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Volokitin,A (2671) - Paehtz,E (2421)
FSGM September Lausanne HUN (1.1), 14.09.2005
1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5
3.Nc3 dxe4
4.Nxe4 Nd7
5.Nf3 Ngf6
6.Nxf6+ Nxf6
7.c3 c5
8.Be3 cxd4
9.Bxd4 a6
10.Bd3 Qc7
11.0-0 Bc5
12.Be5 Qe7
13.Qd2 h6
14.Qf4 Bd7
15.b4 Ba7
16.Qg3 Rg8
17.Bd6 Qd8
18.Ne5 g5
19.Qf3 Bb8
20.Bxb8 Rxb8
21.Rad1 Qe7
22.Bc2 Bc8
23.Rd4 Kf8
24.Rfd1 Kg7
25.h4 1-0
Nakamura,H (2660) - Dzagnidze,N (2438)
FSGM September Lausanne HUN (1.1), 14.09.2005
1.c4 Nf6
2.Nc3 c5
3.g3 Nc6
4.Bg2 g6
5.Nf3 e5
6.0-0 Bg7
7.e3 0-0
8.d4 cxd4
9.exd4 d6
10.d5 Na5
11.Nd2 b6
12.b4 Nb7
13.Bb2 h5
14.Ne2 h4
15.Qb3 Nh5
16.f4 Bg4
17.Bf3 Qd7
18.Rae1 Rae8
19.Ne4 hxg3
20.hxg3 exf4
21.Bxg7 Kxg7
22.Qc3+ f6
23.Nxf4 Re5
24.Bxg4 Qxg4
25.Ne6+ Kf7
26.Nxf6
Qxg3+
27.Qxg3 Nxg3
28.Ng4+ 1-0
Mamedyarov,S (2646) - Vachier Lagrave,M (2527) FSGM September Lausanne
HUN (1.1), 14.09.2005
1.d4 Nf6
2.c4 g6
3.Nf3 Bg7
4.g3 0-0
5.Bg2 d5
6.cxd5 Nxd5
7.0-0 Nb6
8.Nc3 Nc6
9.d5 Na5
10.Qc2 c6
11.dxc6 Nxc6
12.Rd1 Bd7
13.Be3 Nc4
14.Bf4 Rc8
15.Qc1 Qe8
16.Bh6 Bxh6
17.Qxh6 f6
18.b3 Nd6
19.Qf4 Nf5
20.Qd2 Rd8
21.e4 Bc8
22.Qe2 Ng7
23.e5 Qf7
24.Rxd8 Rxd8
25.h3 Ne6
26.Qe3 Nc7
27.Re1 Bf5
28.Qc5 Rd3
29.exf6 exf6
30.Nh4 Bd7
31.Ne4 Kg7
32.Qc2 Rd4
33.Nc5 Nb4
34.Qb2 Rd6
35.Nxb7 Ra6
36.Qd2 Nxa2
37.Nd8 1-0
Dzagnidze,N (2438) - Nakamura,H (2660) [D85] FSGM September Lausanne HUN
(1.2), 14.09.2005
1.c4 Nf6
2.Nc3 d5
3.cxd5 Nxd5
4.d4 g6
5.e4 Nxc3
6.bxc3 Bg7
7.Nf3 c5
8.Be3 Qa5
9.Qd2 0-0
10.Rb1 a6
11.Rc1 e6
12.dxc5 Nd7
13.c4 Qa3
14.Be2 Nxc5
15.Qd6 Qa5+
16.Bd2 Rd8
17.Bxa5 Rxd6
18.e5 Nd3+
19.Bxd3 Rxd3
20.Bb4 b5
21.Ke2 bxc4
22.Rxc4 Rd5
23.Rd1 a5
24.Rxd5 exd5
25.Rxc8+ Rxc8
26.Bxa5 Ra8
27.Bb6 Rxa2+
28.Kd3 h6
29.h4 Kf8
30.Ke3 Ke7
31.Bc7 f6
32.exf6+ Bxf6
33.Bb6 Ra3+
34.Ke2 Ra4
35.g3 Ke6
36.Be3 Bg7
37.Ne1 Ra2+
38.Kf3 d4
39.Bf4 Kd5
40.Nd3 Kc4
41.Ne5+ Bxe5
42.Bxe5 d3
43.g4 h5
44.gxh5 gxh5
45.Bf6 Ra6
0-1
Vachier Lagrave,M (2527) - Mamedyarov,S (2646) [C96] FSGM September
Lausanne HUN (1.2), 14.09.2005
1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 a6
4.Ba4 Nf6
5.0-0 Be7
6.Re1 b5
7.Bb3 d6
8.c3 0-0
9.h3 Na5
