I don't usually editorialize on the Club blog, as firstly the Club does not really have an official viewpoint on anything, and secondly we have no way of really establishing such a viewpoint other than unanimous acclimation. So I will put my personal editorial viewpoint of this announcement immediately beneath the fold.
Showing posts with label Kasparov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kasparov. Show all posts
Monday, May 7, 2018
Nigel Short to run for FIDE President
Various sites have announced that Nigel Short will run for FIDE President. I believe the news was broken by Nicholas Bergh in the Norwegian paper Aftenposten, and has since been confirmed many other places, including on Nigel Short's Twitter feed.
I don't usually editorialize on the Club blog, as firstly the Club does not really have an official viewpoint on anything, and secondly we have no way of really establishing such a viewpoint other than unanimous acclimation. So I will put my personal editorial viewpoint of this announcement immediately beneath the fold.
I don't usually editorialize on the Club blog, as firstly the Club does not really have an official viewpoint on anything, and secondly we have no way of really establishing such a viewpoint other than unanimous acclimation. So I will put my personal editorial viewpoint of this announcement immediately beneath the fold.
Monday, July 4, 2016
And now a game that just happens to be completely INSANE!
(Fans of Beavis & Butt-head will know the tone of voice I'm going for!)
I'm once again working my way through Lars Bo Hansen's book, Foundations of Chess Strategy. In the notes to the game Korchnoi-Kasparov, Lucerne (OL) 1982, Hansen mentions the rather insane game Hulak-Nunn, Toluca IZ 1982. About this game Hansen writes,
Black has just played 32...R(a7)a8. As I looked at the position I started wondering why the sequence 33 Qh6 Rg8 34 Rf3, with the idea of Rf3-g3-g4-h4 wouldn't work. The best I came up with was 34...Qa1 35 Rg3 Bd4 36 Bxd4 Qxd4 37 Rg4 Ra1 38 Qxh7+ Kxh7 39 Rh4#.
I'll leave it to the reader to figure out where I went wrong (several places, in fact), or you can check the notes below. The whole game is crazy, I highly recommend it!
I'm once again working my way through Lars Bo Hansen's book, Foundations of Chess Strategy. In the notes to the game Korchnoi-Kasparov, Lucerne (OL) 1982, Hansen mentions the rather insane game Hulak-Nunn, Toluca IZ 1982. About this game Hansen writes,
I refrain from trying to attach any signs or evaluations to this hyper-complicated outing....He's not kidding! I'll post the whole game below (along with a few brief notes), but I want to call attention to one position in particular:
Hulak-Nunn, Toluca IZ 1982
Black has just played 32...R(a7)a8. As I looked at the position I started wondering why the sequence 33 Qh6 Rg8 34 Rf3, with the idea of Rf3-g3-g4-h4 wouldn't work. The best I came up with was 34...Qa1 35 Rg3 Bd4 36 Bxd4 Qxd4 37 Rg4 Ra1 38 Qxh7+ Kxh7 39 Rh4#.
I'll leave it to the reader to figure out where I went wrong (several places, in fact), or you can check the notes below. The whole game is crazy, I highly recommend it!
Monday, February 22, 2016
Kasparov on the hunt....
Kasparov provides analysis of his victory over Karpov in game 20 of their 1990 World Championship Match.
Hat tip to David Llada, who linked to this on both his Twitter feed and Facebook feed.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
From the Archives: Tal - Tolush, 1956 USSR Championship
This is a very long post. I've set it to publish in a few hours when several players will be involved in this weekend's tourney. I don't want them getting distracted by any of this before their rounds! - TD
In ancient times (i.e., pre-2000), an average chess player had the hope of going one-on-one with the best in the world and winning. Not at the board, but in the pages of a book or magazine. A game would be published, often with analysis appended, and any player could look for holes in the game or, especially, in the analysis. Finding holes in analysis, or cooks in problems, was a great joy.
These days that joy is largely gone. One still sees letters to the editor in magazines pointing out occasional mistakes, but the advent of extremely powerful computer engines has largely killed the fun, especially in quality books.
But I remember some of the old joys, having found a couple of problems here and there myself. Tonight I'll share one of them. It concerns the game Tal-Tolush from the 1956 Soviet Championship, and the story features Tal himself, the Hungarian chess writer Jozsef Hajtun, me (naturally), Garry Kasparov, and the programs Fritz 7 and Stockfish 6.64.
In ancient times (i.e., pre-2000), an average chess player had the hope of going one-on-one with the best in the world and winning. Not at the board, but in the pages of a book or magazine. A game would be published, often with analysis appended, and any player could look for holes in the game or, especially, in the analysis. Finding holes in analysis, or cooks in problems, was a great joy.
These days that joy is largely gone. One still sees letters to the editor in magazines pointing out occasional mistakes, but the advent of extremely powerful computer engines has largely killed the fun, especially in quality books.
But I remember some of the old joys, having found a couple of problems here and there myself. Tonight I'll share one of them. It concerns the game Tal-Tolush from the 1956 Soviet Championship, and the story features Tal himself, the Hungarian chess writer Jozsef Hajtun, me (naturally), Garry Kasparov, and the programs Fritz 7 and Stockfish 6.64.
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