COCC Lecture: Middlegame strategy info?

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  • COCC Lecture: Middlegame strategy info?

    Hi - I am thinking of attending this lecture which is shown on the schedule for Monday at 4pm.

    Does anyone have any further information on who is speaking, cost, location?

    Thanks

    Dave

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    Re: COCC Lecture: Middlegame strategy info?

    The lecture is by GM Shabalov and costs 10(?) dollars.

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      Re: COCC Lecture: Middlegame strategy info?

      The cost is only $10.

      I would like to have it in the same room as his earlier chess960 simult. The Marine Room is on the south side of the main floor towards the west.

      He was once a student of Tal and is known for great middlegame tactics.

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        Re: COCC Lecture: Middlegame strategy info?

        Thanks - see you there!

        Dave

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          Re: COCC Lecture: Middlegame strategy info?

          Shabalov had quite a busy day. He played a 13 game simult of chess960 and found it alot of work. I though the funniest starting position was with a bishop at h1. 1.g3 and the bishop is already finachettoed. Every game is completely different, no beating players in memorized opening lines. One opponent said if felt like playing in the middlegame right from move one. +10=3-0

          Michael Sutton did a great job organizing this event, making a nice flyer and getting a manufactuer to make dice to set the opening position, which all players got to keep. Zeljka helped in taking photos and scanning the scoresheets. Ted Winick provided a demo board. Michael as also been the volunteer at the phone check booth and generally helping out.

          Then Shabolov came back to give a middlegame lecture with many examples of two main ideas to improve one's chess:
          1) Improve the placement of your worse piece
          2) push pawns to create weaknesses on the opponent's side.

          27 players attended the 90 minute lecture.

          Lots of visitors to the playing hall, including Imtiaz Husain, at one time SCC master, now from Michigan.

          Also going on in the daytime was a fun first day at the kids camp and the CFC AGM. More people are registering for the Arbiter's training.

          - Erik

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