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Poor Sports Natural Talent Funny Chess Story 2147.1 Books vs Software Good Chess Is All About... 2.e5 in the Sicilian 2169.1 Help With the Colle 2177.1 The London Opening 2168.1 Kasparov vs. Ponomariov Match cancelled! USCF Lays Off 17 Workers
Novice Nook Takes CJA Runner-Up
Honors for Best Instruction Chess Returns to ESPN! Bob Leonard's Annual Smyslov's Best Games 2119.4 Opening Training With SCID 2150.1 Bookup Lite Kasparov's New Book Chess Mentor Deluxe 2156.1 Chessbase Training Question Counting More Chess Visualization
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GAMES King - Howell 1.e4 e5 Vaisser - Bauer 1 d4 d6 Speelman,J (2589) - King,D (2503) [E17] 1.Nf3 e6 Brodsky,M (2555) - Akcan,U (2187) [B31] 1.e4 c5
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Volume 2 Issue 35
August 31st, 2003 In This Issue
Poll Results: In early August we asked you to complete the following statement: "When playing "serious" chess my most common reply to 1.e4 is..." Here are the final results, from the 242 respondents:
Thanks for participating! [FEN "8/8/B7/8/8/8/1Rp5/K2k4 w - - 0 1"] White to move and win - Find the
Solution (8/31) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. (8/26 & 8/29) New additions to the MyChessSite downloads page:
(8/29) Annotated Game: Lasker-Steinitz Match Game 18, from their 1894 World Championship match, with annotations by the Kentucky Lion, American Champion Jackson Showalter. Steinitz won game 17, but Lasker remains just a win away from clinching the match. Is today the day? (8/28) 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: Samuel Reshevsky (1354 games); Savielly Tartakower (1408 games); Joseph Blackburne (861 games); Johannes Zukertort (350 games); Carl Schlechter (765 games). (8/26) Review: Kevin Bidner takes a look at several chess programs running on the two competing platforms used in PDA’s and PDA/Cell phones (Palm OS and Pocket PC), including Chess Tiger, Chess Genius, 9.95 Chess, and Pocket Fritz 2. (8/26) Strange Chess News: "Retro Temporal Testing Reported" the JAX Chess News, edited and written by Bradley Zang (Editor's note: I've never actually met Brad, nor seen his ID, so I can not vouch that this is his real name. It could be an alias used by anyone - even Bobby Fischer!) With Brad's (or whomever's) kind permission, we bring you the Strange Chess News section from their awesome newsletter. Enjoy! (The editor Bradley Zang would like you to know that some of these stories are so unbelievable even he doesn't believe them.) (8/25) Free eBook: 200 Chess Problems by Frank Healey. Originally published in 1866, many of these problems were prize winners in various composition competitions. This 104 kb zipped pdf public domain file has been computer checked and converted to algebraic by Anders Thulin.
Pocket Mania: A Chess Player's Dream Playing chess, learning chess, practicing chess, has undergone a revolution with the advent of the personal computer. Laptops brought that revolution one step closer to home, allowing the serious chess player to study, practice and play, carrying their entire library of chess knowledge with them wherever they go. That revolution has taken a new turn with the powerful PDA technology, allowing an entire library of games analysis, and powerful chess programs, to come with us wherever we go - in our shirt pocket rather than a briefcase. Now this revolution has taken yet another new turn with the arrival of the new generation combining a cell phone and PDA into a single device.
For the purposes of our favorite subject, err… CHESS… yes there is a clear winner in the contest, but there are good points for both systems, so we’ll have a look at the pro’s and cons of the leading software for each platform. The great thing about the new Cell phone PDA’s is that the new devices mean we can carry our PDA, i.e. all our documents, schedules, phonebook, and yes our CHESS computer, right inside our handy little cell phone. Seeing as we are already carrying a cell phone anyhow, this means you can be working on your chess anywhere… everywhere... Read all of Kevin's review -
Pocket Mania - and see who the winner is! The five players who finished atop the Fantasy Chess standings after Dortmund had Anand as their Tie-Breaker player, which means a random draw was held to determine the winners of the different subscriptions to Chess Today, GM Alexander Baburin's daily chess newsletter.
