Last week saw a match played ahead of schedule, with the result being:
Robert Thompson 1 Vs 0 David Fowler
On the Horizon
I wont have much time to update the site between now and the weekend so just a quick post to whet your appetite with what’s coming up…..
- Snodland CC’s very own “room” on the playchess server, allowing our members to join for free and play online against other club members, completely free.
- The Candidates starts this week. With Carlsen (Our selected top player watch subject) not playing, I will take a closer look at Vladimir Kramnik’s tournament.
- Book Review – Jeremy SIlman’s Complete Endgame Course. (This has recently been purchased by the club).
- Tactics Time 2. Not much response from the first one – please let me know if you want to continue to see these……
- Great Games from Chess History – Robert Fischer Vs Bent Larsen
- The Rapid Play entry form will be available to download shortly.
- A few surprises
Chess Quotes 4
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: ‘Well, you laughed when I wrote it down’. – Mikhail Tal
Study Time 2
Below is a simple looking position that contains a rather beautiful idea. It’s White to play and win. You will gain the most benefit by setting the position up on the board and spending 20 minutes or so trying to work out all the varitions without moving the pieces.
Once you’ve tried and think you’ve solved all the problems, you can check the solution here.
Snodland Vs WOK (Harvey) Match Report
On Thursday we completed our Harvey Cup fixtures with a narrow win against Weald of Kent.
The result means that we retain an outside chance of a semi-final place but must hope that other results go in our favour. Continue reading
Snodland’s New Online Chess Server!!
You will now see a new menu item titled “Online Blitz”.
This is a very exciting development for the club, as incredibly soon, members will be emailed a password to access this page, where there will be details on how to connect to Snodland Chess Club’s very own private room on the playchess webserver!!
On our private webserver any member of the club will be able to create an account, entirely for free. They will then be able to play online blitz and chat to all other members that are online.
In time, I will organise some online blitz tournaments/matches.
Keep your eyes peeled for an email containing the access password and see me this Thursday for more info.
Nakamura 0 Vs 1 Carlsen – Blitz
Magnus beating his favourite customer Hikaru Nakamura in a recent blitz match.
A Structure That Furnishes Houses
That’s the title of Steve Giddins’ latest weekly column over at chessimprover.com, this week looking at the structure arising from the QGD exchange variation.
As always Steve’s column is very instructive, please check it out.
For those of you who don’t know or haven’t heard of it before, chessimprover.com is owned by GM Nigel Davies, author of many books and Chessbase training DVDs and has many regular contributors on all aspects of improving your chess.
If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don’t rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw. – Jeremy Silman
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