Saturday, July 3, 2010

Games from CC 177

July 3, 2010

Each issue of our magazine includes several games by BCCA members, a large number of those games include annotations that are tremendous value in helping us understand the concepts behind the moves and the thoughts of the players. This page provides some of those games, please join BCCA to receive the full range of games [...]

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Richard Hall World Title Challenge

July 3, 2010
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BCCA member Grandmaster Richard Hall is challenging for the world title in the 17-player 25th CC World Championship Final. The full line-up for the final is as follows, Ralf Ǻkesson (Sweden) Igor Prívara (Slovakia) Fabio Finocchiaro (Italy) Sante Giuliani (Italy) Frank Schröder (Germany) Nikolai Ninov (Bulgaria) Iztok Brunšek (Slovenia) Jürgen Stephan (Germany) Ian Brooks (England) [...]

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Dismantling the Sicilian – Jesus de la Villa

July 3, 2010
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This book is a revised and updated version of Desmontados la Siciliana, which was published in Spain in 2003. I had been aware of the original for quite some time as it seemed to be held in very high esteem on several chess forums but I had been unable to obtain a copy, even from Spanish [...]

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Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch – Richard Palliser, Simon Williams, James Vigus

July 3, 2010
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From the cover blurb: “Dangerous Weapons … (will) … supply the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting ideas to revitalize his or her repertoire.” The authors have selected ten unfashionable variations in the Dutch Defence (though can anything about the Dutch be termed fashionable?), five for White and five for Black. With one exception, the [...]

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