Saturday, June 12, 2010

From Opening to Endgame (Links to learn more)

                                          
WikiBooks about Chess
            
Checkmate patterns
Chess tactics: Link 1  Link 2
Pattern recognition  
Typical Patterns Everyone Should Know  
Mastering Typical Positions
Sacrifice  
The Exchange and the Exchange Sacrifice  
Compensation
Combination
Preparation for combinations
Tactics Exercises

Shrink 
Always look for ways of ignoring threats 

Chess strategy: Link 1  Link 2
Development
The center
The positions of the kings
Mobility
Space
Trading
Open vs Closed Games
Minor pieces
Bishops: good, bad and both
Lack of piece coordination
Weak and strong squares
Outposts
Open lines  

Prophylaxis  
Prophylactic Thinking  

Pawn structure: Link 1  Link 2  
g4 in the Opening / Middlegame  
Queenside pawn majority
Pawns should help and not hinder the pieces 
'Sometimes' - the most correct statement 
   
Moving too quickly
Lines that could never happen
Chess with Attitude
Lazy moves: Lack-of-effort mistakes    
A Chessplayer and How He Grows
Static vs Dynamic Thinking Processes
Silman Thinking Technique
    
Paul Morphy - Duke Karl / Count Isouard, Paris 1858  
Rosanes - Anderssen, Breslau 1863  
Classical Games Everybody Should Know  
Great Game Archive     
Larsen - Spassky, Beograd 1970
Lasker – Bauer, Amsterdam 1889
The famous double rook sacrifice
Keres - Szabó, Budapest 1955
Panov - Makogonov, Tbilisi 1937
Gashimov - Giri, Monte Carlo 2011
Petrosian - Spassky, Moscow 1966   
An Amazing "Game"  
Tartakower - Spielmann, Vienna 1913  
Nimzowitsch - Rubinstein, Berlin 1928
Levitsky - Marshall, Breslau 1912
Rubinstein's Immortal
Euwe - Thomas, Hastings 1934/35
Grünfeld - Alekhine, Carlsbad 1923
Breyer - Esser, Budapest 1917
Alekhine - Prat, Paris 1913
Popov - Riumin, Moscow 1929
Vaganian - Planinc, Hastings 1974
Guimard - Euwe, Groningen 1946
Tolush - Botvinnik, Leningrad 1939  
Movsesian - van Kampen, Wijk aan Zee 2013  
Csom - Korchnoi, Hungary 1965
Stefanova - Dzagnidze, Doha 2011
Réti - Bogoljubov, New York 1924
Polugaevsky - Ftacnik, Luzern 1982
Hoffmann - Henriksson, Gibraltar 2011  
Gusev - Averbakh, Moscow 1946  
Video: An instructive performance by White  
   
Q U A C C and Attitude of a Chess Master
Learning to Take Opponent's Threats Seriously    

The Critical Moment     
Intuitive focus in your chess games


Collection Videos:  Link   

                                






















Solution

           
Miniatures Games:  Link 1  Link 2 
The Elephant Trap
Iceland's Queen of Chess

Match: China - Russia, 2010:
Link 1  Link 2  Link 3  Link 4  Link 5  Link 6  Link 7
                  
Collection Chess Puzzles:  Link
     
   





















Solution

     
Tactical positions: Find the winning moves
Unlock That Combination
An Amazing Combination  
The Single Greatest Chess Move of All Time  
Fantastic Chess Moves   
Tal - Tringov, Amsterdam 1964
Tal - Simagin, Leningrad 1956
The most instructive chess games ever?
Beautiful mates  

Wrong prophylactic thinking  
Another lesson (pattern) learned  

Attacking the Uncastled King (Video)
Attacking the castled King
Walking the Opponents King (Video)   
The Very Slow King's-side Attack    
King walk   
Two theoretical novelties in one single game
     