10.Bc2 c5
11.d4 Nd7
12.Nbd2 cxd4
13.cxd4 Nc6
14.Nb3 a5
15.Be3 a4
16.Nbd2 exd4
17.Nxd4 Nxd4
18.Bxd4 Ne5
19.Nb1 Be6
20.Nc3 Qa5
21.f4 Nc6
22.Be3 a3
23.Nd5 Bxd5
24.exd5 axb2
25.Rb1 Nb4
26.Rxb2 Nxc2
27.Rxc2 Bf6
28.Ree2 b4
29.Rc6 Rfe8
30.Qd3 h6
31.Bb6 Qa4
32.Rf2 Qa3
33.Qxa3 Rxa3
34.Rfc2 Rea8
35.R2c4 Rxa2
36.Rxb4 Rd2
37.Be3 Rxd5
38.Kf2 Ra2+
39.Kf3 Ra3
40.Rb8+ Kh7
41.Rcc8 Rdd3
42.Rh8+ Kg6
43.Kg4 Ra4
44.Rbe8 Be5
0-1
Van Wely,L - Stellwagen,D
Essent NK Leeuwarden (8), 2005
1.d4 Nf6
2.c4 g6
3.Nc3 Bg7
4.e4 d6
5.Nf3 0-0
6.Be2 e5
7.0-0 Nc6
8.d5 Ne7
9.b4 Nh5
10.Re1 f5
11.Ng5 Nf6
12.f3 c6
13.Kh1 h6
14.Ne6 Bxe6
15.dxe6 Ne8
16.Qb3 Nc7
17.c5 d5
18.exd5 cxd5
19.Bb2 Qe8
20.a4 a6
21.Rad1 Rd8
22.Nxd5 Rxd5
23.Bc4 Rxd1
24.Rxd1 Qb8
25.Rd7 Bf6
26.f4 b5
27.cxb6 Qxb6
28.fxe5 Qf2
29.Qd1 Bg5
30.Bd4 Qh4
31.Rxc7 Rd8
32.Rd7 Rc8
33.Bf1 Rc1
34.Qe2 Qe4
35.Bg1 Qb1
36.Qxa6 Rxf1
37.Qb6 Kh8
38.a5 Re1
39.Qc5 Rc1
40.Qb6 Re1
41.Rd8+ Kg7
42.Re8 h5
43.Qc5 Rc1
44.Qd4 Qe4
45.Qa7 Qxb4
46.a6 f4
47.Qf2 Qb5
48.Ra8 Rf1
49.Qd4 f3
50.gxf3 Qe2
0-1
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Volume 4 Issue 36
September 18, 2005
In This Issue
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us
lose the good we oft
might win by fearing to attempt.” –William Shakespeare
 Chess
Chronicle: Five free issues for you to check out - this
semi-monthly issue chess e-zine featuring the writing of GM Vassily
Ivanchuk (World #5), among others. Accompanied by a pgn file
containing the games contained in that issue, this e-zine so far has
ranged up to 46 pages, cram-packed with great analysis, training, and
other great chess content. |
Position of the Week
    
   
   
  
[FEN r4k1r/q2b2pp/3PRpnn/8/2Q5/P7/BB4PP/3R3K w - - 0 35]
White to move and win - Find the
Solution
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travel set. The pieces are magnetic, and the board is covered with
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New At Chessville
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(9/18)
Inside Susan Polgar's
World Records: From beginning to end, Susan & Paul Truong
bring you the inside scoop. The planning. The preparation.
