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| Posted by misato uskidscompute.com 6/13/2006 07:45:12 Play online chess | far1ey Message: Another chance is that I take a closer look at your past games (or you tell me 1-2 which you think are worth to learn from). I hope to point at some characteristic or decisive positions. This analysis may lead to questions/problems for you, no lectures but some hopefully learning units. All depends on how our preferences will meet. I offered the same half a year ago to a member in wschmidt´s tutorial chess club who was looking for advice, too. I wanted to give something back to the paying GK-members because they support my non-paying status here. Unfortunately it seems he left GK some weeks later. Now it´s time for new try. I can remember well what a 14-year-old can afford to pay, there won´t be any problems. ——— The Scotch Opening, part 4: what does White do next? — Fashions come and go in chess. And this is is one that may well be on the way back. 4... Bc5 is one of Black's main options against the Scotch chess opening (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 exd4 4 Nxd4). How should White continue? RB I've done a tiny bit of study on the Scotch and so am not quite the total novice I was when we began this survey. In fact, I've reached this position in a couple of recent casual games. I've tried both of White's two principal continuations here, 5 Nxc6 and 5 Be3 (5 Nb3 is less often seen). The first of these looks appealing for White: 5...dxc6 6 Qxd8+ Kxd8 puts an end to Black's castling ... Posted by zhnkiu | uskidscompute.com 6/13/2006 15:35:25 Play online chess Well, lets look at Message: Studying puzzles are about the same pace as playing on Gameknot, and I see others can already play you unrated. If you like, I can select some from these books to discuss. However, I've since lost Book 1, so be prepared... ?/Would it be ok to post these on the Gameknot puzzle database or would that be copywrite infringment? The puzzles themselves are taken from existing games... ——— Carlsen Conquers Corus — With a bit of luck and nerves of steel, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the world’s top-ranked chess player, won the annual Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, which ended Sunday. Carlsen finished with a score of 8.5 points out of 13, a half point ahead of Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Alexei Shirov of Spain. Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Hikaru Nakamura of the United States, were tied for fourth and fifth, another half point back. The chess tournament is named after the Dutch company, which is the second largest steel producer in Europe, according to the company’s Web site. The tournament is one of the highlights of the year ... Posted by far1ey | uskidscompute.com 6/15/2006 02:25:35 Play online chess Responces...Message: As misato said, I'm only 14 and I don't even have a job yet!!! (not even pocket money) Thanks for the helping hand misato, I really want to get a higher rating... zhnkiu : I have allready said that I'm reading a lot of chess books and I am currently reading "Chess 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games by Laszlo Polgar", father of the Polgar sisters which pretty much takes care of any problems I have with recognising wins/paterns. I have also read many books at the local library and my rating before I started reading them was 1300 so I have already come a fair way, and I doubt reading will get me much further unless I get into the really "deep" books which I am too busy to concentrate on. (All this reading caused me to fail half my exams at school). PS: It's amazing how I do this with my friends calling me "The Chess Nerd" ;) ——— Magnus Carlsen joins Vladimir Kramnik — Vladimir Kramnik had to engineer an escape from a difficult endgame as Alexey Shirov brought the former world chess champion to the brink of defeat at Wijk aan Zee. Shirov remains half a point behind Kramnik and world number one Magnus Carlsen with two to play. Carlsen defeated Lenier Dominguez, somewhat fortuitously, to join Kramnik on 7.5/11. Carlsen has the easier finish as Kramnik must play black against Vishy Anand in the penultimate game. Carlsen faces Peter Leko with black and teenager Fabiano Caruana with white. ... Posted by zhnkiu | uskidscompute.com 6/15/2006 12:18:17 Play online chess Yes, but can it do this...Message: 1.fxe6 fxe6 2.Qh3 Nf8 3.Rxh7! Nxh7 (if 3...Bxb3 4.Rh8+ Kf7 5.Rf1+ Ke8 6.Rfxf8+ Bxf8 7.Qxe6+ Kd8 Rxf8+ Kc7 9.Rf7+) 4.Qxe6+ Kf8 (bad is 4...Kh8 5.Qxe7; 6.e6+) 5.Rf1+ Ke8 6.Rf7! Rb7 7.Bxa4+ Qxa4 8.Rxh7 Kd8 9.Bb6+! Rxb6 10.Qxe7+ resigns" I certainly can't! I suppose that's the depth of a GM. Notice the critical move wasn't the first move... Tangentally, I'd suggest studying other things besides chess; Mathematics, Music, Art. These train other areas of your brain, so you don't tip over... ——— Modern Chess Players Prove Bobby Fischer Was Wrong — Bobby Fischer once famously remarked that "chess is dead". What he meant was that so much had been discovered about the game of chess that creativity