Sangeeta Hosea an internet corresspondence chess player

I learnt chess watching my Father and Brothers play.

Soon I took an interest in the game myself and began beating them regularly.

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess was one of my first books on the game and I began collecting the columns of Barden and Keene from which I learnt a lot.

I also played through the games of the First Karpov-Kasparov Match in 1984 the game scores of which were published in the newspapers available in India at that time without any annotations or explanations, just the raw game notation. Having to figure out for myself (at least according to my limited abilities) why the greats played one move and not another turned out to be a highly productive exercise, even though my conclusions were often wrong.

It taught me to think and assess a position for myself instead of mere pattern recognition. I started to compare the games of the match and tried to discover why they deviated from previous play or why they did not.

Books and Training materials can teach you a set of rules and principles. They cannot teach one to think.

My sincere advice for anyone looking to improve is to play through master games and think for oneself. Sure, at first it will be hard, boring, and you will come to wrong conclusions. However, the joy at stumbling onto a right conclusion, even if it is just once in a while is something I cannot describe.

These days we have sophisticated chess engines, however how much joy do you get staring at a screen that says (+1.00) ?

For example have a look at this game,

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6 gxf6 7. Nf3 a6 8. c4 f5 9. Nc3 Bf6 10. Qd2 c5 11. d5 e5 12. h4 e4 13. Ng5 Nd7 14. O-O-O h6 15. Nh3 Bd4 16. Ne2 Be5 17. f4 Bf6 18. g4 b5 19. gxf5 Nb6 20. Nc3 Bxf5 21. Nxe4 Bxe4 22. Re1 Kf8 23. Rxe4 Na4 24. Re5 Qd6 25. cxb5 c4 26. Qa5 Bxe5 27. fxe5 Qxe5 28. Qxa4 Qe3+ 29. Kb1 Qe4+ 30. Kc1 Qxh1 31. Qa3+ Kg8 32. Qg3+ Kh7 33. Qf2 Rhf8 34. Qf5+ Kg7 35. Qg4+ Kh8 36. Qf4 Qxd5 37. Qxh6+ Kg8 38. Ng5 Rfd8 0-1

does the engine find the merits of 18...b5 ?

Music brings me great joy and I play Guitar, Bass and Keyboards. I am also learning to play the violin (through self instruction as is how I like to learn most things).

My profession is one of the World's oldest, no, not what you were thinking...

I am an Accountant, though these days its not far off in morality from what is considered the World's oldest profession.

I consider myself incredibly lucky to have been born in India. A country so rich and diverse in culture, outlook and history. There is so much to discover in India and my one regret is that a single lifetime will not be enough to even sample what is but the tip of the iceberg.

I admire original thinkers and I am stimulated by Steinitz, Lasker, Nimzovitch, Botvinnik, Zappa, Marx (both Karl and Groucho), Bob Dylan, Charles Mingus and Jaco Pastorius just to name a few.

I am drawn to the type of chess players who like to creep forward accumulating advantages and apply gradual but persistent and significant pressure on their opponents i.e. Botvinnik, Smyslov, Petrosyan, Huebner

I like the fighting chess of Alekhine, Geller and Korchnoi

I was thrilled to see India's own Vishwanathan Anand display a new dimension to his play in Bonn and I hope he goes on from here.

I also like to write alternate lyrics to my favourite songs, like this one I posted on (where else) the Zappa (Computer) page

She was taught chess by Ole Nimzo
From the hypermodern school
She played Nc6 to my 1.e4
And said it's something I should know

She said it's good for one's Karma
With Bishops in fianchetto
And carried on without a pawn or
A center like we used to do

She opened 1..Nf6
And played Bb4
She then played Nb8!
But she wasn't done yet
She played her rook to the edge
And didnt move her pawns nyet
But I was in zugzwang

[Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum Bum]

She was taught chess by Ole Nimzo
From the hypermodern school
She played Nc6 to my 1.e4
And said it's something I should know

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<Correspondence Chess Game> between User: Open Defence and User: ahmadov

