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I
used to have a site ... on another server ... that was completely dedicated to
correspondence chess. That company apparently was bought and sold a number of
times over the last few years. The point of the story? Eventually this site
stopped offering free web pages, and my site was closed. (I refused to pay for
the fee to keep it open.) After my big computer crash, I lost just about ALL of
those files. What a pity.
I
have analyzed many good games of this type; to see one, please click here.
A
really good place to play FREE
chess of this type is Donato Lombardi's site.
(possibly defunct)
My
very first outing into postal chess was a Golden Knight's (beginners) section
which I entered shortly after Bobby Fischer won the World's Chess Championship.
(The very early 1970's.) I won this section with a perfect score. I have
played dozens of matches in correspondence chess over the years - the vast
majority of these were played using SURFACE MAIL (postal chess) ... long before
the Internet became a regular fixtures in our day-to-day lives. But you cannot
turn back the clock. (sigh)
This
is a page that will be dedicated to correspondence chess. The best sites, the
best games, etc. I will also try to provide a link to any good site that centers
on this activity.
The
rules of correspondence chess ... are pretty simple. A time
limit ... "x" number of days per move. Generally it is considered OK
to consult your own opening books/library. What is NOT
considered correct - in fact, most organizations have rules strictly forbidding
any such behavior! - is to consult outside parties, seek advice from other
players, OR use a computer, (of any type); to analyze your games.
Unfortunately,
most people today BLATANTLY disregard such rules and conventions and use
one or more computers to check out their games. (Dozens of postal players
- many, like myself, who were playing chess BEFORE
computers became strong enough to be of any use at all - have confirmed to me
that the large majority of players today completely ignore the rules of
correspondence chess and openly use a computer to help them play better chess.)
A pity, as it greatly lessens the sporting value of these games. It has become
annoyingly commonplace to see an extremely strong player lose to a player with
an incredibly low rating. Of course in such circumstances, it just about goes
without saying ... that this is not a reliable or creditable result.
("Is it live, or is it Memorex?") Many of these {artificial} players
have never even had ONE really decent result in real, over-the-board
chess!! To say that these players are cheaters
is a vast understatement
...
Right
now, (September, 2003.); I am playing a game of corres. chess with Fabrício Hupp of Brazil, South
America. (Match: "WCE vs.
CXV") Stand by for
updates and details. We play two games, one with White and one with Black. In
the game where he is White, he has played 1.e4, and I have responded with a
Sicilian. (1...c5) In the game where I am White, I played 1.d2-d4. ('!') (The
moves are posted below.) Stay tuned.
My
opponent (in the game below) made the following joke, which accompanied his move
on the twenty-sixth turn. I found it humorous, I hope you will as well:
"Our
chess game is like driving a car at over 200 kilometers per hour ...
if I blink, or make one mistake ... I will
not even see what happens to me!"
- Fabrício Hupp.
A.J. Goldsby I vs.
Fabrício D. Hupp
(Match: "WCE
vs. CXV");
began September, 2003.
(I
am White in Game # 1 and Black in Game # 2.)
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Game
# 1: 1.d4, d5; 2.Nf3, Nf6;
3.e3, e6; 4.Bd3, c5; 5.dxc5, Bxc5;
6.a3, 0-0;
7.b4, Be7; 8.Nbd2, Nbd7; 9.Bb2,
a5; 10.b5, Nc5; 11.Be2, Nfd7;
12.c4, Nb6;
13.0-0, 0-0; 14.c4xd5, NxP/d5;
15.Qc2, Kh8; 16.Rfd1, Bd7; 17.Ne4,
Rc8;
18.Nxc5, Bxc5; 19.Qe4, Qe7; 20.Qh4,
Rfd8; 21.Bd3, h6; 22. Qe4, f5;
23.Qa4,
23...Nb6; 24.QxP/a5, Ra8; 25.Qe1, Na4!?;
26.Be5, BxP/a3!?; 27.Bf1!?, Bb4!?;
28.Qe2, Be8?; 29.RxR/d8!, QxR/d8; 30.e4!!,
Nc3?!; ('?')
31.Qe3!!, f4; (tricky)
32.QxP/f4!, Kh7[]; 33.RxR/a8!?, QxR/a8; 34.Qg3!, g6?!;
(Less than best?)
Probably inferior.
(>/= 34...Bg6; >> He loses here, but at
least he is not mated.)
35.Ng5+!!, Kg8[]; 36.Qh3!, "+/-"
Black Resigns ... he is quickly
mated.
---> Received: (Friday), December 04th, 2003.
To
answer those of you who have already written me, I did NOT always think I
was winning in this
game, despite what you might think. In fact, I was concerned in the
opening I was going to be on
the wrong side of a miniature - it took 13 moves to castle. Around move
27, I could not figure out
what was really happening in this game ... despite DAYS of analysis!!