The training. The people. The records. Also read the
open letter from the previous record holder, IM Andrew Martin,
questioning the records, along with Susan & Paul's responses. |
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(9/18)
Annotated Game: ICCF-IM Keith Hayward's update to his (now)
six-part look at the Balogh Counter-Gambit features the reigning US
Champion, Hikaru Nakamura playing at the HB Global Chess Challenge
earlier this year. Keith writes, "I did not plan on writing an update to the Balogh
Counter Gambit series, but some misfortune of my own allowed me to
observe the game below. I was having a bad tournament
at the HB Global Chess Challenge, and I decide to withdraw from the last
tournament to watch the top boards. I was shocked to walk by the US Champion's game and see
him playing the Balogh Counter Gambit!"
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 (9/18)
Euro Gallery Live Art:
"We believe that the topic of Chess is very much neglected in the World
of Art. For this reason Euro Gallery Live Art, together with an
International Artist, have created an exhibition of a series of ‘Chess’
related works. These paintings will be shown ‘live’ over the World
Wide Web per daily upload. We cordially invite all Chess Players,
Enthusiasts and friends of the game Worldwide to view and experience
this extraordinary Event..." |
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(9/18)
Chess Samizdat is a new portal which offers free syndicated
chess content to the world via JS and RSS feed. From time to time
Chessville will bring you articles from this great new community chess
resource courtesy of
John C. Knudsen's and the author's generosity. Write's John: "Welcome
to Chess Samizdat, the portal for free syndicated chess content
on the world-wide web. Authors can submit their chess articles
here. Webmasters, E-Zine editors and other publishers can obtain
the javascript code to run the syndicated articles which are located
here. Or, just use the RSS feed.
The general public can obtain the content by subscribing with their RSS Reader software." Now, for our
first article from
Chess Samizdat, we present you with a familiar face... |
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 (9/18)
Chess Fiction: Holdout!
by NM Dan Heisman. "Josh Jokim was very upset.
Apparently, his team didn't think as highly of previous year's
contribution as he did, at least judging from their "final" salary
offer. Josh thought he had done rather well for a rookie, but he now
regretted signing only a one year contract. Not that it had been a bad
contract for a first round draft choice: $1,200,000 bonus and a $82,000
salary with fringe benefits, including $25,000 for making the team and
playing over half the matches. He was glad that they didn't send
him down to the farm system, because in the Big Leagues everything is
first class. Besides, who wants to go on a nine hour bus ride to play
the Akron Fianchettoes? And how many first-year players get to crack the
starting lineup of a National Chess League team, even if it was the
woeful Philadelphia Woodpushers?"
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(9/17)
Alekhine's Parrot:
Welcome to the
weekly leader of chess events around the world.
Chessville welcomes your Feedback to TheParrot on
this week’s news where selected letters will be featured.
This week: Institutions of Learning & Institutions.
Championships, and more!
TheParrot Squaawks about
the Internet College Chess League.
Read yesterday's headlines in
TheParrot's Archives.
Read last week's
Squaawk. |
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(9/17)
Nuestro Círculo #162:
10 de septiembre de 2005, este número de "Nuestro Círculo"está dedicado al
notable Maestro Alemán Ludwig Paulsen que vivió entre los años 1833 y 1891.
Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje
español.
(9/16)
Chess Word Search Puzzle: Love
your word-search puzzles, do you? Then you're sure to enjoy this one,
constructed especially for all you chessophiles out there!
