Chess Express <chessexpress@...> escribió: | | Tal Memorial wraps up: Anand stands Tall  Moscow - There was a three way tie for first at the Tal Memorial at Moscow
between Leko, Ponomariov and Aronia on 5.5/9. In addition to the main event, Anatoly Karpov, Vishy Anand and Judit Polgar plus some qualifiers joined the field for one of the strongest Blitz tournaments ever held. Anand was unbeaten and won with 23/34. Aronian was second (21/34) with Svidler and Radjabov third on 20.5. World Blitz Champion Alexander Grischuk did not get in the big prizes while Karpov and Carlsen both scored 17.5/34. Download the games from the main event free from TWIC here | | * You must be connected to the internet
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for chess players around the world. Customers from the US and Canada can order hereCustomers from UK, Europe and Rest of World order here System Requirements: Pentium 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 2000, XP,DVD ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9.  The latest and greatest from ChessBase! | | | | |  TWIC PuzzleWhite to play and win This position occurred in a game from the great Tal himself. If you want to read up on 'The Wizard of Riga', then The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (£17.99) is a superb book covering not only his genius on the board, but his life away from it. You can buy it online here. Solution below | | | | | | | The Chess Combat Simulator – by Jeroen Bosch. Chess self-improvement for amateur players. The reader is invited to find the best moves in 50 grandmaster games. With a unique scoring system he can rate his performance.
Mastering the Chess Openings (vol 1) by Watson – John Watson is one of finest chess writers of the modern
era, and this book on kings pawn openings is another classic book for those who want to understand the opening. Caro-Kann Defence: Advance Variation and Gambit System by Karpov & Podgaets – One of the most exciting variations in opening theory by the #1 expert. On the Attack! by Timman – A selection of the most instructive attacking games of great players like Kasparov, Topalov, Karpov, Shirov, and Judit Polgar in order to explain to amateur chess players the basic ideas of attacks and their execution. | | | | Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk) and you can read his chess columns along with those of Michael Adams at their Chess Club (free registration required). | | |  Game commentary from IM
Malcolm Pein Peter Svidler's Gruenfeld took a hammering at Linares but it has since been repaired. L Aronian – P Svidler
Tal Memorial, Moscow 2006
Gruenfeld Defence  1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Ne4 5.Bh4 Nxc3 (5…c5 6.cxd5 Nxc3 7.bxc3 Qxd5 8.e3 cxd4 9.Qxd4 Aronian-Svidler Morelia/Linares 2006) 6.bxc3 dxc4 7.e3 Be6 8.Qb1 (An Armenian speciality but Svidler is prepared) 8...Qd5 (8…c5 Ivanchuk-Svidler Morelia/Linares 2006) 9.Nf3 Nd7 10.Be2 Bf5 11.Qb2 Bg7 12.0–0 Nb6 13.a4 a5 14.Nd2 Bd3! (Creating a lovely square on c4) 15.Bxd3 cxd3 16.Rfb1 Qc6 (Attacking a4) 17.Qa3 (Threatening mate) 17...0–0! 18.c4 (Better 18.Bxe7 Rfe8 19.Bc5 Nd7
20.Rb5 b6 unclear but not 19.Bh4 Nd5 20.c4? Nb4 keeping the d3 pawn) 18...Nxc4 19.Nxc4 Qxc4 20.Bxe7 Rfe8 21.Rd1 Rac8! (Preparing c7-c5) 22.Bg5 (22.Rac1 Qe6 23.Bg5=) 22...c5 23.Qxd3? (An amazing blunder) 23..cxd4 24.exd4?? Re1+ 0-1 because the queen is lost. | | | | | Trivia Question #120: Who is third strongest Grandmaster in all glorious nation of Kazakhstan? Answer in the next issue of Chess Express. Trivia Question #119: From whom did Mikhail Tal take the world championship title and to whom did he lose the title a year later?– Mikhail Botvinnik
| | | | TWIC Theory is an electronic monthly magazine with high quality articles delivered in ChessBase, PGN or PDF format. You can still get the back issues.  Number 23 August GM Alexei Kuzmin on a new approach to the Ruy Lopez Neo-Arkhangelsk variant. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.a4 Rb8 8.c3 Number 24 September GM Nick Pert on the Nimzo -Indian 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 Nf3 b6 5 Bg5 Bb7 6 Nd2 Number 25 October GM Nick Pert on the Winawer French 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 e5 c5 5 a3 Bxc3+ 6 bxc3 Qa5 !? Number 26 November IM Andrew Martin on the mainline King's Indian-Korchnoi's 9 a4!? : 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 Nf3 0-0 6 Be2 e5 7 0-0 Nc6 8 d5 Ne7 9 a4!? | | | | | TWIC Puzzle Solution Tal,M - Benko, P
Moscow Interzonal 1954 19.Rd8+! Ke7 ( 19…Kxd8 20.Nxf7+) 20.Rxh8 Qxg5 21.Qd2 1-0
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