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| Posted by yanm mailcafe.net 2/10/2006 04:36:46 Play online chess |  Subject: Novice Nook, #4Message: quick link to colum: -> www.chesscafe.com | ||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman mailcafe.net 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 mailcafe.net 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.” ——— Dmitry Andreikin wins world junior title — The 49th World Junior Chess Championship ended Monday in Chotowa, Poland. Every country was invited to send its best young chess players, born in 1990 or later. The record field of 120 players, representing 55 countries, included 20 grandmasters and 34 IMs. Russian chess grandmasters Dmitry Andreikin, age 20, and Sanan Sjugirov, 17, shared first place with scores of 10-3. On tiebreak, Andreikin wins the gold medal. Andreikin had played in four previous World Juniors, with a best result of fourth place in 2007. This year, he was rated highest at 2650 and went undefeated despite facing eight GMs. Sjugirov won the most games (eight) but suffered one upset. Four chess players tied for ... Posted by deejie | mailcafe.net 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 ——— Rising Chess Stars Win NH Chess Tournament — In the end, youth was served, but barely. The NH tournament in the Netherlands ended Sunday in victory for the young team of “rising stars.” They edged the “experience” team 26 to 24. Last year the experience team won, 27.5 to 22.5. The chess tournament was organized under the Scheveningen system in which the members of each group play all the members of the other group twice. The top players for the rising stars were Hikaru Nakamura of the United States and Anish Giri of the Netherlands, who each scored 6 points. Giri was ahead of Nakamura before the last round, but he lost to Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark, while Nakamura drew with Boris Gelfand of Israel, the top-ranked chess ... Posted by wschmidt | mailcafe.net 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. ——— A lesson in attacking play — A pawn sacrifice can be incredibly effective if executed properly. As attacking is our theme, that's the perfect excuse to feature a game by one of our favourite chess players, David Bronstein. Bronstein was a true romantic, valuing artistry above results, always prepared to have a hack at his opponent's king. This chess game is taken from our 2009 Book of the Year, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by David Bronstein & Tom FĂĽrstenberg. We could have selected any one of dozens of ingenious attacks, but this one has a strong similarity to the manoeuvre in last week's game – though played 50 years earlier. Bronstein has sacrificed a mere pawn to activate his pieces and expose the enemy king. Crucially, ... Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 2/12/2006 03:00:48 Play online chess Possibly such methods...Message: ——— An Unusual Double: Husband and Wife Win French Chess Championships — Marriages among top chess players are not common, but they are not as rare as they once were because more women play chess now than did 20 or 30 years ago. Sometimes the marriages are between chess players of different nationalities, but once they marry and settle down, they often play in the championships of the same country — competing for the men’s and women’s titles. Under such circumstances, it is possible that a husband-wife team might win the national chess championships in the same year — becoming a country’s unofficial chess royalty. It happened in 2008 when Bartosz and Monika Socko swept the Polish chess championships, and in 1994 when ... Posted by mattdw | mailcafe.net 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? ——— In Race for Global Chess Dominance, China Is Gaining on Russia — There was little doubt why the Soviet Union was so dominant in chess — the government poured money and other resources into programs that cultivated chess players. Yet even after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia remained the world’s leading chess country. Its strength might be a vestige of the Communist-led system, or of the country’s historical affinity for the game. If there is one nation that seems able to displace Russia, it is China, which created its own state-run chess-training program about two decades ago. China has already narrowed the gap, finishing ahead of Russia in some team competitions and producing several women’s world chess champions. One measuring stick of ... Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 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 | mailcafe.net 2/15/2006 11:20:45 Play online chess Chess BoardMessage: -> www.chesslab.com. Works GREAT! Ryan |