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As reported by Vladimir Barsky in his initial report for the Chess Federation of Russia website, chess players are happy to return to the physical boards in a large event like the Russian Team Championship. Although some sanitary measures are in place, only arbiters are required to wear masks at all times, while players are free to choose whether they want to wear them or not. Except for the plexiglass walls on each board, the pictures from the venue show a rather familiar scenery, of the kind we were used to seeing before the pandemic.

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The effect of the crisis, however, is noticeable once we see the number of teams participating in the Premier League. Strong squads that used to register, like Malachite and Siberia-Sirius are nowhere to be found, while otherteams have made major efforts to get sponsorships that have allowed them to participate. In addition, the first-timer Gogolevsky, 14 has put together a competitive lineup, headed by Alexander Motylev and Aleksandra Goryachkina, the only woman who is playingin the open section.

After seven rounds, the rating favourites in the main events are leading the standings with perfect scores. In the open section, the Mednyi Vsadnik from Saint Petersburg has scored wins in all six of their matches (since nine teams are playing the Premier League, the teams havea bye round), remarkablylosing only one individual game out of 36 so far. Among the women, the Moscow Chess Team is also perfect. In both cases, the leaders are 3 match points ahead from their closest pursuers, so a win in the eighth round will secure them overall victory.

A usual sight Dmitry Andreikin (KPRF) playing black against Daniil Dubov (Molodezhka) in round 7 | Photo: Vladimir Barsky

The team led by Nikita Vitiugov has two heavy hitters in Andrey Esipenko (4/5) and Vladimir Fedoseev (5/6). In round 6, Esipenko nicely rerouted his pieces to beat Mikhail Kobalia.

Black is a whole piece up, but note how most ofhis army is sitting passively on the queenside. Understandably, Kobalia captured on c3, trading pieces, but instead of recapturing immediately Esipenko rerouted his rook with 29.Rf3. Black needed to acknowledge Whites strong threats with 29...g4 at that point, but saved his (second) extra piece with 29...Be1 instead.

White quickly showed the refutation.

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30.Qf7+ Kh8, and not 31.Rh3+ Bh4 of course, but 31.e7. Kobalia resigned after 31...Qd6 32.e8Q+. This was one of four wins scored by the team from Saint Petersburg against Gogolevsky, 14.

Mednyi Vsadnik versus Gogolevsky, 14 in round 6 | Photo: Vladimir Barsky

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Not only does the Moscow Chess Team has two of the strongest and most experienced Russian players in its lineup Kateryna Lagno and Alexandra Kosteniuk but also 20-year-old rising star Polina Shuvalova, who had a remarkable performance at last years Russian Championship.

Lagno (4/5), Shuvalova (4/6) and Kosteniuk (5/6) are all undefeated. In round 5, Lagno defeated former womens world champion Anna Ushenina.

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Usheninas 22...g5 was far too ambitious (22...Rae8 was called for), as Lagno now had 23.Qg2 gxf4 24.Be2

The knight is pinned along the file and the diagonal. There followed 24...f3 25.Bxf3 Rxf3 26.Re4

Making the most of the pin. Here Black found nothing better than 26...Qh2+ 27.Qxh2 Nxh2 28.Kxg2, giving up a piece. Resignation came shortly after.

Kateryna Lagno | Photo: Vladimir Barsky

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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Global experts, government officials, and leading Israeli technology companies took part in IMPROVATE's Homeland Security and Cyber conferencewhere participants discussed multiple threat scenarios and presented technological solutions to counter them.

Representatives from several countries including Bulgaria, Greece and Romania took part in the conference.

Former world chess champion and leading artificial intelligence expert Garry Kasparov, the keynote speaker at the conference, and a member of the IMPROVATE advisory board, said: "AI is being used by bad guys We have to be one step ahead of those using AI in a malicious way."

IMPROVATEfounder Irina Nevzlin said: "We live in a world of deep fake, where a country can bully its neighbors and suppress its citizens using digital technology, we live in a very difficult time for democracy. In Israel, which by necessity has become a world leader in HLS and cyber, we are in a situation to bring solutions to these problems where they are needed."

