Sunday, October 28, 2012

du Chattel Blitz Games (n° 1 to 314)

http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2012/05/gift-for-philip-du-chattels-fans.html
Here is a link to the download of the first 314 games in zipped pgn format. This means that 33 new games have been added to the former file. 

https://hotfile.com/dl/177793196/e75bcb1/du_Chattel_Blitz_1_314.zip.html
This is what we can say of the new games:
  •  quite a few games where du Chattel plays white against chess engines;
  • 1.e4 Nh6 2.d4 g6 3.f3!? and 3.Bd3
  • 1.e4 Nh6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bc4
  • 1.e4 Nh6 2.Nf3 f6 no fianchetto!
  • 1.Nf3 Nh6 2.b3 g6 3.Bb2 f6
  • 1.e4 Nh6 2.d4 g6 3.Bc4 c6 4.Qf3 f6 5.h4 Nf7
  • 1.d4 g6 2.c4 Nh6 3.Nc3 d6 4.g3 f5
 Enjoy!

Sunday, October 21, 2012

du Chattel Blitz Games n° 1 to 281


http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2012/05/gift-for-philip-du-chattels-fans.html
Here is a link to the download of the first 281 games in zipped pgn format. This means that 34 new games have been added to the former file. 

https://hotfile.com/dl/176936066/71f7b4a/du_Chattel_Blitz_1_281.zip.html
This is what we can say of the new games:
  • some of them begin with the wild line 1.e4 Nh6 2.d4 g6 3.h4!?
  • 1.Nf3 Nh6 2.b3 f6 3.e4 e6 and 1.g3 Nh6 2.Nc3 g6 3.e4 Bg7
  • 1.Nf3 Nh6 2.b3 g6 3.Bb2 f6
  • 1.d4 g6 2.g3 Nh6
 Enjoy!

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Deep Saros ver. 3.1a free download


http://deepsaros.jimdo.com/
Deep Saros ver. 3.1a
- New experimental Evaluation functions
- New Time Manager
- Correct some bugs
- Some code optimizations

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The “Steps method”



 http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2012/10/the-steps-method.html
The “Steps method” is a relatively young method worked out by the former Dutch Federation coach and IM Cor van Wijgerden and Rob Brunia, chessplayer and specialist in pedagogics.
The essence of this method is that you learn certain themes, first in their easiest appearance but with each step some complexity is added.
There is a strong emphasis on tactics.
The “Steps method” contributed to give a good chess education to a whole generation of young dutch chessplayers.

What I like the most is that within the method chess knowledge and skills are  nicely structured. This means that the method’s serious student rarely fails in endgames with a few pieces, and rarely misses a combination too.

Step 6 http://www.chess-steps.com/step6.html  may really be the real step for a 1st class player to become a good candidate master.

The authors explain that it is required to integrate a serious study of the “Steps method” with:
  • Playing serious games;
  • Analysis of the games played.

Concerning Step 4 http://www.chess-steps.com/step4.html I have studied the first 4 lessons of the manual and I have gone through the same number of exercises in the workbook, with a success rate of about 85% So I can say that the indication that Step 4 is for players up to a USCF rating up to 1750 is quite ok.

It should be noted that Steps 1 to 5 are contained in the Tasc Chess CD 2    http://www.stappenmethode.nl/en/tasc-chess-cd-2.php

Additional material to the standard Steps  is available as well:

At last we want to highlight that International Master Cor van Wijgerden helped Chessity to develop an exciting new training concept:

To conclude, I can say that the material is well organized and challenging. Highly recommended.


PS my thanks to IM Gerard Welling for being a constant source of chess inspiration.


Saturday, October 6, 2012

du Chattel Blitz Games n° 1 to 247

http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2012/05/gift-for-philip-du-chattels-fans.html
Here is a link to the download of the first 247 games in zipped pgn format. This means that 59 new games have been added to the former file. 

https://hotfile.com/dl/175197868/af7ac07/du_Chattel_1_247.zip.html
This is what we can say of the new games:
  • they contain some annotations
  • in many cases du Chattel plays White;
  • some of them begin with the wild line 1.e4 Nh6 2.d4 g6 3.h4!?
  • 1.b3 Nh6 and 1.g3 Nh6 
  • a game starts with 1.e4 Nh6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 c6 4.f3 Qb6
 Enjoy!

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Steps Method

Too much time without publishing a post... so now I will simply introduce my next post, apart from the du Chattel's Blitz games. It will deal with an amazing method to learn chess. Here are the explanatory links:
http://www.chess-steps.com/index.html
http://www.stappenmethode.nl/en/index.php
A brief review of:
to follow soon. Soooo...Stay tuned