CORUS 2010 And the winner is ...

Soon in the afternoon ,Kramnik drew  in 22 moves to secure a good place and later Carlsen , Shirov or Anand drew later.
So Carlsen wins Corus 2010
Alexei Shirov and Vladimir Kramnik share 2nd place
All that being said the most memorable game was played by Short and Smeets acting like Morphy and Labourdonnais!

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Maybe some could say is is a prepared game!who knows?

CORUS 12th round Anand wins against Kramnik!

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Today Shirov and Carlsen drew but kramnik lost to Anand so before the last round Carlsen is first half point ahead of Kramnik and Shirov and a point ahead  Anand
Tomorrow Carlsen-Caruana,Shirov-Dominguez,Kramnik-Karjakin and Van Wely-Anand will be interresting to follow

Round 12 CORUS

Today the top show are :Anand-Kramnik   Karjakin-Shirov and Leko -Carlsen . The 3 leaders have black so a lot can happen,I hope that Anand after such a deceptfull event will try to show us something.

1.	CARLSEN+KRAMNIK	7½
3.	SHIROV	7
4.	Karjakin Nakamura. Ivanchuk .Anand	6
8.	Dominguez Leko	5½
10.	Caruana. van Wely	4½
12.	. Tiviakov. Short	4
14.	. Smeets	3

Anand on video

Do you know what does a world champion when he wins at least a game after 9 draws? He gives a press conference and seem quite happy!
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/round-10-corus-press-conference/#more-21613
BTW his english is as good as mine lol

Round 11 change on the top!! who will wins?

Very interresting round today ,Kramnik drew with Shirov while Carlsen winned easily against Dominguez so now Kramnik and Carlsen lead 7,5/11 ,Half a point behind is Shirov,no doubt the winner will be one of those 3.

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Corus round 11

We are in the last 3 rounds of Corus ,Kramnik leads half point behind is Shirov(who began with 5 wins in a row!!)and Carlsen. So today Shirov-Kramnik will be very important .

Group A

J. Smeets - V. Anand
L. van Wely - S. Tiviakov
N. Short - F. Caruana
H. Nakamura - P. Leko
M. Carlsen - L. Dominguez
V. Ivanchuk - S. Karjakin
A. Shirov - V. Kramnik Official website: http://coruschess.com/index.php you can also  follow the games on Playchess,chessvibes and many others ..

Marin on theory

This position come after the 22th moves in Marin -Boudre Cannes 2002

Some days ago I write about Marin as a wonderful writer I will try to explain :I got his latest book on english opening (quality chess editor)as usual there are a lot of theorical lines and even novelties,this is great work of course but more than that I am impressed by the "words explanation"the way he show themes connected with the opening but that we find later in the middle games or endings,where usual autors of theorical books left us thinking ,Marin stays and explains what we can expect after the theorical lines(also very nice to see that he plays in his own games what he recommended in his books).For example :look at the position above:

we are out of the opening but Marin dont leave us alone an show  the mains strategical goals of the opening for example here how to play against the Bb8 and transform it into a useless piece.

Here Marin makes a general remark,saying that black position is very ok and can become active  ,only one thing is bad: the Bb8 bischop which can become a weakness :22...cxd5 [22...h4!] 23.exd5!? [23.cxd5 Bd7 24.Nb6 Bb5] 23...Bf5 24.Nd2 h4 25.b5! Bc7 [25...Bd7 26.Nb6 Bf5 27.Qf3] 26.b6 Bb8 It is done!Note that the bischop cant escape if the pawns b6 and d6 dont move! 27.Nc3 e4 28.Rce1 hxg3+ 29.fxg3 e3 30.Nb3 Bd7 31.Nd1 Ne5 [31...Ba4 32.Bxf6! (32.Nd4‚) 32...gxf6 33.Nd4] 32.Rf4 [32.Nxe3?! Neg4+ 33.Nxg4 Qxe2 34.Nxf6+ gxf6 35.Rxe2 Rxe2 36.Bxf6±] 32...Rc8 [32...g6!? 33.Qxe3 Nh5 34.Rff1] 33.Nxe3 Ng6 [33...g6] 34.Rff1 Ne4 35.Nd4 [35.Bxe4 Qxe4 36.Nd2 Qe7 37.Qh5+-] 35...Qg5 36.Bxe4! Rxe4 37.Qf3 Re7 38.Ndf5 Bxf5 39.Qxf5 Qxf5 40.Nxf5 [40.Nxf5 Rxe1 41.Rxe1 f6 42.Re7]  1-0

This kind of learning ,I will call patterns ,is very important because you can try to incorpore theses tools in your own games. Here is one of my blitz game where I tried the same idea:
Rated game, 3m + 1 chessbase server:

