More Nimzo-Indian games after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 c5 6.Nf3 d5 7.0-0 dxc4 8.Bxc4 Nc6 9.a3
Friday, December 31, 2010
Reshevsky - Larsen, Lugano 1968
More Nimzo-Indian games after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 c5 6.Nf3 d5 7.0-0 dxc4 8.Bxc4 Nc6 9.a3
Breyer - Tarrasch, Mannheim 1914
More Ruy Lopez games after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.c3
Checkmate patterns
Anastasia's mate, Arabian mate, Hook mate.
All are they example on checkmate patterns.
Wikipedia article about checkmate patterns.
Pattern recognition
"If you were to visit a chess tournament and watch a grandmaster in action, you would be able to observe a surprising range of emotions. Sometimes, in apparently simple positions, the grandmaster might lapse into lengthy periods of concentration, where ten minutes or more might be spent on a move. At other times the moves will come very quickly, even in complicated positions. You might even be shocked if the grandmaster suddenly wins the game with a lengthy and brilliant mating sacrifice - after thinking for just a few seconds. Clearly the analytical process is not always directly related to how complicated the position is on the surface.
The reason for this is pattern recognition. If the grandmaster can recall similar positions encountered in the past, the same themes and concepts might be applicable to the game in hand. This makes it much easier and quicker to analyse a position. It especially applies to the most basic attacking formations around the enemy king. Once a known motif is spotted, the moves of the potential combination are analysed to check that it does indeed work in the particular position on the board.
It is clear then that chess analysis is a mixture of calculation of individual moves and pattern recognition". (Murray Chandler, How to Beat Your Dad at Chess)
It is clear then that chess analysis is a mixture of calculation of individual moves and pattern recognition". (Murray Chandler, How to Beat Your Dad at Chess)
Chess Tactics for Kids
Book at Amazon PDF excerpt
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
Book at Amazon PDF excerpt
Understanding Chess Tactics
Book at Amazon PDF excerpt
A video about pattern recognition:
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Chess Me Out - talk on board
A documentary about chess.
12 professional chess players talk about their job. From the childhood to the feelings on board during the game, we listen to their thoughts mixed in 12
different chapters.
Vimeo
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Smith-Morra Gambit 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3
Wikipedia article about the Smith-Morra Gambit.
And here 3 games with the gambit, not so easy to beat
- at least in correspondence chess:
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Brooklyn Castle
We're filmmakers from Brooklyn, New York & we are currently in production on BROOKLYN CASTLE, a documentary about the best junior high school chess program in the nation, Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn, New York.
We’ve brought on some talented artists to work with us - Brian Satz, our composer, Alex Krawitz, our animation producer and Mitch Paone, our lead animator. Together with these guys we’re creating what we think is something really special and hope to share it with the world (or at least Brooklyn) in the Spring of 2011.
http://brooklyncastle.com
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Don't hurt
However big and important you are,
you should not hurt anybody
with your words or actions.
- Susheela Iyer, Mother of Chess World Champion Viswanathan Anand
Friday, December 24, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Love for the game
The kids are learning chess in the classroom and teachers hope the skills they pick up at the chess board will help raise test scores.
Berkeley Chess School's outreach effort aims to develop students' concentration, memory, strategic and critical thinking, plus the ability to make smart moves in their lives as well as over the chessboard.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Schmid playing 1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 against Byrne and Spassky
YouTube videos from the game Lothar Schmid - Robert Byrne, played at BBC Master Game Trophy chess tournament 1980.
Video, part 1
Video, part 2
Info page about this game.
Lothar Schmid played the same opening variation again 1981 against Boris Spassky. Boris won a nice endgame:
Creating and Fixing Weaknesses
Video on the game The World vs Gert Jan Timmerman, the 15th World Correspondence Chess Champion.
The game, played 2007, at Chessgames.com
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Ahn - Ruck, Belgium 2007
Martin Ahn - Tamas Ruck, Belgian Team Championship 2006-2007.
The game at Chessgames.com.
Annotations to the game Ahn - Ruck at Chessville (scroll down the page).
Friday, December 17, 2010
Chess videos with Capablanca, Euwe and Botvinnik
Video with José Raúl Capablanca and Max Euwe from January 15, 1935. The video can be seen on both YouTube and Geschiedenis:
YouTube
Geschiedenis
Video from the blindfold television game Mikhail Botvinnik - Max Euwe, played December 28, 1963.
Each player had 10 minutes for the game.
The video Mikhail Botvinnik - Max Euwe can be seen on both YouTube and Geschiedenis:
YouTube: Part 1 Part 2
Geschiedenis
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Erdogdu - Howell, Khanty-Mansiysk 2010
More games after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 a6 6.O-O Ba7.
Wikipedia about the opening 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Savchenko - Nepomniachtchi, Moscow 2010
A game from the 2010 World Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow.
More games Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2 9.Nb3
The Chess Pavilion
Constructed in 1957, Chicago's Lincoln Park chess pavilion is an architectural and sculptural work of art.
Today the pavilion is still home to a thriving and diverse chess community.
A film by Vern Cummins, Jamie Gallant and Ethan Barnowsky.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
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