Here's what was New at Chessville between
1 October 2008 and 31 December 2008
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(12/30) Fritz Fooled Again: Albert Alberts
(Explorations in Man-Assisted Machine Chess)
once again dissects his techniques for beating the silicon monsters lurking
out there. In this article he explains his 'Rules-of-Thumb', refutes
the Keres Attack in the Sicilian after 13...de3, and reveals several
Houdini-like escape tricks the
Machines will use on you. |
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(12/29)
Chess History: A brand new Mad Aussie's
Trivia page from the Mad Aussie himself, Graham Clayton, with more than
four dozen new items to entertain and instruct. Read about chess at
war, at love, and more. See one of the prettiest checkmates
ever, and learn about the strongest squad ever assembled for any Olympiad or
team championship. Of course, there are plenty of your favorite -
Who Am I? - sprinkled throughout the page, to test your knowledge of
current and former chess players in history! Visit all 25 pages of the
Mad Aussie's trivia. |
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(12/29) Review:
Zuke 'Em - the
Colle-Zukertort Revolutionized by David Rudel, reviewed by NM Bill McGeary.
"The basic sequence for the
Zukertort is 1.d4 2.Nf3, 3.e3, 4.b3, creating the impression of a
smart compact formation. It would seem that such a simple approach would
hardly need many pages to describe, but players of this opening know it
isn't nearly that simple. Author David Rudel takes his turn at tackling the
problems that occur in playing this opening for White..." |
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(12/28) 2008 World Championship Game
Three - Kramnik vs Anand: GM Raymond Keene (Keene
On Chess) looks deeply into the "surreal" game three from this year's
World Chess Championship match, played out in Bonn, Germany, in October
2008. Keene also discusses the ideal number of games for such a match,
and discusses the reasons behind Anand's victory. |
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(12/28) Review:
Winning with the Krazy Kat and Old Hippo,
by Gary K. Gifford, Davide Rozzoni and Bill Wall (Lulu Press, 2008),
reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "Gifford, Rozzoni and Wall have created
quite a gift – to Hippo players and to explorers of the unorthodox equally.
Club players who have wanted to add that “push your pawns defense” to their
repertoire (isn’t it annoying when the local Expert does that to you?) but
who would like a pathway through the swamp of variations can rejoice with
this resource: the Kat ain’t Krazy after all, and the Hippo ain’t near being
old…" |
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(12/28) Annotated Games:
NM Lawrence Tamarkin's (A New York Chess Player (Lessons From The Marshall Chess Club)) latest article -
4 Rated Games Tonight! at
the Marshall Chess Club on November 13, 2008. "After a
long pause I am back with annotated games from the Marshall Chess Club's
excellent 4-Rated Games Tonight! tournament. This
event, run by director Steve Immitt (and his subs when he is not available),
is one of the longest running continuing weekly chess tournaments in
America..." Includes Larry's "money-round" game against
GM
Maurice Ashley. |
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Nuestro Círculo #334:
27 de deciembre de 2008, dedicado al ajedrecista inglés Victor L. Wahltuch,
cuya vida transcurrió entre 1875 y 1953. Además de su biografía y
partidas, puedes ver en este número partidas de los torneos Nanquín 2008,
ganado por el G.M. Veselin Topalov, y Brasil 2008 cuyo primer lugar lo ocupó
el joven Maestro Internacional brasileño André Diamant. ¡Que en el año
2009 puedas cosechar todo lo que sembraste durante el 2008!
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
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Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Hugh Edward Myers has passed; Rare Chess Sets; Saving USCF –
Mortgage not lawsuits; Biggest Chess Dudes; World Simul Attempt; USCF
Elections; Berkeley – Results; Carlos Torre – Onishuk Wins; Big Berkeley;
Euro Rapid Championship; The Parrot Squaawks about beating Morphy. |
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(12/24)
Chess Problem Journal - Vratnika-64:
A PDF document, featuring Figurine Algebraic Notation. Coverage includes such items as,
e.g., Masterpieces of Chess
Problems and the World Chess Solving Championship, specific
competitions, etc. Find this free download, along with tons of other
free stuff, on our Free Downloads
page. |
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(12/24) Chess-Themed Art:
"My latest work with a chess theme: The Jester of Chess.
Original in oil, 20 by 30. "Hope you all like it," Roger Morin.