1.c4 Nc6 2.Nc3 e5 3.g3 f5 4.Bg2 Nf6 5.d3 Bc5 6.e3 0-0 7.Nge2 d6 8.0-0 f4?! (8...Qe8 9.d4 Bb6 10.Na4 Bd7 11.b3)
 9.exf4 Bg4 10.h3 Bxe2 11.Nxe2 exf4 12.d4 Bb6 13.Bxf4 Nh5 14.Be3 Qd7 15.b4!? a5 [15...Nxb4? 16.Rb1 Nc6 17.c5+-] 16.c5 Ba7 17.b5 Ne7 18.b6!? cxb6 19.cxb6 Bb8 [You see same pattern !19...Bxb6? 20.Qb3+ Kh8 21.Qxb6] 20.d5 Nf5 21.Bd4 Nf6 22.Bb2 Qb5 23.Rb1 Qc4 24.Nd4 Nxd4 25.Qxd4 Qxa2  and now 26.Qe3± is winning ,black plays without the Bb8 and the rook a8 forever if white is careful

SEIRAWAN CHESSBASE VIDEO

Yasser seirawan is one of my chess hero ,he has a very original ,very positionnal style and is a great endgame player,he is also a great teacher and commentator,you can hear often on chessbase server or you can read his great writings on chessbase cafe.Now yazz(as everyone call me)has made a video on chessbase(http://www.chessbase.com/shop/product.asp?pid=485)in which he comments 22 of his best games,if you  really want to understand chess better you must buy this one,nobody explain chess as him ,he has a unique feeling to translate chess moves in words.
This video runs 5 hours!!dont loose time ,go and buy!!

Live Rating

  chess.liverating.org
give us everyday the new top rating for example yesterday 24th of January :

Rank	Name	Rating	Change	Games
01	Carlsen	2813,5	+3,5	8
02	Topalov	2805,0	0	0
03	Kramnik	2791,9	+3,9	8
04	Anand	2782,9	-7,1	8
05	Aronian	2782,3	+1,3	9
06	Mamedyarov	2759,5	+18,5	9
07	Grischuk	2756,0	+20	16
08	Wang Yue	2751,1	+2,1	1
09	Gelfand	2750,4	-10,6	7
10	Ivanchuk	2749,1	+0,1	8

Tomorrow it will be different as today in Corus Kramnik win against Carlsen so have a look ....
 

GREAT VIDEOS

A very interresting video can be seen on chess vibes,Kramnik himself explain his game!
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/corus-press-conferences-rounds-6-8/
Have a look!

kramnik-Nakamura Corus 2010

This was the more important game of round 8,the classical,sometime boring  master again the best blitzer and very audacious player.
I follow this game on Chessvibes a great chess site www.chessvibes.com  because Michael Marin was commenting in real time,I have always spoken highly of him and again it was great!I based my notes on his comment and I urge you to buy his great books!
1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. c4 Bg7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Nf3 d6 7. O-O c6
The Leningrad Dutch is a speciality of Naka(star war on the chessbase server)certainly an active opening but a lot of GMI think it is quite dubious,playing that way against kramnik is very provocative.
8. Rb1!?
. White  is ready to start a queenside attack with b4-b5.
8... Ne4 9. Qc2 Nxc3 10. bxc3!?
Well not too aesthetic but the queen would not be secure on c3,it is also a way to open the b file and to get another pawn in center,saying all that I wonder how many players would have played it?
10..e5
Black has a sound pawn stucture but is behind in develeloppement
11.Rd1 e4 12. Ng5 h6 13. Nh3 g5
more or less forced to prevent Nf4 well you can ask if the Bg2 is now a nice piece ,all the story is here,if black can keep it buried they will stood better if not ....
14. f3
trying to break the center
..d5 15. Nf2
interresting would be also 15.cxd5 cxd5 16.c4 and the black center collapsed,btw you see now that having played 10.bxc3 had also his way toward control of center.here Black could try to go on with 16..Nc6 .It seems that kramnik is not on hurry to give the c6 square to the knight he first regroups.
15... Kh8 16. cxd5 cxd5 17. c4
17... e3!?
Nakamura  try to be active positionaly he is in a bad way because soon his center will be broken,here he try to keep the bischop g2 inactive and now the pawn cant be taken since 18.Bxe3 will lose the exchange to 18...f4 followed by ...Bf5. But of couse this pawn in future will be weak
18.Nd3 18... Nc6 19. Bxe3
19.Ne5?!  Nxe5 20.dxe5 f4!
19. Nxd4 20. Bxd4 Bxd4+ 21. Kh1
with the positional threath of 22.f4
21... f4
Only move move but now Black is on thin ice!
22. Rb5  Qf6 23. Rxd5 Be6
At last black finish his developpement ,it is quite late and white has now a combination.
24. Nxf4 gxf4 25. R5xd4 fxg3 26. hxg3 Rg8
White has 2 pawns more and black attack is not too impressive,here usually commentators stop and write :Now it is only a matter of technique! »maybe it is true but very few of us has got such techniques.
So when you are on a winning side like here,be careful,thinks,all can slip easily...
1-0 on move 44 see under.

