Zuke 'Em
The Colle-Zukertort
Revolutionized Forget everything
you ever
thought
you knew about the
Queen Pawn's Game! Learn it in a week,
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is a perfect opening
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of the opponent."
- Jeremy Silman | | by Pablo Sierra Important current, future,
and past chess news & events | | -
Women´s World Chess Championship (August 28 - September 18 / Nalchik, RUSSIA) Final (Hou
Yifan vs. Alexandra Kosteniuk: 0.5-1.5): Hou Yifan saved a worse endgame during game 2, Kosteniuk´s still leading with two games left // Official site -
Bilbao Grand Slam Chess Final (September 2 - 13 / Bilbao, SPAIN)
Veselin Topalov won the tournament after beating Ivanchuk in the last round // Official site -
5th International Chess Festival Highlands Open (September 20 - 28 / Zdar nad Sazavou, CZECH REPUBLIC) More details here | | To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
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[FEN "2n1b3/2Q2N2/4pNnp/1p6/1p1k3p/1P5P/K2PP1P1/8 w - - 0 1"] | Four Keys to the Colle-Zukertort
- A Car for the Future by David I. Rudel, author of
Zuke 'Em - The Colle-Zukertort Revolutionized If the Colle-Zukertort were a make of car, selling it would be a headache. The difficulty comes not from a lack of value, but rather from a lack of audience. The Colle-Zukertort, whose basic scheme is pictured above, does not capture the Dangerous, Dubious, but Fun market of the Smith-Morra or Blackmar-Diemer Gambits. It is not a Jeep. | | While off-beat, it is not odd enough to capture the attention of those who prefer total surprise or shock value. The C-Z does not rival the Grob, Clarendon Court, or Bird in this regard. It fails to capture the hearts of those seeking a DeLorian. Stronger players, who have generally risen above such unsound makes, do not find the C-Z as serious a try for an opening advantage as, say, the Ruy Lopez, the Queen's Gambit, or the Scotch. It lacks the engineering, they feel, of a SAAB. | Nor has it found a foothold in the large beginner/club level populations that its simpler kid brother, the "normal" Colle, enjoys. It is not the first choice among those whose budgets and needs are better met by a sturdy golf cart. Sadly, when these same players decide to "trade-up," they don't give the Colle-Zukertort more than a passing glance. To their c3-Colle eyes, the bishop on b2 just looks dumb, like an elevator in an outhouse or a hood ornament on a Yugo. | The C-Z has enjoyed only a very slow evolution due to its lack of niche and high-class play. It's very rare for a strong player to use the Colle-Zukertort in a tournament game, rarer still for his high-class opponent to respond with the so-called "main line," and rarer still for the White
player to then not simply transpose to a QGD at a felicitous time. If you see a C-Z game in a book between strong players, it's much more likely they stumbled into the position (likely one they had done no home analysis on) via transposition than that they arrived by the purported "main line," which starts 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e3 e6 4.Bd3 c5 5.b3 Nc6 6.O-O Bd6 7.Bb2 O-O [diagram] | | Thus, it's not too surprising that little
literature devoted to the C-Z exists. Books from White's side either package it as part of a repertoire (which makes sense) or couple it with the c3-Colle (which doesn't). Not counting Soltis' 102-page effort, there was no book dedicated to just the C-Z until this year! Books from the Black side, of course, show even less respect. Seeing a single line in a repertoire book is not very useful if an improvement is found or if your personal repertoire is not compatible with the line suggested. I hope the key points below help players on both sides to better understand this wonderful opening. Perhaps my comments on the white
