Saturday, October 30, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Pogonina - Hou, European Club Cup 2010
Natalija Pogonina - Yifan Hou, round 7, European Club Cup 2010.
Riazantsev - Shirov, European Club Cup 2010
Alexander Riazantsev - Alexei Shirov, round 7, European Club Cup 2010.
Mamedyarov - Gelfand, European Club Cup 2010
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov - Boris Gelfand, round 7, European Club Cup 2010.
Dambacher - Jobava, European Club Cup 2010
Martijn Dambacher - Baadur Jobava, round 7, European Club Cup 2010.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Khurtsidze - Fominykh, European Club Cup 2010
Nino Khurtsidze - Maria Fominykh, round 6, European Club Cup 2010.
Danielian - Koneru, European Club Cup 2010
Elina Danielian - Humpy Koneru, round 6, European Club Cup 2010.
Korobov - Karjakin, European Club Cup 2010
Anton Korobov - Sergey Karjakin, round 6, European Club Cup 2010.
Movsesian - Shirov, European Club Cup 2010
Sergei Movsesian - Alexei Shirov, round 6, European Club Cup 2010.
Postny - Dreev, European Club Cup 2010
Evgeny Postny - Alexey Dreev, round 6, European Club Cup 2010.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Alekseev - Grischuk, European Club Cup 2010
Evgeny Alekseev - Alexander Grischuk, round 5, European Club Cup 2010.
Cmilyte - Chiburdanidze, European Club Cup 2010
Viktorija Cmilyte - Maia Chiburdanidze, round 5, European Club Cup 2010.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Mkrtchian - Chelushkina, European Club Cup 2010
Lilit Mkrtchian - Irina Chelushkina, round 4, European Club Cup 2010.
Naiditsch - Nikolov, European Club Cup 2010
Arkadij Naiditsch - Momchil Nikolov, round 4, European Club Cup 2010.
Zhigalko - Mamedyarov, European Club Cup 2010
Andrey Zhigalko - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, round 4, European Club Cup 2010.
Svidler - Berg, European Club Cup 2010
Peter Svidler - Emanuel Berg, round 4, European Club Cup 2010.
Hammer - Ivanchuk, European Club Cup 2010
Jon Ludvig Hammer - Vassily Ivanchuk, round 4, European Club Cup 2010.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Karjakin - Vallejo Pons, European Club Cup 2010
Sergey Karjakin - Francisco Vallejo Pons, round 3, European Club Cup 2010.
Aronian - Ivanchuk, European Club Cup 2010
Levon Aronian - Vassily Ivanchuk, round 3, European Club Cup 2010.
Riazantsev - Naiditsch, European Club Cup 2010
Alexander Riazantsev - Arkadij Naiditsch, round 3, European Club Cup 2010.
Koneru - Fierro Baquero, European Club Cup 2010
The game Humpy Koneru - Martha Lorena Fierro Baquero, round 3, European Club Cup 2010.
Opening: Alapin-Blackburne Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Bg4 4.dxe5 Nd7
Or 1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 d6 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.e4 Nd7.
5.exd6 Bxd6 6.Be2
6.Nc3 Qe7 A. Shabalov - P. Laub, 1992
6.Nc3 Ngf6 7.Be2 Games: 7...Qe7 , 7...0-0
6...Ngf6 7.Nc3 Qe7 8.Nd4 Bxe2
8...Nxe4 9.Nxe4 Qxe4 10.f3 Qe7 11.fxg4 Qh4+ 12.Kf1
12...Bc5 R. Hernandez - J. Hernandez, 1985
12...0-0-0 S. Kristjansson - Galvez Datin, 2006
9.Qxe2 Bb4 T. Kosintseva - L. Yurtaev, 2002
Monday, October 18, 2010
Huzman - Aronian, European Club Cup 2010
The game Alexander Huzman - Levon Aronian, round 2, European Club Cup 2010.
Opening: The Polar Bear System
The Polar Bear System, video 1:
Grandmaster Henrik Danielsen's videos about the Polar Bear System:
At YouTube
At Chessdom.com:
Part 1.1 - 1.2
Part 2.1 - 2.3
GM Henrik Danielsen - GM Sune Berg Hansen, 2005
Games annotated by Alexander Baburin
Two games annotated by Alexander Baburin:
Baburin – Becerra. Havana 1999
Baburin - Lakdawala, San Francisco 2001
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Preparation for combinations
How can we raise the courage to play sacrificial moves?
And, how can we improve the likelihood of getting the chance?
Link to the article Preparation for combinations.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Endgame studies from Chess Informant 107
ChessCafe article with endgame studies from Chess Informant 107.
Link to the article (pdf document).
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Collection correspondence chess games
5,786 replayable/downloadable correspondence chess games.
Link to the games.
Sicilian Scheveningen II
A Sicilian Scheveningen game annotated by Lubomir Kavalek.
Link to more games Sicilian Scheveningen.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Lines that could never happen
Dan Heisman writes in an article at jeremysilman.com:
One thing I have learned from listening to hundreds of amateurs analyze out loud is that they spend inordinate amounts of time analyzing lines that could never happen.
Link to article.
Moving too quickly
Moving too quickly is one of the most common causes of unnecessary mistakes, writes
Dan Heisman in an article at ChessCafe.com.
Link to article (pdf document).
A Chessplayer and How He Grows
A Chessplayer and How He Grows, a Mark Dvoretsky article at ChessCafe.com.
Link to article (pdf document).
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Almasi – Harikrishna, Reggio Emilia 2007/2008
Annotations to the game Zoltan Almasi – Pentala Harikrishna, played in the tournament Reggio Emilia 2007/2008.
Link to pdf document.
Mark Bluvshtein: A milestone in my chess career
Mark Bluvshtein about his game against ex-World Champion Veselin Topalov in the Chess Olympiad 2010.
Link to the article.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
When Opportunity Knocks II
The position below is from the game Mikheil Mchedlishvili - Evgeniy Podolchenko,
round 8 of the Chess Olympiad 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
Black has just played Qc3-e5?? A better move would have been to play Qf6.
White has now the chance to play a very strong move.
Solution
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