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Modern Day Magic! Editorial First We Were X-Gen, X-Men and X-Boxes and Wasn’T If You Want Chess Coaching, but Don’T X Just SO Cool ® Chess Kids Pty. Ltd. ABN 43 118 087 871 Volume 7 Issue 2 Editor: David Cordover Term 2, 2007 Is it magic? Can a clockwork wooden toy play chess? Read more about “The Turk” (page 6) Modern Day Magic! Editorial First we were x-Gen, x-Men and x-Boxes and wasn’t If you want chess coaching, but don’t x just SO cool. Then everything was e-Mail and e- have access to a coach, the magic of Bay and e was just the greatest. Now we are onto i with iPods, iMac and even iGoogle. Chess Kids has modern technology brings you iChess. jumped on the band-wagon with iChess! One won- www.ichess.com.au ders, what letter will start the next trend? -David Cordover Inside This Issue Slaying the Dragon Page 2 Holiday in Fiji Page 3 Who Am I? Page 3 Samuel Reshevsky Page 4 Puzzle Page Page 5 The Mechanical Turk Page 6 Calendar for 2007 Page 7 Winter Chess Specials Page 8 Page 2 1300 424 377 www.chesskids.com.au Chess Kids® Slaying the Dragon By Robert Harle In 1972 American chess player 15.g4 Nf6 White has sacrificed a Knight into the attack. All of his Bobby Fischer defeated Boris pawn to open up the h file which pieces are working at maximum ef- Spassky to become the World Chess leads to Black's King. 16.Nde2 Qa5 ficiency and Black's position quickly Champion. Two years later the Rus- 17.Bh6 Bxh6 18.Qxh6 The ex- crumbles. 23...Bc6 sian players Anatoly Karpov and Vik- change of bishops (extinguishing the 5,-./01236 tor Korchnoi fought it out to decide Dragon’s fire) weakens the squares who would challenge Fischer for the around the Black King. 18...Rfc8 8-+-+r+k+( World Title in 1975. Here is the 5,-./01236 7zpp+-zpp+p' critical second game from this closely fought match: 8-+r+-+k+( 6-+lzp-snpwQ& 7zpp+lzpp+p' $màPOyOPOPL Karpov - Korchnoi Candidates Final, Moscow, 1974 %POPzp-snpwQ& #POPOwsyPON 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 $màPOPOPOPL "OPOPOwOPM 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 Note Black's pawn structure d6-e7-f7-g6-h7 #POÅOwOwON !wpwwOPOPOI which resembles a dragon. The g7- "OPsyPOwOPM ÖOPi~POPOxJ bishop breaths fire across the board and the Dragon’s tail (pawns on a7 !wpwwOyOPOI xabcdefghy and b7) usually whips down the ÖOPi~xOPOxJ 24.e5! Bxd5 If 24...dxe5 25.Nxf6+ queen-side of the board. 6.Be3 Bg7 exf6 26.Nh5 gxh5 27.Rg1+ Kh8 A painful trap would be 6.... Ng4 xabcdefghy 28.Qg7# 25.exf6 exf6 26.Qxh7+ 7.Bb5+ Bd7 8.Qxg4 winning the Korchnoi is looking for the right mo- Kf8 27.Qh8+ and Black resigns . Black Knight. 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0–0 ment to exchange a Black Rook for 5,-./01236 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.h4 With Korchnoi the White Knight on c3, opening up already castled on the King side lines to the White King. 19.Rd3! 8-+-+rmk-wQ( Karpov plans to castle on the Queen Before continuing with the attack 7zpp+-+p+-' side. When both Kings are castled on the King side, Karpov overpro- %POPzp-zpp+& on opposite sides of the board a key tects his weak Knight on c3. strategy is to use a Pawn Storm to 19...R4c5 5wq-+l+-+-% attack your opponent's King. Karpov 5,-./01236 #POPOPsyPON wastes no time in getting the attack underway. 10...Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 8-+r+-+k+( "OPOPOwOPM 12.0–0–0 Nc4 13.Bxc4 Rxc4 7zpp+lzpp+p' !wpwwOPOPOI 5,-./01236 %POPzp-snpwQ& ÖOPi~POPOxJ 'POPwq-trk+( 5wq-tr-+-+-% xabcdefghy 7zpp+lzppvlp' #POPOwOwON Although two pawns down, White's attack is overwhelming eg. 27...Ke7 %POPzp-snp+& "OPsyxOwOPM 28.Nxd5+ Qxd5 29.Re1+ Kd7 $OPOPOPOPL !wpwwOyOPOI 30.Qxe8+ is clearly winning. 1–0 4-+rsywOPpwN ÖOPi~POPOxJ "OPsyPtzwOPM xabcdefghy 2PzPPm{POwOI 20.g5 Rxg5 Karpov has sacrificed a second pawn to give his attack mo- ÖOPi~xOPOxJ mentum and open up lines to the xabcdefghy Black King 21.Rd5! Rxd5 if Korchnoi's strategy is to control the 21...Nxd5 22.Qxh7+ Kf8 23.Qh8# dark squares through the Black 22.Nxd5 Now the White Knight (fire-breathing) Bishop on g7 and dominates the board and Korchnoi the pawn on d6 and build pressure is forced to protect against the on the c file by doubling Rooks as threat of 23.Nxe7+ 22...Re8 soon as possible. 