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Volume 2 Issue 30
July 27th, 2003 In This Issue "Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution." – Stephen Sondheim
Position of the Week Although invisible, the White king is somewhere
(7/27) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. (7/26) Balogh Counter Gambit - Part Four. IM-CC Keith Hayward continues his look at this counterattacking system for Black with what Janos Balogh thought was the main line: 1 e4 d6 2 d4 f5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bd3 Nc6 5 Nf3 fxe4. "Playing the BCG is certainly living life on the edge and not for the faint of heart!" Want to start from the beginning? Here are the earlier installments of Keith's look at the Balogh: Part 1 - Introduction/Overview; Part 2 - Janos Balogh, the Man and His Games; Part 3 - White plays an early exf5. (7/25) Strange Chess News: Time Loss Reported. Let Jack Gyori tell his story: Thank you for hearing my story; no one else would. I was born in Budapest but I travel all around Europe to watch my favorite sport, chess. I am a jeweler and make a good living at it. I also trade in antiquities; so when a German dealer of rare artifacts who only identified himself as Magnus wrote me he was willing to sell a 12th century Viking chess piece I was delighted. We decided to meet incognito... (7/25) The New York Masters Game of the Week, with commentary by John Fernandez. The presence of Six GMs made this a very exciting event, especially as we have a very strong crop of dangerous 2300-2400 players. After last week’s insanity with tons of upsets, nothing was going to be taken for granted... This week's exciting game features Alex Stripunsky, who had held onto the Internet board with an iron grip throughout the tournament. Only needing a draw to clinch first place, the White pieces are a blessing, unless your opponent is Alex Shabalov. Shabalov’s combativeness has won him lots of fans recently, after his brave performance to win the 2003 US Championships in Seattle.
(4) Stripunsky,A (2651) - Shabalov,A
(2644) [B24]
(7/24) Review: Beginning Chess Play, by Bill Robertie; reviewed by Dave Zaklan. "In Beginning Chess Play, the reader is given all the basics of the game, from the cornerstone up. Each chapter begins with an aside box labeled "First Word". Herein, the reader is succinctly told what the section covers and its meaning, followed by wonderful encouragements. All examples are clear, well conceived and relevant to anyone trying to learn the game...
(7/24) Review: Winning Chess Openings, by Bill Robertie, reviewed by Dave Zaklan. Bill Robertie, a world class chess master (and former winner of the U.S. Speed Chess Championships) has compiled an excellent book in conjunction with Cordoza Publishing. Winning Chess Openings offers a highly readable format with a well indexed and planned presentation, aimed at the beginning chessplayer...
(7/21)
Site
Review: GM Peter Svidler's Unofficial Page. Webmaster Pablo Sierra
may be best known to Chessville's readers as the tireless
Chessville News Editor. Among
his other passions though is an interest in Russian GM Peter Svidler,
currently ranked #8 in the world as Pablo reports in the "Latest News" area
on the home page...This is a well organized site which is easy to navigate
and uncluttered in appearance...
Read the complete
review of this interesting look at one of the chess world's least known
Super-GMs.
Balogh Counter Gambit - Part 4 by IM-CC Keith R Hayward We continue our coverage of the Balogh Counter Gambit (BCG) with what Janos Balogh thought was the main line: 1 e4 d6 2 d4 f5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bd3 Nc6 5 Nf3 fxe4.
White’s moves come rather naturally so it is easy to achieve this position often as Black. Black is pretty much forced to trade here releasing the tension in the center. The good news is Black gives up a flank pawn for a center pawn. The bad news is the e-pawn is backwards on an open e-file. This fact alone will turn off many players from playing the BCG. The traditional plans from Balogh’s analysis has Black playing either …e5 usually resulting in an isolated e-pawn or …d5 followed by the liberating …e5 which is extremely difficult to execute. I found Balogh’s analysis to be a bit wanting in that he did not show the best line of play for White. But to be fair, he was a pioneer, and the best lines of play for White were probably not known. I have had a rough time using either of those plans.
I have worked
on a third plan...
Read the entire analysis here, or start from the beginning: here
are the earlier installments of Keith's look at the Balogh:
Part 1 - Introduction/Overview;
Part 2 - Janos Balogh, the Man
and His Games;
Part 3
- White plays an early exf5.
