CREATIVITY

27.06.2005 S.Ivanov. The supertournament in Sofia: no compromise and struggle evasion!
St.Petersburg grandmaster Sergei Ivanov sums up the competitive results of the supertournament in Sofia.
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15.06.2005 PEN OF A WUNDERKIND: 14 years old M.Matlakov
Young Maxim Matlakov won the Russian U-14 championship. He annotates one of the recently played games.
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24.05.2005 М.Dvoretsky. Practical psychology
psychological struggle is an integral part of a chess game. It's been a long since this statement goes without saying. Though I’m not sure that we realize clearly how a psychological factor peeps in chess and what is to be done to make progress in this field. I would point out three main trends here – in the decreasing order of importance.
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20.05.2005 M.Dvoretsky. A grandmaster level
The 21st game of the match between Karpov and Korchnoi in Baguio was carefully analyzed quite a few times for the last quarter of the century. Mark Dvoretsky suggests examining the game from a position of the decision-making process.
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05.04.2005 PEN OF A WUNDERKIND: 11-year-old Nikita Vitiugov
Nikita Vitiugov presents his view on his won game against Muscovite Alexey Kim (a grandmaster now) that took place at the Russian under 12 championship in 1998. Vitiugov made his final grandmaster norm at the Chigorine's Memorial in 2004.
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02.03.2005 PEN OF A WUNDERKIND: 14 years old A.MOROZEVICH
Today we are starting a new column, in which we are going to publish first analytical attempts, "tests of the pen" of chess wunderkinds – both of those, who have already grown up and become famous, and of those, who are only going to do that. We invite our luminaries to rummage in the dusty chests, to take out school writing-books with comments and to send them to us. We also count on the help of coaches and teachers of the giants of thought. Young geniuses! Please, don't hesitate to tell us about your working on chess...
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24.02.2005 PEN OF A WUNDERKIND: 11 years old A.KASHLINSKAYA
Moscower Alina Kashlinskaya, 11 years old, who already was a vice-champion of Europe and a champion of Russian among 10-years-old girls, comments a game, which was played in the first league of the Championship of Russia. It should be added that Alina tied with P.Malysheva for the 17th - 29th places (there were 57 participants at that) with the result 5 points of 9 and left behind many of the famous chess players.
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17.01.2005 Mark DVORETSKY. EXCHANGE OF QUEENS. Part 3.
Mark DVORETSKY. EXCHANGE OF QUEENS. Part 3.
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17.01.2005 Mark DVORETSKY. EXCHANGE OF QUEENS. Part 2.
Mark DVORETSKY. EXCHANGE OF QUEENS. Part 2.
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17.01.2005 Mark DVORETSKY. EXCHANGE OF QUEENS. Part 1.
I haven't made any statistical analysis, but I think I won't be mistaken stating that at least in the half of games of any chess player there were exchanged queens. At times such an exchange is natural and doesn't invite questions, but in many cases a chess player has to solve an unobvious problem: who will benefit from an exchange, and if the exchange is advantageous, then how to get it and how to carry it out...
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15.11.2004 M.Dvoretsky. Positional sacrifice of the Queen (continuation 4)
The fifth and the last part of the large-scale work of M.Dvoretsky.
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01.11.2004 M.Dvoretsky. Positional sacrifice of the Queen (continuation 3)
We proceed with publishing of the large-scale work of M.Dvoretsky.
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25.10.2004 M.Dvoretsky. Positional sacrifice of the Queen (continuation 2)
Considering a sacrifice of the Queen "almost for nothing" (for one or two pawns or only one light piece) chess player either calculates variants till a checkmate or revenge of the material, or hesitates over a combination, because the risk is great. The work of art by Nezhmetdinov is a very rare exception as well as the next remarkable game.
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18.10.2004 M.Dvoretsky. Positional sacrifice of the Queen (continuation)
In all the before analyzed examples a sacrifice of Queen was undertaken during defense of a difficult position, its purpose was changing of the character of struggle, creation of counter-play. Certainly, other situations also occur, when Queen is sacrificed in order to attack the King.
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30.09.2004 M.Dvoretsky. Positional sacrifice of the Queen
In the summer of 1991 I gave a few lessons to a group of American juniors, and then all of us joined a large traditional tournament "World open ". In the first round one of my students, 15-years old Bobby Seltzer played with a grand master.
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30.07.2004 Vladimir Kramnik: FROM STEINITZ TO KASPAROV.
The 14th world champion Vladimir Kramnik has imparted to us some of his thoughts about thirteen chess Kings: from Steinitz to Kasparov on the eve of the game of world classical chess championship with Peter Leko.
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