Monthly Archives: May 2013
Interview with GM Portisch(Hungarian Language)-Video
Interview with Portisch,l(Hungarian Language)
Portisch Simul 2011
GM Portish is still a very popular player.
Capablanca Mem 2013 Rd3-GM Almasi(HUN)
Andrew Martin Analyzes
The featured Almasi game is analyzed by IM Andrew Martin on his Youtube Chanel-The Yately Manor Chess Master.
TWIC 964
GM Almasi rolled out the big guns and went for 6.Bg5 against the Sicilian Najdorf. GM Harikrishna defended with 6…Nbd7 and a sharp battle followed.
Here is the feature game.
Almasi,Z (2689) – Harikrishna,P (2705)
Sicilian Najdorf 6.Bg5 Nbd7 7.Qe2 [B94]
48th Capablanca Mem Elite Havana CUB (3.3), 23.04.2013
Position 1
The position is sharp. White has just attacked the queen with 28.Nd7. What do you recommend for black?
- 28…Qb7
- 28…Qc7
- Something else
Black to Play
Greatest 501 Puzzles-GM Horvath Csaba(HUN)
Greatest 501 Puzzles-GM Horvath Csaba(Chess Evolution 2012)
My tactical play has been suffering lately so I invested in this book.
The positions are divided by difficulty but not by theme making it good for training. Overall a nice effort by GM Horvath-see his nice website too.
Horvath played on the Olympiad Team in Dresden 2008.
Here is #153 from the Medium level section.
White to Play and Win
Something Different From Chess Evolution
European Indivdual Chess Ch(EICC) 2013 Rd2-GM Ruck(HUN)
EICC Introduction
A bit of background on the tournament.
TWIC 965
GM Grachev used the Cambridge Springs Defence to defeat GM Ruck with active piece play in rd2 of the EICC. Ruck tried tried the critical 7.cd line but black equalized easily.
Ruck,R (2570) – Grachev,B (2687)
Cambridge Springs Defence 7.cd Nxd5[D52]
14th Euro Indiv 2013 Legnica POL (2.14), 06.05.2013
Black’s queenside majority is set to advance. What do you recommend for black?
ChessBase Files for 2013-05 Ready for Download
Budapest Chess News CBV Files
All games and analysis for 2013-05 are now available for download. This month, 115 games are in the database.
Included are games from all the ChessNews blogs, including
- BudapestChessNews
- CanadaChessNews
- d4ChessNews
- e4ChessNews
- REOChessNews(Reti,English and Other openings and other chess news)
Background
Leko beats Kortschnoi in a rook ending at the Dresden Olympiad.
Daily Pageview Traffic
Blog traffic has been growing compared to last year, but daily totals vary widely depending on what events are covered and whether GM Hansen(CAN)/IM Hambleton is playing.
Traffic growth has been helped greatly by publicity from GM Spraggett’s blog-Thank you!
| April | BCN | CCN | d4CN | e4CN | REOCN | Total |
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| 1 | 195 | 296 | 41 | 61 | 45 | 638 |
| 2 | 146 | 221 | 34 | 43 | 25 | 469 |
| 3 | 182 | 139 | 19 | 57 | 9 | 406 |
| 4 | 131 | 124 | 29 | 39 | 42 | 365 |
| 5 | 143 | 215 | 16 | 23 | 27 | 424 |
| 6 | 184 | 168 | 30 | 34 | 42 | 458 |
| 7 | 132 | 104 | 31 | 33 | 17 | 317 |
| 8 | 147 | 86 | 16 | 34 | 8 | 291 |
| 9 | 161 | 108 | 35 | 37 | 6 | 347 |
| 10 | 267 | 144 | 39 | 46 | 37 | 533 |
| 11 | 189 | 109 | 43 | 43 | 32 | 416 |
| 12 | 144 | 99 | 19 | 47 | 18 | 327 |
| 13 | 214 | 120 | 78 | 64 | 159 | 635 |
| 14 | 187 | 137 | 16 | 44 | 54 | 438 |
| 15 | 158 | 169 | 18 | 94 | 51 | 490 |
| 16 | 151 | 98 | 103 | 46 | 28 | 426 |
| 17 | 173 | 121 | 27 | 54 | 30 | 405 |
| 18 | 155 | 144 | 18 | 37 | 20 | 374 |
| 19 | 150 | 141 | 15 | 31 | 35 | 372 |
| 20 | 188 | 130 | 12 | 45 | 23 | 398 |
| 21 | 160 | 205 | 79 | 117 | 66 | 627 |
| 22 | 159 | 134 | 107 | 89 | 38 | 527 |
| 23 | 131 | 127 | 53 | 55 | 34 | 400 |
| 24 | 179 | 96 | 29 | 45 | 64 | 413 |
| 25 | 161 | 84 | 30 | 36 | 19 | 330 |
| 26 | 126 | 102 | 44 | 24 | 57 | 353 |
| 27 | 595 | 90 | 21 | 84 | 38 | 828 |
| 28 | 131 | 51 | 91 | 91 | 51 | 415 |
| 29 | 126 | 72 | 11 | 105 | 35 | 349 |
| 30 | 121 | 131 | 33 | 28 | 10 | 323 |
European Individual Chess Ch 2013 Rd5 Standings-HUN
Standings
Almasi leads the Hungarian delegation with 4/5.
