I have uploaded the outline of FM Steve Stoyko’s Oct. 15th lecture on “Evaluating Chess Positions, An Introduction” plus the java-replay & PGN of games that were presented.
If you have any thoughts about the system, please leave a comment. Any feedback will be forwarded to Steve.
NM Victor Shen took clear 1st in Sunday’s Westfield Grand Prix, with a 4-0 score. FM Tom Bartell & SM Yaacov Norowitz tied for 2nd, a half-point back.
Other prize-winners included :
There were 25 participants, including 9 who were rated >2100!
All the Kenilworth CC, Checkmate CC & Garden State CL players collected prizes!!
I had an up & down event. After missing a forced mate & losing the opener to Shen, I played like a zombie against tail-ender Sasha Prystupa (a lucky win after 2 lost positions) & NM Peter Radomskyj (a bad opening & quick loss) but closed-out with a nice victory over Konstantin Mazur to finish =8th.
Here are all 4 of my games (fully annotated) in java-replay & PGN.
That would be fourth seed Alexander Morozevich, who lost 0-2 to Czech GM Viktor Laznicka; fifth seed Teimour Radjabov, who went down against Konstantin Sakaev, and Vassily Ivanchuk, who was eliminated by 16-year-old Wesley So. Top seed Boris Gelfand had a narrow scrape against Farrukh Amonatov, and Peter Svidler equalised against Tomi Nyback. Impressions by GM Peter Heine Nielsen.
Games full of tactical ups and downs and mating motifs rightly charm every
chess fan, and so it will come as no surprise that a successful attack
on the king always represents a dainty morsel for all chess lovers. We have
selected and annotated two attractive attacking games from the Russia Cup
in Saint Petersburg. In the first of them (diagram) we see how Ian
Nepomniachtchi sets about an uncastled Sicilian king. In the second game, a
Ruy Lopez, Alexei Fedorov managed to reduce to rubble the castled position
of the black monarch. IM Michael Kopylov for ChessBaseMagazine Online.
A very shocking day: Peter Svidler and Teimour Radjabov lost their games with the black pieces, Alexander Morozevich and Vassily Ivanchuk with white, making a comeback in the return round on Wednesday even harder. We have to go down to board eight to see a favourite (Grischuk) actually win. We bring you a full updated report with highlights and pictures by Galina Popova.