"My painting reflects my own diversity. In
addition to being an artist, I am a chess master and a bodybuilder. In
my work, I use ideas from all these areas. Further, I chose styles and
techniques that fit the idea of each painting rather than fitting the idea
to traditional techniques..." Find Roger's latest effort,
The Jester of Chess, as part of a Baker's Dozen of
his chess-themed paintings. |
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(12/23) Links Update:
Linkmeister Scott Strattner has been busy updating another section of
our links collection - the
Beginner and Scholastic Links page. Full of great sites that
can help you or that newbie you're trying to teach, sites like 50 Chess
Games for Beginners, America's Foundation for Chess, Chess-in-the-Schools,
and more than five dozen other interesting and instructive chess sites for
beginners. Enjoy! |
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(12/23) Training:
Recon64. A new Move Prediction Exercise from
Jim Mitch (aka
Professor Chester
Nuhmentz.) Known as Rubenstein's Immortal, the game
chosen for the December
2008 Move Prediction exercise features
one of the most beautiful combinations of all time. Even if you won't be
working through the exercise, treat yourself to viewing the game starting
with Black's 22nd move. The sequence that develops from there is stunning,
and a real challenge to find for this exercise... |
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(12/23) Chess Cartoon: Gary
Gifford's latest adds to our ever-growing collection of chess-themed
cartoons. Enjoy all of Gary's cartoons, along with several from other
contributors, all on our Cartoon page. |
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(12/21) Free eBook:
A Selection of Games At Chess, Actually Played by Philidor and His
Contemporaries. Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts
with Notes and Additions by George Walker, (English chess master and
writer, born March 1803 – died April 1879). Published at London in
1835 by Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, it includes an Appendix: On the Pawn
and Three Moves, and The Game of the Pawns. This Public Domain
eBook is presented as a zipped PDF file; find it and many others on our
always-free Downloadable eBooks page. |
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(12/21)
Nuestro Círculo #333:
20 de deciembre de 2008, dedicado al Mto. Internacional Neozelandés Robert
Graham Wade, recientemente fallecido. Además de su biografía y
partidas, puedes leer en este número las notas "Brillantes partidas
argentinas", "El aguafiestas 237", "El dolor de ya no ser", "Borges y el
ajedrez" y "Grandes 6,5 - Chicos 4,5".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez
editado en Argentina en lenguaje español. |
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(12/20)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Rare Chess sets; CXR Does It Again; GM Antonio wins sixth US
title; First Indonesian WGM is 16; Big International Tournament – Nanjing,
China; Fischer Film Nixed; New Russian Woman Champion, Changes at the top
according to the ACP. |
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(12/14) Review:
How to Play Chess
Endgames by GM Karsten Müller & IM Wolfgang Pajeken (Gambit, 2008),
reviewed by Michael Jeffreys. "Several years ago I was at Santa Monica
Chess Park when an expert player said to me, “Guess what I have inside my
bag?” Joking around, I said, “I don’t know, a gun!?” He smiled
and said, “No, something better!” And pulled out a copy of
Fundamental Chess Endings by Karsten Müller and
Frank Lamprecht... Indeed, to a chess player, a copy of FCE is
certainly more valuable than a gun..." |
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(12/14) Chess Lesson of the
Month: Look Left, Pass Right or How to Keep the Whole Board Under
Control! by IM Igor
Khmelnitsky. "Over the past couple of months I saw a few
games that had one thing in common - a sudden long move with the queen,
seemingly in the opposite direction to where the main battle was happening.
