Joe Renna asked me to annotate one of his USATE games – a nice win over Jack Kern of N.Y. – for an upcoming issue of the Peterstown Press. Here it is in java-replay & PGN.
BTW, I’m half-done with my mediocre Parsippany parties & should finish them in the next month or 2.
Joe Renna asked me to annotate one of his USATE games – a nice win over Jack Kern of N.Y. – for an upcoming issue of the Peterstown Press. Here it is in java-replay & PGN.
BTW, I’m half-done with my mediocre Parsippany parties & should finish them in the next month or 2.
He disliked the competitive aspect of the game, and although he was a great
player Albert Einstein never really pursued the game with any degree of ambition.
The physics world’s gain
was our loss, as you will see in Dennis Monokroussos’ Playchess
lecture on Wednesday night (Thursday morning in Europe). Be there at 9 p.m. ET., 3 a.m. CEST.
The setup is the same as Western chess, with most of the rules in place. But what is really special about Senterej is that at the start, before the first capture is made, both players can move their pieces as many times as they like, without concern for the opponent’s moves. Even spectators can intervene. Ethiopian Empress Taytu Betul was one of the stars of this cheerful African game.
I was pleased to find my game Goeller – Brandreth, US Amateur Team Championship East (previously annotated in these pages) in today’s Star Ledger chess column by Pete Tamburro and Steve Doyle.
The Explorer view in ChessBase 10’s database window is sometimes overlooked or misunderstood, especially by new users. Even an “old hand”
like our ChessBase Workshop columnist found a feature of which he was previously unaware. The secrets of the Explorer pane are revealed in the new edition of ChessBase Workshop.
Remember our recent
report on a free-day bowling spree in Linares? At the time we promised to
dig out some older unpublished pictures taken at the end of the 2007 FIDE Candidates
Matches in Elista, where some of the best chess players in the world got together
for a relaxed evening of bowling. Judge for yourself who has the best
style (a no-brainer) and who should best stick to chess. Retrospect.
The Director at the Hillside Public Library is in search of a volunteer chess instructor or club manager to offer a chess program this summer. She writes: “Due to limited funds, we are looking for a volunteer, but the schedule could be as often or as infrequent as necessary and we can schedule evenings as well. I can offer you some very interested, responsive kids and great appreciation from the community!” If you are interested in helping out, contact:
Miriam Bein, Director
Hillside Public Library
Liberty & Hillside Avenues
Hillside NJ 07205
mbein@hillsidepl.org
www.hillsidepl.org
voice 973-923-4413 x408
fax 973-923-0506
NM Mark Kernighan (2200), David Pawlowski (1720), Max Sherer (1624) & Gordon Agress (1165) scored 3-0 to win their sections of the Kenilworth Quads.
Several final round games and 2 more from the 2nd round will follow.
The next USCF-rated tournament at Kenilworth will be the 2nd Irving Ellner Memorial (3-SS, G/45), which starts on April 16th. Full info on that event will posted in the coming week.
Egypt is a country of about 80 million inhabitants, but the country has just three grandmasters. The “hope” in the name given to the Egyptian Youth Chess Championship 2009 expresses the desire to produce more GMs, and to get more boys and girls come in to play the royal game. To this end a potent sponsor has set up a Chess Academy. Big illustrated report by its director Medhat Moheb.
I’ve been thinking about posting all the Garden State Chess League reports & games on a new blog & may still do that.
But, rather than keep the readers waiting any longer, here are 3 games from the Kenilworth Kortchnois’ not-so-recent (March 5th) 2.5-1.5 win at Maplewood in java-replay & zipped PGN.
Maplewood could have drawn the match but I blundered in a drawn Q ending vs. NM Mark Kernighan.
I’ve been thinking about posting all the Garden State Chess League reports & games on a new blog & may still do that.
But, rather than keep the readers waiting any longer, here are 3 games from the Kenilworth Kortchnois’ not-so-recent (March 5th) 2.5-1.5 win at Maplewood in java-replay & zipped PGN.
