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| Apr-04-10 | | Albertan: Mariano, I just checked my Chessbase Megadatabase 2010 and the theoretical novelty Bluvshtein played against Shirov was the move 14....Qh5. |
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Apr-04-10
 | | Fusilli: <Albertan> Which means that the novelty was a computer-checked, or maybe computer-generated, weapon prepared at home. Which doesn't make it any less impressive. If I had a secret weapon like that, I too would save it for some big fish. |
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| Apr-05-10 | | Albertan: < Fusilli: Albertan Which means that the novelty was a computer-checked, or maybe computer-generated, weapon prepared at home. Which doesn't make it any less impressive. If I had a secret weapon like that, I too would save it for some big fish.> I don't think this idea was generated with a chess program, I put the position into Chessbase and no program wanted to play 14...Qh5 (that includes: Deep Fritz 12,Deep Rybka 3 Dynamic,Deep Hiarcs 12 and Deep Junior 11 on my quad core)...all but one of these programs suggest 14...cxb5. Deep Hiarcs suggests 14...Bg4 and it was in "aggressive" mode. Deep Fritz 12 and Deep Rybka 3 Dynamic both evaluate that Shirov could have refuted 14...Qh5 by playing: 15 bxa6 Bxg4 16.Nh4!? and if 16...Qxh4 17.f4 Rf7 (If 17...b6 then 18.cxd5 cxd5
19.Qc6 Nc5!? 20.dxc5 Bxc5 21.Kh1 Rad8 +.\/-) 18.axb7 Rd8  What do you think? |
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Apr-07-10
| | Fusilli: <Albertan> <Deep Fritz 12 and Deep Rybka 3 Dynamic both evaluate that Shirov could have refuted 14...Qh5 by playing: 15 bxa6 Bg4 16.Nh4!? and if 16...Qxh4 17.f4 Rf7 (...) 18.axb7 Rd8 What do you think?>
Yes, White is better after this line, but it still has two undeveloped pieces. I think Bluvshtein was really smart to play this, because it is not easy to see that returning the piece with 16.Nh4 followed by 17.f4 would lead to White advantage. |
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Apr-07-10
| | Fusilli: A couple of tactics from two ICC blitz games.
Someone v. Fusilli, White to play:
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Fusilli v. Someone Else
click for larger view12...Bxh2+? 13.Kxh2 Ng4+ 14.Kg3 Qg5 15.f4 Qe7 16.Nxd5 Qe6 
click for larger view17.? |
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Apr-20-10
| | Fusilli: From <hms123> chessforum, Ivkov vs S Webb, 1977, White to play and draw:
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1.Rc6+! Taking the rook loses. If 1…Kf5 or 1…Kg5, White plays 2.Rc7 and the best Black has is to go back with 2…Kf6. Otherwise I think what would happen is that White will take the b-pawn, Black will try to race the Kingside pawns forward, but will have to give up his rook for one of White’s b-pawns and yet see the other b-pawn promote. In the meantime, White might need to give up his rook for one of Black’s pawns, but no biggie. If 1…Kg7 2.Rc7 threatens 3.Ke6 winning, so I guess Black would have to go back to 2…Kf6. Likewise, Black makes no progress with 1…Ke7 2.Rc7+ |
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Apr-20-10
| | Fusilli: From <hms123> chessforum:
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Black to play and win
1… e2! 2.Bxf2 Be3!! winning. The alternative is 2.Rxf4 Rxf4 3.Bxg3 Kc6 winning. I don't think White has other second moves. For example 2.Ra1 Be3 (if 3.Kh1 Rh2 is mate!), or 2.Bc3 Be3 3.Re4 Bb6 wins. |
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| Apr-20-10 | | hms123: <Mariano> I really like the third one as well. The van Perlo book is just full of tactics like this. |
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| Apr-25-10 | | Albertan: <Fusilli: From <hms123> chessforum, Ivkov vs S Webb, 1977, White to play and draw:> That must be Simon Webb right? He wrote a book I have called, "Chess for Tigers". Sadly he came to an unfortunate
demise at the hands of his son! <:( See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_...(chess_player) |
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Apr-25-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Marianas Trench: So much more than merely the deepest part of the Pacific> I have to agree with your assessment that power hierarchies function to limit open conflict in the workplace. This hadn't even occurred to me, and yet it explains, rather thoroughly, the dynamic of Korean High Schools, where nary a word is heard and the most popular sport is secretly despising your co-worker. You see, thanks to a Confucian social system, High Schools are run exactly the same as the army. Your rank depends entirely on your gender and age, and nobody would ever dream of "breaking rank," so to speak. Fifty year old men regularly drink whiskey at work, and smoke in their offices or classrooms, even though both activities are not only against official school policy, they are actually illegal. I saw one of them, "Teacher Oh," (known as "Oh my God") grab a 17 year old student by her collar and rip her official school blouse in half. I saw this with my own eyes.