Here is the first example: Kamsky - Ivanchuk (Sochi 2008)..." |
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(12/14) Unorthodox Chess Openings:
Elephant Gambit Miniatures by
Clyde Nakamura (The Search for Dragons
and Mythical Chess Openings). "To learn any new chess opening or gambit it has been my
practice to first look at the miniature games in that opening you intend to
master... By looking at miniature games from that opening you can
quickly pick up on the traps, tactics, strategy and opening mistakes that
can decide the game. In this article I will show some key
miniature Elephant Gambit games (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5) to give you an
idea of how to play this interesting gambit..." |
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(12/14) Free eBook:
The Chess Euclid; A Collection of Two Hundred Chess Problems and
End-Games, Composed by Joseph Kling. Published in London in 1849,
this book is now in the Public Domain. Josef Kling (March 19, 1811 –
December 1, 1876) was a German chess master and chess composer. In
1851 he wrote Chess Studies with Bernhard Horwitz (Wikipedia). Kling,
along with Horwitz, also edited the magazine Chess Player from
1851-3. Presented as an 8.9 MB zipped PDF file, you'll find this eBook
on our Free Chess eBooks page, along with
nearly three-dozen others. |
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(12/13)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Rare Chess sets on display, Is Chess Really Good for Kids? 3
perspectives; But how do we spend our US Chess Bucks?; Big International
Tournament Nanjing, China; Fide Furor – Drugs in the Rugs and in Ivanchuk?;
Old Friends Write BackChessville acquires new office complex. |
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Nuestro Círculo #332:
13 de deciembre de 2008, dedicado
al G. M. Postal argentino
José A. Copié. Además de su reportaje, publicamos la nota "Carlsen y el
Grand Prix".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(12/7) Is Your
EGO Costing You Your ELO? by Michael Jeffreys. "We've
all seen it. A chess player loses a game and then lectures their
opponent on how "badly" they played and how lucky they were to win: "You
were so busted I had you crushed!" And then under their breath they
add, "How could I lose to this fish!?" while shaking their head in disgust.
What's going on here? Why is this player venting his frustration at
the other player, rather than where it belongs: on himself. The answer
can be summed up in one word..." |
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(12/7) Chess Composition - Line
Strategy: Peter Wong's latest lesson from Peter's Problem World.
"Problem themes of the strategic variety are based on the concrete departure
and arrival effects of moves. Such strategic ideas may be divided into two
main types, those that involve the occupation of squares, and those that
focus on lines, as utilized by the three long-range pieces: queen, rook, and
bishop. Having looked at the former – particularly square-vacation and
square-obstruction – in the previous column, we now turn our attention to
line play, which in comparison offers a greater range of possible
effects..." |
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(12/7)
Review:
Play 1.b3! The Nimzo-Larsen
Attack: A Friend for Life
by IM Ilya Odessky,
reviewed by NM Bill McGeary. "[1972-73]
was the apex of popularity for 1.b3, and I sought out and devoured the games
as if they were my favorite cookies. Larsen of course was the pioneer, but
two younger players, Ljubojevic and Bellon, were shifting the white queen
knight pawn one square. As with any games I studied at the time, only
fragments made it through to me, but the sheer excitement of knowing that a
new opening was being formed was enough for me..." |
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(12/7) Chess Cartoon:
Stimulus Package is the title of Gary Gifford's latest
addition to our ever-growing collection of chess-themed cartoons.
Enjoy all of Gary's cartoons, along with several from other contributors,
all on our Cartoon page. |
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(12/7) Links Update:
Chessville's linkmeister, Scott Strattner, has finished updating our listing of links to Chess
Clubs, which now includes a link to Google Maps! If you don't
find your club listed here, be sure to let Scott know so he can add your
club's link to our growing collection. |
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(12/7) Annotated Game:
Bronstein-Petrosian 1978
with annotations by NM Brian Wall (Going to
the Wall). "...you miss certain people, even if they're not dead,
like the smooth positional wins of Smyslov,
the un-theoretical but deadly style of Petrosian, the fearless and endlessly
energetic style of Tal, the relentlessly logical positional squeezes of
Botvinnik, the un-theoretical but lively attacking style of Spassky, the
endless delight of David Bronstein who always played to surprise you..." |
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(12/7) Chess Training:
Jim Mitch (Prof.
Chester Nuhmentz) is back with another great new chess training exercise
just for Chessville's readers - it's the December
Chess Vision exercise! "Known
as Rubenstein's Immortal, the game chosen for this exercise features
one of the most beautiful combinations of all time. Even if you won't
be working through the exercise, treat yourself to viewing the game starting
with Black's 22nd move." 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.
Correct responses will automatically be notated in the tables -- all you do
is click! |
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Nuestro Círculo #331:
6 de diciembre de 2008, dedicamos al Maestro polaco Paul Saladin Leonhart
que vivió entre los años 1877 y 1934. Publicamos, además de su
biografía y partidas, las siguientes notas: "Ajedrez Escolar", "Talento +
Trabajo", "Círculo Peón Rey" , "Brillantes Partidas Argentinas" y "¡ Bien
Alan Pichot !"
