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Volume 2 Issue 2
January 12th, 2003 In This Issue Position of the Week New At Chessville Multiple Choice Chess by Graeme Buckley Janitor Jim Game #4: Quitters Never Win! The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Poll: Young Future Champions Pablo's Chess News New On The Net [rnb1k1nr/p2p1ppp/8/1pbN1N1P/4PBP1/3P1Q2/PqP5/R4KR1 w kq - 0 18] White to move and win - Find the
Solution Janitor Jim: Another installment (Game #4) in this series of instructive games annotated for the novice. Opening Preparation: Smith Morra Gambit by Albert Hoogendoorn, Creator and Webmaster of MyChessSite. This week read the fourth installment in his series on this variation of the Sicilian Defense. Review: Multiple Choice Chess II by Graeme Buckley, Reviewed by Jens Madsen Knight's Tour: Version 2.1; The Knight's Tour is a simple game of skill. The object of the game is to move a knight such that every square on the board is covered once and only once. It's not as easy as it sounds! Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of Chess": The famous treatise he wrote about chess expounding on the virtues of the game, giving basic advice about how to play well, and just as importantly, how to conduct oneself when playing, is just as relevant today as when it was written more than two centuries ago. Alternative Piece Letter Identifiers - take the guesswork out of reading game scores created in different languages - J, S, P, N, R, C and H are all the same piece (knight) depending on the language being used!
Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess
Multiple Choice Chess II The idea behind Multiple Choice Chess II is a very simple one: British IM Graeme Buckley has selected twenty games and challenges the reader to walk in the footsteps of giants such as Keres, Smyslov, Bronstein, Korchnoi, Kasparov, Adams, and Leko. Repeatedly you have to select a move from the four possible continuations that you are presented with. Each answer will earn (or loose) you points according to a scoring system devised by Buckley, and by the end of each exercise (game) you can use your accumulated score to see how well you did. Multiple
Choice Chess II is a decent workbook containing some highly instructive
games with notes suitable for the beginner and intermediate players.
The author, apparently an experienced chess teacher, has a well-developed
sense of what troubles the improving player, but unfortunately the
multiple-choice format does not work altogether well...
Read the rest of Jens's review. Janitor Jim: Quitters Never Win These games, because of their very one-sidedness, are perfect for showing some of the mistakes novice and beginning players make. My goal in presenting these games is to show you what some of those mistakes are, and maybe help you to "see" another way of thinking about the game. Read the introduction and check out earlier games in this instructive series of games annotated for the novice. Janitor Jim Game #4 - "Quitters Never Win" This game illustrates the futility of resigning too quickly. While we're at it, we'll also take a look at the opening phase of the game, reviewing Reuben Fine's Ten Practical Rules for Opening Play. What is it again that we're trying to accomplish in the beginning stages of the game? The three main objectives in the opening phase of the game:
Reuben Fine, in Ideas Behind the Chess Openings,
expands on this, listing ten general rules...
See the full article here!
Last
week's poll asked "Which young player is most
likely a future World Champion?" 40% of our readers think
Ponomariov will repeat as a future champ, while 25% expressed confidence in
Teimor Radjabov. Several worthy candidates were suggested who were not
included in the poll.
Check it out... Look for our next poll in February!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Austrian Morphy: When Wilhelm Steinitz started playing internationally in the 1860's, he was known as the "Austrian Morphy" because of his brilliant tactical play. Here is a nice example: Steinitz - Meden, London 1865, Remove White Knight on b1, 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.0-0 gxf3 6.Qxf3 Qf6 7.e5 Qxe5 8.Bxf7+ Kxf7 9.d4 Qxd4+ 10.Be3 Qf6 11.Qh5+ Qg6 12.Rxf4+ Nf6 13.Rxf6+ Kxf6 14.Bd4+ Kf7 15.Rf1+ Kg8 16.Qe5 Bg7 17.Qd5+ Qe6 18.Qg5 Qh6 19.Qd8+ Bf8 20.Qe8 1-0 (20.... Qg7 21.Bxg7 Kxg7 22.Qe5+ and now it's mate in two.) Austrian Waltz: Austrian GM Heinrich Wolf (1875-1943) had an unusual international chess career. His 17 tournaments were spread over 2 separate periods: 1900-08 and 1922-23. Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie!
