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notyetagm: <COORDINATE YOUR PIECES ON THE LOOSE SQUARES NEXT TO THE ENEMY KING> Annotated Game
by GM Mikhail Golubev
White: A. Beliavsky (2657)
Black: L. Ftacnik (2546)
Gotth' Art Cup GM Szentgotthard HUN
(5), 26.02.2010
Gruenfeld defense - D80
29.Bf8!! (D)
After 29.Bf8 Nxf8 , 30.Qh6 decides
1–0
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Loose squares next to the enemy king that can be coordinated on are dangerous, dangerous, dangerous. LOOSE squares near the enemy king are the second most important thing on the chess board, right after checks, because they are mating focal point just waiting to happen. If your queen makes a square <LOOSE> near the enemy king, then bring in your other pieces to <COORDINATE> on this square and threaten mate. If your other pieces make a square <LOOSE> near the enemy king, then bring in your queen to <COORDINATE> on that square and threaten mate. Black To Play: 20 ... ?
click for larger viewThe dominant tactical feature in this position are are the <LOOSE SQUARES> next to the White f1-king: both the dark-squares f2 and g1 are attacked by the Black e3-queen and defended -only- by the White f1-king. So what does Black (Negi) do? He simply <COORDINATES ON THE LOOSE SQUARES NEXT TO THE ENEMY KING> with 20 ... ♗f6-d4!, putting both the f2- and g1-squares en prise. Position after 20 ... ♗f6-d4!
click for larger viewWhite resigns because he has no good defense to the twin threats (<DOUBLE ATTACK>) to the f2- and g1-squares. Event "World's Youth Stars"
Site "Kirishi RUS"
Date "2007.05.18"
Round "3"
White "Bindrich,F"
Black "Negi,P"
Result "0-1"
WhiteElo "2469"
BlackElo "2515"
EventDate "2007.05.16"
ECO "C88"
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8.
h3 Bb7 9. d3 Re8 10. Ng5 d5 11. exd5 Nd4 12. Rxe5 Qd6 13. Re1 Nxb3 14. axb3
Nxd5 15. Nf3 Bf6 16. Nbd2 Nb4 17. Re3 Rxe3 18. fxe3 Qc5 19. Ne1 Qxe3+ 20.
Kf1 Bd4
0-1
You cannot change the people around you, but you can change the people you choose to be around. * Here's 14 of the greatest tournaments of all time: London 1851, Adolf Anderssen 15/21
Hastings 1895, Harry Nelson Pillsbury 16.5/21
St. Petersburg 1914, Emanuel Lasker 13.5/18
New York 1924, Emanuel Lasker 16.0/20
AVRO 1938, Paul Keres & Reuben Fine 8.5/14
FIDE World Championship 1948, Mikhail Botvinnik 14.0/20 Zurich Candidates 1953, Vasily Smyslov 18.0/28
Santa Monica 1966, Boris Spassky 11.5/18
Montreal 1979, Mikhail Tal & Anatoly Karpov 12.0/18 Linares 1994, Anatoly Karpov 11.0/13
Wijk Aan Zee 1999, Garry Kasparov 10.0/13
Mexico City FIDE World Championship 2007, Viswanathan Anand 9.0/14 London Candidates 2013, Magnus Carlsen (& Vladimir Kramnik) 8.5/14 Yektarinburg Candidates 2021, GM Ding Liren went through an entire tournament with 99% CAPS accuracy. * Chess in the Newspaper: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-... * Bad bishops are...bad: https://lichess1.org/game/export/gi... * Internet tracking: https://www.studysmarter.us/magazin... * TFD: https://chessentials.com/category/l... "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
― Theodore Roosevelt
The Raven Wishing To Imitate The Eagle
The bird of Jove bore off a mutton,
A raven being witness.
That weaker bird, but equal glutton,
Not doubting of his fitness
To do the same with ease,
And bent his taste to please,
Took round the flock his sweep,
And marked among the sheep,
The one of fairest flesh and size,
A real sheep of sacrifice –
A dainty titbit bestial,
Reserved for mouth celestial.