Andreana Atanasova, Deputy Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications of the Republic of Bulgaria said: "All EU governments and stakeholders must cooperate on the issue of the security of 5G networks. Joint efforts and close cooperation with strategic partners such as Israel, which is a leader in cyber security, would also be particularly useful to predict and deal with cyber risks and guarantee the cybersecurity of 5G networks."

Yair Maor, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at IAI-ELTA Systems, a leading technology company developing and providing innovative Defense, Cyber and Homeland Security solutions said: "our systems are not only tested in the lab, but are field proven in a combat environment."

Bluebird Aero Systemsis a dominant player in the Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) industry. The company specializes in the design, development, and production of Mini & Tactical UAS, and delivers unprecedented field-proven HTOL & VTOL solutions.Bluebird's products and services meet the challenges of the Military, HLS, and civilian UAS markets.

Bluebird founder and CEO Ronen Nadir said: "Good protection against terrorism and other threats starts with efficient tactical information gathering, and that is the main role of UAVs in HLS."

Arnon Bram, General Manager of Magal Integrated Solutions Division, part of Magal Security Systems Group, a leading international provider of solutions, services and products for security, safety and site management, said Magal has vast experience providing HLS solutions in key verticals all over the world in the HLS market: borders, airports, seaports, oil and gas.

"We have a unique position in the sense that on the one hand we are an OEM and we manufacture sensors, products, technology, and on the other hand we are a system integrator, which means that we are in direct contact with our customer on a continuous basis, understanding their issues and their problems and trying to implement them into our systems."

Omer Sharar, co-founder and CEO of InfiniDome, which develops GPS protection solutions tailored to defend drones and other unmanned systems, vehicle fleets and other defense applications from GPS jammingsaid it deploys the same kind of electronic warfare principles as military solutions but in a much smaller box making them a lot more applicable to smaller applications.

"We plan to bring the same kind of protection level to any critical GNSS, GPS application out there," he said.

Smart Shooteris a world-class designer, developer, and manufacturer of innovative fire control systems proven to significantly increase the accuracy and lethality of existing small arms.

Sharone Aloni, VP R&D at Smart Shooter said: "We provide what we call a "one-shot one-hit" capability based on highly sophisticated computer algorithms as an add-on to a rifle, without any changes."

Shay Geva, founder and CEO of Capture Systems specializes in design, development and production of advanced modular multi-axial positioners that can be used for a wide range of fields and applications, said: "We have a solution for every vertical, this is the idea behind Capture Systems."

Oddetectis an innovator in the video analytics world enabling CCTV operators to monitor unlimited amounts of videos in real time. Gaining actionable Intelligence for real time decision making.

"The human factor is limited so Oddetect is a tool to assist decision makers in real time," said Maj. Gen. (Ret) David Tsur,a member of the Oddetect Advisory Board. A former member of the Israeli Parliament, former police commander of the Tel Aviv District and the former commander of the Israeli police counter terrorism unit ("Yamam").

"Oddetect discovers unusual and suspicious behavior by leveraging cutting edge technology. It turns every camera into a smart incident detector," added Jonathan Ben Dov, VP Sales & Marketing.

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Greetings! I wanted to start this months article off by telling everyone about an exciting new opportunity for anyone even remotely interested in correspondence chess!

As many of you know or at least suspect, participation in correspondence chess has been shrinking for several years. Thats one of the things the Correspondence Chess Working Group (CCWG) has recently strived to address. One initiative this led to is the creation of a first-of-its-kind US Chess rated correspondence pyramid tournament on Chess.com. It starts on June 1st, 2021 and is open to players of all ages and skill levels. California chess coach and correspondence chess master Chris Torres will be running this tournament.

