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The Eighth Circle: January 2007
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Sunday, January 21, 2007. Survey: Why do you play chess? Post replies as comments. Answers may be as detailed, simple, serious, or humorous as you like. Monday, January 15, 2007. Beginning: 6 days, 600 problems! Most of the problems were pretty straightforward. A few, however, have inspired hour-long exhaustive explorations into the reasons behind every variation, especially logical-looking defensive moves that the opponent did NOT play. It seems that the "real" tactical program has for me begun tonight,...
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov. Are you so tired of your mortal coil that you seek your own (chess) death? Pssst, Read This! Conclusions Read this and weep! The World Chess Champion My Blog. Mr Gibiatovich Kramnik Who? On getting to know me. If I tell you, I'll have to kill you. Blue Devil Knight Chess is too serious. Board Scholar The Explorer. General Kaia The Runner. Montse Where's the rat? Pawn Sensei I'm French. Samurai Pawn Thinks of mountains. Sir Rocky Rook Windmills. Abandon All Hope,. Well I want to ...
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov. Are you so tired of your mortal coil that you seek your own (chess) death? Pssst, Read This! Conclusions Read this and weep! The World Chess Champion My Blog. Mr Gibiatovich Kramnik Who? On getting to know me. If I tell you, I'll have to kill you. Blue Devil Knight Chess is too serious. Board Scholar The Explorer. General Kaia The Runner. Montse Where's the rat? Pawn Sensei I'm French. Samurai Pawn Thinks of mountains. Sir Rocky Rook Windmills. Abandon All Hope,. You should have...
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov. Are you so tired of your mortal coil that you seek your own (chess) death? Pssst, Read This! Conclusions Read this and weep! The World Chess Champion My Blog. Mr Gibiatovich Kramnik Who? On getting to know me. If I tell you, I'll have to kill you. Blue Devil Knight Chess is too serious. Board Scholar The Explorer. General Kaia The Runner. Montse Where's the rat? Pawn Sensei I'm French. Samurai Pawn Thinks of mountains. Sir Rocky Rook Windmills. Abandon All Hope,. Well anyway sin...
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov
http://mrnezhmetdinov.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html
In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov. Are you so tired of your mortal coil that you seek your own (chess) death? Pssst, Read This! Conclusions Read this and weep! The World Chess Champion My Blog. Mr Gibiatovich Kramnik Who? On getting to know me. If I tell you, I'll have to kill you. Blue Devil Knight Chess is too serious. Board Scholar The Explorer. General Kaia The Runner. Montse Where's the rat? Pawn Sensei I'm French. Samurai Pawn Thinks of mountains. Sir Rocky Rook Windmills. Abandon All Hope,. Let me put it i...
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov. Are you so tired of your mortal coil that you seek your own (chess) death? Pssst, Read This! Conclusions Read this and weep! The World Chess Champion My Blog. Mr Gibiatovich Kramnik Who? On getting to know me. If I tell you, I'll have to kill you. Blue Devil Knight Chess is too serious. Board Scholar The Explorer. General Kaia The Runner. Montse Where's the rat? Pawn Sensei I'm French. Samurai Pawn Thinks of mountains. Sir Rocky Rook Windmills. Abandon All Hope,. I used to try a...
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov
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In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov. Are you so tired of your mortal coil that you seek your own (chess) death? Pssst, Read This! Conclusions Read this and weep! The World Chess Champion My Blog. Mr Gibiatovich Kramnik Who? On getting to know me. If I tell you, I'll have to kill you. Blue Devil Knight Chess is too serious. Board Scholar The Explorer. General Kaia The Runner. Montse Where's the rat? Pawn Sensei I'm French. Samurai Pawn Thinks of mountains. Sir Rocky Rook Windmills. Abandon All Hope,. Any half-seriou...
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The Eighth Circle: February 2007
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Monday, February 26, 2007. So I started to get behind in my schoolwork as a result of behind too obsessive-compulsive about the details of the tactical problems I was working through. My brain overloaded, I started to get depressed, and I had to drop the chess program :-(. Saturday, February 3, 2007. On that note: I am nearly a month into my First Circle, not having missed a single day of training! Some of the exercises, I have found, are meant to be "felt" positionally: you make a move or sequence of mo...
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The Eighth Circle: Beginning: 6 days, 600 problems!!!
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Monday, January 15, 2007. Beginning: 6 days, 600 problems! This is my First Circle. Over the past six days, I've blasted through all of the Level 10s through the Level 30s. I was surprised at how many of them I recognized from my attempt last May to complete the 7cir program. (Not that the solutions popped out immediately, but I got this "I've seen this before" feeling, and it didn't take long to find the solutions.). Question Number One for me will be: Why is 1.Rxf6 superior to Nxf6? The real reason Rxf...
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The Eighth Circle: Nightmare
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Saturday, February 3, 2007. The other night I had a flu-induced nightmare about chess. With a superior game, I moved my Queen where it could be captured, and my opponent simply took it. I made another move then immediately resigned in disgust, seizing the offending piece and hurling it against the wall, where it shattered. On that note: I am nearly a month into my First Circle, not having missed a single day of training! I believe this is exercise #910. The correct move is 1.b4! Would everyone agree with...