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| Posted by yanm uskidscompute.com 2/10/2006 04:36:46 Play online chess |  Subject: Novice Nook, #4Message: quick link to colum: -> www.chesscafe.com | ||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 2/10/2006 11:51:45 Play online chess | Good advice (Heisman #4)... Message: But what Heisman has to say about looking for threats, tactics etc, ought to help determine whether the move you are considering is good or not. Incidentally, knowledge - and hence recognition - of tactical motifs can help in finding one's way through situations that are similar though not the same as the 'standard' motif. Recall the position I gave on January 29 (Novice Nook thread), noting that 'Philidor's Legacy' gave to clue to the win. (It is remarkable how successive Heisman articles tie in with each other. A fine teacher, methinks!) Cheers, Ion | ||||||||||||
| Posted by wschmidt uskidscompute.com 2/10/2006 12:27:54 Play online chess | I read this article... Message: I could certainly never afford the time to do de la Maza's program, but his ideas and this article really got me thinking about my need to go back to the basics and methodically learn rudimentary tactical and endgame concepts cold. I started with the 300 positions in Reinfeld/Chernev's "Winning Chess" and the 300 in Lev Aburt's "Chess Training Pocket Book" and marched through each of those books five times. During that time my GK rating went up nearly 200 points. I'm doing the same thing with "Pandofini's Endgame Course" right now. I ran into this a few weeks ago and posted it in the Chess Coaching Club info. I'm a Bent Larsen fan anyway and this really resonated with me: "Bent Larsen was once asked: “How do you get better at chess?” He responded: “First you learn one thing really well. Then you learn something else really well. Then you go on to something else. Pretty soon you know a lot.” ——— New York International Event Gives Local Players a Leg Up — In its first three years, the New York International tournament provided local chess players with opportunities to earn norms for titles, sometimes while beating strong grandmasters. This year’s competition, which ended Tuesday at the TriBeCa campus of St. John’s University, was no exception. The winner was Robert Hungaski, an international master from Connecticut. He scored 8 out of 9 points and finished 1 ½ points ahead of his nearest competitor, the grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest. Hungaski’s performance earned him the second of the three norms needed for the grandmaster title. Two young masters from New York, Kassa Korley and Aleksandr Ostrovskiy, earned their first chess ... Posted by deejie | uskidscompute.com 2/11/2006 07:27:49 Play online chess Tactics vs StrategyMessage: as tedious as I did... Strategy development takes far less concentration & is easier to apply. Is it down to the excellent chess tutor to present such study in practical & pertinent chunks to encourage continued study? Every so often, when a familiar mating motif raises its head, every player gets a boost but surely it's down to the individual's strength of character to drive their own progress in this infuriating game. Not sure how relevant my remarks are - got something off my chest though ;) Regards Daniel deejie ——— Magnus Carlsen back at No1 but Sergey Karjakin shines in Romania — Magnus Carlsen won this week's Bazna Kings in Romania unbeaten and regained the No1 spot on the live rankings from the world chess champion, Vishy Anand, yet his performance was eclipsed by a rival. Sergey Karjakin, at 21 only a few months older than Carlsen, also scored 6.5/10 without loss, was fractionally second to the Norwegian on tie-break and, most importantly, jumped to No4 in the rankings to highlight his own world title credentials. Karjakin at 12 was the youngest grandmaster in history before Carlsen outstripped him as a teenager. Then two years ago Karjakin changed nationality from Ukraine to Russia and moved to Moscow in search of harder competition. He chose ... Posted by wschmidt | uskidscompute.com 2/11/2006 17:48:23 Play online chess deejie,Message: * Sometimes, if it's the sort of day where my schedule allows it, I'll just work intermittently on puzzles all day, say two every hour, or two every time I finish a task. Some days I can get through quite a few that way. I just can't sit down and do an hour's worth though. I'd go crazy. * I do find that working with the CT-ART tactics package or the on-line Chess Tactics Server is a bit