This event is a pilot program that will be used to gauge the viability and interest in having US Chess rated correspondence tournaments run by US Chess affiliates instead of solely through the US Chess Correspondence Chess Director. The hope of course is that events like this will draw increased participants into US Chess rated correspondence chess (also called Daily Chess on some websites) and US Chess as a whole. Increased participants in correspondence chess would hopefully spur more participants in Golden Knights (and other events) and enable us all to see a wider variety of opponents and not be subjected to that feeling of Aw man, Ive got to play Michael Buss again?! quite so often. [I know many of you know what Im talking about]

For those who might be unfamiliar, the pyramid tournament Chris will be running is an ongoing event similar to a ladder event that many folks will recognize from chess clubs, band experience, etc. The key difference between a pyramid tournament and a ladder event is that in the pyramid tourney the standings are grouped into tiers. For example, maybe tier/level 11 would be the players in places 56-66 in the rankings. Instead of just being able to challenge the person directly ahead of them in the rankings, a person might be able to challenge anyone above them in their tier and maybe a certain X number of tiers above them. That way a person doesnt have to get stuck playing the same person over and over necessarily to advance.

Chris is running this new tournament through his affiliate, Daily Chess Musings, on the Chess.com website. As alluded to earlier, this is the first affiliate-organized US Chess rated correspondence chess tournament.

For more details please check out the following links for the press release (https://dailychessmusings.com/2021/04/23/harnessing-the-power-of-the-pyramid-in-chess/) and the main tournament page (https://dailychessmusings.com/daily-chess-musings-rated-correspondence-pyramid/).

A few final notes. Participants will have to remain members of US Chess and create a Chess.com account. There is a small one-time entry fee to participate with a very small $5 annual renewal fee for every additional year one wants to participate. Please take a moment to check out the site and consider participating!

And now, on to the games!

In our first game, a battle between correspondence chess newcomers, Joydeep Bhattacharyya takes out Gerald MacDonald from the white side of Closed Sicilian. Out of a sideline of this opening, a slugfest begins to develop as Joydeep starts a kingside pawn that, after the pseudo-sacrifice of a pawn at move 23, culminates in a fine and instructive mating attack.

Note - this is also a game from our new/ICCF version of the Victor Palciauskas events, a worthwhile example of the exciting play that can be found there to those willing to throw their hat in the ring.

Young plays well to eliminate his isolated d-pawn, leaving Ellis with an isolated, but passed, d-pawn of his own. After White loses a pawn at move 25, he battles to hold the position despite the ongoing liquidation of forces. Young regains the pawn roughly 20 moves later and, in a complicated queen and minor pieces endgame with apparent chances for both sides, the combatants agree to peacefully coexist.

Thirty-Month Limit and Adjudications

All sections that started prior to July 1, 2018 have been closed out and any games still open in those sections declared drawn per our thirty-month rule. At the end of this month (May), all sections that started prior to August 1, 2018 will be closed out. If you still have an active game going in such an event, you have until the end of the month to request a claim of a win or draw by following the adjudication instructions in the rules. If neither player submits a claim, the games will be declared drawn.

Recent Event Winners

18C07 Scott Sensiba, 5-119C11, Cory Bloch, 5.5-0.5

20W12 Douglas Stewart, 4-221W20 Gregory Hall, 4.5-1.5

19V01 John Walton, 5-1

Oh, last but certainly not least, last month I mentioned Tim Corkum winning the 2018 Electronic Knights championship. I have the results from the Finals section and plan to include those in next months article.

See you then!

Larry

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Disclaimer: This post is written by a chess coach and streamer who has not improved at chess in a long time. What does he know?!

Chess is a game of pattern recognition! The more patterns you see, the faster you improve. An exclusive diet of one-minuteor better yet, 30 or 15 secondgames allows you to maximize the patterns you see every day; just punch that seek button and let the power of osmosis drive your chess learning!

You KNOW why you lost that game, why would you need some stupid computer or long-since-past-his-prime chess expert rubbing your face in it. Sure, you were in huge trouble on the board and the clock, but really this game was lost due to a simple one-move blunder. No need to waste time thinking about it. Heck, you've already forgotten the game ever happened.