More on the Tournament
The venue is in Legnica, Poland.
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| SNo | Name | Rtg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Pts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | GM | ALMASI Zoltan | 2695 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 4 |
| 18 | GM | BERKES Ferenc | 2688 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 3.5 |
| 45 | GM | BALOGH Csaba | 2644 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 3.5 |
| 101 | GM | PAPP Gabor | 2570 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 103 | GM | RUCK Robert | 2570 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 3 |
| 125 | GM | PAP Gyula | 2539 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 2.5 |
| 160 | GM | FODOR Tamas Jr. | 2475 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 2.5 |
| 218 | FM | ANTAL Tibor Kende | 2349 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 2 |
| 285 | SZONYI Bence | 1651 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0.5 |
TCh-ITA 2013 Rd7-GM Erdos,V(HUN)
TWIC 965
The feature game was won by rising young star GM Viktor Erdos, part of a new generation of Hungarian GMs
More on Erdos
(Hungarian language)
Erdos,V (2634) – Lenic,L (2617)
Queen’s Gambit Declined[D67]
45th Italian Teams 2013 Bratto ITA (7), 01.05.2013
Capablanca Memorial 2013 Rd8-GM Almasi, Z(HUN)
TWIC 964
The Berlin Wall Declined(4.d3)
GM Almasi won a complex defensive battle against GM Harikrishna,P in rd8.
Almasi offered to defend the Berlin Wall but white declined with 4.d3 preferring a complex middlegame. Almasi chose the fresh defensive plan of ..Re8 to support e5 while delaying moving the d-pawn and quickly reached an original position after 7…Bb6(diagram)
Here is the feature game.
Harikrishna,P (2705) – Almasi,Z (2689)
Spanish 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.c3 0–0 6.0–0 Re8 [C65]
48th Capablanca Mem Elite Havana CUB (8.2), 29.04.2013
Position 1
White has sacrificed a rook for a quick knockout on the kingside. A precise defense is required. What do you recommend for black?
Black to Play
Capablanca Mem Elite 2013 Rd9-GM Almasi,Z(HUN)
TWIC 965
GM Almasi won with a blend of solidarity and aggression from the black side of a Four Knights game with the odd looking 4…Bd6!?(diagram)
More on the Four Knights
Here is the feature game.
Inarkiev,E (2688) – Almasi,Z (2689)
Four Knights 4…Bd6[C48]
48th Capablanca Mem Elite Havana CUB (9.3), 30.04.2013
Black is pressing the kingside and has the better structure. What do you recommend for black?(more than one answer)
Capablanca Mem Elite 2013 Rd4-GM Almasi,Z(HUN)
TWIC 964
GM Almasi took clear first in the recent Capablanca Memorial. In round 4 he won with a nice attack using the ever popular English Attack against the Sicilian Kan.
More on Almasi
Interview(in Hungarian)
Interview in English by Cebalo(who also translates)
Here is the feature game.
Almasi,Z (2689) – Inarkiev,E (2688)
Sicilian Kan English Attack
4… Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Qd2 Nf6 8.0–0–0 Be7 9.f3 [B48]
48th Capablanca Mem Elite Havana CUB (4.1), 24.04.2013
Position 1
BudapestChessNews 