Here's what was New at Chessville between
1 January 2009 and 31
March 2009
 |
(3/29) Chess
Composition: Tempo Play is the focus of the latest installment
of Peter's Problem World,
by FIDE Master of Composition Peter Wong. "In
certain helpmate situations, a player who has the move is already positioned
correctly, while the other side needs to make further play. Since to pass
on a turn is forbidden, the first player must use up the time somehow,
without weakening the set-up..." |
|
|
|
 |
(3/29) Review:
Chess Opening
Essentials, The Ideas and Plans Behind ALL Chess Openings - Volume 1: The Complete 1.e4, Second Edition by
GM Stefan Djuric, GM Dimitri Komarov and IM Claudio Pantaleoni (New In Chess,
2008), reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "Ok, so I’m talking with the father
of those kids down at the Chess Club, and he says he wants to learn
more about the chess openings...He persists. He wants to know
something about the individual openings. Not a lot, just more than
the basic principles of control of the center, efficient development and
King safety, he says. I still think he’s in over his head, but I ask:
what books has he been looking at..." |
|
|
|
 |
(3/29) Chess Cartoon: The Player's Chronicles from Gary Gifford,
3-15-2009. Gary now has 16 cartoons here at Chessville; thanks Gary!! |
|
|
|
 |
(3/29)
Nuestro Círculo #347:
28 de marzo de 2009, dedicado al maestro de ajedrez yugoslavo Boris Kostic
que vivió entre los años 1887 y 1963. Aparte de su biografía y
partidas, contiene las notas "Aguafiestas Nº 240", "Ajedrecistas Ciegos", "Pasión
de Alán Pichot" y "Torneo Amber 2009".
|
|
|
|
 |
(3/29)
Nuestro Círculo #341:
14 de febrero de 2009, dedicado al maestro alemán Carl O. Ahues que vivió
entre los años 1883 y 1968. Aparte de su biografía y partidas, puedes
leer las notas "Secretos del Ajedrez", "El Aguafiestas Nº 238" y "Hou Yifan
(!!!)"
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
|
|
|
|
(3/23) Chess Instruction: the March
Chess-Vision
and
Recon64 exercises from Jim Mitch (aka
Professor Chester
Nuhmentz) have been updated. Get them while it's still March!
March's exercises follows
Veselin Topalov vs. Vladimir Kramnik; Wijk aan Zee, 2008. Many
consider this game to be one of the finest of 2008. Topalov's knight
sacrifice on f7 is particularly spectacular.
First work through the
Chess-Vision
exercise, where players try to imagine up to 10 moves being made from a
starting diagram, with the goal of finding all the legal captures and checks
that could be made in the envisioned position. Next, tackle the
Recon64 exercise. Similar to Predict-A-Move and Solitaire-type
chess exercises, Recon64 challenges players to
find candidate moves from games played by
masters. As an extra twist, players
invest Recon64 dollars on candidate moves based
on how likely they think each move was used in
the original game. |
|
|
|
 |
(3/22) Review:
Chess Explained:
The Queen's Gambit Declined by IM James Rizzitano (Gambit, 2007)
reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "Imagine listening in as a master gives an
individual lesson at the Chess Club. Notice how easily he uses just
the right game to illustrate his points. Check out the ease with which
he explains what is going on, and what went on in other, similar situations.
He seems to be seriously up-to-date on the opening line in question.
Appreciate the amount of work he must have put into being ready to present
just that one hour of instruction..." |
|
|
|
 |
(3/22) Review:
Play the
Semi-Slav by David Vigorito (Quality Chess, 2008), reviewed by Michael Jeffreys.
"The Slav defense has always been a popular opening for
Black, dating back to the Alekhine-Bogoljubow and Alekhine-Euwe matches.
However, over the last several years the Semi-Slav has replaced it as the
opening of choice amongst the world’s top players..." |
|
|
|
 |
(3/22)
Chess Cartoon: Enjoy another of Gary Gifford's contributions
from The Chess Player Chronicles. Chessville now offers 15 of Gary's
creations, along with half a dozen more from other artists. |
 |
(3/22)
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español.
#346: 21 de marzo de 2009, dedicado al maestro de ajedrez Paul F.
Johner, que nació en Zurich, Suiza, en 1887 y murió en Berlín en 1938.
#345:
14 de marzo de 2009, dedicado al maestro de ajedrez Karel Treybal, que nació
en Checoslovaquia en 1885 y murió en manos de los nazis en 1941.
#344: 7 de marzo, dedicado al maestro de ajedrez y compositor de
finales checo, Ladislav Prokes, que vivió entre los años 1884 y 1966.
#343: 28 de febrero de 2009, dedicado al maestro ruso Eugene
Alexandrovich Znosko Borovsky que vivió entre los años 1884 y 1954.
#342: 21 de febrero de 2009, dedicado al maestro inglés Frederick D
Yates que vivió entre los años 1884 y 1932.
#341: 14 de febrero de 2009, unavailable
|
|
|
|
 |
(3/21)
Chess Compositions: Finales...y Temas #51
(March, 2009), edited by
ICCF GM
José A. Copié. This Argentine publication, in PDF format, offers us high
quality articles and surprising studies we are sure will entertain our
readers, while teaching them valuable endgame skills in the bargain.
Don't read Spanish? ¡no problemo! Finales... y Temas
utilizes figurine algebraic notation (FAN). |
|
|
|
.jpg) |
(3/21)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: FIDE VP adds SPICE to his life; 2009 Canadian Open Chess
Championship; Calgary International; Euro Women’s Championship; Mtel
announce Bulgarian Invitees; Amber Blindfold; Teenage chess prodigy; Guest
Squawwk! by GM Larry Evans. |
 |
(2/8) Training: It's time for the February
Chess Vision exercise from
Jim Mitch (Prof.
Chester Nuhmentz), wherein 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. February's Chess Vision exercise
follows a game between two greats, Mikhail Botvinnik and Jose Capablanca.
Botvinnik called it: "My greatest victory, ever!" |
|
|
|
 |
(2/8) Gibtelecom Masters
Final Report: |
|
|
|
 |
(2/8) 7th Gibtelecom Chess
Festival Round 9: Report and Photos Courtesy Sean Hewitt, Press
Officer, Gibtelecom. Annotations by Sunil Weeramantry. "Huge
Pile Up in Gibraltar! - No, this is not a reference to the UK weather
causing havoc but the fact that with one round to go we have 5 players in
the joint lead on 7/9 and amazingly we could have eight players tied for
first place at the end of 10 rounds - if results go the right way - or wrong
way, depending on your perspective..." |
|
|
|
 |
(2/8) Review:
Alice’s World Record
by Tim Kennemore,
illustrated by Mike Spoor;
reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "Welcome to Alice Singer’s
world. Alice lives with Mom and Dad, her younger sister Rosie (who
attends Humpty Dumpty childcare, the only one in town that she hasn’t been
kicked out of – yet) and her older brother Oliver (who hardly ever loses at
anything, especially chess – and that’s a good thing, too, as he’s quite
excitable)..." |
|
|
|
 |
(2/8) Free eBook: Chess
Openings, 2nd Edition by Robert B. Wormald, published at London,
1875. Includes 100 selected compositions, as well as the openings of the
author's day, including both stalwarts of today's repertoires as well as
enough 'under-the-radar' openings to help the enthusiastic opening
specialist surprise... We offer this Public Domain title as a 9.4 MB
zipped PDF file. |
|
|
|
 |
(2/7)
Alekhine's Parrot:
This
week: Sixth Western Hemisphere CCI; New York International 2009; A
little bit of Ukraine in Chicago; And Fun for All in Washington State; A
little USA in Moscow; Corus; Gibraltar; Czech Check; Chessville Columnist
has new title with Everyman; The Parrot Squaawks…Nonsense, Outrage, Insult
and Paranoia! |
|
|
|
 |
(2/7)
Nuestro Círculo #340:
7 de febrero de 2009,
dedicado al maestro alemán
Carl Johan M. Carls que vivió entre los años 1880 y 1958. Aparte de su
biografía y partidas, puedes leer "Mi rival: mi doble", "Obama y el Ajedrez",
"Homenaje a Rossetto" y "Corus A Wijk Aan Zee", notas de Gustavo Aguila,
Mario Manuel Anaya y el director del semanario.
