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| Posted by wschmidt uskidscompute.com 4/28/2006 12:34:56 Play online chess |  Subject: Novice Nook #15Message: The URL: -> www.chesscafe.com Enjoy! | ||
| Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 4/28/2006 14:21:33 Play online chess | A great read... Message: I wonder if the first moves of the Szabo game could have been explained a bit more. Heisman asks the reader if 1.d5 is a safe move i.e. doesn't lead to an immediate loss of material (due to its being en prise or after a series of exchanges on the d5 square). Then he demonstates that it is not only safe, but a very good move, leading to a tremendous attack. Very well. But it seems to me one or two comments indicating its safety wouldn't have gone amiss. Why is the recapture 2.Bxd5 better than 2.Nxd5? Ordinarily one would consider the N recapture first, partly to retain the B pair, especially as with the demise of the isolani the position is opening up. The fact is that one wants to keep the N recapture in reserve for a move owing to the threats it will create if Black goes in for another exchange on d5 (after 1.d5 Nxd5 2.Bxd5 exd5 3.Nxd5...) This is relevant to the counting theme of the article, though perhaps a bit more advanced. Black, indeed, didn't want to face this prospect and tried another defence. Fascinating. | ||
| Posted by cascadejames uskidscompute.com 4/29/2006 21:49:07 Play online chess | Fix for errata Message: It took me minute to understand what you were talking about when you mention the errata, because the file that I have is correct. With some checking I learned that when you download this Heisman column as a single file, you get a different version than if you download all of his columns at once. So the fix is to download them all at once in the zipped file linked at the top of his folder. Then you get the corrected column. It has a date in the footer that is a few days after the date in the footer of the file you are looking at. BTW, you guessed the position of the king in the Szabo-van Seters game correctly so you get a star. <G> And yes, I am still puzzling through the complexities of that position. No surprise since I have made more than a few counting errors in my time. ——— Mathematicians, Musicians and Chess Masters — Sunday’s chess column was about Noam Elkies, a Harvard mathematics professor who is also a music composer and chess player. Though Elkies is unusual at being talented in all three areas, he is not entirely unique. Through the years, there have been a number of strong chess players who were excellent mathematicians or musicians. A Web page called “Mathematics and Chess Page,” lists many strong chess players who were also mathematicians, including Adolf Anderssen, one of the best players of the 19th century; Emanuel Lasker, the second world champion; Max Euwe, the fifth world champion; and, among the more recent examples, John Nunn, an English chess grandmaster, who ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 5/01/2006 12:40:18 Play online chess Ah! I didn't know that...Message: Cheers, Ion ——— It's all in the endgame — Sanan Sjugirov of Russia was equal first at the world junior but lost on tie break. He played a couple of nice endgames, the first of which I will show today. Opposite coloured bishops can often give the endgame a drawish character, but here (see main illustration) White is effectively a king up. Can you see how he forced the win? Answer below. There was an English success at the World Chess Junior as Anya Corke scored 8.5/13 in the girls section. A Corke (2257) – C Forestier (2103). Dutch Defence ... |