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GAMES

Kasparov vs
    Deep_Junior

Game 1
      1-26-03

1. d4 d5
2. c4 c6
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. e3 e6
5. Nf3 Nbd7
6. Qc2 Bd6
7. g4 dxc4
8. Bxc4 b6
9. e4 e5
10. g5 Nh5
11. Be3 O-O
12. O-O-O
              Qc7
 13. d5 b5
14. dxc6 bxc4
15. Nb5 Qxc6
16. Nxd6 Bb7
17. Qc3 Rae8
18. Nxe8 Rxe8
19. Rhe1 Qb5
20. Nd2 Rc8
21. Kb1 Nf8
22. Ka1 Ng6
23. Rc1 Ba6
24. b3 cxb3
25. Qxb3 Ra8
26. Qxb5 Bxb5
27. Rc7  1-0

Game 2
      1-28-03

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 e6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 a6
5.Bd3 Bc5
6.Nb3 Ba7
7.c4 Nc6
8.Nc3 d6
9.0-0 Nge7
10.Re1 0-0
11.Be3 e5
12.Nd5 a5
13.Rc1 a4
14.Bxa7 Rxa7
15.Nd2 Nd4
16.Qh5 Ne6
17.Rc3 Nc5
18.Bc2 Nxd5
19.exd5 g6
20.Qh6 f5
21.Ra3 Qf6
22.b4 axb3
23.Rxa7 bxc2
24.Rc1 e4
25.Rxc2 Qa1+
26.Nf1 f4
27.Ra8 e3
28.fxe3 fxe3
29.Qxf8+ Kxf8
30.Rxc8+ Kf7
      1/2-1/2

Game 3
       1-30-03

1. d4 d5
2. c4 c6
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. e3 e6
5. Nf3 Nbd7
6. Qc2 b6
7. cxd5 exd5
8. Bd3 Be7
9. Bd2 O-O
10. g4 Nxg4
11. Rg1 Ndf6
12. h3 Nh6
13. e4 dxe4
14. Bxh6 exd3
15. Rxg7+ Kh8
16. Qxd3 Rg8
17. Rxg8+
            Nxg8
18. Bf4 f6
19. O-O-O
            Bd6
20. Qe3 Bxf4
21. Qxf4 Bxh3
22. Rg1 Qb8
23. Qe3 Qd6
24. Nh4 Be6
25. Rh1 Rd8
26. Ng6+ Kg7
27. Nf4 Bf5
28. Nce2 Ne7
29. Ng3 Kh8
30. Nxf5 Nxf5
31. Qe4 Qd7
32. Rh5 Nxd4
33. Ng6+ Kg8
34. Ne7+ Kf8
35. Nd5 Qg7
36. Qxd4 Rxd5
         0-1

 

 

 

 

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Volume 2 Issue 5                                               February 2nd, 2003
In This Issue
Position of the Week

New At Chessville
Perpetual Check
Chess Visualization Training
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
Pablo's Chess News
New On The Net

 

Position of the Week

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White to move and win - Find the Solution
 

New At Chessville

Kasparov-Deep Junior: Our on-the-spot reporter, ChessBattle's Max Panfilov, takes you inside the FIDE Man vs Machine World Championship.

Perpetual Check: A Powerful Defensive Technique To Save Lost Games!

Lasker-Steinitz Game 12:  Game 12 of their 1894 World Championship Match, with annotations by Steinitz himself.

New Games Collections: Zipped pgn files, over 6000 new games!

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  • Morozevich (629 games)

  • Saint Amant (54 games)

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  • Shabalov, Alexander (976 games) **New US Champion**

  • Vidmar, Milan (711 games)

Smith Morra Gambit: by Albert Hoogendoorn, Creator and Webmaster of MyChessSite.  This week read the the seventh installment in his series on this exciting response to the Sicilian Defense, including The Siberian Trap and The Fianchetto Defense

Free eBook: Chess History and Reminiscences, by H. E. Bird.  A 153 kb zipped file containing this electronic version produced by Stephen D. Leary.

Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess
 

Perpetual Check
by David Surratt

Perpetual check is a defensive technique that can help save an otherwise lost position.  Perpetual check has either of two possible aims, both resulting in a drawn game: three-time repetition of the position, or 50 consecutive moves without a pawn move or a capture.  This latter type occurs only in the event of such endings as king & queen vs king & queen, or king & rook vs king & rook, where one side can keep checking the opponent's king, but not actually make any progress towards winning, and we will not address those in this article.  Learn more about these basic draws here.

The idea of perpetual check is to force your opponent to repeat the position.  Sometimes he will have no choice but to repeat the position, while other times the alternative may be worse than the draw by repetition.

Here's a very simplified position to illustrate the idea of perpetual check...
 

Chess Visualization Training
http://www.janmatthies.info/chess/cvt/cvt.htm


Is the ability to visualize the chess board and pieces on it necessary for improving at chess?  The answer is always: "Yes!"

So says Jan Matthies, creator of this site, Chess Visualization Training (CVT).  The home page continues: "People tend to lose "sight" when calculating the moves in their heads.  When making a search for "blindfold chess" on the internet you soon find information that one of the most important advances in your chess life is to master the art of visualization. That's why there is this website.  By the way: It's all free!"

IM Denis Salinnikov adds:  "Is it really true, that solving chess positions and problems only in your mind without a board or diagram is a useful method of chess training?  Yes, I believe so.  First, you will increase your calculation ability and avoid missing “long moves” such as Qg1-a1-a8 in variations, very often a mistake of many chess players.  In addition
you will “feel” the geometry of the chess board much better (lines, diagonals etc.)  It becomes natural...  The Chess Visualization Training site is unique on the internet and contains several kinds of exercises where any player can find a good one for his level. Your rating will improve if you keep on exercising, make your way from #1 to the end."

Convinced?  OK, let's take a look at the site itself then, and see if it can really help you learn to improve your chess visualization.  CVT has a series of 11 exercises, and you must first select a user name & password.  The site apparently does not make use of cookies, as I had to log in at the beginning of each exercise, even though I hadn't left the site.

Exercise number one focuses on color: "This one is really easy. You have to visualize the given square.  Once that is done you have to tell the program if that square is white or black by typing "w" or "b"."  Next you are asked to identify the color of a square, e.g. c6.  The exercises are timed, and the length of time it takes you to respond is apparently factored into a score that is accumulated throughout the exercises.  Wrong answers lose points!

The next exercise asks you to decide if two given squares are the same color or not.  The third exercise provides two squares and asks if they are in the same diagonal or not.  Exercise Four adds a third square and again asks if they are in the same diagonal.

Knight moves concern the next pair of exercises.  You are asked if your knight can move from it's present location to another square in one move.  Next you have to decide if the knight can get between two given squares in two moves.  Somewhere along here I started getting error messages when I tried to start a new exercise.  That may be related to the method I used for exiting the exercises though.  All I had to do was recreate my user name & password.

Next come some mate problems.  You are given the location of three pieces, Black king, White king, and White rook, and asked if Black is in mate or not.  Mind you, there are no chess boards used in these exercises!  You have to visualize the position, then answer the question.

It is a must to have a good grasp of algebraic notation before attempting these exercises.  Other than that, everyone should benefit from performing these exercises, and we recommend that you start at the beginning and work your way through to the end.  Start now!
 

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

Multi-Tasker:  Dutchman Joop van Oosterom, who is best known for organizing the Melody Amber tournaments in Monaco, is also a top class correspondence chess player.  He recently finished =2nd with 11/15 in the final of the 15th ICCF World Correspondence Chess Championship.

Multi-Taskers:  English players Jonathan Mestel and John Nunn not only have an OTB Grandmaster title, but also have a International Problem Solving Master title as well.

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

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  • 1st Saturday Tourneys (Budapest, Hungary)   February Tournaments about to start!

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Chicago Tribune - Making Machines Human Is Real
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International Herald Tribune - Chess players now pawns of computers?