more interesting though. For some reason, I can handle more puzzles in one sitting using either of those methods than I can with a book. * I'd be interested in hearing other's approaches to working through tactics material. ——— Young Leads U.S. Junior Chess Championship — The 2011 U.S. Junior Chess Closed Championship is being held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from June 15-26. As we hit the halfway mark of the chess tournament, appropriately enough, the leader is Young. That would be Gregory Young, a 16 year old from San Francisco who has started at a blistering pace, winning his first four rounds (4/4). His accomplishments thus far are especially noteworthy because he entered the tournament ranked seventh out of the 10 players by rating. Three competitors are on his heels with three points out of four games (3/4), including pre-tournament favorite and 2011 U.S. Chess Championship participant Daniel Naroditsky, as well as ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 2/12/2006 03:00:48 Play online chess Possibly such methods...Message: ——— Chess: Empty threat of a pawn storm — It might look menacing, but this pawn attack is comfortably repelled. RB: Sheer terror at the impending rush of kingside pawns would make me think about getting my king to safety pretty fast. But with the queen and queen's bishop still on their starting squares, castling long will take some time and 1…0-0 looks like playing into White's hands by castling into the attack. I don't think I should let the advance of White's pawns go unchallenged. I should strike back and try to undermine him. I can see two possibilities: 1…h5 and 1…f5. The first looks safer. White won't take as 1…h5 2 gxh5 Rxh5 is obviously very bad. Instead 2 g5 is more likely, when Black can castle in ... Posted by mattdw | uskidscompute.com 2/14/2006 03:53:21 Play online chess Message: It would be much more difficult to do that quantity of work from a book, though that will probably make it more beneficial in a different way as more time is spent on each problem. To counter this I make a point of spending time on the problems I got wrong on CTS, putting them in Fritz if neccessary - though I find that the process of placing the pieces on the board is often enough to realise what the tactic was! At the moment, when I sit down to practice tactics I work through the book (Chernev's Winning Chess) then spend an equal amount of time on CTS. I would like to be able to select the tactic I had been studying specifically to but it doesn't allow that. Would I be able to do that on CT Art? ——— On Chess: Game's best can skip some preparation — Which demands more thinking or planning: football or chess? The answer doesn't seem obvious after discussing the matter with a young football coach who spends many hours watching and analyzing video. Even Sunday morning - when defensive coordinator Casey Goff is in his office at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., studying the previous day's play - offers no respite from a grueling schedule. He rarely gets home before 8 on a weeknight. Team sports require substantial strategizing before each game. On the other hand, grandmasters of chess can afford to wing it. Former world chess champion Boris Spassky used to speak of the importance of a clear mind. He often chose a leisurely session of tennis over chess analysis. Chess phenom ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 2/14/2006 12:42:42 Play online chess It was tactical nuances...Message: White: Kg1, Rf1, Nd4, Pe4, Pd3; Black: Kc8, Ra3, Bf8, Pa4. Black to play (just by way of a change...). 1...Bc5 (Moving the B to safety and attacking and pinning the WN. How can the knight be saved?) 2.Rc1! (By pinning the B. Observe that 2...Bxd4+ is not possible, even though it checks White's K, on account of the exposed check on Black's K. But now Black's B looks lost. Has he a resource?) 2...Ra1! (Another pin! OK, a half-pin: White's R does have some mobility left, but may not take [3.Rxc5+], again because of the exposed check on White's K!). So 3.Rxa1 and now Black can exploit the original pin: 3...Bxd4+. This brings in another motif - the fork. So 4.Kf1 Bxa1 and (if you care to play it out) Black just manages to force home the a-pawn to queen (5.Ke1 Bd4 6.Kd1 a3 7. Kc2 a2 8.Kb3 a1=Q -+). This is the kind of thing that makes chess chess, a game of endless fascination... Cheers, Ion Posted by ras11 | uskidscompute.com 2/15/2006 11:20:45 Play online chess Chess BoardMessage: -> www.chesslab.com. Works GREAT! Ryan |