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All Nations Chess League (ANCL)

ANCL is one of the largest on line chess league; we play 90+5 slow matches,
we have our own rooms at playchess.com. The league is free to join.
All participants in the ANCL must have a full Playchess account (including a serial number), 20 slow games and a rank of knight or higher. Any player who has previously been found using assistance in rated games will be refused entrance to participate in the ANCL league.
we have a main site and a forum, at present there are 14 teams from all over the world, each team can have up to 12 members usually a captain and 1 or 2 vice captains.
Each week a line up of 6 players is made by captain to play against another team.
You then if chosen any given week, (you may well not play every week), use ANCL forum to arrange your match with your opponent agreeing on a time and day to play,
Also at ANCL we have a teaching school,simuls or lessons are given at playchess usually in room 5, where your participation /questions would be welcomed and answered, Lessons usually last for an hour each time, unless the teachers get so enthralled at the Questions they lose track of time.

All the above and more details can be seen at
Main site http://anclchess.net/
If anyone is interested and would like to join us, please do, it takes around 5-7 days to be accepted, please use your playchess nick when registering as user name. Once accepted you will then be added to forum site http://anclchess.net/forum/index.php

vendredi 7 mai 2010

Friday movie



Deep Blue beat G. Kasparov in 1997

jeudi 6 mai 2010

New player site

A new player site is born!The Mamedyarov official site:www.mamedyarov.com.
he is very nice at first look but all the question is if : will it be updated regulary?I know a lot of very interresting blogs where the player forget to write new posts....well ok I understand why It takes a lot of time and to find something interresting is not always easy,beleive me I know what I am speaking about....

mercredi 5 mai 2010

Christochess comments one of his game.



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Chess bond (1980) - Christochess (1924)
90m + 5s, rated Room 1, 10.04.2010

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 Nxe4 8.0-0 Bxc3 9.d5 Bf6 10.Re1 Ne7 11.Rxe4 d6 12.Bg5 Bxg5 13.Nxg5 h6 14.Qe2 hxg5 15.Re1 Be6 16.dxe6 f6 17.Re3 [17.Bd3;
17.Bd3 c6 18.Re3 (18.Rb4) 18...Qc7 19.Rh3 Rxh3 20.gxh3 0-0-0] 17...c6 18.Rh3 Rxh3 19.gxh3 g6 20.Bd3 Qa5 Hier fühlte ich mich wohl, ich wusste das ich laut Theorie besser stand. Ich war mir noch nicht sicher, wohin mit dem König, lange Rochade oder Kf8-g7 sieht auch gut aus. 21.b4 Bloß nicht den Bauern schlagen. Db4 Tb1 und Weiß bekommt gegenspiel. 21...Qe5 22.Qd2 Hier bewertete ich die Stellung. Material: ich habe einen gesunden mehrbauern= statischer Vorteil, Bauernstruktur: ich habe die bessere Struktur, e6 kann schwahcw werden und f2,h2,h3 sind enorm schwach, ich habe auch eine BAuerninsel weniger, Entwicklung: Weiß hat leichten enticklungsvorsprung, und muss diesen dynamischen Vorteil mit einem sofortigen Angriff nutzen, sonst verliert aufgrund seines statischen nachteils, Initiative: Im moment hat Weiß eine leichte Initiative, die aber nur vorübergehend ist, Linien: Weiß hat die e-linie besetzt mein Turm ist noch außer spiel, Felder, f4 und h3 sind schwach, bei Schwarz könnte g6 ein Angriffsobjekt werden.
Da ich statisch gesehen ein Übergewicht habe, bietet sich Df4 an, Weiß darf den Damentausch nicht annehmen, danach kann ich meine Entwicklung abschließen, wonach Weiß nur noch auf die Schwäche g6 spielen kann, diese ist aber leicht mit f5 zu decken. 22...Qf4 23.Qc2 f5 24.Qc3 0-0-0 Chess bond offers a draw. Ich sah hier, dass Df6 an Dd2 scheitert 25.b5 [25.Qf6 Qd2 26.Rf1 Nd5 27.Qd4 Nf4 28.Qxa7 Nxe6] 25...Nd5 ich erwartete hier Dc2, worauf ich ruhig mit c5 antworten wollte. 26.Qa5? Qb4 27.Qxb4 Nxb4 28.Bc4 d5 29.Bf1 Hier war mir ein bisschen mulmig, ich befürchtet ich könnte meinen Springer verlieren. Leider übersah ich hier, dass nach Te8 Weiß mit Tb1 Gegenspiel bekommt, in meiner Berechnung war ich heir zu nahchlässig 29...Re8 30.Rb1 Tb1 hatte ich zwar gesehen, auch Sc2 aber ich übersah vorher dass der Turm auf b7 eindringen konnte. 30...Nc2 31.bxc6 bxc6 32.Ba6+ Kc7 33.Rb7+ Kd6 34.Rxa7 Rxe6 35.Bc8 Re1+ 36.Kg2 d4 37.Rg7 Eine der Ideen von Ta1 war ein mattmotiv auf der Grundreihe, obwohl ich eigentlich wusste das ich einen starken Freibauern habe, der auch Unterstützung von c6 erhalten kann, hatte ich ein wenig Angst, dass ich Probleme bekommen, weil ich meine Königsflügelbauern verliere. Aber meine Intuition, dass die Köngiszentralisierung gut für mich ist, war richtig. 37...Ra1 38.Rxg6+ Ke5 39.Rxg5 d3 40.Bxf5 [40.Rxf5+ Kd4 41.Rf7 c5 42.h4 d2 43.Bg4 Ne1+ 44.Kh3 Rxa2 45.h5 Ra6 46.Rd7+ Kc3 47.Kg3 c4 48.f4 Kc2 49.Be2 Rc6 50.Kg4 c3 51.Kg5 Kb1 52.Rb7+ Kc1 53.Rd7 Rc5+ 54.Kg4 c2 55.h6 Rc8 56.Kh5 Re8 57.Bg4 Ng2 58.f5 Ne3 59.Bf3 Nc4 60.h7 (60.Rd5 Ne5 61.Be2 Nd3) ] 40...Kf4 41.Rh5 [41.h4 Ne1+ 42.Kh3 d2 43.Bg4 Nd3 44.Kg2 c5 45.Be2 c4 46.Rg3 Re1 47.Rg4+ Kf5 48.Rg5+ Kf6 49.Bg4 c3] 41...Ne1+ 42.Kf1 Nf3+ 43.Kg2 Rg1#  (Lag: Av=1.51s, max=10.5s) 0-1
Thx to christochess!