K ramnik-Nakamura Corus 2010

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This was the more important game of round 8,the classical,sometime boring  master again the best blitzer and very audacious player.
I follow this game on Chessvibes a great chess site www.chessvibes.com  because Michael Marin was commenting in real time,I have always spoken highly of him and again it was great!I based my notes on his comment and I urge you to buy his great books!
1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. c4 Bg7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Nf3 d6 7. O-O c6
The Leningrad Dutch is a speciality of Naka(star war on the chessbase server)certainly an active opening but a lot of GMI think it is quite dubious,playing that way against kramnik is very provocative.
8. Rb1!?
. White  is ready to start a queenside attack with b4-b5.
8... Ne4 9. Qc2 Nxc3 10. bxc3!?
Well not too aesthetic but the queen wiould not be secure on c3,it is also a way to open the b file and to get another pawn in center,saying all that i wonder how many players would have played it?
10..e5
Black has a sound pawn stucture but is behind in develeloppement
11.Rd1 e4 12. Ng5 h6 13. Nh3 g5
more or less forced to prevent Nf4 well you can ask if the Bg2 is now a nice piece ,all the story is here,if black can keep it buried they will stood better if not ....
14. f3
trying to break the center
..d5 15. Nf2
interresting would be also 15.cxd5 cxd5 16.c4 and the black center collapsed,btw you see now that having played 10.bxc3 had also his way toward control of center.here Black could try to go on with 16..Nc6 .It seems that kramnik is not on hurry to give the c6 square to the knight ;so he first regroups.
15... Kh8 16. cxd5 cxd5 17. c4
17... e3!?
Nakamura  try to be active, positionaly he is in a bad way because soon his center will be broken,here he try to keep the bischop g2 inactive and now the pauwn cant be taken since 18.Bxe3 will lose the exchange to 18...f4 followed by ...Bf5. But of couse this pawn in future will be weak
18.Nd3 18... Nc6 19. Bxe3
19.Ne5?!  Nxe5 20.dxe5 f4!
19. Nxd4 20. Bxd4 Bxd4+ 21. Kh1
with the positional threath of 22.f4
21... f4
Only move move but now Black is on thin ice!
22. Rb5  Qf6 23. Rxd5 Be6
At last black finish his developpement ,it is quite late and white has now a combination.
24. Nxf4 gxf4 25. R5xd4 fxg3 26. hxg3 Rg8
White has 2 pawns more and black attack is not too impresive,here usually commentators stop and write :Now it is only a matter of technique! »maybe it is true but very few of us has got such techniques.
So when you are on a winning side be careful,thinks,all can sleep easily...
1-0 on move 44 see under.

Stanislaus (1897) - Christochess (1953) ANCL 2009 commented by Christochess

Here is a game commented by Christochess for the Blog.Thanks a lot to him!

