Here's what was New at Chessville between
1 July 2008 and 30 September 2008
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(9/28) Chess Composition:
Finales... y Temas #49
(septiembre 2008) by
ICCF GM
José A. Copié- en español. This Argentine publication, widely
distributed in PDF format and through many chess pages, offers high
quality articles and surprising studies we are sure will entertain while teaching valuable endgame skills in the bargain.
Don't read Spanish? ¡No problemo! Finales... y Temas
utilizes figurine algebraic notation (FAN). |
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(9/28) Opening Theory:
Reviving the Colle-Zukertort Main Line by David I. Rudel, author of
Zuke 'Em - The Colle-Zukertort Revolutionized. "As
described in
an earlier article,
the Colle-Zukertort opening excels at suppressing counter-play, or at least
delaying it. Indeed, the system owes much of its appeal to Black’s
inability to target much of anything, let alone the White King, in the first
twenty moves or so. However,
White’s vigilant constriction can take on the feel of spinning plates should
Black choose a solid-yet-active course..." |
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(9/28) Annotated Games:
Victor is His
Name: Early Masterpieces of Young Korchnoi - by Prof. Nagesh
Havanur. "At 77 Victor
Korchnoi is the oldest active grandmaster on the international circuit.
He has had a long and distinguished career spanning half a century... A number of his battles from his peak years are well-known.
Unfortunately, his games from the early years still remain relatively
unknown. These battles are wonderful to watch as they bear testimony
to his intense passion for the game and his incredible fighting spirit.
Here are two memorable encounters..." |
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(9/28) Free eBook:
The Major Tactics of Chess by Franklin Knowles Young, © 1898
Franklin K. Young. Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston 1919. "This,
the second volume of the Chess Strategetics series, may not improperly be
termed a book of chess tricks. Its purpose is to elucidate those processes
upon which every ruse, trick, artifice, and stratagem known in chess-play,
is founded..." This is a 7.4 MB zipped PDF file. This work is now
in the Public Domain. |
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(9/27)
Nuestro Círculo #321:
27 de septiembre de 2008, dedicado al al ajedrecista inglés Henry Ernest
Atkins que vivió entre los años 1872 y 1955. Publicamos, además de su
biografía y partidas, las notas "Ajedrez actual", "Aguafiestas 236", "Ajedrez
y Boxeo" y "Partidas notables".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(9/21)
Densa & Densa: from GM Ray Keene, OBE
(Keene On Chess). "News
from DENSA, the low IQ society. The Guinness Book Of World Records
used to be packed overwhelmingly with interesting and useful facts.
Recently however, alongside legitimate achievements, it seems to be catering
for those inflicted by a sub-Warholian craving for their devalued 15 seconds
of fame..." |
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(9/21) Review:
Endgame
Challenge by John Nunn, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur.
"When John Nunn, the author of this book, turned 50, he organised and a
study composing tourney to celebrate the occasion. The event attracted
an amazing total of 85 entries from all over the world. A star
participant was Jan Timman (a composer in his own right and has several
studies to his credit) who received this book as a prize for his
composition..." |
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(9/21) UCO Opening Theory:
The Colorado Gambit from Clyde Nakamura
(The Search for Dragons and Mythical Chess
Openings). "The Colorado Gambit is a fascinating opening gambit
because it has elements of different openings such as the Kings Gambit, the Dutch Defense, the Birds
Opening, Froms Gambit, Vienna Game and
other openings. But this also makes the Colorado very difficult to play
because you have to understand the basics of these other chess openings
before you can play the Colorado Gambit. It is really advanced gambit
theory..." |
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(9/21) Training:
Recon64. A new Move Prediction Exercise from
Jim Mitch (aka
Professor Chester
Nuhmentz.) The latest edition features a game by the 2007 U.S.
Women's Champion. Irina Krush displays strong endgame technique to ensure
that a win does not slip away as a draw. Similar to Predict-A-Move and Solitaire-type
chess exercises, as an extra twist, players
'invest' Recon64 dollars on candidate moves. |
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(9/21)
Review:
The Chess
Assassin's Business Manual
by Bob Long (Thinkers' Press, 2008) reviewed by NM Bill McGeary. "The
book has quite a bit of valuable information about being in business.
Mr. Long is correct when he intimates that having an MBA or being a business
school grad does not prepare someone to be a business owner. Also,
there is a great deal of practical advice for aspiring entrepreneurs..." |
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Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Hurricane relief effort – you can help; Just Kidding?;
MATE – The Movie; Just Kidding 2, World Championship; True Chess Stories;
2008 SPICE Cup International Invitational Tournament; Liverpool – European
Individual Championship; Record Breaking Olympiad in Dresden; Bilbao - Final
standings; Women’s World Championship Final; Rules Issues Draw Out Public
Opinion. |
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(9/20)
Chess Cartoon:
Another chess-themed cartoon from The Chess Player Chronicles by
Gary Gifford, this one is titled "Tornado Coming!" and joins more than a
dozen other chess-themed cartoons in our growing collection. Enjoy! |
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Nuestro Círculo #320:
20 de septiembre de 2008, dedicado al Maestro alemán Kurt Von Bardeleben que
vivió entre los años 1861 y 1924. Publicamos, además de su biografía y
partidas, las notas "Grand Slam de Bilbao", "Gratos recuerdos", "Ajedrez y
Psicología" y "Ajedrez en los diarios".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(9/19) Free eBook:
Chess Openings by Frank J. Marshall. 185 pages, includes
biographical sketch of the author - Frank J. Marshall. Plus: Benjamin
Franklin's The Morals of Chess, 42 openings examined, 32 fully
annotated games of Marshall's against the greatest players of his time,
including Lasker, Pillsbury, Schlechter, Teichmann, Janowski, etc. Published
by British Chess Magazine, 1904, this book is now in the public domain. |
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(9/14) Endgame Training:
King and a Pawn vs. a Pair of
Pawns by IM Igor Khmelnitsky. "Test Yourself: The question -
Review each position for 30 seconds - 3 minutes (the higher your rating, the
less time you should spend). What result do you expect (White Win, Draw,
Black Win) and why? Next, analyze to check your initial decision. Then
read my article below..." |
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(9/14) Review:
The Chebanenko
Slav According to Bologan by Victor Bologan (New In Chess, 2008),
reviewed by NM Bill McGeary. "...this
form of the Slav has reached the highest levels of the chess elite, having
been played by Kasparov. It is not quite in the same main vein of openings
among the elite, but it does appear in top events and is regularly used by
the world's best. Victor Bologan is at the fore of Moldavian players
and received training as a youngster from Chebanenko. That heritage
combined with being a regular practitioner of the line makes him the perfect
author for this subject..." |
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(9/14) Opening Theory: Four Keys to the Colle-Zukertort - A Car
for the Future by David I. Rudel.
