Daily puzzle 020507
5 February 2007 by Editors | Leave a Comment
Daily puzzle 020507
Black plays and wins. The solution will be published tomorrow.
Yesterday’s solution:
46. Bf6!! g6 (46…gxf6 47.exf6 +-) 47. hxg6 fxg6 48.Kg5 1-0 (Kramnik-Bareev, Wijk aan Zee 2003).
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Carlsen ready for Monaco
4 February 2007 by Peter Doggers | 9 Comments
Magnus Carlsen seems ready for Monaco. In March the yearly rapid and blindfold tournament Melody Amber will take place there, and this weekend a Scandinavian group of four played a blindfold tournament as a preparation for Magnus, on the island of Funen, Denmark. His co-participants were the GM’s Peter Heine Nielsen and Emanuel Berg and the strong IM Steffen Pedersen. Carlsen won the mini tournament by beating his own second Heine Nielsen in the final. Read more
Daily puzzle 020407
4 February 2007 by Editors | 3 Comments
Daily puzzle 020407
White plays and wins. The solution will be published tomorrow.
Yesterday’s solution:
17…Bf2+! 18.Qxf2 Qxh1+ 19. Bf1 Qxh8 and Black won (Kunzelmann-Nesterenko, corr. 1976).
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Weekly Endgame Study (5)
3 February 2007 by Yochanan Afek | 4 Comments
Every Saturday an endgame study is published at Chessvibes, selected by Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Read more
Daily puzzle 020307
3 February 2007 by Editors | 4 Comments
Black plays and wins. The solution will be published tomorrow.
Yesterday’s solution:
40…Ra8+!! 41. Qxa8 Qxg4+ 42. Kh1 Rd7 and Black won (London-Edinburgh, corr. 1824).
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Akopian succesful too
2 February 2007 by Editors | 7 Comments
After the nice (shared) victory of Levon Aronian in Wijk aan Zee, his compatriot Vladimir Akopian started the year 2007 successfully as well. He took clear first place at the tournament in Gibraltar (7,5 out of 9) after a quick victory over Kuzubov in the last round. Areshchenko, Nakamura and Sutovsky didn’t do badly either with 7 out of 9. Read more
Daily puzzle 020207
2 February 2007 by Editors | 6 Comments
Black plays and wins. The solution will be published tomorrow.
Yesterday’s solution:
1. g4+ fxg4 2. hxg4+ Kh4 3. Qxh6+ Qxh6 4.Kh2 1-0 (Schlechter-Meitner, Vienna 1899)
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Interview with Anatoly Karpov
1 February 2007 by Peter Doggers | 34 Comments
There it is. The Big Chessvibes Interview with Anatoly Karpov. Wednesday morning I spoke to him about half an hour in The Hague, where he was to play a simul later that day against members of the Dutch parliament. (By the way, the score was 21 wins and 2 draws for the ex-world champion). The questions I asked him, were put forward in advance by you, the visitors, on the Chessvibes website. (Because we were limited by the clock, not all questions could be asked.) This way I think we managed to make it an interview with a nice mix of subjects that are interesting for a broad audience. Enjoy! Read more
Chessvibes poll: rule draw offer should be changed
1 February 2007 by Peter Doggers | 33 Comments
According to the visitors of Chessvibes the current rule about the draw offer should be changed, to fight short draws. The majority (59%) likes to either allow a draw offer only after a certain amount of moves, or not to be allowed at all. This is the result of the current Chessvibes poll (in the grey column) about the draw offer, which is similar to the current suvey of the Association of Chess Professionals for their members and title holders. Read more
Daily puzzle 020107
1 February 2007 by Editors | 8 Comments
White plays and wins. The solution will be published tomorrow.
Yesterday’s solution:
1. Rxh5 gxh5 2. g6 e5 3. gxf7+ Kf8 4. Be3 d5 5. exd5 Rxf7 6. d6 Rf6 7.
Bg5 Qb7 8. Bxf6 Bxf6 9. d7 Rd8 10. Qd6+ 1-0
(Fischer-Larsen, Portoroz 1958)
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