Steinitz Blindfold Simul at Dundee 1867

When you think of international chess it is unlikely that Scotland springs to mind. Steinitz, the future first World Champion, participated in an international tournament in Dundee September 1867.

In September 1867, Gustav Neumann won the Dundee, Scotland International. 2nd place went to Steinitz

Also at Dundee, Scotland 1867 Chess Congress, future world champion William Steinitz played a blindfold simul with six opponents. His result was 3 0 3, Three wins and three draws and no losses.

On July 11 thru July 19 ,2009 the 116th Scottish Championship (International Tournement) will be held in Dundee, Scotland.

Below are the three wins of Steinitz in the blindfold simul held at the Dundee, Scotland during the Dundee chess congress of September1867.

Steinitz_-Baxler2_.pgn


Steinitz-Lindsay.pgn


William_Steinitz-Scott.pgn

Chess In Concert On You Tube

Chess In Concert Review

A Very Different Bobby Fischer

Appearing on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1971, Bobby Fischer shares his various views about chess.

One month after Bobby Fischer's death Dick Cavett wrote this piece in the New York Times titled " Was It Only A Game ? "

In this article Dick Cavett writes "Towering genius, riches, international fame and a far from normal childhood might be too heady a mix for anyone to handle. For him they proved fatal".







Robert James Fischer was born on March 9, 1943, in Chicago. By the age of 14, Bobby Fischer won the US Championship, becoming the youngest player ever to win that title. In 1958, at the age of 15, he became the youngest international grandmaster in history. He won the US Championship eight times in eight attempts, including, at the age of 20, setting a record with a perfect 11-0 score. In 1971 he set another record, when he won the quarter-final and semi-final matches for the world championship by identical scores of 6-0 against Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen respectively. Then, when he won against Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian in the first game of the final candidate match, he had thus set a record of 20 consecutive wins (without draws) at the highest level of competition. By 1972 he achieved a FIDE rating of 2785, making him, at that time, the highest rated player in history.


In Reykjavik, 1972, Fischer became the 11th World Chess Champion by defeating the defending champion, Boris Spassky in what is often referred to as "The Match of the Century." The final score was 12½ to 8½. In 1975, FIDE refused to meet Fischer's conditions for a World Championship match with Anatoli Karpov, and Fischer consequently refused to play. FIDE therefore awarded the title of World Champion to Karpov. Fischer then vanished from the public eye for twenty years. He resurfaced in 1992 to play a match against his old rival Spassky in Yugoslavia, which he won, 10 to 5 (with 15 draws). This action violated a U.N. sanction, and Fischer evaded authorities for twelve years until July 13, 2004, when he was arrested in Japan. On March 22, 2005, he was granted Icelandic citizenship and finally freed from Japan. He died of renal failure in Iceland in 2008.

Notable Games of William Steinitz

Steinitz vs Mongredien 1862 London

This game was awarded the brilliancy prize at the 1862 London International Tournament.






steinitz_mongredien_1862.pgn







William Steinitz vs Curt von Bardeleben Hastings 1895

A great attacking combination in the old 1860s style. After White's 22nd move, all the White pieces are en prise but Black is lost. The game won the first brilliancy prize of the tournament.




von_bardeleben_steinitz_1895.pgn


Wilhelm (later William) Steinitz (May 17, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was an AustrianPeople

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Both men and women are eligible to contest this title....
from 1886 to 1894. Some contemporaries and later writers described him as world champion since 1866, when he won a match against Adolf AnderssenAdolf Anderssen
Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was a Germany chess master. He is considered to have been the world leading chess player from 1851 to 1858, and from 1861 to 1866....
. Steinitz lost his title to Emanuel LaskerEmanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker was a Germany chess player, mathematician, and Philosophy who was World Chess Championship for 27 years. In his prime Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded as one of the strongest players ever....
in 1894 and also lost a re-match in 1897.

Chess Portal

Here is complete chess web page called Your Chess Net , which is a chess aggregator.

