Monthly Archives: February 2013
RAC Rakosligeti Team in BTCh
Pictures BTCh rd7 RAC I vs Sarkanye at RAC Club
Some of the pics. Thanks to Balla,Atilla for bringing the camera and team chocolates. We tied the match 6-6 in the end.
Trends in the Sicilian Scheveningen Keres Attack
Here is a recent game in the Keres Attack. The 6…h6 is one of the main defensive methods and allowed Hou Yifan to play for the win in rd10 of the Tata Steel Group A tournament.
Position 1
A complex RR-RR ending has been reached where each side has one active and one passive rook. What do you suggest for black now?
Black to Play
Youtube BeautyandChessGeek-Orlova and the GM
Youtube BeautyandChess BeautyandChessGeek
The first official chess video is Harikrishna-Van Wely from Tata Steel A 2013 in a smashing Sicilian win for white.
Alvarez has a real talent for communcating, in this fine initial video series.
‘Hello! GM Alejandro Tadeo Ramirez Alvarez (Chess Geek) and WCM Yelizaveta (Beauty) here! This is a Youtube channel about chess. We will be making videos about some of the recent chess tournaments going on, analyzing games, openings, and players!
Sometimes we will be together for the videos, but most of times will be seperately! Yelizaveta currently lives in Canada, while Alejandro lives in USA.’
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Here’s the game.
Iran Youth Chess Championships 2013
Iran Youth Chess Championships 2013 Chessdom Iran-youth-chess-championships 2013
Report and photos by Ali Ghaemmaghami
More on Iranian Chess
The Waypoint Foundation’s Scholastic Tournament
Memorial Tournament Ifiberone News Grantcounty/ephrata
The Waypoint Foundation’s 7th annual Scholastic Chess Tournament drew 97 chess players to Ephrata on Saturday, Feb 2nd. It was a record turnout and all participants earned prize money.
The story aired on iFIBER One News on Monday, Feb. 4.
Playing 1.d4 The Queen’s Gambit 2012-Verifying Schandorff
Repertoire Against the Semi-Slav
Schandorff proposes the Bg5 complex against the rock solid Semi-Slav in Playing 1.d4 vol2-Schandorff(Quality Chess 2012). In the analysis of
Schandorff’s proposes 15…Kb8 as a key defensive novelty which remains untested to TWIC 852. I found a key improvement for black in the notes to black’s 18th move.
After 21…ed,white has a wide choice of captures. What do you suggest for white?
Grunfeld Trends 2013-TWIC 952 4.e3 Bg7(D80)
Here is a harmless looking anti-Grunfeld idea fresh from this week’s TWIC 952 and was played in the Bundesliga.
White has more space and is ready to press the kingside. What do you suggest for white?
- 35.g5
- 35.f5
- Somthing else
TWIC 952(HUN) Summary 2013, Feb 5
TWIC TheWeekInChess
This is the ongoing work of Mark Crowther. Issue 952 covered the following tournaments.
Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Gibraltarchesscongress
GM Hoang
Rudolf,A
Nikita Vitiugov wins the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters
Bundesliga 2012-13
Izsak
Farago,I
Ribli,Z
Berkes,F
Banusz,T
Medvegy,Z
Ruck,R
Acs,P
Erdos,V
Rapport,R
TCh-HUN 2012-13
Junior Chess in Australia
Junior Chess in Australia Australian-junior-youth-chess
Here is a cool blog on the Australian chess scene.
TCh-SVK Extraliga 2012–13 GM Varga,Z(HUN)
Here is an interesting game from recent TCh-SVK action(TWIC 946)
The position is closed. What do you suggest for white?
13.0-0
13.0-0-0
-Something else
This position is sharp. What should white do now?
BudapestChessNews 