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(9/15)
2005
Kavala Rapid: Reported by
IM Jovan Petronic. On
September 10-11, 2005, the traditional 4th open rapid (20'+10")
tournament "Kavala 2005" was held in Kavala, Greece. The winner,
12 years old
Ilias Kazantzidis, scored a 100%
result, outplaying much stronger ranked opponents! IM Petronic
annotates one of Ilias' victories in
this illustrated report.
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(9/14)
Fall Tourney:
The ICCL is now recruiting teams for the 2005-2006 season. Last
year they were able to restart this league with a handful of dedicated
university teams. At least three masters and plenty of experts
were involved in exciting internet matches. This year, we're
looking to expand the league and attract a larger range of teams.
Learn more here. |
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(9/14)
Tourney Report: GM Alexandra Kosteniuk Wins the 2005
Golden Blitz Tournament in Moscow, convincingly defeating in the semi-finals ex-world
champion Zhu Chen 2-0 and in the finals Almira Skripchenko 2-0.
The event saw two very strong knockout blitz tournaments, a men's event
with 8 players, and a women's event with 4 participants. The event
included A.Grischuk, E.Bareev, A.Motylev, P.Tregubov (all – Russia),
N.Short (UK), R.Ponomariov (Ukraine), V.Tkachiev (France), Y.Pelletier
(Switzerland), and A.Kosteniuk (Russia), Zhu Chen (China), A Skripchenko
(France), I.Krush (USA). For more about this event -
click here. |
<TOP>
Balogh Counter
Gambit - Part 6
by
ICCF-IM Keith R Hayward
(Photos courtesy of Brian Wall)
I did not plan on writing an update to the
Balogh Counter Gambit series, but
some misfortune of my own...
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...allowed me to observe the game below. I was having a bad tournament
at the HB Global Chess Challenge, and I decide to withdraw from the last
tournament to watch the top boards. |
| I was shocked to walk by the US Champion's game and see
him playing the Balogh Counter Gambit! I quickly grabbed a score
sheet and started recording the moves. Unfortunately, I could not
keep pace with the players in the final moves. |
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I wrote both players asking if they could remember them. I did not
hear from Hikaru, but Eugene responded stating he could not remember them.
Eugene was kind enough to provide a few comments. (Please note that I
have annotated this game for the Minnesota Chess Journal, the state magazine
for where the tournament was held.) |
Perelshteyn,E (2579) - Nakamura,H (2752) [A82]
HB Global Chess Challenge (9.13), 22.05.2005
1.e4 d6 2.d4 f5 3.exf5 Bxf5 4.Bd3 Qd7 5.Qf3 Bxd3
6.Qxd3 e6
       
  
     
A new move over part 3 which covers early exf5
captures. Black's e-pawn is weak on the open file, but
Nakamura shows Black has resources...
Read the rest of ICCF-IM Keith Hayward's annotations
<TOP>
Hello fellow chess
teams! We're writing to let you know that we are now recruiting teams for
the 2005-2006 season of the
Internet
College Chess League (ICCL). Last year we were
able to restart this league with a handful of dedicated university teams. At
least 3 masters and plenty of experts were involved in exciting internet
matches. This year, we're looking to expand the league and attract a larger
range of teams.
 We
will be holding two major ICCL
tournaments this year. A Swiss team tournament
will be held in the autumn and another round-robin event is scheduled for
the winter and spring quarters. You do not need to participate in all of our
tournaments; you can pick and choose the tournaments that your team wants to
participate in. We have a wide range of players; there are several Master
level players, all the way down to class E players on Junior Varsity teams.
During any ICCL tournament, you should be able to find a competitive match
with a team of similar strength...
The ICCL was
re-created as a non-profit organization in late 2004 to address several
problems with the state of university chess clubs in the US. We set out to
improve competitive participation in university chess clubs, and to build an
organization that could provide the university chess scene with community
support. Volunteers from universities across the country have come together
to build and support the ICCL. If you're interested in joining us, please go
to our website at
http://students.washington.edu/chessuw/iccl/ and
register. If you have any questions, please feel
free to
contact us.
