Solution of monday exercice

Solution:here Smyslov played:17.Rxc8! Rxc8 18.Bxb7 and black resigned because of the following lines:
1)18.. Rc7 19.Nc6 Rxb7 20.Nxa5
2)18...Rb8 19.Nc6 Rxb7 20.Nxa5;
3)18...Nb6 19.Bxc8 Nxc8 20.Nc6 Rd5 21.Rc1 Bf6 22.Rc4 Bxb2 23.Rxa4;
4)18...Rcc5 19.Nc6 Rxc6 20.Rxd7 Rc2 21.Rxe7 Kf8 22.Rd7 Rxb2 23.a3 Ra2 24.Bc6 Rxa3 25.Bd2 Ra1+ 26.Kg2 Ra6 27.Bb4+ Ke8 28.Rd1+

Smyslov,Vassily - Donner,Jan Hein
Capablanca mem Havana (9), 1965

1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.0-0 0-0 6.d4 c5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.dxc5 Bxc5 9.Qc2 Be7 10.Rd1 Nd7 11.Nc3 Nxc3 12.Qxc3 a5 13.Be3 Ra6 14.Nd4 a4 15.Rac1 Qa5 16.Qxa5 Rxa5 17.Rxc8 Rxc8 18.Bxb7 1-0
Very pretty win by the late Smyslov.

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Anand -Topalov soon

Next week the 21th April the world Championship will begin between Anand, the world champion (who won his match against Kramnik in September 2007) and Topalov. What is not really clear to me is why Topalov is the challenger but he is a very interesting player so the match will probably be exciting.
The first game will be played the 23rd April, 12 games in the match and 4 games rapid tiebreak if needed.

April 21 – 17:00 CET - Official opening
April 23 – 14:00 CET - Game 1
April 24 – 14:00 CET - Game 2
April 25 – Rest Day
April 26 – 14:00 CET - Game 3
April 27 – 14:00 CET - Game 4
April 28 – Rest Day
April 29 – 14:00 CET - Game 5
April 30 – 14:00 CET - Game 6
May 1 – Rest Day
May 2 – 14:00 CET - Game 7
May 3 – 14:00 CET - Game 8
May 4 – Rest Day
May 5 – 14:00 CET - Game 9
May 6 – 14:00 CET - Game 10
May 7 – Rest Day
May 8 – 14:00 CET - Game 11
May 9 – Rest Day
May 10 – 14:00 CET - Game 12
May 11 – Rest Day
May 12 – Tie breaks

Hi all I am back!

Hi all  I am back!

 

Internet troubles are always very strange,nobody can explain you why and when it will work again then suddlently everything is ok again;the webb is on , and you get 5000 mails in a row!...well it is life!

I lost my ANCL game by forfeit not being able to connect and my opponement claimed a win,.... well that's life also!

Having no internet I had more time to think and I wondered about the Chess Bundesliga. I read Baden is the new champ ,having a team full of strongs GMI under 2700 ,what I dont really understand is :Is it really so important to be champ that it is worth buying  so much strangers players?Is it interresting to be champ that way?I could ask the same question to football fans whith  teams  towns with not even a single native in the team.

Probably it is a no politicaly correct question or probably the answer is:Only the result matter....that is life!

 

To be more blog connected,Saturday you will found at least the solution of the last monday exercice.

Kiss to the girls,handshake to boys.

SORRY a little break in the blog because of internet trouble

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Chess Heros, Past and Present

Remembering Smyslov

Smyslov Vassily born 24th march 1921 died a few days ago from heart failure the  27 th March 2010 was world champion from 1957 to 1958.He was a great positional player very good in endings who played 3 world championships against Botvinnik (the latter wrote a book called 3 matches!)he tied the first 12-12 in 1954 and Botvinnik keep the title.In 1957 Smyslov took the tittle 12.5-9.5 becoming the 7 th world champion in the history of chess.  Next year Botvinnik took back the tittle 12.5-10.5.Amazingly in 1983 at the age of 62 he went to the candidate semi final losing only to Kasparov .
A variation of the Ruy Lopez is namedafter him:1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 h6.
I once meet Smyslov not behind a chess board but simply in a shop in Paris I remember a very tall man wearing a green coat,probably knowing he was World Champion made him a giant in my young eyes.

Smyslov-Tal (1-0)

Vassily was also an Opera Tenor .Very impressive in our time of specialists.

Monday exercice:Remembering smyslov

Smyslov died last week ,I will write on his games and life soon.
here in the Diag he is white and Donner is black.In this Position he found a winning move!As usual try to find the most variations you can and compare with solution next saturday.
Good luck!

Solution of the monday exercice 2

Solution
1...Nxe5!! using the  back rank . 2.Nxe5 Qc3! 3.Qe2 [3.Qxc3 Rxd1+] 3...Qxe5 4.Be3 [4.Qxe5 Rxd1+] 4...Nf5 5.Qf3 Rxd1+ 6.Rxd1 Nd4 7.Bxd4 cxd4 8.Qd3 Rd8 9.g3 Qc5-+ 0-1
Sokolov - Yusupov
Riga, 1986

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