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News & Notes, including: Krasenkow,M (2633) - Karpov,A (2688) [E12] GMA Wijk aan Zee NED (1), 11.01.2003 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.d4 e6 3.c4 b6 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.a3 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.Qc2 Nxc3 8.bxc3 Nd7 9.e4 c5 10.Bf4 Be7 11.d5 exd5 12.exd5 0-0 13.Rd1 Re8 14.Be2 c4 15.0-0 Bxa3 16.Bxc4 Qf6 17.Ng5 Nf8 18.g3 h6 19.Ne4 Qf5 20.f3 Ng6 21.Bc7 Rac8 22.Bb5 Rxc7 23.Bxe8 Bxd5 24.Nf6+ Qxf6 25.Rxd5 Rxc3 26.Qe4 Bc5+ 27.Kg2 Re3 28.Qa4 Re2+ 29.Kh1 Re1 0-1 Muhammad,S (2368) - Mulyar,M (2446) United States Championship 2003 Seattle USA (3), 11.01.2003 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 dxc4 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.Qe2 a6 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.0-0 b5 9.Bd3 Nbd7 10.e4 e5 11.Bg5 0-0 12.Nc3 h6 13.Bh4 Bb7 14.Rfd1 Qe7 15.Nd2 Ba7 16.Nf1 g5 17.Bg3 b4 18.Na4 Bc6 19.b3 h5 20.h4 Ng4 21.hxg5 Qxg5 22.Qd2 Qf6 23.Nh2 Nxh2 24.Bxh2 Kh8 25.Qe2 Qg5 26.Qd2 Qf6 27.Qe2 Qg5 28.Rac1 Rg8 29.Qf3 Bxa4 30.bxa4 Nf6 31.Rc7 Rg7 32.Qh3 Ng4 33.Bg3 Bd4 34.Be2 Rh7 35.Qh4 Qg6 36.Rd7 Rf8 37.Qe7 Qh6 38.R1xd4 exd4 39.Bf4 Qg7 40.Bxg4 f6 41.Qc5 1-0
other online chess news resources
The Chess Cafe GM Maurice Ashley and IM Steven Muhammad – Milestone Men Happy Birthday Walter! – Walter? Walter? Will FIDE Champion Ponomariov Be Defaulted? Mig Interviews IM David Levy Dan Heisman: The "Tabiya" of the Closed Ruy Lopez Seattle Times: It's dirty and intense and there's even name-calling — it's college chess! World Chess NetworkJohn Henderson - The Scotsman Larry Evans On Chess: Viktor Korchnoi - The Lion In Winter RusBase Part Two - Added More From 1951, 1981 Correspondence Chess News - Latest Issue (82): VIEW PDF About.com ChessElementary endgames (Part 4) Google Games - the World Chess Champions British Chess Magazine Online Sergey Karyakin: "I Like Walking on My Hands"
Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler Mega Database 2003 (ChessBase) Alekhine - Nazi Articles, 3rd ed. (Ken Whyld) The Cambridge Springs (Panczyk & Ilczuk) Annotated Games
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Jack Peters (LATimes): Puzzles & Problems
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The Immortal Game This game is so famous, it needs no introduction
or explanation. The moves to this point were 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4
3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5 5.Bxb5 Nf6 6.Nf3 Qh6 7.d3 Nh5 8.Nh4 Qg5 9.Nf5 c6 10.g4
Nf6 11.Rg1 cxb5 12.h4 Qg6 13.h5 Qg5 14.Qf3 Ng8 15.Bxf4 Qf6 16.Nc3 Bc5 17.Nd5
Qxb2 and now Anderssen uncorks a truly remarkable move - 18.Bd6 Qxa1+
19.Ke2 Bxg1 20.e5 Na6 21.Nxg7+ Kd8 22.Qf6+ Nxf6 23.Be7# 1-0 |
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