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| Posted by ssisyphus legalserv.com 4/24/2008 02:34:54 Play online chess |  Subject: Endgame BookMessage: Thanks in advance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by torre_tinorete legalserv.com 4/24/2008 04:04:42 Play online chess | Silman Endgame Book Message: Hope this helps | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by torre_tinorete legalserv.com 4/24/2008 04:07:31 Play online chess | Title Silman endgame book Message: ——— Vishy Anand and Magnus Carlsen lead the field for London Classic — Last year's London Classic at Olympia attracted large audiences, so its 2010 version on 8-15 December, with the reigning world chess champion Vishy Anand now in the field, will be of great interest. Its added spice is the rivalry at the top of the world chess rankings between Anand, Norway's 20-year-old Magnus Carlsen, and Russia's ex-champion and current world No4, Vlad Kramnik. The global chess body, Fide, still hopes to persuade Carlsen to rescind his withdrawal from the May 2011 candidates matches and has announced a new date of 22 December for contract signing. How he performs in London, just a week before the contract deadline, may affect the talks and whether he can take ... Posted by marinvukusic | legalserv.com 4/24/2008 07:35:30 Play online chess The only book I ever usedMessage: Great for a practical player. Books on endgames tend to be huge and not exactly practical, this one has everything that is needed. Silman's concept sounds good and if the book is really well written you can give it a go. ——— The Man With Too Much Chess Talent — Dragoljub Velimirovic used to be one of the world's most feared attackers, always looking for the impossible. His imaginative play was compared to the colorful world chess champion Mikhail Tal's razzle-dazzle. His playing style was unique, daring and often falling off the edge. He made risky moves and so many of them that you wondered how much punishment his chess pieces could take. He loved to create confusion on the chessboard, always believing he could find a beautiful escape from a bad situation. He had enough talent to pull it off, perhaps "too much talent" as Bobby Fischer once put it when we discussed the play of the Serbian grandmaster and champion. At 68, Velimirovic doesn't seem to ... Posted by lighttotheright | legalserv.com 4/24/2008 10:37:16 Play online chess Message: ——— Chess: A sacrificial rook — Sacrificing a chess piece is a nerve-racking business, but think of the warm glow when it pays off. RB If chess pieces could talk, they would be screaming at me something like: "Can't you take a hint, dummy? We're all pointing in one direction – at c3!" And I would say back to them: "Yes, thank you, I see that, but I have to tell you that I am always nervous of sacrificing a chess piece when I can't calculate a forced mate or win of material." But let's try to get the nerves under control and venture the less valuable piece first: 1...Bxc3. What's to stop White playing 2 bxc3, and if 2...Qxc3 3 Bb3, with threats against f7? That doesn't seem to help Black much, so what about the rook: ... Posted by jstack | legalserv.com 4/24/2008 13:36:17 Play online chess Dvoretsky's bookMessage: ——— Polgar Defeats a Slumping Topalov at Ajedrez Event — Marriage seems to have hurt Veselin Topalov’s chess career, for now. Topalov, 35, a former world chess champion who was ranked No. 1 in the world as recently as 14 months ago, has seen his ranking slide to No. 5. His manager, Silvio Danailov, said in a recent interview that Topalov married a few months ago and was “enjoying life a little bit,” adding, “He is not motivated to play chess tournaments right now.” Topalov may also be suffering from a sort of psychological hangover after losing a grueling world chess championship match in April and May to Viswanathan Anand. He has not really played well since. His latest setback occurred at the Ajedrez UNAM Quadrangular chess tournament in ... Posted by thaumaturgy | legalserv.com 4/24/2008 14:34:59 Play online chess Silamn's bookMessage: ——— Magnus Carlsen suffers dramatic collapse at world blitz chess championship — The world blitz chess championship in Moscow has become a popular annual event. Vishy Anand, the world chess champion, stayed away this year but the world No1, Magnus Carlsen, who won in 2009, returned to defend his title in an elite 20-grandmaster field. Carlsen led after the first day's play but had a bad run ("My head went on strike") on the second and Armenia's world No3, Levon Aronian, went three points clear before easing up. Final leading scores were Aronian 24.5/38, Teimour Radjabov 24, Carlsen 23.5. The time limit shortened from four minutes per game plus two seconds per move for each