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Chess Openings

Chess Openings PDF generated using the open source mwlib toolkit. See http://code.pediapress.com/ for more information. PDF generated at: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:50:30 UTC Contents Articles Overview 1 Chess opening 1 e4 Openings 25 King's Pawn Game 25 Open Game 29 Semi-Open Game 32 e4 Openings – King's Knight Openings 36 King's Knight Opening 36 Ruy Lopez 38 Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation 57 Italian Game 60 Hungarian Defense 63 Two Knights Defense 65 Fried Liver Attack 71 Giuoco Piano 73 Evans Gambit 78 Italian Gambit 82 Irish Gambit 83 Jerome Gambit 85 Blackburne Shilling Gambit 88 Scotch Game 90 Ponziani Opening 96 Inverted Hungarian Opening 102 Konstantinopolsky Opening 104 Three Knights Opening 105 Four Knights Game 107 Halloween Gambit 111 Philidor Defence 115 Elephant Gambit 119 Damiano Defence 122 Greco Defence 125 Gunderam Defense 127 Latvian Gambit 129 Rousseau Gambit 133 Petrov's Defence 136 e4 Openings – Sicilian Defence 140 Sicilian Defence 140 Sicilian Defence, Alapin Variation 159 Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation 163 Sicilian Defence, Accelerated Dragon 169 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav attack, 9.Bc4 172 Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation 175 Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation 181 Chekhover Sicilian 185 Wing Gambit 187 Smith-Morra Gambit 189 e4 Openings – Other variations 192 Bishop's Opening 192 Portuguese Opening 198 King's Gambit 200 Fischer Defense 206 Falkbeer Countergambit 208 Rice Gambit 210 Center Game 212 Danish Gambit 214 Lopez Opening 218 Napoleon Opening 219 Parham Attack 221 Vienna Game 224 Frankenstein-Dracula Variation 228 Alapin's Opening 231 French Defence 232 Caro-Kann Defence 245 Pirc Defence 256 Pirc Defence, Austrian Attack 261 Balogh Defense 263 Scandinavian Defense 265 Nimzowitsch Defence 269 Alekhine's Defence 271 Modern Defense 279 Monkey's Bum 282 Owen's Defence 285 St.
The 5Th Belgrade Chess Problems Festival Report by Milan Velimirović the Fifth Successive Festival Took Place from 2Nd to 4Th of May 2008

Mat Plus Review Summer 2008 The 5th Belgrade Chess Problems Festival Report by Milan Velimirović The fifth successive Festival took place from 2nd to 4th of May 2008. As usual a good number of guests from abroad were welcomed: Dinu-Ioan Nicula (ROM), Aleksander Leontyev (RUS), Andrey Selivanov (RUS), Eric Huber (ROM), Fadil Abdurahmanović (BIH), Iļja Ketris (LAT), Ivan Denkovski (MAK), Kostas Prentos (GRE), Michal Dragoun (CZE), Piotr Murdzia (POL), Valery Kopyl with his lovely daughter Valeria (UKR) and Živko Janevski (MAK). You may have noticed the exception from the alphabetical order of that list, but there is a good reason for it: Dinu-Ioan Nicula is the only foreign composer who has attended all five Festivals, and if he comes again next year the organizers could consider the idea of promoting him into an honorary participant. Anyway, all guests have been treated by the home team in a traditionally warm and friendly way. For the record, the participants from Serbia were: Bogoljub Trifunović, Borislav Gađanski, Borislav Ilinčić, Božidar Brujić, Božidar Šoškić, Branislav Đurašević, Darko Šaljić, Dragoljub Đokić, Goran Janković, Goran M. Todorović, Goran Škare, Igor Spirić, Joza Tucakov, Marjan Kovačević, Mihajlo Milanović, Milan Velimirović, Miodrag Radomirović, Mirko Miljanić, Nikola Miljaković, Nikola Petković, Petar Opening speech: Milan Milićević, president Šoškić, Radomir Mićunović, Slobodan of Chess club “Beograd Beopublikum”, Šaletić, Stevan B. Bokan, Tomislav Petrović, accompanied by Marjan Kovačević Vladimir Podinić and Zoran Sibinović. The programme was very busy and here is a brief report of all the events. Friday, May 2nd, 16:00. All participants were allowed to take part in a Machine Gun Solving event.
Synthetic Games

