Link to the website The Six Power Moves of Chess.
YouTube videos with contents from the book
"The Six Power Moves of Chess":
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Book, Training Videos: The Six Power Moves of Chess
Link to the website The Six Power Moves of Chess.
YouTube videos with contents from the book
"The Six Power Moves of Chess":
Movie: Queen to Play
Theatrical trailers for "Queen to Play", a French film about chess and the games people play on themselves.
The movie stars Sandrine Bonnaire and Kevin Kline.
Link to Wikipedia page about "Queen to Play".
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tal - Tringov, 1964
2 videos showing the same game played in Amsterdam 1964:
Mikhail Tal - Georgi P Tringov, Amsterdam 1964.
The game Tal - Tringov at Chessgames.com
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Video: Kramnik - Nakamura, 2010
Vladimir Kramnik shows a game he won against Hikaru Nakamura in Wijk aan Zee 2010.
Link to video at blip.tv. The same game also at Chessgames.com
More chess videos:
Link to more chess videos at blip.tv.
Video: Gleizerov - Likavský, 2010
Grandmaster game: Evgeny Gleizerov - Tomáš Likavský, International Championship of Slovakia 2010.
1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 e5 5.e4 Nc6 6.d5 Nd4 7. Nxd4 exd4 8.Nb5 Nf6 9.Bd3 O-O 10.O-O Re8 11.Re1 c6 (11...a6 12.Nxd4 Nxd5) 12.dxc6 bxc6 13.Nxd4 Bb7 14.Nf3 d5 15.e5 Ng4 16.Bf4 Qb6 17.Qc2 dxc4 18.Bxc4 c5 19.Ng5 Nxe5 20.Bxe5 Rxe5 21.Nxf7 Rxe1+ 22.Rxe1 Rf8 23.Re7 Bc8 24.Ng5+ Kh8 25.Qc3 Qf6 26.Qxf6 Rxf6 27.Re8+ Rf8 28.Nf7+ 1-0
We Are All Part Of A Family - Not Strangers
A speech from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro 1992:
Hopi Indian Prophecy:
RAW World Chess Challenge: Carlsen vs The World
"On September 10th, in New York City, the ultimate one-sided chess game will take place:
Magnus Carlsen vs. The World... and Magnus doesn't think the world has a chance". (YouTube)
Link RAW World Chess Challenge.
Article at ChessVibes
2010 Caribbean Chess Carnival
Calypso Queen Denyse Plummer performs at the closing ceremonies at the Caribbean Chess Carnival.
Grandmaster Gennadi Sagalchik won the 2010 Caribbean Chess Carnival.
Read more...
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Video: Chess in Jamaica
Jamaica's top players Jomo Pitterson and Warren Elliott about chess in Jamaica.
A mirror image of Morphy versus the Duke and Count
A mirror image of the game Paul Morphy - Duke Karl / Count Isouard, Paris 1858:
Albert Beauregard Hodges – Daniels, Nashville 1886
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 Nc6 4.fxe5 Nxe5 5.d4 Ng6 6.e5 Ng8 7.Bc4 Nxe5 8.Bb3 Ng6 9.Nf3 Nf6 10.O-O d6 11.Ng5 d5 12.Qe2+ Be7 13.Rxf6 gxf6 14.Nxd5 fxg5 15.Bxg5 Be6 16.Nxe7 Nxe7 17.d5 f6 18.Bxf6 Rf8 19.Qxe6 Qd6 20.Ba4+ Kd8 21.Re1 Rxf6
22.Qg8+! Nxg8 23.Re8 mate.
Annotated games at ChessBase News, ChessVibes
London Chess Classic 2010:
Round 1 (ChessVibes)
Round 2 (ChessVibes)
Round 3 (ChessVibes)
Round 4 (ChessVibes)
Round 5 (ChessVibes)
Round 6 (ChessVibes)
Round 7 (ChessVibes)
Brazilian Championship 2010:
Vescovi - Leitao, Leitao - El Debs
Tal Memorial 2010:
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3-4
Round 5-7
Round 8
Round 9 (ChessBase News didn't publish annotated games from the last round, but ChessVibes did...)
Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament 2010:
Link
Grand Slam Final Masters, Bilbao 2010:
Link
Chess Olympiad 2010, Khanty-Mansiysk:
Link
New York 2010:
Magnus Carlsen - The World
Chinese Chess League 2010, Division A:
Rounds 10-12
Shanghai 2010:
Wang Hao - Aronian, Kramnik - Shirov
Aronian - Shirov, Wang Hao - Kramnik
Shirov - Wang Hao, Kramnik - Aronian
Shirov - Kramnik, Aronian - Wang Hao
Aronian - Kramnik, Wang Hao - Shirov
Shirov - Aronian, Kramnik - Aronian, Aronian - Kramnik, Aronian - Kramnik
Kristiansund 2010:
Match: Carlsen - Anand, Polgar - Hammer
Match: Gelfand - Leko, Miskolc 2010:
Game 1-4
Game 5-6
Game 7-8
Spanish Chess League 2010:
Negi - Moiseenko, Hamdouchi - Gustafsson, Zhigalko - Matlakov
Short - Fluvia Poyatos, Sargissian - Smeets
Hamdouchi - Zhigalko
French Championship 2010:
Edouard - Tkachiev, Fressinet - Edouard
Match: Efimenko - Naiditsch, Mukachevo 2010:
Game 1-2
Game 3-4
Game 5-6
Amsterdam 2010:
Nakamura - Van Wely, Ljubojevic - Giri, Caruana - Nielsen
Gelfand - Howell
Van Wely - Giri, Nakamura - Gelfand
Svidler - Caruana
Tromsø 2010:
Kobalia - Van Wely
Pardubice 2010:
Korobov - Smith, Agaragimov - Korobov
Biel 2010:
Rodshtein - So
Kosintseva - Mikhalevski, Maze - Lysyj
Test your IQ(P):
Link
Test your IQ(P) II:
Link
Austrian Attack:
Link
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Bishops: good, bad and both
Link to pdf document by Dr. Dave about Bishops: good, bad and both.
Wikipedia articel about the Bishop.
Karsten Müller about Good Knight, Bad Bishop.
Link to pdf document
Video: Good Bishops vs Bad Bishops
Videos: Good Knight vs Bad Bishop
Friday, August 20, 2010
Mason - Unknown player, London 1900
A beautiful mate in the game James Mason - Unknown player, London 1900.
Link to the game.
More games King's Gambit Declined 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.c3.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Ermenkov - Ostojic, Kecskemet 1977
Nice finish! (23...axb5 24.Rxa7 Qxa7 25.Rxe7+ if black had continued the game.)
Link to the game Evgenij Ermenkov - Predrag Ostojic, Kecskemet 1977.
More games Sicilian Najdorf 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 b5 8.0-0 Be7 9.Qf3.
Push Pawns, Not Drugs and Knights of the South Bronx
Push Pawns, Not Drugs
Article at ChessBase News
Knights of the South Bronx
Articles at Wikipedia, ChessBase News and Chessville.com
DVD at Amazon
Video: Chess Rhapsody 1
0:04 - "Shakhmatnaya goryachka" directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
0:12 - "Monkey Business", with Marx Brothers
0:18 - "The Black Cat" by Edgar G. Ulmer, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
0:20 - "The Great Dictator" by Charlie Chaplin
0:21 - "The Thief of Baghdad" by Ludwig Berger
0:22 - "The Mark of Zorro" by Rouben Mamoulian with Tyrone Power
0:23 - "The Sea Hawk" by Michael Curtiz
0:25 - "Casablanca" by Michael Curtiz with Humphrey Bogart
0:27 - "Keeper of the Flame" by George Cukor with Spencer Tracy
0:28 - "To Be or Not to Be" by Ernst Lubitsch
0:29 - "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" by Roy William Neill
0:33 - "Ivan Groznyj" by Sergej Michajlovic Ejsenštejn
0:35 - "La belle et la bęte" by Jean Cocteau
0:36 - "Knocking on Any Door" by Nicholas Ray with Humphrey Bogart
0:39 - "Quo Vadis" by Mervyn LeRoy with Robert Taylor
0:42 - "Angel Face" by Otto Preminger
0:45 - "Det Sjunde inseglet" by Ingmar Bergman with Max Von Sydow
0:52 - "Ascenseur pour léchafaud" by Louis Malle
0:53 - "The Diary of Anne Frank" by George Stevens
0:54 - "Exodus" by Otto Preminger
0:55 - "Lolita" by Stanley Kubrick with James Mason
0:56 - "From Russia with Love" by Terence Young
0:59 - "Becket" by Peter Glenville
1:03 - "Woman of Straw" by Basil Dearden with Sean Connery
1:07 - "Whats New Pussycat" by Clive Donner with Woody Allen
1:12 - "Zatoichi Jigoku tabi" by Kenji Misumi
1:16 - "Tony Rome" by Gordon Douglas with Frank Sinatra
1:20 - "Dance of the Vampires" by Roman Polanski
1:23 - "The Thomas Crown Affair" by Norman Jewison with Steve McQueen
Video: Chess Rhapsody 2
0:03 - "Straw Dogs" directed by Sam Peckinpah with Dustin Hoffman
0:07 - "Vamos a matar, compańeros" by Sergio Corbucci
0:08 - "Lassie: The Adventures of Neeka" by Jack B. Hively
0:09 - "The Omega Man" by Boris Sagal with Charlton Heston
0:11 - "Blazing Saddles" by Mel Brooks with Gene Wilder
0:13 - "La plus longue nuit du diable" by Jean Brismée
0:16 - "Night Moves" by Arthur Penn with Gene Hackman
0:23 - "Io sono un autarchico" by Nanni Moretti
0:29 - "The Wild Geese" by Andrew V. McLaglen
0:31 - "Il gatto" by Luigi Comencini
0:36 - "The Lady Vanishes" by Anthony Page with Elliott Gould
0:37 - "Fantozzi contro tutti" by Neri Parenti
0:40 - "History of the World: Part I" by Mel Brooks
0:52 - "Aus dem Leben der Marionetten" by Ingmar Bergman
0:55 - "Blade Runner" by Ridley Scott with Rutger Hauer
0:58 - "Fanny och Alexander" by Ingmar Bergman
0:59 - "The Thing" by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell
1:08 - "A Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy" by Woody Allen
1:11 - "Bingo Bongo" by Pasquale Festa Campanile with Adriano Celentano
1:19 - "The Jigsaw Man" by Terence Young
1:22 - "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by Michael Radofrd
1:24 - "Revenge of the Nerds" by Jeff Kanew
1:27 - "La diagonale du fou" by Richard Dembo with Michel Piccoli
1:42 - "Lattrazione" by Mario Gariazzo
1:49 - "Dekalog, jeden" by Krzysztof Kieslowski
1:54 - "Rambo III" by Peter MacDonald
1:56 - "M.A.R.K.-13 - Hardware" by Richard Stanley
1:57 - "Europa" by Lars von Trier
1:58 - "The Silence of the Lambs" by Jonathan Demme
1:59 - "The Addams Family" by Barry Sonnenfield with Raul Julia
2:04 - "Knight Moves" by Carl Schenkel with Christopher Lambert
2:11 - "Caino e Caino" by Alessandro Benvenuti
2:16 - "Searching for Bobby Fischer" by Steven Zaillian
2:26 - "Grumpy Old Men" by Donald Petrie with Jack Lemmon
2:28 - "Botte di Natale" by Terence Hill
2:40 - "Men of War" by Perry Lang with Dolph Lundgren
2:42 - "Sugar Hill" by Leon Ichaso
2:44 - "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" by Peter Segal with Leslie Nielsen
2:48 - "Assassins" by Richard Donner with Sylvester Stallone
2:54 - "Canadian Bacon" by Michael Moore
2:57 - "Othello" by Oliver Parker with Kenneth Branagh
Video: Chess Rhapsody 3
0:04 - "Checkmate" by Dyanna Lauren
0:15 - "Ridicule" by Patrice Leconte
0:20 - "Sabotage" by Tibor Takács with Mark Dacascos
0:24 - "Independence Day" by Roland Emmerich with Jeff Goldblum
0:30 - "Shine" by Scott Hicks
0:32 - "Summer of Fear" by Mike Robe
0:37 - "George of the Jungle" by Sam Weisman
0:39 - "Le comte de Monte Cristo" by J. Dayan with Gérard Depardieu
0:43 - "Train de vie" by Radu Mihaileanu
0:48 - "Bicentennial Man" by Chris Columbus with Robin Williams
0:54 - "The Spy Who Shagged Me" by Jay Roach with Mike Myers
1:11 - "Virus" by John Bruno
1:15 - "The Luzhin Defence" by Marleen Gorris with John Turturro
1:29 - "X-Men" by Bryan Singer
1:36 - "Black Hawk Down" by Ridley Scott
1:37 - "Black Knight" by Gil Junger with Martin Lawrence
1:40 - "Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone" by Chris Columbus
1:48 - "The Last Castle" by Rod Lurie
1:50 - "La regina degli scacchi" by Claudia Florio
2:10 - "Scacco alla Regina" [porno!] by Riccardo Schicchi with Eva Henger
2:30 - "The Navigators" by Ken Loach
2:31 - "Zoolander" [extra bonus in DVD!]
2:32 - "Two Weeks Notice" by Marc Lawrence with Hugh Grant
2:33 - "Global Effect" by Terry Cunningham
2:35 - "Moscow Heat" by Jeff Celentano with Michael York
2:42 - "Il Paradiso allimprovviso" by Leonardo Pieraccioni with Alessandro Haber
2:56 - "Out of Reach" by Po-Chih Leong
3:00 - "The Chronicles of Riddick" by David Twohy
3:02 - "In Enemy Hands" by Tony Giglio
3:06 - "A Love Song for Bobby Long" by Shainee Gabel
3:11 - "Five Fingers" by Laurence Malkin
3:16 - "La terza stella" by Alberto Ferrari
3:19 - "Kingdom of Heaven" by Ridley Scott
3:21 - "Oliver Twist" by Roman Polanski
3:22 - "Revolver" by Guy Ritchie with Jason Statham
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