GM Peter
Svidler's Unofficial Page Webmaster Pablo Sierra may be best known to Chessville's readers as the tireless Chessville News Editor. Among his other passions though is an interest in Russian GM Peter Svidler, currently ranked #8 in the world as Pablo reports in the "Latest News" area on the home page.
Pablo has gathered together what he says is the biggest picture gallery on the Internet related to Peter Svidler (163 pictures), from which I lifted this nice little picture of the site's focus. This picture was taken at one of the German Bundesliga competitions. The Gallery contains thumbnails of all 163 photos, spanning the years 1994-2003. Another nice feature of this site is the Game of the Month, complete with JavaScript board to replay the game. This month's game is Svidler,P (2710) - Chernyshov,K (2520) [B00] Match Voronezh, RUS (3), 2003, and it's a beauty, typical of Svidler's dynamic style of play. A biography page lists highlights from his life and career, and a summary of his best results, including three Championships of Russia and the 2001 FIDE World Chess Championship 2001 semifinalist. Finally a Recent Results page provides both historical results for the current and past years, but also lists upcoming events in which Svidler is expected to compete, including his upcoming Fischer-Random match with Peter Leko, scheduled for August 2003. This is a well organized site which is easy to navigate and uncluttered in appearance. My only complaint is the annoying pop-up advertisements. However, this is a small and necessary inconvenience when surfing this sort of fan site, which almost always is hosted on a free hosting site. Visit GM Svidler's Unofficial Page and check out Pablo's work, and enjoy Svidler's chess life!
Strange Chess News Time Loss Reported, by Elliotte Wisanski Scientists estimate over a ton of extra terrestrial biological material falls to earth everyday. It has been suggested the Himalayas where the stratosphere is thinnest is the easiest spot for these bacteria, viruses or what-ever to survive the heat due to friction on entering our atmosphere. Also the great Arab historian Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masudi (10th century) made a macabre observation about the royal game, "When the Indians play at chess they wager stuffs and precious stones... But it sometimes happens that a player will wager one of his limbs. For this, they set beside the players a small copper vessel over a wood fire, in which is placed a reddish ointment peculiar to the country, which has the property of healing wounds and stanching the flow of blood... If the man who wagered one of his fingers loses, then cuts off the finger with a dagger and plunges his hand in the ointment to cauterize the wound." With this background let Jack Gyori tell his story:
"Thank you for hearing my story; no one else would. I was born in Budapest
but I travel all around Europe..." Read the rest of
this
Strange Chess News!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Saw it, went home: At Hastings in 1895, Wilhelm Steinitz achieved a won position, with a forced mate, against Kurt von Bardeleben. While Steinitz was away from the board, Von Bardeleben saw the forced mate and left Steinitz a note that simply said, "Saw it. Went home.", then left. When Steinitz returned, he was apparently none too pleased with this and having to demonstrate it to the spectators instead of getting to play out his pretty win. Simpson's-in-the-strand: Simpson's-in-the-strand in London was the center of London chess in the mid 19th century. The current site now had a display of Howard Staunton memorabilia on display, plus a small GM tournament will be held later this year, presumably to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Staunton. Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie! Pablo's Chess News - Chessville coverage of:
