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| Posted by wschmidt uskidscompute.com 3/03/2006 12:29:00 Play online chess |  Subject: Novice Nook #7 Message: Here's the link - have at it: -> www.chesscafe.com | ||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 3/03/2006 17:45:52 Play online chess | Great stuff...! Message: Cheers, Ion | ||||||||||
| Posted by mattdw uskidscompute.com 3/05/2006 13:34:29 Play online chess | Message: ——— Texas Tech Wins Final Four of Chess — You don't see spectacular hoops and dunks and scoring is not done in twos or threes. No chest-pounding, no cheerleaders. The four-corner offense or zone defenses are not parts of the game either. There are brilliant moves, but they are done quietly. And yet, the Final Four in college chess could be a dramatic experience. Played at the Booz Allen Hamilton building in Herndon, Virginia, over the last weekend, the chess event - also known as the President's Cup - featured three teams from Texas and the defending chess champion University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). With students from 20 different countries, this year's Final Four was the strongest: each chess team had ... Posted by alberlie | uskidscompute.com 3/05/2006 14:39:34 Play online chess something to add to his french defence example...Message: I can't recall how often I benefited from that trap. Here's a second one, also concerning the Advance variation of the french: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 (attacking...) 4. c3 (defending...) Nc6 (attacking again...) 5. Nf3 (defending again...) Qb6 (attacking once more) 6. Be3?? (defending) Qxb2!! and black picks up at least two pawns... ——— Chess: Wrestling with the Allgaier variation — Pragmatism is the key to this tricky and menacing variation of the King's Gambit. The Allgaier variation of the King's Gambit arises after 1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Nf3 g5 4 h4 g4 5 Ng5. Seldom seen, but not to be underestimated. RB: I don't know this variation. It looks very tricky and very dangerous. I suppose the first thing to decide is whether to take up White's offer of the knight: 5...h6 6 Nxf7 Kxf7. The black king is terribly exposed, but is White's sacrifice sound? Can Black fight off the assault with accurate play? If I were White I'd probably follow up with 7 Bc4+ when the most sensible defence seems to be 7...d5, giving up a pawn but ... Posted by wschmidt | uskidscompute.com 3/05/2006 20:58:02 Play online chess And where, the novice might ask, Message: * Horowitz and Reinfeld - "Chess Traps, Pitfalls and Swindles" * McDonald - "Modern Chess Miniatures" * Neishtadt - "Winning Quickly at Chess" * Horowitz - "New Traps in the Chess Opening" * Pandolfini - "Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps" and "More Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps 2" Most are available used on Ebay or Amazon and some are still available new in print. One or two would be well worth the time put into them. ws ——— French Grandmasters suspended on suspicion of cheating at Russia Chess Olympiad — The French Chess Federation (FFE) has suspended three players, two of them grandmasters, for allegedly cheating via coded text messages at the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Russia. GM Sébastien Feller took the board five gold medal and €5,000 with 6/9, including the win below against England's David Howell, where it is claimed that almost every black move is the first choice of the Firebird program. Feller's Olympiad team-mates backed the FFE, though the banned trio deny wrongdoing and have lodged appeals. According to witness evidence presented to its disciplinary committee, the FFE alleges that at critical game moments IM Cyril Marzolo fed moves from the live online games into ... Posted by cascadejames | uskidscompute.com 3/09/2006 22:44:52 Play online chess swindle or tacticMessage: the answer is "yes." ——— Three French Chess Players Punished for Using Technology to Cheat — Cheating has become more common in recent years. But a recent French case is the most sensational, and the most troubling. In January, the French Chess Federation accused three of its members, including Sebastien Feller, a 20-year-old grandmaster, of cheating during last year’s Chess Olympiad. Feller, who is ranked No. 4 among French players, played Board 5 for the national Olympiad team and won an individual gold medal for his performance. But the federation said he had help from Cyril Marzolo, an international master, who watched Feller’s games online and put the positions into a computer, which suggested moves. Marzolo relayed the suggestions to Arnaud Hauchard ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 3/10/2006 02:06:47 Play online chess Indeed, but I like... Message: Here's my favorite, played in a club game: White: Kb1, Qd2, R:e1, f1, Nd5, P:b2, b3, c2 Black: Kg7, Qc5, R:d8, h8, Nh5, P:a6, b7, d6, e5, f7, g6. [Forsyte: 3r4r/1p3pk1/p2p2p1/2qNp2n/8/1P6/1PPQ4/1K2RR2] White to play. White's busted, of course, and his first move doesn't seem to help... 1.Re4 ... (Played with some vague idea of following with Rc4 and Rc7...) 1...Ng3? (...But hoping like hell he would go for the Knight fork!) 2.Qg5! ... (If you have 2 pieces en prise, hang another one: he may take the wrong one. Actually I spotted this just as I was about to abandon the Re4 move on account of the N fork. Here, all captures lead to a draw at best for Black. 2...Nxf1 even loses! I thought 2...Qxd5 also lost, but Black can scratch out a draw: 3.Qf6+ Kh7 4.Rh4 (say) Nh5 5.Rxh5+ gxh5 6.Qf5+ etc. Black might be best advised not to capture at all, but White is certainly back in the game! Instead, Black baled out...) 2... Nxe4 3.Rxf7+ Kxf7 4.Qe7+ Kg8 5.Qxd8+ Kf7 (Hoping White would be silly enough to capture on h8... You could call this an attempted swindle, too.) 6.Qe7+ Drawn. Black can never escape the checks. To be sure, Black didn't have to play 1...Ng3, nor did he have to capture at move 2. And, however hopeless otherwise, the Re4 did have a purpose beyond merely offering a temptation. In any case, when you are lost, any idea that sets your opponent problems, or places in his way the means for his making a c*** of it, is legit. It's all part of the game! :-) Cheers, Ion ——— Chess as a Slow Dance of Seduction (movie review) — Caroline Bottaro’s tangy comic bonbon, “Queen to Play,” plucks the game of chess out of the metaphorical realm of spy thrillers and reimagines it as a fable about relationships and upward mobility. Adapted from Bertina Henrichs’s novel “The Chess Player,” this slight but captivating movie (Ms. Bottaro’s directorial debut) compares the strategies of chess to the erotic maneuvers in a flirtatious pas de deux that may be more satisfying than actual sex. At the same time, a woman’s winning the game symbolizes female empowerment in a man’s world and ascent from working-class drudgery to the bourgeoisie. Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire), the movie’s sly, middle-aged Cinderella, is ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 3/10/2006 02:09:03 Play online chess Was I off topic there...?Message: |