"The Zukertort is based on a single idea -
Black has trouble developing his Q-bishop in Q-pawn games.
Everything from color complex control to targets to plans orbit this central
point. It would be hard to overstate how good a job the C-Z does of
leveraging this idea and its many (sometimes nuanced) ramifications, but
suffice it to say that the C-Z crumbles like under-cooked terra cotta in
your co-worker's office chair if Black can find a use for this Bishop..." |
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(9/14) Guest Editorial:
Getting Straight
from the Get-Go by Darren Dillinger. "Where
do we get these “leaders” from? The financial and management problems
within USCF are well-known. However, those working to determine how and why
USCF found itself in such trouble have only skimmed the surface..." |
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(9/14) Chess History:
Early Computer Chess
Programs by Bill Wall
(Bill Wall's Wonderful World of Chess).
In his latest offering, Bill looks at the beginnings of chess-playing
computer programs. "On March 9, 1949, Claude Shannon
(1916-2001), a research worker at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey,
presented a paper called “Programming a Digital Computer for Playing Chess.”
...He described how to program a computer to play chess based on position
scoring and move selection..." |
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(9/14) Free eBook: The
Manual of Chess by Charles Kenny. "Contains the Elementary
Principles of the Game; Illustrated with Numerous Diagrams, Recent Games,
and Original Problems." Originally published in New York, 1864, this
book is now in the public domain. Find this free download on our
eBooks page. Also visit
Download Central. |
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(9/13)
Nuestro Círculo #319:
13 de septiembre de 2008, dedicado al Maestro estadounidense Walter Penn
Shipley (1860 - 1942). Publicamos, además de su biografía y partidas, las
notas "Gran Slam de Bilbao" con 14 partidas de ese torneo y "Noticias".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(9/13)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: The State of Our Chess Health: Chess & Violence 1, Chess
Problems not Life Problems; Chess & Violence 2, Women as 2nd Class Chess
Citizens?; Chess & Violence 3, Chess Youth Safe?; Gossiping with Inspector
Keene; Liverpool– She Loves Chess, Yeah Yeah Yeah!; Bilbao; Women’s World
Championship Semi-Final; What’s in a Word? |
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(9/7) Instruction: Defence Mafia Style
with GM Nigel Davies (Tigerchess).
GM Davies continues his look at The Sicilain Defence with an examination of
a must-win game for Mark Taimanov from the
1969 Soviet Championship: Lutikov - Taimanov. "In the good old days
Black assumed that his job was to neutralise a White initiative, and would
concentrate his efforts on setting up some kind of bulwark in the centre.
The problem with this approach is that it usually means a draw at best and
these days he tends to adopt a different approach - one of counterattack..." |
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(9/7) Review:
První mezinárodní šachový
turnaj v Praze 1908, [Prague 1908 International Tournament
(in Czech)],
reviewed by
Prof.Nagesh Havanur. "This book is a labour of love by two
Czech historians, Jan Kalendovský and Zdeněk Závodný. Thanks to their
efforts, a classic tournament has been resurrected in all its glory, a
century after the event. 1908 was a great year for chess in Europe.
The great Lasker-Tarrasch World Championship Match was preceded by two
international tournaments, Vienna 1908 and Prague 1908..." |
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(9/7) Chess Composition:
Mate Transference by FIDE Master of Chess Composition Peter Wong (Peter's
Problem World). "In directmate problems, the idea of changed play
can be separated into two categories. The more familiar one, changed
mates, means that in two phases of play the same black defence leads to
different white mating responses. The less usual type, known as mate
transference, reverses the situation..." |
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(9/7) Review:
Play 1...Nc6!
