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Posted by nathanman22 debiantoday.com 4/05/2008 07:15:44 Play online chess	Subject: Mistakes of the Grandmaster Message: Just wanted to start a thread to encourage the lower players that even great players will make mistakes. Some of us may feel as if we will never get to the top and are struggling with many mistakes we make on games every day. I thought maybe we could start a thread that included big mistakes made by grandmasters...to show that even they are humans....any links from your games or from the games of the greats are welcome here. -Nathan
Posted by ccmcacollister debiantoday.com 4/05/2008 07:28:40 Play online chess	a good start Message: would be Kramnick getting mated in one by the computer.
Posted by tim_b debiantoday.com 4/05/2008 07:32:10 Play online chess	Message: Nice idea for a thread! I know a world class player once fell for a simple early Queen fork: www.chesskids.com Does anybody know who the guilty party was? ——— Ivanchuk Dominates Chess Olympiad — The chess olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia is in full swing, moving into the second half. The Open section has 149 teams listed, nearly 750 chess players. The women section has 115 teams, roughly 575 chess players. Head and shoulders above all players stands Vasyl Ivanchuk. The 41-year old Ukrainian grandmaster smashed everything coming his way so far, winning five straight games and amassing a giant 3357 performance rating. On Tuesday, Ivanchuk added his sixth victory against the Georgian GM Baadur Jobava. His team leads the chess olympiad after seven rounds, having won six matches and drawing one. The 11-round olympiad concludes Sunday, October 3. Ivanchuk was ...
Posted by heinzkat debiantoday.com 4/05/2008 07:34:39 Play online chess	Probably seen before... Message: www.youtube.com ——— New Jersey Man Plays Kasparov and Carlsen — Chess players are not movie stars — no one has ever stalked a chess player, at least not for playing chess — but some fans go to great lengths to meet and even play against the game’s best. Jonathan B. Crumiller is a fan, and he lived out a dream this month. Crumiller, who is a master but certainly not a top chess player, is the chief operating officer of Princeton Consultants and lives and works in New Jersey. On Sept. 8, he was in London at a fund-raiser for Anatoly Karpov, the former world chess champion, who is running for president of the World Chess Federation. As part of the event, there was an auction to play a consultation game with Garry Kasparov, another former chess champion, and ...
Posted by pgroenborg debiantoday.com 4/05/2008 08:43:16 Play online chess	Topalov vs Kramnik Message: I can't link to it right now (working), but Topalov missed a simple mate against Kramnik when they battled for the title. I think there were more mistakes than that in that match. ;-) (The spellcheck doesn't know the mentioned players, lol) ——— Chess stars align in Siberia — The 39th Chess Olympiad began Tuesday in Khanty-Mansiysk, a small Siberian city in Russia. The immense chess tournament has attracted 146 men's teams and 114 women's teams representing 142 nations. Half of the 484 participants in the men's section hold the grandmaster title. The ninth-seeded U.S. men's chess team consists of grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura (Missouri), Gata Kamsky (New York), Alexander Onischuk (Virginia), Yury Shulman (Illinois) and Robert Hess (New York). That's an impressive lineup with a fair chance at a medal. They defeated Faroe Islands, 4-0, and Mongolia, 31/2-1/2, in their first two matches. The sixth-seeded U.S. women's chess team is probably ...
Posted by heinzkat debiantoday.com 4/05/2008 09:07:38 Play online chess	Message: The video fragment posted above came from Anand - Kasparov, 1996: Kasparov played Qxe3 here, and after Qxg4 he wasn't so happy. pgroenborg's mention is this, Topalov - Kramnik, 2006: Topalov played Qg6+ here, but instead Rxg4+ Bg7 Qc7 wins easily. Later, Kramnik even managed to win the game. And ccmcacollister's post was about this, Deep Fritz - Kramnik, 2006: Kramnik played Qe3 here, which wins in all variations, but one. ——— After Four Rounds of the Chess Olympiad, Several Favorites Have Fallen — Seven teams have won all of their matches through the first four rounds of the biennial Chess Olympiad. Four of those teams — the top two Russian teams, Hungary and Armenia — were ranked among the top six at the start, so their standing is no surprise. But three of the leaders — the Netherlands, the Republic of Georgia and Vietnam — are unexpected, in particular the last two, who were ranked No. 20 and 27, respectively, when the chess competition began. Several of the pre-tournament favorites ran into unexpected trouble early on. Ukraine, which was ranked No. 2, gave up a drawn match to Croatia, No. 28, in Round 3. (Matches are between teams of four players). Ukraine is now tied for ...
