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GAMES Sutovsky,E (2652) - Hector,J (2552) [C45] 1.e4 e5 Timman,J (2578) - Hansen,C (2610) [C02] 1.e4 e6 Hector,J (2552) - Lindberg,B (2392) [D01] 1.d4 Nf6 McShane,L (2592) - Timman,J (2578) [B30] 1.e4 c5
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Volume 2 Issue 18
May 4th, 2003 In This Issue
"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never
ends." – Brian Tracy
[FEN 2k2r2/2p5/1pq5/p1p1n3/P1P2n1B/1R4Pp/2QR4/6K1 b - - 0 36] Black to move and win - Find the
Solution
Ask the Tiger! with GM Nigel Davies. Your chance to pick the brain of one of the world's leading GMs, chess teachers, and authors! Read this month's column, and Ask the Tiger! your own chess questions. Learn more about Nigel's teaching philosophy and check out his very reasonable rates. Visit his website, Tiger Chess, loaded with instructional articles. Janitor Jim: "The Uncastled King". These games are annotated for the novice player, and provide exceptional instructional value. The New York Masters Game of the Week, with analysis by IM Greg Shahade. This week's exciting game:
(3)
Lapshun,Y (2566) -
Paschall,W (2483) [A00] Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. Fantasy Chess Is Back!! FC has a double header in store for you this time around: the Ciudad de León Tournament (Ponomariov, Topalov, Karjakin, Vallejo-Pons) and the 10 player Enghien-les-Bains Tournament that stars Judit Polgar, Teimour Radjabov, Michael Adams, Viktor Korchnoi, Joel Lautier, Vladimir Akopian, Evgeny Bareev, Boris Gelfand, Laurent Fressinet and Christian Bauer. Play Fantasy Chess Now!! The Way of the Notebook: Kevin Fonseca's thoughts on the process of improvement using a notebook, a technique advocated by many strong players. Kevin now adapts this concept to the information age. Review: How To Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire, by Steve Giddens. Gambit Publications, 2003. Reviewed by Carl Tillotson. "A pleasant book to put on the book shelf, but will it go the way of many chess books – onto the book shelf after a quick browse, never to see the light of day again?"
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The Way of the Notebook “When you have attained the Way of Strategy there will not be one thing
you cannot understand...You will see the Way in everything.” I take this to mean that once you have mastered a thing, you have taught yourself how to master all things. You have taught yourself the ability of mastery. I mastered the craft/art of firing a pistol through constant, daily practice. This practice entailed a review process that became second nature. This review process is a subject of this article. I have a strong background in science, not a degree, but a strong background. This influences my use of notebooks. In the laboratory the notebook is used to define, review and revise the task at hand. It states a purpose and can project a result. The review will show whether the progress is satisfactory. Now to the meat and potatoes of the matter: I would submit that a notebook, a record of your training is essential to true improvement. You will be able to review your mistakes and improvements with equal consideration. The medium of the computer allows a substantial accumulation of hard data. How do we convert this data into a useful form? How do we collate this data into a defined and focused study plan? These are the two questions I will attempt to answer. It is the ‘process’ I discuss. First is to state a goal. Ok, ok,
your goal is to become better at chess. Easy, yes? Now to the
plan... Read
The Way of the
Notebook in full. Squares is the newest entrant into the world of chess magazines, the good old-fashioned kind, that uses paper & ink. Published by Thinker's Press, it is scheduled for four issues a year. The Premier issue, Spring 2003, is 8½x11 inches, 64 pages printed on glossy paper, with three columns per page. Bob Long, Publisher, writes that Squares is intended for "the whole world of hobbyists, sellers, intellectual pursuers, educators, professionals, trades' people, and so on." An ambitious undertaking, and the jury is still out on how well it will succeed. Contents of the current issue include:
That's a lot to pack into 64 pages, and much of this content appears to be recycled. For example, the Louis Paulson article was written by Imre König, who died in 1992; the Ken Colby article was taken from his 1979 book Secrets of a Grandpatzer; and so on. Other articles appear to be of a more recent vintage - GM Rowson's article analyzing a game of his from the Bled Olympiad among them. This is in keeping with the attitude of Squares, however, which is to entertain and delight the chess enthusiast, and that includes some finely aged material as well as recently written articles. And what about the pictures? The pictures are all black & white, a disappointment for a magazine billing itself as "The Chess World's Picture Magazine". What is worse is the actual paucity of photographs in this issue. Discounting diagrams (of which there are plenty) and pictures of book covers, I counted fewer than 20 in the entire issue. Is this worth a $9.50 cover price, or $30 for all four 2003 issues? I think so. Starting up a magazine of this nature is incredibly more difficult than you might imagine, and I think Bob Long has made the first steps towards creating a potentially excellent magazine. Certainly, he has little or no competition in this vein, and I wholeheartedly support his efforts. We can only hope that Squares blossoms into the promise of it's sub-title, and it will take the support of the chess world to help him make it a reality. For more information, visit
Squares, or call 1-800-397-7117.
Your Chess Opening Repertoire
How To Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire Or, ‘another quick-fix for lazy chess players…’ Well, maybe a little strong but you have to accept that the main lure of a Chess Opening Repertoire book is normally aimed at the Chess Player who wants someone to do all the hard work for them! Am I being too disparaging of these types of books? Well, I have to admit the reason I brought my first Opening Repertoire book was precisely for these reasons. I wanted to win, and I wanted to win now! So as a naïve newcomer to Chess, I believed that the book would solve all my problems. To some extent it did, but in other respects it laid me open to the ‘pain’ that was to follow when it transpired that some of the opening lines recommended were actually not that good! So it was with a biased attitude that I was asked to review the latest book from Steve Giddens that I would straight away go into ‘cynic’ mode. After all, an industry has evolved with people ‘knocking’ the latest ‘Keene’ book! Lets start with the positives: the author clearly lays down the road map for the book when he states he is not into ‘miracle cures’, so you are in for a shock straight away! OK, if Steve Giddens is not going to give me a ground breaking Opening Repertoire what’s the use of this book? Read the rest of
Carl's review and find out!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Unofficial US Champion: Until his death in 1891, George Mackenzie was regarded as the "unofficial" US chess champion. After his death, the title was claimed by Simon Lipschutz, as he was the highest placed US competitor at the 1889 New York international congress. He defeated Jackson Showalter (+7, -1, =7) in a 1892 match. From then on, the US titles was decided by matches, until the first "modern" US championship tournament in 1936. Official US Champion: Up to 1936, the United States chess championship was decided by a match between the champion and a challenger. In 1936, the defending champion Frank Marshall relinquished the title. A tournament was organized by the National Chess Federation, which was won by Sammy Reshevsky, who also won the 1938, 1940 and 1942 tournaments. Despite these tournaments, Reshevsky also defended his title in matches against Al Horowitz in 1941, and Isaac Kashdan in 1942. Submit your trivia to the
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GAMES Yudasin,L (2558) - Krush,I (2431) [B25] 1.e4 c5 Obodchuk,A (2417) - Rublevsky,S (2670) [B42] 1.e4 c5
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