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Has This Ever Happened To You? 1886.1 I Had To Laugh! 1871.1 The Q&A Way Narrative Accounts of WC Matches The Most Common Mistake 1867.1 The Best "Least-Known" Chess Masters The Most Frustrating Chess Advice Andy Rides the BDG Train to Fame & Glory! Heisman on the Intricacies of the Rating System Suggested Database Program(s)? How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire How to Get the Most Out of CA Strategy? BookCAT: Cataloging a Large Library The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Keybook II Migs New Column at Chess Cafe RL Board to FEN on the Cheap 1879.1 Chessbase Monograph on Past Champions Basic Chess Endings - Revised by Benko 1865.1 The Power Chess Program Fantasy Chess Kramnik-Leko Match In Trouble 2003 European Individual Championships Pablo's Chess Engine Blitz Tourney 1852.1 Ask the Renaissance Man 1853.2 Inside A Master's Mind Translation of Wahls Modrnes Skandinavis New Novice Nook Posted
GAMES Grischuk,A (2701) - Iljushin,A (2556) [C11] 1.e4 e6 Sokolov,I (2677) - Spasov,V (2555) [E70] 1.d4 Nf6 Malakhov,V (2672) - Dvoirys,S (2552) [A35] 1.Nf3 c5
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Volume 2 Issue 22
June 1st, 2003 In This Issue
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty." from the editor... This past year has been full of both difficulty and opportunity for Chessville. Yes, I said "this past year". Today's issue of The Chessville Weekly is the 52nd that we've brought to you. Next week is Chessville's 1st Anniversary! We have a special lineup of updates planned for you both at Chessville and here in the Weekly, as our gift to you for your support during the past twelve months. Thanks for making it the best of all possible years! White 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:
(3) Yudasin,L (2666) - Wojtkiewicz,A
(2617) [B50] A HUGE 3rd round matchup here, as Yudasin has the white pieces, but is a half point back on Wojtkiewicz. Thus Yudasin will do whatever it takes to chalk up the win. Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. Site Review: Chess Mail, Edited by Tim Harding. Chess Mail is, first and foremost, a magazine devoted to Correspondence Chess (CC), and this web site serves as their on-line presence. There is much more here than meets the eye however, so check out the review for more, much more, information. Strange Chess News: Straphanger Memory Altering Reported, by Elliotte Wisanski. (The editor Bradley Zang would like you to know that some of these stories are so unbelievable even he doesn't believe them.) Essay: Chess Is Cool! by Glenn McNatt. "The games we play reveal our essence..."
Famous People Who Play Chess:
We thought it would be
interesting to see who a few of our fellow chessplayers are. Chess
really is cool!
Chess Is Cool! The games we play reveal our essence, and we place in those games the expectation that something larger, more mysterious, more transforming might arise in our ordinary lives. – Ken Burns Chess is a game for people of all ages. You can learn to play at any age and in chess, unlike in many other sports, you don't ever have to retire. Age is also not a factor when you're looking for an opponent - young can play old and old can play young. Chess develops memory. The chess theory...
Read the
complete essay and then find out what Woody Allen, Yasser Arafat, Seve
Ballesteros, David Bowie, Marlon Brando, Enrico Caruso, Bill Cosby,
Evander Holyfield, Bob Hope, Pope John Paul II, David Letterman, Willie
Nelson, Ringo Starr, Barabra Streisand, and Bill Walsh
all have in
common!
Chess Mail Chess Mail is, first and foremost, a magazine devoted to Correspondence Chess (CC), and this web site serves as their on-line presence. A sample issue of the magazine is offered for download in pdf format (all 64 pages!) and this alone is worth the price of admission, including an article on computer chess engines, tournament reports, a three and one-half page theoretical article of Bishops and Wrong Rook Pawn endings, and a wealth of high-quality annotated games. CC players are justly noted for the depth of their opening research, and these games provide fertile grounds for the inquisitive reader.
