.Rhg1 a5
47.Kd2 Bd7
48.Rf3 Ra8
49.Rgf1 Bh3
50.Rg1 Bg4
51.Rf2 Bd7
52.Qf3 a4
53.bxa4 Bxa4
54.h5 Rh6
55.Kd1 Be8
56.Rh1 Rxa2
57.g4 Ra1+
58.Kd2 Qg5+
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Volume 2 Issue 11                                               March 16th, 2003
In This Issue
Position of the Week

New At Chessville
Sam Schmakel - 6 Year Old Prodigy
Scholastic Chess Club Meetings
Steve Lopez: The Crossroad
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net

 

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." – Conrad Hilton

Position of the Week

[FEN 6k1/3q1pp1/p6p/2R5/3rb3/6BP/PP2QPP1/6K1 b - - 0 30]

Black to move and win - Find the Solution
 

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New At Chessville

Prodigy In the Making: the true story of the six-year old Chicago 1st-grader that everyone's talking about.  Sam is for real!

Guest Editorial: Steve Lopez of ChessBase fame wrote this article in 2000, but it is still relevant today.  Kelly Atkins says "It not only describes the philosophy of Chessville, but is the attitude all chess players should have, I believe. Hopefully, you will encounter people who believe in its ideas and become one of them yourself, drawing others into the wonderful world of chess."

The New York Masters Game of the Week, with analysis by IM Greg Shahade:  Shahade,G (2510) - Yudasin,L (2706), Caro-Kann

Scholastic Instruction Materials: Professor Chester Nuhmentz looks at how scholastic chess meetings are often organized. The various parts of a typical elementary school club meeting are then discussed in greater detail, with an emphasis on activities and materials that can be used with a broad spectrum of chess students.

Review: Ideas Behind the Modern Chess Openings by Gary Lane, Reviewed by David Surratt

Annotated Game: José Soza - David Godoy, Linares 2001, Old Indian Defense

Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess
 

Sam Schmakel
 

Age: 6  Grade: 1

One of the most active and effective local chess organizations is Chess In Chicago, dedicated to promoting scholastic chess in the Chicago, Illinois (USA) area.  They do a fantastic job, too - their website is top-notch, and they have a great looking and informative newsletter.

Last Thursday I received the latest issue of their newsletter, and sat casually perusing it, when my eye caught the following snippet of a tournament report:

In yesterday's online tournament, we had 18 participants.  Finishing First with a perfect 5.0 was Luan Do of Lane Tech, Grade 11.  Tied for 2nd place was Sam Schmakel of Decatur Classical, Grade 1, and Rick Matusiewicz of Jones Prep, grade 9.

WHAT???  Did that really say a 1st-grader tied for 2nd place with a 9th-grader, just behind an 11th grader?  This has to be a typo, right?  WRONG!  Sam is for real!  Read all about Sam...
 

Scholastic Chess Club Meetings
by Prof. Chester Nuhmentz

This article begins with sketches of how scholastic chess meetings are often organized. The various parts of a typical elementary school club meeting are then discussed in greater detail, with an emphasis on activities and materials that can be used with a broad spectrum of chess students....

How difficult it will be to gather the necessary items and prepare for a meeting will depend on how established a club is, the level of chess expertise possessed by the adult mentors, the size of the club, and other variables. Yet there are preparations that are almost universally helpful. Let's walk through the two hypothetical meeting agendas once more, this time with more detail...

Read all of this excellent blueprint for scholastic chess club meetings, and check out the many varied resources provided.
 

The Crossroad
by Steve Lopez

"I'm standin' at the crossroads, tryin' to flag a ride..."
 -- Robert Johnson

OK, one more rant and then I'll shut up for a while. But I think this one's important, so please bear with me. And if you're going to kick the soapbox out from under me, I'd appreciate it if you'd kindly remove the rope from around my neck first, thanks ever so much. By the way, I'm writing this editorial as a chessplayer, not as a ChessBase employee. Nothing in this article should be construed as an "official" ChessBase position. This is just lil ol' me, addressing you, my fellow chess enthusiast. I'll put my work hat back on next week.

We've heard this old Chinese blessing/curse so often that's it's become something of a cliché: "May you live in interesting times". The chess world's current times certainly are interesting and they stand in stark contrast to a better period (one as recent as 1995). It's a long story and it sure isn't pretty...   Read the rest of Steve's comments, which originally appeared in Electronic T-Notes, July 23, 2000.
 

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

Fischer's Favorites:  In 1964, Bobby Fischer was featured in an article for the short-lived US chess magazine "ChessWorld".  The article was called "Ten Greatest Masters in History."  Fischer was quoted as saying "Just because a man was champion for many years does not necessarily mean that he was a good player."