side can pique the interest of queen-pawn players, and my comments on the black side can lead you to defenses that fit your repertoire and generally increase your confidence so you are not depending solely on a supposed "silver bullet." Key 1: Know What Makes the C-Z Tick... | The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia -
with Graham Clayton | | Costly Phone Call: Israeli team member Mark Erenburg was expelled from the 2006 World Chess Solving Championship in Wageningen, Netherlands due to his mobile phone ringing in the solving hall during the 3rd round of the championship. Costly Delays: Austrian master Adolf Albin (1848-1920) did not learn the moves of chess until age 22, and did not compete in international tournaments until he was
aged 43. Albin played in most of the major tournaments of the 1890's and early 1900's (Hastings 1895, Nuremberg and Budapest 1896, Berlin 1897, Cologne 1898, Monte Carlo 1902 and 1903) but was not successful in any of them. | What's New at Chessville? | |  | (9/14) Endgame Training: King and a
Pawn vs. a Pair of Pawns by IM Igor Khmelnitsky. "Test Yourself: The question - Review each position for 30 seconds - 3 minutes (the higher your rating, the less time you should spend). What result do you expect (White Win, Draw, Black Win) and why? Next, analyze to check your initial decision. Then read my article below..." | | |  | (9/14) Review: The Chebanenko Slav According to Bologan by Victor Bologan (New In Chess, 2008), reviewed by NM Bill McGeary. "...this form of the Slav has reached the highest levels of the chess elite, having been played by Kasparov. It is not quite in the same main vein of openings among the elite, but it does appear in top events and is regularly used by the world's best. Victor Bologan is at the fore of Moldavian players and received training as a youngster from Chebanenko. That heritage combined with being a regular practitioner of the line makes him the perfect author for this subject..." | | | | (9/14) Opening Theory: Four Keys to the Colle-Zukertort - A Car for the Future by David I. Rudel. "The Zukertort is based on a single idea - Black has trouble developing his Q-bishop in Q-pawn games. Everything from color complex control to targets to plans orbit this central point. It would be hard to overstate how good a job the C-Z does of leveraging this idea and its many (sometimes nuanced) ramifications, but suffice it to say that the C-Z crumbles like under-cooked terra cotta in your co-worker's office chair if Black can find a use for this Bishop..." | | |  | (9/14) Guest Editorial: Getting Straight from the Get-Go by Darren Dillinger. "Where do we get these “leaders” from? The financial and management problems within USCF are well-known. However, those working to determine how and why USCF found itself in such trouble have only skimmed the surface..." | | |  | (9/14) Chess
History: Early Computer Chess Programs by Bill Wall (Bill Wall's Wonderful World of Chess). In his latest offering, Bill looks at the beginnings of chess-playing computer programs. "On March 9, 1949, Claude Shannon (1916-2001), a research worker at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, presented a paper called “Programming a Digital Computer for Playing Chess.” ...He described how to program a computer to play chess based on position scoring and move selection..." | | |  | (9/14) Free eBook: The Manual of Chess by Charles Kenny. "Contains the Elementary Principles of the Game; Illustrated with Numerous Diagrams, Recent Games, and Original Problems." Originally published in New York, 1864, this book is now in the public domain. Find this free download on our eBooks page. Also visit Download Central. | | |  | (9/13) Nuestro Círculo #319: 13 de septiembre de 2008, dedicado al Maestro estadounidense Walter Penn Shipley (1860 - 1942). Publicamos, además de su biografía y partidas, las notas "Gran Slam de Bilbao" con 14 partidas de ese torneo y "Noticias". Nuestro Círculo, un boletín semanal de ajedrez editado en Argentina en lenguaje español. | | | .jpg) | (9/13) Alekhine's Parrot: Welcome to the weekly leader of chess events around the world. This week: The State of Our Chess Health: Chess & Violence 1, Chess Problems not Life