Posted by jstevens1 debiantoday.com 4/05/2008 12:33:05 Play online chess	Amazia Avni's Danger in Chess Message: In the above regicide manual, if anybody has this, it points out two examples of Messrs Short and Korchnoi walking into mate in one against lesser known GMs. Joanne ——— Yemen sacks chess team for playing against Israel — Yemen has sacked the country's chess team and members of the governing body after its players competed against Israel at a chess tournament in Belarus. The Yemeni Sports minister, Hamud Mohammed Ubad, took the unusual decision after chess players ignored instructions to pull out if drawn against Israel, which is widely criticised in the Middle East for its policies towards the Palestinians. "This was an individual action contrary to the policy of Yemen, which refuses any normalisation with Israel," said Mr Ubad, adding that the chess players were on their way home from Minsk. Like several other Middle Eastern countries, Yemen does not have diplomatic relations with Israel and bars ...
Posted by muppyman debiantoday.com 4/05/2008 13:19:34 Play online chess	Kasparov v Karpov. Message: I believe Kasparov blundered away a whole rook in time scramble against Karpov in one of their matches for the world title. The incident was shown on television.
Posted by djole73 debiantoday.com 4/06/2008 09:40:18 Play online chess	Message: Look this: www.chessgames.com
Posted by ionadowman debiantoday.com 4/06/2008 13:17:53 Play online chess	Here's one I discovered recently... Message: ... a bit of a double-barrelled error this one! Biel 1988. Zapata vs Anand. Black decided to follow a Petroff Defence game played earlier between Larry Christiansen and Tony Miles, when the theoretically unusual 5...Bf5 had been played. It must have looked intriguing: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Bf5 6.Qe2 1-0. b If 6...Qe7, 7.Nd5; or 6...d5, 7.d3 White wins at least a piece, and even Vishy Anand didn't fancy his chances! The intriguing question is this: what did Christiansen play? How did he miss the quick kill??
Posted by ganstaman debiantoday.com 4/06/2008 13:42:26 Play online chess	zapata-anand Message: Well, chessgames.com is having a problem at the moment so I can't check this out, but in the kibitzing for that game, I believe someone stated that Miles and Christiansen had previously agreed to draw the game, and when Miles played 5...Bf5, Christiansen didn't play 6. Qe2 (which would have sort of ruined the pre-arranged draw) but did make indications to Miles that his move was quite a bad one.
