tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16736735284587513572012-01-17T17:01:41.902-05:00Diamondbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08496289359652580071noreply@blogger.comBlogger2311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673673528458751357.post-76593719132584751432012-01-17T16:55:00.002-05:002012-01-17T16:58:10.124-05:00

You Tube Video on Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defenseby the chess web site.

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You Tube Chess Video Uploaded by Jrobichess

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You Tube Chess Video Uploaded by Jrobichess Yugoslav Attack

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Courtesy of Chess Vibes online chess magazine

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Courtesy of Chess Vibes online chess magazine

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New York Times Article on the late Peter Falk

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James A. Leonard (November 6, 1841 Ireland – September 26, 1862 Annapolis, Maryland) was a young American chess master, who grew up as a son of poor Irish immigrants in New York City. He learned to play chess at age 16 or 17. Before his 20th birthday, he was already famous for his fierce attacking play and prowess at blindfold chess, at which he played as many as ten games simultaneously.In 1862,

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He won at Yerevan 1962, USSR Championship with 13/19. Crosstable Link. Victor Korchoi Biography.Game selected from www.chessgames.com game of the day May 8, 2011Link to 1962 USSR Russian Championship compiled by Suentenis po 147 at chessgames.com korchnoi_tal_1962.pgn embedCfBasic("9934273727", "100%", "500", "pgnurl=diamondback/korchnoi_tal_1962.pgn&orientation=vertical&tabmode=false&light=

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Here it the last round game that I played in the Six Man Swiss under 1400 section at Hamilton Quads yesterday April 30, 2011.My final score was 1 win , 1 Draw and 1 Lost good for second place tie but no prize money since first place was a two way tie wity 2 1/2 points each. Both first place finishers split the prize money and I was left out in the cold.One of the regular New Jersey masters Jim

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Pictured above are the team members and myself an alternate of Rule 60 "Annoying Behaviour Prohibited ". The final score for our team was 2 1/2 points out of six rounds of team chess at the US Amateur Team East Tournament in Parsippany New Jersey , USA.Standing left to right is Tevin, Diamondback, Atomic Patzer, Bognan, and KC.More Photos from the US Amateur Team East Tournement can be found on

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IM Mike Shahade on right Chess Expert Jeremy on leftRittehhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USASaturday , October 9, 2010International Master Mike Shahade was just recently spotted on Saturday afternoon October 9, 2010 playing blitz at Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania.(Top Photo above) Mike was giving time odds of two minutes to five minutes to his opponent Jeremy, who is

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Here are two marathon games. Marathon game number one was the first round game at the Hamilton Chess Club 6 man Swiss. This game was adjourned on move 63 and played out at around 8:30 PM at the HHC Quads on August 21, 2010 Saturday night at Groveville, New Jersey.The second marathon game was the third and last round game at Hamilton Chess Club quads in the six man swiss. This game was finished

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Yesterday I played at the Hamilton Chess Clubs Quads in the Six Man Swiss, the top seed was rated 1400 who I was paired up in the second round as white and was very fortunate to win this game which allowed me take second place in the Swiss event and drive away with some prize money in my pocker.My opponent was a ten year old rated at 1400 USCF and he had me on the ropes in the middle game but did

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Here are some games from the Free Internet Chess Server from various amateurs.Play Online Chess[Event "FICS rated blitz game"][Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"][Date "2010.08.17"][Round "-"][White "Ykwily"][Black "StreetLights"][Result "0-1"][WhiteELO "2685"][BlackELO "2063"][Time "12:22:34"][WhiteElo "1487"][BlackElo "1557"][TimeControl "180+0"][Mode "ICS"]1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. c3 Nf6 4.

