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Volume 2 Issue 20
May 18th, 2003 In This Issue Today's quotation is for Gambiteers everywhere, and especially for our friends on the UnorthodoxChessOpenings and chesskamikazes lists:
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
from the
editor... GM Nigel Davies has a special offer for readers of The
Chessville Weekly. All you have to do is solve this issue's Position
of the Week, then check out the solution at the bottom. Good Chess! Black to move and win - Find the
Solution
The New York Masters Game of the Week, with analysis by IM Greg Shahade. This week's exciting game:
(4)
Charbonneau,P (2444)
- Stripunsky,A (2643) [B42] The Vera Menchik Club: Further adventures of Perry the PawnPusher. Chess Fiction: An index page, bringing together in one place links to the modest but (hopefully) growing collection of fiction that involves chess rather more then less.
Cardoza Publishing, © 2002 Steinitz-Lasker: World Championship Match, Game 14, Queen's Gambit Declined. Annotations by the combatants themselves!
An addictive new
CD-ROM game for the Personal Computer based upon the chess knight's L-shape moving pattern. Steinitz-Lasker: World Championship Match, Game 14, Queen's Gambit Declined. Annotations by the combatants themselves! Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle.
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New Links: New additions to our links collection!
The Vera Menchik Club The mournful wail echoed through the skittles room. “I don’t want to join the Vera Menchik Club!” I clapped a consoling arm around the shoulders of the tormented man, and turned him to face me. It was Perry the Pawnpusher. Of all the rotten luck. Who would have guessed that he, too, would be playing in the same national tournament, this holiday weekend? I had somehow missed him the first few rounds. “I don’t want to join the Vera Menchik Club,” he started up, again. “Perry, Perry, listen,” I cut him off, grabbing him by the lapels and then quickly letting my hands drop. Once again, I reached back to the days of the old chess studio for a quote from the great Alekhine “Vera Menchik is an extremely capable chess player; if she continues her work and training, she will graduate from her current status as an average master and become a first-class International Master.” Perry stared bug-eyed, nodding his head. “Next round,” he stammered, as his hands twitched in and out of the pockets of his ratty sweater. “If all goes as planned, I will be matched against Vera Menchik!” Read the rest of Perry's brush with
The Vera Menchik Club!
Crazy Knights John DiGregorio is a mean, evil, cruel, vicious, wicked, sadistic man and I hate him. I told him so, too. True to his colors, he just laughed. John and his partners are behind Crazy Knights, an addictive new CD-ROM game for the PC based upon the chess knight's L-shape moving pattern. The object of the game is to land on every square without landing on the same square twice. It can prove to be quite a challenge! Not to mention quite maddening...
Each game is programmed so the player's next move options are highlighted in yellow, and change with each move, as does their next move options. Once a square has been landed on, it will either change color or reveal more of a picture, depending on which game has been selected.
The game program will not allow a second landing on any square. At the end of each game the computer will display the number of blocks remaining, amount of time used, and the player's score. There is also a High Score list to keep a record of the player's statistics.
There are twenty colorful puzzle-pattern games to choose from and a variety of skill levels, making it fun for children and adults. In the Beginner's category the games include Butterfly, Chain, Flowers, Raceway, and Rocket Ship. Even preschoolers will enjoy these games! There are also games listed for Intermediate and Advanced skill levels, as well as the Stallion Challenge - the full size chess board versions of the game, all based of course on the famous knight's tour.
Crazy Knights is as educational as it is fun. It will help teach players to plan their knight moves more precisely when playing an actual game of chess. Best yet, if you write to John, he'll send you a free one-puzzle demo of Crazy Knights. Recommended Minimum System Requirements: Windows Based Operating System (Windows 98 or later - although they have tested it on Windows 95 with 16 MB of RAM, the games took twice as long to load but played OK), 128 MB RAM, 50 MB Hard Drive space, CD-ROM Drive. For more
information, and to receive your demo puzzle, visit
Crazy Knights
today, or in the USA call 1-732-329-1315. And if you talk to John,
please tell him I was just kidding, and to please send me the solution to the Butterfly puzzle, before those
guys in the white coats manage to break through the door...
Standard Chess Openings
Second Edition, © 2002 Standard Chess Openings (SCO) according to the cover, is "The Complete and Definitive Reference to all Standard Chess Openings, More Than 3,000 Opening Gambit Strategies Inside!" containing "The essential concepts, tactics, and thinking behind every major chess opening." That's a tall order to fill, one that any specialty opening book would be happy to achieve. It may be too much of a claim for a compendium of this sort, which has to measure itself against such tomes as Nunn's Chess Openings (NCO), Batsford's Chess Openings, and even that ancient classic, I.A. Horowitz's Chess Openings, Theory and Practice (CO,T&P). SCO contains an Introduction, Overview and an 8-page chapter entitled Choosing the Best Openings. The openings themselves are organized into chapters covering Open Games, Semi-Open Games, Closed Games, Indian Games, and Flank Games. Added as a "Supplement to the 2nd Edition" are ten games covering "lines that were not in the first edition" including the Berlin Defense (used successfully by Kramnik in his World Championship Match with Kasparov), a "new" approach to defending the Marshall Attack, and among others, the "Lion Defense, a new opening based on ancient principles..." Now the Lion isn't exactly "new", depending on your definition of course. After all, the current post-Ice Age era is new, in geologic terms. The Lion has had a book out (in Dutch, I believe) for quite a number of years, and, for a time, it's own website...
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia More "Who Am I?" problems for you to consider: 1. I left my country of birth due to being orphaned during World War 1. I commenced my international career in the 1920's. In a 10 year period I played in 50 national and international tournaments, and shared or won first prize in 24 of others, as finished lower than third on only 4 occasions. I also played in 5 Olympiads. I was a journalist by profession, and often reported on the tournaments that I played in. I became a national hero; cigarettes, pastries, slippers and other products featuring my name were made in my honour. I was selected by FIDE to challenge Alexander Alekhine for the world title, but the political situation in Europe at this time made this match an impossibility. I fled Europe at the beginning of World War 2, and ended up taking Soviet citizenship. I continued playing after World War 2, but was only a shadow of the player I was prior to World War 2. Who am I? 2. I had a very successful junior career, including leading my country's team to victory in the Student Teams Olympiad. I also played in 7 "senior" Olympiads. I twice won my country's "Open" championship, and finished second in the "closed" championship. The demands of my profession limited my ability to compete in international tournaments from the mid 1960's on. I was also a "second" for a World Championship match. Who am !?
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Here are the solutions to The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia questions: 1) Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia/USSR 1908-83) Position of the Week: Solution
1...Rb8 White Resigns. If 2.Qxb8 Qxc3+ 3.Kd1 (3.Bd2
Qxd2 mate) 3...Nf2 mate. Or 2.Qc2 Rxb1 when White's best is 3.fxe4
(not 3.Qxb1?? Qxc3+ mate next.) This position was taken from GM Nigel Davies (of Ask the Tiger! fame) great book, The Power Chess Program Book 1. Power Chess is a structured year-long study program for the serious chess student.
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