Posted by ganstaman debiantoday.com 4/06/2008 16:13:51 Play online chess	Message: Ooops, I confused Miles and Christiansen. www.chessgames.com And the Anand game: www.chessgames.com with the quote: "Tennyson: <hollowone> and <themindset> Yes, Anand was under the spell of the journal "Informator" and the Miles-Chrstiansen 1987 came contained within. I learned of this in Steve Giddins's _101 Chess Opening Traps_ where he explains why all the aforementioned (except Zapata) "missed" 6. Qe2. Informator failed to explain that the Miles-Christiansen game had been agreed to be drawn before either had made a move. What follows is priceless: "At the board, Tony saw that 6. Qe2 was winning, but remained the gentleman and avoided playing it. Mind you, I understand that he did spend some seconds 'polishing' the e2-square with his forefinger, until he was satisfied that Larry Christiansen's face had assumed a suitable shade of red..." (61). LOL! "
Posted by ionadowman debiantoday.com 4/07/2008 03:26:01 Play online chess	... Message: Makes a good story, anyhow. It seems, by the way that the book I was quoting got Miles and Christiansen the wrong way round too - or else I just misremembered it... But the mistake Anand made was rather unusual for a GM: playing an unfamiliar opening line without doing some preliminary homework. Some of the best (worst) GM mistakes happen when they have the advantage. Better yet is when they face some unknown, and take things a bit too easily. My favorite is this disaster from the Skoplje Olympiad, 1972. Here, the GM doesn't make a single move blunder - rather his whole game went horribly wrong: White: W.S. Browne (USA); Black: Taha (Iraq) 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bxe7 Qxe7 7.Nb5?! Nb6! 8.a4? a6 9.a5 axb5 10.axb6 Qxa1 11.Qxa1 c6 12.Qa8 0-0 13.Qxb8 Qb4+ 14.c3 Qxb2 15.Ne2 b4 16.cxb4 Qxb4+ 17.Kd1 Qb3+ 18.Kd2 Qb4+ 19.Kd3? c5! 20.Qc7 c4+ 21.Ke3 Qb3+ 22.Kf4 Qd3 (-+) 23.f3 Qd2+ 24.Kg3 Qe1+ 25.Kh3 Qf2 26.Kg4 f6 27.exf6 e5+ 28.Kh5 gxf6 29.dxe5 fxe5 30.Qe7 Rf5+ 1-0 (31.Kh6 Qxb6+ etc). In the same Olympiad, GM Tringov had more than one awful disaster. About to capture Uhlmann's extra pawn, Tringov forgot to move his K first to avert the Q fork after Qe1+ that picked up the rook. But Tringov's worst move was "Adjourned move (written on score sheet) to trouser pocket" - a blunder that cost him the game against Korchnoi. Cheers, Ion
Posted by mekk debiantoday.com 4/07/2008 16:50:50 Play online chess	Message: Kramnik made a few noticeable blunders. Mistake against Fritz is already quoted above, but he also blundered a piece in his earlier anti-engine match. And he played this aganst Anand at Mobitel 2005: www.chessbase.com
Posted by ccmcacollister debiantoday.com 4/08/2008 14:44:52 Play online chess	Here is a very fun game ... Message: Take a look at Kasparovs reaction to the type of blunder he made vs Anand. Now put Gary in Kramnicks seat for the infamous Mate in One ... and imagine the look, the reaction. Would not the walls shake? And poor Gary, would He survive such a er faux pas? No I think. Fortunately the Q: also arises, would he Make such. I am confident we will not have to watch Gary die at the board :)) (Secondly; why is faux pas not in the spellchecker??; who needs the word more than Chessplayers!!)
Posted by chessnovice debiantoday.com 4/08/2008 18:33:07 Play online chess	watching that video makes me think Message: I'd love to play Kasparov in a poker match.
Posted by ionadowman debiantoday.com 4/09/2008 01:46:23 Play online chess	It's especially ... Message: ... entertaining (or galling) when a GM makes a mistake in his writing. You would think that in all peace and quiet at the writing desk, such a one would spot and correct any boo-boos that might otherwise creep in. Check this one from J.R.capabalnca's "Last Lectures" (otherwise quite a useful little book of Capablanca's radio lectures of the late 1930s). Lecture 8 discussed the Ruy Lopez Opening, taking the audience deep into the game: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 (a move Capablanca allowed he disliked sufficiently as being unable to recall his ever having played it in a tournament game) 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.c3 Be7 10.Nbd2 Nc5 11.Bc2 d5 12.Ne4 dxc3 13.Nxc5 Bxc5 14.Be4 Qd7 15.bxc3 Rd8 16.Qxd7+ Bxd7 17.Rd1 ... Now, I have omitted Capablanca's remarks on the opening this far, but here he remarks that the move played prevents Black from castling, owing to 17...0-0? 18.Rxd7 Rxd7 19.Bxc6 winning 2 minor pieces for the rook. Unfortunately for this piece of advice, Black has a won game! Check it out: Black to play and win: b In defence of the author, though, it's easy to make oversights like this at the desk. In actual play, Capa would have spotted the hole in a moment. Cheers, Ion