Maplewood could have drawn the match but I blundered in a drawn Q ending vs. NM Mark Kernighan.
Sorry for being late with this report (having some family problems) but here are the replay page & PGN file for round 2 of the Kenilworth Quads which except for the game between Glen Hart & Mike Wojcio (postponed until April 2nd) concludes tomorrow night.
Sorry for being late with this report (having some family problems) but here are the replay page & PGN file for round 2 of the Kenilworth Quads which except for the game between Glen Hart & Mike Wojcio (postponed until April 2nd) concludes tomorrow night.
Looks like he is pretty good at the blindfold/rapid thing. Armenian GM Levon Aronian won the 18th Amber Tournament, after winning the 17th edition last year. Two draws against Veselin Topalov secured the half-point overall victory. Equal second were Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik, with Magnus Carlsen half a point behind. Pictures by John Nunn in our final report.
Thanks to Garry Kasparov the Scotch
Game nowadays comes with a huge amount of theory. Nonetheless, it still is an
attractive choice for 1.e4 players, and it can be adopted also without swotting.
On his new DVD British GM Nigel Davies presents the Four Knights Scotch which is
especially suited for club players and can be built into a world class Scotch
repertoire.
Buy it
now or read more.
A week ago 21-year-old Evgeny Tomashevsky won the European Championship, and at 2664 Elo points he is clearly on his way to the super-tournament circuit. In a frank indepth conversation this young Russian GM, whom his friends call “the professor,” talks about his chess career in general and the European Championship in particular. Interview by GM Dejan Bojkov.
The fourth FIDE Grand Prix Series Tournament will be held from April 14th to 29th, 2009, in the Intour Hotel Sindica in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia. The fourteen participants include Ivanchuk, Aronian, Mamedyarov, Leko, Kamsky, Svidler, Karjakin and Grischuk. Average rating: around 2725 points. The total prize fund is 162,000 Euros. Full details in this FIDE press release.
In a dramatic penultimate round all (!) the blindfold games were decided – though many by simple blunders that occur when you do not have the pieces in front of you. Anand dropped a queen in one, and Magnus Carlsen played as if in a stupor. Only Lev Aronian won his match to go into the clear lead by a full point. Big pictorial report with an Europe Echecs video interview with Veselin Topalov.
A week ago 21-year-old Evgeny Tomashevsky won the European Championship, and at 2664 Elo points he is clearly on his way to the super-tournament circuit. In a frank indepth conversation this young Russian GM, whom his friends call “the professor,” talks about his chess career in general and the European Championship in particular. Interview by GM Dejan Bojkov.
The name is well-known in the US: Larry Evans, chess columnist and associate
of Bobby Fischer, was in his prime an exceptionally strong player,
winning five US championships. Our Playchess
lecturer Dennis Monokroussos shows us a particularly instructive game played
in 1947. Be there at 9 p.m. ET.
After their free day on Monday it was back to work in the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament. The ‘prologue’ to the next World Championship between Anand and Topalov ended in a tie, while Aronian and Carlsen won their matches to to draw level with Anand. Report with recreational pictures by John Nunn, video impressions by Europe Echecs and a video interview with Vishy Anand
In Germany 2008 was the “Year of Mathematics”, and at the same time there was a Chess World Championship and a Chess Olympiade in the country. Reason enough to take a look at an interesting problem at the interface of these two intellectual activities. It is a fascinating paradox which seems to prove that 64 is equal to 65 simply by cutting up a chessboard. Prof. Christian Hesse explains.
Last Saturday there was a press meeting of the Dutch Chess Federation to launch
a new Internet chess project, in partnership with Playchess.
We used the opportunity to visit the Hypercube Blitz tournament, which is held
in Utrecht every year. As chance would have it we barged into a controversy
on how many hands you can legally use in speed chess. Here are the graphic details.