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Volume 2 Issue 37
September 14th, 2003 In This Issue from the editor... Sicilian lovers, and bashers, all have a real treat this week. Our premier reviewer (and new Chessville Editor!) Jens Madsen turns his eye on Anti-Sicilians: A Guide for Black by Moldavian grandmaster Dorian Rogozenko. Then IM-CC Keith Hayward (The Road Not Taken) offers his thoughts on the latest from Bad Bishop videos: the two-tape set Bashing the Sicilian With Bb5, by English GM Murray Chandler. Enjoy!
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Solution (9/14) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. (9/13) New additions to the MyChessSite downloads page:
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(9/12) Review: Anti-Sicilians: A Guide for Black by Dorian Rogozenko, reviewed by Jens Madsen. "Nearly a decade has passed since Joe Gallagher wrote his repertoire book, Beating the Anti-Sicilians, and many important ideas have since surfaced in the various Anti-Sicilians. In particular the Bb5-variations (Moscow and Rossolimo) have become regular guests at top-notch tournaments. As an experienced grandmaster, who has played the Sicilian throughout his career, Rogozenko is ideally suited to give a well-considered and personal opinion on how to best confront these systems." (9/11) Links Update: New additions to our links collection over the past couple of months. Over 30 new web sites, from playing sites, to titled player's home pages, from online forums to history and humor, there's something for just about everyone here. (9/10) New Player Downloads: We continue to add to our collection of games by famous chess players! Here are the latest additions, all of which are zipped pgn files, and can be found on our Player Download page:
The first book by Moldavian grandmaster Dorian Rogozenko, entitled Anti-Sicilians: A Guide for Black, belongs to the eternally popular genre of Sicilian repertoire books. In spite of the large volume of books on this opening, surprisingly few have provided ammunition for Black when White chooses to avoid the Open Sicilian, so from that perspective this title is welcome. Nearly a decade has passed since Joe Gallagher wrote his repertoire book, Beating the Anti-Sicilians, and many important ideas have since surfaced in the various Anti-Sicilians. In particular the Bb5-variations (Moscow and Rossolimo) have become regular guests at top-notch tournaments. As an experienced grandmaster, who has played the Sicilian throughout his career, Rogozenko is ideally suited to give a well-considered and personal opinion on how to best confront these systems. Anti-Sicilians spans 192 pages, divided into seven chapters. As far as the organization of material is concerned, Rogozenko gives the following explanation: ”I have my opinion about the objective strength of the various Anti-Sicilians and I arrange the material in accordance with it.“ In other words, coverage starts with the somewhat dubious and ends with the objectively better systems. It is interesting in itself to see an active grandmaster’s thoughts on the relative merit of these systems...
Read the rest of Jens' review of Anti-Sicilians: A Guide for Black
Bashing the Sicilian With Bb5
I had always thought 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 (or 2...d6) 3 Bb5 was played for positional considerations, much like the Ruy Lopez, but GM Murray Chandler has done an excellent job of finding games, supplemented with his insights, to show this variation has some real bite. The “Bashing the Sicilian with Bb5” title is quite appropriate. Subject Coverage: This first video runs for 90 minutes covering 16 games. The video covers 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 and then 3...Qb6; 3...Nf6; 3...e6; 3...g6 respectively. The second video runs 120 minutes covering 15 games. This video covers 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 Bb5+ and then 3...Nc6; 3...Nd7; 3...Bd7 respectively. Murray discusses the opening phase of each game in detail...
Read the rest of Keith's review of Bashing the Sicilian With Bb5
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The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Longest Round Robin: The largest round-robin tournament ever played was the 1869 New York tournament. There were 48 competitors who played each other twice, which mean 94 games for each competitor! It seems that the tournament was abandoned before all games were finished. The best score was by George Mackenzie, with +82, -8. Longest Annotations: When Robert Hubner annotated his game against Lajos Portisch for the 1981 Tilburg International Tournament book, the game and annotations went for a full 29 pages, from pages 15 to 44. It is believed that this is the record for the longest annotations to one game. Submit your trivia to the
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Popov,V - Svidler,P [A16] 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Qa4+ Bd7 5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4 a6 7.d4 b5 8.Qd3 Bg7 9.Bf4 0-0 10.Rc1 c5 11.dxc5 b4 12.Nd1 Nc6 13.Nd4 Qa5 14.Nb3 Qa4 15.e4 Be6 16.Qc2 Rfd8 17.Bg3 Ng4 18.Qb1 Bh6 19.Rc2 Na5 20.f4 Nxb3 21.axb3 Bxb3 22.Rc1 Qd7 0-1
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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
How does Emanuel Lasker, just two years before winning the World
Championship, get mated in just 12 moves? Here's how: Bird,H - Lasker,E 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Bc4 cxb2 5.Bxb2 Qg5 6.Nf3 Qxg2
7.Rg1 Bb4+ (Diagram) 8.Ke2 Of course 8.Bc3 and 8.Nc3 each win
also. The text is the strongest though. 8...Qh3 9.Bxf7+ Kd8 10.Bxg7
Ne7 Objectively best according to Fritz, although still losing big
time, is 10...b6 11.Rg3 Ba6+ 12.Ke3 Bc5+ 13.Kd2. 11.Ng5 Qh4 12.Ne6
mate 1-0 Thanks to
Chess Chatter Rob Kruszynski for providing the following information
about this game: "Ken Whyld on page 33 of his book 'The Collected
Games of Emanuel Lasker' (Nottingham: The Chess Player, 1998) gives the
above game as as No. 118, then : "off-hand lightning game
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, August 1892. C21...Chess Review_ Manchester 8 October
1892, p.48. Between match games the two played about six games an
hour, of which this is one." |
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GAMES GM Evgenij Agrest - GM Helgi Olafsson 1.d4 Nf6 Rublevsky,S - Vorobiov,E [B51] 1.e4 c5 Bocharov,D - Sveshnikov,E [D43] 1.d4 d5 Yemelin,V - Dolmatov,S [C02] 1.e4 e6
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