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1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.e3
[3.Nf3 Bg4 4.e3 e5] 3...e5 4.cxd5
[4.dxe5 d4;
4.Nf3 Bg4 5.cxd5 Qxd5 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Be2 (7.Bd2 Bxc3 8.bxc3 e4 9.c4 Qd6 10.h3 Bd7 11.Nh2 Nge7 12.d5 Ne5 13.Ng4 N5g6) 7...exd4 8.0-0 Bxc3 9.bxc3 d3 10.Qxd3 Qxd3 11.Bxd3 Bxf3 12.gxf3 0-0-0 13.Rd1]
4...Qxd5 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Bd2 Bxc3 7.bxc3
[7.Bxc3 e4]
7...Nf6 8.c4 Qd6 9.d5 Ne7 10.Qb3
[10.Qb1 I think this move is better, it prepares e4 and Bb4.]
10...a5
[10...Ne4 11.Bb4 c5 12.dxc6 Qxc6 13.Nf3 f6 14.Qa3 Nf5 Morosewitsch recommends this, but I more liked to blockade the position against the two bishops with a5 and the idea Nc5.]
11.Nf3
[11.Bc1 Qb4+ a) 11...e4 12.Ba3 Qd8 13.Ne2±; b) 11...a4!? 12.Qc2 (12.Qa3 c5 13.dxc6 Qxc6 14.Bb2 Nd7 15.Qb4 Qe6 16.Ba3 b6 17.Nf3 f6 18.Be2 Kf7 19.0-0 Bb7 20.Rfd1 Nc5) 12...c6; 12.Qxb4 (12.Bd2 Qd6=) 12...axb4 13.Nf3 Nd7 14.Be2 f6 15.0-0 Kf7 (15...b3 16.a4 Nc5 17.Nd2 b5 18.cxb5 Nxd5²) 16.Bd2 c5 17.dxc6 Nxc6 18.Rfb1 Nc5 19.Bxb4 Nxb4 20.Rxb4 Rd8 21.Rb2 Bd7 22.Rab1 Bc6©] 11...Nd7 12.Qb2
[12.Be2 Nc5 13.Qb2 f6 (13...Ng6?! 14.h4) 14.0-0 0-0;
12.Bc1 The most logical plan. An idea could be Ba3, Be2, 0-0, Nd2 and Nb3 what secures white some advantage. 12...Nc5 13.Qc3 f6 14.Be2 b5 An dynamic idea from Rybka. It seems that it is not good to open the position for the two bishops, but the in the center pladed Knights will be strong too. (14...c6 15.Ba3 b6 16.Rd1 0-0 17.Bxc5 bxc5 18.Qc2 cxd5 19.cxd5 Bg4 20.0-0 Rab8 21.h3)
15.cxb5
(15.0-0 b4 16.Qd2 0-0³)
15...Nxd5 16.Qd2
(16.Qb2 0-0 17.0-0 Bf5 18.Nh4 Be6 19.Bd2 Nb4 20.Bxb4 axb4 21.Rfd1 Qb6³)
16...Bf5
(16...0-0 17.Ba3 (17.0-0 Be6 18.Ba3 Nb4 19.Bxb4 axb4 20.Qxb4 Ra4 21.Qc3 Bd5 22.Rfc1 Ne6 23.Rd1²) 17...Be6 18.Rd1 Nb4 19.Qc3 Qe7 20.Rc1 Ne4 21.Qxc7 Qxc7 22.Rxc7 Rfc8)
17.0-0 Ne4 18.Qb2 Ndc3 (18...Nec3 19.Bc4 Qb4 20.Qxb4 (20.Nxe5 fxe5 21.Bxd5 Nxd5 22.Qxe5+ Ne7 23.Bb2 Qd6 24.Rfd1 Qxe5 25.Bxe5 Bd7 26.a4 Ra7 27.Bxg7 Rg8 28.Bd4 Rb7 29.e4 Ng6 30.g3 c6 31.b6 Nf8 32.Be3 Ne6 33.Rdc1) 20...axb4) 19.Nh4 Be6 20.Bh5+ g6 21.f3 Na4 22.Qc2 Nec3 23.Bd2 Qc5 24.Bxg6+ hxg6 25.Qxg6+ Kd7 26.Qxf6 Raf8 27.Qg7+ Ke8 28.Bxc3 Nxc3 29.Ng6 Ne2+ 30.Kf2 Nf4 31.Nxe5 (31.Nxf8 Rxf8 32.Qh7 Qc3 33.Kg1 (33.exf4 Qd4+ 34.Ke2 Bc4+) 33...Qxe3+ 34.Kh1 Qd2 35.Rg1 Nd3 36.Raf1 Rf7=) 31...Rfg8]
12...0-0 13.Be2 f6
[13...f5? 14.Bc3 Ng6 15.h4]
14.0-0 Nc5 15.Qc2?
[15.Ne1 f5? a) 15...c6 16.dxc6 Qxc6 17.Nd3 Nxd3 (17...Ne4 18.Rac1 (18.f4 exf4 19.Nxf4 Be6 20.Rfd1) 18...Rd8 19.Rfd1 Be6) 18.Bxd3 Rd8 19.Be2 Be6 20.Rac1 b6 21.Rfd1 Ng6 22.c5 bxc5 23.Qc2 Rab8 24.Bxa5 Rxd1+ 25.Rxd1 c4÷;