Our gormand, gloating round,
Cried, "Sheep, I wonder much
Who could have made you such.
You're far the fattest I have found;
I'll take you for my eating."
And on the creature bleating
He settled down. Now, sooth to say,
This sheep would weigh
More than a cheese;
And had a fleece
Much like that matting famous
Which graced the chin of Polyphemus;
So fast it clung to every claw,
It was not easy to withdraw.
The shepherd came, caught, caged, and, to their joy,
Gave croaker to his children for a toy.
Ill plays the pilferer the bigger thief;
One's self one ought to know; – in brief,
Example is a dangerous lure;
Death strikes the gnat, where flies the wasp secure. <<On the question about what he does to stay in good physical shape, Wesley So said:I was reading about Bobby Fischer in the museum and that's one thing he was really really good at. He was so
physically strong, and so is Magnus Carlsen, so that's definitely one thing I could improve upon. I try to exercise, either take long walks during a tournament. I try to swim when I'm back home, I swim two or three times a week for an hour. I try to also eat healthy. When I was younger I could eat anything I wanted. I'm getting close to 30 and the doctor told
me I have to watch my diet here and there. Try to you know eat healthier, try to eat more fruits and vegetables, try to sleep 12 hours every night. Cristian Chirila: 12 hours? Okay!
Wesley So: I mean it's not easy but I try to lay in bed around 13 hours a night. Because during the game you need your full concentration. When I'm back at home I don't really need much sleep but when I'm in a tournament I try to get as much as possible. I saw on Bobby Fischer's interview that he wakes up like an hour or half an hour before the game so he comes to the game very fresh. For me it's a bit different, I do some review here and there, but I usually wake up around three or two and a half hours before a game. I know Magnus does the thing, he just wakes up and then goes to play a game and maybe that's the secret. I try to learn from great players.>
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Confessed faults are half mended. ~ Scottish Proverb <IF
Poet: Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting, too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting.
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating.
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truths you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken.
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch and toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone.
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will, which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son. About the poem, If by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Morris wrote: "The central idea of this poem is that success comes from self-control and a true sense of the values of things. In extremes lies danger. A man must not lose heart because of doubts or opposition, yet he must do his best to see the grounds for both. He must not be deceived into thinking either triumph or disaster final; he must use each wisely--and push on. In all things he must hold to the golden mean. If he does, he will own the world, and even better, for his personal reward he will attain the full stature of manhood."> Riddle: Three doctors all say Robert is their brother. Robert says he has no brothers. Who is lying? Answer: No one—the doctors are Robert's sisters. Armenian Chess Championship: Wikipedia article: Armenian Chess Championship Austrian Chess Championship: Wikipedia article: Austrian Chess Championship British Chess Championship: Wikipedia article: British Chess Championship Bulgarian Chess Championship: Wikipedia article: Bulgarian Chess Championship Croatian Chess Championship: Wikipedia article: Croatian Chess Championship Cyprus Chess Championship: Wikipedia article: Cypriot Chess Championship Dutch Chess Championship:
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The Wolves and the Sheep
By-gone a thousand years of war,
The wearers of the fleece
And wolves at last made peace;
Which both appeared the better for;
For if the wolves had now and then
Eat up a straggling ewe or wether,
As often had the shepherd men
Turned wolf-skins into leather.
Fear always spoiled the verdant herbage,
And so it did the bloody carnage.
Hence peace was sweet; and, lest it should be riven,
On both sides hostages were given.
The sheep, as by the terms arranged,
For pups of wolves their dogs exchanged;
Which being done above suspicion,
Confirmed and sealed by high commission,
What time the pups were fully grown,
And felt an appetite for prey,
And saw the sheepfold left alone,
The shepherds all away,
They seized the fattest lambs they could,
And, choking, dragged them to the wood;
Of which, by secret means apprised,
Their sires, as is surmised,
Fell on the hostage guardians of the sheep,
And slew them all asleep.
So quick the deed of perfidy was done,
There fled to tell the tale not one!
