The game of this lesson between Paul Morphy and Carl Isouard that has been played in Paris 1858 is one of the most famous chess games.
It’s a very interesting short game and it contains at least five important chess lessons:
1. Develop you chess pieces quickly
2. Castling into safety
3. The strategic outpost at d5
4. Attacking a pinned piece
5. The use of an open file
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Bird reacted with 67.Kc3 and now we get an even more interesting position.
Should you also have played 66…b5+ or would you have tried something like 66…a3?
Are you able to win this won game? What are Black’s next moves?
Be careful. Some moves will result in a draw.
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Tags: Chess
A couple of months ago and two years after the previous version ChessX has released a new version. This is version 0.6, which can be downloaded for Windows and Mac on the download section of the ChessX site.
I decided to try this version and I started by saving the games of the IJ105 database as a PGN file, which is currently the format that is needed for ChessX, but a Native Database Format is planned for the next release. I also made a PGN file that contained the first 1000 games of this Database.
As you can see the PGN file uses a lot of memory when compared to the SCID or ChessDB database files.
I was unable to use the large database. It started to load the games, but after waiting for more than an hour it was still busy loading.
Loading the file with the first 1000 games went rather smooth and I like the way it looks and how you can position everyting as you wish.
If you only need something like this for your own games (with a rather small database) than this may be a very interesting multi platform alternative, but for large databases it will probably not be usable. However, the next release promises to add a Native Database Format, which may solve these problems.
In this lesson I will show you the Mortimer trap, also known as the Mortimer Variation of the Berlin Defense.
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( Today 4.O-O is played far more frequently )
4… Ne7?!
5.Nxe5?
The next lesson is about the Immortal Game, but you may also be interested in the previous lesson about the Kieninger Trap.
Tags: Trap
I have upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4, because yesterday a vulnerability was discovered by the WordPress team: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, but it is very annoying.
Version 2.8.4 seems to fix all known problems and is highly recommended for all users of WordPress.
Chess playing by Malkolm – Bust it Away Photography