by Christoph Scheerer (previously Wisnewski) Everyman, 2007, reviewed by
Rick Kennedy. "At the grandmaster level, Nimzowitsch’s Defence,
despite the play of such GMs as Miles, and Chigorin’s Defence, despite the
lead taken by GM Morozovich, have remained out of the mainstream, with at
least slightly suspect reputations. For the average player, however,
they have the dual benefit of being both somewhat unknown and yet productive
of positions that give Black many chances to play (and win) his own type of
game..." |
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(9/7) Review:
The Sämisch
King's Indian Uncovered by GM Alexander Cherniaev & FM Eduard Prokuronov
(Everyman Chess, 2008), reviewed by NM Bill McGeary. "Opening
variations go in and out of fashion on a regular basis -- just the nature of
things. It is interesting how the changes in chess taste can alter our view
of specific lines. One line that seems to be immune to such change is the
Sämisch Kings Indian..." |
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(9/7) News:
Les Echecs
des Femmes by JanXena. Jan Newton reports on another month's
chess news by and about the Women in Chess, including Politiken Cup; British
Chess Championships; 2008 World Junior Chess Championships; 10th French
Women's Championship; 2008 Women's World Chess Championship; and this
month's Featured Chess Femme - GM Susan Polgar. |
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(9/7) Training:
Jim Mitch is back with the September Chess Vision exercise,
featuring a game by the 2007 U.S. Women's Chess Champion. Irina Krush
displays strong endgame technique to ensure that a win does not slip away as
a draw. In the Chess Vision exercise players try to
imagine up to 10 moves from a starting diagram, finding all the legal
captures and checks that could be made in the envisioned position. |
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(9/6)
Alekhine's Parrot:
The
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: 9th Montreal – “Empresa”; 12 Year Old Scores 2500 rating;
Un-Official but up-to-date Ratings - Carlson #1; Blogging from Bilbao; The
World Chess Championship; Women’s World Championship; Guest Squawk by ex-USCF
Chess Life Editor, Larry Parr. |
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Nuestro Círculo #318:
6 de septiembre de 2008, dedicado al Maestro inglés William H.K. Pollock que
vivió entre los años 1859 y 1896. Publicamos, además de su biografía y
partidas, las notas "El ajedrez y la guerra", "Aguafiestas 235" y "Entrevista
a Topalov".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(9/4) Hastings 1895 - A
Photographic Record: photos by Bradshaw, with signatures of
the players: Pillsbury, Lasker, Tarrasch, Steinitz, Albin, Schiffers, Teichmann, Bardeleban, Blackburne,
Gunsberg, Mason, etc. |
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(9/4) Free eBook:
The Hastings Chess Tournament 1895, with annotations by Pillsbury,
Lasker, Tarrasch, Steinitz, Schiffers, Teichmann, Bardeleban, Blackburne,
Gunsberg, Tinsley, Mason, and Albin. Also includes biographical
sketches of the masters. Edited by Horace F Cheshire. Originally
published in 1896 by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book is now in the
Public Domain. |
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(8/31) The Other Guy:
Chessville is proud to introduce our readers to Albert H. Alberts,
author of How
To Fool Fritz:
Explorations in Man-Assisted Machine Chess. Albert's
debut column looks at The Other Guy - "The Other Guy -the Abominable
Chess Man- has arrived. Entrenched in mass produced microelectronic
circuitry, he operates in attics, villas, suburban dwellings, shacks,
prisons, ships, airplanes and trains..." |
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(8/31) Space Chess: an
interview with America's chess-playing astronaut by Harvey Lerman. American astronaut, Gregory Chamitoff,
recently played against
all the world ground Control Centers in a single chess game as he passed
over Florida in the International Space Station. Here, reprinted from
floridaCHESS, is the story behind the game, and a fascinating
interview with Dr. Chamitoff. |
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(8/31) Review:
How to Crush Your
Chess Opponents: An Inspiring Guide for the Modern Attacker by GM
Simon Williams (Gambit, 2008), reviewed by NM Bill McGeary. "There
have been some classic books written on how to play attacking chess (Art
of Attack by Vukovic comes to mind) that have taken an approach that
attacking chess can be explained in a compartmentalized or academic fashion.
How to Crush Your Opponents has a different perspective, giving a more
pragmatic or at the board feel..." |
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(8/30)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: 9th Montreal – “Empresa”, How not to play the Colle, Polgar
Offers Olive-Branch, Ground Control to Major Greg, Category 15 in USA, A
1930’s Hollywood star?, Tal Memorial –2008, French Championship, Women’s
World Championship, Pariser Zeitung articles of Alekander Alekhine,
Professor Arpad E. Elo. |
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(8/30)
Review: Super Tournaments 2003
Sergei Soloviov,
reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur. "This book is an
omnibus offering coverage of four major tournaments held in the year 2003:
Corus, Linares, Dortmund and Hoogoven. There are as many as 175 games
fully annotated by GMs Khalifman, Golubev, Shipov and others, preceded by an introduction and report
describing the performance of its participants..."
Includes the annotated games
Judit Polgar - Viswanathan Anand, Corus 2003 and Garry Kasparov - Teimour
Radjabov, Linares 2003. |
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(8/29) GM
Raymond Keene, OBE: Now GM Keene has his own personal website!
Learn more about this enigmatic genius, find out the latest news about his
doings, and see some of the many books he has authored. Visit his
picture gallery, links, and of course - his articles! |
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(8/28) Special Report:
2008 Staunton Memorial Tourney. A Chessville News Special Report
by GM Raymond Keene on the 6th edition of this all-play-all event
from Simpson's-at-the-Strand, London from August 7-18. "Grandmaster
Michael Adams, the UK's highest ranked player, has won the sixth Staunton
Memorial tournament at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, London, ahead of a field
which makes it the strongest all-play-all grandmaster event to have been
held in the UK this century. The following game was instrumental in
Adams victory..." |
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(8/28) Virtual Pieces, Peter Wong's new website, containing original chess icons and graphics.
Wong is better known as a FIDE Master of Chess Composition and the genius
inside Peter's Problem World.
Now he shows off his creative talents in the field of chess-themed graphics.
Visit his site
to see (and download for FREE!) the entire collection. |
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(8/28) Review:
Starting Out: The
Colle by IM Richard Palliser (Everyman, 2007) reviewed by Michael Jeffreys.
"While the Colle has never gotten the
respect of more traditional d4 openings such as the Queen’s Gambit or
Catalan, it still has a loyal following, especially amongst club players.
