Bowen Island has kibitzed 114 times to chessgames   [less...]

Jul-17-14 Stein vs S Schweber, 1966   Bowen Island: This game collection is from Johan Hellsten's, "Mastering Chess Strategy". I borrowed the book from the local library and found it to be a wonderful resource. The book has 240 illustrative games from I.M.s and GMs, as well as 382 test positions at the back of the book. ...      Jul-17-14 Z Milev vs Petrosian, 1953   Bowen Island: Game in the Miscellaneous section of Hellsten's "Mastering Chess Strategy." Hellsten's analysis starts with Black's 15....c4, readying 16.....Nc5. 23. Bd4? If 25. Rxe8+ Rxe8; 26. hg3 Re1+!      Jul-17-14 Tal vs K Darga, 1960   Bowen Island: Game 187 in Hellsten's "Mastering Chess Strategy;" provocation by provoking weaknesses in the enemy camp, particularly through 15....g6, then by exploiting the position of the Black Knight on d7 through a series of pins.      Jul-16-14 J H Donner vs W Balcerowski, 1962   Bowen Island: Chapter six of Hellsten's "Mastering Chess Strategy" focuses on more indirect means of creating weaknesses in the opponent's forces and/or improving one's position through Prophlaxis; Restriction; and Provocation. The game above from the 1962 Olympiad highlights the use of ...      Jul-16-14 Salov vs Karpov, 1998    Bowen Island: Game 123 in Hellsten's book "Mastering Chess Strategy" focusing particularly on "Pawn Play." After 10....Qc7, White aims for Black's Queen-side where Black is behind in development and somewhat cramped. Moves 11-19 White focuses on Black's a-file. 11. a4 with the idea of an ...      Jul-08-14 Spassky vs Taimanov, 1956    Bowen Island: Pawn Play: Creating Weaknesses Hellsten starts with Black's 11th move with a small combination "softening up" the d4 square. By Black's 18th move Black has carried out his mission. Moves 21-29 allows Black to reposition his N on d4, its optimal square. Next Black limits ...      Jul-07-14 Adams vs O Renet, 1992    Bowen Island: Another example of "Pawn Play" is given here in this Rapid Game from Cannes. 12 f5! is better than g4 g5. Hellsten prefers 18 Nxc6 Nxc6; 19 h5 b4; 20. Rdf1 planning 21 hg6 fg6; 21 f7+      Jul-07-14 Karpov vs Gligoric, 1972    Bowen Island: 25 bxc5, dxc5 26 d5 (creates a protected passed pawn) ...Na4 27 c4 (stops Black's 27 ...c4, 28...Bc5 which have removed White's better Bishop). With the centre closed and Black's N on a4 and B on b7 White opens lines on the King-side with 29 f4. 31 f5 limits Black's room on the      Jul-06-14 Kharlov vs A Villavicencio, 1997   Bowen Island: This game is covered by Hellsten in his book, "Mastering Chess Strategy," focusing on exchanging to realize a positional advantage. The author focuses on moves 12 to 32 after which the win is merely a matter of temp!      Jul-06-14 Alekhine vs Capablanca, 1927    Bowen Island: In Hellsten's "Mastering Chess Strategy" this game is given in his notes, on page 96, as an example of how to exchange pieces to improve one's (in this case White's) position.      