Chess Mail's Editor, author and Senior International Master of Correspondence Chess Tim Harding, is also well known for his Chess Cafe column, The Kibitzer, and a page on this site provides background information about the column and links to the current and archived issues. There are also some free downloadable game collections in pgn format to accompany some of Tim's columns as well. Tim's personal home page, also hosted here, contains biographical information and a complete bibliography of the more than 30 books and CDs, mostly opening research, that Tim has authored or co-authored over the years. Chess Mail also hosts a considerable collection of reviews by John Elburg, a CC News page, tournament reports complete with unannotated games, and a page pushing a book written by Tim's father about his experiences during World War 2, Copper Wire. Chess Mail publishes some unique products about which the reader can find more information, including a Mega-CC Database CD, and the excellent book "64 Great Chess Games", by Tim Harding, containing 64 carefully selected and painstakingly annotated CC games. Chess Mail sponsors a number of teams in the ICCF's Champion's League, and there is plenty of information about the players and their games here too. Navigation on the Chess Mail site is accomplished via a drop-down list of major sections at the top of each page, along with special links along the left page margin which vary from page to page. Plenty of hyperlinks exist in each page's content, as well. In fact, I'm convinced there's more stuff hidden at this site than I've uncovered, and that makes one wish for a more comprehensive navigation tool there. Still, Chess Mail has a lot to offer the curious reader.
While already well known among CC-players, it deserves to be more so among
the general chess playing public. Visit
Chess Mail
today, rummage around and see what chessic-gold you uncover there!
Straphanger Memory Altering Reported A soon to be President, Martin Van Buren once forewarned , "'Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by 'engines' which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed." Also, it been proposed by the Carneades School of Mnemonics that an encryption code or natural password guards the memory in our minds (an encephalitic key if you may}. If found, someone or something could alter our memories, dreams, aspirations and our very personalities. There are many ancient schools of Memory or Mnemonics. Most schools accept that memory is an abstract process but the Carneades are true skeptics and believe memory is a tangible structure. To help us understand this Strange Chess News we managed to get an interview with an expert at Carneades Mnemonics, who wishes to remain anonymous. We Shall call him M. Read the
complete interview with "M". Note:
The editor Bradley Zang would like you to know
that some of these stories are so unbelievable even he doesn't believe them.
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia British GM Incentive: In 1971, British chess enthusiast Jim Slater offered a 5,000 pound prize for the first British player who would obtain a GM title. The money was won by Tony Miles, who became a GM in February 1976. British Woman's World Champion: Hungarian GM Geza Maroczy was the resident chess coach at the Hastings Chess Club in England in the immediate post World War 1 period. One of his pupils was Vera Menchik, who would go on to be the Woman's World Chess Champion between the late 1920's and up to the beginning of World War 2. Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie! Recent Chess News Chessville coverage of:
Excerpts of the Press release from Einstein TV "We have been unable to secure full sponsorship to cover all the prize fund for the World Classical Chess Championship. A significant number of potential title sponsors have expressed considerable interest, but despite positive negotiations, the amounts to be raised in the time scale have proved impossible. Our team had discussed this match with various locations, most recently with the Government of Hungary...Such sponsorship as was committed was not sufficient to cover the agreed prize fund. While this is obviously very disappointing, we remain determined to deliver high quality world championship chess events and are now in discussion with a group of parties who are all interested in participating in a significant new chess development that would lead to the playing of the World Classical Chess Championship match later this year as well as other new events and matches in our cycle... We remain committed to the future of World Classical Championship Chess and look forward to helping establish a more secure base for everyone involved. - Robin Hague, Intellectual Leisure Ltd"
