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| May-16-08 | | achieve: heh - Batchimeg at 100% - heh |
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| May-16-08 | | Open Defence: hey where is <Jess> lately ? |
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| May-16-08 | | achieve: <Jess> From the welll illustrated game by <notyetagm> (Radja-Bu) I played on and thought I would be cruising for a win.... NOT SO...!
I reached the following position, which is valued as +2.00 for white, but it takes some understanding and technique to win it from here: White to play
click for larger viewPlease TEST this against strong (engine opposition) - this is precisely the sort of position that needs to be won through meticulous technique and sound calculating... FEEL and SHARPNESS Have a go with this one if time allows... It's a brain trainer. Because it should be a win, but not easy at all against stubborn opposition. |
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| May-16-08 | | achieve: (Above position -- see also my forum)
Get a real FEEL for the qualities of the different pieces, like, in this case, ♖ vs. ♘ in an equal K+♙s structure... |
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| May-16-08 | | Red October: where is everybody ??? <Jess> I hope you have been avoiding poultry like we agreed! I dont want you growing feathers and a beak, btw we had curried duck yesterday for dinner.... |
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| May-17-08 | | brankat: <Red October> Last time I saw a curried duck (or a decent meal) was in a movie a few years ago :) |
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| May-17-08 | | Boomie: I've curried a few favors in my day. And of course there is the immortal curried endives. That's my entry for worst pun of the day. |
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| May-17-08 | | Open Defence: <Mr Kat> simple ingredients can make for a great meal! |
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| May-17-08 | | Boomie: Bu Ya! Missed you sumpin' arful at the MenTel party. The Bu Radley bashing of Top o' Love was worth losing a night's sleep. |
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| May-17-08 | | achieve: It is ME that is to blame for Her Maj's absence from the LIVE galleries. WATCH OUT! Tomorrow's 6th game will show true genius and brilliance! You heard it here first :P
G'luck, Jess! Never mind my rants...
"I'm just a silly so and so"
(I forgot from which song that line was...) |
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| May-18-08 | | achieve: <Jess> Enjoy your work with the kids this week! |
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May-18-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Thanks <Dr. Euwe>!
You may be interested in this:
<9...b5?!>, a daring continuation in a line of the so-called "Old Benoni," is often attributed to a <1948 Tolush-Aronian> "stem game." However, in 1929 <The Great Doctor Max Euwe> actually invented this move to help him beat <Ludwig Engels>. 1. d4 Nf6
2. Nf3 g6
3. c4 Bg7
4. Nc3 O-O
5. e4 d6
6. h3 c5
7. d5 e6
8. Bd3 exd5
9. cxd5 b5!?!!
(this is mainline theory now, but it certsinly wasn't in 1929) <The Euwe Variation of the Benoni>: (From Stem game <Engels v. Euwe 1929>- a game MISSING from our database here): 
click for larger view Usual continuation is the exciting looking 10.Bxb5 Nxe5 11.Nxe5 Qa5+! picking up the White LSB and leaving White with an isolani. Here is the entire game score of the <IMPORANT STEM GAME> proving this is the <Euwe Variation> of the "Old Benoni": <White: Ludwig Engels Black: Max Euwe, The
Hague 1929?>
1. d2-d4 Ng8-f6 2. Ng1-f3 g7-g6 3. c2-c4 Bf8-g7
4. Nb1-c3 0-0 5. e2-e4 d7-d6 6. h2-h3 c7-c5 7. d4-
d5 e7-e6 8. Bf1-d3 e6xd5 9. c4xd5 b7-b5 10. 0-0 c5-c4 11. Bd3-c2 b5-b4 12. Nc3-e2 Rf8-e8
13. Ne2-g3 Nb8-d7 14. Bc1-e3 a7-a5 15. Rf1-e1
Qd8-c7 16. Nf3-d4 Nd7-c5 17. f2-f3 Nf6-d7 18.
Ng3-e2 Bc8-a6 19. Ne2-f4 Nd7-e5 20. Qd1-d2
Bg7-h6 21. Kg1-h1 c4-c3 22. b2xc3 Ne5-c4 23.