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
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(12/6) Free eBook:
The Elements of Chess by François Danican Philidor. Wikipedia
reports that "François-André Danican Philidor (September 7, 1726 - August
31, 1795) was a French chess player and composer. He was regarded as the
best single chess player of his age (see any of the References), although
the title of World Chess Champion was not yet in existence..." This
book, originally published in Boston in 1805, is presented as a zipped
PDF file. |
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(12/6)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Bob Wade, Albert Alberts, Ladies vs Veterans, Rampant Sexism In
Chess, The Whirled Championship, Marshall Law, Dresden, Corus, Talking
Serious Turkey, What NOT to buy for Christmas. |
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(11/30) Review:
Garry
Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games Vol. 1 by GM Garry
Kasparov, reviewed by
Prof. Nagesh Havanur. "Kasparov
chronicled his career up to the moment when he became Karpov’s
challenger(1984) in The Test of Time; subsequently he
wrote about how he gained and defended the world title in 1985/6. The
Russian edition of the latter book was called Two Matches.
After that, no comprehensive collection of his games has been published.
In this sense this book is a logical undertaking, long overdue..."
Includes the fully-annotated game Kasparov-Tal,
USSR Chess Olympiad 1983, of which Havanur writes, "A magnificent duel and one of the greatest
games ever played." |
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(11/30) Review:
Starting Out:
Sicilian Grand Prix Attack by Gaiwain Jones (Everyman Chess, 2008),
reviewed by Michael Jeffreys. "Many years ago I was standing in the
chess section of a Borders reading a book by Bent Larsen who in one chapter
wondered why White, against the Sicilian Defense, would trade a perfectly
good center pawn for a flank pawn!? In other words, after 1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6, why should White automatically play 3.d4 and trade his valuable
center pawn for Black’s c5 pawn? I remember reading that and thinking,
“Yeah, that’s an excellent point Bent!” Perhaps that is why I have
always liked playing the Grand Prix Attack against the Sicilian..." |
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(11/30) Deus Ex Machina: Albert Alberts
(Explorations in
Man-Assisted
Machine Chess (MAMS)) latest column looks at the
eternal question of who wins given best play on both sides. Is chess
really a draw? Could Bobby Fischer have been wrong? Maybe the
game is theoretically lost for Black!? Then again, maybe not.
What is "the ultimate solution" of classic chess? |
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(11/30) Chess Composition:
Finales...y Temas #50 (December, 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
uses figurine algebraic notation (FAN). |
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(11/30) Team Spirit: by FM
Amatzia Avni. Look Inside Avni's Mind
and see what it takes to perform above your team's average rating. "In
the recent Dresden Olympiad, November 2008, Armenia and Israel, rated 9th
and 8th respectively, somewhat surprisingly took the gold and
silver medals...Israel achieved its highest rank ever, and that without two
of its top players – GMs Sutovsky and Smirin. In this case too, the
local press praised the team spirit of its players. It appears odd to
talk about a team spirit in an activity where the overall result is
calculated by accumulation of individual scores. However,
team-spirit does indeed count..." |
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(11/29) Free eBook: The
Chess-Player's Handbook by Howard Staunton. This edition,
originally published in London in 1890 and featuring an alphabetical list of
all the principal openings by R.F. Green, is now in the Public Domain.
Wikipedia says of Staunton "His chess articles and books were widely read
and encouraged the development of chess in the United Kingdom, and his
Chess-Player's Handbook (1847) was a reference for decades." |
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Nuestro Círculo #330:
29 de noviembre de 2008, dedicado al ajedrecista georgiano Bukhuti
Gurgenidze que vivió entre los años 1933 y 2008. Publicamos, además de
su biografía y partidas, una nota sobre la reciente Olimpíada, "Damas: 29º
en Dresden" con partidas ganadas por los chicos y chicas argentinos y las
posiciones que ocuparon todos los equipos de Norte, Centro y Sud América y
una nota de Hebert Pérez García "Un gazapo del Mto. Mieses".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez
editado en Argentina en lenguaje español. |
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(11/23) Chess Reports #5:
Bob Long offers another glimpse into The Chess Reports. This issue
includes a discussion of traps and a give & take between readers and Bob.
Of course there's the famous quiz page, and a review of
Opening for White according to Anand
1.e4.
Chess Reports is
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
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(11/23) New Linkmeister:
Chessville is pleased to welcome Scott Strattner to our team!
