The official pairings for tomorrow’s 5th & final round of the Kenilworth CC Championship, from TD Geoff McAuliffe, are :
It is the essential electronic (and 52-page print) magazine for any serious chess player. Edition 134 contains extensive material – games, GM analysis, multimedia commentary – on the FIDE World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, the London Chess Classic and the World Team Championship in Bursa, plus the latest openings surveys by leading experts. Don’t miss it.
Although there are of course beautiful examples of zugzwang in the
middlegame, it is much more a motif from endgames, many of which could
not be won without zugzwang. Even when there is a clear superiority in
material, as for exampe in the duel between a rook and a bishop, it is often
only possible to make progress by employing zugwang. Here is a
typical example. After 68.Kb5 Black could, with the correct
continuation, have retained his chances of a draw. What that was and
the instructive winning method used by White after 68…Bc5? are
things you can find out from Karsten Müller’s analysis in ChessBase Magazine Online.
It is the essential electronic (and 52-page print) magazine for any serious chess player. Edition 134 contains extensive material – games, GM analysis, multimedia commentary – on the FIDE World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, the London Chess Classic and the World Team Championship in Bursa, plus the latest openings surveys by leading experts. Don’t miss it.
Many of America’s best players have abandoned the game
and gone into other fields – like GM James Tarjan who in 1984, while still in his early 30s,
became a librarian. He was an exceptional player, and in this week’s Playchess
presentation by Dennis Monokroussos we get to see two games which will rivet your attention.
For chess enthusiasts who want to explore the possibility of using modern
software to study their hobby more thoroughly, an ideal start is ChessBase Light,
which one can download on the right of this newspage. It is completely free.
In his latest
ChessBase Workshop installment Steven Lopez shows you what you can do with
the standard unregistered version. Streaming
video.