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GAMES Xie Jun (2569) - Short,N (2701) [C94] 1.e4 e5 Zhao Xue (2467) - Seirawan,Y (2626) [E12] 1.d4 Nf6 Naiditsch,A (2574) - Karjakin,S (2556) [B92] 1.e4 c5 Ovsejevitsch,S (2497) - Nguyen,T (2435) [E21] 1.d4 Nf6 Pilgaard,K (2446) - Jakab,A (2442) [C06] 1.e4 e6
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Volume 2 Issue 38
September 21st, 2003 In This Issue
White to move and win - Find the Solution
(9/21) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. This week a double dose of tactical tricks: several eagle-eyed readers noticed that our problem for 7-20-2003 duplicated a previous week. We've replaced the offending problem by starting off an entirely new category of tactical theme. Our Problem of the Week Archive is a great tactical training tool - choose problems at random or sequentially from the dated lists, or go to the Tactical Theme section of the archive, where we've categorized the 20 themes displayed in our collection of problems. Of course, you still get our regular new position for this week, too! (9/20) New additions to the MyChessSite downloads page:
(9/17) Like, Unlike: Another new Kennedy Kids story, from Master Storyteller Rick Kennedy (Perry the Pawnpusher, Sherlock Holmes). Cheating? In chess? Is that even possible?
(9/16)
Lasker-Steinitz Game 19: The final game of their fabled
1894 match for the Chess World Championship, annotated by the soon-to-be
former World Champion. Lasker put the exclamation point to his title
by taking 3˝ points from the final five games, including this little gem to
seal the deal. Follow the game and Steinitz's annotations on the
interactive JavaScript board.
The teams were made up of: A) GM Duncan Suttles, FM Oliver Schulte, and NM Roman Jiganchine; B) FM Jack Yoos, Tyler Johnson, and Lucas Davies; and C) FM Bruce Harper, NM Fanhao Meng, and NM Luc Poitras. A total of 27 players provided opposition for these teams over the three rounds. The teams scored 15.5/24 (65%), 18/22 (82%), and 14/18 (78%) respectively, while the best scores for "the masses" were recorded by Evgeni Goutor and Andrea Cheng (2 each) and Tiffany Tang (1.5). In general, Team A in the first round was not as well coordinated as the other two teams (who learned from Team A's example), while the last round had the lowest quality games, as it was the third game of the day for the tiring regular players. All in all everyone had a great time, and $365 was raised for the Macskasy Memorial! The annotations were generously provided by NM Jack Yoos. (Editor's Note: Jack Yoos analysis is extremely
detailed, and well worth taking the time to go over. Studying
well-annotated master games is one of the best ways to improve!
Check out the first of these three games today!)
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I’ll bet that Bobby Fischer said “thank you” to his older sister when she taught him how to play chess. That’s one more way – number 11 by my count – that my brother is not like Bobby Fischer. Of course, he says I’m nowhere near like
Judit Polgar, either. That’s probably true. If someone teases
Judit, she just checkmates them. She is too much of a lady to kick
them in the shins. Not like me. Another thing: Mr. Fischer never cheated. I never even knew you could cheat in chess until I got to this position in a game against my brother (Jon had White, and it's his turn to move). It looks simple: his White pawn captures my Rook and promotes to a Queen; I capture his Queen and then win the game... Read
Like, Unlike and see how Jon tricks his way to a win!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia An Odd Match: One of the most spectacular displays of "living chess" ever given was held in 1934, at the Stalin Motorworks factory in Moscow. The players were Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR champion) and Nikolai Riumin (Moscow champion). The "pieces" were represented in the following way: Kings - weightlifters The game ended in a draw after 36 moves. An Odds Match: In 1846, Howard Staunton defeated Daniel Harrwitz in a 22 game match by the score of +12 -9 =1. What was interesting was that the match was played with different odds in some of the games. Here are the scores for each type of odds: Even
+7 -0 = 0 Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie! Pablo's Chess News Chessville coverage of:
Seirawan,Y (2626) - Xu Yuhua (2485) [E32] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 b6 7.Bg5 Ba6 8.Qf3 Nc6 9.e3 Na5 10.Rc1 Bb7 11.Bxf6 Qxf6 12.Qxf6 gxf6 13.Ne2 c5 14.b4 cxb4 15.axb4 Nc6 16.Rb1 Rfc8 17.Nc3 Ne7 18.Be2 Nf5 19.Kd2 Nd6 20.c5 Ne4+ 21.Nxe4 Bxe4 22.Bd3 Bxd3 23.Kxd3 f5 24.Ra1 bxc5 25.bxc5 Rcb8 26.Rhb1 Rxb1 27.Rxb1 d6 28.c6 Rc8 29.d5 exd5 30.Rc1 Kf8 31.Kd4 Ke7 32.Kxd5 a5 33.Rb1 1-0
other online chess news resources
