a nice exercice from Spragett blog:black plays and wins

strip chess

Some time ago I wrote an article about strip -chess,(a nice way to promote chess,imagine Anand or Kasparov,,,No please forget this).dont be mislead the picture above is from Man Ray and feature Marcel Duchamp who was a  french surrealist and chess Champion(there is an article on him in the blog)I always thought Surrealism and Chess are connected, for example Raymond Roussel (impression d'Afrique)wrote a method to checkmate king with Bishop and Knight

Fiddle Faddle Force wins ANCL season

FFE with capitain Michael Tallovsky wins the ANCL tittle,Congratulations to the team

Great crosstable of ANCL by CBishop

ANCL last round

We have 2 possible teams to be the 15th champion of ANCL:
Fiddle Faddle Force………9.5………

Queen of Hearts…………..9…

good luck to both!

A( king) walk with Bent

Look at this game,dont think too much,think you are watching a movie,it should tell you the story of a warrior,someone who wants to win; Is it correct or not? who cares?It is what we want to see,a real war on a chessboard. Enjoy!

Jelen,Iz (2370) - Larsen,B (2615) [A04]
Ljubljana/Portoroz .1977

1.Nf3 b6 2.g3 Bb7 3.Bg2 c5 4.c4 g6 5.0-0 Bg7 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Bxg2 8.Kxg2 Nc6 9.Nc2 Rc8 10.Ne3 Nf6 11.Nc3 0-0 12.Rb1 e6 13.b3 d5 14.cxd5 Nb4 15.Ba3 a5 16.Qd2 Ng4 17.Ncd1 Nxe3+ 18.Nxe3 Bc3 19.Qd1 Re8 20.Bxb4 axb4 21.Qd3 Rc5 22.dxe6 Qa8+ 23.Kg1 Rxe6 24.Rbd1 Qxa2 25.Qd8+ Kg7 26.Nd5 Qxb3 27.Ne7 Qc4 28.Qg8+ Kf6 29.Qh8+ Kg5 30.Qf8 Rxe2 31.Ng8 h5 32.Nh6 Bd2 33.Nxf7+ Kg4 34.Rxd2 Rxd2 35.f3+ Kh3 36.Qc8+ Qg4 37.Ng5+ Rxg5 38.fxg4 Rg2+ 39.Kh1 Rc5 40.Qd8 Rxh2+ 41.Kg1 g5 42.Rb1 0-1

Bent Larsen died at 75

In France today it is very sunny but I dont feel too well learning the death of Bent Larsen.I never had the chance to meet the man but I always had him in a part of my heart with Borges,Coltrane ,Bashung ,Brautigan...He was not only a great champ,the best no-russians player during many years, he  was also a writer,a daring ,innovateur well educated man so maybe what everybody should try to be.
I will soon show here some of his games but more than that ,remember the man please.

http://www.chessquotes.com/

I receive the following email :I hope you enjoy my new site www.chessquotes.com . There is really nothing like it on the web ... I was quite frankly surprised that the domain name was available and that nobody seized upon the idea before I did. If you find it worthy, I would be pleased if you added a link on your site.


I am always happy to see new chess site so please have a look.
I dont know if this is on the site but I like vey much what Kasparov is supossed having said when he learned he will Play Nigel Short for the World tittle:"It is Short and it will be short".

the world lost

Carlsen,Magnus (2826) - The World [E62]
G-Star RAW World Chess Challenge New York/USA, 10.09.2010

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 0-0 5.Bg2 d6 6.Nc3 Nc6 7.0-0 e5 8.d5 Ne7 9.e4 c6 10.a4 Bg4 11.a5 cxd5 12.cxd5 Qd7 13.Be3 Rfc8 14.Qa4 Ne8 15.Nd2 Qd8 16.Qb4 Nc7 17.Nc4 Na6 18.Qxb7 Rxc4 19.Qxa6 Rb4 20.f3 Bc8 21.Qe2 f5 22.Qd2 Ba6 23.Rfc1 Qb8 24.Na4 Rb3 25.Rc3 Rb4 26.Rca3 f4 27.Bf2 Bh6 28.Nb6 fxg3 29.Qxb4 gxf2+ 30.Kxf2 Bc8 31.Rb3 axb6 32.Qxb6 Qa7 33.a6 Kf7 34.Qxa7 Rxa7 35.Rb6 Ke8 36.Rxd6 Bf8 37.Rb6 Nxd5 38.Rb8 Bc5+ 39.Kg3 Ne7 40.Bh3 Kd8 41.Bxc8 Nxc8 42.Rc1 Rc7 43.Rxc5 Rxc5 44.a7 World resigns 1-0
Magnus stronger that the world today

crush the number one today!

Remember?Today Magnus plays the world;you can still register here :http://rwcc.g-star.com/  but hurry up
In the official site you can follow the game (5PM in europe,so probably around minight for my beloved asian friend)also probably on playchess and others blogs.
Have fun and teach the kid how things must be!

Chess TV

Maybe you will be pleased to learn that you can watch Chess on TV here:www.chesstv.eu
3 beautiful girls make the show and I am sure you can learn something;It is well done and very interresting

new questions on the left

Who is the greatest of all times?please vote and explain why!

Do you want to play Magnus?

If you want to play this guy just register here;g-star.com/rawchess,the world helped by Kasparov and some others top GMI will play against Magnus Carlsen.Just join the team!this kid need a lesson!

the way of ANCL champ