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| Posted by onlygb uskidscompute.com 11/14/2004 07:19:27 Play online chess |  Subject: Fully Annotated PGN Game Files (for free)Message: Does anyone know of any good, free, annotated chess games that I can run in my PGN viewer? What I'm looking for is not just sheer volume (800 Sicilian games!!) but quality annotation. Notes on many key moves so a 1400 player like myself can read why a certain move was made. Thanks in advance!! | ||||||
| Posted by wulebgr uskidscompute.com 11/14/2004 07:46:36 Play online chess | Message: From time to time there are annotated games in PGN format at the Chess Informant site. These are always in CI format--just learning the CI codes can help some 1400 players improve positional understanding. www.sahovski.com/ | ||||||
| Posted by bonsai uskidscompute.com 11/14/2004 08:05:25 Play online chess | Message: The teaching ladder page at FICS www.freechess.org/Ladder/games.html does contain games mostly played by amateurs reviewed by stronger players. The only vaguely silly thing is that one has to download them one by one. ——— Chess Ratings Inflation Leads to a Record Ranking — There are two firsts in the current ranking of the world’s top chess competitors, which was released on Tuesday. Four of the chess players have a rating (the number used to create the rankings) of 2,800 or higher, and 47 players have a rating of at least 2,700. Before Garry Kasparov did it in 1990, no chess player — not even Bobby Fischer at his peak — had crossed 2,800. Now six have done so. A rating of 2,700, which used to be the level at which chess players were considered elite, has become almost ordinary. In fact, the average rating of the world’s top 100 chess players is 2,701. But ratings inflation — caused in part by looser rules guiding them — makes it difficult to compare different eras. The ratings system was ... | ||||||
| Posted by pappagrande uskidscompute.com 11/14/2004 11:01:24 Play online chess | Message: "the week in chess" website has a weekly free download in pgn and other formats. think it may have all the top/important games played in the previous week. It also has an archive section of all these weekly downloads going back about 4 years or so. p www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html ——— On Chess: Fischer never sought hero treatment — Bobby Fischer’s conviction that he could play chess to a draw against God, at least with the white pieces, wasn’t a mark of arrogance. It was simply an obvious fact, he thought, if he made the right moves. Although he received much negative publicity, Fischer was usually surprisingly approachable. New York chess grandmaster and Fischer contemporary Andy Soltis recalls their first meeting in the book Bobby Fischer Rediscovered: “He was relaxed, natural and not at all the prima donna I’d read about. He was just Bobby.” Such was my impression and that of many others who had contact with him. But, as his mother cautioned early in his life, her gifted and sensitive son intensely disliked being ... | ||||||
| Posted by pappagrande uskidscompute.com 11/14/2004 11:07:24 Play online chess | correction Message: Sorry just realised that you want annotations, don't know about that. but it's worth a look anyway. p ——— Halloween in the Motor City — Holiday weekends are usually prime time for major chess tournaments, and this past Halloween weekend was no exception. I traveled to the Detroit area last weekend to play a little chess and to spend time with my family as well. I traveled up north to play in a strong open chess tournament. This is odd, since Detroit is not known for strong chess tournaments. But a new organizer, Alan Kaufman, is out to change that. He is a solid chess player and wants to have more strong chess tournaments in Michigan. My regular column readers will remember that I recently went to the SPICE Cup in Texas. That chess tournament was a round-robin, where all the players are invited, all are very strong, and everyone ... | ||||||
| Posted by jjw109 uskidscompute.com 11/14/2004 11:50:42 Play online chess | Message: Here's another site with a few classics and other annotated games. Again though it's a one by one download, though their viewer works well. www.logicalchess.com/resources/bestgames ——— Lasker's tenacious defence — This game from the legendary 1914 St. Petersburg tournament shows a chess great at his best. RB: I like text as well as chess in my chess books, and The Joys of Chess by Christian Hesse (New in Chess) has plenty of both. It's a compendium, in the mould of earlier works like Fox and James's The Complete Chess Addict or Hooper and Whyld's Oxford Companion to Chess; it's the sixth and last nomination for our book of the year award. Hesse, a professor of mathematics, may not be a top-flight chess player, but he roves over his subject with the sharp eye of an avid collector. If it reads pedantically at times (Dan was aghast at the title, which he thought sounded like a bad translation from ... Posted by poulovas | uskidscompute.com 11/14/2004 23:48:12 Play online chess Message: This will help you a lot www.uni-klu.ac.at/~gossimit/c/chess.htm ——— Aggressive Strategy Pays Off at Women’s Grand Prix Event — Here’s a striking fact about the game of chess: There is only one woman ranked among the world’s top 100 players. There is no obvious reason for such a disparity in a purely intellectual game. One dubious explanation put forward over the years is that women are not as naturally aggressive as men and that successful chess requires frequent attacks. Yet in women-only chess events, a higher proportion of the games end in decisive finishes than they do at chess tournaments in which men participate. That has held true in the current Women’s Grand Prix series. The third tournament, which ended earlier this month in Nalchik, Russia, was dominated by Zhao Xue of China, who won 9 of her first 10 games before ... Posted by peppe_l | uskidscompute.com 11/16/2004 05:36:38 Play online chess Not PGN Message: But from www.chesscafe.com archives you can find games annotated by Yasser Seirawan (Inside Chess). Posted by wulebgr | uskidscompute.com 11/16/2004 13:53:39 Play online chess Try googling ...Message: "PGN annotated" you'll find a link to this thread, but also many sources of annotated games by masters and patzers |