Qd2-f2 Nc4xe3 24. Qf2xe3 b4xc3 25. g2-g3 Qc7-
d8 26. Qe3xc3 Bh6xf4 27. g3xf4 Qd8-h4 28. Kh1-
g2 Qh4xf4 29. Qc3-e3 Qf4xe3 30. Re1xe3 Ra8-
b8 31. Nd4-b3 Re8-c8 32. Kg2-g3 Nc5-d7 33.
Bc2-d1 a5-a4 34. Nb3-d4 Nd7-e5 35. Bd1-e2
Ba6xe2 36. Re3xe2 Rb8-b4 37. Ra1-d1 Rc8-c3
38. Re2-d2 Kg8-g7 39. h3-h4 h7-h5 40. Rd1-a1
a4-a3 41. Rd2-c2 Rc3-d3 42. Nd4-c6 Rb4xe4 43.
Nc6xe5 Re4xe5 44. Rc2-c6 Re5xd5 45. Rc6-a6
Rd5-d4 46. Ra1-c1 Rd4-g4+ 47. Kg3-f2 Rg4-f4
48. Rc1-c7 Rd3xf3+ White resigned
0-1 And a famous Victory for World Champion <Dr. Max Euwe>!! |
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| May-18-08 | | just a kid: Hey guys!Long time no see.I recently competed in a statewide tournament in phoenix called the governer's cup.I won 2nd place with 7.5 points and won me a trophy that comes up to my chin!(I am 5'10 |
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May-19-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Petrov Defence ADVENTURES that are NOT DRAWS> White to play and Win:
click for larger view |
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| May-19-08 | | twinlark: <1.Re8+ Nxe8 2.Rxe1+> maybe? Also: you've made it onto a new list:
The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 . |
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May-19-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Doggimus>
GOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLL!
Yes well played.
your tactic wins a piece <and the game> by force!! Brilliant--
BTW I'm just enjoying episode 1 of <Dexter>. So far they are asking me to cheer for a serial killer. Ok, I'm game... I'm guessing there is some kind of "angle" here... |
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| May-19-08 | | twinlark: Dexter is very tidy. He cleans up other people's messes as well as his own. What's not to like? Ahh...and The World vs G Timmerman, 2007 |
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| May-19-08 | | achieve: The Great Almighty Doctor Max Euwe is very proud of your findings, Miss JessicaFischerQueen. He wishes he had a secretary like you to help him during his WCC fights early in his career, but is now hopinng you'll assist him during the next GP cycle involving the Great Champions of the past. Though he loves to study openings in depth, Dr. Euwe has always had a rather healthy attitude towards opening Theory... But credit where credit is due.
Reveal your source and the Doctor is very much interested in sharing his. Regards,
The Euwe Centre Administration. |
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| May-19-08 | | achieve: AND... this just came in... MAX was an amateur Boxing Champion in his early days, and therefor had to rely on the work of his seconds like JFQ, to guide him savely through the opening phase at top level. They were the backbone of his succes.
But for how long? |
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| May-19-08 | | achieve: Kidding aside: Ta.
I will call the Euwe Center this week to hear their reaction to this opening line. And this particular game. |
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| May-19-08 | | hms123: <JFQ> You quoted Smyslov: <Nevertheless, the most attractive thing about chess is the clash of personalities and their emotions at the chessboard, with all its mistakes. Computers don’t make mistakes, but this does not rule out the struggle. The genius of the great chess players’ combinations proves it.> Styles make fights. This seems as true in chess as in boxing, tennis, or any other sport. It seems to me that computers will have styles that vary from one to another. Consequently, they will differ in their chosen moves. My guess is that there will be a lack of transitivity in the results (rock, paper, scissors comes to mind). Did the losing computer necessarily make a mistake? or just adopt the wrong strategy for that particular opponent? Further, I think humans will continue to learn from computers (as with any other great human player). "Computer moves" will become part of the human repertoire. Computers will make mistakes. They are no more perfect than the humans who program them. The emotional component is lacking in computers now, but I have friends who consider emotions to be an integral part of intelligence. They are trying to program emotions as part of a larger artificial intelligence effort. Nonetheless, I agree that something important may be lost if chess is "solved", but I doubt that will happen for a very long time. |
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| May-19-08 | | hms123: <JFQ> As long as I am visiting, I will recommend the books <Darkly Dreaming Dexter> and <Dearly Devoted Dexter> (by Jeff Lindsay) as well worth reading--and better than the TV series. |
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| May-19-08 | | notyetagm: Viswanathan Anand <IS ICC USER <pendex2008> SOMETIMES ANAND?> The account <pendex2008> on ICC is a known shared account. Rumor has it
that sometimes <pendex2008> is none other than World Champion Anand! Proof?