Problems; Chess & Violence 2, Women as 2nd Class Chess Citizens?; Chess & Violence 3, Chess Youth Safe?; Gossiping with Inspector Keene; Liverpool– She Loves Chess, Yeah Yeah Yeah!; Bilbao; Women’s World Championship Semi-Final; What’s in a Word? |  | Bill Wall's
Wonderful World of Chess | | Early Computer Chess Programs On March 9, 1949, Claude Shannon (1916-2001), a research worker at Bell Telephone
Laboratories in New Jersey, presented a paper called “ Programming a Digital Computer for Playing Chess.” The paper was presented at the National Institute for Radio Engineers Convention in New York. He described how to program a computer to play chess based on position scoring and move selection. He proposed basic strategies for restricting the number of possibilities to be considered in a game of chess. | In 1950, Shannon devised a chess playing program that appeared in the paper "Programming a computer for playing chess" published in Philosophical Magazine, Series 7, Vol. 41 (No. 314, March 1950). This was the first article on computer chess. In 1950, Alan Turing (1912-1954) wrote the first computer chess program. The same year he proposed the Turing Test that in time, a computer could be programmed (such as playing chess) to acquire abilities rivaling human intelligence. If a human did not see the other human or computer during an imitation game such as chess, he/she would not know the difference between the human and the computer. |  Alan Turing
(1912-1954) | In 1951, Turing tried to implement his “Turbochamp” program on the Ferranti Mark I computer at Manchester University. He never completed the task. However, his colleague, Dr. Dietrich Prinz (born in 1903), wrote a chess playing computer program for the Ferranti computer that solved simple mates-in-two moves. The first program ran in November 1951. The program would examine every possible move until a solution was found. It took about 15 minutes to solve a mate in two moves. Univac MANIAC I | By 1956 experiments on a Univac MANIAC I computer (capable of 11,000 operations a second and used to design hydrogen bombs) at Los Alamos, using a 6x6 chessboard, was playing chess. This was the first documented account of a running chess program. | It used a chess set without bishops. It took 12 minutes to search 4 moves deep. Adding the two bishops would have taken 3 hours to search 4 moves deep. MANIAC I had a memory of 600 words, storage of 80K, 11KHz speed, and had 2,400 vacuum tubes. The team that programmed MANIAC was led by Stan Ulam (1909-1984), who invented nuclear pulse propulsion and designed the H-bomb with Edward Teller.  In 1957, Alex Bernstein, (pictured, right) an IBM employee, created the first really complete chess program at IBM. With his colleagues Michael Roberts, Thomas Arbucky and Martin Belsky, Bernstein created a chess program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It ran on an IBM 704 (42,000 instructions per second), one of the last vacuum tube computers. It took about 8 minutes to make a move. Bernstein got support from chess advisor Arthur Bisguier, who became an IBM employee and an international grandmaster in 1957. International Master Edward Lasker played the program, easily defeating it, but he commented that it played a ‘passable amateur game.’ The Bernstein Chess Program was the prototype of a selective forward pruning technique called the Shannon Type
