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Posted by kansaspatzer podcaststyle.com 6/07/2008 14:03:34 Play online chess	Subject: Philidor Position? Message: Recently I studied the Philidor and Lucena Positions. Although the Lucena is straightforward enough, I understand the basics of the Philidor but am not sure about how to apply it in an actual game situation or when exactly it comes up. I just finished this game, and I think that around move 66 I missed a chance to utilize this drawing resource. Can anybody tell me if I did? gameknot.com
Posted by bonsai podcaststyle.com 6/07/2008 15:23:12 Play online chess	Message: You are right you reached Philidor's position (or something very much like it) several times and could have drawn easily. The position 60.Rxf4 should be an easy draw, not sure why you gave away your f6 pawn, even so it was all still easily drawn, because your king was on the promotion square. With 67...Ra6+ you nicely set up a third (sixth) rank defence (=Philidor's position) which easily holds the draw. 69...Ra7 is still a draw, but why bother with taking the rook of the 6th rank?? Just wait until his pawn has advanced far enough to not give his king any place to hide from checks and then go to the first rank and check him. In the same sense 71...Ra6 was the right move. 71...Ra5 looses - white could have played 72.Kf6, but he missed that, after 72.Rh7 you could once more have held it with 72...Ra6. After missing that the defence became more complicated. 75...Re1 would still have drawn for black, but it's harder to do. 75...Kf8 looses. However white doesn't really know what he's doing 77.Ra5 is a pointless move that throws away the win, the rook is great on the 8th rank and one should just play 77.Kd6 to advance the pawn (and if Rd1+ then Ke7). After 86...Kf7 you've once more got a nice third rank defence, but you once more go for the wrong kind of continuation with 87...Ra5 and this time white punishes it properly and doesn't let the win slip away, again.
Posted by kansaspatzer podcaststyle.com 6/08/2008 02:04:22 Play online chess	Message: Thanks for the detailed analysis. A pure Philidor position, then, is reached when the pawn is on the sixth rather than fifth rank? That is what had thrown me off - once I was at move 70 or so, I assumed that I had already missed my chance. ——— The 2011 SPICE Cup — This week I am in Lubbock, Texas, for the annual SPICE Cup Chess Tournament. SPICE stands for Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence, an organization devoted to the promotion of chess education and outreach headquartered at Texas Tech University. Susan is a former Women's World Chess Champion who works alongside her husband, Paul Truong, (a strong chess master in his own right) to organize all sorts of tournaments, chess classes and chess camps. The SPICE Cup is, by far, the strongest chess tournament they organize, and it is one of the strongest tournaments held annually in the U.S. each year. This year there are three different sections, each with several grandmasters. The strongest ...
Posted by marinvukusic podcaststyle.com 6/08/2008 02:31:49 Play online chess	Wikipedia is your friend Message: en.wikipedia.org Much better than asking on a forum IMHO ——— Chess: the bishop sacrifice — RB: My second nomination for chess book of the year is Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice by Jon Edwards (Russell Enterprises). It always looks so tempting: the enemy knight chased from the key defensive square at f6, our bishop unobstructed on the b1-h7 diagonal, knight on f3, queen on its starting square ready to race to h5 or d3. Most of us have tried Bxh7+ at one time or other, and most of us probably have experience of messing it up. When is the sacrifice sound? What forces does White need to press home the attack? What defensive resources can Black conjure up to frustrate us? These are the questions Edwards addresses. Divided into ...
Posted by bonsai podcaststyle.com 6/08/2008 02:49:14 Play online chess	Message: The position with your king on/next to the promotion square, your rook on the 6th rank as black (or 3rd rank as white) and his pawn on the 5th rank is what is called Philidor's position (or the third rank defence). The way to draw it is to keep the rook on the 6th (3rd) rank until he advances the pawn beyond to the 6th rank, then the rook goes to the first (8th) rank and keeps checking the king. ——— Chess Tournament in Chicago Teaches Discipline — The 120 elementary school children sat so quietly and intently that you might have assumed this was a mass detention period. But it was chess, not confinement, in an Oak Brook hotel ballroom on Columbus Day. And the lessons learned might assist school leaders everywhere, including those attempting a systemwide resuscitation for Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s very disciplined, if impatient, mayor. “My dream is to get in front of education decision makers and convince them to make chess part of the curriculum for K through second grade,” said Susan Polgar, the star of the show. “That’s when thinking patterns and habits are formed. It should be mandatory, like physical education.” Ms. Polgar, ...
Posted by ionadowman podcaststyle.com 6/08/2008 17:54:26 Play online chess	marinvukusic - Message: -... but asking on the forum is much more fun. bonsai's responses look pretty good to me, at that. Cheers, Ion ——— Magnus Carlsen recovers from slow start to win Grand Slam in Bilbao — Magnus Carlsen is very strong in the decisive final rounds of chess tournaments, and the world No1 again showed his quality this week in the home stretch of the Grand Slam final at Bilbao. The Norwegian recovered from his drab start to the chess event, overhauled the runaway leader Vasily Ivanchuk with the win below, then again defeated the Ukrainian 1.5-0.5 in a speed tie-break to clinch first place. Carlsen, 20, rarely dominates chess tournaments, but he is tough through skiing and soccer, inventive in a crisis, and has a will to win on a par with the ultimate chess legends Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. Ivanchuk, 42, tired after his fine start. World chess champion Vishy Anand was uninspired and ...
Posted by marinvukusic podcaststyle.com 6/09/2008 04:35:02 Play online chess	Yeah, but... Message: ... Wikipedia has really excellent chess articles, much better than anything any of us might write on the forum. So that should be the first resource IMHO. Of course if the purpose of the topic is fun that forum is better :) ——— Chess: Magnus Carlsen Is Master of the Late Rally — When he was ranked No. 1 a few years ago, Veselin Topalov got into a strange habit of falling behind in chess tournaments before storming back to win. Magnus Carlsen, the current top chess player, is following a similar pattern. He won the Bilbao Chess Masters event on Tuesday, but he had to rally to do it. He won two of his last three games, including one over the early leader, Vassily Ivanchuk, to tie for first. He then beat Ivanchuk in a two-game blitz playoff. It was the third time in the last two years that Carlsen had to overcome an early deficit to capture first place. In 2010, he did the same thing at the Tata Steel chess tournament in the Netherlands and the London Chess Classic. He also made ...
Posted by ionadowman podcaststyle.com 6/09/2008 12:57:41 Play online chess	Marin... Message: ... I certainly have no quarrel with the Wikipedia article(s) in question, having followed up the link you gave earlier. And, aware of these now, one has an easily accessible (and readable) on-line resource for the questions raised here. But maybe I shouldn't have said "fun" - rather that a discussion of the question is a more ... social way of exploring the topic. Here, it is a more engaging way of studying this kind of endgame. Cheers, Ion