Daily puzzle 051307

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

Yesterday’s solution:

21.Rxe7! Kxe7 22.c5 Kf8 23.Bxd6+ Kg8 24.c6 with a big advantage, Steiner-Glauser, Switzerland 1966.

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Weekly Endgame Study (19)

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 051207

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

Yesterday’s solution:

21.Nf5! gxf5 22.Qh5 h6 23.Bxf5 Qc6 24.e6! 1-0, Matulovic-Gasic, Sarajevo 1966.

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Khamrakulov the strongest in Salou

With a relatively short draw against Felix Levin today Ibragim Khamrakulov secured himself of the title in Salou. He was the only player with 7 points out of 8 games, and of the group of titled players that followed, nobody had 6,5! For myself, I shouldn’t have lost against Levin in round 7, and didn’t have much of a chance against Epishin afterwards. I can recommend the Salou tournament, als long as bit of noise during the game is no problem for you (cause the chatter of the people in the hall is the only negative aspect I could think of). Read more

Daily puzzle 051107

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

Yesterday’s solution:
23.b3!! Qxa5 24.Qe6+ Kh8 25.Qf7= Qb6 26.Re1 Qa7?? [26...Qxb3! 27.Re8 Qb1+ 28.Kh2 Rxe8 29.Qxe8 Kg8 30.Qe6+ Kh8 31.Qf7 h6 32.Qxf8+ Kh7 33.Qb8 Qb6=] 27.Re4! Qb8 28.Nh4! g5 [28...h6 29.Nf5 c6 30.Nxh6+-] 29.Nf5 1–0, Puc-Damjanovic, Yugoslavia 1966.

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Daily puzzle 051007

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

Yesterday’s solution:

28.Qa1!! Qe8 29.Re1 Qf8 30.Qc1! Qc8 31.Qh6 1-0, Urbanec-Gonsior, corr. 1966.

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The coffee machine

A lot is happening in the chess world, like Aronian beating Kramnik 4-2 in a rapid match and the Mtel Masters starting today in Sofia. On Sunday I will arrive in Sofia and most probably I will have a better internet connection than here (in whole Salou there’s no wifi). In the Hotel Negresco Princess here in Salou everybody is enjoying the weather (that’s really great now) during the day and playing chess in the afternoon. Not much has happened here in the last few days that’s worthy of mentioning. Or it must be the coffee machine and especially the way it’s being interpreted by the tourists. Read more

Daily puzzle 050907

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

Yesterday’s solution:

15.Qg5! with the advantage, Spassky-Petrosian, Moskou (m/23) 1966.

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Interview with GM Kevin Spraggett

Today the second video from Salou. I had a short interview with GM Kevin Spraggett, about himself and about the Spanish tournaments.

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Daily puzzle 050807

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

Yesterday’s solution:

23.Nd7! Qxd7 (23…Nxd7 24.Qh5!) 24.Bxf6 Qc6 25.Rd5! +- Hecht-Keene, East-Germany 1966.

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First videos from Salou!

ChessVibes wouldn’t be ChessVibes if there were no videos from Salou. Today the first: the post-mortem of the very interesting game from the third round on board 1, Castellanos-Spraggett. Castellanos completely refutes the opening set-up of Spraggett, recommended by players such as Bologan and Shirov. The quiet 14.Qh3 would have led to a winning advantage for White. However, the Chilean player was slightly too blood-thirsty…

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Daily puzzle 050707

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

Yesterday’s solution:

22.Bb1! Kf8 23.Ba2 +- Ciric-Kotov, Sarajevo 1966.

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Vladimir Epishin

Three rounds have been played in Salou. There have been a few surprises already, like GM Felix Levin only drawing in round 1 (!) and Epishin only being on 1,5 out of three. More about him later. Another surprise, in round 2, was “the other Dutch guy” here in Salou, Paul Span, again not showing up for his game. I don’t know what happened and I’m not sure if he spoke to the organizers between rounds 1 and 2. What I do know from the arbiter is that if he didn’t break a leg or something, he won’t be accepted in Salou ever again. Read more

Daily puzzle 050607

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

Yesterday’s solution:
27.g4!! e4!? 28.gxh5 f4!? [28...exd3! 29.Qxd3 Rae8!] 29.Rxg7!! Qxg7 30.Rg1 Qe5 [30...exd3 31.Qxd3 Qxg1+ 32.Kxg1 Rg8+ 33.Kh1!] 31.Nf3!! exd3 and now White should have played 32.Qxd3! Bf5 33.Nxe5! Bxd3 34.Bd4!! dxe5 35.Bxe5+ Kh7 36.Rg7+ Kh8 37.Rxc7+ Kg8 38.Rg7+ Kh8 39.Rxa7+ Kg8 40.Rg7+ Kh8 41.Rg3+!± in Petrosian-Spassky, Moscow (m/12) 1966.

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Weekly Endgame Study (18)

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 050507

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

Yesterday’s solution:

32.f5! Nxe5 33.dxe5+ Kg7 34.Rg1 Rcf8 35.Nxh5+! 1–0, Szabo-Donner, Beverwijk 1966.

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Chess in cloudy Salou

Yesterday the open tournament of Salou started and with it the “Catalan Circuit”. This circuit of tournaments in Catalunya, Spain (actually not seen as Spain at all by most of the Catalan people) is organized every year in the months May, June, July, August and a bit of September. Tournaments can be played seperately of course, but the main idea of the Circuit is to be able to win prices over the result in the consecutive tournaments. Read more

Daily puzzle 050407

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

Yesterday’s solution:

41.h4!! Qd6 42.h5! g5 43.Qg3 with counterplay, Petrosian-Spassky, Moscow (m/14) 1966.

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Daily puzzle 060307

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

Yesterday’s solution:

23.d6! +- Qxd6 24.b4 Nb7 25.Bf3 Qb8 26.Bg5 f6 27.Rxe5! Rxe5 28.Qc4+ Kg7 29.Qc7+ Kg8 30.Bxf6 Re1+ 31.Kh2! Rxc1 32.Bd5+ 1–0, Polugaevsky - Bilek, Bussum 1969

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Daily puzzle 050307

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

Yesterday’s solution:

25.Qh4!! Qe7 (25…Nxd4 26.h7+ Kh8 27.Bg5) 26.h7+ Kh8 27.Rxd8 Qxd8 28.Bg5 f6 29.Bh6 Re8 30.Rf1 +- Boros-Hoffmann, Boedapest 2005

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