B (selective search) program. His program searched four plies and considered the seven most plausible moves from each position, evaluating material, mobility, area control and king defense... Winning with the Krazy Kat and Old Hippo
by Gary Gifford, Davide Rozzoni and Bill Wall | available from Lulu.com, $17.95, 132 pages | All your favorite sites From the Chessville Inbox... Best regards and great chess to all, Sincerely, Gary (for UON) Here are some chess puzzles taken from miniatures of the Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted (ECO B21). It's White to move and win. a) http://www.wtharvey.com/b21ab.pngRaimo Heikkila vs M Szymczak, corr., 1974 1r2kb1r/pp2pppp/4bn2/1N2N3/8/4B3/PP3PPP/R3K2R w KQk - id 1-0 Puzzles & Problems Tell us about your favorite site that you would like us to keep an eye on for you. Write: Newsletter@... <TOP>Position of the Week Solution Another position borrowed from the Free eBook: The Hastings Chess Tournament 1895, Edited by Horace F Cheshire. It is one of the positions used in the Problem Solving Competition held in conjunction with the tournament.The author is identified as Berger. 1.Kb2 Bxf7 [1...Bc6 2.Qh2 e5 3.Qg1#] 2.Kc2 Nce7 3.e3# | | Kosintseva,T (2511) - Kosteniuk,A (2510) [C84]
WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (3.2), 04.09.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.d3 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.a4 Bb7 9.Re1 Re8 10.Nbd2 Bf8
11.Nf1 Na5 12.Ba2 d5 13.Ng3 h6 14.Bd2 b4 15.exd5 Bxd5 16.Bxd5 Qxd5 17.b3 Rad8 18.Be3 Ng4 19.Nd2 Nxe3 20.fxe3 Qe6 21.Qf3 g6 22.e4 Qc6 23.Rf1 Rd7 24.Qg4 Re6 25.Nc4 Nxc4 26.dxc4 Rd2 27.Rf3 Rf6 28.Raf1 Rxf3 29.Qxf3 Qd7 30.h3 Rxc2 31.Rd1 Bc5+ 32.Kh2 Rd2 33.Rxd2 Qxd2 34.Ne2 Be3 35.h4 h5 36.g3 Qd3 37.g4 Qxb3 38.Kg2 hxg4 39.Qxg4 Qxc4 40.h5 Kg7 41.Ng3 Qc2+ 42.Kh3 Bf4 43.hxg6 Qd3 44.gxf7+ Kxf7 45.Qh5+ Ke7 46.Qh4+ Kd7 47.Qg4+ Kc6 0-1
Hou Yifan (2557) - Koneru,H (2622) [C95]
WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (5.1), 10.09.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 Nb8 10.d4 Nbd7 11.Nbd2 Bb7 12.Bc2 c5 13.d5 g6 14.Nf1 Nh5 15.Bh6 Re8 16.b3 Bf8 17.Be3 Nb6 18.a4 bxa4 19.bxa4 Nc4 20.a5 Bc8 21.N3d2 Nxa5 22.Ra3 Bd7 23.Qa1 Nb7 24.Rb1 Qc7 25.Rxa6 Rxa6 26.Qxa6 Nd8 27.Nc4 f5 28.Qb6 Qxb6 29.Nxb6 f4 30.Nxd7 fxe3 31.Nxe3 Bh6 32.g4 Re7 33.Ba4 Nf4 34.Rb8 Kg7 35.Rxd8 Rf7 36.Nd1 Nxh3+ 37.Kg2 Nf4+ 38.Kf1 Bg5 39.Rb8 Nd3 40.Rb6
Rf4 41.Bb5 Nxf2 42.Nxf2 Bh4 43.Rxd6 Rxf2+ 44.Kg1 Rf4 45.Nxe5 Rxe4 46.Rd7+ Kg8 47.Nf3 Rxg4+ 48.Kf1 Bf6 49.Rc7 g5 50.Rxc5 Rf4 51.Kg2 g4 52.Nd4 h5 53.Rc8+ Kf7 54.d6 h4 55.Be8+ 1-0
Kosteniuk,A (2510) - Hou Yifan (2557) [C07]
WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (6.2), 15.09.2008 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 cxd4 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.Bc4 Qd6 7.Qe2 Nf6 8.Nb3 Nc6 9.Bg5 Qb4+ 10.Bd2 Qb6 11.0-0-0 Bd7 12.Bg5 h6 13.Bh4 Bc5 14.Kb1 0-0-0 15.Bg3 Nh5 16.Be5 f6 17.Nxc5 Qxc5 18.Bxd4 Nxd4 19.Rxd4 e5 20.Rd5 Qc7 21.g3 g5 22.Rhd1 Ng7 23.Nd2 Bc6 24.Rd3 Rxd3 25.Bxd3 f5 26.f3 Re8 27.Re1 h5 28.Qe3 g4 29.fxg4 e4 30.Be2 hxg4 31.Qxa7 b6 32.Qa3 Rd8 33.Qb4 Ne6 34.Nc4 b5 35.Ne3 Nd4 36.c4 Qd6 37.Qxd6 Rxd6 38.cxb5 Nxe2 39.bxc6 Nd4 40.Rf1 Kc7 41.Nxf5 Nxf5 42.Rxf5 Kxc6 43.Re5 Rd4 44.Kc1 Kd6 45.Re8 Kd7 46.Rf8 Ke6 47.Rf4 Ke5 48.Rxg4 Rd8 49.Rg5+ Kf6 50.Rc5 e3 51.Rc2 Kf5 52.a4 Ke4 53.Rc4+ Kd3 54.Rc3+ Ke4 55.Rc4+ Kd3 56.Rc3+ Ke4 57.Rc4+ Kd3 ½-½
Aronian,L (2737) - Topalov,V (2777) [E36]
Grand Slam Final Bilbao ESP (7), 09.09.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 0-0 7.Nf3 dxc4 8.Qxc4 b6 9.g3 Ba6 10.Qc2 Nbd7 11.Bg2 c5 12.b4 Rc8 13.Qa4 Bb7 14.dxc5 bxc5 15.0-0 a6 16.Rd1 Nd5 17.Bg5 Qe8 18.Bd2 N5b6 19.Qc2 Nf6 20.bxc5 Be4 21.Qb3 Na4 22.Bb4 a5 23.Bxa5 Nxc5 24.Qb2 Na4 25.Qd4 Qb5 26.Bb4 Rfe8 27.Qe5 Qb7 28.Rac1 h6 29.h3 Bd5 30.Qa1 Ne4 31.Rxc8 Rxc8 32.Rc1 Rxc1+ 33.Qxc1 Qa7 34.Qc8+ Kh7 35.e3 Nxg3 36.Nd4 Ne4 37.Qc2 f5 38.Nxe6 Bxe6 39.Bxe4 Qf7 40.Bg2 Nb6 41.Qc5 Nd5 42.Qf8 Qh5 43.Qd6 Bf7 44.Qe5 Nf6 45.f3 Qg6 46.a4 f4 47.exf4 Qb1+ 48.Qe1 Qa2 49.a5 Bg6 50.Bf1 Nd5 51.Bd2 Qa4 52.a6 Nxf4 53.Bxf4 Qxf4 54.a7 Qa4 55.Qf2 Qa1 56.Kh2 Qa4 57.Bc4 Qa5 58.Qa2 1-0
