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January 1984 Colorado Chess Informant

Tim — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:46:14 +0000

The January 1984 Colorado Chess Informant features:

Loveland Open report
Boulder Open report and games
Interview with Harry Mormonson (Humor)
Wyoming chess news
World and National chess news

It is interesting to see some of the upcoming events, such as the U.S. Masters Open that was held in Estes Park. I also really like the ad for “telephone tournaments”, and to see how HUGE the tournaments were.

January 1984 Colorado Chess Informant

March 1974 Colorado Chess Informant

Tim — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:03:52 +0000

The March 1974 issue of the Colorado Chess Informant is marked as “Volume 1, Number 1″, so this is presumably the very first issue! It is only 6 pages long, but very nicely done. Click on the image to see the issue in PDF format. It is interesting that the Denver Chess club was open EVERY day from noon until Midnight! Wow!

March 1974 Colorado Chess Informant

May 1974 Colorado Chess Informant

Tim — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:07:01 +0000

: May 1974 Colorado Chess Informant Magazine

The May 1974 Colorado Chess Informant features:

Tribute to John Harris “Appreciation Open”
John Watson wins Al Wallace Memorial
Games and results from the Al Wallace Memorial
First ever Loveland Open
Coloradans at National Open
Denver Chess Club History
USCF Ratings of all Colorado Players

Thanks to Scott Massey who loaned me a bunch of his old Colorado Chess Informant Magazines! I am planning on scanning in all of them.

Click on the image to open the magazine in PDF format.

Bobby Fischer Vs The World

Tim — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:51:17 +0000

This looks really great!!

Trailer

TacticsTime.com latest posts

Tim — Mon, 30 May 2011 02:05:38 +0000

Tactics Time

Tim — Sun, 29 May 2011 02:44:29 +0000

Hey everyone – I have created a new website where I have been focusing most of my attention. That website is http://tacticstime.com

I mostly started TimmyBx.com to teach myself how to use wordpress, create a domain name, host a website, setup google analytics, setup a mailing list, and lots of other things related to running a website – such as fooling with HTML and CSS, how to ftp files to the site, using wordpress plugins and themes, linking into paypal, using google adwords, and amazon affliates, and lots of other things that go on behind the scenes of a website.

It was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot of good stuff.

Then my work started to get really, really busy, and I did not have any spare time to work on the site, or do anything with chess in general.

Now things are a little less crazy work wise, so I have more spare time to devote to this sort of thing.

I decided to just start from scratch with a new website, which is http://tacticstime.com. “Tactics Time” has more of a focused goal than this site ever did, which like I said, was more of a “proof of concept” for me than anything, and place to post some fun chess stuff. I will probably continue to leave this site up and running, since there is a fair amount of useful content here, especially the back issues of the Colorado Chess Informant.

“Tactics Time” is the name of the column that I have written since 2004 for the Colorado Chess Informant magazine. Tactics are my favorite part of chess. Just like some people love to study openings, some people like composed chess problems, some people collect chess books, some people even love chess related postage stamps. I love tactics!

So I am pretty excited about my new website. I put together a product, also called “Tactics Time” that is a huge collection of tactics from games I have collected over the years. I have around 9000 games that I have done analysis on – looking for tactics in the games. I used Fritz 12 and Chessbase 11 to help me with this.

I gathered thousands of tactics from these games. These are real tactics, from real games, from real players like you and me. No “composed problems”. No “endgame studies”. No tactics stolen from other people. No games were just taken out of the chessbase database that anyone can access. Most of those games are from Grandmasters, who are not making the types of tactical mistakes seen every weekend at tournaments, and in millions of games played on the internet.

I also have a newsletter that you can sign up for. I changed the newsletter signup on this site, so that it will sign you up for my tacticstime newsletter. Each newsletter contains a tactics problem for you to work on, along with some interesting factoids which often include stories about the players involved, information about the tournament, or just general chess information related to tactics.

You get several bonuses if you sign up for the newsletter, including a PDF eBook I wrote called “101 Tactical Tips” with lots of advice regarding chess tactics. You will also get a sample database containing 25 chess games, with about 34 tactics problems in them. This will give you an idea of what the full database with over 3000 games is like.

I hope you will support me at the new site, and sign up for my newsletter. My goal is to help you become a stronger and better chess players.

Cheers,

Tim

April 2010 CS Chess Night Newsletter

EagleAndKing — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:24:24 +0000

April 2010

March 2010 CS Chess Night Newsletter

EagleAndKing — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:49:45 +0000

March 2010

January 2010 Colorado Chess Informant (Colorized)

EagleAndKing — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:46:46 +0000

January 2010 Color

Chess Life Blunder

Tim — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:48:07 +0000

who the hell is editing this magazine?

I looked at this month’s “ABC’s of Chess”, March 2010 issue, page 17. The following was the first tactical puzzle with black to move:

: ABC’s of Chess, Problem 1, March 2010 Chess Life Black to Move

The category of the puzzle was “trapping”.

I was thinking, “trapping”??

I look at the “solutions” on page 71, and it says “Trapping: The advance 1. … b5 wins the white bishop.”

I am thinking – WTF?

Why not just play 1. … Bxa4+ winning the bishop – with check – and not losing a pawn in the process.

It turns out that 1. … b5 is a DRAW. It costs black a WIN.

Here is the analysis by Fritz 10.

New game
8/1p1k4/2b5/8/B1p5/8/P1K5/8 b – - 0 1

Analysis by Fritz 10:

1. -+ (-19.18): 1…Bxa4+
2. -+ (-4.33): 1…Kc7 2.Kc3 Bxa4 3.Kxc4 b5+ 4.Kc5 Kb7 5.Kb4 Kb6 6.Kc3 Kc5 7.a3
3. -+ (-4.17): 1…Kd6 2.Kc3 Bxa4 3.Kxc4 b5+ 4.Kd4 Bd1 5.Kd3 Kc5 6.Kc3 Bh5 7.a3 Bd1 8.Kb2 Kb6 9.a4 Bxa4
4. -+ (-4.09): 1…b6 2.Bb3 cxb3+ 3.Kxb3 Bd5+ 4.Kb2 Kc6 5.a4 Kc5 6.Kc3 Bc6 7.a5 b5 8.Kb2 b4 9.a6 Bd5
5. = (-0.02): 1…b5 2.Kc3 Kd6 3.Kd4 bxa4 4.Kxc4 Bd7 5.Kc3 Bb5 6.Kb2 Ke7 7.Kb1
6. = (0.00): 1…Ke6 2.Bxc6

I wrote a letter to the editor, letting them know. They have a policy that if they publish your letter, you receive a free copy of “Test, Evaluate and Improve Your Chess”. I will recommend that they give it to the person in charge of editing this column if I do get published.