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
|
|
|
 |
(2/4) 7th Gibtelecom Chess
Festival Round 8: Report and Photos Courtesy Sean Hewitt, Press
Officer, Gibtelecom. Game annotations by Sunil Weeramantry. "The top
board in the Gibtelecom Masters saw the two top seeds, Peter Svidler and
Vugar Gashimov, slug it out. As both players are rated 2723 this was the
strongest game ever played in Gibraltar. Svidler sacrificed his queen for a
rook, bishop and pawn..." |
|
|
|
.jpg) |
(2/4) 7th Gibtelecom Chess
Festival Round 7: Report and Photos Courtesy Sean Hewitt, Press
Officer, Gibtelecom. Annotations by Sunil Weeramantry. "Awright at
the top! Or should that be all white? Round 7 saw decisive results on
the top 6 boards, with White winning on the top 5. GM
Vugar Gashimov moved into sole lead of the tournament with 6/7 with a cool
victory over previous leader Alexander Beliavsky. Gashimov created a passed
a pawn which became an unstoppable monster..." |
 |
(2/1) Review:
Chess Explained: The c3 Sicilian
by IM Sam Collins (Gambit, 2007) reviewed by Michael Jeffreys. "I
asked a friend of mine, Danny Berman, who is an Expert and plays the c3
Sicilian, why he likes it. He said, “You can avoid a ton of
preparation by Black. However, you don’t really get a fast/big edge,
but a positional one”..." |
|
|
|
 |
(2/1) 7th Gibtelecom Chess
Festival Round 6: Report and Photos
Courtesy Sean Hewitt, Press Officer, Gibtelecom. Game annotations by
Sunil Weeramantry. We bring you the stories, the photos, and the games!
"Slovenia
Rules! -
It is perhaps fitting that, after six rounds of the Gibtelecom Chess
Festival a Slovenian player leads the way? Why? Well, the main sponsor
Gibtelecom is half owned by the Gibraltarian government, but also half owned
by Telekom Slovenije, the main telecom company..." |
|
|
|
 |
(2/1) Instruction:
Jim Mitch (aka
Prof. Chester
Nuhmentz) brings you the 2nd half of January's training twins, Recon64 -
the Move Prediction exercise
that challenges players to find candidate moves from games played by
masters, investing Recon64 dollars on candidate moves. This month's
game (a short, brilliant game by Vassily Ivanchuk, who currently is one of
the five top-rated players in the world) was also used in the January
Chess-Vision exercise; we encourage you to first work through that exercise before tackling
this one. |
|
|
|
 |
(2/1) 7th Gibtelecom Chess
Festival Round 5: Report and Photos
Courtesy Sean Hewitt, Press Officer, Gibtelecom. Game annotations by
Sunil Weeramantry. We bring you the stories, the photos, and the games!
"A day in Gibraltar
-
The British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar is steeped in history - much of
it military. The name Gibraltar comes from the Arabic name Jabal Tāriq
meaning "mountain of Tariq" named after the Berber Umayyad general
Tariq ibn-Ziyad who led the initial Moorish incursion into the Iberia
peninsular in 711..." |
|
|
|
 |
(2/1) 7th Gibtelecom Chess Festival Round 4: Report and Photos
Courtesy Sean Hewitt, Press Officer, Gibtelecom. Game annotations by
Sunil Weeramantry. We bring you the stories, the photos, and the games!
"Kill the King! - On 30 January 1649, King Charles I of England was beheaded for treason. 360 years later to the day in Gibraltar there was no treason that we know of, but several players attempted to execute the opposing monarch! Our first game must have been a huge disappointment for Dutch GM Ivan Sokolov..." |
|
|
|
 |
(2/1) 7th Gibtelecom Chess Festival Round 3: Report and Photos
Courtesy Sean Hewitt, Press Officer, Gibtelecom. Game annotations by
Sunil Weeramantry. We bring you the stories, the photos, and the games!
"How many children in the world can claim that both their father and
mother are full grandmasters? Well, we don't know the exact answer -
maybe somebody out there can help us......" |
|
|
|
 |
(2/1) 7th Gibtelecom Chess
Festival Round 2: Report and photos courtesy Sean Hewitt,
Press Officer, Gibtelecom. Game annotations by Sunil Weeramantry. "The
7th
Gibtelecom Chess Festival is being again being played at the Picturesque
Caleta Hotel which overlooks Catalan Bay on the eastern side of the Rock of
Gibraltar...The accelerated pairings used at
Gibraltar meant that, even though 200 players were playing, there were a
number of GM v GM clashes in Round 2..." |
|
|
|
 |
(2/1) 7th Gibtelecom Chess
Festival Round 1: Report and Photos Courtesy Sean Hewitt, Press
Officer, Gibtelecom. Game annotations by Sunil Weeramantry.
We bring you the stories, the photos, and the games! "The opening ceremony of the
7th Gibtelecom Chess Festival was special for two reasons.