Bacrot,E (2645) - Morozevich,A (2679) [C43] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 exd4 4.e5 Ne4 5.Qxd4 f5 6.Bc4 Bc5 7.Qxc5 Nxc5 8.Bg5 Qxg5 9.Nxg5 Nc6 10.0-0 Ne6 11.Nf3 b6 12.Bd5 Bb7 13.c4 0-0-0 14.Nc3 h6 15.Rad1 g5 16.Rfe1 Rhe8 17.Nb5 Kb8 18.b3 Nf4 19.Nc3 a6 20.Nd4 Nxd4 21.Rxd4 c6 22.Bf3 Kc7 23.Kf1 Re6 24.g3 Ng6 25.Bh5 Nxe5 26.f4 gxf4 27.gxf4 c5 28.Rd2 Nf3 29.Bxf3 Bxf3 30.Rxe6 dxe6 31.Rxd8 Kxd8 32.Na4 Kc7 33.Kf2 Bc6 34.Nc3 Kd6 35.Ke3 e5 36.Ne2 Bd7 37.a3 Be6 38.Ng3 a5 39.a4 Bd7 40.Ne2 Bc6 41.Nc3 Ke6 42.Ne2 Be4 43.Nc1 exf4+ 0-1
George Michelakis - Artur Jussupow 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 dxc4 5.Qa4+ Nbd7 6.Qxc4 c5 7.0-0 b6 8.d4 Bb7 9.Nc3 Rc8 10.Bg5 a6 11.a4 h6 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 13.Rfd1 cxd4 14.Qxd4 Qxd4 15.Nxd4 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 Bc5 17.Nb3 Ke7 18.Nxc5 Rxc5 19.Rd4 Rhc8 20.Rad1 Rc4 21.h3 g5 22.f4 gxf4 23.gxf4 Rxd4 24.Rxd4 Nd7 25.Kf3 f5 26.e4 fxe4+ 27.Rxe4 Rc5 28.Rd4 a5 29.Nb5 Rc2 30.b4 axb4 31.Rxb4 Nf6 32.Rd4 Rc1 33.Kg3 Rg1+ 34.Kf2 Rb1 35.Kg2 Rb3 36.Kh2 Nh5 37.Nd6 Rb2+ 38.Kg1 Ng3 39.Nc8+ Kf6 40.Rd6 Ne2+ 41.Kf1 Nxf4 42.Rxb6 Ra2 43.Rb3 Rxa4 44.Kf2 Ra2+ 45.Kg3 Ne2+ 46.Kg4 Ra4+ 47.Kh5 Nd4 48.Rg3 Ra5+ 0-1
Ovsejevitsch,S (2497) - Shahade,J (2366) [E95] 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.d4 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Na6 8.Re1 exd4 9.Nxd4 Nc5 10.Bf1 Re8 11.f3 c6 12.Be3 Ne6 13.Nc2 Nc7 14.Qd2 d5 15.Rad1 Be6 16.Qf2 Qc8 17.exd5 cxd5 18.c5 Bd7 19.Nd4 Ne6 20.Nxe6 fxe6 21.Bd4 Qb8 22.f4 b6 23.Qh4 Nh5 24.Bxg7 Kxg7 25.f5 bxc5 26.fxe6 Bxe6 27.Bb5 Rf8 28.Rxe6 d4 29.Re7+ Kh8 30.Bd3 1-0
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The Chess Cafe Malcolm Pein: Not As Good As the Book Hindustan Times: Galloping on chequered board - "It is raining Grandmasters in India." Correspondence Chess News - LATEST ISSUE (95): VIEW PDFVOANews.com: Russian and Ukrainian Presidents to Open Chess Title Match International E-Mail Chess Group NewsletterChess Informant 86 reviewed Anti-Sicilians The Moscow Times: In the Kitchen of a World-Class Coach ChessbaseLooking back at Dortmund Who is Victor Bologan? Happy Birthday Judit! Too many Indians in the Commonwealth? Playing with Tigers Chess in the sand ChessBase Workshop - Steve Lopez's Workshop: New ChessBase CDs Stockhouse USA: Superscape's Animated 3D Chess Game for Pocket PC - Chesscapade Salt Lake Tribune (Shelby Lyman): Checkmate The Washington TimesSemifinal match gets a boost Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler - 1972 and all that...
Mechanics' Institute Chess Room 222. 23 July 2003: Spielstellung 198 221. 22 July 2003: R = N + B Seagaard Chess Reviews - Mastering Checkmates World Chess Network John Henderson: The Scotsman Larry Evans On Chess: Back to the Future RusBase Part Three - New Materials for 1984, 1986-7 The Daily Checkmate - New Site! Annotated Games New York Masters Game of the Week, analysis by IM Greg Shahade The Telegraph Chess ClubNigel Short: Polgar-Gelfand, Rapid Match, Hungary 2003 Robert Byrne (NY Times): Gelfand-Radjabov, Enghien-les-Bains 2003 Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Anderssen-Kieseritzky, London 1851
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