I believe this is because it is relatively “easy” to play (meaning it
requires minimal theoretical knowledge), yet still contains some poison if
Black fails to take it seriously..." |
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Nuestro Círculo #317:
30 de agosto de 2008, dedicado al Maestro austríaco Berthold Englisch que
vivió entre los años 1851 y 1897. Publicamos, además de su biografía y
partidas, las notas "75º aniversario", "Aguafiestas 234", "Piet Zwart" y "Partidas
del Cto. Femenino 2008".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(8/26) Review: Psychology of Chess (CD/MP3) by Charles
Vald, reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "Out of all the reviews that I
have had posted at Chessville, the one, by far, that has gotten me the most
email is the one that considered
The Pself-Psych
Self-Hypnosis Chess Programs. As recently as last month I had to
inform a reader that the review had originally been written in 1985, that
the product was no longer available... Chess players remain fascinated with the idea
that hypnosis could help..." |
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(8/25) Free
eBook: The Two-Move Chess
Problem by Benjamin Glover Laws. Originally published in
London, 1890. "Strictly, a Chess Problem may be defined as a
proposition requiring the discovery of some concealed chess truth..."
This title includes: The Old Masters, Classes of Problems, Beauty or Merit
of Solution, Construction, Difficulty of Solution, and Selected Problems.
This work is now in the Public Domain; we make it available as a 3.8 MB
download in zipped PDF format. |
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(8/23) Review:
Play the Slav
by FM James Vigus (Everyman Chess, 2008), reviewed by NM Bill McGeary.
"No defense to the Queens Gambit
has been considered more stable than the Slav. I use the word stable
deliberately because the common word, solid, doesn't convey the true nature
of the defense. It is true that Black stakes a spot in the center and holds
on to it like a mother bird to the nest, but there is more. Should White
overreach, or take liberties trying to force matters, the defender has
plenty of resources to cause the advantage to switch sides of the board..." |
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(8/23) Free Download:
Schliemann Gambit - Clyde Nakamura (The
Search for Dragons and Mythical Chess Openings) provides a zipped
PGN file (4.1 MB) of 16,095 games and 22 analysis lines of the Schliemann
Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f4). Find it at the bottom of
the very long list of articles and downloads that Clyde has contributed, or
on our Games by Opening
page. |
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(8/23)
Review:
Depth and Beauty: Chess Endgame Studies of Artur Mandler,
Translated
and Edited by John Beasley, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur. "This
book is a labour of love by John Beasley, author and columnist for Endgame
Studies, British Chess Magazine. Artur Mandler (1891-1971) was a
brilliant endgame composer and analyst. He was a close friend of Reti
whose studies he collected and published in 1931. This book is a
critical edition of his work Studie (Prague, 1970), a collection of his
endgame compositions. It deservedly won the Arves Book of the Year
Award..." |
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Nuestro Círculo #316:
23 de agosto de 2008, dedicado al Maestro alemán Johanes Metger que vivió
entre los años 1850 y 1926. Publicamos, además de su biografía y partidas,
las notas "Caballero del Ajedrez", "Genial descubrimiento", "Herramientas
siglo XXI", "El Aguafiestas 233" y "Partidas del Torneo Argentino Femenino".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(8/23)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Chess in Prison, O! Canada!, Ground Control to Major Greg, 2008
Olympiad – US Squads, Women’s W Ch too dangerous?, Tal Memorial, French
Championship, Hastings, Staunton Memorial, Chess Variants, Liberals,
Radicals… |
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(8/23)
Editorial: Is CXR Trying To Take Down the USCF? by Russ Mollot,
founder of Chess Express Ratings. "We
support the many vital services provided by the USCF and are not (as some
people fear) trying to cause any harm to that organization...However, we do not
believe that the USCF has some "Divine Right" to a monopoly..." |
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(8/20) New Download Page - Free
Chess eBooks: We now have more than 20 eBooks available, and
dozens more just waiting to be added to our growing collection. So
many, in fact, that we had to make a special page just for these eBooks.
You'll find everything from chess problem collections to historical books to
opening analysis and more! Check it out on our new
Free Downloadable Chess eBooks page. |
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(8/20) Free eBook:
The Modern Chess Instructor by William Steinitz, originally
published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York & London, in 1889. The World
Champion included essays on the principles of the game, 'Chess as a Training
of the Mind and How to Improve', and his annotations of a match between
himself and Tschigorin played at Havana in early 1889, along with analysis
of a half-dozen openings and beginner instruction. This work is now in
the Public Domain. |
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(8/17) Annotated Game: Men of Staunton by
GM Ray Keene (Keene on Chess). "Howard
Staunton, Shakespearean scholar, chronicler of the British public school
system and organiser of the first ever international chess tournament was
also the only Englishman who has so far established a claim to be the world
chess champion of his day. What is more, the pieces in universal
employ for all major events are known as the Staunton chessmen..." |
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(8/17) Review:
True Lies in
Chess by GM Lluís Comas Fabregó (Quality Chess, 2007), reviewed
by Rick Kennedy. "The author never quite gets around to the “Lies”
part of things – I can imagine Reinfeld and Horowitz, half a century ago,
whispering conspiratorially, Sure, you know and I know that
a Queen is worth 12 pawns, but let’s keep the rubes in the dark and tell
them she’s only worth 9... What GM Comas Fabregó is really
concerned about is objectivity in chess, and, as a result, a necessary
skepticism by chess players toward knowledge that has been passed on – as
Petrosian said, “trust – but verify...”" |
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(8/17) Move Prediction
Exercise: A new "Recon64" Move Prediction Exercise from
Jim Mitch (aka
Professor Chester
Nuhmentz.) The latest edition of the Recon64 move
prediction exercise features a game by Gata Kamsky, the current
highest-rated US player. |
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Nuestro Círculo #315:
16 de agosto de 2008, dedicado a la W.I.M. argentina Marisa Zuriel.
