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| Aug-29-06 | | syracrophy: <positional> Well, let's see... Try the position of the diagram |
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| Aug-29-06 | | positionalgenius: <syracrophy>I played Kf4 and drew easily. |
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| Aug-29-06 | | syracrophy: <positionalgenius: <syracrophy>I played Kf4 and drew easily.> But here it is "Black to play and draw" |
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| Aug-29-06 | | positionalgenius: <syracrophy>I was white in that game.
OK:lets see..
1...gxf3 2.Bxf3 Rb1 3.b7 Rb5+
4.Ke6 Rb1! and I think black can hold.Am I,a 1500+,close? |
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| Sep-02-06 | | syracrophy: <positionalgenius> 2...Rb1?? is a horrible blunder. 1...gxf3 2.Bxf3 Rb1?? 3.c7+ Kc8 4.Bg4+ Kb7 5.c8=Q+ Kxb6 6.Qc8+ and good-bye to the rook |
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| Mar-18-07 | | LivBlockade: <syracrophy> Good problem. How about 1...gxf3, with the following lines: 2. c7+ ♔c8; 3. ♗f5+ ♖d7!; 4. ♗h3 f2; followed by 5...f1=♕ and 6...♖xc7 draws. So White must answer 1...gxf3 with 2. ♗xf3. But after 2. ♗xf3, Black plays 2...♖d7!! when 3. cxd7 is stalemate and if 3. c7+ ♖xc7 draws. So White can try 3. ♗g4, but then Black plays 4...♖b7! when 5. cxb7 ♔xb7 followed by ...♔xb6 draws, and if not 5. cxb7, then moves such as 5. ♔d6 fail to 5...♖xb6 pinning the c-pawn, so Black draws with 6...♖xc6. Instead of 3. ♗g4, White can try 3. ♔e6, but then 3...♖b7!! again draws because 4. cxb7 is another pretty stalemate. Very nice problem. I saw the ...♖d7 stalemate theme quickly, but struggled with how to get there. The line I originally overlooked was that after 1...gxf3; 2. c7+ ♔c8; 3. ♗f5+; Black can interpose with 3...♖d7! and suddenly White's pawns are blockaded while Black's passed pawn will force White's Bishop to break the pin, allowing ...♖xc7. Again, a beautiful problem. Did Shamkovich find this over the board? |
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| Mar-19-07 | | MaxxLange: A friend of mine played GM Shamkovich at the US Amateur Teams about 10 years ago. Shamkovich sacked a piece, and my friend didn't find the proper defense, and lost. But, with best play, he could have offered resistance much longer. The game fragment is in Shamkovich and Cartier's book "Tactical Chess Training": Shamkovich vs. D Hunt |
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| Mar-19-07 | | MaxxLange: D Hunt was rated about 1700, and was in awe...he had studied GM Shamkovich's book on sacrifices to get to 1700....and now the great man's White bishop visited h7 against his French Defense! |
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| Dec-27-08 | | Caissanist: Back in 1998, Shamkovich wrote an article about Jacob Yuchtman, which mentioned that, before his death, Yuchtman had entrusted him with a collection of his annotated games that Shamkovich hoped to publish someday. Now that Shamkovich too has passed on, does anyone know what happened to the Yuchtman games? |
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| Jun-01-10 | | wordfunph: In 1975, at the Los Angles airport security check, GM Leonid Shamkovich suitcase was taken to go through the x-ray machine. Thinking that this was part of the check-in, he boarded the airplane to Cleveland for a chess tournament. It took four days to track down and recover his missing luggage. |
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| Jun-10-10 | | whiteshark: Leonid Shamkovich was born on June1,1923 in Rostov-on-Don, USSR, and began playing chess at the age of nine. In 1941, at the beginning of World War II, his family was evacuated to Tbilisi in Soviet Georgia, where young Leonid became a Candidate Master. After the war, Shamkovich moved to Leningrad, where he graduated from the university with a degree in physics and earned his Master's title in three years. Soon he abandoned all pursuit of a ''mainstream'' career to become a chess professional, combining tremendous activity as a player with internationally recognized work as a theoretician. Between 1954 and 1974, Shamkovich was extremely active in the USSR. He was twice Russian Republic Champion (1954,1957) and Moscow Co-Champion with David Bronstein in 1963, narrowly losing a playoff 2.5-1-5. He participated in the famous Kiev USSR Championship with a stellar field of Soviet grandmasters, including Korchnoi, Stein, Bronstein, Tal, Geller, Kholmov, Suetin and Vasyukov. He went on compete a total of six times in the USSR Championship, sharing 5th place in 1964.