Firstly, special guest was the 10th World Chess Champion Boris Spassky..." |
|
|
|
 |
(2/1)
Nuestro Círculo #339:
31 de enero de 2009, dedicado a una de las mayores glorias del ajedrez
argentino, el Gran Maestro Héctor Decio Rossetto, recientemente fallecido.
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
|
|
|
|
|
(2/1) Free eBook:
Souvenir of the Bristol Chess Club Containing 100 Original Games of Chess,
by E. Williams. Originally published at London in 1845, this book
is now in the public domain. We offer it as a 2.3 MB zipped PDF file.
Find it, along with more than 40 other chess eBooks on our always-free
downloadable eBook page. For even
more free downloads, visit our
Free
Downloads page. |
|
|
|
|
|
(1/31)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Oxford: Women Don’t Like Chess; Utah Home-Schooler is a Speed
Demon; Women's FIDE Grand Prix List; Corus – Short Shines; Gibraltar –
Thrills, Spills & Fun for All; Gurgaon, India; Videos; The Parrot Squaawks
about A Dangerous Gambit? Plus Rare Chess Pictures. |
|
|
|
|
|
(1/25) Free eBook:
The Chess World - Volume IV: "A Magazine devoted to the
cultivation of the game of chess; containing Game & Problems by the First
Masters; with a variety of articles, original and selected, on the subject
of chess." Printed in London, 1869; now in the Public Domain, includes
articles, problems, correspondence, gossip, etc; and games by the likes of
Anderssen, Zukertort, Bird, Blackburn, Burns, Steinitz, Paulson, and many
others. Presented as a zipped PDF file. Volume III was published here
last week. |
|
|
|
 |
(1/24)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Chess: Now Playing in the White House; US v Russia Match
Distance Match; Corus – Kamsky Masterpiece, says Susan Polgar; Mid Winter
Classic – Ivanov 1st, Curdo, Tkach 2nd; World’s Oldest Chess Club Throws
Party; Too many GMs?; Kamsky - Tolalov; More Polgars – More Chess; Ivanchuk
– No Dope; Doctored Evidence in Chess Legal Case? |
|
|
|
 |
(1/24)
Nuestro Círculo #338:
24 de enero de 2009,
dedicado al ajedrecista sueco Gustaf Nyholm que vivió entre los años 1880 y
1957. Además de su biografía y partidas, puedes leer las notas "Corus Wijk
Aan Zee" y "Un año sin Bobby".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
|
|
(1/18) Chess Composition: Paradox
with FIDE Master of Chess Composition Peter Wong (Peter's
Problem World). "One of the most intriguing aspects of chess
composition is in the depiction of the paradoxical. In such
compositions, the strategy involved seems to defy the normal principles of
play, making the solutions particularly surprising and attractive.
Well-known paradoxical ideas include the sacrifice, and other kinds of
apparently self-weakening moves..." |
|
|
|
 |
(1/18) Annotated Game: Ivanchuk the Terrible by GM Raymond Keene
(Keene On Chess). "At
various times in the history of chess a player has emerged who appears to
dominate all his rivals. Examples were Siegbert Tarrasch from 1889 to
1892, Akiba Rubinstein in 1912, Aron Nimzowitsch in 1929 and arguably Keres
or Fine in 1938 and Reshevsky in 1955. What all these players have in
common is that their period of dominance fails to coincide with a world
title contest..." |
|
|
|
 |
(1/18) Review: Power Play 8 -
Knights & Bishops (DVD) by GM Daniel King, reviewed by Michael Jeffreys.
"What makes King so good is his excellent explanation of chess positions
combined with his natural enthusiasm for the game, which can’t help but rub
off on the viewer. This...makes for an easy to follow and enjoyable
experience... Still, I couldn’t help but wonder, after doing seven of
these, had the Power Play series run its course? The answer..." |
|
|
|
 |
(1/17)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Boris Yeshan, RIP; Chess Research – Assessment of Historic
Players; tChess Pro - Reviewed; Nine Year Old Beats GM; How Much?! Red Ink;
Corus; Iraq – US Troops and Chess; Anand – On India’s Need to Host Category
Tournaments; More Troubles for Fide; My friend, we hardly knew ye! |
|
|
|
 |
(1/17)
Nuestro Círculo #337:
17 de enero de 2009, dedicado al ajedrecista aleman Walter Von Holzhausen
(1876-1935). Además de su biografía y partidas, puedes leer las notas "Ajedrez
y Crisis", "Panorama complicado" e "Ivanchuk 3,5 - Leko 2,5".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
|
|
|
|
|
(1/17) Free eBook: The
Chess World - Volume III: "A Magazine devoted to the cultivation of
the game of chess; containing Game & Problems by the First Masters; with a
variety of articles, original and selected, on the subject of chess."