Publicamos, además de su reportaje, partidas de los recientes torneos "Copa
Mercosur 2008" y "Finales del Campeonato Argentino 2008".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(8/16)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: US Open, New England Masters, Rybka Showing Off (again),
Women's World Championship, the Erratic Genius of Rashid Nezhmetdinov,
Sochi, World Junior Championships, Staunton Memorial. |
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(8/13) Review:
Play 1.b4!, Shock
Your Opponents with the Sokolsky by IM Yury Lapshun and NM Nick Conticello
(Everyman Chess, 2008), reviewed by NM Bill McGeary. "There
is something unique about the opening 1.b4. Just naming it has some
interesting peculiarities: is it the Polish opening, or the Orang-Utan, or
Sokolsky's Opening? ...Is it sound? ...it is of course
much better than some of the odd gambits that appear in clubs. Yet,
the number of famous names who have played it is nothing to take lightly,
including Tartakower and Miles..." |
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(8/13) Review:
The Day Kasparov
Quit by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur.
"Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, the author of this book needs no
introduction...I made my first acquaintance with his writing when I read his
book Finding Bobby Fischer, a collection of interviews
with celebrities of chess, which originally appeared in New in Chess
magazine...The book was a revelation, an extraordinary glimpse of the inner
lives of chess masters...This book is a sequel and has a similar format.
If Fischer dominates the scene in the first book, it is Kasparov who
dominates in the second..." |
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(8/12) UCO Theory:
The
Omega-Delta Gambit by Clyde Nakamura (The
Search for Dragons and Mythical Chess Openings). "The Omega-Delta
Gambit (1.Nf3 d5 2. g3 e5) is a second generation
Omega Gambit and I was very fascinated with playing this reversed form of
the Omega Gambit. I had played many Omega Gambit games already, so I
was very familiar with the strategy and tactics of an Omega Gambit from
either side of the board..." |
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(8/11)
Free Download:
The Works of Gíanutío, and Gustavus Selenus on the Game of Chess,
translated and arranged by
J.H. Sarratt. According to
Wikipedia, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg wrote his
book on chess, Chess or the King's Game, under the pseudonym Gustavus
Selenus. Gianutio, meanwhile, is known for a pair of lines in the
King's Gambit. First published at London, 1817, we make it available
in zipped PDF format. |
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(8/10) Chess Training -
The
b-pawn: Responsibilities
and Possibilities,
another Chess Lesson of the Month from IM Igor Khmelnitsky.
"There are many opening variations where you would want to have your
bishop developed on the long diagonal. This is especially true when
there is a pawn on e3(e6)...Even though your Bishop might look much better
on the long diagonal, you always must keep in mind that the b-pawn has
certain responsibilities and advancing it may give some
tactical possibilities to your opponent..." |
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(8/10) Review:
ECO Volume D - 4th Edition reviewed by
Prof. Nagesh Havanur. "Although this volume landed on my doorstep
immediately after its release, I was not able to examine it in detail on
account of my tough academic schedule. When I did take it up, I
wondered whether Informant Publishers had already come up with a new
edition. They have not. My other concern was whether this volume
had already become dated in four years since its release on account of rapid
changes in opening theory. The answer to this question is yes and
no..." |
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(8/10) Chess Composition:
Shortest Proof Games Part 2 by Peter Wong (Peter's
Problem World). "The
genre of
shortest proof game (SPG)
was introduced in the previous column.
Here we will look further into this problem type by considering some
lengthier examples with more elaborate ideas..." |
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(8/9)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: MAGNANIMOUS MAGNUS ON ICC!, ABC TV & Chessville team-up, No rest
for the wicked? Fischers’s bones, Sochi, The Najdorf Memorial, North Urals
Cup, British Championship, Staunton Memorial, Squaaawk! – The end of it all? |
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(8/9) Bobby Fischer's Final
Resting Place: We previously brought you news of
Fischer's Memorial Service,
16
February 2008
at Laugardaelakirkja church... We also informed of
The Memoriam Book set up for him...
Courtesy of Einar S. Einarsson we bring you pictures of Bobby Fischer's
gravesite, his headstone, and the surrounding area. |
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(8/8)
Why Chess Programs Find Good Moves,
But Barely Understand Chess After All; by Thomas Hall.
"The success of today's chess programs is undeniable...every user however,
who lets a strong chess engine play against itself in analysis mode, will
notice that the engine's assumptions don't often come true..." |
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(8/8)
Chess
History: Chess Olympiad Trivia by Bill Wall (Bill
Walls's Wonderful World of Chess). "After the World Chess
Championship, the Chess Olympiad is the most important event in the
international chess calendar, which occurs every two years. While the
athletes get ready for the Summer Games on August 8, 2008 in Beijing, the
chess players are getting ready for the Chess Olympiad in Dresden in
November..." |
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(8/7)
Nuestro Círculo #314:
9 de agosto de 2008,
dedicado al Maestro ruso
Emmanuel S. Schiffers (1850-1904). Publicamos, además de su biografía,
las notas: "Neuropéptidos", "Festival Biel 2008" y "Record de Najdorf".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(8/5) Chess Cartoon:
Another chess-themed cartoon from The Chess Player Chronicles by
Gary Gifford, this one is labeled "A Few Boards Short" and joins more than a
dozen other chess-themed cartoons in our growing collection. Enjoy! |
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(8/4) News - Les Femmes des Eches:
JanXena's monthly look at the Women in Chess, and the chess in women!
