[blind-chess] Annotated Games Feedback
- From: "Paul Benson" <paul.benson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:56:21 +0100
Hello all,
Rod, I agree with Richard on all counts. Keep as much of the biographical
details in as you can.
I believe that many members will be transferring these articles to documents,
and storing for re-reading on a rainy day, in the years to come. You are
effectively creating a book where each article is a chapter.
You mentioned you would be happy to include suggestions, may I suggest an
English player?
The obvious ones would be Nigel Short or Michael Adams. Both reached the final
of the World Championship, sadly losing, Adams actually within a hair's breadth
of winning it. I imagine many of their games will have appeared in publications
available to you, so they should not be total strangers.
I would however, like to recommend another player. His style of chess was
mixed, positional, tactical, inventive, or occasionally simply bizarre. Yes, I
said was, he has moved on, to compete in a far longer tournament, than the 3
score year and 10 time control, that we find ourselves in presently.
He was fiercely competitive, once having queen and 2 pawns against the
opponent's queen and 4 pawns, and much worse positionally to boot. Did he
resign? No way, he fought tooth and nail, reducing it to queen and 1 pawn
against queen and 2 pawns. It was still worse, but the fighter in him kept
battling, for a hard earned draw.
It was in 1980 in the European Team Championships, held in Skara, that he
produced the following:
He was black, and the game went,
1. e4 a6
2. d4 b5
and an opening system was born. There are transpositional possibilities to the
Sicilian, but not precisely. He went on to win this game. The opening was named
The Saint George's, after the patron saint of England, though the George
concerned was born in what is present-day Turkey.
Did I mention who white was in that famous game? Only reigning World Champion,
Anatoly Karpov. So, who is the hero of that hour? Tony Miles, England's first
Grand Master, and in case you had not guessed, a favourite of mine.
-----Original Message-----
From: R Dinger - Email Address: rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 05/09/2010 16:38
Sent To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Email Address: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-chess] Re: Annotated games feedback
Hi Rod,
Both the background and the games are quite interesting.
Those that do not want to look at the bio material can always skip over it,
but if that material was not included those interested would have no
alternative. So I say leave it in, but continue to flag sections for anyone
that wants to skip something.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roderick Macdonald" <rmacd@xxxxxxxx
To: "Blind Chess Mailing List" <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 11:05 PM
Subject: [blind-chess] Annotated games feedback
Hi all,
I have now posted two annotated games and would like to solicit some
feedback, especially on one point:
In posting the two games (and those planned), I have included fairly
lengthy biographies of the players. I think this is of interest - I think
I think. If folks feel otherwise please do speak up. But assuming the bios
are of itnerest, the next question is ... do I include the bios with every
game, even if the bio for one or the other player has appeared previously?
Or do I just give a bio for players who have not appeared int hese games
previously? In the first case each game can stand alone and folks who may
not have see past games will still ahve the bio information. Int he second
case previously-submitted information is not re-sent so things are
shorter.
I do hope to give fairly comprehensive background material on plaayers who
were recognized as World Champions or United States Champions. As an
example I included a fair amount of information about Adolf Anderssen in
Annotated Game #002. If you would prefer shorter "stuff" by all means
speak up.
Rod
========== The blind-chess mailing list View list information and change
your settings: //www.freelists.org/list/blind-chess List archives:
//www.freelists.org/archives/blind-chess =========
==========
The blind-chess mailing list
View list information and change your settings:
//www.freelists.org/list/blind-chess
List archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/blind-chess
=========
Paul.
Other related posts:
