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wingpawn
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Poland1342 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-17 11:13:59
December 14 2013 18:56 GMT
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World Rapid & Blitz Championship, Dubai 2014

Featuring 28 super-grandmasters, among the others:
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1. Magnus Carlsen 2882
2. Levon Aronian 2815
3. Alexander Grischuk 2792
4. Viswanathan Anand 2785
5. Fabiano Caruana 2783
6. Hikaru Nakamura 2772
7. Sergey Karjakin 2770
8. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2760
9. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2758
10. Peter Svidler 2753
11. Boris Gelfand 2753
12. Nikita Vitiugov 2747
13. Ian Nepomniachtchi 2735
14. Wang Hao 2734
15. Pavel Elljanov 2732
16. Pendyala Harikrishna 2726
17. Etienne Bacrot 2721
18. Alexander Morozevich 2719
19. Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2716
20. Teimour Radjabov 2713
21. Laurent Fressinet 2711
22. Le Quang Liem 2710
23. Alexander Moiseenko 2707
24. Baadur Jobava 2706
25. Arkadij Naiditsch 2705
26. Yuriy Kryvoruchko 2704
27. Vladimir Malakhov 2701
28. Francisco Vallejo Pons 2700


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I couldn't find a general thread devoted to the most popular strategy game in the world, so I decided to make one myself.

Chess is a wonderful game, stimulating both creativity and organized thinking, requiring imagination as well as good memory and nerves of steel. Other than that, it's a very cheap and accessible sport with quite simple rules, that nonetheless create amazing number of tactical and strategical ideas. Though the computers changed it a little bit, there's still a lot of mystery behind chess, as the possible number of plans and reasonably well played games is astronomical. But above all, this game is fun! With the internet allowing one to find equally skilled opponents within seconds and humans still not really able to calculate like heartless silicons, the future of the game looks far from being as solved as checkers.

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Chessmaster

A decent program to learn the fundamentals of the game and undestand the general strategic and tactical ideas. Features a lot of easy to intermediate excercises by IM Joshua Waitzkin as well as some more advanced lectures by GM Larry Christiansen and game annotations by GM Yasser Seirawan (recomended version: CM 10th - Grandmaster Edition).

Fritz

Made by German company ChessBase, Fritz is a multi-purpose chess engine, featuring both impressive database and strong tools for analysis. For training purposes, it has an option of playing against program that adapts to your playing strength, which usually leads to extremely close and interesting games. (recomended version: Fritz 12 or 13 Version).

Houdini

Written by Belgian computer programist Robert Houdart, Houdini is the strongest chess engine of our times. It was involved in some cheating scandals, when players used it as an illegal assistance tool. Capable of crushing the strongest GMs, it also allows it's owner to flexibly adjust it's strength for less humiliation.

Deep Blue

Not exactly a program, but the whole famous IBM computer developed in 90's. Deep Blue was designed purely for a match play against Garry Kasparov. On February 10, 1996, it became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion, and year later, it's improved version won the whole six-game match against Kasparov 3.5 - 2.5. After that win, IBM disassembled the computer and never revealed the data about it, raising many questions of program's credibility.



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On August 12 2013 02:18 HystericaLaughter wrote:
Nice thread, but you should include a section on great chess books as well!

BEGINNER LEVEL:

Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess by Bruce Pandolfini
Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn
Logical Chess Move by Move by Irving Chernev
Winning Chess Tactics by Yasser Seirawan
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL:

Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine
Judgment and Planning in Chess by Dr. Max Euwe
Think Like A Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 by David Bronstein
How to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman

ADVANCED LEVEL:

Art of Attack in Chess by Vladimir Vukovic
My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer
My Great Predecessors by Garry Kasparov
Fundamental Chess Endings by Karsten Müller and Frank Lamprecht
Secrets of Chess Training by Mark Dvoretsky

CHESS FICTION:
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As suggested by 3FFA.