Ivanchuk,V (2781) - Radjabov,T (2744) [B45]
Grand Slam Final Bilbao ESP (8), 10.09.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.a3 d6 7.Be2 Be7 8.Be3 Bd7 9.f4 0-0 10.0-0 a6
11.Qe1 Rc8 12.Rd1 Nxd4 13.Bxd4 Bc6 14.Qg3 Qc7 15.Kh1 Rfd8 16.Bd3 b5 17.Rde1 Qb7 18.b4 Rc7 19.Re3 g6 20.Qh3 Rdc8 21.Nd1 Nh5 22.c3 Bd7 23.e5 Bc6 24.f5 dxe5 25.Bxe5 exf5 26.Bxf5 Bg5 27.Bxc8 Rxc8 28.Ree1 Rd8 29.Qg4 Bh6 30.Bd4 Bg7 31.Ne3 Bd7 32.Qh4 Rc8 33.Bxg7 Nxg7 34.Qe7 f5 35.Ng4 Bc6 36.Nh6+ Kh8 37.Nf7+ Kg8 38.Qxb7 Bxb7 39.Nd6 Rc7 40.Nxb7 Rxb7 41.Rf3 Kf7 42.Rd1 Ne6 43.Re3 Ng5 44.Rd6 Ra7 45.Red3 Ke7 46.Kg1 Ne4 47.Rc6 a5 48.h3 axb4 49.cxb4 1-0
Anand,V (2798) - Aronian,L (2737) [C45]
Grand Slam Final Bilbao ESP (8), 10.09.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Nxc6 Qf6 6.Qf3 bxc6 7.Nd2 d6 8.Nb3 Bb6 9.a4 a5 10.Bd2 Qxf3 11.gxf3 Ne7 12.Rg1 0-0 13.Be3 Bxe3 14.fxe3 c5 15.0-0-0 Bb7 16.Bb5 Bc6 17.e5 Rfd8 18.exd6 cxd6 19.Bxc6 Nxc6 20.Nd2 d5 21.Nb3 c4 22.Nd4 Nb4 23.Nb5 g6 24.Rg4 Rdc8 25.e4 h5 26.Rf4 dxe4 27.Rxe4 Rc5 28.f4 Ra6 29.Rd8+ Kg7 30.Rd7 Rd5 31.Rc7 Na2+ 32.Kb1 Nb4 33.Nd4 Rf6 34.Rxc4 Rg5 35.b3 Rg4 36.Ne2 Rh4 37.Rc5 Rxh2
38.Rxa5 h4 39.Rg5 Rf2 40.Rxb4 Rxe2 41.f5 h3 42.Rh4 h2 43.Kb2 Rc6 44.fxg6 fxg6 45.Ka3 Rcxc2 46.Rg3 Ra2+ 47.Kb4 Re4+ 48.Rxe4 h1Q 49.Reg4 Qb7+ 50.Ka5 Qd5+ 51.Kb4 Qd6+ 52.Kb5 Qb8+ 53.Ka5 Rf2 54.Rxg6+ Kf7 55.Rg7+ Ke6 56.R7g6+ Kd5 57.R6g5+ Kd4 58.b4 Rf4 59.Rg1 Rf3 60.Rc5 Qa8+ 61.Kb5 Rf6 62.Rd1+ Ke3 63.a5 Qe8+ 64.Kc4 Qa4 65.Rd3+ Ke2 66.Re5+ Kf1 67.Red5 Qc2+ 68.Rc3 Rf4+ 69.Rd4 Qa2+ 70.Kc5 Rf5+ 71.Kb6 Qe6+ 72.Kb7 Rb5+ 73.Kc7 Qe7+ 74.Kc6 Qb7+ 75.Kd6 Rh5 0-1
Aronian,L (2737) - Radjabov,T (2744) [A15]
Grand Slam Final Bilbao ESP (10), 13.09.2008 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.g3 0-0 5.Bg2 c6 6.e4 d6 7.h3 e5 8.0-0 Nbd7 9.d3 Re8 10.Rb1 h6 11.Be3 a5 12.d4 exd4 13.Nxd4 Nc5 14.Qc2 a4 15.Rfe1 Nfd7 16.f4 Qa5 17.Bf2 Qb4 18.Bf1 Nb6 19.Red1 Nbd7 20.Re1 Nb6 21.Red1 Nbd7 22.Kh2 Nf6 23.Re1 Bd7 24.b3 axb3 25.axb3 Nh5 26.Red1 f5 27.Bg2 Bf6 28.Nde2 fxe4 29.Be1 Nd3 30.Nxe4 Nxe1 31.Rxe1 Bf5 32.g4 Bxe4 33.Bxe4 Ng7 34.Bxg6 Re3 35.Rg1 Ra3 36.Rg3 Re7 37.Rg2
Re3 38.Bh7+ Kf7 39.Qg6+ Ke7 40.Bg8 Ne8 41.Ng3 Kd8 42.Qxh6 Qc3 43.Nf5 Rf3 44.Re2 Qd3 45.Reb2 Bxb2 46.Rxb2 Ra1 47.Qh4+ Kc8 48.Rg2 Qd1 49.Ng3 Rf2 0-1 | | =============== =============== Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. – Siegbert Tarrasch
True, but it’s well to remember that losing at chess, like rejection, like Barry Manilow, has the power to make men unhappy. – Mike Franett
The hardest game to win is a won game. – Emanuel Lasker
Actually, the hardest game to win is a lost game. – Dave Regis
The hardest part of chess is winning a won game. – Frank Marshall
The hardest chess position to win is stalemate. – Bill Wall
The Queen's Gambit is like a piece of dead flesh kept overlong on ice… more the tool of a coward than an adventurer. – Tony Santasiere
The best initial
move for white is 1.P-K4. – Franklin K. Young
After 1.e2-e4 White's game is in its last throes! – Julius Breyer
Best by test. – Bobby Fischer (on 1.e4)
Black's reply to 1.e4 with 1…e5 leaves him always trying to get into the game. – Howard Staunton
After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes. – Howard Staunton
The best possible reply to the move of 1 e4. – Howard Staunton (on 1…c5)
What is the object of playing a gambit opening? To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing the game. – Siegbert Tarrasch
In a gambit, you give up a pawn for the sake of getting a lost game. – Samuel Boden
In the laboratory, gambits all test unfavorably; but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board. – William Napier
Chess is 99 percent tactics. – Richard Teichmann
Chess isn't 99% tactics, it's just that tactics takes up 99% of your time.
