Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Sat Nov 7, 2009 3:44am.
Who is The Champion of The Champions?
By Fritz Baumbach, Robin Smith and Rolf Knobel
Hardback.224 pages
Exzelsior Verlag.Berlin.2008
http://www.zeitschriftschach.de/
Imagine a world champions' tournament in which Fischer,Tal and Kasparov w... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:13pm.
Mikhail Tal, the former world champion, and Bent Larsen, the Great Dane, met in a semifinal candidates match in 1965. Larsen was ahead after winning game one. Tal won game two. Games three and four were draws. Larsen won game five and Tal came bac... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Wed Oct 7, 2009 12:17am.
While I was writing my last article about the “Janowski Bishops,” I found an exciting game between Janowski and Chajes, New York, Rice Tournament, 1916. The combination conceived by Janowski, besides being too deep, has an interesting history.... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM vbhat on Mon Oct 5, 2009 5:42pm.
The past two weeks, I've shared my games from rounds 4 and 6 of the Montreal International. This week, I want to share my game from the 5th round, as white against GM Sergei Tiviakov.
With a draw against Bacrot in the books, I was looking to take... Read more »
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Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:49am.
UltraCorr3 (CD)
Edited by Tim Harding
System requirement:ChessBase 8 or higher version
ChessMail.2009
http://www.chessmail.com/
http://www.chess.com/article/view/ultracorr3part-i
http://www.chess.com/article/view/here-is-gods-plentypart-ii
... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:09am.
The games of the old masters were characterized by a more free-wheeling attitude with respect to material. A development advantage was the holy grail for chess players, and they would strive for that lead by sacrificing whatever it took. Pawns wer... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Wed Sep 9, 2009 12:26am.
The London 1883 chess tournament was one of the most important competitions of the nineteenth century where most of the leading player competed. It was won convincingly by Johannes Zukertort (22/26) ahead of Wilhelm Steinitz (19/26) by three point... Read more »
2203 reads | 39 comments | 5 votes:
Submitted by
Teravos on Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:49pm.
Hi everyone, and welcome to my second "annotated" game from my vast number of blitz games played on live chess here. This time the game is set to a mere 3 minutes for the entire game. Be prepared for one heck of a beautiful attacking pattern.... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Tue Aug 4, 2009 10:39pm.
Miguel Najdorf (1910-1997) was born in Warsaw, Poland. He was playing at the Buenos Aires Olympiad in 1939 when World War II broke out, and decided not to attempt to return home, taking Argentine citizenship.Today I want to share with you a myster... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:59am.
Zugzwang: A situation in which a player is limited to moves that cost pieces or have a damaging positional effect or A situation in a chess game in which a player is forced to make an undesirable or disadvantageous move.According to Nimzowitsch, w... Read more »
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Submitted by
IM Shankland on Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:54am.
ed note: GM Bhat is in Brazil playing in the Contintental Championship. In his absence, who better to replace him than... a former student of his. IM Sam Shankland has two GM norms and is quite a strong player in his own right. In July he played 3... Read more »
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Submitted by
spassky on Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:45pm.
The following game was played in Hagerstown (Maryland) City Park, once voted the "second most beautiful city park in America" (I presume Central Park in NYC is first). I was visiting relatives there, and we decided to go for a walk in the park.... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM vbhat on Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:32am.
After my tournament in Montreal, I went to Philly to play the 7-day schedule of the World Open. The 7-day featured a pretty small group of players, most of whom were above 2500! After a draw with GM Vladimir Potkin (2721 USCF) in round 1, I got th... Read more »
1747 reads | 8 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
FM TigerLilov on Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:44am.
It was July 2007 and I was playing casually some chess at Playchess.com, when, unexpectedly, my game formula matched me to play a game with the handle called Raffael, which was currently the top blitz player in the honorary list. Well-known by all... Read more »
3418 reads | 59 comments | 13 votes:
Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:53pm.
In his moment, Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961) played the most perfect chess of the epoch! Many of his games were models of precision. He played the endgames like the gods! said Tartakower, a leading master at the time. Before World War I, Rubinstein... Read more »
3632 reads | 34 comments | 8 votes:
Submitted by
WGM Natalia_Pogonina on Sat Jul 4, 2009 1:25am.
All of us admire chess sacrifices. Sometimes it is possible to win (quite correctly, not as a result of an opponent’s blunder) even being a piece down. Usually it is connected with an opportunity to convey a tactical operation – give a... Read more »
10566 reads | 92 comments | 10 votes:
Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Wed Jul 1, 2009 12:33am.
The fifth world champion Max Euwe (1901-1981) was a truly interesting man: mathematician, engineer, astronomer and computer specialist. He is the only world champion that was not a professional! But this did not impede him from reaching the chess... Read more »
3710 reads | 38 comments | 3 votes:
Submitted by
jboden on Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:16am.
A game that flows along smoothly until an inconsequential pawn move forces White to resign.
White's Queen is surrounded, Black's last move took away her only remaining flight square.
What should/could White play on move 26? Read more »
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Submitted by
SerbianChessStar on Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:18pm.
Well as you all can see from my title..
I played a FM and GM!!
I played them both on I.C.C.
Well the GM the time control was 60 0..
After this game i wasted about 48 minutes and the GM wasted about 52 1/2 minutes.
Here it is.. No annotations ... Read more »
501 reads | 10 comments | 2 votes:
Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Wed Jun 24, 2009 3:23am.
Pillsbury without question was the most dangerous opponent that Lasker faced during the first years of his reign. Between 1893 and 1904 these two magnificent gladiators battled in 12 tournament games. The final score was +5 -4 =3 in Lasker’s fav... Read more »
2560 reads | 30 comments | 6 votes:
Submitted by
spassky on Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:54pm.
William Morrison is one of the top players in Maryland. He is nicknamed "The Exterminator" for his "ability to process lower-rated opponents" (I read that somewhere). I presume that means he grinds them up like a food processor and points come... Read more »
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Submitted by
spassky on Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:48pm.
Just when you think you've created something original, it turns out it's been done before. This happened to me in 2007 at the United States Amateur Team East tournament in Parsippany, NJ. In Round 4, I played the Black side of a King's Indian Defe... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:00am.
In this article I want to show an incredible game, Emanuel Lasker-William Napier, Cambridge Spring 1904. This is one of the most known Lasker games. It was such a tremendous game, that Napier considered it his best game ever! Napier wrote: “This... Read more »
5161 reads | 34 comments | 6 votes:
Submitted by
GM vbhat on Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:49pm.
Of my last few tournaments, my best result was definitely at San Sebastian, Spain in April. I tied for first there with an undefeated 7.0/9. I included one of my earlier games (against FM Angel Arribas Lopez) in an article titled "Spicing up the E... Read more »
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