just browsing twic i came across this gem from the current leader of the chinese championship:

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=43144

Didn't check the correctness of that game but 16. Bxd6 in the depicted position is pretty sick, followed by more fun moves. Probably black should really stick to the Ne8 idea in the Sämisch Nimzo not allowing Bg5.

What an incredible game. Thanks for posting, that's one of the most beautiful games I've seen in a long time. The 18. Ng3 followed by 19. Rf6!! idea was awesome.

Noir, thanks to your find the game is now available for much wider public hehe

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7140

Amazing game!

mystery man T.V. getting the credit

ha crazy stuff

lol this is awesome.

Lol, I wasn't trying to get any credit, I didn't think he is going to include that in the report chessbase feedback form has fields that you have to fill in, so I did :P

Games like this are of course beautiful regardless of whether or not a computer later proves them "correct", but it's a nice bonus when they do prove to be sound. I did a detailed study of this game with Houdini and am pleased to report that while black could of course have delayed things with a sharper defense at one or two points, white's attack WAS sound, and WAS winning.

Houdini actually finds 16. Bxd6 to be second best behind a different sac*, but still grades it, at depth 22, as a sound and winning sacrifice, with an evaluation of roughly +1.1. After that, every single move by white was, in fact, Houdini's first choice. Rather remarkable for a combination so deep. This game is both beautiful AND sound. And, for that matter, subtle. Houdini does NOT yet recognize Bxd6 as correct at depth 18, so the complications involved are obviously quite complex. Huge kudos to the winner.

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You should request some free chessbase type software for contributing!

Just played my first live tournament game in 7 years and forgot how draining it can be.

Playing with time increments is new to me and was interesting (I've played online with them recently but never got into major time trouble except blitz).

In the UK at least in the tournaments I played in, there were "play x moves in y minutes then add z more to the clock" time controls.

Anyway, I had what should have been a won endgame (not overly simple though for my level of play) and gave him unnecessary counterplay in time trouble and agreed to a draw.

Although I had 2 minutes on my clock when I pounded out the moves that let him back into the game I effectively had much more time than I thought. It only dawned on me afterwards though :P

Anyway.. 4 more to go!

I'll post all the games after it's finished and I've gone back through them myself.

Nice, best of luck Cadaz!



I've been playing with this one idea for a while, but I need some info first. Could all the European posters (only Europeans) state their countries of residence ITT? Or PM me if don't want it to be public. Thanks in advance

evil plan in the making? (Finland)

I'm in Ireland as I guess you know

should probably put this in a new thread though if there is any purpose to it

yeah Finland for me too although will be UK for a month in July..

Germany here (well, actually Bavaria).

By the way, the most important and biggest German open in Deizisau (near Stuttgart) starts next week. The field is headed by GMs Bacrot and Naiditsch.

After I crashed my rating to under 2000 in a disastrous christmas tournament I decided to play the B section ( < 2000) in Deizisau this year. I will probably be seated in top five out of 250 participants; first prize is € 1.000 (= $ 1.440). If successful, I will report back here. It probably won't happen though.

speaking of most important and biggest open tournaments, anyone thinking of playing the Czech Open in Pardubice this year? I am probably going to book that fairly soon.

Linky? Doubt I'll have the time/money but you never know!

http://www.czechopen.net

main events are the last week of July

No can do then I'm back in England in July and dont intend to be anywhere else

Posted the first two games of this weekend here..

Both can definately do with improvements I'm sure so go tear them to pieces. The other three will come later in the week when I've gone through them (ended up with 3/5)

Really interesting stuff, but I think its worth mentioning that computers can often really miss the point in deep combinations especially when there are 'quiet moves' in it. A great game to go over is Kasparov - Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999 (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011478). You should be able to find some phenomenally deep annotations of that game just by googling Kasparov-Topalov 1999. The computer analysis of that game is interesting. At times it is spot on, but at other times it is just completely off base and continues to completely misevaluate the position.

Ah, this whole period/comma (. ,) thing we do made that line look really odd for a moment until I remembered.

For the interested:



Greeen countries write one thousand as 1.000,00
Blue countries write one thousand as 1,000.00
Red countries use different numberals
Gray are somehow unknown

A+ post above me.

Kasparov vs Deep Thought Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhnDz...eature=related

I thought it was an interesting find. Its like a prequel to Game Over.

Germany here.

I'm playing the same tourney as Ajezz, but in the "A" section. My goal is like always "score more points than him"

Good luck this time.