b) 15...Bf5 16.f3 e4 17.Nc2 exf3 18.gxf3 c6 19.e4 Bh3 20.Rf2 cxd5 21.exd5 Rfe8 22.Re1÷; 16.Nd3 Nxd3 17.Bxd3 c6 I calculated this variation and made the mistake to stop calculation here. If I have looked furhter on this position, for sure I had seen Bc3 here 18.Bc3 Ng6 19.Rad1±]
15...Bf5 16.Qb2 b6 17.Rfd1 Ng6
I wanted to play Rae8-f5-f4 here, and I think, it was a good plan
18.Be1 Rae8 19.h4?
Weakens the kingside of White [19.Bc3 Bd7 20.Nd2 f5÷]
19...Bg4 20.g3 f5 21.Ng5 Bxe2
[21...e4 22.Bxg4 fxg4 23.Ne6 Nxe6 24.dxe6 Qxe6 25.Bc3 Re7]
22.Qxe2 f4 23.Qc2?!
I was surprised about this move [23.Ne6 Nxe6 24.dxe6 Qxe6 25.h5 fxg3 26.hxg6 gxf2+ 27.Bxf2 Qxg6+ 28.Kf1 This position I evaluated as promising for black
Three pawns and atack for teh piece, Qe4 could already win here
;
23.h5 fxg3 24.hxg6 (24.fxg3 Ne7 Because of Whites weak kingside I evaluated this better for black.) 24...gxf2+ 25.Bxf2 Qxg6 this variation I calculated as winning for Black;
23.Qh5 h6 24.Ne6 Rf6 25.exf4 Nxe6 26.f5 (26.dxe6 Qxe6 27.Bc3 Rf5 28.Qe2 exf4 29.Qxe6+ Rxe6 30.Rd7 Rf7 31.Rad1 fxg3 32.fxg3 Nf8 33.Rxf7 Kxf7 34.Kf2 Rc6) 26...Nd4 27.fxg6 Nf3+ 28.Kh1 Qd7-+]
23...fxg3 24.fxg3
[24.h5 gxf2+ (24...e4 Rybka I had enough time I should have analyzed the variations exactly. But I havent I played too fast. If I had looked especially to the position after 23.fg3: I could have seen h5 and perhaps the strong answer e4! The white queen is out of play. 25.hxg6 Qxg6-+) 25.Bxf2 h6 26.hxg6 (26.Ne6 What a pitty that I overlooked here Ne6 26...Nxe6 (26...Ne7 Rybka 27.Nxf8 (27.Nxc5 bxc5 28.e4 Rf4) 27...Rxf8 28.Rf1 e4 29.Rad1 Qe5 Offering the exchange with Ne7 is a very strong answer in this case. The bishop on f2 is dead and the kingside is too weak.
.) 27.dxe6 Qxe6 28.Qxg6) 26...hxg5-+]
24...e4 25.Rd4
I am sorry that i had not looked enough for usefull candidatemoves of my opponent. Also if Rd4 si not strong I should have had a look on it before playing e4. [25.Nh3 Nd3 26.Nf4 Nge5-+]
25...Qe5 26.Kg2 h6 27.Nh3
[27.Ne6 Nxe6 28.dxe6 Qxe6]
27...Rf3 28.Nf4
[28.Bf2 Nd3;
28.Qe2 Ref8 What can White move here? ]
28...Nxf4+ 29.gxf4 Qh5 30.Kh2 Nd3 31.Bg3 Rxe3 32.Rf1
[32.Kh3 Re2]
32...Re2+ Stanislaus gibt auf  (Lag: Av=0.63s, max=3.2s)
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If you surf on the net you can find some places where  some words(or much more)are written on ANCL,some are writted by ANCL players ,others I dont know ....Have fun
http://chessmatches.blogspot.com/2010/01/play-online-chess-if-typeof_04.html
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/freelance-jobs-help-wanted/88755-all-nations-chess-league.html
http://updowners.de/
http://korch.blogspot.com
http://chesstempo.com/chess-forum/training_diaries/andreacodas_training_diary-t1608.15.html
http://www.chess-forum.com/forums/8-Online-Chess