S\TII}IETIC GAh.fES Synthetic Garnes Play a shortest possible game leading tCI ... G. P. Jelliss September 1998 page I S1NTHETIC GAI\{ES CONTENTS Auto-Surrender Chess BCM: British Chess Magazine, Oppo-Cance llati on Che s s CA'. ()hess Amafeur, EP: En Part 1: Introduction . .. .7 5.3 Miscellaneous. .22 Passant, PFCS'; Problemist Fairy 1.1 History.".2 Auto-Coexi s tence Ches s Chess Supplement, UT: Ultimate 1.2 Theon'...3 D3tnamo Chess Thernes, CDL' C. D" I,ocock, GPJ: Gravitational Chess G. P. Jelliss, JA: J. Akenhead. Part 2: 0rthodox Chess . ...5 Madrssi Chess TGP: T. G. Pollard, TRD: 2. I Checknrates.. .5 Series Auto-Tag Chess T. R. Dar,vson. 2.2 Stalernates... S 2.3 Problem Finales. I PART 1 I.I HISTOR,Y 2.4 Multiple Pawns... l0 INTRODUCTIOT{ Much of my information on the 2.,5 Kings and Pawns".. l1 A'synthetic game' is a sequence early history comes from articles 2.6 Other Pattern Play...13 of moves in chess, or in any form by T. R. Dar,vson cited below, of variant chess, or indesd in any Chess Amsteur l9l4 especially. Part 3. Variant Play . ...14 other garne: which simulates the 3.1 Exact Play... 14 moves of a possible, though Fool's Mste 3 .2 Imitative Direct. l 5 usually improbable, actual game? A primitive example of a 3.3 Imitative Oblique.. " l6 and is constructed to show certain synthetic game in orthodox chess 3.4 Maximumming...lT specified events rvith fewest moves. is the 'fool's mate': l.f3l4 e6l5 3.5 Seriesplay ...17 The following notes on history 2.g4 Qh4 mate.
Raetsky, Alexander & Chetverik, Maxim

A. Raetsky,M. Chetverik NO PASSION FOR CHESS FASHION Fierce Openings For Your New Repertoire © 2011 A. Raetsky, M. Chetverik English Translation© 2011 Mongoose Press All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any fo rm by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system, without written permissionfr om the Publisher. Publisher: Mongoose Press 1005 Boylston Street, Suite 324 Newton Highlands, MA 02461 [email protected] www.MongoosePress.com ISBN 978-1 -936277-26-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2011925050 Distributed to the trade by National Book Network [email protected], 800-462-6420 For all other sales inquiries please contact the publisher. Translated by: Sarah Hurst Layout: Andrey Elkov Editor Sean Marsh Cover Design: Kaloyan N achev Printed in China First English edition 0987654321 CONTENTS From the authors ....... ......................................................................................... 4 1. A. Raetsky. THE KING'S GAMBIT .... ........................................................... 5 The variation 2 ...ef 3.ll:lf3d6 4.d4 g5 5.h4 g4 6.lllg1 f5 2. A. Raetsky. PETROV'S DEFENSE ............................................................... 15 The variation 3.d4 lllxe4 4.de �c5 3. M. Chetverik. THE RUY LOPEZ .................................................................. 24 The Alapin Defense 3 .. J[b4 4. A. Raetsky. THE SCANDINAVIAN DEFENSE ............................................. 44 The variation 2 ...lll f6 3.d4ll:lxd5 4.c4 Ci:lb4 5. M. Chetverik. ALEKHINE'S DEFENSE ...................................................... 57 The Cambridge Gambit 2.e5 Ci:ld5 3.d4 d6 4.c4ll:lb6 5.f4 g5 6. A. Raetsky. THE FRENCH DEFENSE ......................................................... 65 The variation 3.e5 c5 4.'i¥g4 7. M. Chetverik. THE St. GEORGE DEFENSE ..............................................
Capablanca and Res Hevsky

