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Post by ♫anna♫ on Sept 17, 2012 12:40:44 GMT
The film "Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine" recounts the uncanny chess tournament between Garry Kasparov and the computer Deep Blue". It's available at a low price on Amazon and is a very intense film!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Oct 10, 2012 7:08:04 GMT
King + Pawn vs King Chess Endgame The great chess grandmaster Jose Capablanca advised people wishing to learn chess to study the endgames first. I play in chess tornaments now and then and it seems most chess players at a club level are very interested in learning the chess openings instead, which can change like fashions do.
Once in a team tournament had a drawn endgame with an extra pawn, but just thought I'd dance my king around a few more moves to see if my opponent would hold the "opposition" ( prevent my king from penetrating his position ) and repeat the same position 3 times, which by chess rules is an automatic draw. To my amazement although my opponent played the opening and middlegame well against me he made what appeared to be a normal move to someone not familiar to the game and lost. It's amazing how some good chess club players neglect the study of simple endgames.
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Post by Big Lin on Oct 10, 2012 13:46:11 GMT
I agree, Anna. I've always been at my best in the endgame and I often try to deliberately get there by exchanging pieces so that I can wind up in an endgame play because in my experience most club players are at their weakest in that part of the game.
Capablanca of course was one of the all-time greats and particularly a master of the endgame!
I remember about three years ago when I was playing someone who had a material advantage (one pawn) over me but positionally I saw that if I could maneouvre the game into an endgame I'd have the better position.
I managed to do it and won the game!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Oct 11, 2012 3:38:01 GMT
I agree, Anna. I've always been at my best in the endgame and I often try to deliberately get there by exchanging pieces so that I can wind up in an endgame play because in my experience most club players are at their weakest in that part of the game. Capablanca of course was one of the all-time greats and particularly a master of the endgame! I remember about three years ago when I was playing someone who had a material advantage (one pawn) over me but positionally I saw that if I could maneouvre the game into an endgame I'd have the better position. I managed to do it and won the game! Hi Lin, My specialty is more playing the opening and early middle game in chess with a lot of tactic. I know quite a few opening traps and thematic attacking modes. in tournaments I tend to win the short games and lose the long ones.
Endgames are often bad news for me, if I reach them because I often sacrifice pawns, but my weakness isn't really the endgame, but the late middle game where I'm running out of energy and have trouble switching gears from attack modus to strategical preparation for the endgame.
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Post by Hunny on Oct 11, 2012 13:41:38 GMT
I had a copy of 'Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess'. It taught me to think it's essentially all endgame, that right from the first move your task is to execute mate in as few moves as possible.
It affected my thinking, taught me to immediately "get to the point" in all things (though it's debatable how well that lesson has stuck over the years). But the message was the fight isn't the goal, the kill is. The fight is actually a distraction, and not to be invested in.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Oct 18, 2012 14:31:20 GMT
It seems like videos are replacing chess books as far as learning the game goes. Here is a position that a good chess player has to know to hold a draw in an endgame with a rook vs rook and pawn. The Philidor Position! It's amazing how many chess club players will make a fatal mistake and lose the game in this drawn position! The video explains the method that Black uses to prevent White from queening his passed pawn and winning! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philidor_position
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Nov 7, 2012 4:17:30 GMT
Andrew Martin is one of my favorite chess instructors. I love to play either the White side or Black side of the Sicilian Dragon game that he presents! Mr. Martin is quite correct when he says you can't relax if you have a winning postion! A typical amateur mistake! I've made this mistake a lot myself!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Nov 22, 2012 6:05:37 GMT
Capablanca's chess endings are very well played. Still even he made mistakes as this YouTube chess friend with the help of a powerful computer seems to find out. At the 7:20 mark it looks like Capablanca may have actually lost this game against the the then Cuban master Juan Corzo, if Mr. Corzo played Knight to e4!! My first impulse was to feel that the YouTube poster was too hasty in assuming that Capablanca would exchange the Bishop for the Knight and win the pawn, but then I noticed that if he captured the pawn on the square g4 instead he would have walked into a fork ( chess jargon for double attack ) with Knight to f2 check and after the Knight took the Bishop on the d3 Capablanca's position would have been a mess with the doubled pawns after capuring the Bishop with the pawn at c2.
Either of these 2 great players would have beat me easily, if I had to play this chess position! Very humbling!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Dec 31, 2012 0:32:47 GMT
Former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov explains elementary king and pawn endgames.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on May 19, 2013 10:16:37 GMT
Here's an endgame test! White to move! I actually had this position as White once in a 5 minute blitz game of chess ( the British say bullet game of chess for this ).
White's position looks desperate with Black's pawns supported by the King close to queening and checkmating White! Can White avoid defeat with a draw?
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jun 2, 2013 18:47:51 GMT
When I see this "Positional Queen Sacrifice" position. I realize I could never make it as a chess profi!
Accelerated Sicilian Dragon Positional Queen Sacrifice 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc3 3.d4 cd: 4.Nd4: g3 5.Nc3 Bg2 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 O-O 8.Bb3 Ng4 9.QXg4 NXd4 10.Qh4 Qa5 11.O-O Bf6 (see diagram )
Until recently it was believed that Black could force a draw by repition after his last move 11....Bf6 attacking White's Queen. If White plays 12.Qh3? or Qg4? Black plays 12...d4 attacking White's Queen with the advantage. If White plays 12.Qg3?? or Qf4?? Black wins with 12...QXc3!! 13. bc: Ne2+ winning the Queen back and a pawn! OK I understand that. It looks like White has to accept the draw with 12. Qh6 Bg7 13.Qh4 Bf6 14.Qh6 etc..
What is way beyond me going back to the diagram above is the continuation 12.QXBf6!! The exclamation marks are from Chess Grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashavili. If I saw a chessplayer play this me and every non chess grandmaster genius would have assumed that White blundered kamikaze style and was lost!
Roman gives as Black's best defense 12...Ne2+ diverting White's knight 13. NXe2 ef: 14. Nc3 d5 getting his Bishop out. Roman concludes that he doesn't see how Black can survive, but admits that a forced win for White can't be demonstrated. He makes reference to a chess game on the top level where White won quickly after this positional Queen sacrifice and it seems that the move 11....Bf6 leading to the diagram above disappeared abruptly out of top level chess!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jun 25, 2013 1:47:42 GMT
Grandmaster Ronen Har-Zvi is one of my favorite chess instructors! Here he explains one of my favorite chess openings: The Evans Gambit!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Aug 13, 2013 3:06:22 GMT
One of my favorite chess teachers is Grandmaster Maurice Ashley! He conveys a lot of enthusiasm into his teaching. So few people notice that when our opponent moves he invariably weakens certaín squares that he once defended! Something that few chess players notice! Aikido chess in his words can exploit this!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 7, 2014 2:26:48 GMT
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