10/24/2019 – He read the Zurich Interzonal 1953 book written by Bronstein and Gelfand's Positional Decision Making to improve his positional understanding. He goes to the gym and swims every day to stay fit. He is the sole leader in the open section with a score of 7½/9 and has a performance rating of 2783. She won the under-18 world championship 2019. She's sure to go the gym every morning, and she enjoys each and every moment she spends on the chess board. She has an Elo performance of 2585 and is leading the girls section at the World Junior with 8.0/9. That's Evgeny Shtembuliak and Polina Shuvalova for you! These two youngsters are looking unstoppable at the World Juniors 2019.
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The aim of these Dvd's is to build a repertoire after 1.c4 and 2.g3 for White. The first DVD includes the systems 1...e5, the Dutch and Indian setups. The second DVD includes the systems with 1...c5, 1...c6 and 1...e6.
In this DVD the author answers how to realize an advantage, considering both the psychological aspects of the realisation of an advantage and the technical methods.
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Fitness is the key
Both the open section and the girls section have sole leaders. Evgeny Shtembuliak leads with 7½/9 and Polina Shuvalova with 8.0/9. While both have quite contrasting styles of play —Shtembuliak is positional, while Shuvalova is aggressive — one common thing that has helped both of them is indulging in physical fitness each day. In their post-game interviews, both players revealed that they spent time in the gym before the game in the morning and that has helped them to maintain their stamina and momentum. Shtembuliak even goes to the swimming pool along with the gym. For Shuvalova, this result is even more commendable because she played eleven rounds of intense chess in Mumbai at the World Youth Championships 2019. She won the gold in under-18 girls section. Change in weather, food, time zone, opposition, nothing has come in between Shuvalova and her constant striving to play good games of chess.
Improving your positional understanding with Shtembuliak
Evgeny Shtembuliak won his game against Mihnea Costachi with some excellent opening preparation followed by powerful middlegame play.
Focused eyes of the leader | Photo: Niklesh Jain
Shtembuliak explains his over Costachi
Shuvalova's masterful endgame play
Beating a strong player like Stavroula Tsolakidou with the black pieces is truly a great win by Shuvalova.
Starting with 1.Nf3 the Reti is designed for those players who like strategy, manoeuvres and plans. Bologan presents a repertoire based on 1.Nf3 giving you options for all major replies.
When choosing an opening repertoire, there are days when you want to play for a win with Black, when you want to bear down on your opponent’s position with a potentially crushing attack. The Najdorf is perfect for just such occasions. Strategy, combinations, attack and defence, sacrifices and marvellous manoeuvres — exciting chess is all about the Najdorf!
Mobina Alinasab keeps her pursuit alive after beating Antova Gabriela | Photo: Niklesh Jain
On this DVD Grandmaster Daniel King offers you a repertoire for Black against the Catalan, based around maintaining the rock of a pawn on d5. Keeping central control ultimately gives Black good chances to launch an attack against the enemy king.
Mariia won a topsy-turvy game | Photo: Niklesh Jain
Mariia Berdnyk was worse out of the opening, but fought hard and towards the end managed to trick her young opponent.
Top seed Zhu Jiner is still going strong | Photo: Niklesh Jain
It speaks volumes of this young girl's character that she has not given up in spite of a bad performance. Zhu Jiner is probably having one of the worst tournaments of her chess career, but she has kept herself going and won the ninth round.
The Ruy Lopez is one of the oldest openings which continues to enjoy high popularity from club level to the absolute world top. In this video series, American super GM Fabiano Caruana, talking to IM Oliver Reeh, presents a complete repertoire for White.
Aravindh managed to outplay his strong opponent Dmitrij Kollars | Photo: Niklesh Jain
Untitled Wang Shixu is having a fantastic tournament
Wang Shixu has performed admirably at this event. He started as the 50th seed and has managed to not only score his IM norm, but will be playing on the top board in round ten. He doesn't really speak English, but we got him in the studio, to have a look at his game and some of the variations!
