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Apr-20-04
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| jjones5050: Where can I find the rating numbers for Master, International Master, FM (what does that stand for?), Expert, A player, etc? |
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| Apr-20-04 |
| karlzen: <jjones5050>, some of those are international, some are not. Try US Fed (http://www.uschess.org) and FIDE (http://www.fide.com). FM = Fide Master. <BluE DicE>, he definitely is worse. |
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| Apr-20-04 |
| Chris00nj: Class D = 1200-1399
Class C = 1400-1599
Class B = 1600-1799
Class A = 1800-1999
Expert = 2000-2199
Master = 2200+
To get a title, you need a certain rating, but the title is retained if your rating drops, as a opposed to a player who loses his "class" if his rating drops.
An IM needs a 2400+ rating (plus the required "norms" which are specified good finishes in tournaments)
A GM needs a 2500+ rating (plus norms)
A FM is a quirky title. You need a 2200+ FIDE rating, plus pay money. |
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Apr-20-04
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| acirce: <A FM is a quirky title. You need a 2200+ FIDE rating> 2300 actually, no? |
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| Apr-20-04 |
| vangogh228: Blue Dice: I think Black would have been OK had he had another piece to match up with White's Knight. Eventually, his Rooks will be occupied with protecting the pawns and White, I am sure, will find a way of picking off the pawns with the Knight while protected by the Queen. Somewhere down the road, one of the Rooks will be traded for that Knight. I've been on both sides of this situation before, and it's a long, drawn-out execution for Black. |
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| Apr-20-04 |
| MoonlitKnight: After 19.Rg8??, Adolf is definitely lost. |
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Apr-20-04
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| kevin86: An easy trap to see,maybe Anderssen was awed so much by Morphy,that he was attacked by panic or chess blindness. BTW,I think <chessinfected> meant to comment on the game of the day,not the chess problem. |
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| Apr-20-04 |
| karlzen: <kevin86>, what makes you think that it was not to this game he commented? It's a Berlin for sure. |
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Apr-20-04
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| notyetagm: The Black King and Queen being lined up on the same file is a RED FLAG that Anderssen should have seen even in a blitz game. It means that the f7 pawn is what I call a "circuit-breaker", ie, without it there would be a clear line (connection) from the queen to the king, making a pin possible. Now since the f7 pawn is already doing something (circuit-breaking, breaking the alignment between the king and queen), it is overworked if asked to do something else, mainly defend the bishop on e6.
And since overworked pieces don't defend (f7 pawn can't simultaneously circuit-break on f7 and go to e6 to defend bishop), the e6 bishop drops. |
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| Apr-20-04 |
| Giancarlo: What a game played by Morphy! I especially like the opening trade off, knight for Bishop that took black out of the castle. Good tactics by Morphy. |
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| Apr-20-04 |
| Bobsterman3000: <notyetagm> I like your description of Anderssen's f-file problems. That characterization could prove helpful to me when when attempting to do quick piece evaluations. Somebody hand this man a GM norm or two... |
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Apr-20-04
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| Vischer: I got this one in half a second. These puzzles are getting to be so easy *I* can get them fast! |
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| Apr-20-04 |
| ruylopez900: <notyetagm> Good explanation, certainly makes the solution seem a whole lot simpler :D |
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| Apr-20-04 |
| Minor Piece Activity: Easy puzzle! =D Maybe chessgames.com could one day make two "puzzles of the day?" One hard one for people with too much time on their hands and one for players like me. =D |
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| Apr-20-04 |
| marcusantoinerome: In Seargent's book on Morphy, he states that "Anderssen shows none of his high talent in this game." He also notes that the game took 2 hours. As stated above, they played without clocks, but did record the total time elapsed. Wonderful play by Morphy! |
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| Apr-21-04 |
| masterwojtek: Awesome game! (But you must study it carefully to see its beauty) |
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Apr-21-04
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| Vischer: , Minor Piece Activity: Easy puzzle! =D Maybe chessgames.com could one day make two "puzzles of the day?" One hard one for people with too much time on their hands and one for players like me. =D > that is a good idea. |
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Jan-26-06
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| Timothy Glenn Forney: http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess_h... Here's a link analysis by Silman |
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| Feb-24-06 |
| DeepBlade: Thanks <Timothy Glenn Forney>! The annotation was really usefull for me. I also begun to understand Morphy's view on chess. |
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Feb-27-06
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| Timothy Glenn Forney: No problem,I love analyizing games too. Check this out:A J Mestel vs Gufeld, 1986 |
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Jul-24-06
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| waddayaplay: Some analysis to weigh up the Morphy-centric notes of Silman. Comments are welcome. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d4 Nxd4?!
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Leads to equality. Other moves would have given black the initiative:..exd in Bird vs Anderssen, 1862 0-1 and Fressinet vs Kramnik, 2002 0-1 or ..Nxe4 Showalter vs Pillsbury, 1898 0-1
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5.Nxd4 exd4
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as Silman points out, 5..c6 is also playable
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6.e5 c6
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also playable is 6..Nd5 and 6..c5!?
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7.O-O cxb5 8.Bg5 Be7 9.exf6 Bxf6 10.Re1+
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..Kf8 11.Bxf6 Qxf6 12.c3!
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Probably best. Yet no more than
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..d5?!
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like Silman says, the bishop becomes passive. 12...b6 is a serious alternative.
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13.cxd4 Be6 14.Nc3 a6 15.Re5 Rd8 16.Qb3 Qe7 17.Rae1 g5? <
With the textmove, black creates a weakness which makes defence very difficult.Better is 17..Qd6. According to Silman this is refuted by 18.a4 b4 19.Na2 a5 20.Nc1 "when the threatened Nc1–d3-c5 maneuver is very hard for Black to meet.".
However, in that line black should play 20..g6 and the position is defensible. Black will continue with Kg7 and Rhe8 to complete his development. A white Nc5 is answered by Bc8.
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18.Qd1?!
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Ne2 is more accurate, because it prevents any eventual Kg7 on account of Ng3, while the queen is also more powerful on the queenside -- if black for example responded 18..Qf6 then both 19.a4 and 19.Qa3+ would be good alternatives.>
Qf6 19.R1e3?!
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Gives black chances to consolidate. A more thorough method is to move the knight to the kingside, and to create a weakness on the queenside with a4, Qd3, etcFor example, 19.a4 b4 20.Ne2 (preparing Qd2) h6 21.Ng3 Rc8 22.Nh5 Qg6 23.f4 and black will have difficulties defending all his weak pawns and his exposed king. >
Rg8??
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Perhaps Anderssen didn't believe in the defence, but objectively after 19..Kg7 there is much play left.
Black would then proceed with something like Qg6, h6, f5, Bf7 and Rhe8 to consolidate.
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20.Rxe6 1-0
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Jul-05-07
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| ketchuplover: Does anyone else think Anderssen should've played on(Q+N v.R+R)? |
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Nov-15-07
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| nimh: Rybka 2.4 mp, AMD X2 2.01GHz, 10 min per move, threshold 0.33. Morphy 1 mistake:
19.R1e3 0.12 (19.Ne2 0.56)
Anderssen 2 mistakes:
17...g5 0.65 (17...g6 0.13)
19...Rg8 3.33 (19...Rd6 0.12) |
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| Feb-07-08 |
| HNP: "An easy trap to see,maybe Anderssen was awed so much by Morphy,that he was attacked by panic or chess blindness." Hardly. This was the third game of the match and Anderssen led 1.5 - 0.5. |
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| Jan-14-09 |
| WhiteRook48: but then Morphy won a lot of the others. |
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