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Courtesy ChessVibesRising Stars Official Web PageIn the sixth round of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team defeated the Rising Stars 3-2. Boris Gelfand had a relatively easy day against David Howell, while Loek van Wely scored his first point for the Experience team in his 16th attempt. Hikaru Nakamura limited the damage for the Rising Stars with a win over Ljubomir Ljubojevic.The NH

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Courtesy of Chess Vibes web page Rising Stars Official Web PageIn the second round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars team took the lead over the Experience team thanks to a win by David Howell over the luckless Ljubomir Ljubojevic. The other four games were drawn, which resulted in a 3-2 win for the youngsters. The overall score after two rounds is 5½- 4½ in favour of the Rising

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The World Open 2010 took place from June 29 to July 5, 2010 at the Valley Forge Convention Plaza.Czech Grandmaster Viktor Laznicka finished at the top of the standings with 7½/9, winning $17,413!Laznicka started the tournament with 6 wins, leaving him a clear point ahead of the field at that stage. Rounds 7 and 8 were fairly peaceful draws while the final half-point needed to take the title was

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Yesterday , I played in Hamilton Chess Quads in Groveville , New Jersey, the most active National Master in New Jersey , Jim West was missing in action on June 25, 2010. at Hamilton Chess Quads in Groveville, New Jersey, USAOverall the turn out was light about24 players , about six quads , about 20% of the players were Generation Y under the age of ten in all sections bout five players with their

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Here are some photos of Masterminds Chess Club located at the Watermark at Logan Square , that I recently visited about three moths ago on a Friday night.

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This is second round game that I played at Hamilton Chess Club Quads at Groveville, New Jersey on May 22, 2010, the game score is quite erratic but not the end result of the last three moves.I will post at a later date a game with more analysis and a more accurate score....diamondbackThis is kind of a helpmate which my opponent basically boxed in one of his rooks on the H8 square and keeping his

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Garden State Chess League Note: The web page of the Garden State Chess League is maintained and updated by John Moldovan of the Kenilworthian Chess Club. All the links in this chess blog post point his excellent web page on the New Jersey Garden State Chess League.This chess blog link above covers the goings-on of the Garden State Chess League for the year 2009- 2010 , which features teams from

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Game 4 Anand and Topalov. Photo © http://www.chessdom.com who are on the spot with commentary, photos and reports. Anand - Topalov World Championship Game 4 Mark Crowther - Thursday 29th April 2010 After the draw in game 3 it was Anand who is looking to make progress with white in game 4. Anand opened with the Catalan as Kramnik did in his match against Topalov in Elista. Anand played a novelty

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Play Online Chess[Event "Blitz 10 minute"][Site "ICC "][Date "2010.5.12"][Round "1"][White "Saxmann"][Black "Jeremia"][Result "0-1"][WhiteELO "793"][BlackELO "1007"][SetUp "1"][FEN "6k1/5b2/p5p1/1p3p2/8/2Q4P/5PPK/8 w KQkq - 0 1"]%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor0-1document.getElementById("cwvpd_4200275925").value=document.getElementById("cwvpg_4200275925").innerHTML;document.getElementById("

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Directions by Google Maps Registered Players For South Jersey Open30th South Jersey Open Set for May 15th By Stephen Arnold Dick May 4, 2010 CHERRY HILL, NJ-The South Jersey Open (SJO), established in 1956, is one of America's longest running open chess tournaments. This year's event is being held at the the Holiday Inn in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on May 15th.The South Jersey

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Official World Chess Championship 2010 PageWikipedia Info On 2010 World Chess ChampionshipChessdom Coverage World Chess Championship 2010tpl_andRd4.pgn embedCfBasic("6704930764", "100%", "350", "pgnurl=diamondback/tpl_andRd4.pgn&orientation=horizontal&tabmode=false&light=cccccc&dark=777777&border=0&bordertext=cccccc&headerbackground=0&headerforeground=ffffff&mtbackground=cccccc", "", "");

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Courtesy Chessvibes.com

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Courtesy New York Times Chess Blog GambitGame One Replay April 24, 2010, 2:18 pm Topalov Wins First Game of Title MatchBy DYLAN LOEB MCCLAINWinVeselin TopalovLossViswanathan AnandReplay the game with analysis»Veselin Toplaov of Bulgaria got off to a great start in the world championship match as he won Game 1 after Viswanathan Anand of India, the world champion, blundered. The game was barely out

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The Mercedes Sprinter that transported the World Champion's team to SofiaReport from www.chessbase.com Link to Chessbase Article on April 21, 2010 below:article copyrighted by Chessbase. 15% of article posted in this blogto call attention to article posted by Chessbase.A volcanic trip – with the Lord of the Rings21.04.2010 – On Thursday Vishy Anand embarked on a trip from his house in Madrid,

