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Apr-30-09
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| Apr-30-09 | | blacksburg: <ChessBookForum> stop picking on <JFQ> you big jerk! |
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| Apr-30-09 | | Shams: <jessicafischerqueen> and <hms123> Thanks so much for starting this page, you two! I think it brings a lot of value to the site. |
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| May-01-09 | | Shams: <hms123> In your diagram below, I guess white prefers 1.Na5, and now Bxa6 is a real threat. The "surprising but very convincing defence" to taking on a6 first must be: 1.Bxa6 Qxd1+ 2.Ka2 bxa6 3.Na5 Qd5! |
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| May-01-09 | | wordfunph: <jessicafischerqueen> <crawfb5> thanks alot.. |
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| May-01-09 | | Red October: where have all the moose gone ? |
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| May-01-09 | | madlydeeply: I LOVE NEIL MaCDONALD's BOOKS I CAN't get enough of them. Art of planning in chess shows a nice Aronian game where he concentrates on one weakness into a sparse endgame it is very excellent etc. He's DA BOMB later i'll drink some coffee and post my normal incoherent ramblings but for now I say yes I say DA BOMB |
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| May-01-09 | | madlydeeply: I meant elegant not excellent. |
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| May-01-09 | | madlydeeply: I also love ANDY SOLTIS's books he wrote a book on Lasker "why lasker matters" opened up `Lasker for me, he also wrote a book on bobby Fischer called "Fischer revisited" which apparently the reviewer snobs have reported that no "profound new analysis" was presented (similar to the snotty reviews for OMGP I through XXVV!!!CCM) but I know i'm going to look at Fischer much more fondly than before after I read it. |
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| May-01-09 | | madlydeeply: One book I WISH i had was a book of compositions mentioned by Soltis in one of his columns by O.T. BLATHY a crazy engineer who wrote a "white to move and win in 160 moves" puzzle which i should find in an old chess life or wherever I found it. |
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| May-01-09 | | madlydeeply: One Book i WISH I HADN"T LET GO OF is a book by Koltanowski that showed the opening he used when he broke the blindfold simultaneous record, he played the Max Lange Attack and had a lovely description of "what to do" so it was a Max Lange introduction book too. Cheerio Y'all Youse! |
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| May-01-09 | | hms123: <Shams> Thanks for coming by. And you are right about the puzzle. <Qd5> surprised me. |
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| May-01-09 | | blacksburg: <I also love ANDY SOLTIS's books he wrote a book on Lasker "why lasker matters" opened up `Lasker for me,> <Why Lasker Matters> is indeed a fabulous book. another Soltis book - <The Inner Game of Chess> is a unique little book, and i found it very helpful. it describes calculation and visualization in a very practical manner. and i've never seen the material and concepts covered here in any other book. be aware, i have heard that Soltis books are hit or miss - some are very good, while some are not so good. luckily, the two that i've read are pretty good. |
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| May-01-09 | | hms123: <blacksburg> I just ordered <Why Lasker Matters>. I always liked Lasker's fighting style. The book has gotten good reviews. Thanks for the recommendation. |
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| May-01-09 | | blacksburg: <O.T. BLATHY a crazy engineer who wrote a "white to move and win in 160 moves" puzzle which i should find in an old chess life or wherever I found it.> <160 moves>? hehehe, child's play. real men solve <257 move> puzzles. behold this monstrosity and tremble, dear friends.
click for larger viewwhite to move and force mate in <257> moves. this is not a joke. the problem was composed by O.Blathy, and the solution can be found in Jacob Aaaagaaaard's <Excelling At Technical Chess>, pgs 121-125. |
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May-01-09
 | | Domdaniel: Pshaw. Blathy originally composed a mate-in-290 but the starting position was impossible. So he lowered his sights a little. Meanwhile the competition forged ahead ...
click for larger viewWhite to play and mate in 270 (Petrovic 1969).
And I know he has three bishops. It's legal. And I know the solution. But this one ...
click for larger viewWhite to mate in 1220 moves, with the condition that the black knight makes three complete tours of the board (without this stipulation, 1.Rf8#!! does the job in 1219 moves fewer). JN Babson composed it in 1882. |
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May-01-09
 | | Open Defence: one book which had an interesting approach was Gennady Nesis' <Tactics in the Grunfeld> I used to play the Grunfeld almost every time against 1.d4 so I bought the book with the intention of brushing up on my opening theory, however I found the approach of linking tactical themes with opening study to be quite a nice approach I believe he also has a book <Tactics in the Kings Indian> a word of caution, Theory may have moved on a bit since those books were published, but <Tactics in the Grunfeld> is much much more than a book on the opening he gives full games with analysis and illustrating the tactical themes of each chapter he also wrote <Exchanging to win in the end game> and <Tactical Chess Exchanges> which I do not have but have received good reviews if any of you have these books please share your views those of you who do play the Grunfeld would be pleased with <Tactics in the Grunfeld> and those who dont, well I would still advise them to check out the book for the way the games are presented in the context of the tactical concepts and for the analyses |
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| May-01-09 | | crawfb5: <he also wrote <Exchanging to win in the end game> and <Tactical Chess Exchanges> which I do not have but have received good reviews if any of you have these books please share your views> I have both, but have not looked at them in years, so I can only say I liked them at the time I worked through them. |
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| May-01-09 | | Woody Wood Pusher: Hey <Dom>
In the <White to play and mate in 270 (Petrovic 1969).> How did they know it was a guaranteed mate in 270 in 1969? What happens if you put that into an engine BTW?
Does it blow up? |
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May-01-09
| | Open Defence: <How did they know it was a guaranteed mate in 270 in 1969? > the old fashioned way... analysis :)
I guess no television during the cold Russian winters gave you little to do if you were single, and most chess players are probably single anyway :) |
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May-01-09
| | Open Defence: though I bet a guy who found a hole in a 270 move analysis variation was probably sent to bed without his dinner |
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May-01-09
| | Domdaniel: <Woody> The solution to the Petrovic problem starts with 1.Bb1 h4 (for example) 2.Ka4 Ka8 ... then a sequence of moves is repeated nine times, with a black pawn move between each chunk. When black runs out of pawn moves the axe falls. There aren't many side variations, just different orders of moves or quicker ways to lose. <Deffi> If most chess players were single where did all the new chess players come from? Are you saying they had chess outside marriage? Gasp. |
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May-01-09
| | Open Defence: <<Deffi> If most chess players were single where did all the new chess players come from? Are you saying they had chess outside marriage? Gasp.
> well occasionaly they did get the odd mate in 1 .. I hear it was on Monday's mostly |
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May-01-09
| | Domdaniel: How did we get from <mate in 1220> to <mate in 1>? It's like the Kama Sutra, innit? |
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| May-01-09 | | just a kid: What is the best book for someone who knows the rules and how to move the pieces at a reasonable price? |
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