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Volume 2 Issue 6
February 9th, 2003 In This Issue Position of the Week New At Chessville Perry the PawnPusher 50 Chess Games for Beginners The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Pablo's Chess News New On The Net From the Editor... The
next big Super Tourney, Linares starts February 22nd, featuring the four
world championship contenders, Kasparov, Kramnik,
Ponomariov and Leko, the recent Wijk aan Zee winner, Anand,
as well as Vallejo Pons and Radjabov. Have you made
your Fantasy
Chess picks yet? [FEN "r2k4/pb2np2/1p1p1p1Q/1BP1qPr1/3pPN2/P6R/6PP/R5K1 w - - 0 1"] White to move and win - Find the
Solution Man vs Machine: Max Panfilov's continuing coverage of the Kasparov-Deep Junior Match, with special photo reports from Game 1, Game 4, and the finale - Game 6! More coverage by Chessville's News Editor Pablo Sierra on the Chessville News page. Perry the PawnPusher - Kicking off Rick Kennedy's series of humorous chess-themed short stories. Meet Rick, and then read the first Perry the PawnPusher story!
Kelly's Quotes: New Additions - Part 1 Smith Morra Gambit: by Albert Hoogendoorn, Creator and Webmaster of MyChessSite. This week read the the eighth installment in his series on this exciting response to the Sicilian Defense: the Smith-Morra Declined. Pocket PC Review - Kevin Bidner takes you on a virtual tour...
Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess
Perry the PawnPusher Rick's fiction has appeared in different places, such as: Chess 'n' stuff, Chess Atlas, Chess Life, and School Mates. He has chronicled the misadventures of Perry the PawnPusher, revealed a half-dozen chess-based adventures involving Sherlock Homes, and even reported on the chessic hi-jinks of his daughter, Mary Elizabeth, and his son, Jonathan. In a more serious vein, he has written, along with Riley Sheffield, The Marshall Gambit in the French and Sicilian Defenses. His theoretical articles and historical researches have appeared in the Unorthodox Chess Openings Newsletter. He is editor and publisher of "The Silent Knight," the monthly newsletter for the United States Chess Association of the Deaf, and an excellent article about America's best deaf chess player - Russell Chauvenet. Perry The PawnPusher "Have you seen my draw with Fine?" I looked up. My concentration was suddenly dragged away from the Shakmatny Informator and dumped abruptly upon a short, fuzzy, bespectacled old man. "Really, you must see it." As a reflex, I stretched to guard the Club's chessboard and pieces in front of me, where I was struggling with Anand's latest treatment of the Exchange Slav. Too late. He took the position apart like so many puzzle pieces, flipped a few around, and put back the ones he wanted. "There. Seen it?" Of course, I had. Many times before, in fact. It was a position from an old Horowitz primer. Mate in four. If this guy had even played Reuben Fine, then my name was Kamran Shirazi.
Read more about Rick and Perry!
50 Chess Games for Beginners "50 Chess Games for Beginners" is an animated chess tutorial program for new players who wish to improve their game. It provides fully annotated examples of games illustrating good chess tactics and strategies and is particularly suitable for children or junior players. We include descriptions of chess notation, standard chess openings, chess grading, and much more. There is a free chess competition for visitors. It is written by two enthusiasts, who have taken up Chess over the past couple of years. We offer a guided tour through 50 games (recorded as we went through the learning process), showing our successes and failures; our brilliant flashes of inspiration; and our inexplicable blunders. We have analysed the games to bring out basic chess principles and strategies. The games are presented, warts and all, with no editing or tidying up. We hope that visitors, particularly new chess players, can learn something worthwhile from studying these games. This website is provided free of charge, for addicts and wannabes alike. The only condition is that if you find it interesting or useful you send us an e-mail telling us what you liked. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome. Enjoy your visit - and come back soon." - Douglas and Ian MacGregor Ian was around 10-12 years old at the time this site was created, as near as I can gather, and Douglas is his father. They did such a great introduction to their site (above), I found no way to improve upon it. The meat and potatoes of this site are the games, each carefully annotated at virtually every move. The game pages load slowly (over 500 Kb) so be patient. These are games played by the authors between 1999-2001. The two players themselves are rated up to 1125,and the annotations reflect that ability level. Still, for the beginning chessplayer, there is much to be learned here. These games make an excellent precursor to more advanced beginning game annotations, such as Chessville's Janitor Jim series, in that they start the reader thinking about what the author's have to say, and therefore about how someone else is thinking about the game. Other features of the site include a Game of the Month contest, where readers are asked to submit their own games; the winner each month gets their game published with annotations on the site. An explanation of algebraic notation, a printable scoresheet (which did not print properly for me), Ian's favorite chess problem, some comments on rating systems, a list of ECO codes, and a poem round out the site's offerings. If you're looking for a good place to start a beginner off
looking at annotated games, try
50 Chess
Games for Beginners.
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Chairman of the Board: English GM Julian Hodgson was unhappy with the chairs provided for the 2000 British championships, so he brought along his own armchair, which he used for the whole tournament. Ageless: Vasily Smysov is the oldest player to have qualified for a World Championship Candidates match. He finished second in the 1982 Palma Interzonal tournament at the age of 61, and went on to reach the World Championship semi-final stage. Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie!
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Newsletter@Chessville.com Position of the Week: Solution
Today's position demonstrates the interference theme. 1.Ne6+ fxe6 It turns out that Black can survive
for a while by giving up his queen with 1...Qxe6, but who wants to play on
like that? 2.Qf8+ Kc7 3.Qxe7+ Kb8 (3...Kc8 4.Rh8+ Rg8 5.Rxg8
mate) 4.Rh8+ Rg8 5.Rxg8+ Bc8 and now White has three different
mates-in-three: 6.Rxc8+ Kxc8 7.Ba6+ Kb8 8.Qb7; or 6.c6
Qxh2+ 7.Kxh2 and mate next; 6.Bc6 and 6.Ba6 both lead to similar mates. |
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From the latest batch of quotes added to Kelly's collection: Be aggressive, but play soundly. Don't take unnecessary chances. – Bruce Pandolfini Chess is my world. Not a house, nor a castle where I can hide from life's troubles, but precisely a world. A world where I can express myself. – Mikhail Tal Having made a mistake or inexact move, you should not think "everything is lost", and be vexed, but quickly orientate yourself, and in the new situation, look for a new plan. – David Bronstein Do not be in a hurry to do something you can't undo. – Kelly Atkins Chess is my life!!! Sometimes my life sucks! – Ernest Simmons So often, it is not a question of how much you know, but how well and consistently you apply what you do know. – Dan Heisman Lost game: something your opponent had before he won. – Source Unknown The reason they call it chess, is that all the four-letter words were taken. – Source Unknown He was an individual and so was I. Today, these players have coaches, physicians, cooks, psychologists, and parapsychologists. The championship has become a fight between two big collective farms. – Boris Spassky (on Fischer) To be creative, to be adventurous, to exhibit flair, is no excuse for not studying hard. The truth is exactly the opposite. You have to work constantly at your game, at your openings and endings. A deep analysis is necessary. Chess is not a fixed or static body of knowledge. It's dynamic. Even the books I've written on chess and the annotations I've made on my own matches are not set in stone. I keep updating them. There must be a constant questioning of old ideas, even one's own. – Garry Kasparov
GAMES Match Kosteniuk - Karjakin Brissago (4) 1.e4 c5 Game 6, 2-6-03 1.e4 c5
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