I. me vs. Computer4-IMPOSSIBLE (rating 2337)

link: http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=800088676

II. me vs. Computer4-IMPOSSIBLE (rating 2446)

link: http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=1212149128

Checkmate with knight + bishop + king vs. king:

link: http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=95039228

Alexander Grischuk Chess Club - Join us!

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"Alexander Grischuk Chess Club" - Ratings and Rankings

As of 1 February 2015, Grischuk's ratings and rankings were as follows:

<Standard> 2810 (Russian #1; world #3);

<Rapid> 2846 (world #3); and

<Blitz> 2852 (world #3). Please join us!

http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=337 Grischuk is credited as saying in respect of World championship aspirations that "In Russia we have a saying: a soldier who doesn't want to be a General, is a bad soldier."
Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (Russian: Алекса́ндр И́горевич Грищу́к; born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster and Russian Champion in 2009.
He has won two team gold medals and one individual bronze medal at Chess Olympiads.
He was a member of the gold-medal winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship in Antalya 2013.
He has also won the World Blitz Chess Championships of 2006 and 2012.
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Regards!

Alekhine Chess Club

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This international group is for those players who admire the genius of Alekhine.

Lets try to understand his deep understanding of the game and of corse lets put it on practice.

We have good matches and strong vote chess games with instructive commentaries. quotes: "When asked, "How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?", I responded: I'm very glad you asked that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his." "I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees."

“Good positions don’t win games, good moves do” (Gerald Abrahams)

“That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one” (Bobby Fischer)

“Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!” (Stephan Gerzadowicz)

“Its just you and your opponent at the board and you’re trying to prove something” (Bobby Fischer)

What is chess?

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders - Savielly Tartakower
Chess is a beautiful mistress. - Larsen
Chess is life - Bobby Fischer
Chess is like life - Boris Spassky
Chess is everything - art, science, and sport. - Karpov
Chess is 99 percent tactics. - Teichmann
Chess is really 99 percent calculation - Soltis
Chess is mental torture. - Kasparov
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. - Nigel Short
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe - Indian proverb
Chess is as much a mystery as women - Purdy

Reflections

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. - Tarrasch
You cannot play at chess if you are kind-hearted. - French Proverb
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all. - Fischer
Every chess master was once a beginner. - Chernev
Life is too short for chess. - Byron
A good player is always lucky. - Capablanca
A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose! - Tartakower
When the chess game is over, the pawn and the king go back to the same box - Irish saying contributed by Etienne Goldstein

General Tips

When you see a good move wait - look for a better one. - Emanuel Lasker
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine. - Spielmann
All that matters on the chessboard is good moves. - Bobby Fischer
The pawns are the soul of chess. - Philidor

Tactics

The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. - Tartakover
No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King. - Koblentz
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Tartakover
A man surprised is half beaten. - Proverb
Chess is 99 percent tactics. - Teichmann
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine. - Tal
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary. - Nimzovich
The pin is mightier than the sword. - Reinfeld
The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind. - Emanuel Lasker
Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard. - Fine
If the student forces himself to examine all moves that smite, however absurd they may look at first glance, he is on the way to becoming a master of tactics. - Purdy
The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do. - Gerald Abrahams
Examine moves that smite! A good eye for smites is far more important than a knowledge of strategical principles. - Purdy
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. - Reti
In the perfect chess combination as in a first-rate short story, the whole plot and counter-plot should lead up to a striking finale, the interest not being allayed until the very last moment. - Yates and Winter
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course. - Tarrasch
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men. - Tartakover

Middlegame

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself; chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc. - Znosko-Borovsky
Before the endgame, the gods have placed the middlegame. - Tarrasch

Endgame

Every pawn is a potential Queen. - Mason
The Passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient. - Nimzovich
A Passed Pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. - Capablanca
Any material change in a position must come about by mate, a capture, or a Pawn -promotion. - Purdy

Planning

Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all. - Mikhail Chigorin
It is not a move, even the best move, that you must seek, but a realisable plan. - Znosko-Borovsky
Analysis

Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration. - Purdy
Chess is the art of analysis. - Botvinnik
Chess mastery essentially consists of analysing chess positions accurately. - Botvinnik
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half - Jan Tinman

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