The surest sign of improvement is winning, and you ALWAYS win against your friends and your co-workers. Like the great Paul Morphy, you are just honing your smashing attacks for the day that you make a world tour and destroy everyone with your patented 1.h4 and 2.Rh3 attacks.

You're paying this guy $50 an hour, and he wants YOU to do all the work?! Endgames, openings, middlegames, master games, manage your clock, etc. etc. etc. Exhausting! What kind of a scam is this!

Really, you just need him to show you a few opening traps and tell you that you are clearly a good player and the wins will come soon enough. Anyway, you don't think you'll be taking too many more lessons; you've done three of these sessions, and your rating is going DOWN!

That king and pawn endgame looked awfully familiar... Didn't you lose exactly like that last month? Must be a coincidence

1.d4, 2.Nf3, 3.e3, 4.Bd3, 5.c3, 6.0-0 for the win! At some point, you'll just sac on h7 or h6, and it'll either work or it won't. Same old, same old

Study some 100-year-old games from Capablanca? What a waste of time! Besides the computer just pokes holes in all those old games anyway. Play, play, play - that's where it's at! Just check out these ideas you are playing for the very first time! ...Rxc3 sacing the exchange in the Sicilian?! What an idea! Nd2-f1-g3-f5 in the Ruy Lopez? Whodathunkit?! Best reinvented wheel ever.

Two hours per game?! Boooooooooooooring! You tried a chess tournament once, and you are damn sure never doing that again! All those old players never would have beat you if you hadn't been falling asleep at the board waiting for them to make a gosh-darned move. Geeez!

You did like that one time Chess.com/analysis said you were "brilliant," but that "blunder" annotation... what a buzzkill. And who is this "Stockfish" saying "missed win"? You won, didn't you?! You didn't miss a darn thing.

Why are all these ignorant chess "masters" even bothering to think for themself anymore?!?! If there's one thing you hate, it's some grandmaster commenting on a chess tournament without a chess engine. Could they BE anymore wrong?! You certainly would never turn off the engine and think for yourself. Heck, you've already been banned from every major chess site for doing just that.

Second Disclaimer: You don't NEED to improve at chess. You can have fun and enjoy the game in any way you like! If you are focused on improvement, maybe be wary of some of these traps.

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With just a handful of games remaining in the 2021 regular season, the MassMutual East Division is still very much up for grabs, with four teams separated by five points (a number that drops to two points if everyone wins their games in hand on first-place Pittsburgh).

The Division boasts four of the Leagues top eleven teams in terms of points percentage, and its unlikely that anyone has a clear edge in the upcoming two-round divisional playoff. The Capitals, for example, went 6-2-0 on the season against the Islanders, who have gone 5-2-0 against the Bruins, who posted a 5-3-0 record against the Penguins... who were 6-2-0 against the Caps.

By head-to-head results from the regular season, insofar as that matters, each team has one or more concerning match-up and at least one in which theyve fared well.

Of course, come playoff time every match-up is concerning, and those regular season wins along with four dollars will get you a latte at Starbucks. Weve talked a lot in the past about how the playoffs are a different animal, not because the competition is better (though it is) or because the players elevate their game (though they might), but because the amount of time coaching staffs can spend focused on their opponent is so drastically different (especially this year, given the condensed regular-season schedule).

And if youre a fan of the game-within-the-game that takes place between two head coaches, this years playoffs in the East should be a doozy. Lets take a look at the four bench bosses:

Those are some seriously impressive resume. Together, these gentlemen represent one-third of the Jack Adams trophies that have been awarded to active coaches, one-third of the Cup wins, and four of the 11 Presidents Trophies, and theyre not exactly resting on their laurels - heres a look at up-to-the-minute Elo ratings for NHL coaches (explainer here):

And in two weeks, the chess matches will begin. Adjustments and counter-adjustments will be made. Difficult roster decisions will be pored over. Referees will be worked, players will be motivated, media will be placated (or not), and so on. These are four of the best coaches in the business, and theyre about to prove it.

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