Friday, 29 June 2007

Publishing of chess games

I am currently looking for a way to publish chess games on this blog.
There are some tools that may be helpful, but at the moment I haven't found a way that enables all my wishes.
Probably other chess bloggers are also facing this difficulty of posting Chess games on their blog.

My wish list:
  • A chess board that shows the position after each move
  • The moves also have to be shown
  • Clicking on a move shows the position on the board after this move
  • Autoplay
  • Variations in the moves have to be possible
  • Comments between the moves
  • A possibility to hide the moves (= solution) for puzzles
  • Based on entering PGN
  • Without the need to copy and paste all kind of code
  • And only depending on my own blog site

I probably even have more wishes and will let you know if something has been found that almost fulfills my needs.

Saturday, 23 June 2007

Gorenjo 2007

Gorenje 2007 has ended

In the last round Michael Roiz and Suat Atalik drew after 14 moves. This left them tied on the first place in the final crosstable. Two of the other games also ended in a quick draw, within 8 and 10 moves. Therefore only two serious games were played in this last round of the tournament.

Roiz - Atalik (Gerenje 2007, round 9)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Bb7 10. d4 Re8 11. Ng5 Rf8 12. Nf3 Re8 13. Ng5 Rf8 14. Nf3 1/2-1/2


Roiz ended on the first place after the tiebreak.


Final Standings:
1. GM Roiz Michael       2616 ISR 6.5 (First after tiebreak)
1. GM Atalik Suat 2584 TUR 6.5
3. GM Karpov Anatoly 2668 RUS 5.5
4. GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2614 SRB 5.0
4. GM Nikolic Predrag 2631 BIH 5.0
6. GM Georgiev Kiril 2653 BUL 4.5
7. GM Damljanovic Branko 2585 SRB 4.0
8. IM Stojanovic Mihajlo 2588 SRB 3.0
9. GM Iordachescu Viorel 2587 MDA 2.5
9. GM Pavasovic Dusko 2567 SLO 2.5

Monday, 18 June 2007

Gorenje 2007 (Round 5)

Chessdom is covering the Valjevo Chess Event:
Three players leading after the fantastic round with four decided
games
Atalik scores first win ever against Nikolic. Roiz tactically outplayed
Stojanovic and Karpov forced Iodrachescu to give up after the threats on the
back-rank. Damljanovic played perfect Rook endgame to beat Pavasovic.


Damljanovic B. (2585) - Pavasovic D. (2567)

1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.d4 Nf6 4.g3 dxc4 5.Bg2 Nc6 6.Qa4 Nd7 7.Qxc4 Nb6 8.Qd3 e5 9.Nxe5 Nb4 10.Qc3 Qxd4 11.O-O Qxc3 12.Nxc3 Bd6 13.Nf3 c6 14.Ne4 Be7 15.Bf4 O-O 16.Rfc1 N4d5 17.Bd2 Re8 18.Nd4 Nf6 19.Nc5 Bxc5 20.Rxc5 Ne4 21.Rc2 Nxd2 22.Rxd2 Rd8 23.Rdd1 Be6 24.f4 Nc4 25.Nxe6 fxe6 26.Kf2 Kf7 27.b3 Nb6 28.e4 Ke7 29.Ke3 a5 30.Bf1 Rd7 31.Be2 Rad8 32.Rxd7+ Nxd7 33.Rc1 Ra8 34.h4 h6 35.h5 Rd8 36.Rc4 Ra8 37.Rc1 Rd8 38.Rd1 Ra8 39.Rb1 Ra7 40.a3 Ra8 41.Bf3 Nb6 42.Rc1 Nd7 43.e5 Nb6 44.g4 Rd8 45.Rc5 Ra8 46.Rc1 Rd8 47.Be4 Nd5+ 48.Bxd5 Rxd5

This is the start of this very interesting Rook endgame.
White certainly has the best possibilities, but it is not easy to win the game.

49.a4 Kd7 50.Rg1 Ke7 51.Rb1 b5 52.Rc1 Kd7 53.Rc3 bxa4 54.bxa4 c5 55.Rb3 Kc6 56.Rb8 Rd7 57.Rc8+ Kd5 58.Ra8 Kc4 59.f5 Rd3+ 60.Kf2 Rd2+ 61.Kg3 Rd3+ 62.Kh4 exf5 63.e6 Re3 64.gxf5 Kb4 65.Rg8 c4 66.Rxg7 c3 67.Rc7 Kb3 68.e7 c2 69.f6 Kb2 70.Rxc2+ Kxc2 71.f7 Rxe7 72.f8=Q Re4+ 73.Kg3 Rxa4 74.Qxh6 1-0

Sunday, 17 June 2007

ChessLoser's Blog

Chess Blogs are a very useful source of chess information. Most of these blogs are from chess players that are working actively on chess improvement and are writing about their successes and failures. Some are very serious, while other blogs are very humorous.
One of the most humorous blogs is the one from Chess Loser. It is called hardcore pawnography.
A quote of a part from one of these articles will make this clear.

I'm just like Tal, only I lose
as i study and play, i notice how my style is evolving and changing, and i notice my style is a lot like GM Tal, with his crazy cavalier attitude, his macho bravado laden sacrifices, his almost wreckless, “i don’t give a fuck” attitude. the only difference, really, between him and me is, he knew what he was doing, he calculated and analized and had a plan, and he won the majority of his games, where as i have the wreckless sacrificing down pat, the bravado, but i don’t back any of it up with sound play or a halfway decent plan, i often fail to see the consequences of my moves, and then i lose miserably. but, every once in a while, i catch someone on a bad day, and it works out for me, like in this game here.

Saturday, 16 June 2007

Chess Lessons

This site is not about chess lessons, but about publishing chess games on blog sites. On the Wordpress Chess Teaching site a lot of chess lessons can be found. At the moment there are more than 50 chess tutorials on almost all the stages of the game and for all levels of play on this Chess Teaching site. You can get a quick overview by looking at their chess lessons index page, but you can also start at this introduction post and follow all the chess lessons by means of the next chess lesson link.