New Novice Nook, "A Fistful of
Lessons" by Dan Heisman Charity Chess Board Etiquette What Are You Studying Currently? Chess Penetration in the European Union 2020.1 Chess Graphics Software Garbage Opening? To exchange, or not to exchange - that is the question! The Secret of the Turk Xplor Interviews Kasparov Opening Books for Chess Engines 2002.5 Dan Heisman: The Missing 100 Rating Points 2010.1 Why Does the Englund Gambit Work? 2012.1 What Openings Are You Playing Currently? Alekhine's Defense Anyone? King's Gambit Omission of "Obvious" Moves in Opening Books Opening Diagrams Website Opening Advice for New Player KIA Question Play at FICS with PDA Fritz & Processor Speed 2014.1
Dan Heisman's New Book: Looking
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Who Wants to be a Chess Millionaire? An Endgame to Play With Friends 2009.1 Pablo Tells: How To Analyze With Fritz 2023.1 Dan vs Chessmaster
GAMES Peter Heine Nielsen - Luke McShane 1.d4 Nf6 Krishnan Sasikiran - Rasmus Skytte 1.Nf3 g6 Artur Jussupow - Magnus Carlsen 1.d4 Nf6 Heikki Kallio - Erling Mortensen 1.d4 Nf6 Nick de Firmian - Eirik Gullaksen 1.e4 c5
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Volume 2 Issue 29
July 20th, 2003 In This Issue "The fundamental demand for a first-rate Go player, or any other athlete, is to strive for excellence in order to obtain the crown of performance. In competition it is usually imperative for the competitor to maintain a purely contestative state of mind, with his mind undisturbed and concentrated on the fight. A player must aim high, keep improving and perfecting his skills; in a word, he must surpass his limits. This is also required of the promising younger generation of crack players who have made remarkable achievements in order to meet the challenge from his opponent with open and magnanimous mind. Life is a continuous process of discovering one's mistakes, errors, weaknesses, a process of transcendence in which on progresses toward the ultimate goal. This applies also to the issue of life or death, which must be tackled with a sustained mentality of transcendence. This is an optimistic attitude." Chen Zude, three times Chinese Go Champion
('Striving for from the editor's desk... Be sure to check out the latest articles at Chess Cafe by two of Chessville's friends and contributors: Let's Take a Look by Nigel Davies: Bucking the Trend Novice Nook by Dan Heisman: A Fistful of Lessons and for you Steve Lopez fans out there, check out the New of the Net section for his latest column at Chessbase!
The task: determine if there has been any pawn promotion in this game.
Fantasy Chess is back, featuring 15 (!) prizes provided by Chess Today, GM Alexander Baburin's daily chess newsletter, and celebrating the 1000th edition of Chess Today (August 4), the daily email chess newsletter delivered straight to your inbox! This time we're focusing in on the Dortmund Super-GM Tourney, which runs from July 31st through August 10th. The lineup includes Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Viswanathan Anand, Teimour Radjabov, Viktor Bologan (winner of the Aeroflot Open) and Germany's new star, Arkadij Naiditsch. Chessville's News section will have daily updates of all the tournament results. It also pays to enter the tournament early as we are bringing back the early entry bonus points! If your entry is received before the end of Wednesday, July 23, you will score 1 extra Fantasy Chess point. The deadline for all entries is the end of Wednesday, July 30. Check it out, and
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Chess picks today! (7/20) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle.
(7/18) Review: King’s Indian: Mar del Plata Variation, by Svetozar Gligoric, reviewed by IM-CC Keith Hayward. "In opening this book the formatting of the diagrams jumps out at this reviewer. Rank numbers are on both sides of the diagrams, and the file letters are at the top and bottom. I find this non-conventional presentation of diagrams annoying to look at. I started to overlook this annoyance while playing through the first five games, and I was getting into Gligoric’s commentary and analysis... (7/16) The New York Masters Game of the Week, with analysis by IM Greg Shahade. This week's exciting game features Hikaru Nakamura against the blazing hot 15 year old youngster, Dmytro Kedyk. Kedyk has literally defeated about 75-80% of GM’s he has faced recently!
(1) Kedyk,D (2361) - Nakamura,H
(2656) [B99]
(7/15) Review: Modern Endgame Practice by Alexander Beliavsky and Adrian Mikhalchishin, reviewed by David Surratt. This is the third collaboration in the series by these two authors on the subject of endgames: Winning Endgame Technique and Winning Endgame Strategy provided the essential foundation for solid play in the endgames. Now, in Modern Endgame Practice (MEP) the authors aim to "...identify definite mistakes made both by grandmasters as well as young players" in the endgame... (7/14) Online Chess League Spring Tourney Final Report: This event has finally concluded and the winners have taken their place in the Hall of Champions. Congratulations to Check Mates, Beam Me Up Scotty, and The Knightmares for winning their respective sections. Play continues this summer in the 2003 Summer Individual Tourney, and teams are already forming for the Fall 2003 tourney. Get more information or sign up today!