JanXena reports on the Philadelphia Open, the North Urals Cup, the
5th Annual Susan Polgar Invitational, the Mainz
Chess Classic, and the FiNet Chess960 Women's Rapid World
Championship. Also featured are sneak peeks at upcoming events,
including the 2008 Chess Olympiad and the Woman's World Championship, plus a
rundown of chess In the News, and this month's Featured Chess Femme - Judit
Polgar as you've NEVER seen her before! |
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(8/4)
Free Download:
The Works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez, and Salvio, on the Game of Chess
by J.H. Sarratt. Translated and arranged by J.H. Sarratt,
including "remarks, observations, and copious notes, on the games.
Containing also several original games and situations by the Editor.
To which are added, The Elements of the Art of Playing without seeing the
Board." The latter "Chiefly taken from Damiano's scarce and valuable
treatise.."
First printed in London in April 1813,
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(8/3) The Sicilian Exchange Sacrifice:
GM Nigel Davies (Tigerchess) looks at an
important strategic theme in one of today's most dynamic openings: "I recall
that Bent Larsen opined that if he were suddenly transported back in time he
would easily become World Champion. The point he was making was not
that modern players are more talented or creative than their predecessors,
only that they have the benefit of knowing more. Certain ideas and
strategies that at one time had to be created anew, today are merely a
question of technique..." |
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(8/3) Corus Diaries 2008 -
The Caruana Kid: by Dr. Albert Alberts, author of How To Fool
Fritz
- Explorations in Man Assisted Machine Chess. The final chapter of
Dr. Alberts' coverage of the famous tournament at Wijk ann Zee at long last
sees the light of day. Dr. Alberts muses about why computers play
better then humans, and looks at the games Caruana - Loek van der Wiel, and
Friso Nijboer - Caruana. |
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(8/2)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: SPNI – Big US Tourney for Girls, Sochi, North Urals Cup, Biel,
Mainz 2008. |
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(8/2)
Chess Training: Jim Mitch,
(aka Prof.
Chester Nuhmentz) brings you another opportunity to sharpen your chess
visualization skills.
A game by Gata Kamsky, the current highest-rated US player, is featured in
the August Chess Vision exercise, where players try to
imagine up to 10 moves from a starting diagram, finding all the legal
captures and checks that could be made in the envisioned position. |
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(8/2) Editorial:
The Black Hole In Chess
Ratings Part III by Russ Mollot. Chess Express Ratings honcho
Russ Mollot concludes his series of articles looking at rating deflation
caused by unrealistically low scholastic ratings with a series of
recommendations designed to counteract the "black hole in chess, warping the
rating system, causing all established ratings to be pulled steadily
lower..." In case you missed them:
Part I and
Part II. |
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(8/1) Review:
UltraCorr (CD), Edited by Tim Harding, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh
Havanur. "Correspondence chess abounds in opening experiments and
theoretical novelties...their innovations are deep and many of them have
stood the test of time. One can study the rise and fall of any
critical variation with the help of the search function in this
database...The current CC world champion is Joop Van Oosteroom, the
well-known patron of the famous Melody Amber tournament, is a powerful
attacking player and the following game is taken from the database..." |
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(7/31)
Nuestro Círculo #313:
2 de agosto de 2008,
dedicado al Maestro
irlandés James Mason (1849-1909). Publicamos, además de su biografía, las
notas: "Aguafiestas 232", "Ajedrez en San Luis" y "Partidas del Festival
Biel 2008".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(7/30)
Free Download:
Chess In Iceland and Icelandic Literature
by Willard Fiske. Today we offer the first of many new
additions we will be making in the coming weeks to our collection of eBooks.
Originally published in 1905 by the Florentine Typographical Society, this
work by Willard Fiske is now in the Public Domain. We make it
available in zipped PDF format. Find it on our main
Downloads page. |
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(7/27) Triple Penguin:
NM Brian Wall (Going to the Wall) brings
you another of his long-winded, irreverent, aside-filled, and highly
entertaining diatribes, with the alarmingly long title "Triple Penguin,
Double Full Metal Jacket, Queen sac, Rook sac, Knight sac, Endgame study,
and Proverbs - all in one game!" |
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(7/27): UCO - Bird's Opening with 2...Bg4: ICCF-IM Keith Hayward (The
Road Not Taken) analyzes 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3
Bg4. "Several
readers asked me to analyze this move. Admittedly, it is my favorite choice
as Black..." |
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(7/27) Chess Story:
Fallen Pawns -
Rick Kennedy shares a brand-new Kennedy Kids adventure. "Chessville
readers can follow the light-hearted chess adventures of “The
Kennedy
Kids”
– Mary Elizabeth, Jon and Matt – in two dozen short stories written by their
dad, Rick Kennedy. Although there are plenty more tales to tell of the
younger Kids,
Rick thought it would be interesting to update the trio and check in on
their adventures, chessic and otherwise..." |
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(7/27) Review:
Chess
Tactics Quiz Book by IM Vaidyanathan Ravikumar, reviewed by Michael
Jeffreys. "...there is a significant amount of information given along
with each problem. Above the diagram along with the player’s name, the
tournament the game was played in and the date, is the name of the tactic
used, i.e. pin, undermining, fork, etc. Beneath
each problem is a paragraph about the position you are being asked to
solve..." |
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(7/27) Review:
Chess
Assistant 9.1 & Chess Databases 2007 both from Convekta, reviewed by Prof.
Nagesh Havanur. "Convekta Ltd., the well-known Russian
chess company, has just announced that it is going to release CA 10, along with their engine Rybka 3, soon. In recent years Convekta products have carved a niche of their own in
the world of chess software. The flagship Chess Assistant in particular has
come up with new features and improved performance with each version..." |
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(7/27) Chess Cartoon:
Another side-splitting cartoon from The Chess Player Chronicles by
Gary Gifford, this one is labeled "Dragon Takes Bishop" joins more than a
dozen other chess-themed cartoons in our growing collection. Enjoy! |
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(7/26)
Chess Reports: from Bob Long.
