The following game is my current idea as to what annotations should look like when the purpose of the annotations is to inform one of the players as to where that player needs to improve. Imagine you were a strong chess master and had been hired to annotate a chess game for a chess amateur who played the Black side. Is the following representative of what you would provide? If not, what would...

I am at a brick wall in my playing ability so i was wondering how do you get better when you feel like you are not improving anymore

Q to group: I'm looking to get a copy of Fritz 7 or 8. While searching on Amazon.com, I noticed that they offer copies of Fritz 7 and 8. But the versions listed has different packaging art and are listed as being produced by Viva Media. This seems to be a German company - is this an arm of Chessbase? Does anyone know if the software is the same? Thanks in advance. J Wan

Can anybody shed some light on the gambit: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 e5!? I've let fritz look at that initial position... it gives white only a small edge so there's some compensation but i'm having trouble

Karpov's contribution to chess was greater than Fischers ??? heehee Of course he did, pillock; he contributed not necessarily as much to the general welfare of players, but certainly to the game, simply because he defended his title strenuously through the '70s and '80s, something that Fischer sadly would (or could) not. "Gunny Bunny" wrote in...

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Does anyone know where I could find analysis of this game? In particular, is 20...e5 really necessary? And if not, is Black so bad? The whole line (starting with 6.Qe2) has been just awful for Black for the past several years, so I would think that if 13...Qxf3 was viable, someone would have tried it again, but I can only find this one instance of it from 5 years ago. In a recent correspondance...

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/jul15a.jpg White Mates in 3, Max Euwe vs Lohr, Amsterdam, 1923 b) http://wtharvey.com/jul15b.jpg White Mates in 5, Blake vs Hooke, London, 1923

Hi, I am running your game through Fritz 7 software. I will post the analysis soon. If u have ChessMaster or some other program you can do this analysis on each game u play to help yourself improve. www.chessbaseusa.com www.chessbase.com

Hanon Russell's review of MY GREAT PREDECESSORS on www.chesscafe.com reproduces the book's account of a famous game in which Lasker first offers a rook on c3, then again on a3. I did a superficial comparison with the annotations in THE WORLD'S GREAT CHESS GAMES (Nunn, Burgess, Emms). Although there was some overlap, it seemed that Kasparov was offering some insights not present in the earlier...

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They aren't the same person. Edward is not Emmanuel's short name. Javier Marcelo "Yanks Gerber" escribió en el mensaje ... Edward and Emmanuel? Surely this is the same person?

I played a game this past weekend against an Expert where I got into an e6/Nc6 setup as Black. I don't normally play that, but it felt rather comfortable so I've been doing some more research this week. One of the most challenging responses to the line I'm interested in seems to be 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cd 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. g3. The B45/3 line in ECO then goes 6 .. d5 7. exd5 Nxd5 8....

I have found a lot of players (at least online) - only play book openings from memory - and when things deviate drastically from what they are used to (especially in a 5-min game) - they can be easily defeated. As a test I have gone on to various chess playing sites and opened my game with 1. e4 * 2. ke2 * 3. ke3 * etc. and won the games 90% of the time. After my silly moves they tend to...

Nd5 Interesting. Note h4 even more interesting? You need for analysis equal to chess engine a database of games. One complements the other. This is based on the board position prior to 14 Nd5. Opening Report Database: (3,201,892 games) Report: (31 games) Generated by Scid 3.3, 2003.07.16 1. Statistics and History 1.1 Statistics

Hi! Tonight the new Novice Nook, "A Fistful of Lessons" was posted. Hope you enjoy! If you have any comments or questions for me, please do not post here as I might not see it. For a reply, please e-mail me at . Thanks! Also thanks for the many e-mails on last month's NN, Learning from Dr. de Groot! If you missed any back NN's, they are all linked at...

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Anybody knows of any decent books on Danish Gambit? It is a rather aggresive, wild opening. White sacrifices two pawns for a strong attack in the opening. When I played it for the first time in a local club, I defeated a 2000 player in the first 15 moves (I am about 1500). Of course, he creamed me the next game (lol).... It makes me wonder if the gambit is unsound, and if not, is there any...

I played in another USCF tournament on sunday which was 4 rounds of game 60 against players of the same level. And I lost all my games again. I have been following a daily study plan studying tactics and endgames and GM games but I just can't seem to beat anybody. You gotta help me. White: 1600 Black: Me (1008) I that I was winning after i won a pawn on move 20: