Greetings,
CSCA President, Paul Covington, was looking for some feedback on 4 questions from top players about bringing a GM out and more stuff. See the survey at the end of the newsletter and let him know what you think.
Also, I updated my photos with new pics and slideshows:
Photos from the GalaxyFest Sci-Fi convention:
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Will the real Paul please stand up?
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Please God, don’t let him see the move.
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I refuse to make another move.
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Peace be with you,
Paul Anderson
The Newsletter
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- Game Of The Week: The DROP Method
- This Week In Chess
- New Photos
- President’s Survey
- Game Viewer: Markus Petters v Paul Anderson ( cschess.webs.com/ )
- Video: youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLrcafDtkg
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 (for board diagram and video see The Newsletter):
This week’s game comes from the Colorado Springs Open. This tournament is held in March and sometimes falls on Bobby Fischer’s birthday (March 9th). I was looking at this game yesterday because it was a rare tournament game I played on Fischer’s birthday. He would have been 69 on Friday, and I figured that I should chose a game with some Fischer connection since he is one of my most watched videos:
Also, I found an old email in my chess account from Tim Brennan about doing a podcast for him on tactics. I had held off replying to him until I got my tactic notes a little more organized. Well, I keep putting that off. So, I decided to use my newsletter to help me move along the process. I will be chosing games to illustrate my new method of simplfying the myriad of tactics: The DROP method.
The DROP method is a way to focus on those key tactics that appear most often and are most successful in chess games and cause a player to drop pieces. Hopefully, by mastering this method you will drop less material and cause your opponent to drop more. Of course, this is a work in progress. So, if you have any comments or suggestions to help develop the DROP method into a simple yet effective way to organize chess tactics, please let me know.
The first idea in the DROP method is Discovery. Discovery is a chess move that attacks with one piece and unblocks (or frees) another piece for a different attack. It often occurs with the unblocked piece checking the king where it is called a Discovered Check. Here is a position where I got caught in a tactical combination that starts with a Discovery and ended when I resigned. It is white to move…