Bob brings you another free issue of his publication, Chess Reports,
an ongoing series of pdf files delivered every other Friday via e-mail.
Each issue contains a wealth of chess instruction, with a wide variety of
subject matter. The latest free issue for Chessville's readers (Issue
#60, 27 June 2008) includes Master Lessons for Us All by FM Allan Savage;
Blunder Checking - The Analytical Method in Chess Thinking; Book & DVD
Reviews; the Editor's Hammer; and the Latest from Thinker's Press. |
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(7/26)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Beat The Parrot!, US Olympiad Squads Announced, Chessville
by Knight, Susan Polgar Teases Chess, World Championship off again?, World
Mind Sports administration, the USCF way, Spare a minute for Jacques?,
Problems with core product – Ratings, Biel – Our Alex holds the Kid, Fischer
the Peace-Monger? |
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(7/24)
Nuestro Círculo #312:
26 de julio de 2008, dedicado al Maestro inglés Amos Burn (1848-1925).
Publicamos, además de su biografía, las notas: "75º aniversario", "Recuerdos
del C.A.V.P." y "Perfume de mujer."
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(7/23) Review:
Chess Tips for the
Improving Player by FM Amatzia Avni, reviewed by David Surratt.
"Why is it important that Avni's psychology background plays such a large
role in his writings? Well it's like this - to paraphrase that famed
baseball philosopher Yogi Berra, chess is 90% mental, and the other half is
knowledge and ability. Perhaps the greatest challenge for most players
is controlling their thoughts and emotions during the game, and training
their mind to focus on the things that matter, rather than things that don't..." |
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(7/23)
US Armed Forces Inter-Service
Championship: By Andres D. Hortillosa.
"Army
Specialist Baniel succeeded in demolishing the Air Force surgeon Dr.
(Colonel) Echaure in the last round to secure top honors...The sensation of
the tournament, Elena Dulger of the Air Force finished in clear second.
The young airwoman’s impressive performance commences a new beginning in
military chess..." |
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(7/20) Magnum Force: GM
Raymond Keene (Keene On Chess) writes
about the great young talent GM Magnus Carlsen, and his recent victory at
the 2008 Aerosvit Tournament. "Carlsen
finished on 8/11 ahead of Ivanchuk, Karjakin and Eljanov. Carlsen now
has real chances of smashing the record set by Kasparov for becoming the
youngest ever world champion. Kasparov did this age 22 in 1985.
Magnus therefore has around five years left in which to topple the record..." |
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(7/20) Chess Fiction:
Great Grandma's Wooden Horses by Russ Mollot. Enjoy Russ's
initial offering in this genre, a delightful little story that just might
have actually happened. Or did it?
"It was as a
small child, perhaps five years old, that I first saw the chess pieces.
They were carved wood, and I was fascinated by the interesting shapes –
particularly the horses! My grandmother told me that they had been
given to her mother by some stranger when she was traveling in some country
that Grandma called Flanders..." |
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(7/20) Reviews:
Two Books by Dr. Alexey W. Root, WIM:
Children and Chess:
A Guide for Educators and Science, Math, Checkmate: 32
Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving, reviewed by Rick
Kennedy.
Thinking of adding chess to your curriculum? Have just "a few teeny
tiny hurdles to clear, such as convincing your principal, and maybe the
Superintendent and perhaps the School Board[?] Oh, and addressing State
Standards for education. And finding
some lesson plans. Those would help, too. Fortunately,
Women’s International Master Alexey W. Root – make that Doctor Root, too, as
in “PhD” – has been there, and done that." |
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(7/20) Move Prediction
Exercise: A new "Recon64" Move Prediction Exercise from
Jim Mitch (aka
Professor Chester
Nuhmentz.) The latest edition of the Recon64 move
prediction exercise features a game by Siegbert Tarrasch -- the great
chess writer, teacher, and innovator. |
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(7/19) The Black Hole in Chess Ratings – Part II: Russ Mollot (founder,
Chess Express
Ratings) is back with a follow-up to his controversial
first article on
distortions in the local rating pool. "Like a celestial “black hole”
... there is a black hole in chess, warping the rating system, causing all
established ratings to be pulled steadily lower..." |
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(7/19) Chess Composition: Finales... y Temas
#48. ICCF-GM José Copié is back with another installment of this
Spanish-language (figurine algebraic notation) publication dedicated to
chess endings and studies. Chessville now hosts 14 issues for your
enjoyment! |
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(7/19) Review:
My
Best Games Volumes Two by Viktor Korchnoi, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur.
"Korchnoi
is a virtuoso with Black pieces and a master of counterattack. He has loved playing complex and difficult positions.
His penchant for complications has brought him a number of victories from
exciting battles. It is no wonder that his inspiration has always been
Emanuel Lasker, who usually fought on the edge of the precipice. In this second volume there are
50 games with Black. The index of opponents reads like the Who’s Who
in modern chess..." |
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(7/19)
Nuestro Círculo #311:
19 de julio de 2008, dedicado al Maestro rumano Adolf Albin (1848-1920).
