Ask the
Tiger!
Play the Classical Dutch Games With the Belgrade Gambit 1966.1 Looking for New Opening for White More BDG! Against the Pirc The Games of Tigran Petrosian Vols I & II My Great Predecessors by Garry Kasparov How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire by
Steve Giddins Chess Player Biographies More Antidote to Chessbook Addiction More of Polgar's "Brick" Equipment: Boards, Pieces, Bags 1956.1 Mike Leahy, the Bookup Man! Chess School Information Request Chess and Schooling Mark Dvoretzky's Ideas on Draws More of My Chess Novel Capa's Endgame Play More Chess in the 1970s Minority Attack Quote of the Week 1957.1 Experience With Dan's Thinking Process 1970.1 Learning From Dr. de Groot Moving Up In Level of Competition Games To Analyze
GAMES Van der Wiel,J (2508) - Stellwagen,D (2467) [B48] 1.e4 c5 Van Wely,L (2675) - Van den Doel,E (2588) [D27] 1.d4 d5 Delemarre,J (2418) - Stellwagen,D (2467) [A64] 1.d4 Nf6
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Volume 2 Issue 26
June 29th, 2003 In This Issue Only through focus can you do
world-class things, White to move and win - Find the
Solution
(6/29) 1st OCL Individual Tourney, by Carl Tillotson, DIS/TD Registration is still open for the 1st OCL Individual Tournament. There are three sections available, these are OPEN, Under-1800 and Under-1500. The tournament will be 60-15 time controls, same as for the OCL Team events. This time, however, it's an Individual event. Each section will be over 5 rounds, there will be one game each week. You can choose when to play the game, so long as you and your opponent agree a date/time and that the game is finished before the round deadline. Registration Deadline 00:00 FST July 12th If you have not tried the OCL before, or maybe you haven't got enough STANDARD games under your belt, then now is the time to give it a try! Register today! Click here for further information and details on how to enter. (6/29) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. (6/29) Sherlock Holmes: Another short story by Rick Kennedy. The Royal Game tells of Holmes' chessic exploits with his brother. Didn't know Sherlock Holmes had a brother? Check out the other surprises, and the Holmsian logic puzzles set the reader by reading The Royal Game today. (6/28) The New York Masters Game of the Week, with analysis by IM Greg Shahade. This week's exciting game features Laura Ross, the highest ranked 14 year old in the nation. She would go head to head with experienced IM Altin Cela, whom I believe is in possession of two GM norms. His USCF, at only 2393, lags far behind his FIDE rating, thus she would have a difficult challenge ahead of her.
(1) Cela,A (2393) - Ross,L (2144)
[B30] (6/28) Free Download - PGN Notation Language Converter: This freeware utility was been coded by Dimitris Siskopoulos based on an idea of Andreas Prapopoulos. The aim of this software is to convert Chess Notation between English and French, German, Greek, Italian, and Spanish (and vice-versa). An attempt is made to make the conversion similar to the pgn notation standards in order the converted notation in English language can be readable by a chess playing software. This is a 68 kb zipped file.
(6/26)
Lasker-Steinitz
Game 15: The latest game from this famous
1894 World Championship Match, featuring annotations by the combatants
themselves. After splitting the first six games 3-3, Lasker proceeded
to run off five straight wins. Steinitz steadied the ship with a draw
in game 12 and then started a winning streak of his own with wins in games
13 and 14. Can he continue closing the gap here in
Game 15?
The Royal Game Another short story by Rick Kennedy, The Royal Game tells of Holmes' chessic exploits with his brother. Didn't know Sherlock Holmes had a brother? Check out the other surprises, and the Holmsian logic puzzles set the reader in The Royal Game. Here's an excerpt: My good friend and companion, Sherlock Holmes, has often shied away from games, considering them a waste of time. It was with no small surprise, then, that I watched him take up a chess game at Simpson’s, defeat Sebastian Moran – and do so with an announced checkmate in seven moves. “Was that the first game of chess you ever played?” I asked Holmes later that afternoon, hoping to uncover more of the mystery that shrouded his encounter with the evil Moran.* (*As related in The Case of the Baker Street Irregular, by John Watson, M.D., as edited by Andrew Hinkle and Rick Kennedy, 1981). “Certainly, Watson,” came the studied reply. “It was one of the first games I have ever played, although I must confess to having contested several before that.” I could hardly follow his line of reasoning. “Are not the two the same?” I queried. “Can you not for once explain yourself clearly, Holmes?” The annoyance in my voice was perhaps misplaced, but I had gone a considerable bit of time without an explanation, and the prospect of spending yet another afternoon with a living, breathing enigma was not attractive. Holmes’ voice was slow and placating, his smile thin. “From your noble exploits on behalf of Her Majesty, you no doubt are aware of the variation of chess called t’abiyat, are you not?” Read the rest of
The Royal Game and test your wits with the Holmsian challenges Rick,
err, Sherlock, has in store for you.
Tigerchess! Updated June29, 2003, as GM Davies has refurbished and expanded his site.
This is GM Nigel Davies' site, devoted to chess teaching. Davies, among other credits to his writing resume, has a monthly column for Chess Cafe. Read his current column here. Not to be overlooked is his widely read Ask the Tiger! column here at Chessville. 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. UPDATE: Two new sections have been added: Book Sales, and a Downloads page. The latter will feature pgn files of the games featured in his openings books and he will also be posting the positions from the Power-Chess Program. This will make these books easier to study. 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 over 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!
