Daily puzzle 042107

What do you play with Black? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

27…Qb3!! 28.Nf2 [28.Qg4 Qxe3+ 29.Kh1 Qe1+!!–+] 28…Qxe3 29.Qb1 Qe2 30.h3 Bxf2+ 31.Bxf2 Rxf2 0–1, Gonzalez-Corrales, Ciego de Avila 2005.

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Endgames are fun!

Chess players who like to improve their game, are always adviced by trainers not to spend too much time on openings. “Study the endgame. Your game will benefit from this for the rest of your life.” But, as I always thought, and many other ambitious players with me: endgames are no fun? I must say that I started to appreciate studying the endgame some more after Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual was published, but now three books have appeared that make it even more fun. Read more

Watch Anand for free day on ICC

On Saturday 21 April you can play on ICC for free (even if you tried a 7-day trial once) and watch Anand raising funds for his favorite charity Vidya Sagar. At 12:00pm Eastern Time (16:00 GMT – 18:00 CET), Anand will be playing a 90-minute simul against opponents who have all bid on eBay for seats to play. Not only can you watch all the action as it happens on the board, you can also watch ICC’s exclusive AnandCam that will show the world #1 playing the simul live from his home in Spain. The event is hosted by Mig and Macauley. More info at ICC.

Daily puzzle 042007

What do you play with Black? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

17.Rxd7!! Qxd7 (17…Bxd7 18.Qc3) 18.Qc3 Qg4 19.Nfg5! and White won in Bologan-Movsesian, Sarajevo 2005.

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Daily puzzle 041907

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

22.g4!! Rxd1 23.Rxd1 Nd5+ 24.Rxd5 Qxd5 25.Qxa7 Rd8 26.Qxb7 Qh1?! 27.Qb6! and White won in Nielsen-Haba, Duitsland 2005.

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The fastest way to win more games

The fastest way to win more games of chess is by improving your tactical abilities. This is very good news because virtually all of us love tactics.

A few days ago a new book arrived in our warehouse: My Daily Exercise: 365 Tactical Test to Improve Your Chess. It has some distinctive features:

• the exercises are listed in random order (in most collections you get an unwelcome hint to the solution because there is a listing by theme - here you are on your own!)
• the lay-out of the pages with the solutions is such that when looking one up, you cannot take a peak at the solution of the next one (oh, you never did that?)
• it costs only € 16.95.

Don’t be too sure this book is not for you because it says “From beginner to club player”. A couple of our staff had serious problems (and lots of fun) in mastering this book.

Please have a look at it here.

Sigeman & Gausdal

Two Scandinavian tournaments have started today. First there is the Sigeman & Co Tournament, which has been organised since 1993. Our compatriot Jan Timman has been quite succesful in Malmö (2nd in 2000, shared 1st in 2001 and 2005 and clear 1st last year) and naturally plays again this year, together with Erwin l’Ami, Johnny Hector, Tiger Hillarp-Persson, Emanuel Berg, Pontus Carlsson, Ivan Cheparinov, Parimarjan Negi, Vasilios Kotronias and Emil Hermansson. A field that will surely serve us some great games. And then there’s the Gausdal Classics, also starting today, with Magnus Carlsen, Michael Krasenkov, Alexei Dreev, Eduardas Rozentalis, Kjetil Lie, Kaido Kualots, Gawain Jones, Lajos Portisch (!), Irina Krush en Eric Moskow. Read more

Daily puzzle 041807

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

33.Bxb8!! Kxb8 34.h4 and White won the ending, Gelfand-Malakhov, Russia 2005.

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Where did our money go?

The European Championships in Dresden was quite succesful from an organisational point of view. Unfortunately ChessVibes had to report about some negative points as well. And we have to add one more. Today we received an open letter by one of the participants, GM Erik van den Doel. He and other players were very disappointed about the hotel food and after doing some math, they are confused about part of the money they paid for accomodation. Read more

Daily puzzle 041707

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

75.Rxf5! exf5 76.Kf3 Rb4 77.Nh4 Rb3+ 78.Kf2 Rb8 79.Nxf5 Rf8 80.Kg3 Rxf5 81.Kg4 Rf8 82.g6 Kb7 83.f5 Kc6 84.g7 Rg8 85.f6 Kd6 86.Kf5 1–0, Roiz-Gofshtein, Israel 2005.

