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
Snodland Vs Medway (Tom Fuller) Match Report
Snodland hosted Medway for the final game in the Tom Fuller last night.
It was not a “must win” game but a win would make reaching the semi-finals guaranteed. Continue reading
Chess Documentary – The Love For Wood (1979)
Recently a fascinating Dutch documentary on Chess found its way onto YouTube.
Although in Dutch you can turn on the English subtitles by clicking on the little envelope icon at the bottom right of the video.
You can find the recent Chessbase article on the documentary here.
Fashionable Chess With Magnus Carlsen
Endgame Studies For Training Purposes
That’s the title of Steve Giddins’ new weekly column over at chessimprover.com.
As always Steve’s column is very instructive and if you follow his advice you really will improve as a player. 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.
Tactics Time 1 – Solutions
Romantic Chess (On Valentines Day)
Chess, like the arts, had a “Romantic” period (19th Century). An era characterised by open, tactical games, with brash sacrifices.
Winning was good, winning in style was better. Fashionable openings of the day included the King’s Gambit and the Evans Gambit.
A time when declining a sacrifice was considered at best unsporting, and at worst, out right rude.
Some of the games played in this era have become famous, usually for a beautiful combination and the games even have their own names!
Two eminent players of the era were Anderssen and Kieseritzky, who played a game that would become forever known as the “immortal” game.
Take a nostalgic minute to play over the game here, whilst trying to imagine what masterpieces you could have created had you lived in this era.
NB: The game is presented without annotations. The analysis could basically point out how almost every move is incorrect. However, the beauty of this game lies not in its technical accuracy but in its representation of a time, a wonderful time, gone by.
Snodland Chess Club 