Do I miss some ?Of course!so please post them in commentaires,below!

Season 14

Hello ANCL season 14 to start on the 6th February

Botvinnik a great lesson

Some time ago I began to study the of games of Mickael Botvinnik who was word champion from 1948 to 1963 with some breaks(more on this (French) :http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhael Botvinni),(English) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik until now I had not looked at Botvinnik games because I don’t find him a very funny guy nor do I like too much his political choices, well ok can be poor or strange explanations but I like to study people I would like in real life, BTW it is the same in literature ,I prefer to read people who fit my personal tastes in real life, so no Celine for example even if I know he is a great writer. Well all this being said each of the games of Botvinnik is a great lesson and I am very impressed ,this man discovered most of the systems we use today and his comments are very deep and instructive in such books as "100 selected games” or his trilogy Analytical works(in Spanish for me).
here is a game he played in a world championship against Smyslov:
What is also very interesting is that a lot of chess authors wrote about this games in their books, for example, Khalifman, Keene, Odessky (in his great book :Play 1.b3) Prins and of course Botvinnik himself ;,sometimes they disagree so you and I are also allowed to have our own opinions !




Botvinnik,Mikhail - Smyslov,Vassily World Championship 22th Moscow (12), 03.04.1958

1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 c6 3.Nf3 d5 4.b3 Bf5 5.Bg2 e6 6.Bb2 Nbd7 7.0-0 h6 8.d3 Be7 9.Nbd2 0-0 10.a3
10.Ne5 Nxe5 11.Bxe5 Bd6!? 12.Bb2 Bh7 13.Nf3 Qe7 14.Rc1 e5 15.cxd5 cxd5 16.d4 e4 17.Ne5 1/2:1/2,Kavalek,L-Karpov,An,Amsterdam 1981
10...a5
10...Bh7!? … 11.b4 a5 is possible
11.Qc2
11.Rc1 Re8 12.Rc2 Bh7 13.Qa1 Bf8 14.Re1 Qb6 15.Bh3 Bc5 16.Rf1 Bf8 17.Rcc1 Rad8 18.Rfe1 Bc5 19.Rf1 Bf8 20.Bg2 Bd6 21.Ne5 Bxe5 22.Bxe5 Nxe5 23.Qxe5 Nd7 24.Qb2 Nf6 25.b4 axb4 26.Qxb4 Qxb4 27.axb4 Ra8 28.Ra1 Nd7 29.Nb3 Kf8 30.Ra5 dxc4 31.dxc4 Nb6 32.Rxa8 Rxa8 33.Na5 Ra7 34.Rd1 Ke8 35.Nxb7 Rxb7 36.Bxc6+ Rd7 37.c5 Ke7 38.Bxd7 Nxd7 39.c6 Nb6 40.c7 Bf5 41.Rd8 e5 42.Rb8 Nc8 43.b5 Kd6 44.b6 Ne7 45.Rf8 Bc8 46.Rxf7 Nd5 47.Rxg7 Nxb6 48.Rh7 Nd5 49.Rxh6+ Kxc7 50.e4 Ne7 51.f3 Kd7 52.h4 Ke8 53.Rf6 Ng8 54.Rc6 1-0 Capablanca,J-Lilienthal,A Moscow 1936;
11.Ra2!? and Qa1 could also be tried
11...Bh7!
11...Qb6?! 12.Bc3
12.Bc3 b5!
12...Qb8 13.Qb2 Bd6=
13.cxb5 cxb5 14.b4= (?)
According botvinnik this is a mistake and he wrote some ironical comments about GM Psakhis who long time after this game played the same(ugly in botvinik wiew )move and he recommand 14.Bd4  with the idea to answer 14..b4 with 15.a4 he also write the variation: 14...Ne8  15.Bh3!to prevent e5  ok very well but there are other and more naturals way to try for ..e5 and Odessky write a lot about this : 14...Bd6?! 15.Qb2 Qe7 16.Ne5;  and show the right idea:14...Qb8! 15.Rfc1 Bd6 16.Bh3 e5! and in fact white really got nothing) 
