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    Chess Movies 1: Quick Tricks
    Chess Movies 1: Quick Tricks
    Chess Movies 1: Quick Tricks
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    Chess Movies 1: Quick Tricks

    By Bruce Pandolfini

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    Lights! Action! Chess! Chess Movies represents a new idea in the Pandolfini Chess Library series. It offers instructional material with every single move diagrammed and explained. Thus a chessboard and pieces are not needed to follow through. This makes it possible to rely solely on the book itself, as one would with a text on tactics and problems, without having to set up the positions, even though the present volume, Quick Tricks, contains games of ten full moves or more. It’s almost as if one is sitting in a movie theater, watching the film roll by, with the narrative carried along by subtitles. But whereas a film seen in the theater just keeps going, here you can “stop-the action and take time thinking about what you’re seeing and what’s being explained to you, as if you were home watching on your own DVD. In this first offering of the series, Quick Tricks, the reader (viewer) is provided with a collection 64 neat traps and shots in the opening, illustrations often stemming from the practice of the world’s best players. There’s a variety too, so that you can sample different openings and variations. All you have to do is read the beginning paragraph, sit back in your living room, on your favorite flight, commuter bus or train ride, and pleasure your way through each informative film. It’s also a great way to prepare for upcoming competition. Just find a comfortable chair and spend a few hours watching, learning, and enjoying your way into shape.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRussell Enterprises, Inc.
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9781936490073
    Chess Movies 1: Quick Tricks
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    Bruce Pandolfini

    Bruce Pandolfini is one of the world’s most sought-after chess teachers and one of the most widely read chess writers working today. His role as analyst for PBS’s coverage of the 1972 match between chess superstars Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky first launched him into the public eye. His coaching of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin was portrayed in the book and film Searching for Bobby Fischer. He is a regular columnist for Chess Life, the bible of the chess world, and continues to coach young players professionally and consults for CEOs from numerous Fortune 500 companies. Pandolfini also created over 300 hypothetical games as a consultant for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. He lives in New York City.

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      It's a wonderful compilation, and Pandolfini's lucid walk-throughs result in insights you don't get with other chess instructors. Highly recommend, even for highly rated players: each of the traps contained in "Chess Movies" snared a grandmaster or three, so there's no downside to really understanding these inside and out.

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    Chess Movies 1 - Bruce Pandolfini

    2010

    (1) Marec Vokac vs. Peter Bazant

    The Orangutan Opening [A00]

    Czech Republic 1996

    Animal House

    Among the various animals that have lent their name to chess must be included the Orangutan. It’s said that name was thought up by grandmaster Savielly Tartakover in 1924, when he was a participant in the great New York Tournament of the same year. Early one day during the event he visited the Central Park Zoo and encountered, for the first time in his life, a live orangutan. He was so struck by the creature (who wouldn’t be), that he decided to do something different in his chess game later that day. Thus was born a colorful way of describing a first move that others have attributed to a different animal, a human one by the name of Sokolsky.

    1.b4

    A quieter way to flank the queen-bishop would be 1.b3.

    1...d5

    Black could have played another common response, 1...e5.

    2.Bb2

    As expected, White appropriates the long diagonal.

    2...Nd7

    Black hopes to support e7-e5 and avoids 1...Nc6 2.b5.

    3.Nf3

    For now, White has e5 under control.

    3...Ngf6

    Perhaps 3...f6 did not quite suit Black’s temperament.

    4.e3

    White prepares to develop the king-bishop.

    4...g6

    Black could also opt for moving the e-pawn, 4...e6, attacking b4.

    5.c4

    White opens lines for further attack.

    5...dxc4

    Black’s d-pawn was threatened, so he exchanges pawns.

    6.Bxc4

    But now White’s bishop comes to a commanding diagonal.

    6...Bg7?

    This is a mistake, allowing a shot, which White doesn’t miss.

    7.Bxf7+!

