Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Game Collection: Sicilian

                 
A collection at Chessgames.com with games in the Sicilian variations: Kan, Richter-Rauzer, Najdorf.
Link to collection
       
          

Yasser Seirawan - Walter Browne, 1979

           
A beautiful game to remember: Yasser Seirawan - Walter Browne, Lone Pine (USA) 1979.

The game at Chessgames.com.
   
        

Swindles in chess games

          
Wikipedia article about swindle in chess.
Link
  
  

Smothered mate

            
A smothered mate is a checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move, because he is surrounded (or smothered) by his own pieces.

Read more...
  

Annotated chess games

                                                
Games 2012-2013 (Videos) 
Games 2011 
Games 2010
    
Chessville.com
Sergey Shipov
Peter Svidler
Alexander Morozevich
Alexander Baburin
Kirk Sadler
A.J. Goldsby
ChessArea.com
Steve Saidi
   
  
Lubomir Kavalek:
Chess Legend Turns to Music
Remembering Larry Evans
Steinitz's Immortal Chess Game
   
   
The Magazine Chess Horizons:
Sample articles (pdf format)
 
  
Annotated games at mark-weeks.com, where every move is explained:
Romantic Game, 1844 
Rotlewi - Rubinstein, 1907 
Alekhine - Marshall, 1927 
Thomas - Keres, 1937 
Letelier - Fischer, 1960 
Petrosian - Pachman, 1961 
Tal - Mohrlok, 1962 
Kasparov - U. Andersson, 1981 
Krasenkow - Nakamura, 2007
  
  
Dan Scoones:
Lalic - Spraggett, 2010
Karpov – M.Stojanovic, 2007
F. Velikhanli - M. Gurevich, 2006
Burg – Spoelman, 2006
Moiseenko - A. Horvath, 2005
Rybka 1.0 Beta - Jonny, 2005
Khouseinov - Magomedov, 1999
Leko - Ruzele, 1992
Geller - Suetin, 1981
Shashin – Korchnoi, 1973
Petrosian - Spassky, 1960
Alonso - Suttles, 1965
Marshall - Alekhine, 1929
Marshall - Nimzowitsch, 1927
Capablanca - Vidmar, 1927
Bird - Chigorin, 1882: Part 1  Part 2
A memorable victory
A dubious but tricky move
Capablanca's guideline
Duplication
Impetuosity
A rare Bronstein blunder
A real artist
Wait!
No draw
Attacking technique
Review the fundamentals
Deflection
Impressive combination
One must study the classics!
The right execution
A forced win for White
Black could have defended more accurately
Lessons learned
In-between combination
Exploiting advantages
Golubev corrected
A Janowski trap
Blitz analysis
Critical moment
Pressure play
Attention please
Do you know how to analyse?
Fritz vs Fred
The best line
Errors
Mystery annotations
Voronkov's book
Magnus goes astray
Defensive tactics
Relative values
       
           

Endgame: Wrong bishop

       
Link to a Wikipedia article about wrong bishop in the endgame.
   
    

Endgame tablebase

      
An endgame tablebase is a computerized database that contains precalculated exhaustive analysis of a chess endgame position. Read more...
    
      

Endgame: Opposition

                                  
An endgame article at Wikipedia about opposition.  
Link 

  




   











 

       
YouTube video about opposition:


      
 


           
       
    

Chess Therapy

        
Link to Chess Therapy article at Wikipedia
and link to the book "Chess Therapy":
Google books



YouTube video about the book "Chess Therapy"





  
 

Monday, June 28, 2010

Some good chess books

           
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Instructive Chess Games

            
The most instructive chess games ever?
Links to game collections at Chessgames.com.
 
Collection 1   Collection 2  

     

The "Immortal Zugzwang Game"

         
The "Immortal Zugzwang Game" is a 1923 chess game between Friedrich Sämisch and Aron Nimzowitsch, played in Copenhagen.
Andrew Soltis has objected to the characterization of this game as "the Immortal Zugzwang Game".
And Raymond Keene prefer to see it as an example of total paralysis of the opposition.
 
Read more...
   