IM Volodar Murzin
I will call him "the find of the tournament"! Everyone knew IM Volodar Murzin, who is just 13 years old, is talented. However, in this event he has shown some phenomenal understanding of the last phase of the game. Check out his win against Viktor Gazik, in which the youngster gives up two pawns for activity and wins the game!
Tactics time!
Many of us practice solving tactics regularly at home. But what we are unable to do is recreate a game like scenario during our practice session. Well, with this video we have tried to change that. We have captured the real time game between Leon Mendonca and P Iniyan. However, there were several tactics that were missed by both the players. WIM-elect Amruta Mokal tries to explain these tactics in the video and also tells you the amount of time both players had on their clocks when they reached this position.
FM Claus Dieter Meyer has put under the microscope a comprehensive fund of topical and timeless games / fragments. On video Hamburg GM Dr. Karsten Müller has outlined corner points of Meyer's work and created 14 tests plus 10 interactive test sets.
White to play and win
Black to play and win
The norm makers
After nine rounds, we have as many as twelve norms that were scored at the tournament. Five IM norms, Six WIM norms and one WGM norm. It is quite possible that few more norms will be made
IM Norms
Aronyak Ghosh
Wang Shixu
Audi Ameya
Garidmagnai Byambasuren
Aaryan Varshney
WGM norms
Polina Shuvalova
WIM norms
Antova Gabriela
Altantuya Boldbaatar
Avetisyan Mariam
Srishti Pandey
Toshali V
Supreetha Potluri
The players can choose the cookies they want to eat during the round | Photo: Niklesh Jain
Unlimited tea, coffee and green tea for the players | Photo: Niklesh Jain
For all those who are not into tea and coffee, they also have fruit juices | Photo: Niklesh Jain
Withdrawals from the tournament
As the rounds pass, the number of players withdrawing from the tournament is increasing. These are not just Iranian players, who anyway have more to worry about than just health issues. But if you look at the pairing list, there have been several withdrawals citing illness. But almost all of them have withdrawn after a loss. As a chess player I can completely understand the mental stress and helplessness one feels when s/he loses a game. If it is a winning game, it feels even worse. You are losing rating points like a leaking faucet, there is no longer a chance for making a norm, a medal finish is impossible to achieve. Why then should you continue? Let me give you an example from another sport — Cricket.
India's famous cricketer Anil Kumble at the Antigua 2002
"It was one of the bravest things I've seen on the field of play," said Viv Richards later. Batting at No. 7, Kumble was hit by Merv Dillon. He spat out blood but batted on for another 20 minutes. The series was poised 1-1 and this was the fourth Test. India declared at 513 for 9. The sight of Anil Kumble emerging from the pavilion, ready to bowl, his face bandaged, in the Antigua Test of 2002, is one of cricket's most inspiring. Kumble sent down 14 consecutive overs and became the first bowler to dismiss Brian Lara while bowling with a broken jaw. He was due to fly back to Bangalore the following day for surgery, and as he said, "At least I can now go home with the thought that I tried my best. Kumble's Test was drawn, West Indies declaring at 629 for 9. His reason for returning to bowl: "I didn't want to sit around" is as fine an example of the self-effacing statement as you will find in cricket. [Source: ESPNcricinfo]
If Kumble's incident teaches us something, then it is the fact that great players do not care about the result — the test match was anyway drawn. The feeling of going back home having tried your best is something that cannot be explained in words, it has to be felt.
Sagar ShahSagar is an International Master from India with two GM norms. He is also a chartered accountant. He loves to cover chess tournaments, as that helps him understand and improve at the game he loves so much. He is the co-founder and CEO of ChessBase India website, the biggest chess news outlet in the country.
Naturally, a universal approach using ...Nf6, ...g7-g6 and ...d7-d5 as the base would be very useful for players of all classes, saving time and energy and promising a fluid, dynamic position.
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Fat Fritz 2.0 is the successor to the revolutionary Fat Fritz, which was based on the famous AlphaZero algorithms. This new version takes chess analysis to the next level and is a must for players of all skill levels.
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In this video series Pert gives a strong and practical Black repertoire against the Anti-Sicilians such as the Bb5 Sicilian, the Grand Prix Attack, the Alapin and many more, from my years of experience playing the Sicilian.
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