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September 1st, 2002 In This Issue From the Editor's Desk... Today we debut a new feature of
The Chessville Weekly, "The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia", brought to you
by the Mad Aussie himself, Graham Clayton. Graham earned his nickname
from fellow ChessChatters (see today's site review) because of his penchant
for playing unusual openings in his correspondence games. White to move and win - Find the
Solution
Artful Dodger's ChessChat "Chess got a grip on your life? When you walk into a bookstore do you walk directly to the games/chess section? Are you always asking your friends, "Want to play a quick game?" Do you liken every political, social, and economical struggle to the '72 World Championship?" If so, you're a candidate for the Artful Dodger's ChessChat. ChessChat isn't really a website, although there is a site and the site does have some content. What ChessChat really is though, is an email discussion group, using Yahoo Groups as host. You can elect to read the messages at the Yahoo Groups site, or receive them via email. Dan "The Artful Dodger" Triplett, started ChessChat October 25th, 1998 and has 476 members as of this writing. Dan writes "I had been looking for chess discussion lists and outside of Usenet really couldn't find any. I basically had in mind one thing: create a place for chess players to come and discuss all things chess. I didn't really have any specific criteria I thought the discussion list should meet but I didn't want it to focus on only one aspect of chess, the list is much more than that." "Like many lists, ChessChat has at its core a group of players who have been with us for years, some since its inception. Each has brought their unique flavor for the game, along with their special interests and insights, and have made ChessChat what it is today: a community. ChessChat has taken on a life of it's own and is what it is not because of my efforts, but because of the members who contribute to the list. We're friendly, informative, sometimes combative, and always fun." This is list is active, intelligent, and has quite a number
of very strong players among it's members, including several masters and at
least one ICCF IM. I've been a member for a couple of years now, and
it is simply the best email based discussion group there is. You need
to join now! I'll finish
with the word's Dan finishes off the ChessChat home page with: Remember: It's only a game. (Yeah, Right!) Q&A: Editor Kelly Atkins answers your latest chess-related queries. Book Reviews: Can you Be A Tactical Chess Genius?, The Turk, and Endgame Challenge. An Opening Repertoire for the Positional Player: Suggested openings for those who prefer positional games over all-out attacking games.
Annotated Game: Steinitz v. Lasker, World Championship Match, 1894, Game
4. Annotations by the players themselves.
An Opening Repertoire The purpose of this article is not to teach any openings, but rather to help the positional player decide upon a set of openings which form a consistent and efficient repertoire, as well as to direct the player to resources from which to learn these openings. I have selected this particular repertoire based on the following criteria: a) it avoids sharp tactical struggles in favor of more
strategic battles; Read
An Opening Repertoire For the Positional Player!
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia Drawing Master: At the Slupsk tournament in 1979, Hungarian GM Istvan Bilek drew all 10 games that he played in a grand total of 125 moves, taking only 109 minutes in time for all 10 games. Champion For A Day: After the death of Alexander Alekhine in 1946, FIDE held a meeting to decide on how to choose the next World Champion. The FIDE delegates decided that since Max Euwe was the only ex-World Champion still alive, he would be the "World Champion" until FIDE organized a tournament to find the next champion. The Soviet delegates arrived at the meeting a day late. They had the decision annulled, and thus the world title was left vacant, till Botvinnik won the 1948 tournament. Thus Euwe was "technically" World Champion twice: 1935-37, and one day in 1946. Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie!
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Adams-Torre, New Orleans 1929. 1. Qg4 Qb5 Of course the
queen is taboo 1... Qxg4 2. Rxe8+ Rxe8 3.Rxe8#. 2. Qc4
The queen is still taboo! 2... Qd7 3. Qc7 Yet a third
offering of the poisonous queen! 3... Qb5 4. a4 Still
trying to deflect the queen from the a4-e8 diagonal. 4... Qxa4 5.
Re4 Offering the rook this time. 5...Qb5 6. Qxb7 Black
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Kelly's Quotes ******** Life is too short for chess. – Henry J. Byron ******** The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth. In very much the same
way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian
stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we
with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in
the less vivacious but withal more forceful maneuvers of the position
player. – Emanuel Lasker ******** It merely attracts attention and encourages the winner to demonstrate
the mistake to anyone who is interested. – Gary Lane (on reacting to a
loss by scattering the pieces from the board) ********
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GAMES 55th Russian Chess Championship Krasnodar Aseev - 1. d4 Nf6 55th Russian Chess Championship Krasnodar Inarkiev - 1. d4 Nf6
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