JOSE CAPABLANCA THE 3rd WORLD CHAMPION

Jose Capablanca was born in Cuba on the 19th of november 1888,and died on the 8th of March 1942.
Capablanca learnt to play chess at the age of 4,by watching his father play.
Capablanca was perhaps the most naturally gifted chess player ever.
He was world champion 1921-1927,when he lost the title to A.Alekhine.
Even after losing the world Title, Capablanca was able to win many strong tournaments.
Between 1916 and 1924 Capablanca did not lose a single game, until his loss to R. Reti at the New York 1924 tournament.
Capablanca played many great chess games,but the game below stands out as a classic.
Capablanca is white against Frank Marshall.

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At this point Marshall resigned but it would of finished like this:
36....... Rxf7
37 b7-b8/Q+ Kh7
38 Rxh6+ Kxh6
39 Qh8+ Kg6
40 Qh5 is checkmate

Or can you work out the other move variations,if move 36 was not 36.....Rxf7,but was either
36.....Kh8 or 36......Kh7

ENTRY FORM FOR CHINGFORD GRAND PRIX

The 5th and last Essex Junior Chess Association Grand Prix event of the 2010-2011 season, is in Chingford on Saturday 2nd of July.

If you copy and paste the link below into the address bar or into Google up comes the word document entry form.

http://www.ejca.co.uk/ENTRYFORM02.07.11.doc

This will be the last Grand Prix of this season,the new season starts in September,with Grand Prix 1 in Chelmsford.

CHESS CLUB CLOSED FRIDAY 17th OF JUNE

The Knights of Gidea park chess club will regrettably be closed this Friday the 17th of June,thats the bad news.

Now for the good news, it's only closed for that one Friday, and we will be open the following Friday as normal.

SAFFRON WALDEN RESULTS

Five members of the Knights played in the under 9 Saffron Walden Essex grand prix on Sunday 12th of June,and the results are:

Niall 1st 6/6
Sreeram 5th 3/6
Mernan 5th 3/6
Atul 6th 2.5/6
Tolu 8th 1.5/6

These are goods results in what was a very tough tournament.

Mernan is a new member of the Knights.

NIALL WINS SAFFRON WALDEN UNDER 9 TOURNAMENT

On Sunday the 12th of June Niall won the Saffron Walden under 9 tournament with an unbeaten 6 out of 6.
The tournament at Saffron Walden was the Essex Junior Chess Association grand prix 4 in a series of 5.
The other Knights at Saffron Walden were Atul,Mernan,Sreeram and Tolu also in the under 9's.
Full results of this tournament are due in the next few days.
All the Knights played good chess and gave very good accounts of themselves in a very tough tournament.
The next and last grand prix event of 2010-2011 is at Chingford on July 2nd.

BOBBY FISCHER'S FAMOUS GAME AT 13

The American Grandmaster Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) was chess World Champion 1972 to 1975 when he retired from chess,only to make a comeback in 1992.
He was to many people the best ever chess player.

HBO film makers have made a documentary film of his life,to be shown in England in July.

I give a game played by Fischer when he was just 13 years old.
It was this game that made Fischer known worldwide in chess,and marked him as a future Champion.
The game was against a top American player,this game was given the title of
"game of the century"

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