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Chess is inherently a difficult game. There aren't any very easy answers. You often find in the course of chess development that you have to unlearn what you have already learned. You have to take a step backwards in order to move forwards. Nigel Short |
1) Mechanics' Institute Chess Room News 2) Bruce Pandolfini on Chess.FM 3) Here and There 4) Upcoming Events This Saturday the Mechanics' will host the first of what is planned to be a regular series of blitz tournaments. It starts at 2pm and runs to 4pm. EF is $5 with all money collected returned in prizes. |
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IM Ricardo DeGuzman repeated his triumph from last month's Mechanics' monthly G/45 event. The former of the Philippine Olympiad team scored 5-0 to win the 5th Annual Howard Donnelly Memorial, held September 17 to honor the former Mechanic's Institute Chess Director. Among DeGuzman's victims was Dutch master Marcel Beulen who defeated WGM Kamile Baginskaite earlier in the competition. Tying for second in the 41-player event were Beulen, German visitor Alexander Samak, Phillip Pereplitsky, Karim Seanda and Sam Shankland. Anthony Corrales directed for the Mechanics'. NM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs and Tony D'Aliosio are tied for first in the Tuesday Night Marathon at 4-0. Four rounds remain for the 68-player field. US Chess League Results New York - 2.5 San Francisco - 1.5 |
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1. GM Alex Stripunsky (NY) vs IM Vince McCambridge (SF) 1-0 2. IM John Donaldson (SF) vs NM Gregory Braylovsky (NY) 0-1 3. WGM-elect Jenn Shahade (NY) vs FM David Pruess (SF) 0-1 4. NM Mark Pinto (SF) vs FM Lewis Eisen (NY) 1/2-1/2
Shahade,J (2318) - Pruess,D (2432) [B14]
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IM John Donaldson - 2442 |
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GM Julio Becerra - 2622 |
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FM Dmitry Zilberstein - 2435 |
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FM Marcel Martinez - 2469 |
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FM David Pruess - 2432 |
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Jorge Diaz - 2180 |
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NM Nicolas Yap - 2209 |
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Dr. Eric Moskow - 2127 |
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Avg Rating - 2379 |
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Avg Rating - 2349 |
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2) Bruce Pandolfini on Chess.FMThis week's guest on the internet radio show "Chess and Books with Fred Wilson" will be BRUCE PANDOLFINI. The show runs from 8:00 to 10:00 PM (EST) every Tuesday evening. As always, there will be replays of the show almost immediately afterwards for our chess enthusiasts on the West Coast & elsewhere, and often there will be several replays the following day. You can access it easily at the website: http://www.chess.fm "Fred's guest on Tuesday evening, Sept. 20th, 2005, will be the renowned chess author and teacher BRUCE PANDOLFINI. Bruce, co-founder of Chess in the Schools, a program that has brought chess to thousands of New York City schoolchildren, is probably the best-selling American chess author of all time with over 1,000,000 (!) copies of his books in print. Bruce will talk about chess teaching, strategies for self-improvement, his part in both the book and the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer", and, of course, discuss his new book "Solitaire Chess" and the soon-to-be-released "Q & A in Chess" based on his excellent ChessCafe.com column. Please email questions for Bruce Pandolfini to fred@fredwilsonchess.com or TonyRook".
Best in chess, Fred Wilson 3) Here and There
Garry Kasparov was in San Francisco this past Friday.
Chess master Kasparov takes on tech execs... and Putin At the Disruptions 2005 technology conference put on by Deloitte in San Francisco today, world renowned chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov gave a brief speech and then simultaneously played against about 20 of the executives attending the conference. I talked to Udi Manber, CEO of Amazon's A9 search engine, who proudly told me he lasted 23 moves with Kasparov, who was ranked number one in the world from 1984 until his retirement earlier this year. Kasparov was featured on page 3 of The New York Times Week in Review this past Sunday. The half page story dealing the with price of standing up to Vladimir Putin quotes Kasparov, who was hit over the head with a chessboard on one of his stops during his barnstorming political tour of Russia. " I am lucky" ..."that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball." Hikaru Nakamura was second in the Lausanne Young Masters Knockout, defeating Nana Dzagnidze and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov before losing to Andrei Volikitin in the final. The following game, which you won't find in any database, was recently redicovered by Dan Lucas, editor of Georgia Chess. It was first published in that magazine in April of 1996.You won't find it boring!
Calinescu,Gruia (2410) - Ivanov,Igor (2575) [A40] 1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 f5 6.e4 fxe4 7.h4 d6 8.h5 Qa5 9.Bd2 gxh5 10.Qxh5+ Kd8 11.Nh3 Nf6 12.Qh4 Bxh3 13.Qxh3 Nbd7 14.g4 e3 15.Qxe3 Nxg4 16.Qe6 Ngf6 17.a4 Kc7 18.Bd3 Rag8 19.Ke2 Kd8 20.Rhb1 Qa6 21.Rb5 h5 22.a5 h4 23.Bf5 Rh5 24.Rab1 b6 25.axb6 axb6 26.Rxb6 Qxc4+ 27.Kd1 Rg1+ 28.Kc2 Qa4+ 29.Kd3 Ne5+ 30.Qxe5 Rxb1 31.Rxd6+ Nd7 32.Rxd7+ Qxd7 33.Ke4 Qxf5+ 34.Qxf5 Rxf5 0-1 Contrary to what is written in Chess Life the East Bay Chess Club will hold its September Swiss this coming weekend.
EBCC September Swiss
Guaranteed Overall Prizes: $140, $105, $70, $35
Entry fee: $35 Signup at http://www.eastbaychess.com/tourney/05/septswiss.html 4) Upcoming EventsJ.J. Dolan - October 1 California and Nevada
2005 Reno Western States Open Chess Tournament
$52,400 PRIZE FUND!!! for this Six Round Swiss in Seven Sections (based on 500 paid players, $33,550 Guaranteed). At least 15 places paid in every section! Large prize fund made possible by the generosity of the Sands Regency Casino Hotel.
RUB ELBOWS WITH THE MASTERS: Reception with Former World Champion GM Boris Spassky on Wednesday night. FREE lecture by GM Larry Evans on Thursday evening. $100 simul with GM Boris Spassky on Thursday night. Book signing session with GM Boris Spassky on Friday morning. Clinic by GM Boris Spassky on Saturday afternoon. Favorite game analysis with GM Boris Spassky on Sunday afternoon
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