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Polgar: Try these basic chess principles to help you become a better player-- 30-Jun-09, lubbockonline.com, play chess online Here is the question of the week: What are some of the most important things novice/ scholastic chess players need to know about chess? Chess is a very easy game to learn, but harder to master. Here are some very important principles in chess that will help you become a better player. • Control the center The center of the board includes the squares e4, d4, e5, and d5. When you start a game, place your pawns in the center to occupy and control as many of these squares as you can. Location, location, location. • Develop your pieces as soon as possible Get your knights and bishops out right away. This should be done before you try to checkmate your opponent, some ...
David Howell challenging current incumbents for the top spot in British chess-- 29-Jun-09, guardian.co.uk, play chess online The established order at the top of British chess could change this year after nearly two decades of supremacy by the world title finalists Michael Adams and Nigel Short. Short's golden period was 1990-95, when he beat the all-time No3 Anatoly Karpov in a chess match and challenged Garry Kasparov for the world chess championship. Adams reached the semi-final of the Fide version of the title in 1997 and the final in 2002, where he missed a one-mover which would have won the crown. Adams stayed for some years around the top ten and a 2750 world rating, but has recently slipped back and now struggles to maintain 2700. He seems to have lost some competitive ...
World Federation Takes Notice of Young American Chess Players-- 28-Jun-09, nytimes.com, play chess online The United States is minting international masters and grandmasters. Last week, the World Chess Federation, the game’s governing body, officially anointed Robert Hess, a student at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, as a grandmaster, and it confirmed three other Americans, Daniel Ludwig, Rusudan Goletiani and Enkhbat Tegshsuren, as international masters. They will soon have company. At the New York International chess tournament, which ended on Tuesday, Samuel Shankland, an 18-year-old international master from California, dominated the chess event until the last round, when he lost to the grandmaster Giorgi Kacheishvili of the republic of Georgia. With that loss ...
Five-Way Tie at the New York International-- 27-Jun-09, main.uschess.org, play chess online Five chess players tied for first in the New York International (June 19-23, 2009) ; Lev Milman made his third and final GM norm. GM Giorgi Kacheishvili beat IM Sam Shankland as black in the last round to catch him at 6.5/9 and (partially) derail Sam’s norm hopes. The early chess tournament leader, Filipino IM Oliver Barbosa, won his last game against Igor Sorkin to reach the magical 6.5 score and share $10,000, but ironically, failed to make a GM norm because he had not played enough non-U.S. chess players. Zybneil Hracek and Alex Stripunsky drew each other to join the leaders. IM Lev Milman made his third and final GM norm by beating Leonid Yudasin in ...
Bennett and King on chess: Short-Berg, Malmö 2009-- 26-Jun-09, guardian.co.uk, play chess online Black is tied down to defence, but how can White, to play, make progress? RB We've been looking at zugzwang over the last few weeks so here I'm going to imagine it's Black to move. 1...Kg8 obviously leads to disaster after 2 Re8+ Rxe8 3 Qxe8+ Kh7 4 Qd7. 1...Bh8 would allow 2 Qh3, threatening Qd7, and is also catastrophic. Nor can the queen move: after 1...Qc8, for example, 2 c7 would lead to wholesale exchanges on e8 followed by promotion of the c-pawn. That leaves the rook. Is 1...Ra8 a viable waiting move? White is clearly better but I can't see how to continue and Black's position doesn't fall apart the way it should in a zugzwang ...
Alexander Motylev wins Karpov tournament-- 23-Jun-09, latimes.com, play chess online The 10th annual Karpov chess tournament ended June 12 in Poikovsky, a small city of 20,000 in western Siberia. Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov designed this event as a 10-player round robin, and the tradition has continued as the chess tournament has gradually grown into one of the world's strongest, with an average rating of 2695. A Russian gas company helps sponsor the tournament. Alexander Motylev of Russia took first prize by defeating chief rival Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan in the penultimate round. Motylev scored an undefeated 7-2, while Gashimov finished second with 6-3. Alexander Onischuk of Maryland, the 2006 U.S. chess champion, scored ...
Wisdom of Chess Champions-- 22-Jun-09, washingtonpost.com, play chess online It is always fascinating to read what the world chess champions have to say about their clashes with other strong players and about chess in general. Last year, Russell Enterprises published two classic tournament books, using figurine algebraic notation. In "St. Petersburg 1909" the world chess champion Emanuel Lasker comments on all the games of the event, in which he shared first place with Akiba Rubinstein. Alexander Alekhine's "New York 1924" has been hailed as one of the best tournament books. It was another triumph for Lasker, in which he finished ahead of Jose Raul Capablanca and Alekhine. The book is valuable for its deep verbal annotations with ...
After a Last-Place Finish, a Chess Champ Recovers -- 21-Jun-09, nytimes.com, play chess online After turning in a particularly good performance, it is natural for a chess player to suffer a letdown. But it would be hard to imagine a bigger one than Alexei Shirov’s recent crash and burn. In May, Shirov, of Spain, won the M-Tel Masters in Bulgaria, a chess tournament that featured one of the strongest competitive lineups of the year. Just over a week later, he was in Poikovsky, Russia, for the 10th Karpov Tournament, named for the former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov. Shirov, the chess tournament’s top seed, started with four losses. Two of the games were hard fought, but Shirov was wiped out in the other two. He steadied himself to draw games ...
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