side in 2009 to 3/2. It is tough to play a high-class opponent under such conditions. Quite apart from ... Posted by longbow57 | legalserv.com 4/24/2008 14:41:08 Play online chess Basic Chess EndingsMessage: Posted by taufiq | legalserv.com 4/26/2008 01:28:09 Play online chess EndgameMessage: "Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations & Games", written by father Polgar.. -->  www.chesshouse.com Posted by wschmidt | legalserv.com 4/28/2008 13:00:13 Play online chess No, Message: Posted by taufiq | legalserv.com 4/29/2008 01:59:12 Play online chess Message: Take care ! Posted by heinzkat | legalserv.com 4/29/2008 02:06:50 Play online chess Well,Message: Posted by ionadowman | legalserv.com 4/29/2008 14:08:31 Play online chess A few centurries ago...Message: I bought just two of them: Levenfish & Smyslov's "Rook Endings" and Averbakh's "Queen and Pawn Endings". I don't know whether these books were specially commissioned by Batsford, or whether they were tranlations of Russian/Soviet publications. It seems that Paul Keres's "Practical Chess Endings" is from the same stable. I have found both the volumes that I own useful and informative, beginning with "schoolboy" theory to begin with then gradually becoming more advanced and complicated. Most of the endings are taken from actual games, but a few studies are also presented. And they have helped in endings on GK. In a game ionadowman vs sranderson a year or so back, I found myself a pawn down in a Q+Ps ending, with a completely passive position , but fortunately the enemy didn't have a passed pawn. Averbakh's book at least gave me some clues what to strive for and what to avoid, though I have to admit, the idea of sacrificing my Q-side pawns to activate my game was largely my own. When my opponent timed out (I noticed he was cutting things more and more finely), he was still a pawn ahead, but I still had the means to set problems, and was starting to think I might yet hold out for a draw... A particularly interesting and difficult R+Ps ending occurred in agmac vs ionadowman, again with my having the pawn less. Now, I've had quite a lot of R+Ps endgames on GK, and have thereby built up a fund of experience in them, but this one was quite complicated as there were a lot of pawns. Gradually reducing material I finally got to a point where a known drawn position was in sight - identified by Levenfish & Smyslov as such - which I managed to steer for and obtain. A limitation, perhaps, of such books, is that they aren't always comprehensive in their analysis of such positions, so, when agmac, having arrived at the "drawn" position, deviated almost at once from the "main" line, I had still some work to do to secure the half-point. Which was probably just as well, as it gave me further insights into how such endings work. You could do worse than to get hold of these books if you can. Cheers, Ion Posted by doctor_knight | legalserv.com 4/29/2008 20:54:50 Play online chess Message: Posted by taufiq | legalserv.com 4/30/2008 04:50:02 Play online chess ...Message: (for the people who are interested; the game ended 21-Jan-06). If I look through such games, it's very clear for me, there's a lot more to learn !! Still a long way to go ! :) Posted by lighttotheright | legalserv.com 4/30/2008 06:52:26 Play online chess Message: Although it is not an endgame book, it does have a endgame specific section within it. It is only about 140 problems from simple endgames; but it is there. Some people don't like the style of not explaining anything with just problems. I find this style most useful. The only way to truly learn chess is to just do it. This forces you to do just that. The problems expand your learning horizons. It's funny! I've always viewed mating positions (which most of his book it comprised of) as a form of endgame. 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Posted by bogg | legalserv.com 5/01/2008 03:58:36 Play online chess GM Flear Message: CTC Posted by ionadowman | legalserv.com 5/07/2008 13:31:49 Play online chess It seems likely...Message: Of course, any such book would be general in nature, since there is an infinitude of variety still to be found so late in the game. And you would be amazed at just how complicated and exciting 'simple' positions can become! Some of the Fischer-Smyslov battles of 1958-1959 were thrillers. Cheers, Ion Posted by wschmidt | legalserv.com 5/08/2008 13:13:10 Play online chess The Flear book is excellent. Message: Posted by alxthgrt | legalserv.com 8/22/2008 16:49:14 Play online chess Yassier Seirawan American Number oneMessage: Posted by alxthgrt | legalserv.com 8/22/2008 16:50:28 Play online chess Message: Posted by cutawhant | legalserv.com 9/27/2008 07:52:59 Play online chess RecommendationMessage: |