London chess classic 2012

David Norwood this is the third time I've seen him mentioned
in the past week.

I'm doing a spot of research for a piece I'm doing elsewhere about reviewing
chess books and I came across this quote from him:

"I have written more chess books than what I have read."

and by coincidence I was playing over a game of his
in that Learn from the Greats book I mentioned in another thread.

Watch how White wrapped this up. Smashing OTB calculation.

D.Norwod - S.Marsh Walsall 1992

Originally posted by greenpawn34
David Norwood this is the third time I've seen him mentioned
in the past week.

I'm doing a spot of research for a piece I'm doing elsewhere about reviewing
chess books and I came across this quote from him:

"I have written more chess books than what I have read."

and by coincidence I was playing over a game of his
in that [b]Learn from the G Kb6 3. Rb1+ Ka6 4. Bb7+ Ka5 5. Bd2+ Ka4 6. Bc6+ Kxa3 7. Bc1+ Ka2 8. Rb2+ Ka1 9. Nc2[/pgn]

That is an amazing calculation over the board. I would have been too chicken to give up my Queen like that without having been able to calculate it to an advantage, which i am sure I would not have done. I would have played it safe with Rb1+ driving the black king away and then took the knight.

But then he might have moved the other knight to block the check and I would have to move Ne5 or Nxd4 to put more attacking pieces on the knight. However, my Queen is being attacked by the pawn, so that is not going to work. So I would be forced to retreat my Queen to e1.

Then perhaps this is why he put all his efforts into the queen sacrifice. The only other possiblitiy for white would be to take the e6 pawn immediately since the rook is guarding his queen.

Although the King hunt is all checks (and therefore aids calculation.)
it still requires a lot of skill to store the King position and White pieces
in your head as you do the calculation with the clock ticking.

Of course the main skill is actually seeing the possible shot in the
first place and the diagram should have been taken back a move or two.

From what I can gather the game was played in Round 1 and the loser,
Sean Marsh often refers to David Norwood as the man he made famous
for being on the losing end of this brilliancy.

http://marshtowers.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/chess-characters.html

Good Blog that, very well written, I've added it to my list of Blogs for a rainy day raid.

Here is the full game.

D.Norwood - S.Marsh Walsall 1992

It's turns into a KIA with Black castling Queenside.
We then watch both players trying to open files against each others King
to see who can get in the first strike.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Although the King hunt is all checks (and therefore aids calculation.)
it still requires a lot of skill to store the King position and White pieces
in your head as you do the calculation with the clock ticking.

Of course the main skill is actually seeing the possible shot in the
first place and the diagram should have been taken back a move or two. That backward Knight move would have been so hard to 'see' 9 moves ago in your head.}[/pgn]

That is even better, since he gave up the exchange on purpose. Now we need to figure out if black could have saved himself with some other move than 27...f5. I am not meaning that 27...f5 saves him since we see it doesn't, but maybe he had a better move.

P.S. I don't have time to think about it today for I have to take my wife in to the hospital for shoulder replacement and wiil be there most of the day.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Although the King hunt is all checks (and therefore aids calculation.)
it still requires a lot of skill to store the King position and White pieces
in your head as you do the calculation with the clock ticking.

Of course the main skill is actually seeing the possible shot in the
first place and the diagram should have been taken back a move or two. ...[text shortened]... That backward Knight move would have been so hard to 'see' 9 moves ago in your head.}[/pgn]

Holy Cow! What a game!! I dream of finishing one like that. Don't think it'll ever happen though. The whole combo just comes out of nowhere. Superb. 😀

Originally posted by RJHinds
but maybe he had a better move.

25..e5 perhaps? 25..Qe7 doesn't look right to me, black just surrenders and allows the bishop to dominate the centre. I think perhaps he was intending to swing the Queen over to the Kingside but as can be seen, he just doesn't have time for that...

Here is a link to a site which is showing the games live from the London Chess Classic:
http://www.chessdom.com/london-chess-classic-2012/

It's much better than the official one.

Been watching the official one...
I don't mind it so much, how they switch between games, but where is the Anand commentary?

Supposedly, the competitors who aren't playing on the day join in on the commentary... Has he been and gone?

Originally posted by 64squaresofpain
Has he been and gone?

He probably agreed a draw after two sentences.

No draws in the first round.
McShane - Carlsen 0-1
Aronian - Nakamura 0-1
Kramnik - Polgar 1-0
Jones - Adams 0-1

Good to see rivals Carlsen and Nakamura gain victories, both using black....
perhaps setting the standard to expect for the remaining rounds 🙂

Can't rule out Kramnik though! Bd7 was tremendous...

Originally posted by 64squaresofpain
Good to see rivals Carlsen and Nakamura gain victories, both using black....
perhaps setting the standard to expect for the remaining rounds 🙂

Can't rule out Kramnik though! Bd7 was tremendous...

poisoned bishop!

That. Was. Amazing.

Some fun commentary in the Classic today,
analysis thus far provided by GM's Nigel Short, Daniel King and Mickey Adams (thankful after his 91 moves win yesterday!)

Commentary has been momentarily postponed as they gave a "book of the year" award ceremony during live feed...

This years winner was Willy Hendriks, with his book "Move first, think later"

Here is a review of the book by chessvibes: http://www.chessvibes.com/reviews/review-move-first-think-later

I'm kinda interested in getting a copy 🙂

p.s. the chess play has been interesting so far, though they still haven't looked at Anand's game yet (which as FatLady would probably predict will be a draw lol)

Originally posted by 64squaresofpain
Some fun commentary in the Classic today,
analysis thus far provided by GM's Nigel Short, Daniel King and Mickey Adams (thankful after his 91 moves win yesterday!)

Commentary has been momentarily postponed as they gave a "book of the year" award ceremony during live feed...

This years winner was Willy Hendriks, with his book "Move first, think looked at Anand's game yet (which as FatLady would probably predict will be a draw lol)

That sounds like a good way to lose games and get a low chess rating.

"Move first, think later"

Perhaps it's a new brand of psychology. 😏