The idea behind this site is provide complete chess news provided through RSS feeds, podcasts, embedded ojects, and flash video.

This page is loadable in Eglish, French, German, and Spanish, once you load the language you want, then you register and save that page. When the main page is loaded, you get links and feeds to FIDE news, Susan Polgar's, 365chess.com and Chess.com.

On the far right hand side of the web page is a bookmarks section , which has already approximately 30 or some chess bookmarks and at the bottom you have an add bookmark button.

On the bottom right is a video panel when you can click on various You Tube videos, below is a You Tube video from the early 1990's from Saturday Night Live titled:
"The Perfect Chess Cheer" which I found on the video panel located on Your Chess Net.

Scacchi Clay Stop Motion - Chess Clay Stop Motion

Extremely remarkable animation with clay chess pieces.....diamondback

ChessBase.com - Chess News - Chess prodigies and mini-grandmasters

ChessBase.com - Chess News - Chess prodigies and mini-grandmasters

Blogger Hardcore Pawnography Lays Down His King

i’m laying down the king « hardcore pawnography

The link above is to the post dated November 22, 2008 announcing Hardcore Pawnography withdrawal from Chess Blogging.

At the end of my post is the complete text of Hardcore Pawnography's resignation from chess blogging.

To be honest I have not followed his chess blog but heard about this chess blog through the Internet by other chess bloggers.

For almost two years Hardcore Pawnography chess blogger has provided us with many different chess blogs with his spin on chess along with his travels.

Following this post were 58 commnents thanking him for his time and effort in promoting chess blogging.

I only wish that this Chess Blogger would have made mention as to what some of his best chess blog posts were. I may in the future gleam from his two years of blogging and repost some of his work this year.

Hopefully, this chess blogger will not delete his inactive blog but instead keep the blog online for other future bloggers to read and learn from it.

Here is the post chessloser wrote along with some of the comments.

i’m laying down the king
November 22, 2008 at 11:04 am (chess)

i had a goal of becomming a chess master, getting to a rating of 2000. didn´t happen, not even close.

i had a goal of writing a cool chess blog. it happened, i’ve made super awesome freinds, played in a few tournaments, met some fantastic, interesting, wonderful, great people, and had a kick ass time the whole way.

this is no longer a chess blog, not a real one, and so i think it´s time to resign.

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has read my blog, commented or not, been along from the beginning, just started reading at the end. Thanks for all the advice, support, comeraderie, everything, I cannot explain in human words how much I appreciate it all.

I’m not studying as much as i was (but i’m still studying, i love chess, i cant not play it or look at it) and i’m not playing at all. I might end up getting a job here in antigua (the life changing event) which would mean i would live here. if i dont, i might get a job on a boat out of Rio Dulce, i might continue on to honduras and further south as originally planned.

either way, I wont be writing about chess anymore, so it makes no sense to keep a chess blog. This is the last post.

I want to again thank everyone and i wish everyone well.

and a big CHESS: FUCK YEAH to devin carlin. rock on daddy-o.

Take care

chess it up!

58 Comments
SonofPearl said,
November 22, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I’m very sad to see your chess blog end, but I understand your decision. You’ve given me many great laughs and I thank you for the time and effort that you spent writing.

Good luck in your future endeavours, wherever they lead you.

Mr. Parx said,
November 22, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Well, you almost made it two years. Please don’t call it completely quits. Your blog address will sit dormant in my BlogLines reader, waiting to hear that one good story you just had to share. About becoming the new Chess Champ of the crummy Antiguan bar you frequent. Whatever it is, I look forward to reading more words from you, because of your humor and writing style.

Best of luck,
Mr. P.

A blog doesn’t have to be about any subject. We weren’t following your blog to read about chess this last month. We were following it because we were interested in what you were doing. We would still check on ychessed said,
November 22, 2008 at 6:52 pm our blog, and read any postings, even if it had litle to do with chess.

Any jobs down there for old, fat, civil engineers? There aren’t any here, for sure.