Masters of Technique: Mongoose Press Anthology of Chess Fiction edited by Howard Goldowsky
The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
Pawn To Infinity by Fred Saberhagen
The Chess Companion by Irving Chernev
The Dragon Variation by Anthony Glyn



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Top 30 FIDE as for June 2014:

1 Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2881
2 Aronian, Levon ARM 2815
3 Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2792
4 Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2791
5 Anand, Viswanathan IND 2785
6 Kramnik, Vladimir RUS 2783
7 Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2775
8 Topalov, Veselin BUL 2772
9 Karjakin, Sergey RUS 2771
10 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2762
11 Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB 2760
12 Gelfand, Boris ISR 2753
13 Svidler, Peter RUS 2753
14 Giri, Anish NED 2752
15 So, Wesley PHI 2744
16 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 2743
17 Adams, Michael ENG 2743
18 Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 2742
19 Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 2738
20 Leko, Peter HUN 2737
21 Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS 2736
22 Morozevich, Alexander RUS 2731
23 Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 2730
24 Wang, Hao CHN 2729
25 Harikrishna, P. IND 2726
26 Navara, David CZE 2724
27 Radjabov, Teimour AZE 2724
28 Eljanov, Pavel UKR 2723
29 Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR 2723
30 Andreikin, Dmitry RUS 2722

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  • The earliest predecessor of chess, a game called Chaturanga, probably originated in India, around 600 AD. It later spreaded to Persia, Arabia and eventually, to Southern Europe around 1000 AD.

  • The new pawn move, where pawns were allowed to advance two squares on its first move instead of one, was first introduced in Spain in 1280.

  • The current version of castling was established in France in 1620 and England in 1640.

  • The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves for both sides in a game of chess is 31 897 956 400.

  • The longest game of chess that is theoretically possible is 5949 moves.

  • The longest chess game ever was I.Nikolic - Arsovic, Belgrade 1989, which ended in 269 moves. The game was a draw.

  • Otto Blathy (1860-1939), is credited for creating the longest Chess Problem, mate in 290 moves.

  • Dr. Emanuel Lasker from Germany retained the World Chess Champion title for more time than any other player ever: 26 years and 337 days.

  • Sergey Karjakin from Ukraine holds the record of youngest age to become a chess grandmaster, earning the title at 12 years, 7 months and 0 days.

  • Ehsan Ghaem Maghami from Iran holds the record of biggest simultaneous display after playing on 604 boards for 25 hours from 8th to 9th February 2011 at the sports stadium of the Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran.

  • Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_chess

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http://www.chessbase.com/ - reliable source of chess news from all around the world
http://www.chessgames.com/ - gigantic database of games with online commentaries
http://www.chess.com/ - chess server for casual players; lots of training resources
http://gameknot.com/ - yet another website for playing casual online chess
http://www.chessclub.com/ - The Internet Chess Club aka one more cool site to play chess
http://playchess.com/ - professional chess server for more experienced players
http://www.chessarbiter.com/ - resources for chess arbiters to organize tournament play
http://www.fide.com/ - the official website of World Chess Federation
http://www.uschess.org/ - the official website of United States Chess Federation
http://www.2700chess.com/ - real-time ranking list of top players in the world
http://www.dejascacchi.altervista.org/exercises.htm - tons of tactical puzzles in PDF
http://chesstempo.com/ - another website to practice tactics, endgames, studies etc.
http://www.chessdom.com/ - extensive live broadcasts during major tournaments
http://www.chessinformant.rs/ - al about Chess Informant, famous Serbian chess periodical
http://www.chessquotes.com/ - lots of funny and instructive quotes about chess
http://www.youtube.com/user/PowerPlayChess - GM Daniel King channel on YT with tons of tournament reports
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You know you don't have a chance...

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Kenny will get killed a lot... again.

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Yup, but it won't do any harm either.

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Stanley Kubrick was a big chess fan (here playing George C. Scott during a break in Dr Strangelove).

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Kubrick again; this time, 2001 Space Odyssey and Frank Poole battling HAL 9000.

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Another cinematic chess battle: Knight vs Death. Stakes: Knight's life. (The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman).

