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Monday, February 26, 2018

What Did Alekhine Actually Write for Nazi Publication?

Something of historical note regarding Alekhine. This is a post by Taylor Kingston to Chess Book Collectors. While I'd heard of these writings by Alekhine, I'd never actually read any of them. Here is Taylor's post and link...

"A few days ago the infamous anti-Semitic 1941 articles attributed to Alekhine on "Jewish and Aryan Chess" were mentioned here. To my knowledge a good English translation of these is not available online, so I took a few minutes to scan the very good translation found in "The Personality of Chess" by Horowitz and Rothenberg (New York 1963) and made them into a pdf, available through the link below. Included also is Alekhine's denial in 1946 of ever having written the articles.
Let me be clear: I am presenting these only for the sake of those who, like me, have an interest in chess history. I do not at all endorse what these articles say. As to the question of Alekhine's authorship, I think it likely, though not absolutely certain, that he did write them. For more on that, see the Edward Winter article linked to in the first comment below."


https://taylorkingstononchess.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/jewish-and-aryan-chess.pdf

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/alekhine.html

Monday, February 19, 2018

Unrated Yixin Xi of UMass Chess Club Wins First Tournament, Earns 2461 Provisional Rating

Xi is reportedly the strongest player in the UMass Amherst Chess Club. He played his first tournament, an event run by the Western Mass Chess Association. What follows is part of the pgn of his last round game which he won. The game "continued for many moves as Black easily won the ending."
https://connecticutchess.blogspot.com/2 ... s+Magazine)

[Event "2018 WMA Championships"]
[Site "Amherst, MA"]
[Date "2018.02.11"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Ian Dudley"]
[Black "Yixin Li"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Classes "?"]
[ECO "A36"]
[TimeControl "G90d5"]
[WhiteElo "0"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. d3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 d6 6. e4 e5 7. Nge2 Nge7 8. O-O
O-O 9. h3 Be6 10. Kh2 Nd4 11. f4 f5 12. Be3 Nec6 13. Nd5 Rb8 14. Rb1 b5 15. a3
Kh8 16. cxb5 Rxb5 17. Nec3 Rb8 18. Qa4 fxe4 19. dxe4 Bxd5 20. Nxd5 Rb3 21.
Bxd4 Nxd4 22. Qxa7 Ne2 23. Rf3 Rxf3 24. Bxf3 exf4 25. Qe7 Qxe7 26. Nxe7 fxg3+
27. Kg2 Nd4 28. Bg4 Re8 29. Nd5 Rxe4 30. Kxg3 h5 31. Bd7 Re5 32. Nc3 Re7 33.
Bc8 Rc7 34. Ba6 Nf5+ 35. Kf2 Ra7 36. Bd3 Bxc3 37. bxc3 Rxa3 0-1

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Time Trouble Hell for Nakamura

What time trouble can do........Carlsen wins when Nakamura gets the short end of a Queen exchange. 68.Qg8 is a crusher. 


[Event "Fischer Random Rapid 2018"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Nakamura, Hikaru"]
[Site "Baerum NOR"]
[Round "4"]
[Annotator "Prime"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Date "2018.02.10"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[Setup "1"]
[FEN "rb3rk1/1q1p2pp/p1n1p3/1p6/4P3/4NP2/PP1Q1BPP/2R2RK1 b - - 0 17"]

{[#]} 17... Bf4 18. Bg3 Bxg3 19. hxg3 Rac8 20. Ng4 Ne7 21. Qg5 Ng6 22. Rxc8 Rxc8 23. Rd1 Rc2 24. Qd8+ Nf8 25. Kh2 Rc5 26. Rd6 b4 27. Rb6 Qa7 28. e5 Rc8 29. Qe7 Ng6 30. Qxb4 h5 31. Rb7 Qc5 32. Qe4 hxg4 33. Qxg6 Qd5 34. Rb3 gxf3 35. Rxf3 Rf8 36. Rd3 Qxe5 37. Rxd7 Rf5 38. Rd8+ Rf8 39. Rd7 Rf5 40. Rd8+ Rf8 41. Rxf8+ Kxf8 42. b4 Qe2 43. a4 Qa2 44. a5 Qc4 45. Qb1 Kg8 46. Qe1 Kh7 47. Qe3 Qxb4 48. Qd3+ g6 49. Qxa6 Qc5 50. Qb6 Qh5+ 51. Kg1 Qd1+ 52. Kf2 Qd2+ 53. Kf3 g5 54. Qxe6 Qxa5 55. Kg4 Qa8 56. Qf7+ Kh8 57. Qh5+ Kg7 58. Qxg5+ Kh8 59. Kh3 Qa1 60. Qd8+ Kg7 61. Qe7+ Kg8 62. g4 Qc3+ 63. Kh4 Qb2 64. Qe8+ Kg7 65. Qd7+ Kg6 66. Qd6+ Kg7 67. Qd5 Kg6 68. Qg8+ 1-0