Here are the 10 players Fischer named, in no particular order:

  1. Paul Morphy
  2. Howard Staunton
  3. Wilhelm Steinitz
  4. Siegbert Tarrasch
  5. Mikhail Tchigorin
  6. Alexander Alekhine
  7. Jose Capablanca
  8. Boris Spassky
  9. Mikhail Tal
10. Samuel Reshevsky

Alekhine's Favorites: Alexander Alekhine had 2 cats as pets.  He named them "Chess" and "Checkmate."

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

Chessville - Recent Chess News:
    
XII Amber Tournament (March 15th-27th)
    
   Leko, Topalov & Ivanchuk take the lead after the 1st round
        * Chessville coverage -- standings & results
     1st Saturday Tourneys (Budapest, Hungary)
       
* Read more about March tournaments
        * Chessville coverage:  General information

Dan Heisman reports:  My www.chess.fm radio show, normally Monday 7-9PM Eastern, will be live from the Main Line CC Tuesday, March 18, 7-9PM Eastern. The subject of the show will be club chess and members of the club will also be available to answer questions. Call 800-742-9799 to participate or go on the ICC and "tell chessfm ...".

other online chess news resources
The Week In Chess (TWIC) The most complete Tournament News
Mig's Daily Dirt - Commentary on Current Chess Events
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
     Review: The Steinitz Papers: Letters and Documents of the First World Chess Champion, Edited by Kurt Landsberger
     Endgame Study: Genrikh Kasparyan, L'Italia Scacchistica 1961
     Karsten Müller: Bees of Opps Revisited
     Tim Harding: Interview with a (Chess-playing) Vampire
     Mark Dvoretsky: Attack Training
     Rainer Staudte: Opposition Clockwise, Part 2

The Telegraph Chess Club
     Malcolm Pein: Shirov the Fearless
     David Norwood: New Contender From Africa
    
Nigel Short: Scandal at Linares - Kasparov Explodes
     (also:
Kramnik - Radjabov; Linares, Spain, February 28, 2003)

Express India:
At 16, this girl makes the right moves...For Keny Vora, a 16-year-old deaf and mute girl, a resident of Vasna road, sky is the limit.

Steve Lopez's T-Notes
     FOR MARCH 9, 2003  - NEW CHESSBASE CDS

About.com Chess
     FIDE - founded in Paris in 1924, is a French acronym for Federation Internationale des Echecs. The organization is better known in English as the World Chess Federation. Gens Una Sumus!

Chessbase
     Kasparov's outburst over beauty prize in Linares
     The Sicilian Vespers

Grandmaster Ludek Pachman dies at 78 - 12.03.2003  He was an icon of the times, a great chess player and a political activist, who after the Soviet invasion of his native Czechoslovakia was tortured almost to death in a Prague cellar. After this harrowing experience Ludek Pachman moved to Germany and started a successful career as a chess columnist and author. He was also one of the first GMs to play a game against a computer.  Read all about it in our farewell to Ludek Pachman.

FIDE       Prof. Lim Kok Ann Died 8 March 2003 at 83

FIDE mourns the passing of  Honorary Member and former General Secretary of FIDE, Prof. Lim Kok Ann who died 8 March 2003 at 83.   Family finds him on floor, dead from an apparent heart attack.  SINGAPORE'S doyen of chess was also a loving father and a generous and kind coach who was passionate about everything he did, said family and friends gathered last night at the wake for Professor Lim Kok Ann, who died on Saturday.

Chess Journalists of America - Chess Journalists of America / Cramer Journalism Awards:  Pete Tamburro, President of the Chess Journalists of America, and Don Schultz, Chairman of the Cramer Awards jointly announced their annual call for entries that appeared in either print publications or internet sites.

Pakistan Chess Player - Lev Khariton's 200 words

Mechanics' Institute Chess Room
     IM John Donaldson's Newsletter #130, 3-12-03

Chathurangam: Chess In India
     Interview With Peter Leko

The Campbell Report
     Interview of GM Ian Brooks (ENG)

Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary
     207. 13 March 2003: Fischer's bitter disappointment anticipated

Seagaard Chess Reviews
     Interview: GM Mikhail Golubev
     Young Marshall (John S. Hilbert)
     Quarterly for Chess History 6/2002 (editor Vlastimil Fiala)

World Chess Network
     Larry Evans On Chess - The 50-Move Rule
     John Henderson Is The Scotsman

RusBase Part Two - New Additions for 1970, 1982

Jeremy Silman
     INSTRUCTION FOR TOURNAMENT PLAYERS: THE ANSWER FOR KING-HUNTERS ANONYMOUS: KICKING THE HABIT
     IM John Watson heaps praise on Tim Harding's 64 GREAT CHESS GAMES and brutally trashes GRAND STRATEGY