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Almira made it to the through to the final table (nine players) and finished third. The prize pool for the event was more then 600,000 Euros, with 152,580€ going to the winner, 93,200€ to the runner up and 59,100€ to her – slightly more than female players win at chess events.The 2010 France Poker Awards designed to reward the best players of the year 2009. The awards ceremony was held during the

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Yesterday , I played in the under 1600 Quads at Cherry Hill Library, at Cherry Hill , New Jersey. Despite the heavy rain and high winds there was a decent turnout of about 15 players or so. After arriving 20 minutes late because of the heavy rains for the first round game and completely razzled by the driving conditions, I hung a piece on move six or so but decided to play on to about 20 more

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14 year old FM Daniel NaroditskyHere is a link to FM Daniel Naroditsky that samples some of the pages of his first chess book of many to come.Mastering Positional Chess John Saunders, British Chess Magazine:"You would never guess that he was so young when he wrote it as it is imbued with a great deal of understanding of the game and expressed in good, plain English."Game Collection of FM Daniel

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Atomic Patzer AKA Saint ThomasDiamondback aka Saint GeorgeHere is a first round game between Tom and I at the February 27, 2010 HCC Hamilton Chess Quads at Groveville, New Jersey. Atomic was the top seed rated at 1498 USCF class C in the under 1500 six man swiss Swiss, which was part of the Quad event for that day. Selected games from that HCC six man swiss can be found in my previous post

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Dragan MilovanovicThis is part two of some master and expert rating level games of the recent United States Amateur Team East in Chess Flash format.Wright-Milovanovic.pgn embedCfBasic("6220666611", "100%", "500", "pgnurl=diamondback/Wright-Milovanovic.pgn&orientation=vertical&tabmode=false&light=eeeeee&dark=777777&border=ffffff&bordertext=0&headerbackground=ffffff&headerforeground=0&mtbackground=

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Here are a few games from the higher players rated above 2000 USCF. All of the games are unannotated, so if anyone wants to make some comments about the games posted, just leave a comment. Thanks.....diamondbackPlay Online Chess[Event "Challenge"][Site "Parsippany USA"][Date "2010.02.13"][Round "1"][White "Allen,E"][Black "Izoria,A"][Result "1-0"][WhiteELO "2685"][BlackELO "2063"][WhiteElo "2174"

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Play Online Chess[Event "Hamilton Swiss Feb 2010"][Site "Groveville, NJ"][Date "2010.2.27"][Round "1"][White "Atomic Patzer"][Black "Diamondback"][Result "1-0"][WhiteELO "1493"][BlackELO "1273"]%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d4 Bb4 5. Bg5 d6 6. Bc4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Ne5 8.Bb3 Bg4 9. f3 Bh5 10. O-O Bxc3 11. bxc3 Ned7 12. Qd2 O-O 13. Rae1 Qc8 14. f41-

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Hamilton Chess Club Quads turn out was light on Saturday , February 27, 2010 about 25players showed up. Because of this , the under 1500 USCF rated players were group under a Swiss. Top seeed was Atomic Patzer, USCF 1498 Class C player, but his two wins from this three round swiss was not enough to bring home the bacon.Instead a young New Jersey upstart, who walked away with three wins in very

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"Click On Graphic Image On Left To Enlarge Detail"Here is an interesting Free email chess server that I recently discovered on the Net.The name of the web page is www.chessbymessage.com.Email chess through your web browser, entirely free!Some of the key features of this web page are that you can drag and drop your move on a graphical chess board and your game can be exported in PGN format to any

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GM Levon Aronian ArmeniaLinares report courtesy of Chessbase.comGM VeselinTopalov Bulgaria21.02.2010 – "Two exciting games – and one Petroff," writes our commentator GM Anish Giri. Gelfand used the latter in a colorless draw against Vallejo. The other two games were more entartaining. Topalov had a clear win against Aronian but missed the killer move; and Grischuk profited from a non-obvious

