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IM Silmanon Wed Feb 8, 2012 12:00am.
Here is a game I played in a G/60 tournament on 9/24/11. This game is the third of a four round tournament. Both my opponent and I have one point and need to win to have a chance of doing something in the fourth round. I am playing white... Read more »
4269 reads | 15 comments | 6 votes:
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WGM Natalia_Pogoninaon Tue Feb 7, 2012 12:00am.
The king is the main piece in chess, and the central object in any player’s thoughts. How do I protect my own king and checkmate the opponent’s monarch? While being quite valuable, the king can’t boast being mobile enough to figh... Read more »
4594 reads | 30 comments | 4 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Feb 1, 2012 12:00am.
“I read Winning Chess Strategies and RAYC 4th Ed. this year and then decided to enter my first OTB tournament in 20 years: the 2011 U.S. Class Championship.
“GM Timur Gareev, at over 2700, was heading up the master section, while I was sett... Read more »
6078 reads | 17 comments | 6 votes:
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IM Silmanon Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:00am.
Vivasyriaa (1651) – JoLou77USA (1259), chess.com 2011
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6
Ah, the Philidor Defense! There's a lot more to this interesting opening than most realize.
3.d4 Nf6
Gambit lovers occasionally try 3…f5.
&n... Read more »
6216 reads | 24 comments | 7 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:00am.
2000 – 1900, Kolty Merope 2011 [A00a]
1.d4 d5 2.e4 e6
1900 said: “Instead of playing into a Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, I chose to transform the structure into a French Defense, with which I have more experience.” ... Read more »
4254 reads | 10 comments | 5 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:00am.
checkmateibeatu (1200) vs. jetfighter13 (1130), friendly game, chess.com 2011
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4
jetfighter13 said – “White has an impressive center built up, my ... Read more »
4923 reads | 27 comments | 10 votes:
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benwson Sat Jan 7, 2012 12:00am.
This must be one of the craziest chess games ever played.
This is not a typical Maroczy game, as he and Forgacs duke it out with one wild, unpredictable move after the other. Even the uncommon opening (ten straight pawn moves!?) is notable.
Here... Read more »
2772 reads | 13 comments | 2 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Jan 4, 2012 12:00am.
MB said: “I have a game for your consideration. Lately I have been “playing up” in chess tournaments, trying to raise my own rating or at least learn from the better competition. I often find myself with a small advantage, but one that I’v... Read more »
5418 reads | 15 comments | 5 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Dec 28, 2011 12:00am.
xombie said, “I aim for a restraint formation to prevent black’s development and park on the light squares, following which some tactics emerge in the form of a pawn break and a knight sacrifice. Black’s pieces are too slow to pr... Read more »
5051 reads | 12 comments | 5 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:00am.
CP said: “This game was played a few weeks ago, at a strong tournament in which I played up into the Open section. I was playing with the black pieces and lost the game after a five-hour struggle that went past 1 AM – to date the longe... Read more »
6970 reads | 19 comments | 7 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:00am.
Mr. O’Dowd said: “I’m struggling to get to my best form at the moment, and this game may encapsulate some of my worse thinking – it certainly shows some of my lower areas of positional understanding (I wouldn’t send you anything I played... Read more »
6996 reads | 19 comments | 5 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Dec 7, 2011 12:00am.
Mr. BallsofSteeel brings us yet another movie-based name (for some reason, with a 3rd "e"), this time from Christopher Walken’s ping-pong film, BALLS OF STEEL.
BallsofSteeel (1512) vs. The Butcher’s Daughter (1879), Tournoi De Culo 2... Read more »
5697 reads | 21 comments | 8 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:00am.
The guy playing White has a wonderfully colorful name. For those not in the know about what "boomstick" alludes to, it was used in the movie ARMY OF DARKNESS in which Ash (played by the legendary Bruce Campbell), after being accidentally transport... Read more »
5886 reads | 26 comments | 4 votes:
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benwson Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:00am.
This is an intriguing game. After Gomes is forced to weaken his kingside pawn structure, Netto uncorcks an extremely subtle 14th move. Its purpose is only made clear after his next few moves, in which he blasts open the g-file and finds a winning ... Read more »
1311 reads | 8 comments | 0 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:00am.
rvkoivu said: “I have one interesting game to offer. It was a 15 10 game played at Chess.com against an opponent rated 2152. I was rated 1521 at that moment, currently 1596 (1930 in CC). I have played chess for three years, and I tend t... Read more »
6640 reads | 21 comments | 6 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:00am.
Quite a while ago I was asked to teach a Southern California chess camp filled with very young children. On the first day, I lectured about some really basic things, only to discover that virtually all the kids would hang everything as quickly as ... Read more »
7699 reads | 33 comments | 6 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Nov 9, 2011 12:00am.
David Wagle writes- “This year I returned to the game (after a 10 year hiatus) and competition I love, with the hope of at least not embarrassing myself. And while I’ve played a few games where I did just that, this isn&rsquo... Read more »
6928 reads | 25 comments | 6 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Nov 2, 2011 12:00am.
Baumgartner – “As a little background, this was the highest-rated opponent I had played OTB to this point. I had been rated 1400 just a few months ago, but recently had been going to many tournaments and beating quite a ... Read more »
12159 reads | 29 comments | 8 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:00am.
knightmagic (1641) - bencikm (1725), ChessCube Game 2011 (1 hour each for whole game)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.f3
White is intending to make use of the very sharp English Attack, which usually starts with 6.Be3. However... Read more »
9658 reads | 24 comments | 8 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:00am.
Tin Phan (1635) – Tae Kim (1860), National High School Championship 2011
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 d6 6.f3 Nbd7
&nb... Read more »
6431 reads | 25 comments | 8 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:00am.
Vaclav Pekar wrote: “I would like to ask you about my game with GM Voloshin. I played it in the Trade Fair Chess Festival in Brno (Czech Republic). I was doing really well in this tournament until this game. Except for the first round (which... Read more »
8308 reads | 27 comments | 31 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Oct 5, 2011 12:00am.
The_Rooky (1657) – Salander (1604), Chess.com, Aug. 2011
All notes in quotes with the initials TMS (The Mighty Salander) are, obviously, Salander’s.
1.e4 e5 2.a3
This looks like the move of an imbecile, but there’s actually some sense to ... Read more »
6117 reads | 39 comments | 12 votes:
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IM Silmanon Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:00am.
drakkar-noir (1786) - E. Karadayi (1808), ECO B15, 2011
1.e4 d5
A Center Counter, which has had a revival in recent years.
2.d4
White usually chops on d5 (2.exd5) when 2…Qxd5 3.Nc3 is met by both 3…Qa5 and also 3&hellip... Read more »
7996 reads | 37 comments | 9 votes:
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NM GreenLaseron Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:00am.
The long competition between the world champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov reached game number 162 in round ten at Linares in 1993. Karpov as White opposed Kasparov’s King’s Indian Defense with the Saemisch Variation. In order to not f... Read more »
5303 reads | 37 comments | 0 votes:
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benwson Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:00am.
This is one of Tal's best games. It was played when he was just 19, and it was his first appearance in the finals of the USSR Championship. It was likely the first game to bring international attention to Tal, and he later wrote that it was repr... Read more »
5469 reads | 25 comments | 2 votes:
