משחק בין עמנואל למיכאל

החשיבות העצומה של מיקום הכלים בשחמט

Prescient placement of pieces paramount

Position is everything

In chess, an average expert can defeat or even crush a Garry Kasparov if his own pieces have sufficiently superior placement.

There are exceptions. The fog of war allows miraculous victories with inferior resources and force. Both Napoleon and Robert E. Lee were geniuses at reading a battlefield configuration, marshaling lesser forces at vulnerable points and then routing the opposing army.

Both, incidentally, were chess enthusiasts who played the game in their tents during military campaigns.

But there is little of the fog of war in the average chess game except during time pressure. Chess generals have a clear view of their battlefield.

Superior players win because they know how to attain and exploit an advantage in position

How the masters play

משחק יפיפה של אנדרייקין, הכישרון הרוסי העולה. הקרבת פרש במסע ה-17 והמלך יוצא לטיול ונלכד במרכז.

Below is a win by Dmitry Andreikin against Maksim Serov from the Russian Championship in Dagomys, Russia.

	ANDREIKIN	SEROV
1.	ד4	פו6
2.	פו3	ד6
3.	c4	N(b)d7
4.	Nc3	e5
5.	Bg5	Be7
6.	Qc2	0-0
7.	e3	c6
8.	Bd3	h6
9.	Bh4	a6
10.	0-0-0	Qc7
11.	g4	b5
12.	g5	hxg5
13.	Nxg5	bxc4
14.	Bxc4	d5
15.	Bb3	Qb6
16.	R(h)g1	Re8
17.	Nxf7	Kxf7
18.	Qg6ch	Ke6
19.	Bxf6	Nxf6
20.	dxe5	Kxe5
21.	Nxd5	cxd5
22.	Rxd5ch	Ke6
23.	Rb5ch	-

Black resigns

מקור: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2009/05/16/2_CHESS0516.ART_ART_05-16-09_D2_3DDRHJ2.html

אודים: מיכאל עם יובל. משחק אחד.

משחק 2

אלוף העולם פישר נהג לעשות הליכות בשעות מוזרות

מקור: פינת השחמט של שלבי לימן בעיתון היומי הקולומבוס דיספטצ': http://www.dispatch.com/content/index.html

בפינה של שלבי. תרגיל מצוין למתחילים ומשחק מעולה של הפיליפיני לילו. עמיתו המפורסם הוא סו אבל לילו פשוט משחק מדהים. ראייה שלו קדימה ורחוק היא בלתי יאומנת. שפו לפיליפינים. לילו בלבן . פתיחה אנגלית. סימן אינפורמטור: A20

English Opening: King's English Variation. General

On Chess: Frequent walks gave Fischer's brain a boost

Saturday, July 9, 2011 03:05 AM

Many stories concern Bobby Fischer's fondness for walking.

On three or four occasions during the 1960s, I met him by chance as he perambulated around New York. He was always friendly and eager to talk.

Late-night walks often took him to chess hangouts such as the Chess and Checker Club of New York, where he would frequently take on a player of master strength, offering up to 15-1 odds to his opponent and the gathering kibitzers.

He seemed to tremendously enjoy the fun and hilarity provoked by the impromptu exhibitions.

A champion boxer once described to me the difficulty of keeping up with Fischer's walking tours. There seems to have been a method to his locomotion.

Rae Pica, author of A Running Start, wrote: "Movement increases blood vessels that allow for the delivery of oxygen, water and glucose to the brain. And this can't help but optimize brain performance."

Nocturnal walks - a wonderful combination of darkness and contemplation - offered Fischer a private laboratory to explore chess moves.

Shelby Lyman is a Basic Chess Features columnist.

How the masters play

Below is a win by Darwin Laylo against Austin Yang Ching-Wei.

