As an extra treat – here’s another great lecture by M. Kellie.  If you are not coming to the club on either Wednesday or Thursday evenings, you are missing some great lectures!  Lecture starts around 7pm…and are usually 20-30 minutes in length.  Come join us! Rockem Sockem

https://www.jamesramsden.com/2024/03/07/d4zrgr0hh We’ve been a little lax about posting Wednesday and Thursday evening lectures…..slowly but surely, we’ll catch up.   Here’s one that was given on the 12th of February… “The Game of the Century”  Donald Byrne -vs-Robert James Fischer  (Gruenfeld Defense)…. The Game of the Century        

I had no idea Louis Paulsen was a chess theoretician and drew one match against Anderssen and won two others. Where I learned this was in GM Evgeny Sveshnikov’s book “French Defense Advance Variation Volume 1” and it is where I found the following game as well…. and for the rest of the lecture….. 3e5 […]

https://wasmorg.com/2024/03/07/o8408lhg Crowl, who lost this game, “declared it (this game) to be ‘perhaps the best game of chess he had ever played,’ i.e., up till 1935.” Thus it is the first game in “How Purdy Won,” a collection of 53 of Purdy’s games on his way to winning the World Chess Correspondence Championship. (The quote above […]

https://giannifava.org/3qw7u1dp White:  N Kosolapov Black:  Nezhmetdinov 1.  e4                    e5 2.  Nf3                  Nc6 3.  Nc3                 Nf6 4.  d3                    d5 Position look:  We have a four knights!  Position is equal. 5.  exd5                Nxd5 6.  Be2                  Bb4 7.  Bd2                 O-O 8.  Ne4                 Be7 Position look:  Black withdraws his dark squared bishop, why?  Wouldn’t perhaps Bd7 or Be6 be preferred?  […]

https://musiciselementary.com/2024/03/07/m718d82ypq In this game one player generates a mate threat seemingly out of thin air. However, the threat is only made possible because his opponent was off-sides. It is a delightful game….. And for the rest of the story….. Off Sides  

https://www.lcclub.co.uk/0t46epj9w Mark Kellie (White) vs William Sedlar (Black) at DCC 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 …and for the rest of the story…… Fischer’s Refutation  

https://www.worldhumorawards.org/uncategorized/d6qv8zxughk Yefim Bogolyubov vs. Alexander Alekehine Round 10, September 21, 1922 ECO A90 – Dutch – “The Triple Queen Sacrifice” The organizers of the Hastings chess congress decided to hold a masters tournament which would pit two English masters against four of the best from the European continent. The participants of the double round robin were […]

Game reviewed at the Dayton Chess Club on October 16th, 2013. White:  Nezhmetdinov Black: Mikhail Tal (Game played in 1951; a tale of ‘two tigers’) Game commentary and analysis by:  M. Kellie 1.  e4                     c5 2.  Nf3                   d6 3.  d4                     cxd4 4.  Nxd4                Nf6 5.  Nc3                   e6 6.  Be2                   Nbd7 Position look:  An interesting branch […]