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Glossary of Chess

Glossary of chess See also: Glossary of chess problems, Index of chess • X articles and Outline of chess • This page explains commonly used terms in chess in al- • Z phabetical order. Some of these have their own pages, • References like fork and pin. For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of chess-related games, see Chess variants. 1 A Contents : absolute pin A pin against the king is called absolute since the pinned piece cannot legally move (as mov- ing it would expose the king to check). Cf. relative • A pin. • B active 1. Describes a piece that controls a number of • C squares, or a piece that has a number of squares available for its next move. • D 2. An “active defense” is a defense employing threat(s) • E or counterattack(s). Antonym: passive. • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P Envelope used for the adjournment of a match game Efim Geller • Q vs. Bent Larsen, Copenhagen 1966 • R adjournment Suspension of a chess game with the in- • S tention to finish it later. It was once very common in high-level competition, often occurring soon af- • T ter the first time control, but the practice has been • U abandoned due to the advent of computer analysis. See sealed move. • V adjudication Decision by a strong chess player (the ad- • W judicator) on the outcome of an unfinished game. 1 2 2 B This practice is now uncommon in over-the-board are often pawn moves; since pawns cannot move events, but does happen in online chess when one backwards to return to squares they have left, their player refuses to continue after an adjournment.
The Puzzling Side of Chess

TTHHEE PPUUZZZZLLIINNGG SSIIDDEE OOFF CCHHEESSSS Jeff Coakley SMORGASBORD V: December Sweets number 76 December 12, 2014 This week our dessert menu features a selection of six puzzles with a variety of flavours. Try one, or try them all. We hope you find something to your taste. Triple Loyd 40 w________w áwdwdwdwd] àdwdwdwdw] ßwdwdRdwd] ÞdwdwdKdw] Ýwdwdwdwd] ÜdwdwHwGw] Ûwdwdwdwd] ÚdwdwdwdQ] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw Place the black king on the board so that: A. Black is in checkmate. B. Black is in stalemate. C. White has a mate in 1. The types of problems presented in this column have appeared before on The Puzzling Side of Chess. If you are unfamiliar with them, examples with more detailed explanations are available in the archives. The holiday season means lots of travelling from point A to point B. And sometimes a late trip home. Take care. Take a cab. Passing Bishops 02 w________wposition A áwgwgwgwg] àdwdwdwdw] ßwdwdwdwd] Þdwdwdwdw] Ýwdwdwdwd] Üdwdwdwdw] Ûwdwdwdwd] ÚGwGwGwGw] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw w________wposition B áwGwGwGwG] àdwdwdwdw] ßwdwdwdwd] Þdwdwdwdw] Ýwdwdwdwd] Üdwdwdwdw] Ûwdwdwdwd] Úgwgwgwgw] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw Get from A to B in 15 moves. (eight white, seven black) The two sides alternate moves in the usual way. Position B should be reached after White’s eighth turn. The next problem, a miniature helpmate by Italian FM Andrea Malfagia, is from the 2014 Chess Cafe Puzzlers Cup. (See column 75.) It didn’t win a prize, but it was my personal favourite. Helpmate 12 w________w áwdNdwdwd] àdwiwdPdw] ßwdwdwdwd] ÞdwdwdKdw] ÝwdPdw)wd] Üdwdwdwdw] Ûwdwdwdwd] Údwdwdwdw] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw Helpmate in 2 Black moves first and helps White checkmate the black king on White’s second move.
How We Teach Chess