14.Qb2 was another try wich really goes to nothing good for white: b4 15.axb4 axb4 16.Bd4 Ra3! 17.Ne5 (17.Rac1 Bd6 18.Nb1 Ra5 19.Rc2 Qb8 20.Bh3 e5 21.Be3 d4 22.Bc1 Nb6 23.Nbd2 Nfd5 24.Nc4 Nxc4 25.Rxc4 Nc3 26.Qc2 Ra2 27.Bb2 Qa8 28.Qd2 Rd8 29.Bg2 Qa5 30.Rc1 Bf5 0-1 Spraggett,K (2565)-Arizmendi Martinez,J (2480)/Spain 1998; 17.Rfc1 Qa5 18.Ne5 Nxe5 19.Bxe5 Ra8 20.Bd4 Ng4 21.Nf3 Bd6 and blacks are very ok Ribli-Galliamova koszalin 1997) 17...Nxe5 18.Bxe5 Qa5 19.Rfd1 Ra8 20.Rac1 Ne8
14...Qc7
  14...Rc8! 15.Qb2 Nb6 16.Bd4 Na4 17.Qb3 axb4 18.axb4 Qd6! 19.Rfb1 Nd7,Chomet,P-Sonntag,H,Chanac op 1989
15.Qb2
15.bxa5 Rfc8 16.Rfc1 b4
15...Nb6 16.Be5 Qd7
16...Qb7 17.Rac1 Na4 18.Qd4 Rfc8 19.Nb3 axb4 20.axb4 Qb6 21.Qxb6 Nxb6 22.Nc5 Nfd7 23.Nxd7 Nxd7 24.Bc3 Nb8 25.Nd4 Na6 26.Nxb5 Nxb4 27.Bd4 Rcb8 28.Nc3 Nc6 29.Be3 Ra6 30.Na4 Nb4 31.Bc5 ½-½ Harikrishna,P (2646)-Dominguez,L (2658)/Dos Hermanas 2005
17.Nb3 axb4 18.axb4 Rxa1 19.Rxa1 Na4
19...Bxb4? 20.Qd4+-
20.Qd2
20.Qd4? Ne8  with the idea to play ..f6
20...Rc8 21.Rc1
 21.Bh3 Qb7
21...Rxc1+ 22.Nxc1 Ne8?
22...Qc8!and Nd7-b8-a6×b4 Botvinnik was tested in a game!!:23.Na2 Nd7 24.Ba1 Nb8 25.Nd4 Na6 26.Nxb5 Qb7 27.Nbc3 Bxb4 28.Nxb4 Qxb4 29.Qc2 Nxc3 30.Bxc3 Qb5 31.Bh3 Bf5 32.Bxf5 exf5 33.Bd4 Qb7 34.Qc3 f6 35.Bxf6 gxf6 36.Qxf6 Nb4 37.Qxh6 Qf7 38.Qg5+ Kf8 39.h4 Ke8 40.Qh6 Kd7 41.Qb6 Qe7 42.e3 Nc6 43.Qb5 Kd6 44.d4 Qf7 45.Qe2 Ne7 46.Qf3 Ke6 47.Qf4 Qh5 48.Qe5+ Kf7 49.Kg2 Qh6 50.f3 Qa6 51.Qf4 ½-½ Vukic,M (2500)-Vujosevic,V (2375)/Belgrade 1998
23.Nd4! Kf8
23...f6 24.Bh3!
24.Bh3 Bg8  25.Ndb3 f6 26.Ba1! Qa7
26...Qd6 27.Na2 e5 28.d4
27.d4 !
a move very difficult to play because now c4 is a weakness and a knight can go here but ..e5 must be prevented
Nd6
27...Nb6!?
28.Qa2 Nc4 29.Nc5?!
29.Nd3 Qa6!
29...Bxc5 30.dxc5
if 30.bxc5 Qa5 31.Kf1 Bh7! (31...Nd2+ 32.Kg2 Nc4 33.Nd3 Qd2=) ] 30...e5 [30...Qf7! 31.Qc2 Qh5= Botvinnik
31.Qb1 d4 32.Qf5 Qc7
32...Nxc5? 33.Qc8+ Kf7 34.bxc5 Qxa1 35.Be6+ Kg6 36.Qe8++-
33.Nd3 Bf7 34.Qh7 Bg8 35.Qe4! Bf7 36.Qa8+ Be8 37.Bg2± Ke7 38.f4! Ne3
not the more testing :38...Nc3! 39.fxe5 (39.Bxc3 dxc3 40.Qa1 c2 41.Qc1 Bc6!=) 39...fxe5 40.c6! Prins 40...Nxe2+ (40...Nd6 41.e3 e4 42.Nc5 Qxc6 43.Qa7+ Kf6 44.h4) 41.Kf2 Nc3 42.Qb7 Kd6 43.Bxc3 dxc3 44.Nc5 Bxc6 (44...Bg6 45.Qxb5 Qf7+ 46.Bf3 e4 47.Nxe4+ Bxe4 48.Qc5+; 44...Qf7+ 45.Ke2 Qh5+ 46.Ke1 c2 47.Qb8+ Ke7 48.Qc7+ Kf6 49.Qd8+) 45.Bxc6 Qxc6 46.Ne4+ Kd5 47.Nxc3+ Kd6 48.Nxb5+ Kd5 49.Qf7+!+- analyse de Prins
39.fxe5 fxe5 40.Qe4 Nxg2 41.Nxe5+- ajournement time but Smyslov resigned
41.Nxe5 Ne3 42.Bxd4 Nd1 43.Nc4+ Kf8 44.Nd6 Bc6 45.Qh7
1-0
As usual all questions welcome!