Scott is taking over the long vacant Linkmeister position, and is already
hard at work updating, reorganizing, and greatly improving our huge
chess links collection. His
first page is our listing of links to Chess
Clubs, which now includes a link to Google Maps! If you don't
find your club listed here, be sure to let Scott know so he can add your
club's link to our growing collection. |
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(11/23) Review: Starting Out: Pawn Endgames by GM Glenn Flear
(Everyman Chess, 2004),
reviewed by Mark Houlsby. "Over the past several months your intrepid
reviewer has, by various disparate forces, been drawn inexorably towards
what now seems to have been an inevitable conclusion: endgame books are
different from any other type of chess book. Here’s why: there is, it
seems, a definite trend with respect to nearly every type of chess book..." |
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(11/23) Training:
Recon64. A new Move Prediction Exercise from
Jim Mitch (aka
Professor Chester
Nuhmentz.) The latest edition features a strong game by the
Russian master Mikhail Chigorin,
demonstrating not only a defense against the Ruy Lopez named after him, but
also forceful endgame technique. 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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(11/23) Free eBook: The
Grand Tactics of Chess by Franklin Knowles Young. Originally
published in Boston in 1898, this book is now in the Public Domain.
Young's hyperbole is on display in this short snippet from the introduction:
"In this volume is presented a complete system of chess-play. This
system is deduced from the play of the greater Masters; and those processes
by which they gained their renown are herein formulated and put into
language for the first time. The principles which govern these
processes are simple and clearly stated. These comprehend every
situation possible on the chess-board..." |
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Nuestro Círculo #329:
22 de noviembre de 2008, dedicado al ajedrecista inglés William E. Napier
que vivió entre los años 1881 y 1952. Publicamos, además de su
biografía y partidas, las notas "Olimpíada de Dresden", Homenaje a Fco.
Benko", "No confiar demasiado" y "Ellas 16,5 - Ellos 12,5".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez
editado en Argentina en lenguaje español. |
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(11/16)
UCO Hero - IM Michael Basman by
Clyde Nakamura (The Search for Dragons
and Mythical Chess Openings). "Michael
J. Basman (born in 1946 at St Pancras, London, England) is an English chess
player, and International Master, who is a prolific writer, chess teacher,
chess coach and an organizer who has made many contributions to the field of
unorthodox flank chess openings..." |
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(11/16) Free Download:
Games of UCO Hero IM
Michael Basman.
From Clyde Nakamura (The Search for Dragons
and Mythical Chess Openings) we bring you a zipped pgn file
containing 743 chess games & lines by
IM Michael Basman, including such opponents
as Leonid Stein, Robert Huebner, Vassily Smyslov, Anthony Miles, Svetozar
Gligoric, John Nunn, Nigel Short, Stefan Buecker, Michael Adams, etc.
Find this free download on our
Games by Players
page, and also be sure to visit our main
downloads
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(11/16) Review:
Starting Out:
1.d4! by IM John Cox (Everyman Chess, 2006),
reviewed by Michael Jeffreys. "When I first began
playing chess 18 years ago, like most beginners I was influenced by Fischer
and began my games with 1.e4. After all, he did say it was “best by
test.” However, for some reason which I don’t remember I soon began
opening my games with 1.d4, and continue to do so to this day. I guess
my contrarian thinking at the time was, “Well, since most people are playing
1.e4, than I’m gonna open with 1.d4! Yeah, take ‘em out of book on
move one!!” Ha, ha… yeah, right..." |
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(11/16) Annotated Game:
Botvinnik – Smyslov, World Championship Match 1954
Game Ten. Annotated by Prof. Nagesh Havanur. “With the score standing at 5-4 in
Botvinnik’s favour, the World champion was clearly losing ground against
an opponent who seemed to be increasing in stature with every game… The
spectators, aroused by the terrific fight into which the match had
developed, thronged the hall...” |
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(11/16) Review:
The
King by GM Jan Hein Donner, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur.
"Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch once wrote, “Chess, like love, like music,
has the power to make men happy.” The great master could not bring
himself to write that the reverse was also true. Chess can drive men
to grief and despair when it brings defeat. Nobody put it as
eloquently as Donner: “A chess player’s path on earth is often strewn
with trouble and grief. The joy of victory is transitory and brief, while
it is in the midst of our happiness that we are bound to be struck by
horror…." The reviews includes
the annotated game Donner – Velimirovic,
Havana 1971. |
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Nuestro Círculo #328:
15 de noviembre de 2008, dedicado al ajedrecista alemán Rudolf Swiderski que
vivió entre los años 1878 y 1909. Publicamos, además de su biografía y
partidas, las notas "Felgaer gana en Chile", "El peón débil", "Videojuegos
violentos" y "Mayores dan jaque".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(11/15)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: It’s all about the Dresden Olympiad; Berkeley International
Masters; World Championship; Strongest Chinese Chess Tournament Ever –
Category XXI; Brit Rapid-Play; "The Pride and Sorrow of American
Philosophy". |
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(11/12) Free eBook: The
Chess Tournament by Howard Staunton. Anderssen, Kieseritzky,
Staunton, Bird, Löwenthal, Horwitz, Jaenisch, etc., what more needs to be
said about the famous 1851 London tournament, the first international chess
tournament in the history of the modern game? Originally published in
London, 1873, Chessville presents it as a 12 MB zipped PDF file. |
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(11/11) Training: from
Jim Mitch. In the November Chess Vision exercise for
visitors from Chessville, moves are taken from a strong game by the Russian
master Mikhail Chigorin. He demonstrates not only a defense against the Ruy
Lopez named after him, but also forceful endgame technique. 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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(11/11)
JanXena on
Les Echecs
des Femmes: Jan Newton's monthly roundup of all that
pertains to the women in chess, and the chess in women! This month
includes looks at European Club Cup, 12th Essent Chess Tournament (Hoogeveen),
16th North American FIDE Invitational, 1st World Mind Sports Games, Cap
d'Agade, The Casino De Barcelona, World Blitz Chess Championship 2008, 2008
Chess Olympiad, and Jan's review of Chess in the News and this month's
Featured Chess Femme - Kelly Wang. |
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(11/11) Chess Collectibles:
The Fischer Spoon Chess Story
- by W. Bednersh. "At the [2000] National Spoon Convention in
Colorado Springs, Erwin Goldman convinced me to acquire this unusual
spoon... The pictured spoon is a heavy 5.75" art deco style sterling
spoon made about 1972. Sterling spoons were not hot collectibles
during that time period so it is rather unusual to have a sterling spoon
commemorating any event. This spoon, however, commemorates the very
famous cold war Chess World Championship between American chess genius Bobby
Fischer and the Russian Grand Master Boris Spassky which was held in
Reykjavik, Iceland..." |
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(11/11)
Nuestro Círculo #327:
8 de noviembre de 2008,
dedicado al ajedrecista
austríaco Heinrich Wolf que vivió entre los años 1875 y 1943. Publicamos,
además de su biografía y partidas, las notas "Ecos del Mundial" , "Brillantes
Partidas Argentinas", "El Ataque al Enroque" y "Torneo Rossetto 2008".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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Nuestro Círculo #326:
1 de noviembre de 2008,
dedicado al ajedrecista
holandés Carl August Walbrodt que vivió entre los años 1871 y 1902.
Publicamos, además de su biografía y partidas, las notas "Anand 6,5 -
Kramnnik 4,5" con las últimas partidas del match, "Anand y la Merano" y "Brillantes
Partidas Argentinas".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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Nuestro Círculo #325:
25 de octubre de 2008,
dedicado al ajedrecista (y
bailarín) alemán Max Harmonist, que vivió entre los años 1864 y 1907.
Publicamos, además de su biografía y partidas, las notas "Anand 4,5 -
Kramnnik 1,5" con las primeras seis partidas del match y "Ajedrez prohibido"
una historia de autor desconocido sobre las prohibiciones y limitaciones que
viene sufriendo el ajedrez desde el año 655 D.C. hasta nuestros días.
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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Nuestro Círculo #324:
18 de octubre de 2008,
dedicado al ajedrecista
holandés Adolf Georg Olland, que vivió entre los años 1867 y 1933.