How We Teach Chess Aishwarya Srikanthan www.saswathacademy.com | +91 9112 9112 36 Chess enables you to Adjust and adapt Learn from mistakes Analyze Learn from opponent Be brave Learn the patterns Be calm Lose with dignity Be confident Make good choice Be creative Manage a team Be disciplined Manage time Be flexible Never give up Be logical Not get greedy Be Patient Not ignore problems Be prepared Play by rules Calculate future Prioritize Compare options Sacrifice Compete See the big picture Contemplate See the threats and opportunities Enjoy Simplicity Evaluate past Take initiative Expect the outcome Take responsibility Fight Take tough decision Focus Think Form a community Think Positive Have a plan Try again and again Have Commitment Use your strength Improve memory Win with grace Know your enemy Work hard 04 | HOW WE TEACH CHESS WWW.SASWATHACADEMY.COM Table of Contents 04 Foreword 05 How We Teach Chess 06 How Children Learn Chess With Us 08 Interesting facts about chess 09 Our Coaches are teachers first, Players next 10 Tournaments: Preparing children for any outcome 11 For kids: Common issues in learning Chess 12 Fun moments in Chess 15 100 Chess topics for classroom discussion 16 Meet the author Foreword T he New England Journal of Medicine found that brain-stretching activities like Chess reduce the risk of developing dementia, there is the study by Robert Ferguson of 4000 Venezuelan students that playing Chess significantly improved IQ scores, another German study in which researchers showed playing Chess exercises both sides of the brain. These are few of the many studies that prove the positive effects of Chess.
WCCC 2017: the 23Rd World Computer Chess Championship

WCCC 2017: the 23rd world computer chess championship Article Accepted Version Krabbenbos, J., van den Herik, J. and Haworth, G. (2018) WCCC 2017: the 23rd world computer chess championship. ICGA Journal, 39 (3-4). pp. 210-221. ISSN 1389-6911 Available at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/70937/ It is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from the work. See Guidance on citing . Publisher: The International Computer Games Association All outputs in CentAUR are protected by Intellectual Property Rights law, including copyright law. Copyright and IPR is retained by the creators or other copyright holders. Terms and conditions for use of this material are defined in the End User Agreement . www.reading.ac.uk/centaur CentAUR Central Archive at the University of Reading Reading’s research outputs online WCCC 2017: The 23rd World Computer Chess Championship Jan Krabbenbos, Jaap van den Herik and Guy Haworth1 Amersfoort, The Netherlands, Leiden, The Netherlands and Reading UK The 23rd World Computer Chess Championship started on July 3rd, 2017. Four programs as in Table 1 (CPW, 2017) participated in a triple round robin tournament of nine rounds. The tournament took place at Leiden University and was organized by the ICGA, LIACS and LCDS. It was sponsored by Oracle, the municipality of Leiden, Leiden University, its Faculty of Science, the ICGA, iSSC, SurfSara and Digital Game Technology. It was held in conjunction with the 7th World Computer Software Championship, the 20th Computer Olympiad and the 15th Advances in Computer Games conference. The classical tempo of 1h45+15/move for both sides was the one adopted.
Techniques of Positional Play

Valeri Bronznik & Anatoli Terekhin Techniques of Positional Play 45 Practical Methods to Gain the Upper Hand in Chess New in Chess 2013 Contents Symbols ........................................................................................................ 6 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 7 Chapter I Restricting the enemy pieces ......................................................... 9 Chapter II Create breathing space for your pieces!....................................... 50 Chapter III The clash between pawn formations........................................... 66 Chapter IV The rook pawn – an underrated fighter ...................................... 82 Chapter V Techniques in the fight for an open file .................................... 106 Chapter VI Some aspects of piece exchanges................................................ 125 Chapter VII Working with the king............................................................... 142 Chapter VIII Developing and activating pieces............................................... 170 Chapter IX Along the diagonals.................................................................... 196 Chapter X Other methods ........................................................................... 220 Chapter XI Practical exercises ...................................................................... 226 Solutions to the exercises............................................................. 233 Index of players
VARIANT CHESS 8 Page 97