Lessons from Lasker
Lessons from Rubinstein
Lessons from Capablanca
Lessons from Tal
Kotanjian,- D. Petrosian, Jermuk 2010
Kasparov versus the World, Internet 1999
Kovanova - Pogonina, Antakya 2010
Mezioud - Kosteniuk, Antakya 2010
Leko - Kramnik, Belgrade 1995
Vallejo Pons - Kozul, Khanty-Mansiysk 2010
Ivanchuk - Jobava, Khanty-Mansiysk 2010
Motylev - Lutz, Germany 2007
Zinchenko - Bauer, Metz 2010
Anand - Lautier, Biel 1997
Naiditsch - Kramnik, Dortmund 2010
Almasi – Harikrishna, Reggio Emilia 2007/2008
Ruan - Zhang, Antakya 2010
Yevseev - Sergienko, Sochi 2004
Topalov - Anand, Sofia 2010
Anand - Wang Hao, Wijk aan Zee 2011
Umansky - Soltau, Correspondence 1998
Mueller - Tay, Correspondence 2002
Shariyazdanov - Züger, Elista 1998
Kramnik - Nakamura, Wijk aan Zee 2010
The World - Timmerman, Correspondence 2007
Korchnoi - Karpov, Baguio City 1978
Stockfish 1.7.1 - Deep Rybka 4, Norway 2010
Chess at Machu Picchu, 2010
       
Collection annotated games:  Link
     
Decoying
The Peruvian Immortal
The Evergreen game
Steinitz's Immortal Chess Game
The "Immortal Zugzwang Game"
Smothered mate
Swindle in chess
Mason - Unknown, London 1900
Moscow 1925
Steve Stoyko Lecture
Alexander Panchenko
Boris Spassky

How to Analyze
How To Annotate Your Own Games?
 
Playing for stalemate
Another Bogo-Indian
Trouble in King's Indian Defence
Lesson in Slav
Mastering Sicilian
The Kitchen Sink Attack
The rook strike on f7...
Black rook mates on the h-file
22.Qe4 Wow!!
The break move d4-d5
The knight maneuver b1-a3-c4-d6
The knight maneuver f7-h8-g6-f4
A long journey for the white king
    