Last Move 33.Qe1

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.h3 Na5 9.Nxe5 Naxb3 10.axb3 Bb7 11.d3 Re8 12.Nf3 d5 13.e5 Nd7 14.d4 c5 15.c3 Nf8 16.Na3 c4 17.Nc2 a5 18.Ne3 g6 19.Ng4 Ne6 20.bxc4 dxc4 21.Nh6+ Kg7 22.Be3 Ng5 23.Bxg5 Bxg5 24.Nxg5 Qxg5 25.Ng4 h5 26.Ne3 a4 27.Rf1 Qf4 28.Qc1 Rad8 29.Nc2 Qe4 30.f3 Qf5 31.f4 f6 32.Ne3 Qe4 33.Qe1

Time controls - 7 days per move approximately which have been flagrantly violated by the player of the White pieces :)

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The Dutch Defence library is now here User: dutch defence

A Zappaesque performance by <Thrajin>

I couldn't say where she's coming from, But I met a chess player named <Sangeeta>

She strolled on over, say look here, bum, I got a forty dollar bill say you can't mate me once (you just can't do it)

She made a bet with <acirce> who's her Swedish chum, She could prove it any time her chess was number one

I don't mind that she called my chess style scum,
But I knew right away I was gonna have her stumped (so I got down to it)

I whipped out my king's pawn, moved my knight from g1, sent my bishop up to b5 just for fun

I pressed the attack till my brain went numb, But I still couldn't break her open defense up

<Sangeeta>, <Sangeeta> where's her dynamic play comin' from? I done spent three hours and I'm down a whole pawn
My position's done, 'cause of <Sangeeta>

Want her to get into zeitnot
But she ain't havin' it
Set a trap to get her knight caught
But she won't fall for it
Locked her bishop in a tight spot
But she got out of it
Tried my best to find the right shot
But she just countered it

But I'll never eke out a win
The way I've been playin' it
And I gotta snap out of it
If I want a chance at this
'cause I'll never eke out a win
The way I've been playin' it
And I gotta snap out of it
If I want a chance at this

(she looked over at me with a glazed eye and some bovine perspiration on her upper lip area, and she said...)

Just psych me out
And you're halfway there
'cause if my mind's tore up
Then my chess isn't there

I rubbed my chin in deep thought
An said my, my, my
What sort of thing
Might this cause this lady anxiety?

I checked out <acirce> Who was holdin' the bet And wondered what kind of trip
These chess hustlers were on

The forty dollar bill didn't matter no more
When <acirce> started kibitzing that side of the board

He said <Sangeeta> might win the bet, But he would give her extra help if I wasn't done yet

I told him...
Just because my first attack
had fizzled and died,
No reason to assume
I won't continue to try

So I pulled at my hair
At the board I just stared
And struggled to find a combination in there

(whaddya mean combination!? no combo I see!)

She was nervous-y feelin'
(nervous!)
I was schemin' and dreamin'
(schemin' and dreamin' and ooooh!)
She didn't see what I was seein'
(see what I was seein'!)
Sac'ed my queen, sent her reeling

<Sangeeta> watched from the edge of the board, Then saw the purpose of my move, I could tell she was floored

Some sweat rolling down from her brow to her chin
While she spied the condition her position was in

She muttered and stuttered, and gasped to herself
While <acirce> made a joke about her mental health

Till <Sangeeta> finally did give in, But I told her all she really needed Was chess discipline

That's Caissa's aura for ya
This was better than that last Smith-Morra
How did I see that move before ya?
Right there on g4-ah
And howabout you <acirce>? You here to stay?

Did you say you want some more?
Well, here's some more...

I couldn't say where she's coming from, But I met a chess player named <Sangeeta>

She strolled on over, say look here, bum,
I got a forty dollar bill say you can't mate me once (you just can't do it)

I whipped out my king's pawn, moved my knight from g1, sent my bishop up to b5 just for fun

I pressed the attack till my brain went numb, and I still can't believe that I won.