     

Video: First Day of Chess

                   
Owen playing chess for the first time.




         
   

Video: Another way to play chess...

           
Nice!
  
 


   
  

Chess Video: Decoy

                
In chess, decoying is the tactic of ensnaring a piece, usually the king or queen, by forcing it to move to a poisoned square with a sacrifice on that square. (Wikipedia)
  
  


  
   

Book: Teaching Life Skills Through Chess

   
Book: "Teaching Life Skills Through Chess: A Guide for Educators and Counselors", by Fernando Moreno.

Review by Steve Rubin.
The book at Amazon












  
   

The Castlemaine Chess-Squared Program

   
A video about the Castlemaine Chess-Squared Program.
Link to video on Vimeo and YouTube

Blog writing about the Chess-Squared Program:
Link 1   Link 2   Link 3

    

Jaques of London

YouTube video about Jaques of London. 




Wikipedia article about Jaques of London.
          
         

Blog: The Best Chess Games

The Best Chess Games is a blog that brings you chess games and chess related news, interviews etc. 

Link
   

Endgame lesson with Karsten Müller

Rook + Knight vs Rook + Knight
Endgame lesson with Karsten Müller at ChessCafe.com.
Link (pdf document)
   

Kasparov versus the World

Kasparov versus the World was a chess game played in 1999 over the Internet.
Wikipedia has an article with the game annotated.
        

What the Bleep Do We Know!? and Law of Attraction

Questions about life is very interesting... Two sites I have been looking at is WhatTheBleep.Com (What the Bleep Do We Know!?) and Abraham-Hicks.com (Law of Attraction).
        

The Saavedra position

The Saavedra position is one of the best known chess endgame studies.
Read more...
   

Looking inside chess books (Quality Chess)

Look inside chess books at Quality Chess:
Link Excerpts (pdf document).
       

On the Road

The Bealach na Ba - The Pass of the Cattle.


   
 
Trollstigen - Norway.
    
  

  
  
Through the Bregenzerwald from Bezau to Dornbirn. Road L200.
  
   

        
          
        

Relaxing

                   
Wonderful...
           
            

      
        
  

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Articles by Nigel Davies at ChessCafe.com

                
Articles pdf format:

  
How to Study the Opening
Crowning the Attack
Amateur Chess is Different!
Playing to Win!
Thinking Time
Bucking the Trend
Those Promising Juniors...
Playing When You're Hungry
Racing against Porsches
Mastering Typical Positions

Mauling the Master
Training with Blitz
Pattern Banks
All That Glitters
Stay Active!
Same Boot, Different Foot
Emotional Momentum
Winning Ugly
The Old Frying Pan
Choices, Choices

Ending in Style
Learning from your Wins
Preparation or Perspiration
Don't Blame the Authors
Openings for the Club Player
The How and the What
Dinner and Chess
Chess for Children
Learning to Suffer
Hammer and Nail

Nature or Nurture
How to Trap Heffalumps
Confirmation Bias
Cobweb Brushing
Applying What We Know
Blind Man's Bluff
Winners, History and Chess
When to Get Rid of the Women
Beating Up the Old Geezers
There's Always Sudoku

Quitting and the Comeback
A Man's Limitations
The Longest Goodbye
Don't Try This at Home
A Trial for Chess Teachers
Twixt Cup and Lip
The Universal Style
Coping with a Loss
The Perils of Success
The Minority Attack

f5 in the f4 Sicilian
Attacking a Second Weakness
Countering the Minority Attack
The Double Bishop Sacrifice
The Backward d-Pawn in the Sicilian
The Bad Stonewall Bishop
The Weak Doubled Pawn
The Power of Passed Pawns
The Greek Bishop Sacrifice
White's Pawn Storm in the QGD Exchange

The King's Gambit Pawn Duo
Hanging Pawns
Diagonalisation
Sacrifices on f7
The Advanced Isolated d-Pawn
Pin Power
Sacrifices on g7
      
     

Good Bishops vs Bad Bishops

            
YouTube video good Bishops vs bad Bishops:
    



More videos on YouTube from thechesswebsite
 
       

Pawnless endgames

         
An article at Wikipedia about endgames in which only a few pieces remain and none of them is a pawn.
Read more...
      