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D'Angelo Barksdale: "Gotta remember - The King stays The King." (The Wire).

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Bobby Fischer - the man who took down the Soviet Chess Machine - plays Spassky in WCh match, Reykjavik 1972.

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Years later, Iceland admits Fischer. Thus he escapes ridiculous trial and legal consequences waiting in USA.

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Mihail Tal aka The Magician From Riga, hypnotizing another opponent.

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One of the hottest chess players alive - GM Tania Sachdev of India, rated 2403.

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GM Varuzhan 'deal with it' Akobian, rated 2636.

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The exclusive edition of GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords came out with a chess set (album is highly reccommended).

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Chessboxing: one round of boxing, couple moves in chess, then round of boxing and so on. The winner is the first player to either knockout or checkmate! Sick stamina required.

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The Turk - famous as the 18th century chess automaton, was in fact operated by a strong player hidden inside of it.

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Chess is sometimes played under water...

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...or in the outer space (Gregory Chamitoff vs NASA space center on International Space Station).

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Chess stamps with some GOAT on them.

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Ain't this the best chess quote ever?

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Hou Yifan (Chinese: 侯逸凡; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chessplayer and two-time Women's World Chess Champion (2010-2012 and 2013-).

Perhaps the most impressive chess prodigy China ever produced, Hou was the youngest female to achieve GM title (age 14), the youngest female to win Woman World Championship (age 16) and the youngest Woman World Champion to sucessfully defend her title (age 17). She is also two-time youth WCh medalist and the youngest female to ever contest for World Championship (at the age of 12, she managed to beat two female GMs in a WCh tournament in Ekaterinburg).

During her first Wch run, in 2010, she defeated Carla Heredia Serrano (Ecuador), Marina Romanko (Russia), Zhu Chen (Qatar), Kateryna Lahno (Ukraine), Humpy Koneru (India) and Ruan Lufei (China) in a knockout-style tournament held in Hatay, Turkey. In 2011, Hou Yifan beat Humpy Koneru again, this time in a 10-game match battle to determine 2011 WWCh. After getting knocked out of 2012 WWCh tournament by Monika Soćko (Poland), Hou lost her title to Anna Ushenina. However, she then proceeded to win FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012, an event that was about to determine a Challenger for Ushenina in a next WWCh match. Their 2013 match was effortlessly won by Hou

Hou Yifan's profile and games


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Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (Norwegian: [sʋɛn mɑŋnʉs øːn kɑːɭsn̩]; born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy who is the World Chess Champion and No. 1 ranked player in the world. His peak rating is 2872, the highest in history. Carlsen was the 2009 World Blitz chess champion.

On 26 April 2004, Carlsen became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 148 days, making him at that time the second youngest grandmaster in history, although he has since become the third youngest. On 1 January 2010, at the age of 19 years, 32 days, he became the youngest chess player in history to be ranked world No. 1. On the January 2013 FIDE rating list, Carlsen reached an Elo rating of 2861, at that time the highest in history. In November 2013, Carlsen beat Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2013, thus becoming the 16th undisputed world chess champion.

Carlsen has won the World Championship match held in Chennai, India, without suffering a single defeat and with his typical will of fight for the win in seemingly drawish endgames. Always preferring the positional, strategic chess, he managed to win two difficult endgames in game 5 and 6 of 2013 WCh match, after which he obtained a commanding lead. However, in perhaps the most impressive game (number 9) the Norwegian kept his cool despite the seemingly terrifying Kingside attack thrown at him. After exploiting Anand's tactical overlook in that game and drawing another exciting game in Round 10, Magnus captured the crown just a week before his 23th birthday.

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My selection of 20 brilliancies, though there are obviously many more out there...