Bill

Best Of Diamondback Chess For Year 2008

As the year 2008 is drawing to a close, I would like to post my favorite blog posts that I have written in the year 2008.

Since this blog was just recently started late in the year 2008 with the theme " Chess From The Amateur" I have compiled in this last post for the year 2008 only posts that deal with the Amateur Chess Player.



Take The Pawn , Please Posted on August 26, 2008


No Place To Hide Posted on August 29, 2008


Speed Chess With A Bang ! Posted on September 15, 2008



Frank Turns The Tables Posted on September 27, 2008


It's All About Winning ! Posted September 28 , 2008


Josh's Dangerous Passed Pawn Posted on October 11, 2008


Humphrey Bogart Amateur Chess Player Posted October 12,
2008

Knight Moves At Hamilton Quad October 18, 2008 Posted on October 19, 2009

Bishop Pair Over Loaded at Hamilton Chess Quads Posted November 15, 2008

Four Queens at Christmas 2008 Posted December 21, 2008




Diamondback said...
Hi
This is Diamondback, I'm just checking the posting system on Google/Blogger.

If you are having problems posting your comments just email your comments to my email and I will post for you,

My email is diamondback1529@yahoo.com.

I will be on hiatus from my blog but I will have others guest blog for me . Thanks Diamondback

January 3, 2009 10:25 AM

Self Publishing Chess Books on Lulu

Lulu.com lets you publish and sell print-on-demand books and e-books, online music and images, custom calendars and books. Free self-publishing.
www.Lulu.com

The power to publish your own book. Print & sell your writing now!

This Chess Book web page was pointed out to me Atomic Patzer several months ago. At this web page, one can download to your computer many orignial chess books to your computer with several price ranges or have the hard copy delivered to your doorstep.

One can even upload their original book manuscript to www.Lulu.com for electronic publishing on their site. Then your book is available for all to purchase if they like your style of writting. Your books can be either sold as an electronic version for download or a hard copy shipped to your readers.

Listed below is a basic explanation taken from the Lulu web page on how this Self Publshing web page works.

Lulu eliminates traditional entry barriers to publishing, and enables content creators and owners – authors and educators, videographers and musicians, businesses and nonprofits, professionals and amateurs – to bring their work directly to their audience. First, they use Lulu’s tools to format their digital content. Then they take advantage of Lulu’s dedicated marketplace, custom storefronts and advanced listing and distribution services to make their books, videos, CDs, DVDs, calendars, reports and more available to as many, or as few, people around the world as they like, earning 80% of all creator revenue, of which millions of dollars has already Here is a link to some of the chess books availabel on Lulu.

Browse Chess Books on Lulu

Lulu Site Highlights | Lulu Blog

Standings - US Chess League

Standings - US Chess League

With just four weeks left in the regular season of the USCF, two teams have clear first place within their divsions. Those teams are the New York Queens Pioneers in the East and the San Francisco Mechanic in the West. update by Diamondback.


Queens Pioneers Team Roster USCF Eastern Division First Place

San Francisco Team Roster USCF Western Division First Place

Speed Chess With A Bang !

Here is link to a You Tube that shows that Speed Chess can be played for high stakes. The video is from the British Sci Fi show Blake's Seven that ran in Britain from 1978 to early 1980's.

Blake's Seven Speed Chess You Tube Video






Infomation about this British spin off of Star Trek can be found at Wikipedia.

Blake's 7 Image Library

Wikipedia Blakes Seven

Blake's Seven Synopsis at MSN

The highly regarded British science fiction series Blakes 7 was created by Terry Nation, one of the prime movers of Dr. Who. Gareth Thomas stars as Blake, an extraterrestrial do-gooder. With a seven-person crew comprised of criminals and insurgents, Blake wages an unending battle against "The Federation," the totalitarian regime which controls the Earth and hundreds of other populated planets. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, Blakes 7 has attained cult status in the U.S.; it was somewhat difficult to see until it fell into the hands of local PBS stations and such cable outlets as the Sci-Fi Channel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide