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Pawns - Their Importance- Part 2 2008-07-18 14:04:00 I would like to show you some wonderful positions , where pawns decide the outcome of the whole game!
Optueta - Sanz, Madrid 1934
Black to move…
And it doesn’t look very dangerous for white .The pawn on b2 is protected…The bishop on b6 looks passive But a passed pawn may...
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Pawns - Their Importance - Part 1 2008-07-18 11:12:00 500 years ago chess was different from today. Pawns didn’t cost as much as they do today. The best players started games with the gambits. Pawns were only a small price to:
Open a file or diagonal;
Create an immediate attack on an opponent’s king; It was the Italian style of chess.All positions of...
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The King's Indian Attack - Part 2 2008-07-17 17:05:00 Game 5 : Steve Stoyko (2340) - G. McDonald (2220) [C00]
Game 6 : Steve Stoyko - M. Schechter (2293) [B50]
Game 7 : Steve Stoyko - Koval (2113) [A08]
Game 8 : Steve Stoyko - K. Farrell [A04]
Game 9 : Steve Stoyko - Spiro [A08]
This concludes the series of lectures on The King's...
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The King's Indian Attack - Part 1 2008-07-17 16:09:00 Notes on a Lecture by FM Steve Stoyko
The great thing about an opening like the King's Indian Attack as White is that it is more about piece placement and positional motifs than it is about specific book lines. Every piece has its best square -- except the dark-squared Bishop. As FM Steve...
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Tips For Learning Chess Part 9 - Destroying the Balance 2008-07-17 11:33:00 A Lesson in Breaking the Material and Positional Equilibrium Modern chess not only differs greatly from chess of 19th century, but it also varies from chess played over the past 25 years. If you examine games from the World Championships played over a quarter of a century ago, you will notice a...
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Tips For Learning Chess Part 8 - Endgame Priciples 2008-07-17 11:00:00 1.Pair of Bishops is stronger than pair of Knights. 2.Bishop is usually stronger than Knight. Bishops are better than knights in all except blocked pawn positions. 3.Rook and Bishop are usually stronger than Rook and Knight. 4.Queen and Knight are usually stronger than Queen and Bishop. 5.Rooks...
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Tips For Learning Chess Part 7 - Positional Principles 2008-07-17 10:58:00 1. Pair of bishops is a serious advantage (especially in endgame). If you have pair of bishops - try to open the position. And in opposite if your opponent has it try to close the position. 2. If you have advantage in space - avoid exchanges, which can lead to exemption of the play. When you have...
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Tips For Learning Chess Part 6 - Pieces 2008-07-17 10:57:00 1.Bishop is usually stronger than knight in open positions. Knight is better then bishop in closed positions, when bishop is restricted. In semi open position, when knight has supporting square (reinforced by pawn) in the center, and can’t be attacked with the opponent’s pawn - knight excels bishop...
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Tips For learning Chess Part 5 - Playing Principles 2008-07-17 10:25:00 1.Opening fighting directed to the capture of the center. Pieces control and attack the maximum number of squares from the center. One of the advantages in center possession is in ability to transport the game to the flanks more easily. 2.Development is to be understood as the strategic advance of...
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Tips for Learning Chess Part 4 - Opening Principles 2008-07-17 10:15:00 1.Opening fighting directed to the capture of the center. Pieces control and attack the maximum number of squares from the center. One of the advantages in center possession is in ability to transport the game to the flanks more easily. 2.Development is to be understood as the strategic advance of...
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Tips For Learning Chess Part 3 - How To Annotate Your Own Games? 2008-07-16 13:55:00 While everyone prefers to learn from the mistakes of others, this is not very realistic when it comes to chess - Annotate Your Games
! A chessplayer’s strength is measured by his or her successes in tournaments. Sport has a single criterion - the result. Should we disagree with it, or bring in some...
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Tips For Learning Chess Part 2 - Playing The Classics 2008-07-16 13:54:00 It seems to me that a chess-player should first of all learn to play the classical openings, rather than openings such as the English opening, the Reti opening, Pirc-Ufimtsev Defense – the so-called “anti-openings”. These openings imply that the real combat begins only after the 15th move. You can...
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Tips For learning Chess Part 1 - Talent & Hard Work 2008-07-16 13:50:00 The Greatest World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik considered the success in chess as a combination of 4 factors.
* Special Chess Talent
* Good Physical conditions (Health).
* Strong Character
* High working skills To achieve success in modern chess requires being a universal style chessplayer, playing...
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Making Your Opening Book Stronger 2008-07-16 13:03:00 The best chance of getting your performance up is the book. Players who tune their books to get the strongest lines will always have the advantage (almost regardless of hardware) over those who use readily available "off the shelf" books. I have seen players with relatively modest hardware get very...
