I plan to give checkmates. Again.

I am invited to play in an international master tourney in Budapest at the Hungarian chess federation. It will be a round-robin tourney of 9-11 rounds depending on the number of players. The tourney will start Saturday and we'll play a one round every day. My goal is to play my best chess. The instructive games will be analysed and and shared here. The time control will be 90 minutes/players plus 30 seconds per moves for 40 moves, then 30 minutes and 30 seconds/move for the rest of the game.

Queen-Knight cooperation

I solved my daily 5 puzzles. The first 4 was easy and needed only 1 minute for all of them, then the last one was hard, I used 3 minutes to solve it. So Today I worked 4 minutes on the puzzles.

Can you solve the puzzle which gave me the challenge? :)

The pawn-knight-rook checkmate combo

Today I used 6 minutes for the 5 examples, 4 were very easy and took around 15 seconds each, but the 5th was quite hard and I used 5 minutes to solve it. It shows a nice motive when a pawn, a knight and a rook can checkmate the king which has 2 pawns which block him.

Can you solve it? Can you post a comment on this post where you write how many minutes did you use? 

9 moves checkmate in the study with trainingbot

I solved 5 checkmate examples with trainingbot. I used 3 minutes for the 5 checkmates.

I like most this 9 moves forced checkmate. Can you find the solution? :)

29.08.2010. Training with Alex

I slept very well around 10 hours long and got up at 8. I needed that, because over the week I got up at 5:30 am and went to sleep around midnight most of the days, because of social life We talked a lot and looked movies.

Around 10am I went to the Gellert-mountain and picked figs from the trees, also climbed some to get sweet, riped ones from the top. I enjoyed it very much. I ate a lot for lunch and filled a big box with figs for tomorrow.

At 13:30pm we went to the vegetarian festival with Gorge. Just catched the tram in the last second, before the door was closed.

I attended 2 lectures about healthy living and foods. They said, it is very important to eat fresh fruits and vegetables and whole foods. Stop eating, white bread, white sugar, coffee, black tea, smoking and alcohol. Fresh air, clean water and sunshine are good for us. Also very important to be healthy on all levels. We need harmony in our body, soul and spirit.

At 17:00 We met with Iza to talk, walk and pick figs on the Gellert-mountain. We had a great time together. She talked about the new novel She started to write.

We had a lesson with Axel between 19:00-20:15

He solved the checkmate from my last game, which I showed in the last blog post. Then He solved 3 examples from trainingbot. He was very fast. I think he arrived to a new level.

Then we analysed 2 of his last games and studied about the ideas of weak and strong squares. We studied also about exchange good pieces for bad pieces. About weak pawns and what to do if a player has a development advantage: Try to exchange pawns to open the position and try to attack the king and pawns, be aggressive! You need to win before the opponent develops and save the position.

In this game in the first 12 moves he played very well, like a master. Then made a mistake, but the opponent did not look it. Axel developed all of his pieces and got a winning knight in the center:

After the lesson I created a great dinner. I cooked potato with cabbage and spices, made salad from cabbage, onion and paprika with cumin, salt, lemon and sun seed oil. I made a dessert from wheat flakes with cinnamon. Then I wrote this blog and ate in the same time and also George arrived home and we talked a bit about the book stores and publishing.

I will finish this post, then I eat the dessert while read and go to sleep. Bye-bye, Have a great day!

Pretty checkmate with rooks

I played a 45 45 game with a player from Argentina and he gave me a very nice checkmate. I made a mouseslip with the rook and moved to g5 instead of g4 where I lost the echange and he played well the endgame. Wello done! :)

Holiday

Today is a blog free day.