Printed in London, 1868; now in the Public Domain, includes such articles
as, e.g., Brevity and Brilliancy; Chess In Hades; Conrad Bayer, the
celebrated Chess Problem Composer; Mated at Last; and games by the likes of
Anderssen, Zukertort, Steinitz, Philidor, Staunton, and many others.
Presented as a 10.8 MB zipped PDF file. |
|
|
|
 |
(1/11) Chess History -
Five Early Chess
Classics by Robert Tuohey (Past
Pawns). "Of the various difficulties facing the true student of
the Royal Game... perhaps foremost is the sheer quantity of the literature.
Indeed, the ever-rising mountain of chess books, recently buttressed by
glittering foothills of DVDs, presents a formidable challenge to even a keen
sense of intellectual navigation. With due consideration, however, two
guiding ideas present themselves. First, the student must know what
the key landmarks in chess history are..." |
|
|
|
|
|
(1/11) Free eBook:
Giochino Greco On the Game of Chess: Translated from the French.
To Which Are Added, Numerous Remarks, Critical and Explanatory, by William
Lewis. Gioachino Greco (1600 ~ 1634) was an Italian chess player
and author. He paved the way for many of the attacking legends of the
Romantic era, such as Adolf Anderssen, Paul Morphy, and François Philidor.
Originally published at London in 1819, this book is now in the Public
Domain. We present it as an 8.8 MB zipped PDF file. |
 |
(1/11) Review: Three Queens - 3 Books from Everyman Chess: Play the Queen’s Gambit by Chris Ward;
Starting Out: Queen’s Gambit Accepted by A. Raetsky and M.
Chetverik; and Starting Out: Queen’s Gambit Declined by
Neil McDonald. Reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "In one of my early
Fred Reinfeld books, the author noted that many club players were
uncomfortable when facing 1.d4. However, when given a chance
with the white pieces, they often played something other than –
1.d4. Have no fear, Everyman Chess has come to the rescue of
players on both sides of this dilemma..." |
|
|
|
 |
(1/11)
Review:
Garry Kasparov
on My Great Predecessors Part III
by Garry Kasparov, reviewed by Prof. Nagesh Havanur. "When
Garry Kasparov commenced his project My Great Predecessors
it raised great expectations. There had never been a work of this
magnitude in chess literature before... The third volume is the subject of
this review. It is devoted to world champions Petrosian & Spassky and
their contemporaries, Gligoric, Polugaevsky, Portisch and Stein..." |
|
|
|
 |
(1/11) Annotated Game:
Petrosian-Smyslov, 19th USSR Ch., 1951, notes by Prof. Nagesh
Havanur. (From the review of
Garry Kasparov
on My Great Predecessors Part III.) "In his youth Petrosian was a free and
uninhibited spirit ready to attack and combine, unmindful of risk. In
the first two rounds of this tournament Petrosian had “thrown himself” at
his opponents, Kopylov and Aronin and lost. Then he picked up the pace, winning
game after game..." |
|
|
|
 |
(1/11)
Annotated Game:
Spassky-Fischer, Siegen 1970, with notes by Prof.
Nagesh Havanur. Originally published to accompany the Professor's
review of
Boris Spassky, 10th
World Champion, CD (Convekta), he has updated and
reworked it in view of his review of
Garry Kasparov
on My Great Predecessors Part III.
"Both Fischer and Kasparov became [Spassky's] victims,
bamboozled by his imaginative daring in dubious positions and succumbing to
him in the end..." |
|
|
|
 |
(1/11)
Annotated Game:
Kasparov-Spassky, Tilburg 1981, with notes by Prof. Nagesh Havanur.
Originally published to accompany the Professor's review of
Boris Spassky, 10th
World Champion, CD (Convekta), he has updated and
reworked it in view of his review of
Garry Kasparov
on My Great Predecessors Part III.