The Chess Cafe Victoria News: Playing to Win Russian Chess - New Online Playing Site, Interface in Eight Languages ChessbaseKings win Three Arrows Cup - pictorial report Young Masters playing in Lausanne - illustrated report page Transtec-Shredder beats GM Peter Acs - More... Software of the year, five stars for Fritz - More... Chess in China - games, links and pictures Anatoly Karpov speaks out - Here is an English translation... Steve Lopez: Notation options in ChessBase 8 - More... Moviestar, moviestar – Kosteniuk film premieres - pictures and a video preview... European Club Championship: Kasparov in Crete - Details... Peter Svidler wins Russian Championship - a lot of wonderful pictures Chess night in Bangkok - Here are all the details World Chess Rating Interview with Russian Champion Peter Svidler Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler What to do with the MCO, BCO and NCO
Mechanics'
Institute Chess Room Check your World Ranking and National Ranking 1st October 2003 FIDE Rating List out now
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Title Fed Rtng Games Birthday Why China Will Soon Dominate Chess Muhammad Speaks on Mutual Zugzwang The Campbell Report Hermann Helms and Correspondence Chess Coverage in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle by John S. Hilbert Seagaard Chess Reviews ChessPublishing.com Grandmaster Secrets - Endings World Chess Network Larry Evans On Chess: Chess for Fun RusBase Part Three - New Material From 1988 USCF - TD Corner- by Tim JustAnnotated Games New York Masters Game of the Week, analysis by IM Greg Shahade The Telegraph Chess ClubMalcolm Pein: Paehtz-McShane, Lausanne Young Masters 2003 David Norwood: Svidler-Volkov, 56th Russian Ch., 2003 Nigel Short: Zhao Xue/Nigel Short-Zhu Chen/Yasser Seirawan, 2003 Kings vs Queens Match China
Robert Byrne (NY Times)
Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post) Jack Peters (LA Times): Svidler-Sherbakov, 56th Russian Ch., 2003 David Sands (Washington Times): Nielsen-Taffinder, 14th NATO Championships, Hoevelte, Denmark, September 2003 Australian Chess Columns - 14/09/03Parr-Klibor, Buesum 1967; Ikeda-Jovanovic, Belconnen ACT Ch. 2003; Sandler-Chow, Melbourne Vic. Ch. 2003; Svidler-Sherbakov, 56th Russian Ch., 2003 Jonathan Berry (Globe & Mail): Caron-Auger, Quebec City, 2003 Puzzles & Problems
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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
Rubinstein,A - Hromadka,K 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bc4 Nc6 6.d3 Bg4 7.h3
Bxf3 8.Qxf3 Nd4 9.Qg3 Qe7 10.fxe5 dxe5 11.Kd1 c6 12.a4 Rg8 13.Rf1 h6 14.Ne2
0-0-0 15.Nxd4 Bxd4 16.c3 Bb6 17.a5 Bc7 18.Be3 Kb8 19.Kc2 Ka8 20.Rf3 Nd5
21.Bg1 Nf4 22.Qf2 Bb8 23.g3 Nxh3 24.Rxf7 Qd6 [diagram] 25.Qb6 Rd7 26.Bc5
Rxf7 27.Bxd6 Rf2+ 28.Qxf2 Nxf2 29.Bc5 1-0 |
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It’s impossible to compare two players from different epochs. It’s extremely unfair because we know more now and also because my opponents are stronger than those Fischer had to face. I am not trying to underestimate Fischer’s achievements! The only real point of comparison between the two of us is the size of the gaps between ourselves and our respective opponents. I think that the gap between Fischer and his opponents is still the widest in [modern] chess history. The only possible way to compare Fischer, Botvinnik, Morphy, Steinitz and Kasparov is to place them in the context of their eras and to measure the distance between themselves and their opponents. Fischer’s distance was vast! – Garry Kasparov It's about the numbers. If you have one million kids going into chess clubs, as it was in the Soviet Union, eventually you come up with great talents. If you have maybe 50,000 kids, you're lucky to have one Bobby Fischer in a quarter of a century. Now in America, with parents happy to see their kids playing chess in the schools, I would say that at one point we'll see the change. Chess is the only sport that has equal access to all groups of people - age, racial factors, sex, physical abilities - so if you look at it from the angle of political correctness, which I'm not a big fan of, you find a lot of agendas are promoting the game. – Garry Kasparov You know, it will not be just who is going to win the match. It will be whether we can win one single game. I'm quite serious. The experiment goes on as long as we are winning one single game. If we can win one game, we're in business. For a while we'll be able to win the match. I think I'm still the favorite. But I'm not sure it will last. – Garry Kasparov (on playing computers) A ban against a chess player based on any political ideas is in itself an intellectual and juridical monstrosity. A non-suspicious authority like Prof. Nathan Divinsky told me once, "I would have accepted the participation of Hitler in any chess tournament". Yes, any Hitler, Stalin, Pol-Pot, Mao, Saddam or Ilyumzhinov has the right, if he wishes, to play in a chess tournament. This is the real greatness of our game, a spiritual refuge far above the dirty politics of everyday life in any country. – Ricardo Calvo He will plant the banner of Castile upon the walls of Madrid, amidst the cries of the conquered city, and the little king will go away looking very sheepish. – Paul Morphy (phrase he was often heard muttering in French during his later years as he strolled the streets of New Orleans)
GAMES Bacrot,E (2645) - Naiditsch,A (2574) [E13] 1.d4 Nf6 Kosteniuk,A (2457) - Paehtz,E (2417) [E94] 1.d4 Nf6 Ovsejevitsch,S (2497) - Predojevic,B (2474) [A57] 1.d4 Nf6
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