       
Tal - Ftacnik, Sochi 1982
Spassky - Petrosian, Moscow 1969  
Spassky - Ljubojević, Montreal 1979  
Agopov - Édouard, Istanbul 2012 
Leko - Shirov, Eilat 2012  
Ermenkov - Ostojic, Kecskemet 1977
Fischer - Taimanov, Palma de Mallorca 1970
Bronstein - Tal, Yerevan 1975
Polgar - Edouard, Aix-les-Bains 2011
Fischer - Petrosian, Buenos Aires 1971 
Stefánsson - Flores, Istanbul 2012 
Karpov - Kasparov, Moscow 1985 
Amin - Gwaze, Istanbul 2012 
Tiviakov - Mamedov, Al Ain 2012 
Amonatov - Lê Quang Liêm, Moscow 2008
Shankland - Yankovsky, Berkeley 2011 
Karjakin - van Wely, Wijk aan Zee 2013
Carlsen - Jones, London 2012 
Šolak - Lê Quang Liêm, Istanbul 2012   
Glek - Smirnov, Moscow 2013  
Hou Yifan - Ushenina, Geneva 2013 
Karjakin - Radjabov, Stavanger 2013 
Smyslov - Denker, Moscow 1946
Carlsen - Anand, Monte Carlo 2011
Two games with 1.e4 c5 2.Ne2
S. Zhigalko - Gabrielian, Aix-les-Bains 2011
Chandler - Anagnostopoulos, London 1989 
Karjakin - Hou Yifan, Wijk aan Zee 2013 
Nijboer - Timman, Hilversum 2006
Byrne - Korchnoi, London 1979
Short - Psakhis, Banja Luka 1985 
Alekhine - Capablanca, Arnhem 1938 
G. Jones - A. Korobov, Aix-les-Bains 2011     
Larsen - Torre, Brussels 1987      
Ahn - Ruck, Belgium 2007   
Svidler - Ponomariov, Tashkent 2012  
T. Kosintseva - Koneru, Ankara 2012  
Slovineanu - Santos, Panormo 2001 
Darini - Salgado López, Istanbul 2012  
Hou - Beliavsky, Amsterdam 2009  
Canal - Johner, Karlsbad 1929
Erdogdu - Howell, Khanty-Mansiysk 2010
Winawer - Chigorin, Warsaw 1882   
Paulsen - Morphy, New York 1857  
McShane - Gupta, Reykjavik 2011 
Wang Hao - Anand, Wijk aan Zee 2013  
Kogan - McShane, Plovdiv 2010
Tseshkovsky - Dreev, Moscow 1992  
Morphy - Anderssen, Paris 1858  
Carlsen - Grischuk, London 2013 
J. Polgar - Vocaturo, Istanbul 2012 
Karjakin - Caruana, São Paulo 2012 
Anand - Nakamura, Stavanger 2013 
N. Kosintseva - Zhukova, Istanbul 2012 
Grischuk - Mamedyarov, London 2012     
Carton - Crawley, London 1986 
Tal - Spassky, Tilburg 1980 
Adams - T. Kosintseva, Gibraltar 2011 
Negi - Sasikiran, New Delhi 2012 
Karpov - Hort, Luzern 1982
Tal - Bronstein, Tbilisi 1959  
Zautzig - Kuiper, Correspondence 2010-2012  
Teichmann - Rubinstein, Carlsbad 1911
Nisipeanu - Diermair, Aix-les-Bains 2011 
Ponomariov - Ivanchuk, Eilat 2012 
Karpov - Larsen, Tilburg 1979
Leko - Bakhtadze, Las Palmas 1995
Hou - Serrano, Antakya 2010
Nataf - Chabanon, France 2005
Carlsen - Ernst, Wijk aan Zee 2004
Vorobiov - Gabrielian, Ulan Ude 2009
Carlsen - Wang Hao, Wijk aan Zee 2011  
Fischer - İbrahimoğlu, Siegen 1970 
Kryvoruchko - D. Berczes, Cappelle-la-Grande 2011  
Stellwagen - Shanava, Istanbul 2012 
Ivanišević - Dzhumaev, Al Ain 2012  
Petrukhin - Kremenietsky, Krasnoyarsk 2007  
T. L. Petrosian - Kurajica, Plovdiv 2010
Wojtaszek - Stević, Aix-les-Bains 2011 
Sanikidze - Rasmussen, Istanbul 2012 
Tkachiev - Sadvakasov, Moscow 2002 
Tkachiev - Istrăţescu, Pau 2012 
Geller - Nilsson, Stockholm 1954
Topalov - Carlsen, Wijk aan Zee 2007 
Sunye Neto - Kasparov, Graz 1981 
Vyzmanavin - Ruban, Sochi 1989
Rubinstein - Teichmann, Vienna 1908
Alekhine - Nimzowitsch, Zurich 1934
Portisch - Petrosian, Palma de Mallorca 1974
Botvinnik - Vidmar, Nottingham 1936
Schmid - Larsen, London 1980
Richter - Yusupov, Germany 2009
Nybäck - Carlsen, Dresden 2008
Portisch - Eliskases, Tel Aviv 1964
Rubinstein - Marshall, Breslau 1912  
Karpov - Kasparov, Moscow 1984  
Aronian - Anand, Monte Carlo 2011  
Ribli - Karpov, Amsterdam 1980   