mardi 4 mai 2010

Topalov wins

Topalov,Veselin (2805) - Anand,Viswanathan (2787)
World Chess Championship Sofia/Bulgaria, 04.05.2010

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Ne5 e6 7.f3 c5 8.e4 Bg6 9.Be3 cxd4 10.Qxd4 Qxd4 11.Bxd4 Nfd7 12.Nxd7 Nxd7 13.Bxc4 Rc8 14.Bb5 a6 15.Bxd7+ Kxd7 16.Ke2 f6 17.Rhd1 Ke8 18.a5 Be7 19.Bb6 Rf8 20.Rac1 f5 21.e5 Bg5 22.Be3 f4 23.Ne4 Rxc1 24.Nd6+ Kd7 25.Bxc1 Kc6 26.Bd2 Be7 27.Rc1+ Kd7 28.Bc3 Bxd6 29.Rd1 Bf5 30.h4 g6 31.Rxd6+ Kc8 32.Bd2 Rd8 33.Bxf4 Rxd6 34.exd6 Kd7 35.Ke3 Bc2 36.Kd4 Ke8 37.Ke5 Kf7 38.Be3 Ba4 39.Kf4 Bb5 40.Bc5 Kf6 41.Bd4+ Kf7 42.Kg5 Bc6 43.Kh6 Kg8 44.h5 Be8 45.Kg5 Kf7 46.Kh6 Kg8 47.Bc5 gxh5 48.Kg5 Kg7 49.Bd4+ Kf7 50.Be5 h4 51.Kxh4 Kg6 52.Kg4 Bb5 53.Kf4 Kf7 54.Kg5 Bc6 55.Kh6 Kg8 56.g4 1-0
Theatre ready for an exiting finish,it seems the momentum is running for topy

lundi 3 mai 2010

draw!

Anand,Viswanathan (2787) - Topalov,Veselin (2805)
World Chess Championship Sofia/Bulgaria, 03.05.2010