– Dan Heisman
Chess is 99 percent calculation. – Andrew Soltis Misfortune is clearly coming up the avenue, but this move saves the unwelcome visitor from knocking at the door. – William Norwood Potter This is throwing the soup overboard altogether, and Black dispatches himself happily. – William Norwood Potter
There is a strong taste of Prussic acid about this move. – William Norwood Potter
And now Hope says she has an appointment elsewhere. – William Norwood Potter The Tournament Opthalmia has evidently set in. – William Norwood Potter
Just the kind of blunder
with which this very wretched specimen of a game ought to finish. – William Norwood Potter
Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head. – Siegbert Tarrasch
White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself. – Siegbert Tarrasch A diabolical concoction! Alekhine serves up his b-pawn, but if White partakes, he dies of indigestion. – Lev Alburt
I have not returned from Hell empty-handed! – Kelly Atkins (on coming out of a long, wild tactical melee with a material advantage) Backing up for a running jump, the initiative has passed to Black. – David Bronstein
A flaccid idea that justifies Black's play. – Yasser Seirawan Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation,
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– Mark Dvoretsky Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next. – Bobby Fischer (on delaying his resignation) =============== The Parrot's
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Photo Collection: =============== Hou Yifan (2557) - Sedina,E (2344) [C10] WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (3.1), 04.09.2008 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Nxf6+ Nxf6 7.Bd3 c5 8.0-0 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Be7 10.b3 0-0 11.Bb2 a6 12.Re1 Qc7 13.Qf3 Re8 14.Qh3 e5 15.Nf5 Bxf5 16.Qxf5 Bd6 17.g3 Rad8 18.Rad1 Qe7 19.Re2 g6 20.Qg5 Kg7 21.Qh4 h6 22.f4 Nd7 23.Qxe7 Rxe7 24.Be4 Nf8 25.Kg2 f6 26.fxe5 fxe5 27.Red2 Red7 28.Rxd6 1-0 =============== Gaponenko,I (2468) - Stefanova,A (2550) [C69] WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (3.1), 04.09.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.0-0 Qf6 6.h3 Ne7 7.c3 Ng6 8.d4 Bd6 9.Bg5 Qe6 10.dxe5 Nxe5 11.Nd4 Qg6 12.f4 Bc5 13.Kh1 f6 14.Bh4 Qh6 15.Bg3 Bxh3 16.Kg1 Bg4 17.Qb3 0-0-0 18.Na3 Nd3 19.Nac2 Be2 20.Qc4 Qg6 21.Kh2 Qh5+ 22.Kg1 Nxf4 23.Qb3 Bxf1 24.Bxf4 Bd3 25.Be3 Rhe8 26.Ne6 Bxc2 0-1 =============== Koneru,H (2622) - Hoang Thanh Trang (2487) [A96] WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (3.2), 04.09.2008 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.0-0 0-0 6.c4 d6 7.b4 Ne4 8.Bb2 Bf6 9.Nbd2 Nc6 10.b5 Ne7 11.Qc2 Nxd2 12.Nxd2 e5 13.dxe5 Bxe5 14.c5 Bxb2 15.Qxb2 d5 16.e3 c6 17.bxc6 bxc6 18.Rfb1 Ba6 19.Qa3 Bb5 20.Nf3 Qd7 21.Rb2 Rfc8 22.Rab1 Rc7 23.Qa5 Qc8 24.Qc3 Bc4 25.h4 h6 26.Bh3 Qe6 27.Qa5 Rac8 28.Rb7 Rxb7 29.Rxb7 a6 30.Qb6 Qf6 31.Nd4 Kh8 32.Rd7 Qe5 33.Qb7 Re8 34.Rd6 Ng8 35.Bxf5 Bb5 36.Qf7 Re7 37.Qg6
