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| Posted by ssisyphus www6conf.org 4/24/2008 02:34:54 Play online chess |  Subject: Endgame BookMessage: Thanks in advance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by torre_tinorete www6conf.org 4/24/2008 04:04:42 Play online chess | Silman Endgame Book Message: Hope this helps | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by torre_tinorete www6conf.org 4/24/2008 04:07:31 Play online chess | Title Silman endgame book Message: ——— Anand's missed opportunity — The chess World Championship is on a knife-edge. But Anand could have made a mark in this game. Anand and Topalov go into the 12th game of their chess match today with scores level. If drawn, tie-break rapid games will be played on Thursday. Topalov's declaration before the match that he would neither offer nor accept a draw has clearly had a liberating effect on both players, resulting in one of the most entertaining world chess championship finals we have seen in years. All the games have been long and hard-fought, so it's hardly surprising that tiredness is affecting play. Anand missed several chances to win in game 9, Topalov had a promising endgame in game 10 but ... Posted by marinvukusic | www6conf.org 4/24/2008 07:35:30 Play online chess The only book I ever usedMessage: Great for a practical player. Books on endgames tend to be huge and not exactly practical, this one has everything that is needed. Silman's concept sounds good and if the book is really well written you can give it a go. ——— Playing for the World Title, Minus Any Fireworks — Before a world chess championship match, players spend months looking at their opponent’s games and studying opening systems, often with the aid of chess computers and databases. They also hire trainers, who are called seconds, to help. It is a time- and labor-intensive process. That is one of the reasons that fans look forward to the chess matches. They want to see what the players will do and what new ideas they have discovered, particularly in the openings. The current world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand of India, the titleholder, and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria has been as closely contested as predicted. But there have been no eye-opening innovations. Game ... Posted by lighttotheright | www6conf.org 4/24/2008 10:37:16 Play online chess Message: ——— With Another Draw, Chess Championship Match Remains Tied — Game 10 of the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand of India, the titleholder, and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, ended in a relatively uneventful draw on Friday. With only two games remaining in the best-of-12 series, the players are tied with 5 points apiece. If the match should remain tied after the last two games — which is a real possibility at the moment — it would go to a tie-breaker of four rapid games (each player starts with 25 minutes and has 10 seconds added to his time after each move). Such a tie-breaker was used in the 2006 world chess championship match between Topalov and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. After each player won a game, and one ended ... Posted by jstack | www6conf.org 4/24/2008 13:36:17 Play online chess Dvoretsky's bookMessage: ——— Title Match Remains Tied After Champion Misses Win — With the world chess championship match having entered a critical stage, Viswanathan Anand of India, the titleholder, switched openings in Game 9, hoping to recapture momentum and the lead that he relinquished with a loss in Game 8. He almost did. But, with victory in sight, Anand faltered and missed a couple of winning continuations, which allowed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the challenger, to salvage the game and keep the best-of-12 match tied. In each of the previous games he had White, Anand had steered the opening into the Catalan system, which is solid, but not too dynamic. In Game 9, he played 3 Nc3 instead of 3 Nf3 for the first time. That gave Topalov ... Posted by thaumaturgy | www6conf.org 4/24/2008 14:34:59 Play online chess Silamn's bookMessage: ——— The Best Woman in Chess Still Stands Alone at the Top — Judit Polgar is the only woman to ever be ranked in the world’s top 10, or even in the top 100. At age 34, her ranking has slipped to 51 (from No. 8 in 2005) as the responsibilities of being a wife and mother — she has two children, ages 3 and 5 — have left her little time to train and compete. Since 1991, when Polgar became the youngest chess grandmaster in history, more than a dozen women have also earned the title. Two of them, Humpy Koneru of India and Hou Yifan of China, became grandmasters when they were even younger than Polgar. But no other woman