Sincerely,
Gregory Alexander
and
Nick Matelli, ICCL Directors 2005/6
Read this entire article at
Chessville
<TOP>
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk Wins the
2005 Golden Blitz Tournament in Moscow
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(The photos in this report were taken on September 13
and 14, 2005, during the Golden Blitz tournament in Moscow, organized by
VV Profi, IGP and the ACP. All photos and text by Pufichek, (c)
www.kosteniuk.com. You can
purchase any autographed photo -
more info here.) |
Alexandra Kosteniuk
won convincingly the Golden Blitz tournament in Moscow, by defeating in the
semi-finals ex-world champion Zhu Chen 2-0 and in the finals Almira
Skripchenko 2-0. In the men's competition Ponomariov beat Bareev in the
finals.
The event saw two
very strong knockout blitz tournaments, a men's event with 8 players, and a
women's event with 4 participants. The following chess stars took
part: A.Grischuk, E.Bareev, A.Motylev, P.Tregubov (all – Russia), N.Short
(UK), R.Ponomariov (Ukraine), V.Tkachiev (France), Y.Pelletier
(Switzerland), and among the women were A.Kosteniuk (Russia), Zhu Chen
(China), A Skripchenko (France), I.Krush (USA)...
See the entire illustrated report
<TOP>
Inside Susan Polgar's World Records
Reported by Paul Truong
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AMERICA’S #1 RANKED
FEMALE CHESS PLAYER
SETS FOUR NEW
WORLD RECORDS AT THE GARDENS MALL |
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Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida…In a marathon 16-and-a-half hours, Grandmaster Susan Polgar set not
one, but four new records, and unofficially set a Guinness World Record for
the most simultaneous matches.
More than 500 people
from around the world, ranging in ages from 4 - 95, turned out at The
Gardens Mall on Monday, August 1st 2005, for a chance to compete against the
first female celebrity icon of the chess world. The games began at
10:30 am and wrapped up at 3:00 am.
After 326 players
signed up, the organizers decided to stop the registration process not to
delay the Guinness World Record event. It was amazing to see rows and
rows of tables, chairs and chess sets throughout the mall from Sears to
Bloomingdale’s.
After the first
Guinness World Record attempt was on the way, more people still showed up
wanting to play. Rather than turning players away, the organizer consulted
with Susan and she consented to go for a second record of most consecutive
games played which was 1102 games by WGM Anna-Maria Botsari from Greece.
Susan ended up playing against 551 opponents and 1,131 games...
New Records by
Grandmaster Susan Polgar:
1) 326 Simultaneous
Games Played
(309 wins, 14 draws, 3
losses = 96.93% in 16 hours and 30 minutes)
2) Most games won
309
3) Highest
percentage 96.93%
4) 1,131 Consecutive
Games Played against 554 opponents
(Overall 1,112 wins, 16
draws, 3 losses)
...Addendum:
The
former record
holder, the famous opening theoretician IM Andrew Martin (see
Bits and Pieces) has
raised some questions regarding the setting of these records by GM Polgar.
At the end of this article, you can read Martin's open letter, and Polgar &
Truong's equally open responses.
Read all about the Inside Story of Susan Polgar's World Records
<TOP>
Josh Jokim was very upset.
Apparently, his team didn't think as highly of previous year's contribution
as he did, at least judging from their "final" salary offer. Josh thought he
had done rather well for a rookie, but he now regretted signing only a one
year contract. Not that it had been a bad contract for a first round draft
choice: $1,200,000 bonus and a $82,000 salary with fringe benefits,
including $25,000 for making the team and playing over half the matches.