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 0-0 7.0-0 c6 8.Bf4 dxc4 9.Ne5 b5 10.Nxc6 Nxc6 11.Bxc6 Bd7 12.Bxa8 Qxa8 13.f3 Nd5 14.Bd2 e5 15.e4 Bh3 16.exd5 Bxf1 17.Qxf1 exd4 18.a4 Qxd5 19.axb5 Qxb5 20.Rxa7 Re8 21.Kh1 Bf8 22.Rc7 d3 23.Bc3 Bd6 24.Ra7 h6 25.Nd2 Bb4 26.Ra1 Bxc3 27.bxc3 Re2 28.Rd1 Qa4 29.Ne4 Qc2 30.Rc1 Rxh2+ 31.Kg1 Rg2+ 32.Qxg2 Qxc1+ 33.Qf1 Qe3+ 34.Qf2 Qc1+ 35.Qf1 Qe3+ 36.Kg2 f5 37.Nf2 Kh7 38.Qb1 Qe6 39.Qb5 g5 40.g4 fxg4 41.fxg4 Kg6 42.Qb7 d2 43.Qb1+ Kg7 44.Kf1 Qe7 45.Kg2 Qe6 46.Qd1 Qe3 47.Qf3 Qe6 48.Qb7+ Kg6 49.Qb1+ Kg7 50.Qd1 Qe3 51.Qc2 Qe2 52.Qa4 Kg8 53.Qd7 Kf8 54.Qd5 Kg7 55.Kg3 Qe3+ 56.Qf3 Qe5+ 57.Kg2 Qe6 58.Qd1 ½-½
Another draw but not peacefull

monday exercice

White to play and win

dimanche 2 mai 2010

Nothing to do here but I found it on a chess blog



Dilato.net Commerical - Hot Chicks

Ok this is not connected to chess but I have an excuse I found it trying to work for the blog and secondly I laughed a lot, so have a look and reactions(I mean comments) welcome.

Today Rest day

Once more I am unhappy to see that the rest day happends during my own rest day!So they will play again when I will be working and will not be able to follow the game!

Also a quite interresting information:the manager of Topalov ,Silvio Danalov said that Internet sites must respect copyright laws.
I dont really know what he wants to mean ,because there is no copyright on chess games,most probably he is thinking about tranmission of the moves in real time.
Well you can ask yourself what is real time diffusion ?In a physical and philosophical view we can even say it is impossible!
About Copyright and chess game there are sometime some discussions but the problem is hard to solve with questions like:Who is the author of a game?When a game is beginning to be an original creation?And maybe more seriously who would accept to pay to publish a chess game?On the otherside it could gives some money to old players.

As far as I know ,there is not (yet?)problems between the players,this is very good for us ,we can concentrate on the games and they are very interresting.


samedi 1 mai 2010

another draw today,Anand keep the lead

Anand,Viswanathan (2787) - Topalov,Veselin (2805)
World Chess Championship Sofia/Bulgaria (6), 01.05.2010

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 dxc4 5.Bg2 a6 6.Ne5 c5 7.Na3 cxd4 8.Naxc4 Bc5 9.0-0 0-0 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bxf6 Qxf6 12.Nd3 Ba7 13.Qa4 Nc6 14.Rac1 e5 15.Bxc6 b5 16.Qc2 Qxc6 17.Ncxe5 Qe4 18.Qc6 Bb7 19.Qxe4 Bxe4 20.Rc2 Rfe8 21.Rfc1 f6 22.Nd7 Bf5 23.N7c5 Bb6 24.Nb7 Bd7 25.Nf4 Rab8 26.Nd6 Re5 27.Nc8 Ba5 28.Nd3 Re8 29.Na7 Bb6 30.Nc6 Rb7 31.Ncb4 a5 32.Nd5 a4 33.Nxb6 Rxb6 34.Nc5 Bf5 35.Rd2 Rc6 36.b4 axb3 37.axb3 b4 38.Rxd4 Rxe2 39.Rxb4 Bh3 40.Rbc4 Rd6 41.Re4 Rb2 42.Ree1 Rdd2 43.Ne4 Rd4 44.Nc5 Rdd2 45.Ne4 Rd3 46.Rb1 Rdxb3 47.Nd2 Rb4 48.f3 g5 49.Rxb2 Rxb2 50.Rd1 Kf7 51.Kf2 h5 52.Ke3 Rc2 53.Ra1 Kg6 54.Ra6 Bf5 55.Rd6 Rc3+ 56.Kf2 Rc2 57.Ke3 Rc3+ 58.Kf2 Rc2 ½-½

solution of monday exercice



Larsen,Bent - Spassky,Boris Vasily
URS vs World match Belgrade (2.1), 29.03.1970

14...Rh1!!  15.Rxh1
[15.Kf1 Rxg1+ 16.Kxg1 Qh4-+ ] 15...g2 16.Rf1?(16 Rg1 is better but lose also try to find why!)
 16...Qh4+! mate in 4 17.Kd1 gxf1Q+ [17...gxf1Q+ 18.Bxf1 Bxg4+ 19.Kc1 (19.Be2 Qh1#) 19...Qe1+ 20.Qd1™ Qxd1#]  0-1
0ne of the classical Mona Lisa Chess!