The Knight's Tour

          
The Knight's Tour:
The knight is placed on the empty chess board and, moving according to the rules of chess, must visit each square exactly once.
   
Read more at Wikipedia
        
    

Alekhine's gun

        
Wikipedia about Alekhine's gun, a formation in chess named after the former World Champion, Alexander Alekhine.
        

Opening book about the Modern Defence

         
Starting Out: The Modern
, by Nigel Davies.
A very good book about playing as black the opening Modern Defence 1...g6 against moves like 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4, 1.Nf3, 1.g3.
 
The book at Amazon
 












        





 
    
   

The Halosar Trap

              
Wikipedia about The Halosar Trap in the opening Blackmar-Diemer Gambit.
More information about the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit at Wikipedia
    

The Elephant Trap

      
Wikipedia about The Elephant Trap.
A game with the trap at Chessgames.com
    

The Evergreen game

Wikipedia about The Evergreen game.
The game at Chessgames.com
        

The Peruvian Immortal

Wikipedia about the chess game The Peruvian Immortal.
The game at Chessgames.com
      

Nonprofit organization: Kings Knight Chess Club

   
The Kings Knight Chess Club (KKCC), a nonprofit organization, offers children the opportunity to increase their mental ability and have fun at the same time, learning the game of chess.
   
Link to website Kings Knight Chess Club   (Older version of the website)


Video Kings Knight Chess Club: 
    




Can Chess Change Lives?
Links to article: eightcitiesmap.com  and  KingsKnightChess.org

     

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Mark Taimanov: My life with chess and music

Link to interview with Mark Taimanov at ChessBase News (23.05.2002).
And when reading the interview we can hear in the background Taimanov playing Mozart's Concerto for two pianos in E-flat, KV 365 Rondo Allegro, with the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra...
       
   

Nonprofit organizations: Chess for Success and 9 Queens

   
Chess for Success
is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children develop skills necessary for success in school and life by learning chess.


















9 Queens
is another nonprofit organization, dedicated to extending the benefits of chess to those most in need of its benefits, especially girls and at-risk youth.

Website 9 Queens


   

Book: Chess for Success


A book by Maurice Ashley:
 
  

Chess for Success: Using an Old Game to Build New Strengths
in Children and Teens.
 

Look inside the book at Amazon.
Review by Rick Kennedy.   

 


















 
  

Website Maurice Ashley
   

        

          
         
            

Friday, June 25, 2010

My Video Collection: Relax, Music

                                                              
















Water 1
Water 2
Grass 
Brain Concentration Music Training
Shane Walsh - Alone with My Thoughts
Fiona Joy Hawkins - Flight of the Albatross
Marc Enfroy - The Magic Garden
Oswaldo - Tema Amazonas
Playing For Change - Chanda Mama
Medwyn Goodall - Dolphin Companion
Kitaro - Heaven and Earth
Paul Collier - The Man Who Chose To Smile
Ryan Farish - Aras

       


        

        

             
                  
            
      


 
ABBA - Happy Hawaii
ABBA - Arrival
Mike Oldfield - Wonderful Land
Mireille Mathieu - Trois Milliards Gens sur Terre
Spread Joy
John Paul Young - Love Is In the Air
James Last - Va' Pensiero (Nabucco)
Daniel Diges - Algo Pequeñito
Maestro Jeyhoon - Memories
Mireille Mathieu - Der Pariser Tango

ABBA - Andante, Andante
ABBA - The Way Old Friends Do
CHESS - Merano
Murray Head (CHESS) - One Night in Bangkok 
The Blues Brothers - Shake A Tail Feather 
London Boys - Sweet Soul Music
   



         
         

    
    
Jill Johnson - Angel of the Morning
Jill Johnson - Oh, Vilken Härlig Dag
Jessica Folcker - Tell Me What You Like
Totta's Bluesband - Going down
Queen - We Will Rock You
Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance
Elmer Bernstein - The Magnificent Seven
André Rieu - Voices of Spring
Kevin Kern - Remembering the Light

          


       
        
              

          

          

New facets of famous chess positions, games and books

                      
TrueChess.com is a website dedicated to the discovery of new facets of famous chess positions, games and books.
  