He was glad that they didn't send him down to the farm system, because in
the Big Leagues everything is first class. Besides, who wants to go on a
nine hour bus ride to play the Akron Fianchettoes? And how many first-year
players get to crack the starting lineup of a National Chess League team,
even if it was the woeful Philadelphia Woodpushers?
During salary negotiations, Josh had presented all his impressive statistics
to the General Manager, but to no avail. Pretty good for a rookie:
37.8% wins on 8th board (heck, the entire team only scored 31.8%!)
17th in the league in Queenside castling
23rd in Queen sacrifices (didn't mention on 45th in SOUND Queen sacrifices!)
Best on the team at putting his opponent over on time (a near league rookie
record of 3)
Most Stolen Pawns in August (32)
6 Game-winning points
He also argued that he finished 7th in "Rookie of the Year" balloting and
that the team's attendance had gone up from last year's abysmal 87,000 per
game to 108,000 per game. But he still was only offered a 30% raise.
The nerve of some people! Didn't they remember his stalemate trap that
enabled us to score a half point off the New York Grandmasters for the first
time in years?
Read the
complete story behind the Holdout!
<TOP>
The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton
The First Time:
The London 1862 tournament was the first international tournament to be
played as a round-robin event.
The Last Time:
Alexander Alekhine's last recorded game of chess was played on the 9th of
March 1946. He played against English problem composer Gerald
Anderson, who was working in the British Foreign Office in Lisbon at the
time.
Submit your trivia to the
Mad Aussie!
<TOP>
Pablo's Chess News
Pablo's Chess News
Chessville coverage of:
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European Chess Club
Cup (September 18 - 24 / St. Vincent)
Tournament starts this Sunday / NAO Chess Club
is the main favourite
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Dutch Chess
Championship (September 5-16 / Leeuwarden)
Defending champions
Loek Van Wely & Zhao Qin Peng retained their titles
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1st Saturday Chess
Tournaments (September / HUNGARY)
GM Section: Ilincic & Czebe shared the 1st place
(8.5/13) / Quang Liem Le performed IM-norm / Hoang Thi Bao Tram performed
WGM-norm
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58th Russian Chess
Championship (September 3-11 / RUSSIA)
Evgeny Bareev & Alexander Khalifman tied for 1st
(6.5/9)
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Open letter by Michal Krasenkow regarding faked
tournaments, norms, and titles.
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more
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by John Donaldson: #261, 9/13/2005: 1) Mechanic's Institute
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There
FIDE
Expected Rating
Changes for 1st October 2005
FIDE announcement
concerning the Yemen Chess Federation
Communication of
the FIDE President H.E. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to all National Federations
Asian Schools
Chess Festival 2005 in Singapore, Singapore International Chess Convention
Adianto, Paragua
top Asian Zone 3.3 Championship
About.com Chess
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RUSBASE (Part Four)
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USCF
Lindsborg Hosts
Kansas Scholastic Chess Championships
Grandmaster Alex
Yermolinsky Dominated The Master Section of the 2005 CalChess State Chess
Championship
KATRINA ATTACKS –
U. S. CHESS RESPONDS! (Outreach program launched to aid U.S. Chess
members affected by Hurricane Katrina)
Grandmaster Gata Leads Way at America's Oldest Chess Tournament
Chess
Review Online -
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Slim and Al Sayed share top spot after fifth round of Arab Chess
Championship, Dubai
Belkhodja stuns Talib to share lead with Mohammed
Pocket PC Freeware Chess
Game of the Day: Chess
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From the site
www.gambitchess.com:
6th World Championship Latvian Gambit 2006/2009 cycle; 1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 f5; The tournament will be played in three stages: Preliminary,
Semifinal and Final. The tournament will be played normally by Email
and ICCF email rules will apply (60 days for 10 moves, the time may NOT be
exceeded). It is planned to start the preliminary stage on January
2006. The first two players of each Preliminary group will qualify for
the Semifinal Round. The 5WCHLG Final winner will be admitted to play
in the 6wk Final round; all other players from 5WCHLG Final will be admitted
to play in the 6wk semifinal. Each competitor will play 2 games with
the same opponent (one with White and one with Black), each section of the
preliminary stage will involve 5/6 players. Each entry (containing
name, email, date of birth, country, elo rating), should be sent by email to
Giorgio Ruggeri Laderchi (ruggeri.laderchi@people.it), not later than
30.11.2005.