Steinitz - von Bardeleben, Hastings 1895
Rotlewi - Rubinstein, Lodz 1907
Levitsky vs Marshall, Breslau 1912
Saemisch - Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen 1923
Reti - Alekhine, Baden Baden 1925
Ortueta - Sanz, Madrid 1934
Botvinnik - Capablanca, Amsterdam 1938
Averbakh - Kotov, Zurich 1953
Byrne - Fischer, New York 1956
Tal vs Koblentz, Riga 1957
Korchnoi - Udovcic, Leningrad 1967
Botvinnik - Portisch, Monaco 1968
Spassky - Fischer, Reykjavik 1972
Bagirov - Gufeld, Kirovabad 1973
Karpov - Unzicker, Nice 1974
Short - Timman, Tilburg 1991
Cifuentes - Zvjagintsev, Wijk aan Zee 1995
Polgar - Bacrot, Bastia 1999
Kasparov - Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999
Aronian - Anand, Linares 2007


Poll: How long have you been playing chess?

over 15 years (72)
 
36%

1-5 years (44)
 
22%

10-15 years (41)
 
21%

5-10 years (24)
 
12%

Never (19)
 
10%

200 total votes

Your vote: How long have you been playing chess?

(Vote): over 15 years
(Vote): 10-15 years
(Vote): 5-10 years
(Vote): 1-5 years
(Vote): Never



Poll: 1. d4 or 1. e4?

1. e4 - "Best by test." (91)
 
48%

1. d4 - "Positional style." (64)
 
34%

other - "Confuse 'em." (36)
 
19%

191 total votes

Your vote: 1. d4 or 1. e4?

(Vote): 1. e4 - "Best by test."
(Vote): 1. d4 - "Positional style."
(Vote): other - "Confuse 'em."



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Esoterikk
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada1256 Posts
August 11 2013 14:21 GMT
#2
Wow I was literally just coming to TL to look for a chess thread as I was thinking about starting to play it. Weird. Thread looks good, hope to see good things come from it.
MotherOfRunes
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany2861 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-11 15:38:35
August 11 2013 15:37 GMT
#3
weird there was no threead already, but even if so this very very well written thread deserves to stay ! the only strategy game that goes toe to toe with broodwar :D

edit: VERY VERY VERY AWESOMELY WRITTEN

will check out some of the "epic games" for sure
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Zinbiel
Profile Joined October 2008
Sweden878 Posts
August 11 2013 16:10 GMT
#4
Fantastic post! Maybe we can use this thread for some discussion around the world championship coming up in november?
Backho fan since 080416. Favourite terran: Mind. Favourite Zerg: Jaedong.
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
August 11 2013 16:31 GMT
#5
Great thread, lots of good information. The only thing lacking is a section specifically for getting into chess, or improving your game knowledge from beginner to advanced. I recommend adding a note of the following:

On April 17 2011 16:10 Aylear wrote:
Download Buy Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition and do the Josh Waitzkin tutorials. It takes you from "This is a pawn" through "Find the best move on this complicated board", and ends with highly detailed annotated games played by professional chess masters and grandmasters where you are occasionally instructed to find intelligent moves based on what Waitzkin is telling you. Lastly, there's about 12 games of Waitzkin showcased, where he delves deep into his strategical thinking, making you understand his thought process behind his moves. Highly recommended to anyone.

There's also a section where Larry Christiansen discusses attacking chess, and shows off some inspirational games from the world's greatest attacking players while narrating.

If you can't find Grandmaster Edition, the previous version (Chessmaster 10th Edition) works just as well if I recall correctly.


It really is a great resource. It's interactive and enjoyable, presented on a high quality virtual board with the pieces moving naturally as the narration explains what's going on. Being on a computer and learning chess is very easy these days.
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HystericaLaughter
Profile Joined September 2011
Australia720 Posts
August 11 2013 17:18 GMT
#6
Nice thread, but you should include a section on great chess books as well! A couple that spring to mind are 'Logical Chess Move-By-Move (every move explained)' by Irving Chernev, and 'My 60 Memorable Games' by Bobby Fischer.

Also, e4. Best by test, is the only answer to your poll. Anything else is blasphemy.
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calgar
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States1277 Posts
August 11 2013 17:54 GMT
#7
An interesting tournament that started today: a FIDE 128 player knockout tournament that runs August 11 to September 13. There is live commentary, games, results, and more available from the official website. I'll predict Karjakin wins but in this kind of KO tourney with this many players it's very difficult to predict.