	LAYLO	YANG CHING WEI
1.	c4	e5
2.	g3	Nf6
3.	Bg2	Bc5
4.	Nc3	O-O
5.	e3	Re8
6.	N(g)e2	Nc6
7.	a3	a5
8.	O-O	d6
9.	d4	exd4
10.	exd4	Ba7
11.	h3	Bf5
12.	Nb5	Ne7
13.	g4	Bc8
14.	Bg5	Nd7
15.	Re1	f6
16.	Be3	Nb6
17.	d5	Bd7
18.	Nxa7	Rxa7
19.	Qd3	Ng6
20.	f4	Qe7
21.	Ng3	Qf7
22.	Ne4	Ra6
23.	c5	Nxd5
24.	Qxd5	Be6
25.	Qxb7	R(a)a8
26.	f5	Bd5
27.	Nxf6ch

Black resigns

KID: Four Pawns Attack

סימן אינפורמטור: E76, E77, E78, E79
הלבן יוצר מרכז מרשים אבל צריך לתחזק אותו. השחור ינסה להוכיח שללבן היו עיניים גדולות. במשחק הזה, לבן כן הצליח והמרכז החזק עזר לו לנצח את המשחק.
The main line is : 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 f4 O-O 6 Be2 c5 7 Nf3 cxd4 8 Nxd4 Nc6 9 Be3
But in the following game, the game evolved differently. After 5..0-0, and 6. Nf3 Black tried
6..Bg4 7. Be2 and the surprising 7..e5

Chess resources on the internet: Part 1 - Newspapers columns

הקולומבוס דיספטצ'ר, עיתון אמריקאי. שמו של בעל הטור: שלבי לימן. יהודי. טור איכותי. יש לו פינת המתחיל. וגם משחק השבוע.

הנה דוגמא לטור מחודש יולי, 2011.

The Columbus Dispatcher

On Chess: Game wading into waves of change

Saturday, July 16, 2011 03:05 AM

Basic Chess Features

Like so much in contemporary life, chess - like an onrushing river - is characterized by constant change.

Bobby Fischer had the equivalent of a dozen or more doctorates in chess. He studied and assimilated - like no one else before him - what seemed at the time to be a massive classical chess heritage.

Grandmasters today have access to a minimum database of more than 4 million games, far eclipsing the chess legacy that Fischer inherited - and that database is increasing at an accelerating rate.

Setting up the pieces, playing through a game or games and reviewing relevant positions are painfully time-consuming. Fortunately, chess software and the computer screen speed the process miraculously.

Magnus Carlsen, the world's top-rated player, has indicated that he rarely uses a 3-D chess set. His basic equipment is a computer and programs that display and analyze critical positions.

He and others can achieve in minutes results that are as good or better than grandmasters in the pre-electronic era could manage in days or weeks.

It can be argued that computers weaken the capacity for original analysis and insight. But they can also supplement creativity and playing ability.

Clearly, something new is afoot in the game. The chess mind is evolving.

Shelby Lyman is a Basic Chess Features columnist.

Beginner's corner

Hint & explanation:

The power of the pawns.

Solution to Beginner's corner:

1. Qd2! (wins a rook to start). If 2. Rxd2, cxd2 - and Black will get a new queen.

How the masters play

Below is a win by Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen against Yang Wen from the Asian Individual Tournament in Mashhad, Iran.

	NGUYEN	WEN
1.	d4	Nf6
2.	c4	g6
3.	Nc3	Bg7
4.	e4	d6
5.	f4	0-0
6.	Nf3	Bg4
7.	Be2	e5
8.	fxe5	dxe5
9.	d5	a5
10.	Be3	Na6
11.	h3	Bxf3
12.	Bxf3	Nd7
13.	h4	f5
14.	h5	Bf6
15.	hxg6	hxg6
16.	exf5	gxf5
17.	Bh5	Kg7
18.	Qf3	Bg5
19.	Bg6	Bxe3
20.	Rh7ch	Kg8
21.	Qh5	Qf6
22.	Rxd7

Black resigns