and innovation were waning. Chess players are certainly better prepared than ever because databases and computers are widely used to analyze and dissect openings. Players can sometimes reel off 20 or more moves before they leave their preparation. That seems to have sucked the life out of some chess openings. Most top players know a couple of lines in the Petroff Defense through more than 20 moves, and it is not uncommon for them to play that out and agree to a draw, if that is the result they want. But there are ... Posted by b123 | uskidscompute.com 6/15/2006 15:47:23 Play online chess SoftwareMessage: Check out this link. It's a very good program. At helps me really understanding chess. My rating went from 1100 to 1600+, and i feel i still make progression. It did took me 3 years to complete step 1 till 4. I didn't used it very often. Only once in a while a few lessons. Don't expect an immediate boost in your rating, but on long term it will definitly open your eyes a bit further. It's much more interactive as a book and everything is really good explained. It only cost $25, the same as a half hour coyotefan :p b123 ——— Vlad Kramnik and Magnus Carlsen go toe-to-toe at Wijk aan Zee — Corus Wijk aan Zee, the most popular event on the chess calendar, ends tomorrow with ex-champion Vlad Kramnik and the world No1 Magnus Carlsen competing for the lead in the closing rounds. Kramnik won their individual game impressively, but the 19-year-old Norwegian has the easier finish. Carlsen is not yet dominating his chess peers in the style of Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov at their peaks, but he is already the man to beat. The reigning world chess champion Vishy Anand has played an uncharacteristically low-key tournament, drawing his first nine games. Nigel Short, in his strongest event for years, has struggled in some games but missed a clear win against Kramnik. ... Posted by b123 | uskidscompute.com 6/15/2006 15:50:22 Play online chess oopsMessage: www.chesshouse.com/TASC_Chess_CD_2_Chess_Rules_Learn_to_Pla greetz Posted by far1ey | uskidscompute.com 6/16/2006 00:33:50 Play online chess lolMessage: I have been learning Guitar since Grade 1 (8 Years) and Piano for a few. My maths is excellent. Art... Well My sister is good at drawing. lol. I ain't that good.... Posted by wschmidt | uskidscompute.com 6/16/2006 13:32:35 Play online chess far1ey,Message: "I cannot seem to improve no matter how many games I play nor how many books I read." "I'm reading a lot of chess books and I am currently reading "Chess 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games by Laszlo Polgar", father of the Polgar sisters which pretty much takes care of any problems I have with recognising wins/patterns. I have also read many books at the local library...." "I doubt reading will get me much further unless I get into the really "deep" books which I am too busy to concentrate on." What these quotes from your messages suggest to me is that you may be "reading" a lot but not studying very much. I.e, if, up til now, you've "read" a lot of books but haven't mastered the material by being able to put it into practice, you might consider going back to one or two of those books and really studying them. For example, if you've gone through a tactics book once, go through it again and again until you can do every puzzle in 30 seconds or less. (Do it with a book of 300 positions, not Lazlo's 5000+.) If you've gone through a middle game book, set up the key positions from each chapter on your chess software and play against the computer at different settings so you can implement the correct plan against a variety of responses. Do the same thing against the computer while going through an endgame book. Once again, reading a chess book is not the same thing as studying it. You can glean some general principles from reading, but in chess, general principles will only take you so far. You don't say anything about analyzing your games. Take the last ten games you played and run them through your computer for two minutes a move analysis. My guess is you will find you made a lot of tactical errors in both your wins and your losses. Ask yourself what underlies those errors. Did you examine the move that your opponent made and didn't see its implications? Or did you not examine the move at all? Over the next 15 weeks, do that for all 150+ games you've played on GK. Print out the positions where you made the tactical errors. Study them until you can solve each one in 30 seconds or less, your own puzzle book. Obviously, you're not going to do all this stuff at once - pick something and go with it. Really learn it. I posted one of my favorite chess quotations at the beginning of the Chess Coaching Club: 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.” Oh, and stick with Misato as long as she'll let you. She's both sane and wise - a rare combination in a chessplayer. ws Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 6/16/2006 15:02:15 Play online chess Looking at yr game history, far1ey... Message: A look at your latest defeats indicates you do need to work on your endgames. You ought to have won the latest one, and you certainly had the better of the late middlegame/early endgame in the other. Both were against higher rated players. In the former. possibly you were a bit overconfident when gradually giving up a whole rook's lead in material to simplify the game. Unfortunately the pawn ending you obtained may have been winning for Black - he certainly was winning once he got his passer on the a-file. In the latter game's rook ending, there was no need to let him promote his a-pawn. After checking his king, ...Ra1 is indicated. (Placing your rook behind the passed pawn is a standard part of one's endgame technique, whether the passed pawn is the enemy's, or your own.) Hope this helps... Cheers, Ion Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 6/16/2006 15:16:06 Play online chess A clarification on that last rook endingMessage: 53.Rb7+ Ke6 (pointless going after the rook; better to see what you can save out of your K-side) 54.Rxg7 h6 55.Rh7 Kf5 56.Rxh6 Rxa7 still leaves Black with 1 pawn vs 3. But white is left with some work to do... ;-) Ion Posted by far1ey | uskidscompute.com 6/19/2006 00:55:52 Play online chess Yeah....Message: PS: Thanks for the tips, they will certainly help me in my games. Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 6/19/2006 13:25:35 Play online chess If you mean against amasil...Message: If you like, I could look into it a bit further... Cheers, Ion Posted by ganstaman | uskidscompute.com 6/19/2006 19:10:25 Play online chess amasil v far1eyMessage: Posted by far1ey | uskidscompute.com 6/20/2006 00:13:27 Play online chess Resigned because...Message: I think.... Is there a way out? Please tell me. Thanks Posted by ganstaman | uskidscompute.com 6/20/2006 09:15:12 Play online chess Message: I may be missing some great moves by white, but I still see black losing the exchange at worst. I haven't looked at it too deeply, so me missing something is very possible. Posted by alberlie | uskidscompute.com 6/20/2006 09:45:04 Play online chess Message: If Rxf2 Nxd5 Bxd5 Bxh2+! wins for black. 15. Qxd5 Ne7 Qxf7+! looses as well. 15. Qxd5 Bxh2+! Kxh2 Qxd5 Bxd5 Rxf1 is good for black too, and the most forcing. But Ne7 is very cute also. If the queen moves somewhere out of danger, theres still that Bxh2+ threat! Is there anything else? Therefore 14. ... Rxf2 Rxf2 is necessary. Now Nf6 Bg5! Be7 (h6 Bxf6 Qxf6 Qxf6 gxf6 Rxf6 and pretty much hopeless) Nd2 and black will be hard pressed to find anything against trippeling on the f-file and Ne4... Posted by ganstaman | uskidscompute.com 6/20/2006 11:04:47 Play online chess hmmmmMessage: 14...Rxf2 15.Rxf2 Nf6 16.Bg5 Be7 17.Nd2 Bg4 Posted by alberlie | uskidscompute.com 6/20/2006 14:52:16 Play online chess why not simply 18. Qf4?Message: Posted by ganstaman | uskidscompute.com 6/20/2006 18:49:24 Play online chess Well,Message: But look at it this way: we've just played 5 full moves more in the game. Yes, black is in trouble, but he's only down the exchange and is forced to defend for now. I'm not sure if the position holds, but there is some life, and we don't know what moves amasil would have played. I know that everyone has their own idea of when to resign, but especially for someone trying to learn more, I would certainly think that playing on here would be best. At worst, it will teach you good defensive skills. If you never play on in inferior positions (inferior, but not necessarily losing) then you will miss out on a lot of wins and a lot of learning. Posted by alberlie | uskidscompute.com 6/21/2006 01:22:47 Play online chess no, Bd6 doesn'T work...Message: And of course you are right: I probably wouldn't have resigend too - if only to not have to bear the shame of resigning before move 20 ;o)) Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 6/21/2006 13:23:33 Play online chess Having had a further look...Message: Alberlie and ganstaman are right that 14...Rxf2 minimises your losses, and they correctly demonstrate the White turns the tables on himself with 15.Qd5?? However, after 15.Rxf2 (or, possibly better, 15.Qxf2), Black's best reply is 15...Be6, I reckon. E.g. 14...Rxf2 15.Rxf2!? Be6 16.Bxd5?! Bxd5 (... with the idea 17.Qxd5?? Bxh2+!). Black's development and bishop pair go some way to mitigate the material deficit, and gives a fighting chance. The positions Black gets after 15...Nf6 strike me as too passive. White gets a strong K-side attack whilst retaining a powerful grip on the centre. Black will have difficulty obtaining any kind of play. Cheers, Ion Posted by far1ey | uskidscompute.com 6/23/2006 03:01:05 Play online chess In a nutshell...Message: So in a nutshell... -Analyse past games and create own puzzle book. -Understand books, don't just read them. -Create a daily routine. (puzzles etc) -Work on endgames. -And perhaps not resigning when until completely lost? Anything else I've missed? (Got three weeks of holiday's coming up. I'm sure I'll get all of this done.) Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 6/23/2006 15:03:12 Play online chess That'll do for starters...Message: Cheers, Ion |