Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat May 16, 2009 4:00pm.
John Nunn was born April 25, 1955 in London. He won the British Under 14 Championship in 1967 and the London Under 18 Championship two years later. At, 15, he entered college, eventually becoming a doctor of mathematics. In 1975, Nunn was the Euro... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM arunabi on Wed May 13, 2009 11:56pm.
As we had mentioned the previous week, today we will be discussing the English opening. It has been named after the famous English Chess Master Howard Staunton. One of the trickiest parts with this opening is that it can be transposed in... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM thamizhan on Wed May 6, 2009 11:43pm.
Every player has a unique playing style and that should play a huge role in their opening choice. Notice that we use the word "should" here, since we have personally seen many players getting into trouble with wrong opening choices. The opening we... Read more »
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Submitted by
FM FM_Eric_Schiller on Mon May 4, 2009 8:22pm.
Anyone who enjoys chess openings should eagerly await every volume from the New In Chess publication "Secrets of Opening Surprises". The 9th, for example, contains a number of gems.
I'm going to look at one opening that might be of special intere... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM Gserper on Sat May 2, 2009 10:47pm.
This amazing story started 75 years ago and isn’t solved even today. Most of its participants took their secrets to their graves. As years pass, many more victims will be claimed. But let me start from the beginning…
Part One.
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat May 2, 2009 8:22pm.
Andras Adorjan was born March 31, 1950. He was a candidate for the world championship. He has written chess books, including four with "Black is OK" in the title. His opponent in this game is Zoltan Ribli, who was born September 6, 1951 and who al... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM arunabi on Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:02am.
We studied the first three encounters between Van Wely and Radjabov in last week's KID Bayonet attack article. Let us continue to discuss the remaining games of these players. In their constant battle for "The Pursuit of Satisfaction" by which we ... Read more »
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Submitted by
MikeRoesell on Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:43pm.
This variation is known as the Checkhover Variation, and I will be going farther and exploring the Polgar system. The move order to reach this is exactly the same as the open Sicilian. We start as I said in the open Sicilian. 1.e4 c5... Read more »
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Submitted by
Patzer24 on Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:38pm.
Here is a game from the recent GM rapid match, GM Akobian - GM Shulman with full annotations and commentary:
As we see with this game the Benko Gambit opening can be explosive and have a big payoff. Here Black quickly gam... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM arunabi on Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:31am.
This week we will study The King's Indian Defense (KID) Bayonet Attack. This sharp and dynamic opening was regularly employed by some of the World Champions like Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian. They introduced exce... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM Gserper on Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:26pm.
I will always remember the day I signed up for my first chess club. Even though most of the members there were about my age (7-8 years old), they all seemed more experienced and smarter than me. So, when one of the kids asked me if I wanted to... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM thamizhan on Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:09am.
We will continue our study of the IQP in the Panov-Botvinnik attack. We had given the main ideas related to the IQP pawn structure in last week's article, so we will get right to business this time with the games.
The next game is a beautiful mi... Read more »
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Submitted by
Patzer24 on Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:16pm.
Here is a game from the 2009 Foxwoods Open, FM Mandizha - IM Robson with full annotations and commentary:
In this game we see the Black player choose the very sharp anti-Moscow gambit against his much lower rated oppone... Read more »
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Submitted by
Jochem220 on Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:28am.
I was playing around with possible responses for black to the two knights defence and stumbled upon this interesting response. Check it out. Is this a playable alternative??? Please leave your insights!
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Submitted by
Ripper89 on Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:30am.
I have played a 30 minutes live chess game against a player who was more than 100 rating points ahead of me and I managed to beat him using the two knights defense.I have learned this defense watching this video where two FIDE masters explain it: ... Read more »
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Submitted by
downie78 on Thu Apr 9, 2009 8:12pm.
Here is a trap for white in the Queen's Gambit accepted version caused by a bad move by black.The Queen's Gambit accepted is not very popular, most people play the declined version.This is just a trap in the accepted version that i thought was int... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM thamizhan on Thu Apr 9, 2009 1:12am.
As we had mentioned last week, today we will be taking a look into the Panov-Botvinnik attack against the Caro-Kann defense. We will discuss some of the important positions and the different main variations of the opening like the previous week. W... Read more »
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Submitted by
FM FM_Eric_Schiller on Wed Apr 8, 2009 4:25pm.
in this article I present a number of strategies for black involving early queenside play with the Queen against the white opening with 1.d4 and 2.Nf3. Some of these are almost completely unexplored and provide scope for original work. That's pr... Read more »
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Submitted by
Pirc-defence on Tue Apr 7, 2009 11:27am.
As far as I know, there isn't an article about any Anti-Pirc lines. So I'm glad to show this interesting one (it is called the delayed spike).... I used to play the Pirc a lot (as my name indicates), so I know this is a dangerous line!
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Submitted by
Liam46 on Tue Apr 7, 2009 5:30am.
Try moving your pawns to squares that anticipate the opposing Knights second moves in opening play. For example: If playing Black, move c6 to counter N-f3 on the King side or f6 to counter N-b3 on the Queen side. This is an extension of the ... Read more »
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Submitted by
Patzer24 on Mon Apr 6, 2009 10:05pm.
Here is a game from the 2009 Reykjavik Open, FM Thorfinnsson - FM Lucaroni with full commentary and annotations:
I was very interested in first seeing this game. The Dutch defense has been a bit suspect at the highest levels of... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Apr 4, 2009 1:51pm.
This game is about one line of the Queen's Indian Defense. White is Garry Kasparov. He was born April 13, 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan. He won the world championship in 1985 from Anatoly Karpov. He was FIDE champion until 1993 when he split with FIDE.... Read more »
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Submitted by
killthequeen on Fri Apr 3, 2009 10:42pm.
A gambit, traditionally, is a pawn sacrifice in the early stages of the opening. There are many reasons that gambits are played: often to gain tempo, good/quick development, to weaken an opponent's position; but not many people realise the psychol... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM arunabi on Thu Apr 2, 2009 1:57am.
You have probably noticed that we have changed our title names in the article. You must have read plenty of articles and maybe seen some videos where people and sometimes Anand himself try to explain the secret behind his first and last names. Wel... Read more »
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Submitted by
MikeRoesell on Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:53pm.
Once again I will be addressing my favorite defense to 1. e4, the Sicilian Pelikan
This opening is characterized by the move order 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5!
... Read more »
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