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Fischer won the 1962 Stockholm Interzonal by 2½ points, scoring an undefeated 17½/22. He was the first non-Soviet player to win an Interzonal since FIDE instituted the tournament in 1948. Fischer's decisive victory made him one of the favorites for the Candidates Tournament in Curaçao, which began soon afterwards. He finished fourth out of eight with 14/27, the best result by a non-Soviet player

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Game and Photo courtesy of Chessbase.comRound Five: Gashimov and Topalov Win, Topalov LeadsAll Games From Linares 2010 Courtesy of Chessbase.comV. Topalov -A. Grischuk Round Five Game

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In 1968, Stanley Kubrick (a strong chess player himself) directed 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is probably the most famous man vs. computer chess games in film. The movie features an astronaut, Dr. Frank Poole (played by Gary Lockwood), playing a chess game with the white pieces against the HAL-9000 computer (voice by Douglas Rain). The game in the movie is from an actual game, Roesch vs. Schlage

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Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov have played a 12 games match from 21 to 24 September, 2009, in Valencia. It consisted of 4 rapid (or semi rapid) and 8 blitz games and will take place exactly 25 years after the mythical encounter between the two players. The match between Kasparov and Karpov is in honor of the Queen as a chess piece, which emerged from the region of Valencia in the XV century,

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Alisa Melekhina just recently held a Simul at "All The Kings Men" on February 9, 2010 at Pitman, New Jersey. Below is info by Stephen Dick, organizer and a link to more pictures of the Simul.....diamondbackBelow is text of Email, that I received from Stephen. I just published a music video (slideshow) of the Alisa Melekhina simul to the web site. Those of you who played in the simul should find

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Victor(HHC club member who hosts the Unofficial Hamilton Chess Club Web Page )This is the site address for the Unofficial Hamilton Chess Club Web Page located in Groveville , New Jersey.sites.google.com/site/hamiltonchessclub.Currently , this web page is maintained by Victor, a Club Member who is expanding and is improving this site on a daily basis.To the best of my knowledge, this is a one man

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Joshua David H. USCF Rating 1942During the month of January 2010 , there was a Queens Gambit Thematic Tourny at the Hamilton Chess Club located in Groveville, New Jersey. In the last round both Joshua and Dragon had two points each. This was the game that decided first place, unfortunately for the young upstart, Joshua Hill, he fell short in this game.Play Online Chess[Event "Queen's Gambit

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Here is some light analysis, that I went over in the Analysis board at www.chess.com of my round 2 games with "The Kid" at Hamilton Quads on Saturday , January 23, 2010.I was thinking for White's Move 18... move my Knight to C6 instead of taking Black's Bishop on E6 but it seems this turns out worse for white.Here is the Analysis and the orignal game is below it.Play Online Chess[Event "Hamilton

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Vladimir Kramnik (pictured) had to play accurately in the early stages against Nakamura's Dutch defence, but he emerged unscathed and fought back for a memorable and deserved win.Play Online Chess[Event "Corus"][Site "1:12:33-1:02:33"][Date "2010.1.24"][Round "8"][White "Kramnik"][Black "Nakamura"][Result "1-0"][WhiteELO "?"][BlackELO "?"]%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3.

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Play Online Chess[Event "Corus"][Site "1:03:33-0:04:33"][Date "2010.01.23"][Round "7"][White "Nakamura"][Black "Shirov"][Result "1-0"][WhiteELO "?"][BlackELO "?"]%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.Bxf6 gxf6 9. Na3 f5 10. Nc4 Nd4 11. exf5 Bxf5 12. Ne3 Bg6 13. Ncd5 Bh6 14. c3Ne6 15. Bd3 Bxe3 16. Nxe3 Qb6 17. O-O Nf4 18. Be2

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Here's my second round game at Hamilton Quads on Saturday January 23, 2010. I played white hoping for the Reti Exchange which I like as White. Thinking this kid lost his first round and that I was well rested after my 25 move draw in round one , I would be fresh and also be better off to win this game since I received the White pieces. Never Happened ! I was outplayed and outgunned, and shot