other online chess news resources
The Chess Cafe The Championship Unification: Key Quotes Chess Week In Review, with Maksim Notkin The Salt Lake Tribune - Checkmate with Shelby Lyman
Chess Odyssey Boston Herald: Newton grandmaster shows winning moves The Telegraph Chess ClubMalcolm Pein: Sokolov wins the 33rd Bosna Sarajevo tournament, Yugoslav master Milan Vukcevich has died at the age of sixty six The Moscow Times: On Taking Lumps at the Chessboard "It's not easy being a patzer in Moscow. You see, in Russia even bad chess players play at a fairly high level." TigerchessUpdated Grandmaster Growl and game files for Davies's openings books The New York Daily News: Chess champs do it again...It's checkmate after checkmate for the chess wizards at Edward R. Murrow High School Correspondence Chess News - LATEST ISSUE (91): VIEW PDFShuffle Chess Against the All-Mighty Computer, by GM Dorian Rogozenko Parallel Lives, by Neil Brennen Living Out Saadi's Sayings Chapter 6: Theoretical tete-a-tete, by Dimitar Kostakiev and Junior Tay Smith-Morra Gambit Part 6: A Topical Line by Stephen Ham, Michael Jensen, and Joe Shipman The Washington Times: Bid to unify title suffers a jolt Steve Lopez's T-NotesMAY 25, 2003 - NEW CHESSBASE CDs British Chess Magazine Online The Art of Chess Exhibition, Gilbert Collection Russian Chess Photo Report on The distance chess match Saint-Petersburg vs. Paris Professional World Chess Ranking PROFESSIONAL WORLD CHESS RANKING
Results up to June 1, 2003
The Prodigal Returns. And wins. Chess, Psychology and Serial Killers Move over Judit, here comes Kateryna! Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine Do you believe in chess psychology? Interview with Carsten Hensel, manager of both Kramnik and Leko Chess returns to Afghanistan Shredder tops the computer rankings – again! THE SSDF RATING LIST
92505 games played by
253 computers Rating + - Games
Won Oppo The review 5 numbers of the newspaper "64" for April, 1937 Best Players And Games Of Month Vote for the best player and best game of MAY 2003! Nigel Short is the best player of April 2003. Polgar, J - Berkes, F, Budapest 2003 is the best game of April: Polgar,J (2715) - Berkes,F (2578) [C11] Budapest (7), 18.04.2003 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Be7 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.Nf3 0-0 8.Qd2 Nd7 9.0-0-0 Be7 10.Bd3 b6 11.Neg5 h6 12.Bh7+ Kh8 13.Be4 hxg5 14.g4 Rb8 15.h4 g6 16.hxg5+ Kg7 17.Qf4 Bb7 18.Rh7+ Kxh7 19.Qh2+ Kg8 20.Rh1 Bxg5+ 21.Nxg5 Qxg5+ 22.f4 Qxf4+ 23.Qxf4 Bxe4 24.Qxe4 1-0
Mechanics' Institute Chess Room FIDE Title Regulations Effective 1st July 2003 Download the revised FIDE Title Regulations B.01 British Columbia Chess Federation English Bay FIDE Invitational Report Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary 214. 30 May 2003: Chess and go Seagaard Chess Reviews Chess Today (Editor Alexander Baburin) How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire (Giddins) RusBase Part Three - New Additions for 1985 Jeremy SilmanMilan Vukcevich 1937- 2003 IM John Donaldson reviews CHINESE SCHOOL OF CHESS and MODERN ENDGAME PRACTICE IM Andrew Martin's monthly opening column, BITS & PIECES, starts impressively with an in-depth analysis of the shockingly good PATZER VARIATION Silman reviews THE ART OF BISGUIER Problemesis - #33, June 2003 Annotated Games New York Masters Game of the Week, analysis by IM Greg Shahade The Telegraph Chess ClubDavid Norwood: Karjakin-Shirov, Bali Rapidplay 2002; Howell-Stativkin, World Under-16 Olympiad 2002 Nigel Short: Sokolov-Radjabov Bosnia GM, Sarajevo 2003 Robert Byrne (NY Times): Ivanchuk Sharp, Shaky, Settles Down for a Victory
Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Student Olympiad in Leningrad, 1960 Jack Peters (LA Times): Sokolov-Dizdarevich, Sarajevo 2003 Australian Chess Columns - Ian RogersNijboer-Salaun, Clermont-Ferrand National I (10) 2003 Puzzles & Problems
Chessville -
Problem of the Week Tell us about your favorite site that you would like us to keep an eye on for you. Write: Newsletter@Chessville.com Position of the Week: Solution
A fantastic example of Mitrofanov's
Deflection: 1.Nxh6+ gxh6 (or
1...Kh8 2.Nf7+ Kg8 3.Qxg7+ Kxg7 4.Bf6+ Kg8 5.Nh6 mate) 2.Qh8+!! Kxh8
3.Kf7! Rf8+ 4.Kxf8 e1=Q 5.Bf6 mate.
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GAMES Sakaev,K (2664) - Kurajica,B (2551) [B01] 1.e4 d5 Atalik,S (2568) - Erdogdu,M (2303) [D45] 1.c4 c6 Smirin,I (2662) - Ivanisevic,I (2569) [C47] 1.e4 e5 Beliavsky,A (2649) - Stefansson,H (2565) [E15] 1.d4 Nf6
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