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March 2nd, 2003 In This Issue Position of the Week New At Chessville Interview With the Renaissance Man Nick Beqo's Correspondence Chess Course The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Betting On Linares Pablo's Chess News New On The Net From the Editor... Last week, author & Chess Life columnist Alex Dunne suffered a horrible loss: "All gone -- my wife, my grandchild, my 1100+ book collection, my Chess Life and Chess Reviews 1933-2003, my house, my work -- all burned up Sunday morning. A total loss." - Alex Dunne The Pennsylvania State Chess Federation is accepting donations for a fund to be set up for Alex Dunne. Please make checks payable to "PSCF" and send them to: Dr. Ira Lee Riddle Please include a note indicating that the check is for the Alex Dunne Fund. Contributions are tax-deductible under US law. Donations by credit card can be made by visiting this site. This is a tragic loss for a very nice person within the
chess community. All of you who are able, please contribute to this
fund to help Mr. Dunne out during this time of need. [FEN "r2qkbnr/pp1b2pp/4p3/3pPp2/3n4/6Q1/PPP1BPPP/RNB1K2R w - 0 1"] White to move and win - Find the Solution
“Good Enough" is the enemy of excellence. – Unknown Interview: Dan Heisman - You've read his Novice Nook column at Chess Cafe, you've listened to him on Chess.fm, and you've asked him questions in the Chessville Forum. Forum Host Kelly Atkins recently sat down for a lengthy conversation with this Renaissance Man. Read Part II today. Halloween Gambit: Part 2 of a comprehensive look at this fascinating gambit, by Paul Keiser Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia!! Join The Mad Aussie as he revisits some of the most and interesting yet little-known facets of chess history. Strange Chess News: More Weirdness From the pages of the JAX Chess Newsletter - Even the Editor Has His Doubts! Free eBook: From Project Gutenberg, Chess Strategy, by Edward Lasker Kelly's Quotes: New Additions Part 4
Problem of the Week: Test Your Tactical Prowess
Dan Heisman Interview Atkins: Let’s talk about your philosophy of “Real Chess”. What is it?
Heisman: In a nutshell, it’s
making sure that before you make a move, you make sure you can safely meet
your opponents checks, captures, and threats that he could play in reply to
your move, and you must do that every move. So in terms of threats: Atkins: You're basically just teaching readers how to consistently play quality chess. Heisman: Yes, but it is also work to play good chess (not just study work, but work on each move) and from instructing, it is clear that many players do not wish to do this, because it takes the fun out of it. Playing Real Chess is hard work when you first try, until it becomes 2nd nature, but playing well consistently leads to winning, and that's fun! Atkins: You recommend playing slow games instead of blitz. Why?Heisman: Two reasons, well documented by me: 1) No world-class blitz player got that way by playing blitz, and 2) You can't learn about a position without thinking about it for a while, and you can't compare similarities of a previous position's "lessons learned" to see if they apply in a short amount of time. Therefore to learn how to play positions you must play lots of slow games - and besides you can't play Real Chess quickly - it is just not possible. Atkins: OK, so it doesn't do much to help your game. Do you think it hurts a player's overall play? Heisman: No, in fact it helps if mixed with slow play - it only hurts when it is done instead of slow play. In other words, only slow play is good; slow + fast chess is OK (and may even be better if that enables you to play more hours); and only fast chess is not so good for your improvement. And yes, you can get into bad habits. Read the rest of
Kelly's interview with Dan Heisman, Renaissance Man!
NM Nick Beqo's "Do you frequently ...... This is the home page promise of Nick Beqo's website, which offers chess lessons by email. Let's meet Nick... "My name is Nick Beqo, born in Albania, on the 26th of July, 1964, and living in BC, Canada, since July of 1996. As of May 2000, I am a Canadian citizen. I have been working full time in the Business Equipment industry, and taking evening courses in computer networking and programming. However, I still continue to learn and teach chess!" Nick's site is all about his learn-by-mail chess lessons, and we'll talk about those in a moment. First, a quick look at other material available on Nick's site. He had one annotated game; some background information about himself; a page about Bobby Fischer; a 'What's New" page with a couple of interesting positions. He also has translated versions of the site in Spanish, French, and German. I cannot comment on the translations themselves, but judging from the Spanish page I looked at, they could be a little dicey. Navigation is difficult on this site, as not all pages share a common link structure. The only central point is the home page, but not all other pages are linked to from there. I found a lot of these pages just surfing around, and you'll have to also to find everything there is to see. The email chess lessons is Nick's biggest draw on this site. He offers 26 lessons for $69.99 USD, although fewer lessons can be purchased at $3 per lesson (minimum order seven lessons for $19.95). Nick writes "Basically, the goal of my weekly lessons via e-mail is motivating students to think, analyze and annotate on their own. I guide them by assigning homework, marking it, and based on this I send them study material, and homework in the areas I notice more weaknesses. The homework I assign for the students consists of answering my questions in the study material I send them, and I also ask my students to annotate at least one game weekly. I have noticed that students find studying endgames boring, so I pay more attention to this part of the game. However, I also deal with openings and middlegame, and for very advanced students I update my lessons with the latest INFO and games." Check out
Nick's email chess lessons, and good
chess to you!
