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Posted by nathanman22 ability-tw.com 4/05/2008 07:15:44 Play online chess	Subject: Mistakes of the Grandmaster Message: Just wanted to start a thread to encourage the lower players that even great players will make mistakes. Some of us may feel as if we will never get to the top and are struggling with many mistakes we make on games every day. I thought maybe we could start a thread that included big mistakes made by grandmasters...to show that even they are humans....any links from your games or from the games of the greats are welcome here. -Nathan
Posted by ccmcacollister ability-tw.com 4/05/2008 07:28:40 Play online chess	a good start Message: would be Kramnick getting mated in one by the computer.
Posted by tim_b ability-tw.com 4/05/2008 07:32:10 Play online chess	Message: Nice idea for a thread! I know a world class player once fell for a simple early Queen fork: www.chesskids.com Does anybody know who the guilty party was? ——— Lahno Wins Women’s World Blitz Chess Championship — To be good at blitz, or speed, chess, players must think quickly and have good tactical skills. That is why the best chess players under slow, or classical, chess time controls are not necessarily the best at the faster form of the game. Though only 20 years old, Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine has been among the best women players in the world for seven years and is now ranked No. 7. She is actually ranked higher than Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia, the current women’s world chess champion, who is No. 10. She is clearly an excellent classical chess player and has won the European Individual Women’s Championship twice (in 2005 and 2008). Now she has proven that she may be even more adept at speed chess. ...
Posted by heinzkat ability-tw.com 4/05/2008 07:34:39 Play online chess	Probably seen before... Message: www.youtube.com ——— A tribute to Bent Larsen — Danish chess grandmaster Bent Larsen died Sept. 9 at age 75 in Buenos Aires, his home since the 1970s. Larsen was the most successful tournament player of the late 1960s, when he rose to third in the world behind Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer. Only losses to those two stars in Candidates matches kept him from playing for the world chess championship. Larsen had a lively mind and strong opinions, enabling him to speak knowledgeably about many subjects in more than a half dozen languages. Among chess players, he stood out for his fondness for discarded openings and his disdain for draws. He popularized 1 b3, now called Larsen's Opening. Typically, he used it irregularly over a four-year period and ...
Posted by pgroenborg ability-tw.com 4/05/2008 08:43:16 Play online chess	Topalov vs Kramnik Message: I can't link to it right now (working), but Topalov missed a simple mate against Kramnik when they battled for the title. I think there were more mistakes than that in that match. ;-) (The spellcheck doesn't know the mentioned players, lol) ——— Remembering Bent Larsen: chess's most popular grandmaster — Bent Larsen, who died last week aged 75 was world No 3 to Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky and the most popular chess grandmaster of his time. Larsen was articulate, gregarious, outspoken and witty, so his passing stimulated an outpouring of reminiscencies and affection. Larsen's resilience, inventiveness, hard work and readiness to risk the odd loss in his quest for chess tournament victories have proved a model for some current top GMs like Vasily Ivanchuk and Shak Mamedyarov, though his liking for the offbeat openings 1 b3, 1 g3 and 1 f4 remained his lone trademark. He described himself as self-made, with only Aron Nimzovich's My System a major style influence. He thrived in ...
Posted by heinzkat ability-tw.com 4/05/2008 09:07:38 Play online chess	Message: The video fragment posted above came from Anand - Kasparov, 1996: Kasparov played Qxe3 here, and after Qxg4 he wasn't so happy. pgroenborg's mention is this, Topalov - Kramnik, 2006: Topalov played Qg6+ here, but instead Rxg4+ Bg7 Qc7 wins easily. Later, Kramnik even managed to win the game. And ccmcacollister's post was about this, Deep Fritz - Kramnik, 2006: Kramnik played Qe3 here, which wins in all variations, but one. ——— As Chess Olympiad Approaches, Problems Surface — The biennial Chess Olympiad does not start until Sunday, but problems and conflicts have already arisen. The biggest ongoing issue is getting to Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, the site of the Chess Olympiad. As the city is in a remote location, the World Chess Federation had organized charter flights to carry teams there, but the schedule for the flights has changed repeatedly. The latest change occurred only two days ago. As the article notes, the repeated changes are not just making it difficult to get to the Chess Olympiad, but also more costly, and that is creating financial hardships for some of the chess federations that do not have substantial resources. In addition to the logistical ...
