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Wednesday, March 3. 2010

Chess Humor My Bundesliga

I must have a well refined sense of humor because I derived a twisted kind of pleasure from the following headline:

"Werder Bremen catches Baden-Baden in the Bundesliga"

Posted by ColonelCrockett in My Adventures at 10:59 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: chess

, chessbase

, funny

, humor

, old man

Saturday, February 27. 2010

Alekhine's Defense

Get ready to play in a chess tournament this weekend.

Here's a little video to help you get your engine started. (-or to just learn a little more about the game.)

I've found this to be easy to play from Black, especially against weaker players. As White, I used to be tempted to advance all 4 pawns but I usually did badly. This is, of course, the whole point of the Alekhine Defense: to tempt W to advance his pawns so that you can break up his center.

Book lines lead to obscure positions. While the obvious move 1. ... Nf6 was played for a century before, it is named "Alekhine" because of his great success with this move Budapest in 1921.

Play that Game!

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Posted by jlemoine in My Adventures at 07:09 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Monday, February 15. 2010

Peter Lalic Youtube Chess

From: Peter Lalic

"Hi!
I like your blog, and noticed that it has the intention to teach improving players.
Therefore, I am just wondering if you would be so kind to post a link to these chess videos:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4CF48F864CFA7853
Hopefully they are instructive. The latest games are presented with notation as well. Please take this as an example for consideration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIRBdyk3Obc
Thank you very much.
Peter"

I love to get these kind of e-mails. From my inbox directly to my friends that read the blog: PRESTO!

Posted by ColonelCrockett in My Adventures at 10:56 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: chess

, Peter Lalic

, videos

, youtube

Thursday, February 11. 2010

Chess Attack Press Release

"I am proud to be a part owner of Yes Games AS and an ambassador to Chess Attack. I was excited to find out about the new game "Chess Attack", which in my opinion is perfect for both grown ups and kids and greatly adapted to modern times. Chess Attack offers portability, innovation and shorter playing times, while retaining all the values of chess, such as the same pieces being used, and same playing rules. Chess Attack stimulates thought, is easy to learn, so even kids can start playing it minutes after they take it out of the box". - Alexandra Kosteniuk

See the Full Press Release Here.

Posted by ColonelCrockett in My Adventures at 10:39 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: alexandra kosteniuk

, chess

, chess attack

, press release

Wednesday, February 10. 2010

Betsy Dynako Blogs on Nakamura

For those of you who still don't know Betsy Dynako is a brilliant photographer. She has covered chess events for several years and in a recent blog entry she explains her Chess Life cover photo of U.S. Champion Hikaru Nakamura.

"I felt like I might as well have said, “Pick your nose, it will look great. Trust Me.” Luckily Nakamura indeed trusted me and settled into the shot. I like this shot more than any of the others I posed of him that night. I feel like I bonded with my subject in that moment, and I was able to capture a winner’s smile that conveyed the relief of knowing the relentless hard work was over and well worth it."

Posted by ColonelCrockett in My Adventures at 12:42 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: betsy dynako