Kramnik - Carlsen, Dortmund 2007  
Portisch - Radulov, Moscow 1977  
Korchnoi - V. Kovacevic, Wijk aan Zee 1980 
Ju Wenjun - Khotenashvili, Istanbul 2012 
Jobava - Potkin, Aix-les-Bains 2011
Topalov - Gelfand, Monte Carlo 2011  
Stefanova - Ushenina, Khanty-Mansiysk 2012   
Ushenina - Stefanova, Khanty-Mansiysk 2012   
Cheparinov - Mastrovasilis, Aix-les-Bains 2011
Lilienthal - Aronin, Moscow 1948
Torre - Timman, Hamburg 1982  
Ding Liren - Barbosa, Istanbul 2012 
Cheparinov - Papin, Moscow 2011
Tal - Johannessen, Riga 1959 
Hebden - Melkumyan, London 2012 
Wang Hao - Caruana, Wijk aan Zee 2013 
Kramnik - Aronian, Istanbul 2012 
Psakhis - Šahović, Lviv 1984 
Wojtaszek - Alekseev, New Delhi 2012 
Benjamin - Kraai, Saint Louis 2011
Paikidze - T. Kosintseva, Moscow 2010
Seirawan - Timman, Hilversum 1990
Kasparov - Browne, Banja Luka 1979 
Kasparov - Lajos Portisch, Nikšić 1983 
Alekhine - Alexander, Nottingham 1936 
A. L'Ami - Short, Dar es Salaam 2013  
Hammer - Grønn, Lillehammer 2013  
Gleizerov - Likavský, Banská Štiavnica 2010  
Penrose - Tal, Leipzig 1960  
Korchnoi - Kasparov, Lucerne 1982 
Botvinnik - Pachman, Oberhausen 1961 
Akobian - Mikhalevski, Gibraltar 2011 
Shamkovich - Bronstein, 1971
Polugaevsky - Geller, Skopje 1968  
Kasparov - Chiburdanidze, Baku 1980  
Petrosian - Gligorić, Zagreb 1970  
Botvinnik - Yudovich, Moscow 1933 
Topalov - Shirov, Wijk aan Zee 2007 
Topalov - Shirov, Linares 1998 
Y. Vovk - Sasikiran, Cappelle-la-Grande 2011
Vachier-Lagrave - Nepomniachtchi, Wijk aan Zee 2011
Jones - Arkell, Hastings 2013  
Hort - Alburt, Decin 1977
Turner - Gordon, North Shields 2012
Kapengut - Vaganian, Dubna 1970
Miles - Pritchett, London 1982
Acuna - Grau, Buenos Aires 1926 
Kramnik - Jones, London 2012 
Nimzowitsch - von Gottschall, Breslau 1925
Pantsulaia - Polgar, Aix-les-Bains 2011
Short - Rublevsky, Poykovskiy 2012  
Seirawan - Browne, Lone Pine 1979
Azmaiparashvili - Rotstein, Wijk aan Zee 1993  
Csom - Yusupov, Lucerne 1982  
Urban - Krasenkow, Warsaw 2001  
Torán Albero - Tal, Oberhausen 1961  
Botvinnik - Szabo, Moscow 1956
Suttles - U. Andersson, Thessaloniki 1984
Rapid Chess Games (Cap d'Agde 2010)
   
       
Picture: The book Chess Informant. Annotated games from chess tournaments around the world.
Chess Informant is published three times a year (at the beginning of April, August and December).
All volumes of Chess Informant are also available as electronic editions.
                    
    
















 







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Articles by Igor Khmelnitsky
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Articles at website Kenilworth Chess Club
  
Articles by Mark Dvoretsky at ChessCafe.com (The Instructor)
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Critical approach to the combination (Mark Dvoretsky at e3e5.com) 
Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

Positional sacrifice of the Queen (Mark Dvoretsky at e3e5.com)
Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5

Exchange of Queens (Mark Dvoretsky at e3e5.com)
Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

Practical psychology (Mark Dvoretsky at e3e5.com)
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The Philosophy of Strategy, by Igor Zaitsev
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The Knight's Tour
Chess interviews
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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!