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

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 […]

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 […]

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?  […]

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  

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