In 1962, Shamkovich competed in his first international tournament, the Moscow International, finishing equal third behind Averback and Vasyukov and earning an International Master norm. In Marianske Lazen (1965) he finished third behind Hort and Keres, achieving his first grandmaster norm. At Sochi (1967) he tied for first with Krogius, Simagin, Spassky and Zaitsev. During this same period, Shamkovich was also second and trainer to Tal (1965) and Stein (1972), publishing a prodigious number of theoretical works, including the book ''Sacrifice in Chess''. During 1969-1972 he won three international tournaments in Romania and Hungary. In 1975 he emigrated to Israel, winning their Open Championship. The following year he came to the US via Canada and established permanent residence. He has been a US citizen since 1983. Since arriving in the US he has won the US Open twice (1976,1977), qualified for the 1979 Interzonal in Rio, and competed in the 1980 Malta Olympiad. Shamkovich is still playing strong chess, writing internationally recognized books and articles, and serving as one of America's most qualified and experienced coaches. Shamkovich is a popular author. His book ''Sacrifice in Chess'' was translated for publication in the US. He has authored or co-authored works such as ''The Tactical World of Chess'', ''Fischer vs Spassky, 1992'' and ''The Schliemann Defense'', among others.'' (From the introduction of ''The Chess Terrorist's Handbook'', 1995)
found here: http://kevinspraggett.blogspot.com/ |
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Mar-14-11
 | | perfidious: The first GM I ever faced in tournament play, in the third round of the New England Open in Merrimack, NH. The night before, I'd had an 8.5 hour marathon with Danny Kopec; I went to the pairing sheet that Sunday morning of Labour Day weekend to find myself with an even tougher nut to crack this time round! In the game itself, I played the line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2 Ba6 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.Nxc3 d5 8.b3; the 4....b6 line was one I would often play as Black through the 1990s. While I don't remember any more specifics about this game, other than Shamkovich marching his king all the way into my position with heavy pieces still on the board, this is one of my games against GMs I shall not forget. |
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| May-12-11 | | Marcelo Bruno: He and another writer did an excellent article about Jacob Yuchtman: they were awarded with the best prize for a chess biography. |
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| May-12-11 | | I play the Fred: I read that article on Yuchtman. It was very interesting about a player I hadn't heard of before. |
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| Jun-01-11 | | talisman: happy b'day leonid..RIP. |
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| Nov-20-12 | | PhilFeeley: Another game for some reason <CG.com> does not have. Again, found on Kevin Spraggett's blog:
click for larger viewShamkovitch - Kholmov, Baku, 1961.
White to play and win. |
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Nov-20-12
| | perfidious: <Phil Feeley> Come again? L Shamkovich vs Kholmov, 1961 fills the bill. |
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| Oct-26-13 | | hedgeh0g: Related to <Shams>? |
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| Apr-28-14 | | whiteshark: Kevin did it again - extended biographical infos and memories + some nice tactical crumbs: http://kevinspraggettonchess.wordpr... |
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| May-09-15 | | TheFocus: <The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon> - Leonid Shamkovich. |
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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated> - Leonid Shamkovich. |
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| May-15-15 | | TheFocus: <A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk> - Leonid Shamkovich. |
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| May-15-15 | | TheFocus: <Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistible> - Leonid Shamkovich. |
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| May-15-15 | | TheFocus: <The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!> - Leonid Shamkovich. |
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| May-16-15 | | TheFocus: <A great chess player always has a good memory> - Leonid Shamkovich. |
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