has been able to break into the chess elite. Koneru is 23, and Yifan is only 16, so it seems likely that ... Posted by longbow57 | www6conf.org 4/24/2008 14:41:08 Play online chess Basic Chess EndingsMessage: Posted by taufiq | www6conf.org 4/26/2008 01:28:09 Play online chess EndgameMessage: "Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations & Games", written by father Polgar.. -->  www.chesshouse.com Posted by wschmidt | www6conf.org 4/28/2008 13:00:13 Play online chess No, Message: Posted by taufiq | www6conf.org 4/29/2008 01:59:12 Play online chess Message: Take care ! Posted by heinzkat | www6conf.org 4/29/2008 02:06:50 Play online chess Well,Message: Posted by ionadowman | www6conf.org 4/29/2008 14:08:31 Play online chess A few centurries ago...Message: I bought just two of them: Levenfish & Smyslov's "Rook Endings" and Averbakh's "Queen and Pawn Endings". I don't know whether these books were specially commissioned by Batsford, or whether they were tranlations of Russian/Soviet publications. It seems that Paul Keres's "Practical Chess Endings" is from the same stable. I have found both the volumes that I own useful and informative, beginning with "schoolboy" theory to begin with then gradually becoming more advanced and complicated. Most of the endings are taken from actual games, but a few studies are also presented. And they have helped in endings on GK. In a game ionadowman vs sranderson a year or so back, I found myself a pawn down in a Q+Ps ending, with a completely passive position , but fortunately the enemy didn't have a passed pawn. Averbakh's book at least gave me some clues what to strive for and what to avoid, though I have to admit, the idea of sacrificing my Q-side pawns to activate my game was largely my own. When my opponent timed out (I noticed he was cutting things more and more finely), he was still a pawn ahead, but I still had the means to set problems, and was starting to think I might yet hold out for a draw... A particularly interesting and difficult R+Ps ending occurred in agmac vs ionadowman, again with my having the pawn less. Now, I've had quite a lot of R+Ps endgames on GK, and have thereby built up a fund of experience in them, but this one was quite complicated as there were a lot of pawns. Gradually reducing material I finally got to a point where a known drawn position was in sight - identified by Levenfish & Smyslov as such - which I managed to steer for and obtain. A limitation, perhaps, of such books, is that they aren't always comprehensive in their analysis of such positions, so, when agmac, having arrived at the "drawn" position, deviated almost at once from the "main" line, I had still some work to do to secure the half-point. Which was probably just as well, as it gave me further insights into how such endings work. You could do worse than to get hold of these books if you can. Cheers, Ion Posted by doctor_knight | www6conf.org 4/29/2008 20:54:50 Play online chess Message: Posted by taufiq | www6conf.org 4/30/2008 04:50:02 Play online chess ...Message: (for the people who are interested; the game ended 21-Jan-06). If I look through such games, it's very clear for me, there's a lot more to learn !! Still a long way to go ! :) Posted by lighttotheright | www6conf.org 4/30/2008 06:52:26 Play online chess Message: Although it is not an endgame book, it does have a endgame specific section within it. It is only about 140 problems from simple endgames; but it is there. Some people don't like the style of not explaining anything with just problems. I find this style most useful. The only way to truly learn chess is to just do it. This forces you to do just that. The problems expand your learning horizons. It's funny! I've always viewed mating positions (which most of his book it comprised of) as a form of endgame. 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Posted by bogg | www6conf.org 5/01/2008 03:58:36 Play online chess GM Flear Message: CTC Posted by ionadowman | www6conf.org 5/07/2008 13:31:49 Play online chess It seems likely...Message: Of course, any such book would be general in nature, since there is an infinitude of variety still to be found so late in the game. And you would be amazed at just how complicated and exciting 'simple' positions can become! Some of the Fischer-Smyslov battles of 1958-1959 were thrillers. Cheers, Ion Posted by wschmidt | www6conf.org 5/08/2008 13:13:10 Play online chess The Flear book is excellent. Message: Posted by alxthgrt | www6conf.org 8/22/2008 16:49:14 Play online chess Yassier Seirawan American Number oneMessage: Posted by alxthgrt | www6conf.org 8/22/2008 16:50:28 Play online chess Message: Posted by cutawhant | www6conf.org 9/27/2008 07:52:59 Play online chess RecommendationMessage: |