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Volume 2 Issue 5
February 2nd, 2003 In This Issue Position of the Week New At Chessville Perpetual Check Chess Visualization Training The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Pablo's Chess News New On The Net [FEN "4brrb/8/2pR3P/4p2Q/5kpP/3P1pN1/5K2/8 w - - 0 1"] White to move and win - Find the
Solution Kasparov-Deep Junior: Our on-the-spot reporter, ChessBattle's Max Panfilov, takes you inside the FIDE Man vs Machine World Championship. Perpetual Check: A Powerful Defensive Technique To Save Lost Games! Lasker-Steinitz Game 12: Game 12 of their 1894 World Championship Match, with annotations by Steinitz himself. New Games Collections: Zipped pgn files, over 6000 new games!
Smith Morra Gambit: by Albert Hoogendoorn, Creator and Webmaster of MyChessSite. This week read the the seventh installment in his series on this exciting response to the Sicilian Defense, including The Siberian Trap and The Fianchetto Defense Free eBook: Chess History and Reminiscences, by H. E. Bird. A 153 kb zipped file containing this electronic version produced by Stephen D. Leary.
Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess
Perpetual Check Perpetual check is a defensive technique that can help save an otherwise lost position. Perpetual check has either of two possible aims, both resulting in a drawn game: three-time repetition of the position, or 50 consecutive moves without a pawn move or a capture. This latter type occurs only in the event of such endings as king & queen vs king & queen, or king & rook vs king & rook, where one side can keep checking the opponent's king, but not actually make any progress towards winning, and we will not address those in this article. Learn more about these basic draws here. The idea of perpetual check is to force your opponent to repeat the position. Sometimes he will have no choice but to repeat the position, while other times the alternative may be worse than the draw by repetition. Here's
a very simplified position to illustrate the idea of perpetual check...
Chess Visualization Training
So says Jan Matthies, creator of this site, Chess Visualization Training (CVT). The home page continues: "People tend to lose "sight" when calculating the moves in their heads. When making a search for "blindfold chess" on the internet you soon find information that one of the most important advances in your chess life is to master the art of visualization. That's why there is this website. By the way: It's all free!" IM Denis
Salinnikov adds: "Is it really true, that solving chess positions and
problems only in your mind without a board or diagram is a useful method of
chess training? Yes, I believe so. First, you will increase your
calculation ability and avoid missing “long moves” such as Qg1-a1-a8 in
variations, very often a mistake of many chess players. In addition Convinced? OK, let's take a look at the site itself then, and see if it can really help you learn to improve your chess visualization. CVT has a series of 11 exercises, and you must first select a user name & password. The site apparently does not make use of cookies, as I had to log in at the beginning of each exercise, even though I hadn't left the site. Exercise number one focuses on color: "This one is really easy. You have to visualize the given square. Once that is done you have to tell the program if that square is white or black by typing "w" or "b"." Next you are asked to identify the color of a square, e.g. c6. The exercises are timed, and the length of time it takes you to respond is apparently factored into a score that is accumulated throughout the exercises. Wrong answers lose points! The next exercise asks you to decide if two given squares are the same color or not. The third exercise provides two squares and asks if they are in the same diagonal or not. Exercise Four adds a third square and again asks if they are in the same diagonal. Knight moves concern the next pair of exercises. You are asked if your knight can move from it's present location to another square in one move. Next you have to decide if the knight can get between two given squares in two moves. Somewhere along here I started getting error messages when I tried to start a new exercise. That may be related to the method I used for exiting the exercises though. All I had to do was recreate my user name & password. Next come some mate problems. You are given the location of three pieces, Black king, White king, and White rook, and asked if Black is in mate or not. Mind you, there are no chess boards used in these exercises! You have to visualize the position, then answer the question. It is a must to have a good
grasp of algebraic notation before attempting these exercises. Other
than that, everyone should benefit from performing these exercises, and we
recommend that you start at the beginning and work your way through to the
end. Start
now!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Multi-Tasker: Dutchman Joop van Oosterom, who is best known for organizing the Melody Amber tournaments in Monaco, is also a top class correspondence chess player. He recently finished =2nd with 11/15 in the final of the 15th ICCF World Correspondence Chess Championship. Multi-Taskers: English players Jonathan Mestel and John Nunn not only have an OTB Grandmaster title, but also have a International Problem Solving Master title as well. Submit your trivia to the
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Human Is Real International Herald Tribune - Chess players now pawns of computers? Mumbai Newsline - 9-year-old chess champion has all the right moves
The Chess Cafe Mig on Chess #185 Top GMs Dissatisfied With FIDE Tourney Policy Chess Siberia Vote for Best Player of January; Anatoly Karpov is the best player of December 2002. Karpov, A - Kasparov, G, match (3), New York 2002 is the best game of December. Review: 6 issues of the newspaper "64" for DECEMBER, 1936 Chessopolis - NM Randy Bauer's Reviews Concise Chess Openings - GM Neil McDonald The Nimzo-Indian 4 e3 - FM Carsten Hansen Mig's Daily Dirt - Commentary on Current Chess Events Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler The Worst Chess Book in the World FIDE Online - Minutes of FIDE General Assembly, Bled 2002 Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary 201. 30 January 2003: Babsonmania 202. 31 January 2003: Eight new World Champions Seagaard Chess Reviews King's Indian Defence: Mar del Plata Variation (Gligoric) Fritz Powerbook 2003 (ChessBase) I Play Against Pieces (Gligoric) Annotated Games
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GAMES Match Game 1 1.e4 e5 Bareev,E (2729) - Comp Hiarcs X [A20] Man vs. Machine Match Maastricht (4), 31.01.2003 1.c4 e5
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