Archive for March 26th, 2009

#472 Kenilworth Kortchnois-Maplewood

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

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.

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#472 Kenilworth Kortchnois-Maplewood

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

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.

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#471 Kenilworth Quads – Round 2

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

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.

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#471 Kenilworth Quads – Round 2

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

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.

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Aronian wins Amber for a second time in a row

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

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.

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Enter the Scotch Game with four knights

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

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.

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