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GAMES Leko,P (2739) - Bologan,V (2650) [B17] 1.e4 c6 Naiditsch,A (2574) - Anand,V (2774) [B86] 1.e4 c5 Leko,P (2739) - Anand,V (2774) [B90] 1.e4 c5
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August 10th, 2003 In This Issue Being defeated is often only a
temporary condition. from the editor... Sicilian? Center-Counter? Ruy Lopez? Alekhine's Defense maybe? Something a little more exotic? Please stop by the Chessville/Chess.FM Forum, if you haven't already, and take part in our poll:
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(8/10) Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle. (8/10) Distance Chess - History and Development: In this latest installment Phil Innes traces the history of the development of Distance Chess, contributors of note, and its current state of reception around the world, with a special note on the United States. See also Part One - The Future? and Part Two - The Technology. (8/9) Balogh Counter Gambit Part 5 - Remaining Lines: The final installment of IM-CC Keith (The Road Not Taken) Hayward's look at this unique gambit, covering lines not seen in the first four articles: Part 1 - Introduction/Overview; Part 2 - Janos Balogh, the Man and His Games; Part 3 - White plays an early exf5; Part 4 - Balogh's Main Line. (8/7) The New York Masters Game of the Week, with commentary by IM Greg Shahade. An instructive example of the value of keeping a cool head under fire. The top dog in the field was the tournament stalwart, GM Leonid Yudasin. He hoped to cool the heels of last week’s surprise champion, Gregory Braylovsky. This wouldn’t be an easy task if Braylovsky plays with the same ferocity that he displayed in his final round victory over Alex Stripunsky last week...Lets cut to the action!
(3) Braylovsky,G (2386) - Yudasin,L (2682) [B43] (8/5) Distance Chess - The Technology: In this, Part 2 of our look at Distance Chess, the author, Phil Innes, offers a technical illustration to chess event managers of the range of possibilities available to them with current technology to broadcast locally or universally. Part One, Distance Chess - Is it the future? provides a tantalizing look at how this technology might look in your future! (8/4)
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Chess Player, by Edgar Allen Poe. Poe's account of
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Johan Maelzel, and Poe's theories and beliefs about The Turk's inner
workings. This 25 kb zipped text file is in the public domain. Distance Chess - The Technology Last week you read Distance Chess - Is it the future? by Phil Innes. That introduction to Distance Chess was sparked by one extraordinary event at the end of May in, well, in Paris and St. Petersburg. Today we present Distance Chess - The Technology. In this, Part 2 of our look at Distance Chess, the author offers a technical illustration to chess event managers of the range of possibilities available to them with current technology to broadcast locally or universally. Let's take a peek... "Essentially, the technological basis permits two things: to (a) play chess at a distance, and secondly to (b) simultaneously broadcast the game to the internet and/or to television in real time.
Most people in the USA are familiar with situation (a) above, whether they play by sensory board, or use a mouse and pc to play on-line. Perhaps even as much as 95% of formally rated and non-rated players have tried it, and no further illustration is necessary. However, condition (b) above seems to be a more esoteric subject in the USA, and even the largest tournaments and matches have not been broadcast live. To contrast this with Europe, I think all high-level matches and tournaments now broadcast in various degrees of complexity. Here then is the range of broadcasting possibilities for the event manager who might be, for example, managing a 12 player round robin on 6 boards..."
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Chess - The Technology, or Distance Chess - History & Development This third article for Chessville will briefly scan the history of the development of Distance Chess, contributors of note, and its current state of reception around the world, with a special note on the United States. Distance Chess played on sensory boards developed from multiple sources, including the early efforts of David Bronstein with chess and computers, accommodations for unsighted people (a stepped brail sensory board), and from media demand to immediately share games around the world in real time. Television as a medium was always problematical: it was expensive, non-interactive, intrusive to players, not global in the sense that each country had separate broadcasting arrangements, and appealed to too few people in any one country to ever be of interest to sponsors. With the possible exception of Russian television there are no regularly scheduled chess broadcasts anywhere in the world.