Some of the pages at TrueChess.com
A close examination of famous books of analysis (For example "The Art of Attack in Chess")
Endgame corrections
      
            

Book: The Reassess Your Chess Workbook


  
The Reassess Your Chess Workbook: How to Master Chess Imbalances, by Jeremy Silman.

This is the workbook to Jeremy Silman's book "How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course".
Steven Winer writes at ChessCafe.com about "How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course":
"...one does not need How to Reassess Your Chess to use the Workbook, since the early chapters of the Workbook summarize Silman’s thinking techniques".

Link (pdf document) to what Steven Winer, at ChessCafe.com, has to say about the book The Reassess Your Chess Workbook: How to Master Chess Imbalances.




Silman books at Amazon:
The Workbook
How to Reassess Your Chess
The Amateur's Mind
Silman's Complete Endgame Course
    
        

Book: Secrets of Spectacular Chess

             
Secrets of Spectacular Chess
(2nd edition),
by Jonathan Levitt and David Friedgood.







Lubomir Kavalek writes about the book in The Washington Post
(June 30, 2008): 

Chess is magical and beautiful. Just read "Secrets of Spectacular Chess" by Jonathan Levitt and David Friedgood (recently issued by Everyman Chess), and you realize that almost everything is possible on the chessboard. This excellent study on the aesthetics of chess is full of fascinating examples created by players and composers. The current edition is vastly enlarged from the 1995 original. Among the new material is the amazing 1999 game between Kasparov and Topalov in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.

Extracts from Secrets of Spectacular Chess
Link to the book at Amazon
    
       

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Time to relax

                 
More wonderful music.
   
  



    



    

      
          
    

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Opening: English

           
Introduction to English:

Wikipedia about English
English (Exeter Chess Club)




The same game at TrueChess.com  
  
  
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.g3
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.e4 and 3...d6 4.d4 Bg7 is King's Indian Defence
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3


Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.g3

Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 d5
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 c5
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 d6
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 Bb4
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 Nc6
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 e5
Games 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 b6


Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 e4 4.Ng5  

Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e4
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d4    Game: Landau - Réti, 1927
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e3
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.a3
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d3





Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nb6
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Be6
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nde7
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nxc3 7.bxc3
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nf6 7.O-O
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Be7 7.O-O





Games 1. c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 Nd4 5.Bg2 Nxf3+ 6.Bxf3
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 Bb4
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 Bc5
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 g6
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d6 5.Bg2
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3


Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 f5
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 f5 4.d4    Game: Seirawan - Browne, 1979
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 f5 4.d3


Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d6 3.g3
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d6 3.Nf3
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Bb4
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Bc5
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 c6
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 c5
Games 1.c4 e5 2.g3
Games 1.c4 e5 2.Nf3


Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 e6
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 g6
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qb6
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 d5


Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 b6 4.Bg2 Bb7 5.O-O
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.d4





Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 g6


Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4






Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nc7
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nxc3 6.bxc3
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 e6
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nb4
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nb6 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.O-O
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2


Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nf3 e5
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nf3 e6
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.O-O O-O
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nf3 Nh6
Games 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3
Games 1.c4 c5 2.g3





Games 1.c4 g6 2.Nc3 Bg7 3.g3
Games 1.c4 g6 2.g3
Games 1.c4 g6 2.e4


Games 1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2
Games 1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.d4
Games 1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.b3


Games 1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.g3
Games 1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.b3


Games 1.c4 b6 2.d4





Games 1.c4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 g6
Games 1.c4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 d6
Games 1.c4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 e6


Games 1.c4 d5 2.cxd5
Games 1.c4 g5 2.d4
    
         

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I played my first chess game in December 1977 and was lucky to hold draw. I continued to play chess and joined a chess club in September 1978. I'm still enjoying playing chess. I like to do many other things than playing chess. Long walks, some jogging, cycling, reading books, listen to music, watch movies, writing and much more. Life is fun!