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Chessbase
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Chess Siberia
     Vote for Best Player of January; Anatoly Karpov is the best player of December 2002.  Karpov, A - Kasparov, G, match (3), New York 2002 is the best game of December.
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Chessopolis - NM Randy Bauer's Reviews
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FIDE Online - Minutes of FIDE General Assembly, Bled 2002

Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary
     201. 30 January 2003: Babsonmania
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Seagaard Chess Reviews
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Jack Peters (LA Times) - Kreiman-Paschall, Seattle 2003
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Puzzles & Problems

Chessville - Problem of the Week
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  April 2002, Solutions;  Orbit, 2002;  Orbit, No. 17, January 2003;
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  Problemesis, No. 31, January 2003
Sack the King! - A new tactical puzzle every day!
William Harvey's Chess Puzzles - Solutions
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     R Kuhn vs L Westphal, Berlin, 1920
     Kurt Pahl vs Deissner, Berlin, 1920
     Friedrich Saemisch vs Alfred Brinckmann, Berlin, 1920
MagnateGames - A problem each day
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Mastermove - Endgame Compositions
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Position of the Week: Solution


Today's position is another composition by the incomparable Sam Loyd, first published in Chess Monthly, 1857.

1. Rd4+ exd4 2. Qc5

and mate next.


 

 

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GAMES

Match Game 1
Kosteniuk  vs
         Karjakin
 Feb 1st, 2003

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 Nf6
4.0–0 Nxe4
5.d4 Nd6
6.Bxc6 dxc6
7.dxe5 Nf5
8.Qxd8+ Kxd8
9.Nc3 Ke8
10.h3 Be7
11.Rd1 Nh4
12.Nd4 Nf5
13.Nde2 h5
14.Ne4 h4
15.c4 a5
16.Bd2 a4
17.Nf4 Nd4
18.Bc3 Ne6
19.Nd3 b6
20.Re1 c5
21.f4 Rh5
22.Re3 Bb7
23.Rf1 Rd8
24.Nc1 Rf5
25.Ne2 Bxe4
26.Rxe4 g5
27.fxg5 Rxf1+
28.Kxf1 Rd1+
29.Kf2 Bxg5
30.g3 hxg3+
31.Kxg3 Rd3+
32.Kg4 Bd2
33.Bxd2 Rxd2
34.b3 Rxa2
35.bxa4 Rxa4
36.h4 Nd4
37.h5 Nxe2
38.Rxe2 Rxc4+
39.Kg5 Kf8
40.h6 Kg8
41.e6 fxe6
        ˝–˝

Bareev,E (2729) - Comp Hiarcs X [A20]  Man vs. Machine Match Maastricht (4), 31.01.2003

1.c4 e5
2.g3 Nf6
3.Bg2 c6
4.d4 exd4
5.Qxd4 d5
6.Nf3 Be7
7.cxd5 cxd5
8.0–0 Nc6
9.Qa4 0–0
10.Be3 Be6
11.Nc3 Qd7
12.Rfd1 h6
13.Rac1 Rfd8
14.Nd4 Bh3
15.Bh1 a6
16.Nxc6 bxc6
17.Nb1 Rdc8
18.Nd2 Qb7
19.Nb3 Qb5
20.Qxb5 axb5
21.a3 b4
22.axb4 Bxb4
23.Nc5 Bf5
24.Bg2 Ra2
25.Nd3 Bd6
26.Bd4 Ne4
27.g4 Bd7
28.f3 Ng5
29.f4 Ne6
30.Be3 Re8
31.Bf3 Ng5
32.fxg5 Rxe3
33.gxh6 g5
34.Ra1 Rxa1
35.Rxa1 Re6
36.Ra8+ Kh7
37.b4 Kxh6
38.b5 cxb5
39.Bxd5 Rf6
40.e4 Be6
41.Kg2 Kg7
42.h3 Bf8
43.Rb8 Bxd5
44.exd5 b4
45.Rb7 Bd6
        ˝–˝

 

 

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