Nf6 38.Ne6 1-0 =============== Koneru,H (2622) - Shen Yang (2445) [D11] WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (4.1), 07.09.2008 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.cxd5 Bxf3 6.Qxf3 cxd5 7.Nc3 Nc6 8.Bd3 e6 9.0-0 Bd6 10.Bd2 0-0 11.Qh3 Rc8 12.Rac1 g6 13.f4 a6 14.g4 Kh8 15.Kh1 Rg8 16.Be1 Be7 17.Bg3 h5 18.f5 Nxg4 19.fxg6 fxg6 20.Rf7 Rg7 21.Bxg6 Rxg6 22.Qxh5+ Rh6 23.Qxg4 Qg8 24.Qf4 Bg5 25.Qf3 Rh7 26.Rxh7+ Qxh7 27.Nxd5 exd5 28.Be5+ Kg8 29.Rg1 Nxe5 30.Rxg5+ Ng6 31.Qxd5+ 1-0 =============== Ushenina,A (2476) - Kosteniuk,A (2510) [E35] WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (4.2), 07.09.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bg5 c5 7.dxc5 h6
8.Bh4 g5 9.Bg3 Ne4 10.e3 Qa5 11.Be5 0-0 12.Bd3 Nc6 13.Bxe4 Nxe5 14.Bh7+ Kg7 15.Bd3 b6 16.cxb6 d4 17.exd4 Nxd3+ 18.Qxd3 Re8+ 19.Kd1 Bf5 20.Qd2 Bxc3 21.Qxc3 Qxb6 22.Ne2 Rac8 23.Qa3 Rc2 24.Re1 Rd8 25.Qe3 Qxb2 26.Rc1 Re8 0-1 =============== Please forward
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Rc7 23.Kd2 Bxa4 24.Rb4 Bd7 25.Rhb1 Bc8 26.Nd4 Re8 27.f4 Ree7 28.Rb6 h6 29.g3 Re8 30.Rd6 Ree7 31.Bf1 Bd7 32.Bh3 Nc8 33.Bxe6 Nxd6 34.exd6 Bxe6 35.dxe7 Bd7 36.Nf5 1-0 =============== Koneru,H (2622) - Hou Yifan (2557) [A35] WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (5.2), 10.09.2008 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 g6 6.Nc2 Bg7 7.e4 d6 8.Be2 0-0 9.0-0 Be6 10.b3 a6 11.Rb1 Rb8 12.Bb2 Qa5 13.b4 Qd8 14.f4 b5 15.cxb5 axb5 16.Kh1 Qd7 17.Qd2 Rfd8 18.Ne3 d5 19.exd5 Nxd5 20.Nexd5 Bxd5 21.Bxb5 Qb7 22.Nxd5 Qxb5 23.Bxg7 Rxd5 24.Qc3 Rd3 25.Qa1 f6 26.a4 Qd5 27.Bh6 Rxb4 28.Rxb4 Nxb4 29.f5 g5 30.Qc1 Nc6 31.a5 Rd2 32.Rg1 Nxa5 33.Qc8+ Qd8 34.Qe6+ Kh8 35.Qf7 Qg8 36.Qxe7 1-0 =============== Koneru,H
(2622) - Hou Yifan (2557) [E15] WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (5.5), 12.09.2008 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.Nbd2 Bb4 6.Qc2 0-0 7.Bg2 d5 8.0-0 c5 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.a3 Nbd7 11.Qa4 Bb7 12.b4 Be7 13.Bb2 a5 14.b5 Rc8 15.Nd4 Nc5 16.Qd1 Nfe4 17.Nxe4 dxe4 18.Qc2 Bf6 19.Rad1 Qc7 20.f3 Nd7 21.fxe4 Ne5 22.Rc1 Nxc4 23.Ba1 Qc5 24.Rxf6 gxf6 25.Kh1 Nxa3 26.Qxc5 Rxc5 27.Rf1 Nxb5 28.Nb3 Rc2 29.Bxf6 Rfc8 30.Rf4 a4 31.Nd4 Nxd4 32.Bxd4 Rc1+ 33.Bf1 a3 0-1 =============== =============== Hou Yifan (2557) - Kosteniuk,A (2510) [C90] WCh-Women Nalchik RUS (6.1), 14.09.