GM Square
     Review: Heroic Tales: The Best of ChessCafe.com 1996-2001

Annotated Games

New York Masters Game of the Week, analysis by IM Greg Shahade
José Soza - David Godoy, Linares 2001, Old Indian Defense
Chess Siberia - Leko - Radjabov, Linares (8) 2003 (11.03.2003)
Robert Byrne (NY Times): Karpov-Polgar, Corus 2003
Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Leko-Radjabov, Linares, 2003
Jack Peters (LA Times)
     Gajewski-GM Teske, Cappelle la Grande 2003
     Ambartsoumian-Ortiz, USAT West, Los Angeles 2003
The Chess Drum - Muhammad-Kudrin, US Ch. 2003

Puzzles & Problems

Chessville - Problem of the Week
William Harvey's Chess Puzzles - Solutions!
     Sery vs Z Vecsey, Brunn, 1921
     A Nimzowitsch vs Jokstad, Bergen, 1921
     Grau vs J Lynch, Buenos Aires, 1921
     S Tartakower vs E Steiner, Budapest, 1921
     S Tartakower vs M Euwe, Budapest, 1921
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

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Position of the Week: Solution

Today's position comes from the famous 1st Saturday Tournaments:

Peredy,F - Malanca,A [D35]
First Saturday IM/B February (2), 2003

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 0-0 7.Bd3 Nbd7 8.Nge2 Re8 9.0-0 h6 10.Bh4 a6 11.Rc1 b6 12.Bg3 c5 13.e4 dxe4 14.Nxe4 Bb7 15.Nd6 Bxd6 16.Bxd6 Ne4 17.Bxe4 Rxe4 18.dxc5 bxc5 19.Bg3 Qe7 20.Nc3 Rd4 21.Qb3 Bc6 22.Rcd1 Re8 23.Qc2 Qg5 24.Rfe1 Rxe1+ 25.Rxe1 Nf6 26.Re5 Qg4 27.h3 Qd7 28.Rxc5 Ne4 29.Nxe4 Bxe4 30.Qe2 [diagram] Rd1+ 31.Kh2 After White's last mistake (29.Nxe4) his best now is 31.Qxd1 Qxd1+ 32.Kh2 when Black should have an easy win. Instead, perhaps desiring to be put out of his misery, Peredy plays 31...Rh1+ 32.Kxh1 Qxh3+ 0-1  Another example of the exciting chess found at László Nagy's Budapest tournaments!
 

 

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GAMES

Topalov - Shirov

Amber2003 Monaco (1), 15.03.2003

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 e5
5.Nb5 d6
6.c4 Be7
7.N1c3 a6
8.Na3 f5
9.exf5 Bxf5
10.Nc2 Nf6
11.Ne3 Be6
12.g3 Qd7
13.Bg2 Bd8
14.0-0 Bb6
15.Ned5 Bd4
16.Be3 Bxc3
17.Nb6 Qd8
18.bxc3 Rb8
19.Rb1 0-0
20.Nd5 Kh8
21.Rb2 Nd7
22.Be4 Na5
23.Qh5 Bg8
24.Bg5 Qe8
25.Qh4 Nc5
26.Bb1 e4
27.Nf6 Rxf6
28.Bxf6 Bxc4
29.Re1 gxf6
30.Qxf6+ Kg8
31.Qxd6 Qf8
32.Qc7 Nc6
33.Bxe4 Nxe4
34.Rxe4 Qf3
35.Rxc4 Qd1+
36.Kg2 Qd5+
37.Kg1 Qxc4
38.Rxb7 Rxb7
39.Qxb7 Qxc3
40.Qxa6 Nd4
41.Qa8+ Kf7
42.Qd5+ Kf6
43.Kg2 Kg7
44.a4 Nc6
45.h4 Na5
46.g4 Nc6
47.h5 Ne7
48.Qe6 Kf8
49.Qe4 h6
50.Qf3+ Qxf3+
51.Kxf3 Nc6
52.Ke4 Ke7
53.Kd5 Nb4+
54.Kc4 Nc6
55.Kb5 Ne5
56.a5 Kd7
57.g5 hxg5
58.h6 Kc7
59.h7 Ng6
60.Kc5 Kb7
61.Kd5 Ka6
62.Ke4 Kxa5
63.Kf5 1-0

 

Humphrey Bogart vs NN
1933 (?)

1.d4 Nf6
2.g4 Nxg4
3.f3 Nf6
4.e4 d6
5.Be3 g6
6.Nc3 Bg7
7.Qd2 Nc6
8.O-O-O O-O
9.Bd3 e5
10.d5 Nb4
11.Bc4 a5
12.a3 Na6
13.h4 Nh5
14.Nge2 f5
15.Bg5 Bf6
16.f4 exf4
17.Nxf4 Nxf4
18.Qxf4 fxe4
19.Bh6 Re8
20.Nxe4 Bg7
21.Bxg7 Kxg7
22.h5 Bf5
23.hxg6 Bxg6
24.Qh6+ Kg8
25.Rdg1 Qe7
26.Rxg6+ hxg6
27.Qh8+ Kf7
28.Rh7# 1-0

 

 

 

 

 

 

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