White to play: 29 ?
click for larger viewIt took <pendex2008> all of 5(!) seconds to see that 29 ♖d1xd6+!! worked. Position after 29 ♖d1xd6+!! 1-0
click for larger viewNow consider this next example of <pendex2008>'s play. White to play: 17 ?
click for larger viewAnd here <pendex2008> took all of 6(!) seconds to see that all the tactics
work after 17 ♗e2-b5!!, crushing the near 2700-strength GM Alexei Dreev(!) Position after 17 ♗e2-b5!! 
click for larger viewNotice how this game ends (PGN given below), with 29 f2-f4 and 30 ♖d3-b3!, <TRAPPING>
Dreev's Black b2-bishop!
So 5 seconds for 29 ♖d1xd6+!! and 6 seconds for 17 ♗e2-b5!!. Wow. Plus <pendex2008> told me while he was playing that he has spent time in Spain
and trained with GM Vallejo Pons. And when I casually mentioned that he might then be Topalov
or Anand, he said that he was not Topalov!
Also consider that Anand is famous for his fondness for <KNIGHT PLAY>, like the two
beautiful <KNIGHT FORK> combinations that I have shown here. What do you think?
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| May-19-08 | | notyetagm: <CONT'D>
PGN for the ICC blitz games references above.
[Event "ICC 3 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2008.05.10"]
[Round "-"]
[White "pendex2008"]
[Black "Federicov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "3181"]
[BlackElo "2983"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Byrne (English) attack"]
[ECO "B90"]
[NIC "SI.14"]
[Time "00:53:19"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8.
f3 Nbd7 9. Qd2 Rc8 10. g4 Be7 11. h4 h6 12. O-O-O b5 13. Bh3 Nb6 14. Bxb6
Qxb6 15. g5 hxg5 16. Bxe6 fxe6 17. hxg5 Nh5 18. g6 Kd7 19. Ne2 b4 20. Kb1
Nf6 21. Ng3 a5 22. Nc1 a4 23. Rxh8 Rxh8 24. Nd3 Qb5 25. c4 bxc3 26. Qxc3 Rc8
27. Nxe5+ Kd8 28. Nf7+ Kd7 29. Rxd6+ 1-0
[Event "ICC 3 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2008.05.10"]
[Round "-"]
[White "pendex2008"]
[Black "Dreev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "3262"]
[BlackElo "3083"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Richter-Rauzer, Larsen variation"]
[ECO "B60"]
[NIC "SI.27"]
[Time "02:06:29"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Bg5 Bd7 7. Be2 Qa5
8. Bxf6 gxf6 9. O-O Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Rc8 11. Rad1 Qc5 12. Qd3 f5 13. exf5 Bxf5
14. Qf3 Bd7 15. Qxb7 Bg7 16. Nd5 e6 17. Bb5 Qxb5 18. Qxc8+ Bxc8 19. Nc7+ Ke7
20. Nxb5 d5 21. Rfe1 Bd7 22. Rxd5 Bxb2 23. c4 Rc8 24. Nd6 Rc7 25. Rd3 a6 26.
Nf5+ Kf6 27. Ne3 Bc6 28. Red1 h5 29. f4 Be4 30. Rb3 1-0 |
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| May-20-08 | | achieve: Nice video by Tryson on Chepa-Ivanchuk
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=U4jNo... |
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