"Both Fischer and Kasparov became [Spassky's] victims,
bamboozled by his imaginative daring in dubious positions and succumbing to
him in the end..." |
|
|
|
 |
(1/10) Chess Cartoon: Another chess-themed cartoon from
The Chess
Chronicles by Gary Gifford. |
|
|
|
 |
(1/10)
Nuestro Círculo #336:
10 de enero de 2009, dedicado al ajedrecista checo Oldrich Duras que vivió
entre los años 1882 y 1957. Además de su biografía y partidas, puedes leer
las notas "Los Super Elo", "Nimzowitsch es falible" y "Hace 1920 años".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
|
|
|
|
|
(1/10)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Wanted – A Few Good Swabbies; Fide World Chess Stats - Latest;
Fide Leader Say; Hastings; Norway – Result: Aker Over, Chess Festival Starts
in Gjøvik, Norway; Guest Squaaawk! By Larry Evans, Proposed by Larry Parr ~
Secrets: what the USCF board does, does not want you to know… Last, a reader
challenge: knight to carousel three! |
|
|
|
|
|
(1/10) Free eBook:
Analysis of the Game of Chess by François-André Danican Philidor.
"A new edition, improved and greatly enlarged, to which is added several
[games] played by the author blindfold, against three adversaries."
Originally published in London in 1790, this book is now in the Public
Domain. Presented as an 8.4 MB zipped PDF file. |
 |
(1/5) Review: Chess On the Edge Volume 1, 2 and 3 - Selected
Games of Canadian Grandmaster Duncan Suttles, by
FM
Bruce Harper, GM Yasser Seirawan,
with contributions by IM Gerard Welling, reviewed by Rick Kennedy. "Harper and Seirawan have seriously dug
into Suttles’ play with great vigor and appreciation, and they present their
understandings quite well – even for club level players, such as this
reviewer. They have a remarkably palatable style of writing that goes down
like a single malt whiskey. (These guys could make calculus look
sexy.) Just one more glass…" |
|
|
|
 |
(1/4)
Chess
Images: The Parrot's Rare Chess Photo Collection Album
#5. These images first
appeared in The Parrot's column's of July 2008 through December 2008.
Enjoy more than two dozen images captured here, including: Vladek Sheybal as Kronsteen
in From Russia with Love; Kelly's dream set; simuls by two
wunderkinds more than 80 years apart; and much more. You can also
enjoy previous Parrot rare photo collections:
Album #1; Album #2; Album
#3; and Album
#4. |
|
|
|
 |
(1/4) Chess Cartoon: Another chess-themed cartoon from
The Chess
Chronicles by Gary Gifford is the
latest addition to our growing collection of chess humor! |
|
|
|
|
|
(1/4) 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! "The
first Chess Vision exercise of 2009 uses a short, brilliant game by Vassily
Ivanchuk, who currently is one of the five top-rated players in the world." 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. |
|
|
|
|
|
(1/3)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world. This
week: Robert James Fischer – The Paradox, Big US National, the First
Grandmaster game against a Chess Computer, Official Secrets Challenged,
Pamploma, Regio Emilio, FIDE Say, FIDE Diss Chinese, Hastings, Norway, Men
Better at Chess, A Final Goodbye, Rare Chess Pictures. |
|
|
|
|
|
(1/3) Free eBook:
The Chess Congress of 1862 [London] Edited and Games Annotated by J.J.
Löwenthal. Published in London, 1889, this book is now in the Public
Domain. Steinitz, Anderssen, Paulsen, Owen, Blackburne, Barnes,
McDonell, Löwenthal, etc. Plus a huge (400+ entries) problem
composition contest. Find this free 18.0 MB zipped PDF file on our
eBooks
page. |
|
|
|
 |
(1/3)
Nuestro Círculo #335:
3 de enero de 2009, dedicado al notable ajedrecista polaco George H.S. Salwe
que vivió entre los años 1862 y 1920. Además de su biografía y partidas,
puedes leer las notas "Debate en el paraíso", "¿El ajedrez prolonga la vida?",
"Manías de Alekhine" y "Del entrenamiento".
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español. |
Chessville Headline Archives
|
Chessville
logo by
ChessPrints
|
SmartChess
is a powerful
chess knowledge
toolset
for iPhone,
iPod touch &
iPad offering
state-of-the-art
features and a
library
of content
that can
grow
along with you.
|
The
Chessville
Chess Store
The
Chessville
Weekly
Newsletter
Subscribe
Today -
It's Free!!
The
Chessville
Weekly
Archives
Cheap Posters - $2.98!
Advertise
with
Chessville!!
Advertise to
thousands
of
chess
fans
for
as little
as $25.
Single insert:
$35
x4 insert:
@ $25 each
|