I have never experienced such a vertical hierarchy in my life. It's kind of comforting, in a "living in Nazi Germany" kind of way. You see, a young woman doesn't need to make a single decision about anything, ever. They do it all for me!!
This allows me to spend upwards of 60 hours a week researching chess history. Anyways I think your analysis was spot on and thanks for posting it. |
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Apr-27-10
| | Fusilli: <Albertan> Wow, creepy ending for poor <Simon Webb>. What an awful thing. |
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Apr-27-10
| | Fusilli: <Jess> Have you read Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers"? There is a chapter or two in which Korean hierarchies feature prominently. I won't tell you anything else because the book is quite recommendable and maybe you'll want to read it. Korea is one of those societies where modernity and the latest technology coexist with traditional values. One consequence of this is an awfully high sex ratio at birth, although it has been improving in recent years. Many people think that the high sex ratio at birth due to strong preference for sons is only a Chinese and Indian phenomenon, but it exists in many societies, including Korea and some formerly Soviet republics. (BTW, sex ratio=men/women, sex ratio at birth=births of boys/births of girls. A biologically normally sex ratio at birth is around 1.05. The Korean sex ratio at birth, if memory serves, is 1.15 or so. China's is over 1.20) Korea illustrates the result of the mix between tradition (preference for sons), modernity (desire for small families and low fertility) and technology (ultrasound to make it easy to have sex-selective abortions). There was quite a good dossier on "gendercide" in The Economist about a month ago. |
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Apr-27-10
| | Fusilli: Ah, yeah, here it is: http://www.economist.com/world/inte.... BTW, <Jess>, do they treat you any different for being a foreigner, or do they put you in the same category as Korean women your age? |
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| Apr-29-10 | | hms123: <Mariano>
<benjinathan> posted a good question at the <CBF> on how he should go about learning from a chess book. How do you approach it? I would love to get a conversation started at the <CBF> on this. |
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Apr-30-10
| | Fusilli: Bought my house today! Moving to East Nashville in May... |
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| Apr-30-10 | | technical draw: Fiesta! Fiesta! En la casa nueva de Fusilli....(BYOB)! |
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| Apr-30-10 | | hms123: I'll bring the User: beer |
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| Apr-30-10 | | hms123: and the User: whiskey too. |
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Apr-30-10
 | | chancho: Flying Fish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmWR... |
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Apr-30-10
| | Fusilli: Everyone is invited!
<chancho>, the link didn't work on my browser. |
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May-01-10
 | | ChessBookForum: User: crawfb5 wrote a two-part essay on <How to Read a Chess Book> at the User: ChessBookForum: ChessBookForum chessforum ChessBookForum chessforum It is well worth your time. We hope you will comment on his essay or simply add to it with your own experiences and advice. Thanks. |
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May-01-10
| | Fusilli: <CBF> I will, I will. It's officially on my to-do list. It's just that I am very busy right now... but I'll try to get to it later this weekend. |
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| May-01-10 | | hms123: <Mariano> I thought you would be a little busy--take your time--thanks. |
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| May-09-10 | | wordfunph: just dropping by, thanks for the book reviews in <ChessBookForum>...hope to see you more often in <CBF>. |
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| May-09-10 | | crawfb5: <M> I understand. Finding the energy is a common problem. I wish I were better at following my own advice... |
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