Summer 2008 [All] Provisional summer programme

See below for suggested timetable of sessions

  • 3rd June 2008. Last Pawns Match.
  • 10th June 2008. Country vs. Coast Match.
  • 17th June 2008. Introductory session (DR)
  • 24th June 2008. Douglas Phillips Quickplay.
  • 1st July 2008. Material imbalance I: Queen vs. Rooks (DR)
  • 8th July 2008. Chess Psychology (Ish)
  • 15th July 2008. Material imbalance II: Exchange sacrifices and their kin (DR)
  • 22nd July 2008. Planning in the endgame (DR)
  • 29th July 2008. The Secret of Not Losing (DR)
  • 5th August 2008. The Seven Deadly Chess Books (Simon)
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[B] 5th August 2008. The Seven Deadly Chess Books (Simon)

[and congratulations Simon and Faye!]

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[All] 29th July 2008. The Secret of Not Losing (DR)

It is clear that I haven't yet got the hang of this myself...

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[C] 22nd July 2008. Planning in the endgame (DR)

Lessons that can be applied elsewhere, I hope; if you have examples of games where you have struggled, send them in.

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[C] 15th July 2008. Material imbalance II: Exchange sacrifices and their kin (DR)

Sacrifices for attack and positional sacrifices.

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[All] 8th July 2008. Chess Psychology (Ish)

Looking forward to this one!

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[All] 17th June 2008 . Introductory session (DR)

At the moment I'm thinking about starting as we did last year, asking everyone to list three things they do well (or are conscious of trying do well) and then three things that they want to get better at. Are they the same things as last year?!

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[All] 12th May 2008 Comments

I'm trying out a new comments system, vaguely anticipating a new season of coaching sessions. Suggestions and comments invited. What did I leave out last year?

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[All] 5th April 2008 London 1922

Some of you may know that I've done a bit of work editing and typesetting for Hardinge Simpole, and my first project for them was pulling together everything I could find about the tournament in London in 1922 (which gave its name to the London System). It would have pleased me to be able to include some splendid cartoons that I've just come across: enjoy...

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter14.html#3937._Comic_strips

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Help on using inserted games [PalView].

I've re-worked this page to use PalView, which I think is wonderful; had I been starting from scratch now, I'd use it for everything.

  1. Whole games will be displayed in a new window or tab if you follow the link; play through them if you like, then come back to the main text.
  2. The control panel buttons are, in order:
  3. |<
    <<
    <
    >
    >>
    >|
    ^
    ( )
    /\
    Go to start
    Back 5 moves
    Back
    Forward
    Forward 5 moves
    Go to end
    Flip board
    Autoplay
    Step into variations

    It's working for you, you should see a diagram and a game which will open a new window to play through below:

    Keen C.
    Ward G.

    Exeter vs. Met. Office
    2008


    21... Rf8










    (White to move) ... 1-0 (42) 1-0

  4. Visitors without Javascript, and perhaps with other configurations, may not be able to view and play through these games as intended.  You can download all the games and positions as a PGN file, and this can be viewed using a PGN viewer (N.B. WinBoard is also a PGN viewer, as well as a front end for GNU chess and online play.)
  5. Any other problems, suggestions, etc., let me know.
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KEY to classes [explanation]

class A class B class C class D

class [All]