Enter the Internet! Here was an immediate and exciting alternative which was universal, inexpensive to broadcast and to receive, and allowed both real-time transmissions, and past-event interactions with an event. Immediately any game-score was published to the net as text, later as downloadable formats such as pgn, it could be shared around the world, and games could be re-enacted on the web by game-replay engines. Also enter a computer-programmer and chess player from St. Petersburg who traveled to Elista... Read more -
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Maelzel's Chess-Player Poe's account of The Turk, during it's exhibition by Johan Maelzel, and Poe's theories and beliefs about The Turk's inner workings. This 25 kb zipped text file is in the public domain. Download this free eBook. Here is a short excerpt: PERHAPS no exhibition of the kind has ever elicited so general attention as the Chess-Player of Maelzel. Wherever seen it has been an object of intense curiosity, to all persons who think. Yet the question of its _modus operandi is _still undetermined. Nothing has been written on this topic which can be considered as decisive--and accordingly we find every where men of mechanical genius, of great general acuteness, and discriminative understanding, who make no scruple in pronouncing the Automaton a _pure machine, _unconnected with human agency in its movements, and consequently, beyond all comparison, the most astonishing of the inventions of mankind. And such it would undoubtedly be, were they right in their supposition. Assuming this hypothesis, it would be grossly absurd to compare with the Chess-Player, any similar thing of either modern or ancient days. Yet there have been many and wonderful automata. In Brewster's Letters on Natural Magic, we have an account of the most remarkable... Visit our
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The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia The Drawing Master Remembered: 42 of the 45 games played in the 1999 Tigran Petrosian Memorial Tournament in Moscow were drawn, with more than half lasting less than 20 moves. Better than Bobby?: Bent Larsen played Board 1 for the Rest of the World team against the USSR in the match played at Belgrade in 1970. Bobby Fischer played on Board 2 for the Rest of the World. Submit your trivia to the
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Radjabov,T (2648) - Naiditsch,A (2574) [D03] 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 c5 4.e3 Be7 5.Nbd2 d5 6.c3 Nbd7 7.Bd3 b6 8.Ne5 Nxe5 9.dxe5 Nd7 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.f4 0-0 12.Nf3 f5 13.Rg1 Kh8 14.g4 g6 15.h4 Bb7 16.h5 fxg4 17.Rxg4 g5 18.Nxg5 d4 19.exd4 cxd4 20.cxd4 h6 21.Ne4 Rg8 22.Nd6 Nf6 23.Rg6 Rxg6 24.hxg6 Nd5 25.Qh5 Kg7 26.f5 1-0 Davies, Kunte, Shaw, =1st, Blackpool Hilton Int'l Congratulations to GM Nigel (Ask the Tiger!) Davies for his undefeated score (performance rating 2565), tying for 1st with newly crowned British Champion GM Abhijit Kunte (India) and Scottish IM John Shaw in the Category 8 Hilton Premiere International, August 3-9 in Blackpool, England. Says GM Davies of his victory: "This was my first victory in an international tournament for several years - though in mitigation I haven't played in any since Dhaka a few years ago. I managed to survive the heat wave, tough schedule and youth of my opponents (I was the 2nd oldest player) by avoiding risk, conserving energy and waiting for any chances to come my way." IM Adam Hunt (2395) - GM Nigel Davies (2482) [C96] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Nd7 12.d5 Nb6 13.b3 f5 14.exf5 Bxf5 15.Bxf5 Rxf5 16.Re4 c4 17.b4 Nb7 18.Na3 Qd7 19.g4 Rf7 20.Be3 Na4 21.Nb1 Raf8 22.Nfd2 Bd8 23.a3 Bb6 24.f3 Nd8 25.Kg2 Qb7 26.Nf1 Rxf3 27.Qxf3 Rxf3 28.Kxf3 Qf7+ 29.Ke2 Qxd5 30.Ng3 Qd3+ 31.Kf2 Qc2+ 0-1
other online chess news resources
The Chess Cafe Malcolm Pien: Anand on the Rampage Chessbase Anand: Stop the Circus! Remember the article on the Knight's Tour? Read their lips: no magic tours! The Sixth Magistral de la Republica Argentina: Shredder 7 Wins Steve Lopez: ChessBase 8.0 statistics – part one - part two The Rogozenko-Bologan conspiracy ChessBase 7/8's Players Encyclopedia - How to upgrade, step by step. Happy Birthday Helmut Pfleger! Judgment day for chess players Abhijit Kunte the new British Champion The Toronto Star: Chess moves: Gould to small park Russian ChessPROFESSIONAL WORLD CHESS RANKING - through August 1st
USA Today: Face-to-face and Internet games keep chess alive Chess Sector - Ukrainian Chess OnlineThe time to say good bye "This is the final update of the chess-sector.odessa.ua website." - After five years, GM Mikhail Golubev moves on to other challenges. Best wishes Mikhail !! Washington Times: Backlash at wide-open event Deaf Gamers: Review - Fritz 8 World Chess RatingPlayers 'End Controversy', Ask for Apology Polgar Challenges Anand Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler British Championship 2003 - part 1 British Championship 2003 - part 2 British Championship 2003 - part 3
Mechanics' Institute Chess Room Added Chess Classic Mainz to Sites of Note New Games Archive at ICCF-U.S. Games Archive Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary 7 August '03: Wonders of the 8 x 106 board (a further postscript to #221) Seagaard Chess Reviews - Tony Miles: It's Only Me GM Square Interview with GM Glek. GM Golubev interviews GM Igor Glek about the creation of an Association of Chess Players Annotated Games New York Masters Game of the Week, analysis by IM Greg Shahade Yasser Annotates (Chess Cafe): Adams-Seirawan, Bermuda 2000
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Chess Rating Kramnik, V. (2785) - Radjabov, T. (2648) [B33], Dortmund (1) 2003 Robert Byrne (NY Times): Mastrovasilis-Mamedyarov, 2003 World Jr. Ch. Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Morozevich-Korchnoi, Biel 2003 Jack Peters (LA Times): Anand-Radjabov, Dortmund 2003 Puzzles & Problems
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Bernstein,O - Capablanca,J [D63] Moscow, 1914 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.Bg5 0-0 6.e3 Nbd7
7.Rc1 b6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Qa4 Bb7 10.Ba6 Bxa6 11.Qxa6 c5 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 13.dxc5
bxc5 14.0-0 Qb6 15.Qe2 c4 16.Rfd1 Rfd8 17.Nd4 Bb4 18.b3 Rac8 19.bxc4 dxc4
20.Rc2 Bxc3 21.Rxc3 Nd5 22.Rc2 c3 23.Rdc1 Rc5 24.Nb3 Rc6 25.Nd4 Rc7 26.Nb5
Rc5 27.Nxc3 Nxc3 28.Rxc3 Rxc3 29.Rxc3 [diagram] 29...Qb2!! 0-1
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GAMES IM Danny Gormally (2478) - GM Abhijit Kunte (2515) [E32] 1.d4 Nf6 FM Stewart Haslinger (2414) - GM Colin McNab (2395) [B07] 1.e4 g6 IM John Shaw (2480) - FM Craig Hanley (2387) [B22] 1.e4 c5
Anand,V (2774) - Bologan,V (2650) [B17] 1.e4 c6
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