Greetings,
The World Chess Championship is still tied (5.5 to 5.5) with 1 game left before the playoffs. Boris Gelfand may have lost his best shot to topple Viswanathan Anand with his “risky variation.”
This week’s newsletter is about my 3 Ms Of Chess and features a game where I annotate every move. I also add a few new photos to the website which you can view here:
Ron Smits and Nate Winterfield return to the club
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Looking down the boards
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Alex makes a mystery move
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Peace be with you,
Paul Anderson
Read The Newsletter!
( cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/entri … y-of-chess )
- Game Of The Week: Clue To The Mystery Of Chess
- This Week In Chess: Thematic (King’s Gambit) Swiss Results
- Game Viewer: Paul Anderson v Koji Del Conte ( cschess.webs.com/ )
2012 Calendar Of Events for the Colorado Springs Chess Club:
cschess.webs.com/apps/calendar/
For additional events, see the following websites:
Denver Chess Club: DCC (denverchess.com)
Colorado State Chess Association: CSCA (colorado-chess.com/)
Wyoming Chess Association: WCA (wyomingchess.com/)
Kansas Chess Association: KCA (kansaschess.org/)
ps - Newsletter preview with pgn (for board diagram and video see The Newsletter):
Since I have finished my discussion of tactics, featuring the DROP method (cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/categ … rop-method), I figured that I would introduce my system on the strategy side of the game. To make chess a little easier for me to understand, I split the moves into two different kinds: Tactical Moves and Strategic Moves.
The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing. - Savielly Tartakower
Dividing the game into two kinds of moves isn’t new, but splitting tactics into four categories and strategy into three categories is my twist on this old idea. I used the acronym DROP to make it easy to remember the four kinds of tactics. So, what acronym did I come up with for the three elements of chess strategy? MMM…
[Event “May Quad”]
[Site “http://cschess.webs.com/”]
[Date “2012.05.08”]
[Round “2.3”]
[White “Anderson, Paul”]
[Black “Del Conte, Koji”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “D53”]
[Annotator “Anderson,Paul”]
[PlyCount “28”]
[EventDate “2012.05.08”]
[TimeControl “1800”]
- d4 {Mobility} d5 {Mobility} 2. c4 {Removal} e6
{Material} 3. Nf3 {Mobility} Nf6 {Mobility} 4. Nc3 {Mobility} Be7 {Mobility} 5.
Bg5 {Mobility} O-O {Mate} 6. Qc2 {Mobility} h6 {Material} 7. h4 {Mate} Nbd7 {
Mobility} 8. O-O-O {Mate} hxg5 {Material} 9. hxg5 {Removal} Ne4 {Material} 10.
Nxe4 {Overload} dxe4 {Material} 11. Qxe4 {Mate} Bxg5+ {Material} 12. e3 {Mate}
g6 {Mate} 13. Qg4 {Overload} Nf6 {Mystery} 14. Qxg5 {Material} Nh5 {Mate} 1-0