Chess Forum / General Topics / October 2004

Superagressive French defence by Topalov with g5, g4 and h5. Fritz pulled
the King Bishop all the way back to b1. Optically, Topalov steamrollers
Fritz, but intuitively, one may suspect that this is the wrong kind of
anti-computer chess.

1st round of the olympiad in Calvia, with live games of the Super GMs
Grischuk, Ivanchuk, Ponomariov, Adams, and Shirov. Anand does not play in
this first round, Sasikiran on 1st board for India only got a draw with
white in a somewhat bland game. The other top players also seem to ...

GM Maurice Ashley analyzes Kramnik - Leko game 13 live 9:00 AM ET on
Saturday, Oct. 16 at http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/ontheair/
I loved his work covering Kasparov - Fritz on ESPN2.
GMacD

I have just posted Sam Sloan's Chess Quiz #2
http://pub.alxnet.com/quiz?id=2150305
Please take it and give me some feedback.
My previous chess quiz has been posted at

Here are some puzzles taken from the chess games of strong players of
the early 20th century. Except where noted, it's "White to Move and
Win".
a) http://wtharvey.com/d1928a.png Carlos Maderna vs J Cristia, Buenos

will you experts help me explain white's 11th move and black's
response?
1. d5 d5

Back then they played 24 games , i think Karmak and Lenko are only
playing I4 ??
 In Game I4 Kasp played the Scotch Game as White  that opeining was
played I00 years earlier in Steinitz vs Zukertort I886 and Chigorin

Quiz #1 about Sam Sloan's website
I have gone on a binge of making quizes. In order to take this quiz,
first you should read all 3,024 pages on Sam Sloan's web site. After
you have done that, this becomes a reading comprehension test.

A Caro-Kann defence by Leko, in other words a drawish defence by a draw
master. Clearly, now that Kramnik is in a must win situation, Leko puts the
onus on Kramnik to take risks. Sofar, i.e. at move 17, I see no sign of
Kramnik latching out with c4 or similar.

Kramnik on the black side of a hedgehog Sicilian plays the allegedly novelty
Nf6-Nh5 to hit the white Bf4 forcing Bg5, and guess what, Kramnik withdrew
his Knight back to f6! This is a novelty to achieve a draw! At this stage of
the match???

Looking over the Kramnik-Leko match, I find, in the first 10 games, no
less than 5 that are drawn with no battle to speak of: game 2 (18 moves),
game 3 (23 moves), 6 (20 moves), 7 (21 moves), and 9 (16 moves). It seems
that as soon as the players get out of their home preparation ...

If Kramnik loses to Leko would he be considered the weakest player to
ever win the World title?  I know many unanimously believe that Euwe
was the weakest player to ever win the world title but if Kramnik
loses this match I think he would be considered the weakest player to

That's at least the rumor, Kirsan will issue a statement tomorrow on the
planned Kasparov v Kasimdzhanov so that the winner may take on the winner of
Kramnik v Leko for reunification of the world title.
The ACP had said that it will take the reunification initiative if FIDE does

people selling chess books on ebay like to claim their book is
rare...is this book really rare?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=378&item=6930706861&rd=1

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