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Posted by nathanman22 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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? ——— A Match All About the Sicilian — An unusual chess match is being held in South Carolina. It pits Judit Polgar of Hungary, the strongest woman chess payer in history, who is now ranked No. 46 in the world, but once was in the top 10, against Gregory Kaidanov, a Ukrainian-born American grandmaster, who is ranked No. 261. The match is four games and has an interesting twist: Each game begins with a different variation of the Sicilian Defense. The first game was on Monday and was won by Kaidanov, who had White, and featured the Sveshnikov. The second, which was won by Polgar, was on Tuesday and was a Dragon. The third chess game, which is being played on Wednesday, and can ...
Posted by heinzkat sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 4/05/2008 07:34:39 Play online chess	Probably seen before... Message: www.youtube.com ——— The f-pawn, part 2: is f5 the answer here? — Does White have a better option than moving the f-pawn? Continuing our look at the chess equivalent of route one football – the f-pawn advance... RB Well, let's see what happens when we push – 1 f5. The answer comes back faster than Manchester United on the break, not much. Black is under no compulsion to take the pawn and can instead centralise with 1…Nd4 or even 1…Qd4, or start getting the queen's rook into play with 1…Rac8, and 1…Nb4, hitting the d-pawn, would be irritating. All right, let's try to be logical. What's wrong here is that even if we could swap off pawns on the f-file, the f1-rook would remain blocked by the bishop. Let's ...
Posted by pgroenborg sleepingdogsliethemovie.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) ——— Big Surprises in Europe — Europe has been a center of chess activity over the last month with a series of major open tournaments. The first was the Gibtelecom Chess Festival in Gibraltar, which ran from Jan. 26 through Feb. 4. Among the world-class chess players who competed were Etienne Bacrot of France, Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia, Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain, Michael Adams of England, and Gata Kamsky of the United States. The chess tournament ended in a nine-way tie for first, with Adams winning a four-person playoff to take the title. The Moscow Open, which overlapped with Gibtelecom and ended on Feb. 7, was divided into four sections — A, B, C and D — with ...
Posted by heinzkat sleepingdogsliethemovie.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. ——— Topalov Closes In on Linares Title — After eight rounds, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed, holds a one point lead in the annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain. Alexander Grischuk of Russia, the defending champion, is in second place after beating Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan in Round 8 on Sunday. Levon Aronian of Armenia is in third, having managed, like Topalov, not to have lost a game in the chess tournament. Unlike Topalov, who has won three games, Aronian has not won a game either. So far, 25 percent of the games have been decisive, but that does not mean that the other 75 percent have been dull. Quite the contrary. The games have mostly been hard fought and exciting, even ...
Posted by jstevens1 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 ——— Weekend of Fun and Friends Between Battles on the Chess Board — The highlight of the year for many chess players is Washington’s Birthday weekend, when four amateur team championships are held across the country. There are no cash prizes, but the chess tournaments are popular because of the camaraderie. Players walk back and forth chatting before, after and even during the games. Some renew friendships with competitors they see only once a year. The World Amateur Team East tournament in Parsippany, N.J., the biggest and oldest of the chess events, celebrated its 40th birthday this year. There were 1,150 players and 271 teams, down from 283 teams last year, said Steve Doyle, the tournament’s director, who ...
Posted by muppyman sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 4/06/2008 09:40:18 Play online chess	Message: Look this: www.chessgames.com
Posted by ionadowman sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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 sleepingdogsliethemovie.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