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King's Indian: Mar del Plata Variation
Reviewed by IM-CC Keith Hayward First Impression: In opening this book the formatting of the diagrams jumps out at this reviewer. Rank numbers are on both sides of the diagrams, and the file letters are at the top and bottom. I find this non-conventional presentation of diagrams annoying to look at. I started to overlook this annoyance while playing through the first five games... There is no doubt about the fact that Gligoric played a key role in the early development of the King’s Indian Defense. I think any opening book written by a strong grandmaster that plays what they are writing about is well worth buying. Usually their insights and passion for their opening (defense) makes for great reading. And on this level, Gligoric delivers! All games are well annotated, but the level of instructional narrative varies from game to game. Gligoric gives his own games extra special attention, and these comprise about a third of the illustrative games. He gives historical information, as well as own personal perspective, on the development of ideas within these games. I really like this story-telling / reminiscing quality. Although the book contains a modest 38 illustrative games, the analysis is extensive. I think playing through and studying all these games will give the reader a good base of knowledge to play this line of the King’s Indian Defense with confidence...
Read the complete review by International Master (CC) Keith Hayward
Modern Endgame Practice
Reviewed by David Surratt Modern Endgame Practice is written for strong players (Class A/Expert and up) who already have a strong grasp of endgame technique. You won't learn here how to mate with bishop and knight against the lone king, or the basics of triangulation, or the intricacies of the famous Lucena position. Modern Endgame Practice instead serves to refine your endgame technique, and illustrate some of the many pitfalls which await the unwary practitioner. A partial list of chapter titles: When Grandmasters Overlook Certain Manoeuvers; Rook Against Pawns; Grandmasters' Mistakes in the Endgame; Karpov's Technique in Rook and Bishop Endgames; Bishop against Knight with a Symmetrical Pawn Structure; Positional Draw; etc. This book is chock full of valuable experience for the reader, and someone else's experience always hurts less than our own! More than 400 examples, most taken from real games, provide ample opportunity for the authors to illustrate the points they feel need to be made.
Read the complete review at Chessville today! Online Chess League Spring Tourney Final Report: This event has finally concluded and the winners have taken their place in the Hall of Champions. Congratulations to Check Mates, Beam Me Up Scotty, and The Knightmares for winning their respective sections. Beam Me Up Scotty is a former winner (Fall 2002) while Check Mates and Knightmares are newly formed teams. Check Mates stole the thunder from the two perennial contenders in the Open section, and is truly an international team, sporting members from Chile, Israel, Holland, Scotland, and the USA. Currently the OCL is running an individual competition, the Summer 2003 Individual Tourney. Check in on all the action! The Fall 2003 Team Tourney is scheduled to begin in September, however teams are forming and registrations are being accepted now. Click here to sign up! One of the great things about playing in the OCL is the
strong stance they take against (c)heating. The use of chess engines
is strictly prohibited, and their (c)heating detection team is very active.
They use both a proprietary software system as well as strong and
experienced players to detect (c)heaters.
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia The "other" Morphy: In 1845, Eugene Rousseau and Charles Stanley played a match in New Orleans to determine who was the United States "champion". Stanley won the match (+15, -8, =8). Rousseau lived in New Orleans, and his "second" for the match was Ernest Morphy, uncle of Paul Morphy. It is believed that the young Morphy attended several games of the match. The Real Morphy: Paul Morphy was seriously ill when he commenced play in his 1858 match with Adolf Anderssen in Paris. He was suffering from influenza, and a doctor drained blood from his body in an attempt to cure the condition. Anderssen sportingly agreed to visit Morphy in his hotel, and the first game of the match was played there. Anderssen won the game, but Morphy won the match convincingly (+7, =2, -2).
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Mechanics' Institute Chess Room A Tribute to Ken Whyld : Three New Lasker Games Preserving the Heritage of Correspondence Chess Seagaard Chess Reviews - Fritz Technique Trainer World Chess Network John Henderson - The Scotsman Larry Evans On Chess - Bobby Fischer Talks! RusBase Part Three - New Materials for 1986 Annotated Games New York Masters Game of the Week, analysis by IM Greg Shahade The Telegraph Chess ClubMalcolm Pein: G Jones - K Mah, Smith & Williamson YM 2003 David Norwood: Sultan Khan, M -- Capablanca, J, Hastings 1930 Nigel Short: John Nunn-Igor Nataf, France, 1999 Robert Byrne (NY Times): Adams-Radjabov, Enghien-les-Bains 2003 Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Ivanov-Weeramantry, Philadelphia 2003
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program as a training sparring partner? I have found that it is helpful
because I can always get a game against a strong opponent. The computer
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