Jul-03-14 Khalifman vs Leko, 1997    Jul-03-14 Kasparov vs J Piket, 1997     Jun-26-14 Kramnik vs Gelfand, 1997    Jun-25-14 Gligoric vs Unzicker, 1973    May-28-14 H Opsahl vs J Therien, 1936    May-09-14 A Beliavsky vs A Yusupov, 1987     May-06-14 Marcel Bieler     May-02-14 Timman vs Velimirovic, 1979     Apr-23-14 Spassky vs Beickert, 1991     Apr-23-14 Spassky vs Krasenkow, 1991    Apr-13-14 O Quinones Carrillo vs K Darga, 1964    Mar-30-14 Valentin Bogdanov     Mar-29-14 Clark vs G Burgess, 1989     Mar-11-14 V I Lenin vs M Gorky, 1908     Jan-09-14 Kasparov vs Short, 1987     Dec-24-13 Ivar Bern     Dec-19-13 Grigory Ravinsky     Dec-13-13 Jacob Aagaard     Jun-26-13 J Cukierman vs Tartakower, 1930     Jun-20-13 I Popov vs D Frolyanov, 2013     Jun-19-13 Alekhine vs Spielmann, 1923     Jun-10-13 Gelfand vs Short, 1990     Jun-10-13 Short vs Gelfand, 1992     Jun-01-13 Pelletier vs A S Hagen, 2013     May-17-13 Spielmann vs Duras, 1912    May-11-13 Pirc vs Spielmann, 1931    Apr-06-13 Igor Glek     Apr-05-13 Glek vs Rozentalis, 1994    Apr-05-13 Glek vs W Maes, 1991    Apr-04-13 W N Watson vs T Nielsen, 1988    Apr-04-13 Glek vs F Kroeze, 1996     Feb-24-13 P Blechschmidt vs Flohr, 1930    Dec-24-12 V Inkiov vs Psakhis, 1982     Dec-24-12 A R Andersen vs A Gronnestad, 2003     Nov-03-12 G Andruet vs M Cocozza, 1984    May-29-12 T Shaked vs Leko, 1997     May-28-12 R Schmaltz vs Romanishin, 2001    May-21-12 Anand vs Gelfand, 2012     May-02-12 Shirov vs S Williams, 2006     Apr-29-12 J Werle vs A Dgebuadze, 2002    Apr-23-12 L Aronson vs Korchnoi, 1951    Apr-22-12 Van Wely vs Minasian, 1999    Apr-12-12 D Berczes vs R Nanjo, 2012    Apr-12-12 E Agrest vs S Williams, 2004     Apr-11-12 P J Sowray vs R Pert, 2005     Apr-10-12 N Dzagnidze vs A Skripchenko, 2011    Apr-03-12 Ganguly vs Shulman, 2011    Apr-03-12 K Dolzhykova vs E Sedina, 2009    Apr-03-12 Oll vs V Eingorn, 1989     Apr-02-12 K Mokry vs I Farago, 1993    Apr-02-12 C Briscoe vs S Williams, 2007    Apr-02-12 Morozevich vs Lputian, 2007    Mar-30-12 Timman vs Huebner, 1985    Mar-30-12 W N Watson vs Gulko, 1985     Mar-30-12 M Manik vs A Yusupov, 2005    Mar-29-12 Jobava vs G Dizdar, 2003    Mar-29-12 O Brendel vs A Yusupov, 2002    Mar-28-12 S Erenburg vs S Williams, 2005    Mar-28-12 G Valenti vs A Cioara, 2010    Mar-28-12 H Ni vs H Wang, 2006    Mar-28-12 Rublevsky vs S Volkov, 2009    Mar-27-12 S Azarov vs A Berescu, 2005    Mar-27-12 A Persson vs E Berg, 2006    Mar-26-12 J Emms vs S Williams, 1999    Mar-23-12 Grischuk vs Short, 2000     Mar-22-12 Shabalov vs Shirov, 2005     Mar-22-12 Ljubojevic vs M Gurevich, 1991     Jan-03-12 Suttles vs Smyslov, 1970     Dec-27-11 Glek vs P Nikolic, 1997    Dec-20-11 T Shaked vs I Morovic Fernandez, 1997    Nov-06-11 Euwe vs V Sjoberg, 1920     Jun-03-11 Ftacnik vs J Klinger, 1986    May-28-11 V Makogonov vs Botvinnik, 1940     Nov-25-10 J Bellin vs F Aghasiyeva, 2006     Nov-12-10 Kotov vs G Goldberg, 1949     May-09-10 Anand vs Topalov, 2010     May-06-10 Anand vs Topalov, 2010     May-02-10 Y Estrin vs J M Boey, 1978     May-01-10 B Larsen vs K Rogoff, 1968     May-01-10 Anand vs Topalov, 2010     Apr-27-10 Topalov vs Anand, 2010     Apr-28-09 A Samsonkin vs Nakamura, 2009     Apr-05-09 Dmitry Jakovenko     Sep-18-08 C Lip vs N Mills, 2001

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