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| Posted by tjaalzchess mailcafe.net 4/14/2008 11:03:32 Play online chess |  Subject: Mate with only knight and bisschop??Message: My opponent offers a draw, saying I cant mate her. But is it really impossible to mate someone with bishop, knight and king? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Posted by ganstaman mailcafe.net 4/14/2008 12:46:00 Play online chess | Message: Just for starters, there should be a useful link somewhere on here:  en.wikipedia.org ——— U.S. chess championship felt like a tornado — I wasn’t at the airport last month, but I still feel like I got hit by a tornado. For some players, the 2011 U.S. Chess Championship concluded April 29, but unfortunately April 21 was my last game. On the bright side, I had a ringside seat for the remainder of the chess matches, including the heart-pounding women’s finals, which went into an Armageddon round (that’s triple overtime)! The chess tournament featured an interesting format – the top two players from two eight-player round-robin groups qualified for the semi-final matches. The two semi-finalists from the “A” group were no surprise. Reigning Chess Champion and Grandmaster (GM) Gata Kamsky and last year’s runner-up, GM Yury Shulman, easily ... Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 4/14/2008 13:41:28 Play online chess Without looking at the position...Message: Yes: a K+B+N can, in general, force mate against a lone K. But the technique isn't easy. In your game (assuming you are already in such an endgame), you have 50 moves to effect the mate from the last pawn move or capture (there are no more pawns to move, and any further capture will instantly reduce the game to a draw through lack of material). Else, it is a draw. I don't think one can say more at this point... Cheers, Ion ——— Chess notes — China is steadily gaining the respect of the world chess community as some of its players have emerged to become substantially dangerous competitors in the West. So the Chinese chess championships have been watched with interest this year. In the 2011 championship, a dark horse has once again emerged to take first place: Ding Liren. The 18-year-old won the title in 2009 (in part because of a defaulted game), despite being one of the lower-rated chess players in the field. His score this year was a startling 9-2 against such well-known chess grandmasters as Yue Wang and Xiangzhi Bu. Ding has only occasionally played in the West. World Women’s chess champion Hou Yifan scored an impressive ... Posted by ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 4/14/2008 16:07:43 Play online chess hmmm Message: ——— Chess: A pawn endgame dilemma — Should White force a pawn endgame? It's a tricky decision... RB: My first reaction is: no, White should definitely not exchange. After 1 Nf4 Bxf4 2 Kxf4 Kd5 it seems to me as though Black is definitely better. But what else does White have? I don't want to drop the king back and allow the black king to invade. I could try 1 a4, but after 1…b6 I'm back to my original dilemma. It makes me nervous, but let's see what happens after 1 Nf4. Black takes, obviously, 1…Bxf4 2 Kxf4 Kd5. Now what? As long as ... Posted by marinvukusic | mailcafe.net 4/15/2008 00:54:39 Play online chess ...Message: In Blitz: - I couldn't deliver that mate against a significantly weaker player - One IM couldn't mate me - I watched a FM fail to deliver the mate I am confident I could do it in correspondence chess without any help but it is objectively not to be expected from a player of your rating. That does not mean you can't learn how to do it before you end the game. Use of tablebases is forbidden. ——— For Want of a Draw, a Player Loses the U.S. Chess Title — Yury Shulman forgot the old saying that a tie is better than a loss during his quest to win the United States Chess Championship last week. And that opened the door for Gata Kamsky to capture his second straight title. Kamsky and Shulman met in the tournament final, as they did last year, when four competitors competed in round robin play. Kamsky and Shulman emerged as the top scorers of that round and met in an Armageddon game, in which White has more time but Black only has to draw to be declared the winner. No Armageddon was needed at this year’s final, which ended Wednesday in St. Louis, because Kamsky won the first game and the second was drawn. The first game would ... Posted by tjaalzchess | mailcafe.net 4/15/2008 01:06:38 Play online chess Message: I wasn't asking for help, but just a simple yes or no ( possible or impossible ), because I had never seen a endgame with knight and bishop. ——— Yang-Fan Zhou breaks English international master drought — England used to produce one or two teenage international masters a year in the 1970s and 1980s, the golden era when the Olympiad team advanced to world No2 behind the Soviet Union. Now Russia and India lead in junior chess while, since David Howell became a grandmaster in 2007, the only new English GMs and IMs have been adults. Yang-Fan Zhou, 16, broke the drought last week when he scored his final IM norm at Coulsdon. It followed Zhou's eye-catching 9/9 at Brighton in February and the International Chess Federation (Fide) should formally award him his IM title in a few weeks' time. The sixth-former from Whitgift School in Croydon has made an 80-point surge up the world chess ratings, reflecting ... Posted by 8ballphoenix | mailcafe.net 4/15/2008 12:38:14 Play online chess SomewhereMessage: Is there any way of searching the annotated games for a particular game? I've not yet been in a position where I have to achieve this mate, though I have been close a few times. Should it happen I'm not sure I could see it through but it would be interesting to try and I too wouldn't accept a draw offer. I certainly wouldn't expect my opponent to resign though. Incidentally I have played the person mentioned several times and in her defence have always found her to be a polite and pleasant opponent. Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 4/15/2008 13:34:52 Play online chess Bragging time!Message: I ought to leave it at that, but I have to confess that I've been lucky on all three occasions for the pieces already to be very favourably placed so that the mate was achieved in maybe a dozen or so moves. It helped, too, that I knew what the forced mate position should look like. It also has to be admitted that all 3 were pick-up games - not a single tournament game among them. The only time I saw such an ending in a tournament game was at the universities' Arts Festival in Auckland, 1972. Both were strong players (I'll call them Roger and Craig), but Craig was expected to win. Instead Roger attacked from the gun, Craig had to defend the whole game and finally baled out into this ending. And Roger could not win it. Not in 50 moves. Draw. Altogether and interesting endgame. Cheers, Ion Posted by lighttotheright | mailcafe.net 4/15/2008 21:28:03 Play online chess Message: I know this BN vs. K endgame like the back of my hand. I used to study it all the time before I moved onto the more difficult endgames. I don't even have to think while playing it and can beat anyone or any computer in 32 moves or less from any position. It is easy for me. Although this particular endgame is rare, studying it is valuable because you learn the relationship between the knight and bishop. This translates into better play in the middle game. Also openings tend to be less timid. Posted by marinvukusic | mailcafe.net 4/16/2008 04:15:02 Play online chess Interesting quote from WikipediaMessage: Sounds about right. This is the precise reason many strong players have problems with it in time trouble (and obviously time trouble is common in OTB chess). Everybody learns it at some point in time but after a few years of never even seeing it the player forgets (and does not refresh his memory practicing a technique that is viewed as unlikely to ever be needed). The method is not 100% intuitive and there is a pretty small margin of error - 33 moves are needed to deliver chackmate in worst case scenarion, and every slip can easily extend the process beyond 50 moves. Posted by lighttotheright | mailcafe.net 4/16/2008 06:51:14 Play online chess Message: Most tutorials on the subject only tell you that you need to drive the King to the edge and then to a corner. The detailed explanations only come with driving the King from the wrong corner into the correct corner and then delivering mate. Most leave it up to the student to figure out how to drive the King out of the center of the board. If you drive the King out of the center in the proper way, then your King does not need to travel as much to create the necessary opposition to 'force the hand of the defender'. You save at least a move in the worse scenario and are much less likely to make a mistake because the technique is clearer (at least in my mind). Posted by tjaalzchess | mailcafe.net 4/16/2008 07:49:26 Play online chess ResignedMessage: I was going to checkmate her :  game
The next steps would be : 96. Kh7 Kf7 97. Kh6 Bh4 98. Kh7 Bg5 99. Kh8 Ng6+ 100. Kh7 Nf8+ 101. Kh8 Bf6# ( mate in 18 moves from last capture) Posted by tim_b | mailcafe.net 4/16/2008 08:42:49 Play online chess Nice one!Message: Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 4/16/2008 13:51:32 Play online chess I think I can guess...Message: w White played 40.h4!! Now, after Black's reply, it is possible she thought she had blundered... 40...Nf8+ But White's next was the mistake... 41.Kf5?? ... White had an instant draw with 41.Kd5!, and after the bishop moves, 42.Rh8 ... 43.Rxf8+. Protecting the bishop don't help (41...Nd7 42.Rxd7), nor does taking the rook (41...Nxh7 42.Kxc5). Black had no way to avert the loss of one of the minor pieces, so it's an easy draw. Almost study-like... Cheers, Ion Posted by tjaalzchess | mailcafe.net 4/17/2008 00:28:44 Play online chess Message: Charles Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 4/25/2008 15:06:10 Play online chess Incidentally...Message: Cheers, Ion Posted by bonsai | mailcafe.net 4/25/2008 15:32:37 Play online chess 32 moves - counter exampleMessage: No, a counter example is white to move (mate in 33): white: Ka1, Bc1, Nb1 black: Kc2 Posted by heinzkat | mailcafe.net 4/25/2008 16:24:23 Play online chess Message: game Posted by lighttotheright | mailcafe.net 4/26/2008 12:54:36 Play online chess Message: When is that position ever going to turn up in a game? It's a little bit like expecting to be able to mate in the wrong corner, isn't it? Posted by tag1153 | mailcafe.net 5/27/2008 15:46:21 Play online chess My first on GKMessage: gameknot.com Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 5/28/2008 01:00:34 Play online chess tag1153...Message: A belated thanks to heinzkat, too, for providing the link to my game vs sago. I still haven't finished annotating the thing... Cheers, Ion Posted by buddie | mailcafe.net 5/28/2008 15:28:43 Play online chess K, B + N MateMessage: game
By the way, anyone played a game on GK longer than 130 moves? Posted by ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 5/28/2008 16:37:45 Play online chess buddie ... Message: * * * * * * * I've only had one of mine, maybe two, go that long in my 30+ years of playing otb tournaments. And the one I recall was an endgame of R vs R+N with no pawns, vs a Master, and took over 8 hours to play! Naturally, I was on the weak side of that ending, but did manage to Draw when we both got so tired an important move was overlooked which made it impossible to be won within the "50 Move Rule". Posted by loreta | mailcafe.net 6/02/2008 06:49:28 Play online chess K + B + N vs KMessage: |