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Here is my third round game that I played at Hamilton Quads in Groveville, New Jersey on Saturday , January 23, 2010. What interesting is that my opponent was the number one seed, rated at 1361 pts and this was a Swiss event for the lower rated players because the odd number of players rated below 1375 pts. (Class D )and the six remaining players could not form two final Quad Sections.This game

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The Scoop on GM Alexander Shabalov from DIM mak films on Vimeo.USCF Chess Article Scoop on Liberty Bell Part I2010 Liberty Bell Standings, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania USA

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Here are addtitional Reti Gambit Games in Chess Flash format. I went over this opening with Aaron K (USCF Rating 1560) a Class C player, at the end of the Hamilton Quads, January 23, 2009. at Hamilton Chess Club in New Jersey and he pointed out instead of Black accepting the pawn , Black just plays Nf6. I will try to find some of these games where Black declines the Reti Gambit by playing Nf6 and

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Thomas JohanssonThis gambit is played by white to completely throw off your opponent, who is booked up on the French defense.I personally would use this gambit, because I don't like playing white against the French defense. It seems everytime, I played white against the French , I always walk away with a draw or worst yet, a loss.I have not used this weapon yet in tournement play only because I

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Here are two You Tube chess videos on the Ruy Lopez - Berlin Defense.The first chess video is about the opening itself. And the second chess video concerns some traps in the Ruy Lopez - Berlin Defense opening.The Berlin Defense is reached if Black plays Nf6 on his third move. It gained a great deal of popularity after Vladimir Kramnik used it in his victory over Garry Kasparov in their match for

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Pictured are the winners, ( left to right) GM Elect Alex Lenderman, IM Irina Krush, IM Bryan Smith and GM Alex Stripunsky (inset).GM Elect Alex Lenderman was declared the National Chess Congress 2009 Champion by virtue of the best tie-breaks among the winners2009 National Chess Congress Premier StandingsChess Playing diagrams courtesy of MonRoi

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New Jersey Knockouts Beats Baltimore Kingfish to qualify for the final four.The New Jersey Knockouts having draw odds left little hope for the Baltimore Kingfish to enter the final four. But Baltimore played to win in every game but lost in the match in the end.Here is a Board One game link below, from that USCL match courtesy The Kenilworthian chess java chess game archive.New Jersey Beats

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Philadelphia chess icon and International Master Bryan Smith will be appearing at All the King's Men (3) hours on Monday, November 23rd from 7 PM to 10 PM.Bryan will lecture for one hour on "What to do after the opening". Basically, it will be about planning and findingyour way through the middle game after you have developed your pieces/played some book moves and arenow on your own.During the

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Below are some links that cap off the final week of play in the United States Chess League.The first link is from the USCF web page titled Week 9 US Chess League Recap.The second link is from "The Kennilworthian" USCL Regular Season Ends Wednesday.I'm not just kissing ass here, I sincerely believe The Kenilworthian chess blog one of the premier chess blogs out there. I take my hat off to Mike

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Alex LendermanBiograprhy Of Alex Lenderman at Wikipedia Philadelphia Inventors --------------------------------------------------------------------------------In one of the most surprising moves of the offseason, the 2008 MVP, IM Alex Lenderman, will be hoping to continue his impressive play in Philadelphia. Alex dominated in 2008 with a 7.5/8 record, and showed afterwards that it wasn't a

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Ziping Liu Amateur ChessplayerHere is a hard fought game, which was lost by Atomic Patzer in the Amateur East, in Parsippany, New Jersey, Round five in June 2007.The winner of this game is Ziping Liu a young upstart on the New Jersey chess scene and also a student of NM Jim West Chess Teacher of New Jersey also. A disclaimer here is that on his chess blog Jim West On Chess, his student Ziping is

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I just opened an email from Stephen , which contained all the class winners of the second annual Greater Pitman Open held at Pitman Manor on August 15, 2009 in Pitman, New Jersey.First place was tied by NM Leroy Dubek and IM Bryan Smith with four points each.The turnout was 65 players. The event was sponsored by All the King's Men, 62 S. Broadway, Pitman, NJ 08071, 856-582-8222. INFO: Stephen