Normally I am able to predict
my opponent's moves fairly accurately. After move 25, my opponent failed
to play the move I
thought he should play ... PRACTICALLY EVERY MOVE!!! (Black's 28th
move was a mistake.)
I
have already started to annotate this game. (Dec. 11th, 2003.) But the early
indications are that
this game may be harder to analyze {correctly} than it was to play! Stay
tuned! (03/05/2004)
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Game
# 2: 1. e4, c5; 2.Nf3, d6;
3.d4, cxd4; 4.Nxd4, Nf6; 5.Nc3, g6;
6.Be3, Bg7;
7.f3, 0-0; 8.Qd2, Nc6; 9.g4,
e5; 10.Nde2, Be6; 11.0-0-0, Qa5;
12.a3, Rfd8;
13.g5, Nd7; 14.Nd5!, QxQ/d2+;
15.RxQ/d2, Rac8; 16.b4!?, (Maybe
- '?!/?')
This move is the start of the WRONG PLAN ... K-side
play is strongly indicated here.
16...Kf8!?; 17.c4?!, ('?') 17...b5!!; 18.Rc2?, bxc4; 19.h4?!, Nd4!; 20.Bxd4?!,
20...e5xd4; 21.Nef4, (Pawn-to) ...d3; 22.RESIGNS.
0 - 1
(Game completed in October, 2003.)
My
opponent resigned, he felt his game was pretty much without any real
prospects. (The computer agreed with this
assessment.)
White
looked to be HUGELY better after his 14th move. How he lost so quickly is
really still a mystery to me. (Of course, this will all be revealed when I get
around
to analyzing these games in depth.)
Now
that both games are completed, I hope to annotate them (in
some depth) soon.
I
am considering just how deep I should go into these game ... any feedback would
be greatly helpful!!
Click
HERE
to read an important article on chess, computers, and cheating on the
Internet.
In
October and/or November of 2005, I was annotating several
games in the "Four Knights" Game; a few were for my web sites, and
one was for a friend's website.
Anyway,
I wanted to see if I had played any interesting games in this line ... so I
began going through my games. [ I wanted to see what I could dig up.
(I thought I remembered that I had played a nice ending
... with the White pieces, but I never found the game that I originally went
looking for!) ] As I began
researching ... and digging through databases, scorebooks, postal books, etc; I
ran across the following, (somewhat interesting);
little contest.
(Posted here: Nov. 17th,
2005.)
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Robert Schinkmann (1950) - A.J. Goldsby I (2200)
[C50]
Internet Correspondence Tournament (e-mail)
Pensacola, FL USA / (R4), 2001.
1.e4 e5;
2.Nf3 Nc6; 3.Nc3 Nf6; 4.Bc4 Bc5; 5.d3 a6; 6.0-0 d6;
7.a3 Nd4; 8.Bg5 h6; 9.Bh4 g5; 10.Bg3 h5; 11.Nxg5 h4;
12.Nxf7 hxg3; 13.Nxd8 Bg4; 14.Qd2 Nf3+; 15.gxf3 Bxf3; 16.Bf7+ Kxd8;
17.h4 Rxh4; White Resigns, 0-1. (If you would like to see
this game lightly annotated, click here
... and see the note after White's fourth move.)
Copyright (©) A.J. Goldsby, 2003 - 2005 & 2006.
A list of good websites that offer correspondence
chess or chess by e-mail
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A list of links
... sites that feature correspondence
chess. (By Chessopolis.)
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Practically all the best links
of correspondence chess by About.
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A nice article
on e-mail chess on the "About"
server by Mark Weeks.
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A nice section of links
of Correspondence Organizations by U.S.C.F.
(You have to scroll down just a bit.)
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A place to play Correspondence Chess
by e-mail, with strict time controls.
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The ultimate site
for Corres. Chess. (A pay site, but with free e-mail.)
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- One of the better (sub?) websites
about Correspondence Chess.
(The Campbell Report.)
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A web site
with news ... just for correspondence or postal chess players.
(Correspondence
Chess News)
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The Grand-Pappy of all correspondence chess. (ICCF, their web site.)
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The web site for the
Correspondence Chess League of America.
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This web site also offers e-mail
chess. (I believe.) Check it out!!
(Free online chess -
from "chess maniac.")
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A website ... devoted to this
topic. (July,
2004); This one has a lot to offer.
(Scheming Mind.)
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A website I found doing a web
search ... I think I used to be a member here ...
("Playchess" is
not strictly a correspondence website, although a handful of players use it
for this.)
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Play chess? Via e-mail?
Well ... check out "International
Email Chess Group."
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