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Terrific Tatiana (and Tkachiev)

Vladislav Tkachiev from France became the new European Champion after he beat Cheparinov, Jakovenko and Sutovsky in yesterday’s tiebreak. They had ended shared first with Pavasovic, Cheparinov, Sakaev and (IM!) Iljin with 8 out of 11. It was far less exciting in the women’s section. In what was really Tatiana’s Tournament, the youngest Kosintseva put down a magnificent 10 out of 11 (with a tpr of 2774, better than any of the performers in the open section, as was noted by Dennis Monokroussos). The tiebreaks brought her sister Nadezhda bronze and Antoaneta Stefanova silver. Read more

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Daily puzzle 041607

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

24…Rxc2!! 25.Qxc2 Nxd5 26.Bd2 Qa8! and Black had a strong initiative in Dominguez-Bologan, Poikovsky 2005.

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Spassky & Portisch level age and match

This weekend the two distinguished gentlemen Lajos Portisch and Boris Spassky played a six games rapid match against each other. Both are seventy years old and both scored three points. The match was held in the spa town of Hévíz (Hungary) which is located in the biggest thermal lake on earth (Hévíz means ‘warm, streaming spring’). The lake of Hévíz is warmed by a geothermical spring and its water is around 28°C all year long. But of course the two chess legends didn’t come there to just bob in the water. Read more

Daily puzzle 041507

What do you play with Black? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:
27…Rxg3!! 28.Nxe6 fxe6 29.Qxe6+ [29.Qf7 Rgh3 30.Kg2 Rxh2+ 31.Kf3 Rxc2 32.Te1 Rh4 33.Qxe6+ Kb8 34.Re2 Rxf4+ 35.Kg2 Rxe2+ 36.Qxe2 Rh4 with a big advantage] 29…Rxe6 30.hxg3 Re2 31.Bxh7 Rxb2 32.a4 Rb3 33.axb5 axb5 34.Rc1 d4 35.cxd4 Rxg3 36.Bf5+ Kb7 37.Rf1 Kb6 38.Be6 Rd3 39.d5 b4 40.f5 b3–+ Dominguez-Bruzon, Cuban Ch 2005.

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Kasparov arrested

Garry Kasparov was arrested today by the Russian police at a banned anti-Kremlin rally in central Moscow. It seems the police didn’t wait as long as they did last month in St Petersburg and wouldn’t let Kasparov and his Other Russia spread the anti-Putin word. The Russian President didn’t take half measures and threw in more than 9,000 police men to prevent the rally going ahead. Kasparov wanted to join the rally but was arrested together with other activists as well as journalists. Read more

Weekly Endgame Study (15)

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 041407

What do you play with Black? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

18. Nf8!! +- Rh4 (18… Nf3+ 19. Qxf3! Rxf3 20. Ng6+ Kh7 21. Nxe7+ g6 22. Nxg6! Rf6 23. Ne5+ Kg7 24. Ng4!) 19. Nxd7 Nxd7 20. g3 Rh6 21. Be3 Bg5 22. f4 Be7 23. Nd4 Bh7 24. Bxh7 Rxh7 25. Nc6 Qe8 26. Qxd5 Ba3 27. Bd4! and White won in Shabalov-Mikhalevski, Lake George 2005.

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Copyright on chess games?

Every now and then the discussion flares up again. Can copyright be applied to a chess game? Is the game score a specific property of the players, or perhaps of the tournament, and can they prevent others from publishing them? The discussion is topical again because of the little gadget of the company Monroi which is being used more and more at chess tournaments (like Gibraltar, the US Championship and the current European Championships). Players ‘write down’ their moves digitally and the games are broadcast live on the internet automatically. But what is the case? Monroi’s small print says that by registering to their website, you have agreed to recognize Monroi’s copyright on game scores! Read more

Daily puzzle 041307

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

23.Nef6! gxf6 24.Nxf6 Qc4 25.Re4 Ncd4 26.Bh6+ Ke7 27.cxd4 Nxd4 28.Rc1 Qxa2 29.Rxd4 Rhd8 30.Rf4 d2 31.Rc3 Qa4 32.Ng8+ Ke8 33.Nf6+ Ke7 34.Nd5+ Rxd5 35.Rxf7+ Kd8 36.Rf8+ Ke7 37.Bg5+ 1–0, Sutovsky-I. Sokolov, Great Brittain 2005

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