The Fianchetto Solution: a Complete, Solid and Flexible Chess Opening Repertoire for Black White - with the King's Fianchetto (New in Chess) Online
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NEW HAMPSHIRE CHESS JOURNAL Is a Publication of the New Hampshire Chess Association
New Hampshire Chess Journal December 2013 Volume 2013 No. 1 Return of the King: Sharif Khater Story, Page 2 Khater Returns as 2013 NH Amateur Champ Manchester--Sherif Khater recaptured the State Amateur crown, which he first held in 2010, by beating Arthur Tang in the final round of the 38th New Hampshire Amateur Championship, held at the Comfort Inn in Manchester on November 2. Only a second round draw with Brian Bambrough blemished Khater’s score. Four tied for second place: Gerald Potorski, Jefferey Ames, Clay Bradley, and Joshua Cote. John Jay Naylor won the Intermediate section with a perfect 4.0 score. Thomas Allen of Maine scored a perfect 4.0 for first place in the Novice section. Sixty-four players competed in the four round, one day event. Hal Terrie directed with the assistance of John Elmore. The crosstable can be viewed here. Bournival NH Open State Champ Manchester—Brad Bournival was named the 2013 NH State Champion at the 63rd New Hampshire Open. GM Alexander Ivanov and Jonathan Yedidia, both of Massachusetts, shared first place. Yedidia caught Ivanov in the final round by beating Brian Salomon while Ivanov drew with state champ Brad Bournival, leaving the leaders with 4.0 points each. Bournival took third place. John Pythyon, Sr. of Maine won the under 1950 section, while Paul Kolojeski Alexander Ivanov and Brian Salomon square off in Round 4. Ivanov won. 2 prevailed in the Under 1650 section. The Open drew 37 participants to the Manchester Comfort in on June 14-16. The tournament was directed by Hal Terrie with John Elmore assisting. -
Chess Rules Ages 10 & up • for 2 Players
Front (Head to Head) Prints Pantone 541 Blue Chess Rules Ages 10 & Up • For 2 Players Contents: Game Board, 16 ivory and 16 black Play Pieces Object: To threaten your opponent’s King so it cannot escape. Play Pieces: Set Up: Ivory Play Pieces: Black Play Pieces: Pawn Knight Bishop Rook Queen King Terms: Ranks are the rows of squares that run horizontally on the Game Board and Files are the columns that run vertically. Diagonals run diagonally. Position the Game Board so that the red square is at the bottom right corner for each player. Place the Ivory Play Pieces on the first rank from left to right in order: Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King, Bishop, Knight and Rook. Place all of the Pawns on the second rank. Then place the Black Play Pieces on the board as shown in the diagram. Note: the Ivory Queen will be on a red square and the black Queen will be on a black space. Play: Ivory always plays first. Players alternate turns. Only one Play Piece may be moved on a turn, except when castling (see description on back). All Play Pieces must move in a straight path, except for the Knight. Also, the Knight is the only Play Piece that is allowed to jump over another Play Piece. Play Piece Moves: A Pawn moves forward one square at a time. There are two exceptions to this rule: 1. On a Pawn’s first move, it can move forward one or two squares. 2. When capturing a piece (see description on back), a Pawn moves one square diagonally ahead. -
On Collecting Staunton Chessmen
CL_11-2008_stuanton_DL_r3:chess life 9/24/2008 4:54 PM Page 30 2C0o0ll8ecPtoinlgg ar On Collecting Staunton Chessmen A beginner’s guide to assembling a collection of the finest chess sets. By Frank Camaratta y chess set collecting obsession The Staunton chessmen were designed ficial” World Champion. had its start a few months after I and first manufactured in the United What is not known is the relationship M first learned the moves of the Kingdom by the firm of John Jaques. I between Jaques and Cook or between game. That was the summer before my obtained a copy of the design registration Cook and Staunton. We do know that 16th birthday. A few friends in my new for the Staunton chessmen from the Staunton wrote a daily chess article for neighborhood took the pains to explain patent office in London. The Staunton the Illustrated London News (ILN). It has the moves to me and I was addicted. All chessmen design was registered as num - been reported, but not verified, that Cook I could do was eat, drink and sleep chess. ber 58607 on March 1, 1849. The title of was affiliated with the ILN, possibly as a I was entering my junior year in high the registration was “Ornamental Design partner. It has also been reported, again school. I turned 16 in the fall of that year for a set of Chess-Men.” It was registered without verification, that Cook was John and, for my birthday, my mother gave by Nathaniel Cook, 198, Strand, London, Jaques’ son-in-law. -
4 the Fianchetto Variation
Contents Symbols 4 Bibliography 5 Introduction 6 1 The Reversed Sicilian: Introduction 7 2 The Reversed Dragon (Main Lines) 29 3 The Closed Variation 43 4 The Fianchetto Variation (King’s Indian Approach by Black) 58 5 The Three Knights 76 6 The Four Knights without 4 g3 92 7 The Four Knights with 4 g3 134 8 Systems with ...f5 167 9 Systems with 2...d6 or 2...Íb4 207 10 Early Deviations 237 Index of Variations 254 THE FIANCHETTO VARIATION 4 The Fianchetto Variation (King’s Indian Approach by Black) The lines covered in this chapter are become problematic if White is able to hugely popular among players who get his b-pawn rolling, as the contact employ the King’s Indian with the with Black’s pawns is instantaneous. black pieces. Black often hopes that White will ‘cooperate’ by playing d4 -+-+-+-+ and thereby enter the Fianchetto King’s +pz-+p+p Indian. If this is not to White’s taste, he can continue along the lines given -+-z-+p+ below. +P+-z-+- The lines are at times quite compli- -+P+-+-+ cated, but with careful study from ei- +-+P+-Z- ther side, both White and Black can play for the full point. -+-+PZ-Z +-+-+-+- Typical Pawn Structures -+-+-+-+ Here, we have already had an initial +p+-+p+p confrontation, which resulted in the a-pawns leaving the board. White has -+pz-+p+ a huge space advantage on the queen- z-+-z-+- side, while Black initially does not -+P+-+-+ have much on the kingside, but poten- +-+P+-Z- tially he can gain a similar advantage PZ-+PZ-Z by playing ...h6, ...g5, and ...f4. -