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Here are additional pictures that I took today at the Greater Pitman Open Chess Championship. The turnout was 65 players. The event was sponsored by All the King's Men, 62 S. Broadway, Pitman, NJ 08071, 856-582-8222. INFO: Stephen Dick, cs@atkmchesssets.com

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Some of the big name chessplayers that played today, Saturday , August 15, 2009 at the 2nd Annual Greater Pitman Open in Pitman , New Jersey.Left side of Photo front GM Alex Lenderman, Rear GM Michael Rhode, Right side of phot front IM Thomas Bartel, rear NM Leroy Dubeck, Round Four (fianl round)Top Finishers were IM Bryan Smith and NM Leroy Dubchek, with 4 points each tied for first place also

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Robson has said he wants to become a professional chess player, and his parents hoped for him to gain a chess scholarship to college.[2] In April 2005, at the "Super Nationals" (the world's largest scholastic chess tournament) in Nashville, he won every match he played and emerged as the national champion in the elementary age (K-6) division. By winning this title he won a four-year scholarship

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The United States Chess Federation - The Final Five in Indiana

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The United States Chess Federation - Six Tie in U.S. Open; Gurevich Wins Official Title

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English grandmaster David Howell, 19 years old, is the 2009 British Champion. He was clear first with nine points from 11 games.Note: Courtesy permission from Brit09 web site to repost photo and slide show photos.some content from Closet Grandmaster. Special thanks to both web pages..diamondbackTwo games posted below in Chess Flash format courtesy of Glenn Wison.GM David Howell Grandmaster Chess

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Alex Shabalov at US OpenThe United States Chess Federation - Roaming the Halls in IndianaThis Sunday morning I searching throug various chess blogs for coverage of the 110th US Chess Open and it looks like slim pickings. Most likely towards the end of the Open, blog postings will be pick.There are some photos posted by Mon Roi's web page along with some games.Phot Gallery By Mon Roi on Picassa at

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ChessBase.com - Chess News - Chess Classic: Nakamura wins 960 World ChampionshipMains FiNet960 Games

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Photo Left: Kevin Chen in Black HatHere is an upset by Kevin E Chen over National Master Arthur Feuerstein at the 1st DOCA Transnet FIDE event in New Jersey, USA.KvnVsFeustn.pgn embedCfBasic("4312499983", "100%", "500", "pgnurl=diamondback/KvnVsFeustn.pgn&orientation=vertical&tabmode=false&light=f4f4fF&dark=0072b9&bordertext=494949&headerforeground=ffffff&mtforeground=000000&mtvariations=FF0000&

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Black to move, and stop white's mating attackHere is a game that I played Sunday evening July 26, 2009 with a time control of 2 12rated blitz on the Internet Chess Club. This endgame resulted in a helpmate from my opponent, who could have stopped the mating attack and turn white's attack around and force a win against me.Both players were completely blind to black's resources in preventing the

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Zurich International Chess Tournament turn to game# 28 page number 42 on google books link aboveAmazon Books Link to Zurich International 1953This is game number 28 from David Bronstein's book Zurich International Chess Torunament 1953. David Bronsteins's introduction to this game is as follows: " Let the reader be forewarnded: this is one of the tournament's most intersting games, and the

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Please click on link Final Results below, which will redirect you to Jim West On Chess blog for final standings......diamondbackPhoto Left: Kevin Chen in Black HatFinal Results of the 1st DOCA Transnet FIDE Tournament USCF Crosstable 1st DOCA Transnet FIDE InvitationalUSCF Report On The 1st DOCA Transnet FIDE by Dean IppolitoThe location of this Chess event is at the Dean of Chess Academy 1161

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Left Photo: Kevin Chen wearing black hatThe location of this Chess event is at the Dean of Chess Academy 1161 US Highway 202. Branchburg, New Jersey , USA 08876 908-595-0066. Headed by New Jersey Chess Teacher of the Year International Master Dean Ippolito.USCF Crosstable 1st DOCA Transnet FIDE InvitationalDavid Grasso plays White agains Dean IppolitoExpert Rahul Swaminathan playes white