    On 7...Kxf7, there follows 8.Ng5+, and Black loses his queen or gets mated. (1–0)

    (2) Darryl Johansen vs. Vladimir Budde

    Larsen’s Opening [A03]

    Germany 1986

    Nothern Exposure

    There are many opening principles and injunctions. They all have their place, with some having greater import than others. The principle warning against making too many pawn moves in the opening is often violated, and it’s a common reason for losing a game in less than ten moves. Unless a pawn move contributes to development, is clearly desirable or necessary, it shouldn’t be played because its consequences are permanent. Once a pawn loses the ability to control a square, that square, and any of the vulnerable lines of attack it may be on, become very attractive to enemy usurpation, as the upcoming example is about to illustrate.

    1.b3

    White hopes to influence the a1–h8 diagonal.

    1...Nf6

    Black develops and obstructs the long dark diagonal.

    2.Bb2

    White’s dark-square bishop is now in place.

    2...d5

    Black opens a diagonal for the development of the queen-bishop.

    3.e3

    White clears the line for his king-bishop to enter the fray.

    3...e6

    Now Black’s king-bishop can develop along the a3-f8 diagonal.

    4.f4

    White continues his central dark-square play.

    4...g6

    This move needlessly weakens the kingside dark-squares.

    5.g4

    White would like to attack the pinned knight, but this is risky.

    5...Bg7

    Now 5.g5 can be answered by 5...Nh5.

    6.Be2?

    This is a blunder. Much better was 6. Nf3 to guard h4.

    6...Nxg4!

    Oops! If 7.Bxg4, then 7...Qh4+ followed by 8...Bxb2; and, if 7.Bxg7, then 7...Qh4+ mates. (0–1)

    (3) Rafael Rodriguez Lopez vs. Lutgarda Gonzalez Perez

    Reti Opening [A07]

    Canary Island 1996

    Lost Horizon

    In preparing for competition we try to study our opening setups very well. This allows us to play them relatively quickly, saving time for complications that may arise from unexpected moves. But in relying on rote memory, and moving so rapidly, because we think we know our way and don’t want to waste time needlessly, we can miss subtle differences, one small change to the next, and such things can make all the difference. That’s why we shouldn’t rush through the opening. Even when we think we know the way, we may not, so it can’t hurt to make sure we really do.

    1.g3

    There are many transpositional possibilities here.

    1...d5

    Black takes the opportunity to occupy the center.

    2.Nf3

    White decides to stop e7-e5 for now.

    2...Nf6

    Black plays a non-commital developing move.

    3.Bg2

    White is ready to castle kingside.

    3...Bf5

    Now e7-e6 can be played without locking in the c8-bishop.

    4.0–0

    White is now prepared for action.

    4...Nbd7

    Another scheme was to play for c7-c5, Nb8-c6, and Qd8-d7.

    5.d3

    Blunting the f5-bishop and releasing the c1-bishop.

    5...e6

    Also playable was e7-e5.

    6.Nbd2

    White hopes for e2-e4, but needs further groundwork.

    6...Bc5

    Black stops 7.Re1, in light of the consequences.

    7.Re1?

    Too bad White couldn’t read the previous note.

    7...Bxf2+!

    If 8.Kxf2, then 8...Ng4+ wins the queen. White must lose at least the Exchange. (0-1)

    (4) Jesus Nogueiras vs. Neuris Delgado Ramirez

    English Opening [A13]

    Cuba 2000

    Two for the Road

    It’s a question of opportunities, and a knight developed to the edge simply has fewer chances of getting many. But like any generality, this has less significance when applied to specific instances. That is, it may not be great to place a knight on the outer lane most of the time, but the present game does not reflect most of the time. In the next contest, the queen’s knight jumps to a3, but not as a final resting place. It soon goes to a better post. Once there, it meets up with a fellow traveler from the other side. Together, they form a dynamic tandem that can’t be stopped.

    1.c4

    You don’t have to be from England to play the English Opening.

    1...e6

    This reply makes it unlikely that Black will flank the f8-bishop.

    2.g3

    But White can still flank, and this is what he does.

    2...Nf6

    By this move Black refrains from playing a Dutch Defense with 2...f5.

    3.Bg2

    White’s bishop aims to exert pressure on the a8-h1 diagonal.

    3...d5

    We’re entering the domain of the Catalan Opening.

    4.Nf3

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