[lang_nl]HSG eindelijk kampioen[/lang_nl][lang_en]HSG wins 1st Dutch Championship[/lang_en]
March 31, 2008 by Peter Doggers · Comments Off
[lang_nl]Een ronde voor het einde is het Hilversums Schaakgenootschap zaterdag voor het eerst is sinds de oprichting van de club (in 1887!) landskampioen geworden. Slechts ?ɬ©?ɬ©n matchpunt was daarvoor nodig maar de HSG’ers trokken de champagne open na opnieuw een overtuigende zege: 1?Ǭ?-8?Ǭ? uit tegen Homburg Apeldoorn.[/lang_nl][lang_en]Last Saturday, in the penultimate round of the Dutch club competition, HSG from Hilversum has won the national team championship for the first time since it was founded in 1887. They only needed one match point, but the players from HSG could open the champagne bottles after another big victory: 1?Ǭ?-8?Ǭ? against Homburg Apeldoorn.[/lang_en] Read more
Dagpuzzel Daily puzzle 310308
March 31, 2008 by Editors · 5 Comments
[lang_nl]Wat speel je met wit? De oplossing wordt morgen gepubliceerd.
Oplossing gisteren:[/lang_nl][lang_en]What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.
Yesterday’s solution:[/lang_en]
[lang_nl]De kalender voor de lente[/lang_nl][lang_en]Spring calendar[/lang_en]
March 30, 2008 by Peter Doggers · 3 Comments
[lang_nl]Nu Corus, Linares, Aeroflot, Amber en andere grote toernooien er weer op zitten, is het tijd voor een nieuw overzicht van evenementen die de komende maanden op het programma staan. De kalender voor de lente.[/lang_nl][lang_en]Now that Corus, Linares, Aeroflot, Amber and other big tournaments in 2008 have finished, it’s time for a new overview of chess events in the coming months. Spring’s chess calendar.[/lang_en] Read more
Dagpuzzel Daily puzzle 300308
March 30, 2008 by Editors · 3 Comments
[lang_nl]Wat speel je met wit? De oplossing wordt morgen gepubliceerd.
Oplossing gisteren:[/lang_nl][lang_en]What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.
Yesterday’s solution:[/lang_en]
[lang_nl]Veel Australische video’s[/lang_nl][lang_en]Lots of Australian chess videos[/lang_en]
March 29, 2008 by Peter Doggers · 6 Comments
[lang_nl]Een van de sterkste toernooien op het Australische continent, de Doeberl Cup, is vorige week gewonnen door GM Varuzhan Akobian, voor Zhang Zong en Surya Ganguly. Ook deze toernooiorganisatoren zijn into schaken 2.0 en maakten veel leuke video’s.[/lang_nl][lang_en]One of the strongest tournaments of Australia, the Doeberl Cup, was won by GM Varuzhan Akobian, before Zhang Zong and Surya Ganguly. These tournament organizers are also into chess 2.0 because they made lots of nice videos as well.[/lang_en] Read more
[lang_nl]Wekelijkse eindspelstudie[/lang_nl][lang_en]Weekly Endgame Study[/lang_en] (64)
March 29, 2008 by Yochanan Afek · 5 Comments
[lang_nl]Elke zaterdag publiceren we op ChessVibes een eindspelstudie, geselecteerd door IM Yochanan Afek: speler, trainer, eindspelcomponist en schrijver. Een week later wordt de oplossing gepubliceerd. Veel succes met de leerzame bezigheid van het oplossen![/lang_nl][lang_en]Every Saturday an endgame study is published at ChessVibes, selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck with the instructional occupation of solving a study![/lang_en] Read more
Dagpuzzel Daily puzzle 290308
March 29, 2008 by Editors · 11 Comments
[lang_nl]Wat speel je met wit? De oplossing wordt morgen gepubliceerd.
Oplossing gisteren:[/lang_nl][lang_en]What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.
Yesterday’s solution:[/lang_en]
Dos Hermanas (internet) starts today
March 28, 2008 by Peter Doggers · Comments Off
For the ninth year running the XIX Internet Chess Tournament “Ciudad de Dos Hermanas” (Spain) is being held on the ICC playing zone. Registration for the event is completely free both for ICC members and non-members!
This event is clearly the most important Internet chess tournament in the world, featuring the biggest number of participants. In the 2007 edition, nearly 2000 players from all over the world took part. The winner, former child prodigy and under-10 World Champion IM Jorge Sammour-Hasbun, overcome an impressive field of 300 IM/GM's, including top players Shahriyar Mamedyarov, Tigran L. Petrosian, Gata Kamsky, Hikaru Nakamura, Kiril Georgiev and Sergey Shipov.
This year the prize fund is $12,000 (equivalent of 7,700 Euro), with $3,400 (equivalent of 2,000 Euro) for the winner. In addition, there are many class prizes and special cash prizes for amateur players. Also, winners can achieve the opportunity to travel to Dos Hermanas for the main Event, with Topalov, Shirov, Polgar and Vallejo, at the end of April.
As in previous editions, the playing system is as follows: twelve 12-round Swiss qualifiers using the playing rate: 3 minutes per game. Qualifiers are held twice a day from March 28th to April 2nd, and the finals are held on April 4th and 5th. The 12 qualifier winners plus the 20 best scores qualify to the 32 KO final.
Full rules, guidelines and registrations can be found at ICC’s special Dos Hermanas website.
John B. Henderson,
ICC
“The best repertoire book ever written”
March 28, 2008 by Peter Doggers · Comments Off
Jeremy Silman called Beating the Open Games by Mihail Marin “the best repertoire book ever written”.
Now the second edition of this classic has appeared, and it is even better, with 48 extra pages of updates, corrections and expansions.
Marin reveals his own opening repertoire after 1.e4 e5 but does much more than that. So good are his strategic explanations that Marin has in fact written a middlegame book disguised as an opening book.
In his higly critical review column in our own Yearbook Glenn Flear called Marin’s work “sensational”.
If you want to know the essence of the King’s Gambit, Vienna, Centre Game, Four Knights, Evans Gambit, Giuoco Piano, Two Knights, Scotch AND the Ruy Lopez Exchange variation, then here is your book.
Dagpuzzel Daily puzzle 280308
March 28, 2008 by Editors · 2 Comments
[lang_nl]Wat speel je met wit? De oplossing wordt morgen gepubliceerd.
Oplossing gisteren:[/lang_nl][lang_en]What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.
Yesterday’s solution:[/lang_en]