July-December 1992 VARIANT CHESS 8 page 97 @ Copyright. 1992. rssN 0958-8248 Publisher and Editor G. P. Jelliss 99 Bohemia Road Variant Chess St Leonards on Sea TN37 6RJ (rJ.K.) In this issue: Hexagonal Chess, Modern Courier Chess, Escalation, Games Consultant Solutions, Semi-Pieces, Variants Duy, Indexes, New Editor/Publisher. Malcolm Horne Volume 1 complete (issues 1-8, II2 pages, A4 size, unbound): f10. 10B Windsor Square Exmouth EX8 1JU New Varieties of Hexagonal Chess find that we need 8 pawns on the second rank plus by G. P. Jelliss 5 on the third rank. I prefer to add 2 more so that there are 5 pawns on each colour, and the rooks are Various schemes have been proposed for playing more securely blocked in. There is then one pawn in chess on boards on which the cells are hexagons each file except the edge files. A nm being a line of instead of squares. A brief account can be found in cells perpendicular to the base-line. The Oxford Companion to Chess 1984 where games Now how should the pawns move? If they are to by Siegmund Wellisch I9L2, H.D.Baskerville L929, continue to block the files we must allow them only Wladyslaw Glinski L949 and Anthony Patton L975 to move directly forward. This is a fers move. For are mentioned. To these should be added the variety their capture moves we have choices: the other two by H. E. de Vasa described in Joseph Boyer's forward fers moves, or the two forward wazit NouveoLx, Jeux d'Ecltecs Non Orthodoxes 1954 moves, or both.
13 Supplement Awards.Fm

No. 173 – Vol. XIV – July 2008 Supplement Awards Kozatska Shakhivnitsa 2005 . 194 Moscow Town 2006 . 195 C.M. Bent MT (2007) . 199 Iuri Akobia 70 JT 2007 . 203 Olimpiya Dunyasi 2006. 215 Hero Towns Match no. 5 (2005) . 220 Československy šach 2005-2006. 222 König & Turm 2005 . 230 Meleghegyi MT (2005) . 231 Šachova Skladba 2005-2006 . 235 Kozatska Shakhivnitsa 2005 Provisional/definitive published: Kozatska Shakhivnitsa 4-5(26-27) 2006. Judge: Vitaly Shevchenko (Zaporozhe, Ukraine). Type: informal international. Theme: none. Confirmation: no mention. Report: 4 studies by 4 composers, from Italy and Ukraine. No 16460 P. Rossi & M. Campioli No 16461 Franco Bertoli (Italy). 1.Sg3+ Kh2 XIIIIIIIIYprize 2.Se2+ Kh1 3.Sg3+ Kg1 4.Ke2 a2 5.Be5 Kh2 9k+-sN-+-+0 6.Se4+ Kh3 7.Sf2+ Kh4 8.Bf6+ Kg3 9.Be5+ Kh4 10.Bf6+ Kxh5 11.Sh3 Kg4 12.Sg1 b3 9+-zP-+-+-0 13.Kxd2 a3 14.Kc1 draws. 9-+P+-+-+0 HH: 5…b3 cooks, e.g. 6.h6 a1Q 7.Bxa1 Kh2 9+-+-+-+L0 8.Bd4 b2 9.h7 d1Q+ 10.Kxd1 b1Q+. 9-+-mK-+-+0 No 16462 F. Kapustin 9+-+-+-+-0 commendation 9-+-+pzp-+0 XIIIIIIIIYdedicated to V. Shevchenko 9sn-+-+-+l0 9-+-+-+-+0 d4a8 0044.22 5/5 Win BTM 9+-+p+-+p0 No 16460 Pietro Rossi & Marco Campioli 9-+-+-+-+0 (Italy). 1...Sb3+ 2.Kd3 Be4+ 3.Kxe2 Bf5 9+-+-+-+-0 4.Be8 Sd4+ 5.Kxf2 Sxc6 6.Sxc6 Kb7 7.Sd4 9-+-+-+-+0 Bd3 8.Bb5/i Bg6 9.Se6 wins. 9zP-+-+-+-0 i) “The triumph of domination!” 9P+K+-+-+0 No 16461 F.