Publicamos, además de su biografía y partidas, las notas "Entrevista a Anand,
2a.parte", "Las derrotas enseñan" y "Ajedrez para ciegos".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: A Massive Chess Politics Issue; A letter to Chessville
from GM Andras Adorjan; What to Play?; GM Polgar has replied; World Champ
via Lawyers and Money Interests?; Gata Kamsky replies to the USCF Board; 6th
Annual U Mass; Cap d'Agde – Big result for Nakamura; A Guest-Rant from GM
Jan Timman - “Ilyumzhinov FIDE president is a criminal”. |
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(10/18)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: World Championship; The Parrot’s Greatest Hits; Another report
from the global chess village; Books - The Fire: A Novel; Chess Life at
Chessville; Batty News or Chess Marriages; Meanwhile, in Detroit, more chess
gossip; Russian Championship; Kramnik-Anand, some stats; Cheesed-off with
Chess? Chess Variants and Creativity Conversations with 2 players. |
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(10/18) Free eBook:
The Exploits and Triumphs in Europe of Paul Morphy the Chess Champion
by Frederick Milnes Edge. Originally published in 1859 by D.
Appleton and Company, New York. Written by the first universally
acclaimed World Champion's personal secretary, this book is a well-known
classic, recounting Morphy's famous year-in-Europe, wherein he dispatched
with great ease all the best the Old World had to offer, save only Howard
Staunton, who famously dodged playing a match with Morphy. This book
is now in the public domain, as a 5.6 MB zipped PDF file. |
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(10/12) Review:
The Best of Chess Informant: Vladimir
Kramnik
(CD) from Chess Informant, 2008, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur.
"Vladimir Kramnik (b.1975-) is a player with a striking original talent and
he would go down in history as the nemesis of Kasparov whom he beat in the
World championship match without conceding a single loss. In terms of
style he is the heir of former world champions, Petrosian and Karpov.
He is a virtuoso of positional play and endgame technique. He does not seek
kingside attack and combinative play like Kasparov and Shirov, but exerts
tactical control once he has the upper hand in the position..." |
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(10/12) Review:
The Best of Chess Informant: Viswanathan Anand
(CD) from Chess Informant, 2008, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur.
"Viswanathan Anand (b.1969-) is the crown prince of chess. Few players
have earned such public adulation since the days of Fischer and Tal.
Anand’s unfailing modesty, cheer and warmth have won him friends all over
the world. This CD is a tribute to a great player at the height of his
career..." |
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(10/12) Chess Composition:
Square Strategy
by FIDE Master of Chess Composition Peter Wong (Peter's
Problem World). "All chess moves involve two basic effects:
the departure from a square, and the arrival on a square. These concrete
effects of a move underlie most of what problemists would call strategic
play, such as the firing of a battery (a piece’s departure from a square
opens a line of attack), and self-interference (a piece’s arrival on a
square closes a line of defence). Strategy in this problem sense also
includes, besides the various forms of line play, some motifs that
specifically relate to squares..." |
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(10/12) Annotated Games:
2008 World Championship Preview with
GM Raymond Keene, OBE. "On October 14 the most important
event of the year commences in Bonn, the 12-game World Championship match
between defending champion Viswanathan Anand and the former champion
Vladimir Kramnik. The match will
consist of 12 games and there will be a rapidplay shootout if the score is
6-6. Here I shall be giving earlier games between the two. What
are the respective chances of the two grandmasters, the reigning and former
champions, who will be fighting for the crown over the next few weeks?..." |
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(10/12) News:
World Championship Preview with GM
Artur Jussupov. Jussupov, himself three times world
championship semifinalist, is part of the official team of commentators for
the World Championship. "After a long period of waiting the time has
come at last: we are to witness the World Championship contest between
Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik in Bonn! Like many other chess
friends I am hoping for exciting games...because this is a meeting of two
completely different types of players with different chess philosophies..." |
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(10/12) Free eBook: The
Fifth American Chess Congress by Charles A. Gilberg, New York, 1880.
"Containing a full report of the proceedings of the convention of chess
players, held in New York, in the year 1880; together with an account of the
preceding chess congresses, held in the United States, and biographical
sketches of noted early chess players." This book is now in the public
domain; we offer it as a 11.9 MB zipped PFD file. Find it on our
eBook page. |
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(10/11)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: World Championship; Chess Express - yet another new product;
Category Kasparov, Site: Harlem; Meanwhile, in Budapest; Russian
Championship; World Mind Games; Commonwealth Championship; Chess Women as
Cultural Objects. |
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Nuestro Círculo #323:
11 de octubre de 2008, dedicado al ajedrecista rumano Georg Marco, que vivió
entre los años 1863 y 1923. Publicamos, además de su biografía y
partidas, las notas "El ajedrez es Teatro" , primera parte de un reportaje a
Anand, y "Argentino Femenino 2008" con partidas del Campeonato Argentino
Femenino 2008 que ganó María de los Angeles Plazaola con 6,5 puntos, seguida
por Stephanie Amed y Marisa Zuriel con 6 puntos.
