This is a page that will be devoted to turning books
... to
java-script <re-playable> games.
This is
NOT an attempt to subvert
or replace any book!!!
It is just an attempt to make the games available in a
js-replayable format.
The idea is to buy the book, and then use this page as an aid
to your studies.
Many games will NOT be annotated, or only
briefly annotated!!
I will purposely NOT reproduce the book in its entirety, so that to
garner the MAXIMUM BENEFIT, you will HAVE to buy the book!!!!!
***
NOTE:
Many of the older books are in the {now defunct, or not used}
descriptive notation. DOZENS of e-mails from Internet Students of mine
has convinced me that some people have a really HARD TIME reading
and/or converting this type of notation to algebraic. So I am doing this
as an attempt to help my students ... and as a public service.
***
(Note: For
a couple of years now, there has been an algebraic version of this book.
Therefore - this project is no
longer a high priority. March, 2003.)
BOOK # 1.) "The Art of Positional Play,"
by GM Sammy Reshevsky.
(One of the
reasons I chose this book, was I borrowed this book from a friend
in the 1970's. I spent several
months going through it. I have several students
who have asked me about this
book, so I thought it would be interesting to go
through it again as a Master.
Also, some people have great difficulty with the
descriptive notation in this book,
so .... I have converted the games to the
more modern algebraic notation. Get the book, and use this
SOLELY as an
aid to your
studies!! Enjoy. I'll try to do one game a week. 03/2002.)
Note: There have been rumors that parts of this book were
"ghost-written" by persons or
writers, other
than Reshevsky. (Chernev or Reinfeld.) As I cannot verify this, I
will
simply note
that this is a common practice in chess, dozens of GM's have done
this.
(See Larry
Evans column in the Magazine in "Chess Life," 2001-2002.)
***
(This first section of the book is
on weak pawns, and the consequences of having them.)
-
Game # 1,
Mark Taimanov - Wolfgang Uhlmann;
(Match, USSR vs. "The Rest of The World," 1970.)
In this game, the author examines the consequences of one
weak pawn ...
a weakness that was caused by the careful and methodical play
by White.
A fresh and different look at this game - several possibilities
that are ignored
by the author are noted by me.
But still a wonderful and
instructive game!!!
(I annotated this game in
depth, the rest will be lightly annotated. This is so you
will have to purchase
the book!!)
-
Game # 2, Vassily Smyslov - Victor Korchnoi;
(Match, Leningrad vs. Moscow, 1967.
An interesting game that discusses the consequences of a weak
pawn,
one that has been pushed too far up the board and cannot be
defended.
(A unit that has "outrun it's defenses.")
-
Game # 3,
Mikhail Tal - Miguel Najdorf;
(Match, USSR vs. "The Rest of The World,"
[Belgrade, YUG]; 1970.)
A game where Black gets multiple pawn islands, and gets his
pieces to bad
squares. Tal makes him pay for his sins. A great positional
masterpiece.
(And from a player you would NOT normally associate with
positional play!)
-
Game # 4,
Samuel
Reshevsky - Henrique Mecking;
(FIDE Interzonal Tournament, Sousse (TUN), 1967.
This game is a fantastic struggle, and one of the most complicated
games I
have ever bothered to analyze in depth. (My CB copy of this game - with a
diagram
after every move, and dozens of analysis diagrams - run nearly 50 pages!!!
It
took me from March until June to annotate this game; although
I did not work
on it real consistently.) The ending of Black's active pieces, (King,
Rook, and
Knight); plus his far advanced and passed RP ... versus White's Queen, a
King,
(that is trapped on the first row for many moves); plus 2 pawns is a game
of
[very] uncommon complexity and would probably bog down a super
computer!
Reshevsky focuses on the theme of un-supported pawn chains, and this
game
illustrates that concept very well. It is also an intense King's
Indian.
(Someone made a lot of mistakes in analyzing this game.)
But a fantastic game for some of the concepts it examines.
(The second section of the
book is on MAJORITIES and passed pawns.)
-
Game
# 5, GM Borislav
Ivkov - GM Viktor Korchnoi;
(International Tournament, Wijk aan Zee, Holland/NED,
1968.)
A great game by Korchnoi that clearly demonstrates the
power of a majority.
He cleanly finds his majority makes a passed pawn and then
promotes. A
good game to study for hours - if you would like to improve
your technique.
-
Game # 6,
GM
Lajos Portisch - GM Boris Spassky;
MATCH: U.S.S.R. vs. Hungary, Budapest, 1968.
A very good game, I saw this fantastic encounter a number
of years ago.
(It was NOT in Reshevsky's book.) It is a colossal
struggle, White gets
an edge early by making a strong passed Queen's-Pawn. Yet Black
did
NOT have to lose this game, as a careful study of Reshevsky's
notes
to this titanic clash will prove. (Portisch and Spassky were
easily both
in the top 10-20 in the world when this game was played.
Spassky was
to win the World's Chess Championship, the very next year - in
1969.
This game is annotated VERY poorly by Reshevsky, he misses
...
a ... MATE IN ONE!!! (See the sub-note after Black's 49th move.
The
move, 56. Kc6?? allows 56...Kd8; when White has to play a lot
of "give-away"
in order to prevent the threat of ...Rb6 mate.) He also gives
Black's 54th move ...
a DOUBLE-QUESTION MARK, when it is not
even the losing move. I
must
have found 10-20 errors in the notes to this game! (Further
strengthening the
notion that a large amount of this book was written by someone
other than
GM Samuel Reshevsky.)
A GREAT GAME (to study) FOR IMPROVING YOUR END-GAME
SKILLS!!
(My {ChessBase} version of this game - with a Diagram after
nearly every move,
and quite a few analysis diagrams - runs over 35 pages!!)
Note: See my letter to Larry Evans concerning this game in
the March, 2003
issue of 'Chess Life.'
(Page # 65, I believe.)
Stay tuned for more
games.
The first thing I would like to warn you against is that many
electronic databases DO NOT
contain the correct score of these games ... in fact, many databases don't have
the score
of these games at all!!! The way these games were done was I meticulously put
them
into ChessBase by hand, double-checking every step of the way. (Directly from
Reshevsky's
book.) I often cross-referenced them with other chess books or references from
my library.
When I (eventually) get done with this project, I will post a
download with just the basic
scores, {moves} (NO annotations) of these games in both PGN and the ChessBase
format.
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