14.h5! Nxh5 23.Nef4 White brings his second Chess Kids® www.chesskids.com.au 1300 424 377 Page 3 Holiday in Fiji By Andrew Fitzpatrick To play in the World Chess Champi- while you can; you never know is not enough to checkmate some- onships you must qualify by winning when it will be your last chance! one with. 24. Qxd5+ Kh8 25. Rh3 a Zone Championships. The 2007 Qf2+ 26. Kb1 fxg2 27. Bxg2 Nf6 Nakauchi - Fitzpatrick Oceania Zonal was held at the 28. Qg5 Qxd4 29. Qe3 White initi- Sofitel Resort on Denarau Island, Fiji Zonal, 2007 ates a series of moves to try and Fiji. What better place to combine 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 This move en- exchange queens. Qd7 30. Rxc7 a holiday and some chess! ters the Chigorin Defense. The aim Qd1+ 31. Rc1 Qa4 32. Qb3 Qb5 of the opening is for black to gener- 33. Rc5 Qe2 34. Rc2 Qe1+ 35. Rc1 Never mind that I didn’t qualify for ate lots of piece activity around the Qf2 36. Qc2 Qd4 37. a3 h6 38. the World Championships this time, center of the board. 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. Qc3 Qg4 39. Rg3 Qf5+ 40. Ka2 $2 it was still a great experience. Nc3 e6 5. cxd5 exd5 6. e3 Bb4 (40. Ka1 $18) 40... Rbc8 Suddenly The resort was amazing and tourna- (6... Nf6) 7. Bd2 Bxc3 8. Bxc3 Nf6 whites 40.Ka2 comes back to haunt ment hall was set up to accommo- 9. Qb3 Bxf3 9... Rb8 10. Ne5 Nxe5 them as black gets serious chances date the 44 players in luxury. The 11. dxe5 Ne4 10. Qxb7 O-O 11. after this move! The main threat is tournament had players from Aus- Qxc6 Be4 12. Ba5 Black's pawns a Qf2 check which will win mate- tralia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua are dropping very quickly - the only rial. 41. Bc6 Rxc6 42. Qxc6 Qf2+ New Guinea competing in Open and thing black has to his advantage is 43. Rc2 Qxg3 44. Qc5 Re8 45. Female divisions for the right to a safe king! Ne8 13. Rc1 Rb8 14. Qxa7 Qd3 46. Qc5 Or 46. Qc7 This represent Oceania at the World b4 Qg5 15. Qc5 f5 16. h4 Qh6 17. move threatens Qd8+ if the Re8 is Championship in Siberia (a bit of a Rh3 f4 18. f3 Bf5 19. Rh1 If 19. moved. Re2 46... Re3 47. b5 Qb3+ climate change if you win). Qxd5+ Be6 20. Qxe6+ Qxe6 21. Bc4 48. Ka1 Nd7 Black attempts to dis- Qxc4 22. Rxc4 fxe3 This position is lodge the queen from defence of The outstanding performances were winning for white as black's attack- the a3 pawn. 48... Qxa3+ 49. Qxa3 both Australian 12 year olds! Gene ing pieces have all been swapped Rxa3+ 50. Ra2 Rb3 51. Rb2 Ra3+ Nakauchi (QLD) and Chess Kids Elite off and white is still a pawn (soon $11 49. Qc8+ Kh7 50. Bb4 Rg3 51. member James Morris (VIC) both two) ahead. 19... Qe6 20. e4 Bxe4 Qc6! This is the crucial move which were awarded the Fide Master (FM) 21. fxe4 Qxe4+ Black has decided black overlooked during the game. title for their performances. they have nothing left to lose so It defends the threat which was The eventual winner of the goes for the attack. Opponents can Rg1+ and Rg2 with mating threats. Women’s competition was IM Irina be at their most dangerous at these 51...Rd3 Black had looked and seen Berezina (NSW) and the Open com- times so beware! 22. Kd2 Qe3+ 23. the next move, but then forgot petition was IM Zhong Yuan Zhao Kc2 f3 The point of this move is to about it and chose to not defend (NSW). open up attacking lines for the with Nf6...Oops! 52. Qe4+ Black pieces black so badly needs in the resigns in face of 52...g6 53.Qe7+ It’s important to beat 12-year olds attack. Remember just one queen 1-0 Who Am I? Knight: What Am I? In 1975 my ELO rating was 2780. See how many clues you need be- A tactical manoeuvre in which a fore you can guess who I am. Pawn: piece is attacked and forced to I was the World Champion from move out of the way in order to 1972 to 1975 when I chose not to King: protect itself. I was born on 9th March 1943 and defend my title. Subsequently, this allows for a sec- first learned to play chess at age I am Robert … ond (and less valuable piece) to be six. captured. Queen: A knight can not perform this ma- I left school at sixteen to become a noeuvre. I am often referred to as chess professional. the opposite of a pin. Bishop: I was awarded the title Interna- tional Grandmaster in 1958. (The (Answers on Page 8) youngest, at the time, ever to win that title). By Duncan Standley Page 4 1300 424 377 www.chesskids.com.au Chess Kids® Chess Kids Coaching “Samuel Reshevsky” By Carl Gorka x Born in Poland, 1911 and started giving simultaneous challenges in Poland at the age of 6! x “By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position.
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