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Member since Feb-19-04 · Last seen Nov-20-09
<< modified September 22th 2009>> <<BREAKING NEWS>>!! For the first time , the Swiss daily newspaper <"Neue Zürcher Zeitung"> (founded 1780) published, in the September 4th 2009 edition, one of my original #2s!! http://static.nzz.ch/files/4/3/5/Ze...

K K P P
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RNBQKBNR Maybe You remember from my previous profile here, that <'while cleaning the attic, <someone> confounded my games with garbage'> - it was an intentionally humourous, but true way of relating how my own chess playing records are fragmentary . Not a stern loss to anyone, of course - besides, perhaps, for myself if I was intending to collect my own games. Following games are from events that proceeded without a formal bulletin, and, in many instances, without even the assemblage of all score-sheets PPPPPPPP

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Match Paraná vs Rio de Janeiro in the students olympiads – last round. We were leading, and a single point could be the ‘golden medal game’. In such situations You would avoid hazardous play, right? Yes, and in that specific event I was unbeaten so far – they joked: ‘Mr. Draw‘ ... Well, after some magistral wood-shifting, we arrived to 23.Rd3 – some nasty threats over the K side, so... I won a P! Then, following in the same – wise – adagio time... a second P! (well, this time should be 33.Q takes the ‘h4’ P – to avoid h4-h3 and some annoyances... Later (my 'zeitnot' again) he managed to obtain a series of checks, I returned part of the advantage and it became a lenghty QQs endgame – well, You know – white won (and – yes!- the golden medal was won already too – to be the second board with Sunyé in the first and Fukuda ('the samurai') in the third was so tranquilizing...)

[Event "JUBS - Bra U-26 Ol"]
[Site "João Pessoa"]
[Date "1979.7.??"]
[Round "last"]
[White "Kornin, Zalmen"]
[Black "Machado da Gama, Hermes A "]
[TimeControl "-"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Bg5 Be7 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.Nf3 Bd7 8.Bd3 Bc6 9.c3 Nd7 10.O-O Nb6 11.Re1 O-O 12.Qc2 Nd5 13.Rad1 h6 14.Qd2 Be7 15.Ne5 Be8 16.Bb1 Nf6 17.Nxf6+ Bxf6 18.Ng4 h5 19.Nxf6+ Qxf6 20.Re5 g6 21.Qh6 Qg7 22.Qf4 Rd8 23.Rd3 Rd5 24.Rxd5 exd5 25.Qxc7 Bc6 26.Re3 Qf6 27.Qe7 Qf4 28.Qe5 Qh6 29.Qf6 Re8 30.Rxe8+ Bxe8 31.f4 h4 32.Qg5 Qf8 33.Qxd5 h3 34.gxh3 Qh6 35.Qf3 Bd7 36.Be4 Bxh3 37.Bxb7 Qh4 38.Qg3 Qh5 39.Bf3 1-0

QK From the last round of the traditional International Open in the ‘City of the Princes’ – he was playing for a win with black to become a joint winner – I selected a lesser known variation – and soon a very interesting motif appeared: 15.Bf4!! A piece ‘en prise’? – offer another! – many pages of analysis searching to demonstrate that the Q counter-sac was still the lesser evil... But after 20...0-0, the best finish was: 21.Nd5! (or to ‘e4’) Kh8 (only move) 22.Nxf6 gxf6 23.Rxe5! Rg8 24.Qf4 fxe5 25.Qxe5+ f6 26.Qxb8 Bh3!? 27.Qxb7! and wins) – Well, I won, but after a protracted endgame full of vicissitudes and two time-scrambles ( My Botticelli became a shaggy sketch... I will spare You of the moves here – “and white won”) – thus: becoming myself a joint winner!... França Garcia, from São Paulo, died still very young, in tragic circumstances, in the early 80’s <note: "In 1982, at 26, from the consequences of a railway <accident>"> position after 15...e5


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[Event "Open"]
[Site "Joinville"]
[Date "1981.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Kornin, Zalmen"]
[Black "França Garcia, Antônio José"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 dxe5 5.Nxe5 e6 6.Bb5+ Nbd7 7.Qf3 Bd6 8.Nxd7 Nxd7 9.Ne4 Be7 10.O-O Qb6 11.Ba4 Qa6 12.Nc3 Rb8 13.Bb5 Qd6 14.d3 a6 15.Bf4 e5 16.Bxe5 Qxe5 17.Rfe1 axb5 18.Rxe5 Nxe5 19.Qg3 Bf6 20.Re1 O-O 21.Rxe5 Bxe5 22.Qxe5 Bd7 23.Qxc5 1-0 NN
A problem can contain three stages, called ‘phases’ (like musical ‘movements’, or theatrical ‘acts’, namely SET (suppose black was to play); VIRTUAL (tries) and REAL (solution) – A good solver is the interpreter of the composer’s message, being able to set up a ‘montage’ (edition) of the contents in every detail. In the following, there’s a whole virtual phase – white Ns try e7,f8,d8, and each to d4; and black dodges with just three moves: d6-d5, Qd5 and Qa4. The key (or ‘real play’) changes this setting. A finnish commentator wrote: “A dialogue between the white Ns and the black Q”. Z Kornin
“Suomen Shakki” 1997


