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| From | Message | Posted by baseline
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3/04/2004
16:40:02
Play online chess |  Subject: New Book
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I just picked up "Pal Benko: My Life, Games and Compositions" by GM Pal Benko and IM Jeremy Silman. You learn about Benko's life while playing thru 138 annotated games covering 400 pages, There's a opening Survey by IM John watson covering about 100 pages and a 100 pages with 300 of Benko's problems and compositions. The book contains many photo's and stories I've never seen before, it's a wonderful book.
| Posted by buddy2
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3/04/2004
16:57:49
Play online chess | Good tip
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thanks baseline. I'm always on the lookout for a good chess book. Gameknot forum is a great place to get tips on good books (and ones to avoid).
| Posted by baseline
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3/04/2004
18:16:36
Play online chess | the only bad thing is
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Benko's book retails for $45.00 in hardback! but then again its 667 pages like getting two books in one.
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2011 Year in Review — And what a year it has been! 2011 started with St. Louis’ own Hikaru Nakamura winning the 2011 Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Holland, against the world’s best chess players. It was the biggest tournament victory for an American since Bobby Fischer, and his performance catapulted him to No. 7 in the world chess rankings. Although he has experienced some ups and downs this year, Hikaru is currently holding onto the No. 10 spot in the world and is looking forward to an exciting 2012. World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, who turned 21 in December, proved he is worthy of his top spot as he turned in solid performance after solid performance all year. He is steadily climbing toward Gary Kasparov’s peak rating of 2851 and ...
Posted by mogath
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3/05/2004
21:07:01
Play online chess | Benko Book
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Could you please post the isbn number so I can order it directly from my bookseller? He's really good about getting chessbooks for me and I pay no shipping. Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Jeff
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Shooting the chess rapids for the holiday season — The holidays are traditionally a season of hustle and bustle, so what better time is there for holding a major rapid chess championship? Georgian GM Baadur Jobava emerged as the new European rapid chess champion, topping a high-powered field this month with a 9-2 score in Warsaw. Once something of a curiosity, the rapid Game/25 format is now firmly ensconced in international play, with the faster time control often leading to more combative and aggressive play while allowing an entire continent to hold an 11-round championship tournament over the course of a long three-day weekend. While not as chaotic (and random) as faster blitz chess play can be, rapid is clearly a different animal than chess played at ...
Posted by baseline
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3/05/2004
22:04:52
Play online chess | mogath
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gladly, the ISBN is 1-890085-08-1
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Chess: Working the variations — Is there any way through Black's solid defence? How can he increase the pressure on Black's position? RB: If only my rooks were doubled on the e-file maybe I could put pressure on the knight on e7, but in the time it would take to get my heavy pieces lined up, Black would be able to deal with any threat – 1 Re2 Ng6 2 Rae1 Rxe2 3 Qxe2. I'm left in control of the e-file but how does that look? Not too bad, I suppose, but also not very exciting. Is there something better? I can't see any tactics, so maybe the thing to do is to try to take advantage of the weak dark squares on Black's queenside. If I could put my knight on c5 and my queen on d4, I'd be a very happy bunny. Trouble is, I don't ...
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