Posted by jstevens1 ability-tw.com 4/05/2008 12:33:05 Play online chess	Amazia Avni's Danger in Chess Message: In the above regicide manual, if anybody has this, it points out two examples of Messrs Short and Korchnoi walking into mate in one against lesser known GMs. Joanne ——— Chess Puzzles: A Vodka Escape — I began my escape from the communist Czechoslovakia 42 years ago, on Sunday, September 1, 1968. According to Wikipedia, I bought several crates of vodka with my winnings at the Akiba Rubinstein Memorial in the Polish spa of Polanica Zdroj, bribed the border guards and drove to West Germany. At that time, I was supposed to play the first board on the Czechoslovakian chess team at the Lugano olympiad, having won the strongest national chess championship in history ahead of Smejkal, Hort, Filip, Pachman, Jansa, Janata and others. During the summer I added a first place finish at the IBM chess tournament in Amsterdam ahead of David Bronstein and I was just ...
Posted by muppyman ability-tw.com 4/05/2008 13:19:34 Play online chess	Kasparov v Karpov. Message: I believe Kasparov blundered away a whole rook in time scramble against Karpov in one of their matches for the world title. The incident was shown on television.
Posted by djole73 ability-tw.com 4/06/2008 09:40:18 Play online chess	Message: Look this: www.chessgames.com
Posted by ionadowman ability-tw.com 4/06/2008 13:17:53 Play online chess	Here's one I discovered recently... Message: ... a bit of a double-barrelled error this one! Biel 1988. Zapata vs Anand. Black decided to follow a Petroff Defence game played earlier between Larry Christiansen and Tony Miles, when the theoretically unusual 5...Bf5 had been played. It must have looked intriguing: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Bf5 6.Qe2 1-0. b If 6...Qe7, 7.Nd5; or 6...d5, 7.d3 White wins at least a piece, and even Vishy Anand didn't fancy his chances! The intriguing question is this: what did Christiansen play? How did he miss the quick kill??
Posted by ganstaman ability-tw.com 4/06/2008 13:42:26 Play online chess	zapata-anand Message: Well, chessgames.com is having a problem at the moment so I can't check this out, but in the kibitzing for that game, I believe someone stated that Miles and Christiansen had previously agreed to draw the game, and when Miles played 5...Bf5, Christiansen didn't play 6. Qe2 (which would have sort of ruined the pre-arranged draw) but did make indications to Miles that his move was quite a bad one.