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#2 Mate in Two

KQB A good plan for White: Nh6-g4-f6 or e5 - the question is: Bf5 of Bh3 (one can be the key, and the other a try...) - attention to black's best defense 1...Rc7!, and the Queen sacrifice 2.Qa6! - variations includes pin-mates, cross-checks and underpromotion PNQ

Z. Kornin
"Tidskrift för Schack" 1998
1st Honorable Mention


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#3 White to play and mate in three moves

NNNNNNThe idea - an eight variations "Siers-Rössel" composition with a Knight in a six jumps starting point. Be sure You find all variations, then the problem will be solved NNNNNNNN
Z. Kornin
"Tidskrift för Schack" 1999
1st Honorable Mention


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#3 White to play and mate in three moves

<the very mag in which C. Schlechter won also 1st HM in the #3 contest in 1910>

RNk K R

Maybe some of the fellow kibitzers here still remember the "Belén-Story" - from middle 2004... A complete overview of that 'online workshop' is to be found in an article, by Hanspeter Suwe, in magazine "König & Turm". KR

***** QQQ Babson-Task: The apotheosis of Echo-Promotions Theme... - Some Years ago, I imagined following scheme:

Try: P=B? - QQ - RR - NN Refutation P=B!
Key: P=Q! QQ - RR - NN - BB

...extending the task to a virtual play! Try (pseudo-key) and try's refutation (only move) displaying an echo-promotion... (Well - Chess Composition is 'The Art of the Possible' - After many researches, we arrived to an unique working position http://christian.poisson.free.fr/pr...

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More on 'Babsons' here in this animated <list> (in German) by Siegfried Hornecker. Some 'cyclic' included http://sh-kunstschach.eu/pgnlisten/...

And in this article in "Mat-Plus Forum" even a 'shortest proof-game' by Mario Richter http://www.milanvel.net/mp/snapshot...

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On Composition - articles (<"The Task of the Changing Pin-Mates Following Flights">: http://www.chessproblem.net/viewtop...

<"An Original for the Holidays"> http://www.chessproblem.net/viewtop...

<"One Setting, Many Concepts"> http://www.chessproblem.net/viewtop...

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...and not chess related: a quote, from Strabo (64 BC - AD 21) <"Sights Seen In The Mind's Eye Can Never Be Destroyed"> and a link to <Art> http://ingridwagner.blogspot.com/

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   vonKrolock has kibitzed 3014 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Nov-17-09 J Souza-Mendes vs Book, 1936
 
vonKrolock: <18.Bxc2> [DIAGRAM] A serious dilemma for black - if now 18...Rd (or 'h') f8, then 19.d5-d6!, and white will enjoy a very comfortable play
 
   Nov-17-09 João de Souza Mendes
 
vonKrolock: So... why not <Paul Morfi > !? Is new, modern ... (well, kind of a mess in the databases, too)
 
   Nov-16-09 Nigel Short (replies)
 
vonKrolock: <it would be good, on another occasion, to go to Uruguay or Brazil> :) Hopefully
 
   Nov-16-09 Schiffers vs Chigorin, 1895
 
vonKrolock: Pillsbury:<" 8...Qf5 9.Rxe4+ Be7 10 Nxd4 Nxd4 11 Qxd4 Be6"> Or 9...Be6 10.Nxd4 Nxd4 ...
 
   Nov-16-09 Mikhail Chigorin
 
vonKrolock: A consultation match between Mikhail Chigorin and Peter Alexandrovich Saburov versus Emmanuel Schiffers and A M Levin was held in Saint Petersburg, November 1895 (Therefore, around one month before the Hastings Congress, which Chigorin and Schiffers would attend.) The scores, ...
 
   Nov-15-09 Kramnik vs Ponomariov, 2009 (replies)
 
vonKrolock: <15...b7-b5> This game alone can not recomend this move. Whith ...Bg4 instead, black obtained a comfortable draw in I Novikov vs Serper, 1991 Well, Im seeing now the chessbase comment - quote <<<"On ...
 
   Nov-15-09 Leonid Stein (replies)
 
vonKrolock: Many photos of the young Stein, in the new online article with commented games <"Леонид Штейн. Молодые годы"> or 'LS. Youth Years' by A. ...
 
   Nov-14-09 Robert James Fischer (replies)
 
vonKrolock: <<<ray keene> i do not believe there is copyright on chessgames but without mr de lucia these games might have remained invisible forever, therefore the chess world owes him a definite degree of gratitude and deference for his efforts.>> Yes, not even for Chess ...
 
   Nov-13-09 Kramnik vs Leko, 2009 (replies)
 
vonKrolock: Yes, Yusupov vs Sax where following an earlier (and also drawn, but not boring, game) [Event "Lugano op"] [Site "Lugano"] [Date "1989.03.03"] [Round "7"] [White "Chernin,Alexander"] [Black "Browne,Walter S"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "E15"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 ...
 
   Nov-10-09 Gelfand vs Kramnik, 2009 (replies)
 
vonKrolock: After the arrival in the R+PPP
 
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