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Excelling at Chess fast – Things you must have 2008-07-21 15:36:53 Chess is art and every art needs dedication and devotion. And one should give sufficient time to excel at it. Chess is no exception. You need to give sufficient time to excel in chess. And that time has to be spent intelligently. Everybody wants to excel and climb up the ranking ladder without...
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SEO News: What Does Your SEO Linking Portfolio Look Like? [Digg] 2008-07-21 13:31:17 Commercial webmasters have been taught that link popularity has a great influence on whether a website will rank well in the search engines. There is a lot of truth in this teaching, but I have to tell you that the way that most people practice building links is wrong and may end up hurting their website in the search results Read more:Digg
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The Ruy Lopez for White - Berlin Defence Part 2 2008-10-11 11:09:35 In the introductory discussion on Berlin
Defence, we saw different structural patterns that might arise as a result of this defence by Black. Hope those features are clear in your head now.
Without wasting any time, we will start our study of different variations. The Main Variations in this defence revolves around Black's fifth move alternative, mainly Variation A: 5...Be7 and Variation B: 5...Nd Read more:Lopez
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The Ruy Lopez for White - Berlin Defence Part 1 2008-10-10 11:07:48 Before We Start
Hello Chesslovers,
It's time to get very very serious now.
Until now, we have been discussing those variations in the Ruy Lopez
which are now less encountered in real games. The reason being the continuous improvements that has taken place due to the hard work and dedication of great players and masters in this opening. Somehow, both sides was able to find refutations and t Read more:Berlin
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Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games 2008-10-09 12:42:00 World chess champion Viswanathan Anand
is set for his title-defending match against challenger and Russian Grand Master Vladimir Kramnik in October. Anand says Kramnik’s challenge and taunts don’t bother him because he believes “the main thing” is to win. “My own tendency is to just ignore him,” Anand told Karan Thapar(one of the leading journalist's in India) in an interview on Devil Read more:Advocate
With Vishy Anand - a recent interview 2008-10-09 12:41:30 In a rare interview
before the World Championship, which begins in less than two weeks in Bonn, Germany, the reigning champion Viswanathan Anand
speaks about the title match against Russian Vladimir Kramnik, about his training in the cellar, the role of emotions and his meeting with Bobby Fischer. The story is in the SPIEGEL, one of Europes largest new portals.Interview with Viswanathan Anand in D
With GM Nigel Short | A Recent Interview 2008-10-09 12:40:56 Mention GM Nigel Short
and we think grandmaster, world championship challenger, coach, author and journalist. Some of us will also associate him with the French Defence, an opening that he used to play regularly many years ago. But away from the chess board, this man is also very well known for his witty reports and articles on chess. Edwin Lam interviews the chess writer.Bisik-Bisik with GM Nigel Read more:Recent
Fashion Model and Grandmaster, and Now World Champion | Alexandra Kosteniuk 2008-10-09 12:40:23 Alexandra
Kosteniuk can no longer be called the Anna Kournikova of chess.For years, Kournikova, the tennis player, was more noted for her looks than her accomplishments on the court. Although she won two women’s grand slam doubles titles, she never won a singles championship.Like Kournikova, the 24-year-old Kosteniuk, a Russian grandmaster, has traded on her looks, modeling for fash Read more:Fashion
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The Ruy Lopez for White - Classical Variation Part 2 2008-10-09 12:36:05 Hello and welcome everybody.Today we will study the two remaining variations on the Classical variation of the Ruy Lopez
and we will see how White
can gain advantage from the position that arrives during the course of play.Last time we discussed Black's first fourth move alternative, 4...Nge7.Now we will study another reply from Black, Variation
B: 4...Nd4. Pay attention:So the position still favo
Rybka wins World Computer Chess Championship 2008-10-08 17:55:54 The US program Rybka
won the 16th WorldComputer
Chess Championship that was held in Beijing, China, a full point ahead of its nearest rival, the British program Hiarcs. Third, a point behind, was the Israeli program Junior, followed by Cluster Toga and then Shredder. The hardware used in the event ranged from a 40-core system to a Nokia cell phone. Final report.16th World Computer Chess Champions
The Ruy Lopez for White - Classical Variation Part 1 2008-10-02 12:04:20 We will start a new chapter today, which will deal with The Classical Variation
, characterized by the move 3...Bc5. It goes like this:1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Bc5 3...Bc5 is a very natural and active move. However, it has never been really popular because it runs straight into White
's basic plan of c3 and d4. As this can hardly be prevented, Black must be prepared to lose time by moving this Read more:Lopez
The Ruy Lopez for White - Schliemann Variation/Jaenisch Defence Part 3 2008-10-02 00:57:26 Hello everybody,The last discussion in the Schliemann Variation
/Jaenisch Defence was regarding Black's fourth move alternative 4...Nd4!?, where we saw that White
can make out an advantage for him in the endgame.This time we will study Black's main continuation as a fourth move alternative, 4...fxe4, Third Main Option for Black in this situation. This Variation has two sub-variation and will be a l Read more:Lopez
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