Posted by ganstaman ability-tw.com 4/06/2008 16:13:51 Play online chess	Message: Ooops, I confused Miles and Christiansen. www.chessgames.com And the Anand game: www.chessgames.com with the quote: "Tennyson: <hollowone> and <themindset> Yes, Anand was under the spell of the journal "Informator" and the Miles-Chrstiansen 1987 came contained within. I learned of this in Steve Giddins's _101 Chess Opening Traps_ where he explains why all the aforementioned (except Zapata) "missed" 6. Qe2. Informator failed to explain that the Miles-Christiansen game had been agreed to be drawn before either had made a move. What follows is priceless: "At the board, Tony saw that 6. Qe2 was winning, but remained the gentleman and avoided playing it. Mind you, I understand that he did spend some seconds 'polishing' the e2-square with his forefinger, until he was satisfied that Larry Christiansen's face had assumed a suitable shade of red..." (61). LOL! "
Posted by ionadowman ability-tw.com 4/07/2008 03:26:01 Play online chess	... Message: Makes a good story, anyhow. It seems, by the way that the book I was quoting got Miles and Christiansen the wrong way round too - or else I just misremembered it... But the mistake Anand made was rather unusual for a GM: playing an unfamiliar opening line without doing some preliminary homework. Some of the best (worst) GM mistakes happen when they have the advantage. Better yet is when they face some unknown, and take things a bit too easily. My favorite is this disaster from the Skoplje Olympiad, 1972. Here, the GM doesn't make a single move blunder - rather his whole game went horribly wrong: White: W.S. Browne (USA); Black: Taha (Iraq) 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bxe7 Qxe7 7.Nb5?! Nb6! 8.a4? a6 9.a5 axb5 10.axb6 Qxa1 11.Qxa1 c6 12.Qa8 0-0 13.Qxb8 Qb4+ 14.c3 Qxb2 15.Ne2 b4 16.cxb4 Qxb4+ 17.Kd1 Qb3+ 18.Kd2 Qb4+ 19.Kd3? c5! 20.Qc7 c4+ 21.Ke3 Qb3+ 22.Kf4 Qd3 (-+) 23.f3 Qd2+ 24.Kg3 Qe1+ 25.Kh3 Qf2 26.Kg4 f6 27.exf6 e5+ 28.Kh5 gxf6 29.dxe5 fxe5 30.Qe7 Rf5+ 1-0 (31.Kh6 Qxb6+ etc). In the same Olympiad, GM Tringov had more than one awful disaster. About to capture Uhlmann's extra pawn, Tringov forgot to move his K first to avert the Q fork after Qe1+ that picked up the rook. But Tringov's worst move was "Adjourned move (written on score sheet) to trouser pocket" - a blunder that cost him the game against Korchnoi. Cheers, Ion
Posted by mekk ability-tw.com 4/07/2008 16:50:50 Play online chess	Message: Kramnik made a few noticeable blunders. Mistake against Fritz is already quoted above, but he also blundered a piece in his earlier anti-engine match. And he played this aganst Anand at Mobitel 2005: www.chessbase.com
Posted by ccmcacollister ability-tw.com 4/08/2008 14:44:52 Play online chess	Here is a very fun game ... Message: Take a look at Kasparovs reaction to the type of blunder he made vs Anand. Now put Gary in Kramnicks seat for the infamous Mate in One ... and imagine the look, the reaction. Would not the walls shake? And poor Gary, would He survive such a er faux pas? No I think. Fortunately the Q: also arises, would he Make such. I am confident we will not have to watch Gary die at the board :)) (Secondly; why is faux pas not in the spellchecker??; who needs the word more than Chessplayers!!)
Posted by chessnovice ability-tw.com 4/08/2008 18:33:07 Play online chess	watching that video makes me think Message: I'd love to play Kasparov in a poker match.
Posted by ionadowman ability-tw.com 4/09/2008 01:46:23 Play online chess	It's especially ... Message: ... entertaining (or galling) when a GM makes a mistake in his writing. You would think that in all peace and quiet at the writing desk, such a one would spot and correct any boo-boos that might otherwise creep in. Check this one from J.R.capabalnca's "Last Lectures" (otherwise quite a useful little book of Capablanca's radio lectures of the late 1930s). Lecture 8 discussed the Ruy Lopez Opening, taking the audience deep into the game: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 (a move Capablanca allowed he disliked sufficiently as being unable to recall his ever having played it in a tournament game) 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.c3 Be7 10.Nbd2 Nc5 11.Bc2 d5 12.Ne4 dxc3 13.Nxc5 Bxc5 14.Be4 Qd7 15.bxc3 Rd8 16.Qxd7+ Bxd7 17.Rd1 ... Now, I have omitted Capablanca's remarks on the opening this far, but here he remarks that the move played prevents Black from castling, owing to 17...0-0? 18.Rxd7 Rxd7 19.Bxc6 winning 2 minor pieces for the rook. Unfortunately for this piece of advice, Black has a won game! Check it out: Black to play and win: b In defence of the author, though, it's easy to make oversights like this at the desk. In actual play, Capa would have spotted the hole in a moment. Cheers, Ion