In the following position black is one pawn down and playing with a exchanged Queen for a Rook and a Bishop. 3r1r1k/1Q1b2p1/7p/2p3b1/p1Pp4/8/PPB2PPP/R5K1 b - - 0 26 What is the best move for black? (Not a win, but keeping the odds somewhat even) Best regards, Fernando

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Question: Is there any proper reason, ever, to underpromote to a R or a B? (ie. excluding just for wit, assuming proper play) I've seen plenty of reasons for promoting to a N or a Q but never a R or a B. Obviously the check or forking advantage of a knight doesn't work in the case of a rook or a bishop because a queen can do that also. However I can picture (fuzzily) something along the...

Is this possible and if so, how is it done? I want to convert some of my tourney games, and placed them in themed folders. TIA

(KRCH) wrote in message ... Anand lost to Radjabov with white! More on http://Kramnikchess.narod.ru Bets for each game and the winner of event. Good game by Raja! He made some sparkling combinations. Let's see how Timor can score vs. Bologan and Naiditsch. Certainly, Anand, kramnik and Leko will be striving to...

Looking to buy a used chessbase 7 or maybe a new one if price is right the only one i can find is in Itlay for 60.00 which is new.But would like to find a version here first please help?

Hi; I am worried how peope organice their opening ideas for a fast look. I mean: has any of you have a on-the-fly and fast "refresh ideas notepad" for openings?. How do you built it: word processor, special chess software,....? What do you put there? I am thinking on build an on the fly document to easy remember main points of my collection of opening variants ideas that I have in a lot of PGNs...

"woodpusher" wrote in message ... The slav what can I say! -- http://members.shaw.ca/chess4us/ A place to have fun and study the London, Caro-Kann and the Slav.

hi, Does anybody know if there's chess opening theory manuals in PDF form on the web? Or even chess books for that matter. I didn't find anything on Kazaa though.

I would like to know what stronger players think is a good book (or small set of books) to build a solid foundation for playing chess. Most people want a quick fix, but I am asking for a book (or books) that when studied, will give a player a solid foundation for moving on to become a strong player. I am not exactly sure if this is a good example, but the Inner Game of Chess comes to mind. It...

Here's a game I recently completed at http://net-chess.com. I documented my thinking process throughout the game both to force myself to actually ponder each position and in the hopes that the stronger players here could point out how I could be thinking better. Any time you can spend on analysis is appreciated. This is also my first attempt at PGN; please let me know if the formatting...

I've been using Fritz 8 (Mar 5 2003 version) to analyze some of the blitz games I play on FICS. This program does a great job at pointing out all the obvious (and not so obvious) tactics I overlook in my online games. Using Full Analysis and choosing fritz8.cbh as the Reference-DB, I often get recent game continuations in the commentary as well as opening moves labeled as novelties. I also...

How do you create a study plan for chess improvement ?

"Kym" wrote in message ... I've just been invited to ChessWorld.net (www.letsplaychess.com). I'm playing one game as guest. Seems ok, is it worth being a member? Any members wish to comment. TIA, Kym I love it. I play there exclusively. I never have time for serious OTB games, so I tried web-correspondence chess, and I'm hooked. ...

Folks, there's something on my mind in a last few days: what's the best chess game you even seen? What I meant is prettiness of moves and combinations, regardless of player's ranking (all players with great visions are welcome)... This could be an interesting, I think. Anybody?

"drummerman" wrote in message ... Is there such a concept as chess plagiarism? I was going over some games in John Walker's, Chess: Attacking the King, book. The game on page 123 titled "Storming the Castled Position with Pawns" looked familiar. The game is a Benoni-Indian from Kotov-Bastrikov 1954. Walker...

Is this opening any good? 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. e4 Bg7 4. d4 d6 5. f3 e5 6. d5 Nh5 7. Be3 f5 8. Qd2 Qh4+ 9. Bf2 Qe7 10. O-O-O O-O 11. Nge2 Nd7

Actually, I'm not sure if it's a Danish or a Goring, or perhaps common to both. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 ed 4.c3 dc 5.Bc4 cb 6.Bxb2, I played the natural-looking 6...Nf6. When I went to look up the variation later, I could not find mention of it in any of my references, the main lines being instead 6...d6 or 6...Bb4+. I assumed the move is so obviously bad that it's not worth commenting...

I'm still waiting for mine. Has anyone seen a copy?

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