Annotated Games
Malcolm Pein (Telegraph Chess Club): D Stellwagen (2533) - J Werle,
Dutch Ch. (9), Leeuwarden 2005
Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post)
Rogers-Wang, 2nd Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open, Kuala
Lumpur 2005
Balasubramanian-Gorman, 69th annual Virginia Closed
State Championship 2005
Jack Peters (LA Times)
IM Enrico Sevillano–Ilia
Serpik, Southern California Open, Los Angeles 2005
Derek Tan–John Anderson, Southern California Open, Los
Angeles 2005
David Sands (Washington Times)
Acers-Peake, Simultaneous exhibition, Michigan, 1967
Fritzvold-Jones, 72nd U.S. Open, Ventura, Calif., 1971
Puzzles & Problems
Chessville -
Problem of the Week
William
Harvey's Chess Puzzles - Solutions
Alexander
Morozevich vs Ronald Koehler, Mainz, 2005
Alexei Shirov
vs Michelangelo Scalcione, Mainz, 2005
Levon Aronian
vs Pavel Tregubov, Mainz, 2005
Teimour
Radjabov vs Alexander Morozevich, Mainz, 2005
Viswanathan
Anand vs Alexander Grischuk, Mainz, 2005
MagnateGames
- A problem each day
Bruno's
Chess Problem of the Day
National Scholastic Chess Foundation
- Problem of the
Week
Chesshaven - Tactical Exercise of the Day
The London Times - Winning Move &
Column, Both Daily
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Position of the Week: Solution
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Today's position won
the prize for "The Most Spectacular Game Won by White" in a recent e-mail
thematic tournament. All games featured the
Halloween Gambit.
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Chess
Quotes
Oh, go and play your silly game. – Cheryl Ryan (and millions of other
chess widows)
To play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime
against chess. – Mikhail Tal
The art of treating the opening stage of the game
correctly and without error is basically the art of using time efficiently.
– Svetozar Gligoric.
If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically
forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional
advantage. – Mikhail Tal.
Today, weak squares and weak pawns are self-inflicted
in order to mislead the opponent; open lines are ceded so as to save the
rooks for other more promising plan. – David Bronstein.
To get squares you gotta give squares. – Bobby Fischer.
Perceiving when a game reaches a crisis is one of the
greatest skills in chess. – Ludek Pachman.
