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Chess is complicated and analysis is difficult. Bad Sequel
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Book Notes  At the end of the super-tournament in Wijk an Zee two young heroes were in the spotlight: with a little bit of luck Magnus Carlsen won the top tournament, and at the age of only fifteen, Anish Giri was victorious in the B-tournament and thus qualified for the tournament for the top players for next year. ChessBase Magazine #135 features the best games from Carlsen, Kramnik, Anand, Shirov, and Short. On the DVD you will find all the games from recent world class tournaments, more than four hours of video analysis (e.g. by Shirov and Short about Wijk), thirteen up-to-date openings articles with suggestions for your repertoire, as well as training contributions in tactics, the middlegame, and the endgame! Elements of Positional Evaluation by best-selling chess author Dan Heisman addresses the evaluation and understanding of how static features affect the value of the pieces in a given position. Now in its fourth edition, emphasis is placed on the static evaluation of each piece's value and its role in the overall position rather than the assessment of a specific position, but Heisman's approach can also be applied to help evaluate entire positions by helping to answer the questions who stands better, by how much, and why?
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Black to Move/Solution Below | | Play the moves you need to play before you make the moves you want to play. Dan Heisman
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Reviews in Brief |  Wojo's Weapons
by Jonathan Hilton and Dean Ippolito "Who's Wojo?" is likely the first question that pops into your head when you see the title of this book, especially if you're not a U.S. resident. The answer is found in the introduction to this volume: "During the eight years that the late Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963-2006) lived in the United States, he won or tied for first place in more than 240 tournaments. He averaged over thirty tournament victories a year – or nearly three per month. 'Wojo', as he was affectionately called by his fans, was arguably the most successful tournament player in the United States, winning the Grand Prix six years in a row from 1999 to 2004. During that time, however, he was not considered one of the best players in the world. Although his name was sporadically on the FIDE 'Top 100' rating list, his official ELO rating – which peaked at 2595 – never made it past the magic 2600 mark. How, then, did he achieve such success? "The answer is this: Wojtkiewicz was ruthlessly pragmatic in his approach to tournament chess. His opening repertoire was designed in such a way that he essentially could play his games on 'auto-pilot.'" The coverage of each line is incredibly detailed, and the authors' adoration and appreciation for Wojtkiewicz's approach to chess is apparent throughout the book. I find this book incredibly well-written, with plenty of original analysis and new ideas infused into a repertoire that in practice will prove quite worrisome to Black. If you are an ambitious player who has the time and dedication to understand, memorize, and master a new repertoire as white, then this book, along with a hopefully equally strong second volume, will provide you with something that can carry you to the next level and beyond. Players who employ the Catalan Opening as white will also want to study this book. Read the full review here. | | |
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Puzzle Answer: 40...Bxf3 0-1 White resigned, since he will be in zugzwang after 41.Kxf3 d4!. Bronstein-Yusupov, Lucerne 1982 (Source: Boost Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals)
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