Monthly Archives: January 2007

My first Team 45 45 League game

By Steve | Published: January 22, 2007
(199) FiendAngelical (1634) – MathWorker (1503) [B01] Team 45 45 League T32 Internet Chess Club (1), 21.01.2007 I recently joined the Team 45 45 League, and I just played my first game in Round 1 of the latest tournament. This league plays slow games (G/45 + 45 second increment) on the ICC. I’m on the team [...]
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Fun with bad chess translations

By Steve | Published: January 12, 2007
Earlier this week, Globular ranted about a badly translated chess book. This got me to thinking about those famously bad translated instructions in certain imported products, and what it would be like to read chess principles written in a similar style. It turns out you can simulate the effect pretty easily using an online automatic [...]
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Using ChessBase for a “Hall of Shame”

By Steve | Published: January 4, 2007
Dan Heisman tells his students to keep a “Hall of Shame” notebook. Each time you make a gross error in a game, one that you are determined never to repeat, record the position in your Shame notebook. This way you’ll build up a kind of personal study book. If you keep a database of your games [...]
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A Puzzling Error

By Steve | Published: January 4, 2007
In round 1 of the MCC Winter Warmer Swiss this week, I ended up with a draw in a game that I should have won easily, and that I deserved to lose. I want to explore the “should have won” part – in particular, a most puzzling error. To lead up to the error, let’s start [...]
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