As sometimes happens, a long think in the opening is
followed by unsound strategical decisions, as the player feels somewhat
compelled to justify his investment of time by unusual play. – Joel Lautier
Just ignore my girlfriend sitting behind me in the
gallery. She's the one in the front chair with the tight semi-transparent
halter-top, in the micro-mini skirt. – Walter Browne
Strategically bad, but it's not a positional game any
more. You just close your eyes and attack. – Peter Leko
Avoid marriage and family life if you want to keep
improving. – Lev Psakhis
Strong chess players get married all the time, but how
often do married people become strong chess players? – Randy Carson
The money and the women. – Jeremy Silman (when asked what had attracted
him to chess)
Show him we're all not children. – Larry Evans (to
Anthony Saidy during Saidy’s final round game against Fischer in the 1963-64
US Championship, which Fischer won 11-0)
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure
of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and
truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world
turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error,
and maybe one worse than the first one. – H. L. Mencken
My father taught me to play. Then I liked the taste of
victory. – GM Viorel Bologan (on how he got interested in chess)
Alekhine can see five or six times as much as I can,
but I have a plan, and that plan sometimes permits me to win. – Max Euwe
You know that the estimated number of electrons in the universe is a
measly 10 to the 79th power, whereas the number of distinct
40-move games in chess is 25 x 10 to the 115th power. – Larry Parr
Another reputation that I helped to make! – Arthur Bisguier (on his 1975
loss in a brilliant game to a 15 year old Seirawan)
GAMES
Volokitin,A (2671) - Harikrishna,P (2645) [C41] FSGM September Lausanne
HUN (2.1), 16.09.2005
1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 exd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 Be7
6.Bf4 0-0
7.Qd2 Nc6
8.0-0-0 Nxd4
9.Qxd4 Be6
10.f3 Nd7
11.Qe3 Qb8
12.g4 Ne5
13.h4 c6
14.g5 b5
15.Bg3 Qb6
16.Qxb6 axb6
17.f4 Ng4
18.f5 Bxa2
19.Bxd6 Bxd6
20.Rxd6 b4
21.Nd1 b3
22.c3 Ra4
23.Bd3 Rfa8
24.Kd2 Kf8
25.Rd4 c5
26.Rxa4 Rxa4
27.Rf1 b5
28.Ne3 Nxe3
29.Kxe3 c4
30.Be2 Ra8
31.Rd1 Re8
32.f6 b4
33.Kd4 gxf6
34.gxf6 Re6
35.e5 bxc3
36.Kxc3 Rxe5
37.Rd8+ Re8
38.Rxe8+ Kxe8
39.Bxc4 h6
40.Bxb3 Bb1
41.Kd4 1-0
Nakamura,H (2660) - Mamedyarov,S (2646) [A22] FSGM September Lausanne HUN
(2.1), 16.09.2005
1.c4 Nf6
2.Nc3 e5
3.e3 d5
4.cxd5 Nxd5
5.Nf3 Nxc3
6.bxc3 Bd6
7.d4 Nd7
8.Be2 0-0
9.0-0 Qe7
10.Nd2 Ba3
11.Bxa3 Qxa3
12.Nc4 Qe7
13.Qc2 b6
14.Nxe5 Nxe5
15.Qe4 Bd7
16.Qxe5 Qxe5
17.dxe5 Rae8
18.f4 f6
19.Rad1 Bc8
20.Bc4+ Kh8
21.exf6 Rxe3
22.Rfe1 Rxe1+
23.Rxe1 gxf6
24.Re7 Bf5
25.h3 c6
26.g4 b5
27.Bb3 Bd3
28.Rxa7 c5
29.Be6 f5
30.Rd7 c4
31.g5 Re8
32.Bd5 Be4
33.Bf7 Ra8
34.h4 b4
35.Rc7 bxc3
36.Bxc4 c2
37.Bb3 Rd8
38.Kf2 Rd2+
39.Ke3 1-0
Nijboer,F - Tiviakov,S
Essent NK Leeuwarden (8), 2005
1.e4 d5
2.exd5 Qxd5
3.Nc3 Qd6
4.d4 Nf6
5.Bd3 Nc6
6.Nge2 Nb4
7.Bf4 Qd8
8.Be5 e6
9.a3 Nxd3+
10.Qxd3 Nd7
11.Qg3 Nxe5
12.dxe5 Bd7
13.0-0-0 Qe7
14.Rd3 g6
15.Rhd1 Bh6+
16.f4 Bc6
17.Nd4 Bd5
18.Nxd5 exd5
19.Rb3 c6
20.Kb1 Bg7
21.Nf5 gxf5
22.Qxg7 0-0-0
23.Qg3 Qe6
24.Qf2 Kb8
25.Rbd3 Rd7
26.c4 Rhd8
27.cxd5 Rxd5
28.Rxd5 Rxd5
29.Rxd5 Qxd5
30.Qc2 Qe6
31.Qd3 Kc7
32.Kc2 ½-½
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