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.a3 d6 9.c3 Bg4 10.d3 Na5 11.Bc2 c5 12.h3 Bd7 13.d4 Qc7 14.d5 c4 15.Nbd2 Nb7 16.Nf1 Nc5 17.g4 h5 18.N3h2 hxg4 19.hxg4 Qc8 20.f3 Nh7 21.Ng3 Bg5 22.Nf5 Qd8 23.Kg2 g6 24.Ng3 Kg7 25.Rh1 Rh8 26.Nhf1 Qf6 27.Be3 Bxe3 28.Nxe3 Ng5 29.Qe2 Rag8 30.Raf1 Qf4 31.Rxh8 Rxh8 32.Rh1 Rxh1 33.Nxh1 Nd3 34.Bxd3 cxd3 35.Qf2 d2 36.Ng3 Nxf3 37.Qxf3 Bxg4 38.Qf2 d1Q 39.Nxd1 Bxd1 40.Qe1 Bf3+ 41.Kg1 f5 42.exf5 gxf5 43.Qf2 Kg6 44.b3 e4 45.c4 bxc4 46.bxc4 Qg5 47.c5 f4 48.cxd6 fxg3 0-1 =============== Carlsen,M (2775) - Aronian,L (2737) [D47] Grand Slam Final Bilbao ESP (6), 08.09.2008 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3
Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.a3 b4 10.Ne4 Nxe4 11.Bxe4 bxa3 12.0-0 Nf6 13.Bd3 axb2 14.Bxb2 a5 15.d5 Nxd5 16.Ne5 Nf6 17.Qa4 Bb4 18.Nxc6 Bxc6 19.Qxc6+ Ke7 20.Rfd1 Rc8 21.Qf3 Qb6 22.Bd4 Qb8 23.Ba6 Rcd8 24.Bb7 h5 25.h3 h4 26.Rab1 e5 27.Rxb4 axb4 28.Bc5+ Ke6 29.Ra1 Rd6 30.Bxd6 Kxd6 31.Qc6+ Ke7 32.Ra8 Qd6 33.Qxd6+ Kxd6 34.Rxh8 b3 35.Ba6 Nd7 36.Rxh4 Nc5 1-0 =============== Carlsen,M (2775) - Ivanchuk,V (2781) [D37] Grand Slam Final Bilbao ESP (7), 09.09.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bf4 0-0 6.e3 c5 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.Qc2 Nc6 9.a3 Qa5 10.0-0-0 Be7 11.h4 Rd8 12.Nd2 a6 13.Be2 b5 14.cxd5 exd5 15.g4 Be6 16.Nb3 Qb6 17.g5 Ne4 18.Nxe4 dxe4 19.Rxd8+ Nxd8 20.Kb1 Rc8 21.Qd1 Nc6 22.h5 a5 23.g6 a4 24.Nd2 b4 25.gxf7+ Bxf7 26.Nc4 Qb7 27.Qxa4 bxa3 28.Nxa3 Bxa3 29.Qxa3 Nb4 30.b3 Nd3
31.Bxd3 exd3 32.Rc1 d2 0-1 =============== Topalov,V (2777) - Carlsen,M (2775) [B78] Grand Slam Final Bilbao ESP (8), 10.09.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0-0 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.0-0-0 Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 12.Kb1 a6 13.h4 h5 14.g4 hxg4 15.h5 Nxh5 16.Rdg1 Rc5 17.Bh6 Kh7 18.Bxg7 Kxg7 19.f4 Nc4 20.Bxc4 Rxc4 21.f5 e5 22.Nde2 Rh8 23.b3 Rc6 24.Rxg4 Nf6 25.Rgg1 Rxh1 26.Rxh1 Ng4 27.Ng3 Kg8 28.Nd5 Rc5 29.Ne3 Nxe3 30.Qxe3 Qf6 31.Qh6 Qg7 32.Qg5 f6 33.Qd2 Rc6 34.Kb2 gxf5 35.Qa5 Qe7 36.Qd5+ Be6 37.Qd1 Qg7 38.exf5 Bf7 39.Ne4 Kf8 40.Nxd6 Ke7 41.Nxb7 Qg8 42.Qd2 Rb6 43.Rd1 Qc8 44.Nd6 Qd7 45.Nxf7 Qxd2 46.Rxd2 Kxf7 47.c4 Ke7 48.Kc3 1-0 =============== Topalov,V
(2777) - Ivanchuk,V (2781) [D47]
Grand Slam Final Bilbao ESP (10), 13.09.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.a3 Bd6 10.0-0 0-0 11.Qc2 h6 12.e4 e5 13.dxe5 Nxe5 14.Nxe5 Bxe5 15.h3 a6 16.Be3 c5 17.Bxc5 Re8 18.Rad1 Qc7 19.Nd5 Nxd5 20.exd5 Bxb2 21.d6 Qc6 22.f3 Rec8 23.Bh7+ Kh8 24.Be4 Qxc5+ 25.Qxc5 Rxc5 26.Bxb7 Rd8 27.Rfe1 Be5 28.d7 a5 29.f4 Bc7 30.Bd5 Kh7 31.Bxf7 Rf5 32.Ba2 Rxf4 33.Bb1+ Kg8 34.Bg6 Bb6+ 35.Kh1 Bc5 36.Rc1 Bf8 37.Red1 Bxa3 38.Rc8 Rff8 39.Be8 Be7 40.Re1 Bg5 41.g3 a4 42.h4 Bf6 43.Re6 1-0 |
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