Please bring your sets to the Community Center tonight, in case I cannot get to Kenilworth by 8 p.m. 22 of our sets were used at the Scotch Plains simul &, at present, there’s just 1 in the equipment cabinet.
I shall be there no later than 8:15 and will address the club for a few minutes, starting around 8:25. Thanks.
Hungary certainly does not lack in chess tournaments. The year starts with the traditional early January tournament organised by the Hungarian Chess Federation, soon afterwards, in March, the spring season starts with the Spring Chess Festival. This year was the 25th edition. The events in Budapest are fraught with cultural activities. Illustrated report by Diana Mihajlova.
The Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, the most important traditional chess tournament in Germany, started with a fine victory by top seed Magnus Carlsen. The 18-year-old Norwegian GM out-maneuvered his opponent, Russia’s top GM Dmitry Jakovenko, in a knight vs bishop ending and took the full point after 49 moves. The other games were drawn.
Report with commentary.
The bishop sac on h7 (h2) to rip open the enemy’s king position is a
classical motif in chess. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it isn’t – but one
always has to be aware of it. And what is the case after 13.Nxc4 here?
A) Black wins easily, after all he’s not got only one bishop, has he?
B) The sac is correct, however, victory requires yet a ’silent hammer blow’.
C) As good as it might look, the strike backfires; with cool defence White gets
the advantage.
The solution is for replay here
or as
video sample from Kings
Powerplay 1 DVD. Hint: first ponder
over it with a larger version of the diagram.