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Picture of Kevin E Chen wearing black hat playing white agains NM A. Feuerstein.The location of this Chess event is at the Dean of Chess Academy 1161 US Highway 202. Branchburg, New Jersey , USA 08876 908-595-0066. Headed by New Jersey Chess Teacher of the Year International Master Dean Ippolito. First DOCA Transnet FIDE Invitational was completed on Sunday evening on July 19, 2009. USCF

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I was just emailed a few moments ago pictures of Rounds five thru eight of the First DOCA Transnet FIDE Invitational on Monday evening on July 20, 2009, by Kevin E Chen amateur chess player and amateur photgrapher. Kevin also was one of the invited players to participate in this chess tournament.The location of this Chess event is at the Dean of Chess Academy 1161 US Highway 202. Branchburg, New

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On Saturday, July 18, 2009 , I played at the Hamilton Chess Quads,my score was 1 1 1. Photo of Ray Dwier Recreation Center, Groveville, New JereyHere is one of my games, a win with white in the lower quad sections, the under 1400section at Hamilton Chess Quads on July 18, 2009 in Groveville, New Jersey. A few notes on the game. The opening is a Queens Pawn opening, my strategy was to bust open

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Kasparov versus Karpov Rematch! - Chess.com

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Donostia Chess FestivalCoutesy of US Chess Life Online ( picture and caption text)After Nakamura's blazing 4.5/5 start at the Donostia Chess Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, Ruslan Ponomariov caught up with our U.S. Champion's 6.5/9 with a final round win over Vallejo. So a two-game blitz playoff was needed to determine a champion- this is rarely a bad thing for Nakamura. Nakamura dominated the

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Mar-04-09 Absentee: What was Addison thinking, playing the scandinavian against Fischer? on www.chessgames.comfischer_g_addison_1970.pgn embedCfBasic("4209289112", "100%", "350", "pgnurl=diamondback/fischer_g_addison_1970.pgn&orientation=horizontal&tabmode=false&light=f4f4fF&dark=0072b9&bordertext=494949&headerforeground=ffffff&mtforeground=000000&mtvariations=FF0000&mtmainline=000000", "", ""

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Eric Rosen and Kevin Bu scored 4.5/5 in the U.S. Junior Open (Milwaukee, July 10-12), while Rosen won the Armageddon playoff to earn a spot in next year's Junior Closed. 157 players attended this 3-section event.The video below shot by Andi Rosen, shows the Rosen-Bu Junior Open blitz playoff for first in which Rosen got the white pieces and six minutes while Bu, playing Black, had draw odds. The

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ChessBase.com - Chess News - Dortmund 10: Kramnik wins Dortmund for the ninth timeDortmund 10: Kramnik wins Dortmund for the ninth time12.07.2009 – This is definitely his tournament: Vladimir Kramnik won it eight times previously, and after an inauspicious start the former World Champion mopped up in the second half to finish a full point ahead of his nearest rivals. They were Peter Leko, Magnus

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ChessBase.com - Chess News - Dortmund 8: Kramnik beats Carlsen, leadsCourtesy of Chessbase News:Dortmund 8: Kramnik beats Carlsen, leads10.07.2009 – And suddenly things have changed... After two relatively uneventful rounds Vladimir Kramnik was able to go into the lead at the Sparkassen tournament in Dortmund, after the leader since round one Magnus Carlsen blundered in a probably drawn position.

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The United States Chess Federation - Dr.Ira Lee Riddle, 1946-2009Dr. Ira Lee Riddle receiving a chess award.Dr. Ira Lee Riddle, International Arbiter, PA Chess Federation President and Chess Journalists of America Vice-President, died on July, 6, 2009. Ira and his wife Polly were on their cruise around England and were at their last port of call before disembarking and going to Stonehenge, Havre

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This post found at Susan Polgar Daily Chess News .bp.blogspot.com/_ecbiJMvMHP8/SlgLBCq49DI/AAAAAAAAAVM/hXsqxN0q-Tw/s1600-h/Zimmer+2000.jpg">Hint: 1. Na6 ....

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Chess TacticsChess Tempo is chess page, which helps chess players improve their game, by practicing tacital skills and endgame training .There is free registration which allows users to solve tactic and endgames problems based upon their playing ability and tracks their progress.There is a silver membership available for twenty dollars a month and a gold membership which is thirty five dollars a

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