Kotov wrote the book "Thkink like a Grandmaster", but there are a helluva lot more patzers in this world than grandmasters, so I thought I would write something like Kotov, explaing the train of thought of a patzer (me) playing a game. This blitz game was played this week (I swear it's true) on ICC. It was a Fischer 2-12 blitz game, whcih may or may not explain some of the incredible...

Hi All I have Reuben Fine's Basic Chess Endings which while good, is old notation (at least copy Ive got). Alos have Soltis's GM secrets: endings. What is considered the best endgame book? I want it to be comprehensive and in modern notation.

Kotov's "Think like a grandmaster!" is a great book with a lot of good advice, so it is amusing that I found the very first diagram explanation to be cooked not once, but twice: not only did Kotov miss the winning move, but the move he gives as correct leaves White with an inferior position! The position is 1brr1k1 1b3pp1 pp2pqnp

(Bryan Norman) writes: I was considering openings to teach my kids that are beginners. In particular, as black how to respond to 1 e4. BZZZT! Beginners need to learn endgames and mating positions and GENERAL opening principles. Any coach who tries to teach beginners "how to respons as black to 1. e4" is seriously misguided. (I apologize for my blunt language, but...

chessbase.com, makers of the Chess Base database software and other products, has a bizarre opinion piece on their website. In the middle of a page of otherwise objective news reporting about the Fischer story (http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1852), there's a plea from one Susan Grumer to George Bush, asking him to pardon Fischer on the grounds that... (you're not going to...

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Hi! For a while ago someone made a Yahoo chess group dedicated to C63 known as Schliemann defense. (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5) The group is gone but enjoy this refreshing game: (a correspondence game) Notice black's :

WHITE BLACK 1. e4

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In the latest radio interview Bobby Fischer says he wants Alexandra Kosteniuk in his cell when/if he is sent to the USA - pretty cool eh? Alexandra - if you are reading this post - what do you think? :-)

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Here are some puzzles taken from the chess games of strong players of the early 20th century. Except where noted, it's "White to Move and Win". a) http://wtharvey.com/sep1a.png White mates in 4, Erik Andersen vs Hilse, The Hague, 1928 r3rk2/5pR1/pp1q1P1p/8/3p3P/P2B4/1P1Q2b1/1K6 w - - 0 1 b) http://wtharvey.com/sep1b.png Janos Balogh vs F Redeleit, corr., 1928...

I've posted a rather odd "Chess quandary" on the Web, and I wonder if anyone would care to share their thoughts on it. Particularly, if anyone knows how to set up Fritz, Junior, or Shredder to play against one of its internal engines from this setup, it would be appreciated. But your thoughts need not touch on computer chess at all: http://www.100bestwebsites.org/quakerchess.htm More about...

Here's a combination Tal could not make work....... This combination is one from a CD I have - I do not have the original printed volume Informator 68, and wonder if anyone has it, because it appears to (me to) be faulty on this CD. I would not normally worry about this but I spent twenty five minutes trying to solve it last night.... then could not see why the solution worked...... position...

This will probably seem like a trivial question to an experienced user, but I would seriously appreciate some help. I have been using Chessbase 7 for a wee while now but I still don't know how to do the following: I put in a new game, and if I right click I can search for the same position or a novelty in my Megabase or Informator databases. But then how do I incorportae that information into...

I'm trying to remember if a stalemate position in checkers is a loss for the player unable to move on his turn. I think it is. Would making stalemate a loss in chess be any better?

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Someebody see this position before. I need games. 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 0-0 8.Nf3 Nbc6 9.Bd3 f5 10.exf6 Rxf6 11.Bg5 Rf7 12.Qh4 h6 13.Qh5 hxg5 14.Qh7+ Kf8 15.Qh8+ Ng8 16.Bh7 Thank --