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August 18th, 2002 In This Issue Black to move and win - Find the
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Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities
So begins one of the most interesting and varied pages of the internet chess world. Tim Krabbé has assembled an incredible collection of chess-related stuff. I'll review some of the stuff in a moment, but first let's meet Tim. Born in Amsterdam in 1943, married with one son, Tim comes from an artistic family of painters, actors, directors, and writers. While he did some acting and also studied psychology, Tim's primary careers have been as a journalist and a novelist. Several films have been based on his novels, and his articles have appeared in chess as well as in mainstream publications. Tim has been among the top chessplayers in Holland. He composes chess problems, and has been building his Chess Curiosities website since June, 1998. His Open Chess Diary is an on-going compilation of musings and meanderings in the world of chess; you may have seen links to it from time to time in The Chessville Weekly's New On the Net section. The Chess Curiosities home page is just one long list of links to his other pages, 54 links in all. Some example page titles include The Kuwait Immortal, Defending Humanity's Honor, The 100 Greatest Moves Ever Played (this week's Position of the Week, above, comes in at #3 all time!), The Mother of all Forks, Diagram of the Century, and so on. One of my favorite pages on Tim's list is his Chess Records (longest, latest, shortest, mostest) where you can find out the records for things like the longest game, the greatest number of castlings, longest series of checks, latest first capture, and earliest stalemate. An interesting article about "Strangest Coincidence Ever - Or Hoax?" deals with the authenticity of one of the finest queening combinations I have ever seen. Hoax or not, you have to check out the combination. A download of all 415 known
Morphy games, ruminations on the famous Saavedra position, Alekhine's
five-queens game, and much, much more are all here for you to enjoy. I
wish you many happy hours of browsing through
Tim Krabbé's Chess
Curiosities, and to Tim I can only say, Thank you, thank you, and thank
you once again! Editorial: S. Evan Kreider gets on his high horse about "(C)heating." Annotated Game: David Surratt brings us another instructive game in his Janitor Jim series. Annotated Game: Steinitz v. Lasker, World Championship Match, 1894, Game 2. Annotations by the players themselves. Introduction to Chess Strategy for the Novice Player: Bill Whited continues his series with a discussion of the Premature Attack. Basic Opening Strategy for the Beginner: S. Evan Kreider completes his look at the general principles of opening play.
General Principle #6: "Combine Developing Moves with Threats." This puts your opponent on the defensive and gives you the initiative (that is, allows you to dictate the course of events). Consider the following series of moves... General Principle #7: "Don't Waste Moves." This seems obvious, but it's surprising how often it happens in amateur games. Every wasted move is like a free turn for your opponent, and before you know it, your opponent could end up with an advantage in development and / or central control. Consider the following series of moves... General Principle #8: "Don't Block the Development of Your Other Pieces." Before you develop a piece, make sure that it won't inhibit the development of your other pieces. Consider the following series of moves... Read the entire article
here. Or start at the beginning of the series
here.
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Position of the Week: Solution
This position is from Levitzky,S - Marshall,F (Breslau, 1912). Play
starts 1...Rxh3. White can't recapture the rook (2.gxh3 Nf3+)
so he tries 2.Rc5 Marshall's rejoinder was so beautiful and
unexpected, that spectators are said to have showered the board with gold
coins in appreciation: 2...Qg3 White Resigns. If White had
captured the queen with 3.hxg3 then 3...Ne2 is mate. Or if he tried
3.fxg3 Ne2+ 4.Kh1 Rxf1 mate. Even 3.Qe5 Ne2+ is mate next. Best
play would have been: 3.Qxg3 Ne2+ 4.Kh1 Nxg3+ 5.Kg1 Ne2+ 6.Kh1 Rc3 and Black
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