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(10/5) Review:
The Story of a Chess Player
by Jaan Ehlvest, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur. (For another point of view,
read Rick Kennedy's review.)
"This is the autobiography of Jaan Ehlvest (1962-), a leading
grandmaster from Estonia who has now settled in the USA. Ehlvest has
had a chequered tournament career. He won the European Junior
Championship in 1983 and the championship of Estonia in 1986. He
became a world championship candidate in 1988 losing only to Yusupov..." |
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(10/5) Chess Reports #20: from
Bob Long, this issue includes a discussion of weak squares, a review of
Play the Caro-Kann by Jovanka Houska, a puzzle quiz and a feedback
section. Twelve pages, in PDF format. Six issues in all are now
available for free download. |
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(10/5) Take the Money and
Run: Albert Alberts (Explorations in Man-Assisted Machine Chess)
is back with his latest column. "“The problem with chess computers
is TIME. Without time limit, humans will still win.” A quote
from Veselin Topalov transcribed in The
Chessville Weekly, August 24, 2008. Despite the fact that former
world champions Kasparov and Kramnik both lost their respective matches
against Deep Blue and Deep Fritz, I keep wondering: is it still possible to
defeat the “monsters” under tournament conditions?" |
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(10/5) Chess News:
The 2008 Women's World
Championship - a Chessville News Special Report by JanXena (Les Echecs
des Femmes). Jan takes a round-by-round look at the
recently concluded event, and the surrounding controversies, including the
boycotting Georgians & friends, the Rapid-Blitz-Armageddon playoff regimen,
and the Xena "jinx"! |
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(10/5)
Les Echecs
des Femmes by JanXena, aka Jan Newton. Jan's look at
September includes the 2008 Women's World Chess Championship; EU Individual
Open Chess Championships; 1st World Mind Sports Games; Kosteniuk wins
Women's Gold in Individual Blitz; 2008 Chess Olympiad; the Indian press; and
showcases Shen Yang (CHN 2445) as Featured Chess Femme. |
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(10/5) Training: from
Jim Mitch. Peter Svidler--a four-time Russian Chess
Champion--provides an outstanding, instructional exhibition of positional
play in the game chosen for October's chess vision exercise. 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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(10/4)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: American Astronaut playing more chess; 2008 SPICE Cup;
Meanwhile, in Elista; Of the three sisters, I loved the young; Top 50 World
Players; Deadly Draws; World Mind Games; Worried Championship; Guest Squawk
from Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
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(10/4) Free eBook: The
History of Chess by Duncan Forbes, first published in London, 1860.
"If we calmly inquire into such plain facts as come within our reach,
setting aside all foolish prejudices and partialities, we shall find that
the history of chess naturally falls into three distinct periods. The
first is that of the ancient Hindu game, called Chaturanga..."
Download this 10.3 MB zipped PDF file; find it on our
eBooks page! |
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(10/4)
Nuestro Círculo #322:
4 de octubre de 2008, dedicado al ajedrecista húngaro Solomon Lipschtz,
ciudadano austríaco, que vivió entre los años 1863 y 1905. Publicamos,
además de su biografía y partidas, las notas "Srta. Koneru Humpy", un
reportaje a la Gran Maestra India, y "Campeonato Femenino" con partidas del
Campeonato Argentino Femenino 2008.
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
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(10/3) Chess History:
Notes
From Aleister Crowley’s Chess Set, Transcribed and annotated by Robert
T. Tuohey. "Despite a number of biographies, and a good deal of
specialized research as well, to a large extent, the Great Beast remains a
mystery. One of the grey areas in Crowley’s life, which I attempted to
address in
my pair of modest articles, was his involvement with chess. Still,
I certainly knew that my humble efforts no more than scratched the surface.
It was somewhere over a year ago that Mr. Paul Feazey, of
Lashtal.com, sent me a PDF copy of eight handwritten pages by Crowley on
chess..." |
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