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Simul by Javel

Now it is hollidays in ANCL we are in a break between 2 seasons .So to keep ANCLers  busy I will give a simul for ANCL players Saturday 16th January at 20h server time in a simul room.(time 60+5s for the all game)As every events in ANCL it is free and  it will be held on the chessbase server(you can try it by download a free trial here; http://www.chessbase.com/download/index.asp it gives you around 1 month free trial.)
If you are interrested and not yet in ANCL just write your pseudo in the commentary below and you will be accepted in the simul.

Mihael Marin Best chess writer in the world?

I will certainly not answer this question,at the present time there are some wonderful chess writers and some names came in mind, to name a few: Nunn,Dvorestsky also Kasparov made some very good books.Marin is of the same level,each of his books are great,he knows how to explain deep and to translate variations in words,even his books on openings are lessons on middle game and ending.
On the chessbase server I had the luck to speak a little with him,as I said him that his book on open game was very good ,he answer thanks but I am unhappy,I miss to write on some lines, soon I will publish a correction!very nice way to think and so honest. (btw the correction was made soon and can be download free on the editor site).
Surfing of the webb this morning i find an interwiew of him  and I think it is worth a look :http://www.romanianchess.org/magazin/Marin_interview.pdf

Later I will speak deeper about his books.

ANCL School

In ANCL we have almost every week " teaching lesson"free of charge(a good point to remember everything is free in ANCL except the registration on the chessbase server).Most of the time the International master (IM) Petronijevic Zoran is the teacher( but also Christochess ,Euap,Javell did some)this is open to everyone,whatever your level  and every question is welcome ,so it is a very interractive  way to learn
here i will just show the beginning of the teaching if you want to see all ,including examples,quiestions .. go to http://www.anclchess.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11280
(Thanks to EUAP who allow me to copy his writing)

Techniques of Variant Calculations in ENDGAMES Though chess theory is much advanced nowadays and there are a lot of chess books and DVDs there are still some fealds that are yet not explained enough though there appear in every single game. One of the basic problems is how to calculate variations correctly. It’s a paradox that though in every single game we calculate there are no precise principles of how and how much we should calculate and when we should calculate and when not. This is also one of the most frequently asked questions by chess amateurs for chess proffessionals: how many moves can he see in advance, considering that it’s great master’s main advantageo. Great Reti made a joke once when he was asked this question:“ I see only one but it’s the best one“. The first player who started investigating this topic seriously and giving practical advices was a Russian GM Aleksandar Kotow who wrote a book „ Secrets of grandmaster’s thinking“ (1970). Since then, it has been written a lot of material on this topic. But, mainly Kotow’s method was criticized and nobody gave a precise method: how and how much to calculate (with the exceptions of some details). Many authors wrote this and I will mention ony two of them: Dvoretsky Mark and John Nunn. In their books and articles they gave many advices about how to calculate but neither they gave a whole system which would be valid in all possible situations. So, neither I have an ilusion that I will give a whole system of this topic (and this is not my goal) but I will give some practical advices that will help players to calculate better. It’s a little easier to me since my topic is Calculation in Ending, so, I can make some divisions and show on examples (of course, only on some of the possible ones) how, how much and when one should calculate. When we talk about the technicque of calculating variations in endgames we must keep on mind the following things: 1. With the development of chess the number of correct positions (the positions in which we can define the result of game precisely with best play for both sides) increased. That are, say, the positions king and pawn against king, rook and pawn against rook, queen and pawn against queen and many other positions. In such positions we must know the principles of playing, otherwise no calculation can help us (and even if it can help that would only be a waste of time) to evaluate precisely such positions. Such positions should simply be known and the knowledge about them presents the culture of a chess player. The more such positions a player knows the better player he is. I can give you the advice to work on this type of endings as much as you can because good knowledge about endings will improve your play significantly (and improve your results of course). I can recommend you, say the book “Fundamental Chess Endings” (2001) by Mueller, Karsten in cooperation with Lamprecht Frank though there are many good books/ 2. In the positions with more pawns or the ones where both sides have two pieces on the board (these positions are also considered to be endings) there are sharp positions in which the same principles of calculating are valid as in the middlegame. The calculation is sometimes very long and sharp and here there is no difference between the calculation in the middlegame and ending. I can say that often it’s even harder to calculate correctly in endings since the board is almost empty and there are more free squares, so, it’s very often needed to calculate the unique moves to get a good result. The thing that makes difference between the ending and middlegame is that very often in endings there is no need to calculate precisely and detailed all possibilities as in sharp positions. However, what we must have it’s a PLAN. Here, plan is often made according to the principle: „it would be good if my pieces would be placed, say, king on d4 and the bishop on c3“. Here, before any calculation we imagine an ideal set-up of our pieces and only then we look for a way to realize this (of course, there are many such positions in the middlegame as well but this is yet often seen in endings). Here, there is no concrete calculation but only thinking according to schemes and this way of thinking in literature is called just like that „THINKING ACCORDING TO SCHEMES“.

If you find all this is too complicated dont worry Zoran is a great teacher and even a beginner can learn a lot.

To finish the year look at this game and on the 54th move stop,and try to find the quickest win.

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Thanks for the invitation

hi everybody,

i would like to thanks Javell whoes invite me to join his new created wonderful and meaningful blog, this is the first time i writting here as one of the guest-host, (not sss....h)

i would leave my message here as long as i can in praise of our dearest and loveliest friend- Javell! whoes given a lot of his efforts in chess, which all the chess-lovers would be benefited and enjoy.

really thankful and grateful for his lovely idea


warmest regards