From which we may conclude
That peace with villains will be rued.
Peace in itself, it's true,
May be a good for you;
But It's an evil, nathless,
When enemies are faithless.
Riddle: Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: In the dictionary.
My Wage
by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.
<Chess has six different kinds of pieces, and they all interact in myriad ways. Your opponent's own pieces can often be used against him.While the Queen is the strongest piece, it is the weakest defender; and while the pawn is the weakest piece, it is the strongest defender. José Raúl Capablanca used the principle "Cutting off pieces from the scene of action."> Site "Kiev RUE"
Event "Simul, 30b"
Date "1914.03.02"
EventDate "?"
Round "?"
Result "1-0"
White "Jose Raul Capablanca"
Black "Masyutin"
ECO "A83"
WhiteElo "?"
BlackElo "?"
PlyCount "37"
1.d4 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 c6 5.f3 exf3 6.Nxf3 e6 7.Bd3
d5 8.O-O Nbd7 9.Ne5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.Qh5+ Ke7 12.Bxh7 Nf8
13.Qf7+ Kd6 14.Nc4+ dxc4 15.Ne4+ Kd5 16.Rf5+ Kxe4 17.Re1+ Kxd4
18.c3+ Kd3 19.Rd5# 1-0 Discovered Double Checkmate!! "As an adult, Capablanca lost only 34 serious games. He was undefeated from 10 February 1916, when he lost to Oscar Chajes in the New York 1916 tournament, to 21 March 1924, when he lost to Richard Réti in the New York International tournament. During this streak, which included his 1921 World Championship match against Lasker, Capablanca played 63 games, winning 40 and drawing 23. In fact, only Marshall, Lasker, Alekhine and Rudolf Spielmann won two or more serious games from the mature Capablanca, though in each case, their overall lifetime scores were minus (Capablanca beat Marshall +20−2=28, Lasker +6−2=16, Alekhine +9−7=33), except for Spielmann who was level (+2−2=8). Of top players, only Keres had a narrow plus score against him (+1−0=5). Keres's win was at the AVRO 1938 chess tournament, during which tournament Capablanca turned 50, while Keres was 22." ― Wikipedia The Chess Machine: https://chessville.com/jose-raul-ca... Learn from the World Champions: https://www.chessable.com/blog/famo... According to Chessmetrics, Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924. Q: What's the best thing about Switzerland?
A: I don't know, but the flag is a big plus.
The City Rat and the Country Rat
A city rat, one night,
Did, with a civil stoop,
A country rat invite
To end a turtle soup.
On a Turkey carpet
They found the table spread,
And sure I need not harp it
How well the fellows fed.
The entertainment was
A truly noble one;
But some unlucky cause
Disturbed it when begun.
It was a slight rat-tat,
That put their joys to rout;
Out ran the city rat;
His guest, too, scampered out.
Our rats but fairly quit,
The fearful knocking ceased.
"Return we," cried the cit,
To finish there our feast.
"No," said the rustic rat;
"Tomorrow dine with me.
I'm not offended at
Your feast so grand and free, –
"For I have no fare resembling;
But then I eat at leisure,
And would not swap, for pleasure
So mixed with fear and trembling."
French Proverb: "Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard." ― (Nothing should be left to chance.) "There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world."
― Pierre Mac Orlan
"You can only get good at chess if you love the game." ― Bobby Fischer "As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight." — The Revenant Weord Maze:
3z Darby's samichz haz da bst pigz eyez, no birdz eyez annie pig snoutz. Shout, shout, let it all out. Theez rtha things Ivan duel without. C'mon Mikhail Talkin youtube. A pencil maker told the pencil 5 important lessons just before putting it in the box: 1. Everything you do you will always leave a mark. 2. You can always correct the mistakes you make. 3. What is important is what is inside of you.
4. In life, you will undergo painful sharpening which will only make you better. 5. To be the best pencil, you must allow yourself to be held and guided by the hand that holds you. Lead Pb 82 207.2 1.8
Riddle: What invention lets you look right through a wall? Answer: A window!
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