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| Posted by cascadejames uskidscompute.com 5/06/2006 08:58:55 Play online chess |  Subject: Novice Nook #16Message: -> www.chesscafe.com I have not played a serious OTB game in about 40 years so some of this week's discussion is a bit foreign to me. What is a "time delay clock"? - referred to on p. 9. It's interesting to hear his advice to play against players who are both weaker and stronger than you. As I have been relearning chess, I have been striving to play against stronger players, but his advice to also play against some weaker players makes sense. It is also easier on the ego. :-) | ||||||||||||||
| Posted by mattdw uskidscompute.com 5/06/2006 12:17:50 Play online chess | 9. d4 ? Message: | ||||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 5/07/2006 02:02:38 Play online chess | Appearances can be deceiving... Message: Having said that, Heisman ought possibly to have gone a little further into this position, because White's advantage - in the light of the attack Black obtains - isn't so easy to appreciate. Black has the initiative - however fleeting - and White has to defend. White's position isn't all that comfortable either if his K-wing is getting broken up. Has Black time to reinforce his attack? At some point he'll want to play ...d6 (or ...dxc6, which is why 11.Bd5 seems a good idea), to reinforce by ...Bh3, say. But that will give White time to improve his defences, and ...Bh3, or Bg4 might not hit at anything much, assuming it will be playable at all. So, after mattdw's sequence, play: 13.Bd5 Qh4 14.Qe2 Nf2+?! 15.Kg1 (Kh2 seems playable, too) 15...Nxh3+?! 16.gxh3 Qg3+ 17.Kh1! (If 17.Kf1 d6! then 18.e5! is the 'only move', but it looks sufficient) 17...Qxh3 18.Qh2 Qf3+ 19.Kg1 d6 20.Bf4 Bh3 21.Nd2 ... This leaves White with 2 minor pieces and a good development against 4 pawns. OK Black doesn't have to be so single-minded as this particular line, but I think you get the picture... At best he'll stay behind in material. Cheers, Ion ——— Mission to Moscow — I am writing this column from the fabulous Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow, which is about a five-minute walk from Red Square. My mission in Moscow is to help Hikaru Nakamura do well in the 2011 Tal Memorial. This chess event is the elite-of-the-elite playing in an all-play-all (round robin) format of 10 players. Nakamura is ranked No. 7 at the start, as all the top chess players in the world were invited to duke it out for first prize. Why am I in Moscow, and what can I do for Hikaru? Well, I am what as known as a "second." I help Hikaru prepare the chess games each day by looking at previous games of his opponent in an effort to figure out what each will do, mainly in the opening phase of the game. Of course, since his opponent ... Posted by mattdw | uskidscompute.com 5/07/2006 10:23:32 Play online chess Good ideas.Message: ——— On Chess: Pleasure of pursuit keeps Gelfand going — Israeli chess grandmaster Boris Gelfand anticipates his world title match with reigning world chess champion Viswanathan Anand with his usual aplomb. He does so, in part, because of a rational, well-ordered approach to each game. He is superbly prepared, impossible to intimidate and unwilling to make the slightest concession each step of the way. If Gelfand maintains the form that gained him the right to play for the title, Anand will have to battle for every square and then some when they meet in May in Moscow. Gelfand is described on the website www.chessintranslation.com as “good-natured, well-mannered — . . . a pleasant man to know.” But he is also dauntlessly hardworking; ceaselessly striving; and ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 5/07/2006 13:41:23 Play online chess mattdw...Message: Another approach, as mattdw suggests, is to play 'as if nothing has happened', consolidate and centralize, then inaugurate a pawn storm on the K-wing, say. It's probably no trivial matter for White to meet this plan, and Black will probably have a lot of fun, even if he does go under. Cheers, Ion ——— Hou Yifan, Defending Women's Champion, Is Likely to Keep Title — The match for the Women’s World Chess Championship is all but over. On Monday, after six games of the best-of-10 match, Hou Yifan, the defending chess champion, led her challenger, Humpy Koneru, 4 points to 2. Hou only needs 1.5 points in the last four games to clinch the title, making her lead almost insurmountable. The chess match, which began Nov. 14 in Tirana, Albania, is in some ways as much a competition between the two most populous countries as it is a contest between two individuals. Hou is Chinese and Koneru is Indian. The overall world chess champion is Viswanathan Anand, another Indian, and Koneru is ranked No. 2 among women, while Hou is No. 3, so Indians may ... Posted by mattdw | uskidscompute.com 5/07/2006 14:05:44 Play online chess Ah yes!Message: ——— Milestone for a Benefactor of Historic Matches — Jacqueline Piatigorsky, one of the most important figures in American chess in the 1960s, turned 100 this month. Piatigorsky, a member of the Rothschild banking family, was married to the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and together they sponsored three significant chess events. The first was a 1961 match between Bobby Fischer and Samuel Reshevsky, the two best American chess players. It was a best-of-16 match, and after 11 games, each man had won twice and the other games were draws. And that is how it ended. Fischer quit after a fight with Mrs. Piatigorsky over the scheduling of the 12th game. (Fischer wanted an afternoon game so he could sleep in, and she wanted a morning game so she ... Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 5/08/2006 07:20:32 Play online chess cascadejames Message: ——— Joys of Chess: From Krabbé to Hesse — Christian Hesse's book The Joys of Chess: Heroes, Battles & Brilliances, published by New in Chess, was endorsed by the world chess champion Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. It is a compilation of chess stories, biographical sketches, chess games and fragments with references to art and science. The author is a professor of mathematics, and the book was first published in German. It resembles work previously done by Tim Krabbé, a prominent Dutch writer, on his website Chess Curiosities. Krabbé was born in the same year as Bobby Fischer (1943) and on the same day as Garry Kasparov (April 13). The combination of the two could have made him a strong chess player, but when he ... Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 5/08/2006 07:21:30 Play online chess (I believe) Message: Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 5/08/2006 13:16:11 Play online chess Black might...Message: Cheers, Ion Posted by cascadejames | uskidscompute.com 5/08/2006 21:01:31 Play online chess Thanks CraigMessage: |