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CBM Blog: Counterplay counts + Banusz' Breakthrough
24.09.2011
– In rook endings a pawn up, the draw is often secured by counterplay. But how to initiate it? Our resident GM Karsten Müller gives us instruction, using a recent game Bacrot-Robson from the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. And Dr Müller uses another game from two weeks ago to instruct us on the theme of counterplay. Take time to study his examples and
improve your tournament results.
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Edward Winter's Chess Explorations (69)
23.09.2011
– Many forgotten interviews with Alekhine have been reproduced over the years
by the Editor of Chess
Notes. We witness the great champion discussing his chess rivals and predecessors, plans, training routines, blindfold exploits, family background, education, personal lifestyle, pastimes, travel, politics and writings, including the notorious
anti-Semitic articles
published in the Nazi press in 1941.
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Six-Star DVDs with a Wealth of Information
23.09.2011
– This month in the Chess
Cafe Steven B. Dowd looks at three recently released ChessBase DVDs, one each for the opening,
middlegame, and ending. "Each one is very well-done, and contain a wealth
of information for the learner," he writes. "It will probably be the
only time you see me giving six stars – the maximum – to each DVD."
Reviews and links.
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Kavalek in Huffington: Peter Svidler All the Way
23.09.2011
– It was the most amazing move of the 2011 Chess World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, a wonderful coup de grâce you don't see every day. And it could have been enough to play it, go home and enjoy it for years to come.In his Huffington Post chess column GM Lubomir Kavalek peculates that his astonishing move didn't belong to 21st century, where such a brilliant move is
not usually allowed.
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Marginal
23.09.2011
– Following the queen check on f7 Black had taken the bull by the horn with 23...Kh6 (diagram), putting the threats ...cxb2 and ...c4+ into the balance after the possible loss of the knight e7. How is the position to be assessed now? White ...
A)... wins;
B)... achieves perpetual check;
C)... is at a disadvantage.
The solution is here,
but first ponder over it with a
larger version of the diagram.
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Grand Slam Masters Final to start in São Paulo, Brazil
22.09.2011
– The Grand Slam Masters final is set to take place, and continuing the new trend of sharing the event with a partner city, the organizers in Bilbao, Spain have chosen São Paulo this year to host the first half. The participants are World Champion Viswanathan Anand, world number one Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, Vasily Ivanchuk, and Francisco Vallejo Pons.
Don't miss it!
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Kasparov in Clichy - video analysis by IM Andrew Martin
22.09.2011
– It was a wake up call and reminder that Kasparov is not so far gone into retirement that he is no longer competitive at the top. By soundly beating Vachier-Lagrave in two highly publicized blitz games, a top talent rated over 2700, Kasparov showed he wasn't just there for the cameras, he was out for blood. IM Andrew Martin dissected the games and gave insightful commentary in his
video analysis.
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ChessBase Magazine 143 – A Cornucopia of Chess
22.09.2011
– "Serious chess players will relish spending countless hours studying the information in ChessBase Magazine issues," writes Steve Goldberg. "Some players may find just the opening analysis they've been looking for, others will appreciate the impressive depth and breadth of the annotated games, too many to count, annotated by world class players." Goldberg gives it five stars in his
Chess Cafe review.
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First Youth Chess Tournament for Peace
21.09.2011
– This event, organised and sponsored by MonRoi, a St. Laurent-based company which sells an electronic score keeping device to record, store, view and webcast chess games. Twenty-one young chess players participated during the Global Conference on World’s Religions in Montréal, Canada. On this occasion the players had the pleasure to meet
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
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First Youth Chess Tournament for Peace
21.09.2011
– This event, organised and sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Ecumenism, a St. Laurent-based company which sells an electronic score keeping device to record, store, view and webcast chess games. Twenty-one young chess players participated during the Global Conference on World’s Religions in Montréal, Canada. On this occasion the players had the pleasure to meet
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
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Turkey vs Iran with an instructive endgame
21.09.2011
– This eight round double Scheveningen event with top GMs took place from September 8 to 16. Iran won it by ten points, the final score being 21:11. One of the lesser games contained an interesting ending which international trainer Efstratios Grivas, who is also the Turkish coach, has analysed for our readers – another opportunity for you to
hone your endgame skills.
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World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk: Players in the background
21.09.2011
– The organisers of the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk did an extraordinary job, providing the world with live video feed in HD quality, running commentary in Russian and English, live broadcast of the games on the official site and on Playchess, professional pictures in the highest quality we have received from any chess event. Here are some of the
people who made it possible.
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