Here is the complete list of winners and their relevant Chess Today subscription:
Congratulations to all of the players and especially the
winners, and a big Thank You to Alexander
Baburin and
Chess Today, to whom we extend our congratulations on a very
impressive milestone. From the JAX Chess News column Strange Chess News, edited and written by Bradley Zang, who would like you to know that some of these stories are so unbelievable even he doesn't believe them. (Editor's note: I've never actually met Brad, nor seen his ID, so I can not vouch that this is his real name. It could be an alias used by anyone - even Bobby Fischer!) Retro Temporal Testing Reported It has been proposed that drug efficacy research in the future might best be tested through retro temporal testing on death row inmates. The basic idea being if a person on death row will be executed in say, 10 years, then a formula can be communicated, say from 50 years in the future, to a chrono-crony working in a pharmaceutical company that oversees the Mental Observation Ward (MO) operating in that prison. (Chrono-cronies are people willing to do anything for a chance at being known as the first to invent something. Some believed they communicate with the future through certain Websites set up in the future that also exist in the present.) When the formula is added to the medication of the inmate, those in the future instantly know the results of the next 10 years, complete with detailed results of the autopsy. Do Note: Chess in prisons is here to stay. Prison chess programs have been shown to reduce recidivism. (It seems to have worked for Heidi Fleiss.) It may also be a way of finding the most intelligent subjects for Retro Temporal Testing. Oh! One more, thing: Never Laugh after you win a game. IT GETS PEOPLE ANGRY. With this background let a man who wants only to be referred to as 7352 tell his story. "It was 1992, I was confined to a Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center in Baltimore... Read more about this
Strange Chess News
story!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Double Winner: After winning the championship of the Swiss city of Geneva in 1914, Russian player Alexander Ilyin added the city to his name, becoming Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky. Suffering from shell-shock received during World War One, Ilyin-Genevsky forgot everything that he learned about the game, and had to learn to play again from scratch. Fischer Beaters: The only 3 players to have had a plus record against Bobby Fischer in international chess were: Dragoljub Janosevic (Yug) +1, =2, -0
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other online chess news resources New Chess Database program called Jose (distributed under the GPL license, i.e. it's freeware.) by Peter Schäfer
Chessbase More details and comments from Garry Kasparov
The Chess Cafe Attitude Check #6--A Matter of Heart Ulysses' Challenge #6--A Sneaky Skewer - New Grandmaster Growl The Times of India - Interview With Anand International E-Mail Chess GroupReview: Chess Informant 87 Istvan Sinka declared IECG World Champion Review: The Queens Indian About.com Chess Behind Before You Buy Chess Playing Software (non-Windows) Chess Siberia The review 5 numbers of the newspaper "64" for July, 1937 Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler British Championship 2003 - part 6
Mechanics' Institute Chess Room Nakamura Continues to Rise… Qualifies for WCC Chess World Needs Another "Fresh Start" The Re-Emergence of FIGHTING CHESS!! The Campbell Report Freedom, inequality or brotherhood? by Wim van Vugt Added José Raúl Capablanca to Sites of Note Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary 225. 27 August 2003: The Great Annotated Empty Moving Boxes Robbery Seagaard Chess Reviews Winning Chess Brilliancies Winning Chess Openings Winning Chess Endings Capablanca World Chess Network John Henderson's The Scotsman Larry Evans on Chess: Slips of the Hand RusBase Part Three - New Material From 1979 (on RUSBASE(Part II), 1987 Star Tribune: Priyanka Bhakta, 8-year-old who loved chess, dies of leukemia Annotated Games New York Masters Game of the Week, analysis by IM Greg Shahade
The Telegraph Chess Club
David
Sands (Washington Times)
World
Chess Rating Robert Byrne (NY Times): Morozevich-Lutz, Biel 2003 Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Polgar-Anand, Mainz 2003
Jack Peters (LA Times) Jonathan Berry (Globe and Mail): Charbonneau-Bluvshtein, Montreal 2003 Puzzles & Problems
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- A problem each day 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
A Composition 1.Be2+ Kd2 Of
course the bishop is off-limits. 2.Ka2 Kc3 3.Rb3+ Kd2 4.Rd3+ Kxe2
[4...Kc1 5.Rc3 Kd2 6.Kb2] 5.Rc3 Kd1 6.Kb2 White wins the pawn and the
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From Chessville's Chess Wisdom Collection Why Didn't Somebody Tell Me These Things? Putting out your hand when you offer a draw is presumptuous; always put it out after the draw is agreed upon, not before. If you worry about your opponent's rating or play to the level of your
competition, then don't look at his rating until after the game. Stay flexible. Always be ready to transform one type of advantage to
another, or to switch from tactical to positional play. Respect all opponents, but fear none. Stay calm, relaxed, and focused during each game. Tension and panic rout logical thought.
GAMES Emms,J (2520) - King,D (2503) [C07] 1.e4 e6 Gurevich,M (2644) - Reyhan,D (2191) [D34] 1.c4 e6
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