Wageningen Chess Club have announced a strong line up against the Kenya Simbas in this historic event that is scheduled for 3rd October 2009.
The players are:
Board 1:
Grand Master Jan Timman - He is the former world number 2 and played a match with Anatoly Karpov for the FIDE World Title. Timman won the Dutch Championship nine times. He has for the past two years he played for Wageningen in the National League.
Board 2:
International Master Yochanan Afek – Mr Afek is from Israel and has lived in Holland for a number of years. Afek is a famous endgame composer. He trains a number of chess clubs in Holland and for Wageningen he is both trainer and player.
Board 3:
Chess Master Sander van Eijk - A young and attacking player. Last year he scored his first IM norm. After being a chess professional for one year, he now restarted his studies in Law.
Board 4:
Fred Jonker - A very tactical player. Six years ago he became regional champion and thus played in the semi-final of the Dutch Championships. Jonker works at Wageningen University.
Board 5:
Erwin Oorebeek - A player with a good knowledge of the opening. Oorebeek is a strong correspondence chess player.
Board 6:
To be announced later. There is a high possibility that this place will be taken by Eric Smaling who lived in Kenya in the 1990s and is now a member of Parliament.
The Kenya Simbas line is expected to be announced tomorrow
Safaricom are the main sponsors and are proud to be associated with this historic event that comes a few weeks after the landing of the fibre optic cable in Mombasa. The central technological platform of this event will be Safaricom's 3G mobile internet connection.
The interface is the popular site www.playchess.com which will enable chess enthusiasts to follow the game wherever they are in the world! It is also most likely that there will be a live commentary, which can be read online as the games are being played.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, June 4, 2007
FAMOUS CHESS QUOTES
Ten famous chess quotes.
Over time many chess players, commentators, writers, kibziters, grandmasters and grandpazters have made famous quotes. Here is my selection of my best 10. you can ignore number 11.
1. "If drink is the curse of the working classes and work is the curse of the drinking classes then chess is the curse of the thinking classes”
>> J. Ross
2. "The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player."
>> Emanuel LASKER
3. "Pawns are born free, yet are everywhere in chains..."
>> rkennedy@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Rick Kennedy)
4. "Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it - checkmate ends the game"
>> Nigel SHORT
5. "A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage and the third... when you know you're going to lose!"
>> Savielly Tartakower
6. "Whereas the tactician knows what to do when there is something to do, it requires the strategian to know what to do when there is nothing to do"
>> Gerald ABRAHAMS (this seems to be fairly free translation of one of TARTAKOVER's aphorisms).
7. "During a chess competition a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk."
>> Alexander ALEKHINE
8. "Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.”
>> Siegbert TARRASCH
9. " Reti studies mathematics although he is not a dry mathematician; represents Vienna without being Viennese; was born in old Hungary yet he does not know Hungarian; speaks uncommonly rapidly only in order to act all the more maturely and deliberately; and will become the best chessplayer without, however, becoming world champion. "
>> TARTAKOVER, Hypermodern Chess
10. Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago by Dr. TARRASCH. (...)
"Q: What is the object of playing a gambit opening?
A: To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game.
Q: Account briefly for the popularity of the Queen Pawn Opening in matches of a serious nature.
A: Laziness.
Q: What is the duty of an umpire where a player wilfully upsets the board?
A: Remove the bottle.
Q: What exceptional circumstances will justify the stopping of clocks during a tournament game?
A: Strangling a photographer. "
>> Chess Review, 1935.
11. The fear of the pawn is the beginning of wisdom
>> Yours truly, 2007
Over time many chess players, commentators, writers, kibziters, grandmasters and grandpazters have made famous quotes. Here is my selection of my best 10. you can ignore number 11.
1. "If drink is the curse of the working classes and work is the curse of the drinking classes then chess is the curse of the thinking classes”
>> J. Ross
2. "The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player."
>> Emanuel LASKER
3. "Pawns are born free, yet are everywhere in chains..."
>> rkennedy@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Rick Kennedy)
4. "Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it - checkmate ends the game"
>> Nigel SHORT
5. "A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage and the third... when you know you're going to lose!"
>> Savielly Tartakower
6. "Whereas the tactician knows what to do when there is something to do, it requires the strategian to know what to do when there is nothing to do"
>> Gerald ABRAHAMS (this seems to be fairly free translation of one of TARTAKOVER's aphorisms).
7. "During a chess competition a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk."
>> Alexander ALEKHINE
8. "Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.”
>> Siegbert TARRASCH
9. " Reti studies mathematics although he is not a dry mathematician; represents Vienna without being Viennese; was born in old Hungary yet he does not know Hungarian; speaks uncommonly rapidly only in order to act all the more maturely and deliberately; and will become the best chessplayer without, however, becoming world champion. "
>> TARTAKOVER, Hypermodern Chess
10. Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago by Dr. TARRASCH. (...)
"Q: What is the object of playing a gambit opening?
A: To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game.
Q: Account briefly for the popularity of the Queen Pawn Opening in matches of a serious nature.
A: Laziness.
Q: What is the duty of an umpire where a player wilfully upsets the board?
A: Remove the bottle.
Q: What exceptional circumstances will justify the stopping of clocks during a tournament game?
A: Strangling a photographer. "
>> Chess Review, 1935.
11. The fear of the pawn is the beginning of wisdom
>> Yours truly, 2007
CHESS TERMS
Do you know these chess terminologies?
Chess terminology has borrowed heavily from many languages from Arabic to Indian and german. Here are a few mind swinging terms.
amaurosis scachistica:
Chess blindness (oversight), described ironically as a disease by Dr. Tarrasch. There is a superb example from Krogius in the Errors section of the Canon.
Intermezzo:
See Zwischenzug
Kibitz:
To offer advice as a spectator - a dangerous pastime
Phalanx:
A triangle of pawns e.g. b3-c4-d5-e4-f3 in the KID
Prophylaxis:
Prevention. Nimzovitch talked about this rather as an end in itself, which is misleading.
tabiya:
(Arabic) Originally one of the conventional starting formations for play, now used to describe key positions arising from the opening.
Trebuchet:
A common Zugzwang position
Zeitnot:
(German) time trouble
Zwischenzug:
(German) literally, in-between move. When, for example, a re-capture is delayed for a move to make a capture, check or threat elsewhere
Chess terminology has borrowed heavily from many languages from Arabic to Indian and german. Here are a few mind swinging terms.
amaurosis scachistica:
Chess blindness (oversight), described ironically as a disease by Dr. Tarrasch. There is a superb example from Krogius in the Errors section of the Canon.
Intermezzo:
See Zwischenzug
Kibitz:
To offer advice as a spectator - a dangerous pastime
Phalanx:
A triangle of pawns e.g. b3-c4-d5-e4-f3 in the KID
Prophylaxis:
Prevention. Nimzovitch talked about this rather as an end in itself, which is misleading.
tabiya:
(Arabic) Originally one of the conventional starting formations for play, now used to describe key positions arising from the opening.
Trebuchet:
A common Zugzwang position
Zeitnot:
(German) time trouble
Zwischenzug:
(German) literally, in-between move. When, for example, a re-capture is delayed for a move to make a capture, check or threat elsewhere
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