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| Posted by nathanman22 austinfilmfestival.org 4/15/2008 15:54:03 Play online chess |  Subject: The Best Rook Sacrifice I've ever made!Message:  gameknot.com
I was recently playing a league game that I had to win. Early in the game, I pressed forward with my pawns knowing this was important to the end game. Then the crucial move came. I forced an attack on his king that won me a pawn and forced his knight to move up supported by two pawns. However, if I was to take that knight, no matter how he took back with his pawns, he would leave an open passed pawn that from every calculation I did could not be reached by his king or his remaining rook... The sacrifice on move 40 has got to be one of the best ever sacrifices I have ever played, but the thinking started back several moves... Any thoughts on this game are welcome. The game is still in motion....but soon will be done I believe as I am going to get a queen and he can't stop it.... I would appreciate if someone could annotate it--let me know if anyone is interested. Thanks. -Nathanman22 | ||
| Posted by nathanman22 austinfilmfestival.org 4/15/2008 15:54:32 Play online chess | actually Message: -Nathan | ||
| Posted by chessnovice austinfilmfestival.org 4/15/2008 16:34:35 Play online chess | ... Message: ——— U.S. chess championship felt like a tornado — I wasn’t at the airport last month, but I still feel like I got hit by a tornado. For some players, the 2011 U.S. Chess Championship concluded April 29, but unfortunately April 21 was my last game. On the bright side, I had a ringside seat for the remainder of the chess matches, including the heart-pounding women’s finals, which went into an Armageddon round (that’s triple overtime)! The chess tournament featured an interesting format – the top two players from two eight-player round-robin groups qualified for the semi-final matches. The two semi-finalists from the “A” group were no surprise. Reigning Chess Champion and Grandmaster (GM) Gata Kamsky and last year’s runner-up, GM Yury Shulman, easily ... Posted by ionadowman | austinfilmfestival.org 4/16/2008 13:58:33 Play online chess Very nice sac: Message: Having played through the game I guess I could annotate it... Some rather interesting positional decisions by White earlier on didn't help the mobility of his knight. Quite ironic that once it did find a good square, it got axed by that rook (Exchange) sac. Cheers, Ion ——— Chess notes — China is steadily gaining the respect of the world chess community as some of its players have emerged to become substantially dangerous competitors in the West. So the Chinese chess championships have been watched with interest this year. In the 2011 championship, a dark horse has once again emerged to take first place: Ding Liren. The 18-year-old won the title in 2009 (in part because of a defaulted game), despite being one of the lower-rated chess players in the field. His score this year was a startling 9-2 against such well-known chess grandmasters as Yue Wang and Xiangzhi Bu. Ding has only occasionally played in the West. World Women’s chess champion Hou Yifan scored an impressive ... |