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| Posted by yanm nsa-hitachi.com 1/19/2006 23:51:08 Play online chess |  Subject: Grandmasters' games analysis, questionsMessage: I know that different people have different approaches that work for them, but I would like hearing of your advices! Thanks, --Yannick |
| Posted by naamloos nsa-hitachi.com 1/20/2006 02:57:18 Play online chess | Grandmaster games Message: I think that the analyses length depends on your strenth, but for the average player analysing too long does not seem helpfull. I myself would rather play trough two games a hour each than one game two hours long. I think it is important to play trough and think about both sides as that will make it easier what plans both sides must chose in a given position and what plans seem to be more viable. |
Chess news: Two Vietnamese Chess Players Make a Name for Their Homeland -- Could the emergence of world-class chess players be a sign of a country’s economic progress? Consider the case of Vietnam. First, it struck a trade agreement with the United States in 2000, and then six years later joined the World Trade Organization. Now, two chess players who were born there in the early 1990s — just 15 years or so after the Vietnam War ended — have joined the ranks of the world’s chess elite with a series of impressive finishes. One of them, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, who is ranked No. 157 in the world, tied for third at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow, the strongest open tournament of the year, in February. This week, Nguyen, 20, tied for first with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of ... The endgame: How can Black win here? -- Black is on the brink of victory. But what is the crucial next move? RB This seems straightforward. What's wrong with the simple 1...d2, when White might as well resign? After 2 Kc2, Black has 2...b3+ to deflect the king from the queening square d1 and it's all over: 3 Kxb3 d1=Q or 3 Kd1 b2 with the same result. The only danger to Black here has to be stalemate, and with the a5 and c4 pawns blocked there's an obvious potential for such an outcome. What would happen if after 1...d2 White played 2 Be2. Would taking the bishop play into White's hands? If 2...Kxe2... well, I don't see any stalemate here. What am I missing? Since this is one of Dan's own chess games it's ... Plain sailing for Michael Adams -- Michael Adams recorded another trivial win to reach 5/5 and take a full point lead at the British CHess Championships being played at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Adams celebrated his return to the world’s top-20 on the live rating list with a victory over the Russian Alexei Slavin who qualifies for the chess tournament by virtue of being resident in London. Slavin sensibly tried the Colle System, a solid and normally risk-free way of building up a decent position but Adams showed how a world class chess player deals with it and disrupted the white buildup before there was even a hint of a threat to this position. ... | |