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The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Championship Match Rules: In 1922, Jose Capablanca proposed a set of rules for any future world championship matches. They became known as the London rules. They were:
The "London Rules" were signed by Alekhine, Bogulyobuv, Maroczy, Reti, Rubinstein, Tartakower and Vidmar. A Prophylactic Move: The Australian men's and women's teams for the Bled Olympiad (2002) secured a sponsorship deal with the Australian pharmaceutical company Ansell. Part of the deal was to help the company promote their "Checkmate" brand condoms. Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie! Chessville - Recent Chess News Chessville coverage of:
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The Chess Cafe SILMAN'S BASIC TACTICS, SET THREE IM John Watson Reviews HEROIC TALES: The Best of CHESSCASE.com; CD-ROM, K.I.D. WITH h3; THE METHOD IN CHESS CHESS INSTRUCTION FOR BEGINNERS, Lesson Six Suzie Andrianov's new CHESS CROSSWORD IM John Donaldson reviews: CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS Salt Lake Tribune: Checkmate - Kasparov vs Deep Junior Boston Globe: In Conn., A Bid To Move Chess Into Curriculum Hartford Courant: Kasparov & The Turk First KasparovChess, Now Another Internet Casualty? World Chess Rating: "Due to financial problems we have to suspend the updating of our site. We offer our apologies and hope to resume our work in the near future." Steve Lopez's T-NotesFEBRUARY 16, 2003: Creating A ChessBase Opening Key, Part 1 FEBRUARY 23, 2003: Creating A ChessBase Opening Key, Part 2 About.com Chess - Chess clocks Russian Chess Distance chess match Saint-Petersburg vs. Paris Chessbase Interview With Teimour Radjabov The Knight's Tour Chessopolis - NM Randy Bauer Reviews: The Pirc Defense - IM Sandor Videki How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire - FM Steve Giddins FIDE Online Titles Awarded At the 1st Quarter Presidential Board Meeting Regulations of the World Chess Championship Match 2003 Krishnan Sasikiran wins Asian Championship in Doha New Contacts of FIDE Chess In Ireland Cormac Brady: 1956 – 2003 Seagaard Chess Reviews - Leningrader System (Kindermann) World Chess Network John Henderson - The Scotsman Larry Evans On Chess - The 7 Deadly (Chess) Sins RusBase Part Two - New Additions for 1979, 1981, 1982 Annotated Games
Robert Byrne (NYTimes) Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Gershon-Shabalov, Bermuda '03
Jack Peters (LA Times): 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
Miss
Karff-Lugatsch 1.Bh5+ g6 (1...Ke7 2.Qa3 mate
is what was actually played in the game) 2.Qxg6+ (2.Bxg6 accomplishes the same
mate in the same number of moves, but come on - we're talking queen sac
here!) hxg6 3.Bxg6+ Ke7 4.Bg5+ Nf6
5.Bxf6 mate. |
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From His Newest Additions Part 4 Chess is the most beautiful and reasonable of all games. – Mme de Sevigne Chess is an exercise full of delights. – Arthur Saul Chess is an earnest exercise of the mind. – Thomas Cogan Chess is the art of battle for the victorious battle of art. – Saviely Tartakower Intuition and profound ideas win chess games at the highest level, not counting. – Garry Kasparov Soviet Grandmasters privately scoffed at Karpov’s chances in 1975. Most pundits believed he would lose… and lose badly. – Lev Alburt (on Karpov’s chances against Fischer) Karpov knew he could hardly draw a game with Fischer, never mind winning one or two games. His only chance was to disrupt the match. So a whole arsenal of tricks was worked out, designed to upset the sensitive American, unaccustomed to such methods. – Lev Alburt Bobby was afraid that if he had defended against Karpov in 1975, the Russians would have had him murdered. – Pal Benko Finally America produces its greatest chess genius, and he turns out to be just a stubborn boy. – Hans Kmoch (on Fischer) This is the way I play. I always search for the best move, but this way there is a chance to lose. A chance for greatness and a chance for disaster. – Garry Kasparov While other fathers fantasized big-time careers for their boys in baseball and basketball, I dreamed of my son becoming a grandmaster. – Fred Waitzkin So, who's winning? – Countless would-be comedians upon seeing a lone chessplayer analyzing at the board You must ask my father. I am only the player. – Gata Kamsky Perhaps the solution to the mystery of bad bishops is that bishops retain the qualities of their owners, so stronger players have better bishops than weaker players. But even this cannot always be true. – Boris Gulko
GAMES Hrokurinn Reykjavik Korchnoi vs (5) 22.02.2003 1.d4 Nf6
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