Publicamos, además de su biografía, las notas: "Dice Jorge Vega" y "Reglas
de Steinitz, 2a.parte".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez
editado en Argentina en lenguaje español. |
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(7/19) Annotated Game:
Kasparov-Korchnoi,
Candidates Match, London, 1983. Annotated by Prof. Nagesh
Havanur, this annotated game was Kasparov’s only
loss to Korchnoi. |
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(7/13) Keep the Tension:
GM Nigel Davies (Tigerchess) looks at a
little-understood and infrequently discussed part of chess understanding -
tension. "I have come to realise that one of the
hallmarks of very strong players is the ability to recognise when they
should try to do something and when it is better to play a move which just
simply improves their position..." |
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(7/13) Chess Instruction:
King in
the Corner - Trapped or Safe? Find out with
IM Igor Khmelnitsky in his July Chess
Lesson of the Month. "Sending
your King to the corner often may seem too dangerous or even
counter-intuitive. While sometimes the King can be mated in the corner, in
other times, he may find it to be the safest place, mainly due to a
stalemate idea..." |
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(7/13) Opening Analysis:
The Play of the Jackal
(Attack) by Adrian Skelton. "The Jackal Attack
is a sharp but relatively unknown opening system occasionally used by White
against the French Defence... The opening occasionally emerges from
lines in which White plays 1.Nc3 or where Black initially intends playing a
Centre Counter, occasionally a Sicilian, or even a Caro-Kann but unwittingly
allowed his opponent to steer the game towards Jackal type positions... A
main line runs: 1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.d4 c5 6.Bg5!?
to reach the position below..." |
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(7/13)
Chess Around the World - and
Beyond: Bill Wall (Bill Wall's
Wonderful World of Chess) takes you on a tour of chess as it appears all
over our planet - and beyond! From Afghanistan to Yerevan, and even
into outer space, nowhere is off limits to Bill Wall's Wonderful World (and
Beyond!) of Chess. |
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(7/13) Review:
Hooked On Chess
by Bill Hook (New In Chess, 2008), reviewed by Rick Kennedy.
"Check out the back cover of Hooked on Chess... There’s a color
photo of the author, tanned and silver-haired, face shaded by the brim of
his casual hat... The slow smile says it all: ah, for Bill
Hook, life is good! Flip to the front cover. Men playing chess.
Serious chess. Shirts, ties, suits, hats. Pensive faces.
Onlookers. Newspapers and discussions in the background. More
chess. The New York Academy of Chess and Checkers. Fisher’s.
The Flea House. In between the covers of this memoir, Bill Hook
literally places his life story..." |
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(7/13) Reviews:
My Best Games Volumes One by Viktor Korchnoi, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur.
"When the Russian Team
Championship commenced in Sochi last April, some of the participants were in
for a shock. The luck of the tournament pairings brought each of them
face to face with the old war lord, Victor Korchnoi. Victor, the
Terrible as he was known in the prime of his career shows no mercy to his
opponents, least of all himself. Even as tired players on other boards
signed a peace treaty and left together for a drink, good old Victor fought
on till the bitter end. But then Korchnoi has always been true to
himself..." |
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(7/12)
Nuestro Círculo #310:
12 de julio de 2008, dedicado al Maestro inglés John Wisker (1846-1884).
Publicamos, además de su biografía, las notas: "Capablanca-Alekhine" y "Sparkassen
Dortmund" con 11 partidas del reciente torneo.
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(7/11) UCO Opening Theory -
Chiodini's Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Nxe5 Nc6: Walk a while with Clyde
Nakamura on his never-ending Search for
Dragons and Mythical Chess Openings as he takes a look at yet another
unorthodox approach to solving the opening problem. "In
1997 Stefano Vezzani, an email chess friend had said that his friend had
invented a new gambit from the black side called Chiodini's Gambit (1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Nxe5 Nc6)... I recently compiled a database of this gambit
and found that the gambit originated in 1906 in the game David Baird -
Busch..." |
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(7/10)
The Parrot's Picture Album #4:
Each week The Parrot closes his column with one or more "Rare Chess
Pictures." Every six months we gather them together to form another
volume of
The Parrot's Picture Album.
Here's the latest batch, taken from The Parrot's columns published during
the first six months of 2008. |
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(7/6) Chess Composition - Shortest
Proof Games Part One: another lesson from FIDE Master of Chess
Composition Peter Wong (Peter's Problem
World.) "The shortest proof game
(SPG) is a type of problem in which the task is to reconstruct a legal
game. Starting from the opening array, the solver has to find the shortest
possible game that leads to the diagram position..." |
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(7/6) Review: Zimbeck's Chess Puzzles by David Zimbeck,
reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "Owwwwwwwwww! My head hurts!! But
like the song goes – it hurts so good... I’ve been working on
problems in David Zimbeck’s new book, subtitled “The hardest chess
puzzles known to mankind.” I am no Milan Vukcevich, but I think
the author is onto something. Those who enjoy solving these little
mysteries (and I use the word “enjoy” advisedly) have some serious fun
(ditto) ahead of you..." |
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(7/6)
Chess Training: Jim Mitch,
(aka Prof.
Chester Nuhmentz) brings you another opportunity to sharpen your chess
visualization skills. A game by Siegbert Tarrasch -- the great
chess writer, teacher, and innovator -- is featured in this month's Chess
Vision exercise, where players try to
imagine up to 10 moves from a starting diagram, finding all the legal
captures and checks that could be made in the envisioned position. |
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(7/6)
Nuestro Círculo #309:
5 de julio de 2008, dedicado al Maestro alemán Emil Schallopp (1843-1919).
Publicamos, además de su biografía, las notas: "Reglas de Steinitz", "Torneo
de la Despedida" y "María Carolina Luján (!!!)".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(7/6) Chess Cartoons:
another new chess cartoon from The Chess Player's Chronicles
courtesy of Gary Gifford. Check out the thumbnails & links to all of
the chess-themed cartoons in our growing collection! |
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(7/5)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Beat the Parrot!, GM Baburin wants your opinion, SPICE Cup
Reps, "Our Nigel" - again, leaks, Mangalia Chess Festival, Big Bucks at
Bilbao, and Conversations in the real world. |
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