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| Posted by acne ability-tw.com 7/20/2002 18:13:26 |  Subject: endgameMessage: are there websites about endgames? or are there books you'd recommend about endgames? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by tulkos ability-tw.com 7/20/2002 18:17:34 | winning chess endgames. Message: I managed to get this book without buying it through an inter-library lone(hope thats how you spell it) and the book was great!I you can manage to get this book,it will be well worth your time. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by v_glorioso12 ability-tw.com 7/20/2002 19:38:27 | Mastering The Endgame Message: by I Don't Know ——— California Boy, 9, Becomes Youngest U.S. Chess Master — A boy from Santa Clara, Calif., has become the youngest master in United States history, and there seems to be fewer concerns about his achievement than the previous record holder. The new master is Samuel Sevian. He set the record on Dec. 11, at the age of 9 years, 11 months and 11 days by tying for first in a small chess tournament at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco. He broke the record held by Nicholas Nip, a San Francisco resident, by 11 days. Nip set the record in March 2008, but at the time there were some questions about how he did it. He had played chess matches against opponents who had volunteered to play him. Some masters criticized this practice. Hikaru Nakamura, ... Posted by brobishkin | ability-tw.com 7/20/2002 19:43:11 Endings...Message: The name of the book Tulkos is talking about is "Winning Chess Endings" by Yasser Seirawan... And it is well worth your time... Bro... ——— Chess Puzzles: Imagination Breeds Creativity — How do chess players create beautiful games and compositions? Do they dig deep into their memory and retrieve ideas of others or do they use their own imagination? Obviously, it is a combination of both, because what they learn and remember and what they create themselves goes hand in hand. The art of creating is remembering and imagining. Some years ago, I saw an interesting position in which only two pieces - queen and bishop - staged a successful attack on the black king. It was published in 1750 by Dominico Ercole del Rio, a lawyer from the Italian town of Modena, in his 110-page book on chess. As the title "Sopra il giuoco degli scacchi osservazioni pratiche ... Posted by acne | ability-tw.com 7/21/2002 04:19:36 Message: thank you all of you =) ——— Magnus Carlsen's London Chess Classic can not conceal slump in form — Magnus Carlsen recovered from a terrible start of two defeats in three games, escaped miraculously from a lost endgame, triumphed at this week's London Chess Classic, won the €50,000 first prize, and regained the world No1 ranking. Yet arguably the 20-year-old Norwegian's play continued the form crisis which surfaced in October at the world team Olympiad. The problem is that Carlsen is a different chess player according to whether he has White or Black. With the white pieces he is sovereign and supreme, exploiting strategic advantages with the subtlety of Anatoly Karpov in his pomp, or patiently grinding and probing in level positions until his opponent cracks in time pressure. But as Black, Carlsen simply ... Posted by pamela024 | ability-tw.com 7/21/2002 06:10:47 IndeedMessage: Seirawan, now the number two ranking player in the US, has an excellent series of books for beginner to intermediate level players called "Winning Chess" published by Microsoft Press. The titles in the series are "Play," "Tactics," "Openings," "Brilliancies," and "Endings". Well worth the money. ——— Carlsen Wins London Chess Classic — Magnus Carlsen won the London Chess Classic by beating Nigel Short on Wednesday. Carlsen, a Norwegian grandmaster, has now won the tournament both years it has been played. All the other games in the final round were drawn, though two of them were hard fought. Carlsen finished with 13 points, using the Bilbao Scoring System, in which wins are worth 3 points and draws are 1. He had four wins, two losses and a draw. Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Luke McShane, an English grandmaster, tied for second and third, each with 11 points. They both won two games and drew five. If the more traditional scoring system of 1 point for a win and ... Posted by tulkos | ability-tw.com 7/21/2002 13:07:25 I own 2 of them.Message: openings and brilliancies.Very Good.though the openings tend to be positional,since Seirawan is a positional player. ——— A Miracle Escape on a Day of Draws at London Chess Classic — All four games were drawn Tuesday in the penultimate round of the London Chess Classic, but that was only because Vladimir Kramnik of Russia badly miscalculated in his game against Magnus Carlsen of Norway, allowing him to escape from a lost position. Heading into tomorrow’s final round, Carlsen remains tied with Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Luke McShane of England. Carlsen has the better tie-breakers, however, so if the three should remain tied, Carlsen, the defending champion, would claim the title. Kramnik is tied for fourth with Hikaru Nakamura of the United States, Michael Adams of England is sixth, David Howell of England is seventh, and Nigel Short, ... Posted by atrifix | ability-tw.com 7/21/2002 13:35:54 FCEMessage: Fundamental Chess Endings, by Muller and Lamprecht, is a great book as either an encyclopedia or a learning reference. Posted by acne | ability-tw.com 7/21/2002 22:03:07 Message: thanks pamela024 and atrifix Posted by adrianallen | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 07:43:26 Thanks from me as wellMessage: My endgames are poor and really let me down, I may have to invest in a book or two. Posted by brunetti | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 11:53:16 FYI SeirawanMessage: is #7 is USCF rating list. This is the current top 10: 1 Onischuk, Alexander CO 2746 2 Kaidanov, Gregory KY 2730 3 Benjamin, Joel NY 2702 4 Shabalov, Alexander PA 2697 5 Gulko, Boris NJ 2694 6 Goldin, Alexander IL 2693 7 Seirawan, Yasser WA 2690 8 Kacheishvili, Giorgi NY 2673 9 Ibragimov, Ildar CT 2672 10 Wojtkiewicz, Alek MD 2669 Alex Posted by __mda__ | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 14:54:15 Basic Chess Endings...Message: by Reuben Fine. I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned this yet. It really is (still) one of the best endgame manuals out there. The only problem with it is, like all old books, it is written in descriptive notation ( there may be newer editions out there with algebraic notation). It covers just about every conceivable endgame ( even 3 knights vs. king! ), and has countless examples from real games. If you're serious about chess, this book is a must. Posted by taoistlunatic | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 15:02:12 my endgame bible is Fine's basic endgamesMessage: right on MDA Posted by bossbobby | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 15:17:22 Try...Message: site www.sahovski.co.yu They have good choice of all-kind chess books. For this purpose - Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings. Posted by atrifix | ability-tw.com 7/23/2002 13:58:29 Fine's BCEMessage: or Averbakh's set are both good endgame volumes, but they serve more as a reference than a learning aid. Dry stuff, but a must to have on hand. Atrifix Posted by tulkos | ability-tw.com 7/23/2002 17:55:47 I have heard many fine things of Message: Fundamental Chess Endings,heres a link to a place where this one strong chess player gives it a rating of 10 on a 1(horrible) to 10(wonderful) scale. www.chessopolis.com/br/fundamental_chess_endings.htm Posted by brobishkin | ability-tw.com 7/27/2002 00:28:46 Seirawan series...Message: The titles of the "Winning Chess" series: Winning Chess Openings, Winning Chess Strategies, Winning Chess Tactics, Winning Chess Brilliancies, and Winning Chess Endings... And I have all five of them... Bro... Posted by frodan | ability-tw.com 7/29/2002 11:00:02 ..seirawan series...Message: ....my chess bible.i especially like the two: -winning chess Tactics -winning chess Strategies. in winning chess Endings ,the chapter on rook and pawn endings is the longest chapter in that book;am about to reread that chapter the fifth time! now i know how to build bridges,although i did not study engineering at school...... |