Relevant links:
http://www.chessworldcup2013.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2013
Rybka
Profile Joined March 2010
United States836 Posts
August 12 2013 04:29 GMT
#8
Nice job OP!

You might want to add http://www.chessclub.com/ to the list of links. A ton of great resources to learn, players of all skill levels, and most FMs and above have an account there and play regularly.

Cheers!

"I like winter, you can put a beer outside of the window and come back later to have it nice and cold. But in Belgium, it'd better be the 3rd floor window." -Rowa
wingpawn
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Poland1342 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-07 19:03:06
August 13 2013 16:13 GMT
#9
News

Quick update on most interesting games in World Cup Round 1 tiebreakers:

GM Svidler > GM Ushenina; GM Kamsky = IM Yiping Lou; GM Adams > IM Yunguo Wan; GM Shirov > GM Hou Yifan; GM Negi = GM Kryvoruchko; GM Radjabov = GM Cori; GM Hammer > GM Movsesian.
GolemMadness
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada11044 Posts
August 15 2013 10:52 GMT
#10
Do people actually use Fritz instead of Chessbase these days? I'm still using Chessbase 7.
http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=FLABREZU
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
August 16 2013 22:28 GMT
#11
Curious, what are people's favorite openings? One of mine is The Queen's Gambit.
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
Chocolate
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2350 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-16 23:02:23
August 16 2013 22:35 GMT
#12
Queen's gambit and English 5eva. e4 is just waaay too boring. I almost never play it.

Also, can we get some games on chess.com going, anybody? I'm down for anything between g5 and g30

Edit: When I used to play when I was 12 I was rated about 1200 USCF. Now I'm almost 17 and still remember most of what I learned so I'd estimate myself to be around 1300-1400 level, so if you don't want to play with a scrub then you can just ignore me. I'm willing to play with any novices, though.
GolemMadness
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada11044 Posts
August 16 2013 22:55 GMT
#13
CLOSED SICILIAN.
http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=FLABREZU
Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6924 Posts
August 16 2013 23:00 GMT
#14
this thread is great.
thanks
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3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
August 17 2013 17:17 GMT
#15
On August 17 2013 07:35 Chocolate wrote:
Queen's gambit and English 5eva. e4 is just waaay too boring. I almost never play it.

Also, can we get some games on chess.com going, anybody? I'm down for anything between g5 and g30

Edit: When I used to play when I was 12 I was rated about 1200 USCF. Now I'm almost 17 and still remember most of what I learned so I'd estimate myself to be around 1300-1400 level, so if you don't want to play with a scrub then you can just ignore me. I'm willing to play with any novices, though.

I would like to play. I'm a poor guy that just broke 900
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
Chocolate
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2350 Posts
August 17 2013 20:28 GMT
#16
Ok, my username is theycallmecrusty.
Jockmcplop
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom8589 Posts
August 17 2013 22:13 GMT
#17
On August 17 2013 07:28 3FFA wrote:
Curious, what are people's favorite openings? One of mine is The Queen's Gambit.


My favorite all time opening is the modern defense as black. Nice fianchetto opening with nice counter attack potential...
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wingpawn
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Poland1342 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-18 19:27:57
August 18 2013 19:04 GMT
#18
Total madness now in Tromso; Alexander Grischuk and Le Quang Liem just started 6th hour of play! The Russian is 2 pawns up in a Rook endgame, but his f-pawns are doubled and Black King sits in front of them. Funny thing is that Grischuk needs to win at all cost, so he will press like forever, hoping for his enemy to blunder something. Currently, it's move 121 and counting!

EDIT: Grischuk finally wins in 154 moves, after 6 hours and 23 minutes.
wingpawn
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Poland1342 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-07 18:56:14
September 11 2013 12:48 GMT
#19
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September 11 2013 12:54 GMT
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Does anyone know what the best place to find chess puzzles? Preferably for free.
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