1st OCL Individual Tourney Registration is still open for the 1st OCL Individual Tournament. There are three sections available, these are OPEN, Under-1800 and Under-1500. Your rating is as it stands when registration closes, which will be on July 12th! The tournament will be 60-15 time controls, same as for the OCL Team events. This time, however, it's an Individual event. Each section will be over 5 rounds, there will be one game each week. You can choose when to play the game, so long as you and your opponent agree a date/time and that the game is finished before the round deadline. The schedule for the tournament is as follows, all times are FICS Server Time (PST): Registration Deadline 00:00 FST July 12th Round 1 Pairings 00:00 FST July 16th, To Complete 12:00 FST
July 22nd Due to the nature of SWISS pairing rules, it is important that ALL games are completed and results notified by the above completion dates. If you have not tried the OCL before, or maybe you haven't
got enough STANDARD games under your belt, then now is the time to give it a
try! Register today!
Click
here for further information and details on how to enter.
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia A "Sticky" Problem: At the start of the Vladimir Kramnik versus Deep Fritz match in Bahrain in 2002, it was found that the humid conditions made the chess pieces "sticky" and hard to use. The solution to the problem was to place them in a refrigerator prior to the start of each game. Masters of Illusion: Here is a list of the 3 major "automatons" in chess history, and the masters who actually played the games.
Pablo's Chess News Chessville coverage of:
World Junior Championships: June 21st - July 3rd 2003 in Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan. Standings of the leaders:
other online chess news resources Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler - Unknown Alekhine part 2
Chessbase
The Chess Cafe Malcolm Pein: The Beautiful Game The Salt Lake Tribune (Shelby Lyman): Checkmate Correspondence Chess News - LATEST ISSUE (93): VIEW PDF
BBC News Boston Herald: Players jockey for rankings at U.S. tourney World Chess RatingWimbledon Week in Chess: Serve and Come to the Net The Chess Week in Review
The Philippine Star White Repertoire 1.e4 Mikhail Botvinnik's Best Games Volume 1-3
Chess Siberia The Moscow Times - Sit Like a Champ at the Chess Museum Chess Sector - Ukrainian Chess OnlineJuniors vs Computers Match: Photos UkrBase updated: Juniors vs Computers The New Zealand Herald - Contender: Natasha has all the right moves World Chess NetworkJohn Henderson - The Scotsman Larry Evans On Chess - FBI FILES ON FISCHER
Mechanics' Institute Chess Room Guardian Unlimited - That's not a pawn, is it? Independent Online - Cape Flats chess guru may dethrone Egyptians RusBase Part Three - New Additions for 1986 Annotated Games New York Masters Game of the Week, analysis by IM Greg Shahade
The Telegraph Chess Club
David
Sands (Washington Times) Robert Byrne (NY Times): Ftacnik-Azmaiparashvili, European Ch. 2003 Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Adams-Radjabov, Enghien les Bains 2003 Jack Peters (LA Times): Shabalov -- IM Akobian, Vermont 2003 Jonathan Berry (Globe and Mail): Bareev-Akopian, Enghien-les-Bains, 2003 Puzzles & Problems
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Newsletter@Chessville.com Position of the Week: Solution
The Double-Bishop Sacrifice A valuable
tactic to know, the double-bishop sacrifice is generally credited to former
World Champion Emmanuel Lasker, and this is the seminal game for this
tactic: Lasker,E - Bauer,J 1.f4 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.b3 e6 4.Bb2 Be7 5.Bd3 b6 6.Nf3 Bb7 7.Nc3
Nbd7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Ne2 c5 10.Ng3 Qc7 11.Ne5 Nxe5 12.Bxe5 Qc6 13.Qe2 a6 14.Nh5
Nxh5 [Diagram] 15.Bxh7+! 15.Qxh5 f5 leads to equality
for Black. 15...Kxh7 16.Qxh5+ Kg8 17.Bxg7!! This fine move is
the only way for White to win. 17...Kxg7 18.Qg4+ Kh7 19.Rf3 e5 20.Rh3+
Qh6 21.Rxh6+ Kxh6 22.Qd7 Bf6 23.Qxb7 Kg7 24.Rf1 Rab8 25.Qd7 Rfd8 26.Qg4+ Kf8
27.fxe5 Bg7 28.e6 Rb7 29.Qg6 f6 30.Rxf6+ Bxf6 31.Qxf6+ Ke8 32.Qh8+ Ke7
33.Qg7+ Kxe6 34.Qxb7 Rd6 35.Qxa6 d4 36.exd4 cxd4 37.h4 d3 38.Qxd3 1-0
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GAMES Gruz,J (2146) - Resika,N (2185) [A48] 1.Nf3 g6 Pfau,M - Keschitz,G (2184) [B04] 1.e4 Nf6 Harmatosi,J (2209) - Kubacsny,V (2188) [B00] 1.d4 e6 Parkanyi,A (2363) - Werner,D (2184) [B26] 1.e4 c5 Vigorito,D (2298) - Omar,H (2210) [A16] 1.c4 Nf6
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