"You're a Mean One Mr Grinch" - 2009 Style!

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

New Chess Video: The Pincer Attack Evolution #1

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

Chess Grandmaster Loses to Pincer Attack

Tryfon Gavriel, otherwise knowns as Kingscrusher on YouTube and webmaster of my favorite correspondence site http://www.letsplaychess.com posted a video in which he defeated a Chess Grandmaster using the Pincer Attack.



Some information on Tryfon:

British Regional Master - Achieved a standard play "A" grade of at least 180 in two consecutive seasons on ECF official grading lists.

Top 100 in his country for the top Rapid play chess players!

Fide Rating: usually over 2100

British Championship Qualifier for 2008, by coming 2nd= at the Southend Open with a rating performance of ECF 206.

2009 Muswell Hill 5 minute chess champion! I mention this because I plan on doing quite a few 5 minute chess videos with live commentary! :)

2009 2nd= with IM Trent in North London Blitz chess tournament, defeating Russian GM Chernaiv in final round with black pieces, but losing 2nd game on time from winning position throughout most of the game!

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

New Chess Opening: The Pincer Attack

This is a live blitz video of a chess opening I have been working on that I call the Pincer Attack. It's similar to the Hippo Defence from black, but fundamentally different with the extra tempo that white enjoys with the first move from the game. My goal is to have my YouTube subscribers try it out and send in their games to jrobichess@gmail.com from which I will begin to compile a human database of the opening. I have bench marked the position with Rybka vs. Rybka and the structure yields a very equal position.

While the opening does not strive for an initial advantage, by creating this structure black will have to play very carefully to work towards maintaining that equality. White has a lot of tools at its disposal to launch a flank attack while maintaining a solid hold of its purposefully small center. The positions that arise have been fun to play so far, so I am excited to continue looking into the possibilities.

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

Looks pretty awesome!

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Takes to the Air

I hope Boeing has addressed the following concerns, or the plane might become known as the Deathliner ...



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jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

Lady Gaga Medley

Wow ...

Hard (Rock Remix) - Rihanna ft. Young Jeezy - Youtube's 401Drummer

Rex Murphy on Climategate

jrobi's thoughts on Climategate:

1. If scientists at the top echelons of the global warming movement have been cooking the data (no pun intended) for years to maintain and bolster their agenda, I can't see how anyone could rationally endorse their views and theories.

2. Given that the earth is cooling as opposed to heating up, instead of trying to blame it on carbon (which would "theoretically" be an insulator heating the globe)the focus now needs to shift to what is actually causing climate change (i.e. the sun, etc).

3. Countries like Iran are helping propagate the climate movement because at the core it means that western democracies will have to hurt their economies to reduce emissions. I don't see Iran, China, or Russia for that matter making any moves towards substantial reductions themselves, so it's fairly straight forward to understand that some countries are using climate change to hurt nations that they are ideologically opposed to while continuing to merrily raise emissions themselves. This, in my opinion, is a form of economic warfare.

China is now the largest polluter in the world, with coal plants taking off on almost a weekly basis. However, the vast majority of non-democratic nations continue to focus exclusively on western nations (i.e. the United States, Canada, and European countries) when laying the blame and pushing for economic changes based on climate change. Economic changes that of course don't hurt their own economies, yet will greatly hurt the economies of western nations.

These are just a few of the points I have been thinking about since the information was leaked that the upper echelons of the climate change movement have been willingly cooking the data to propagate their agenda. Don't get me wrong, I am all for responsible living when it comes to things like taking care of the environment, but to cripple economies and cause massive job losses based on cooked data is completely illogical. After all, we're already in a less than ideal economic reality.

The climate change movement has an agenda: hurt western economies under the guise of morality. Millions of well-intentioned people have taken up the cause for carbon reduction based on this sense of morality, even though the leaked data shows that the globe is cooling, and not heating up. These people can't and shouldn't be blamed - their intentions were good. However, the fact of the matter remains that we all need to get sensible about the situation and turn the scientific community's focus to finding out what is actually impacting the changes we see in our climate.

Carbon is most likely not the culprit. In fact, plants love C02 and recent studies have found that plankton (the backbone of the oceanic ecosystem) grow faster and larger when Co2 levels are increased. The worry was that C02 would destroy the base of the oceans food chain, but low and behold this just isn't the case. (source)

So what's causing the change? I have no clue! I would wager it's just the natural state of affairs. After all, I live in Canada and millions of years ago we used to be tropical, and now we're one of the coldest nations on the planet, so something has already happened before to cause major climate change and it wasn't people pumping CO2 into the atmosphere - so what was it? Lets focus on that question now instead of needlessly hurting our economies based on flawed and cooked science. The findings might show us a way we can prevent it, or they might show us that it's inevitable, but nonetheless it will be based on fact and not manipulated data.

New Chess Video: Grandmaster Chess Blunders #2 - Can You Spot the Mistake?

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Ng5 Ndf6 6. Bc4 Nd5 7. N1f3 g6 8.
O-O Bg7 9. Re1 h6 10. Ne4 Bg4 11. a4 Ngf6 12. Nxf6+ Bxf6 13. Ra3 Kf8 14. h3
Bxf3 15. Rxf3 Kg7 16. c3 Qd7 17. Qd3 Rad8 18. Re4 Qc8 19. b4 Rd6 20. Rg3 Re6
21. Reg4 Re1+ 22. Kh2 Rxc1 *

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

Update and New Book Review: The Genius and the Misery of Chess

Hi all - just a quick update. I have been fighting off a nasty chess cold (and continuing to work throughout) going on a week and a half now. While talking has been a challenge, it has given me an opportunity to read some chess books. I have placed a new review on http://www.jrobichess.com in the review section for a book called "The Genius and the Misery of Chess" by Zhivko Kaikamjzov. The book was amazing!

I thought I knew a fair amount about the life stories of the most famous chess grandmasters, but I was in for a surprise! Check out the review section on the main site for more information and the full review.

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

New Chess Video: Kasparov vs Karpov 2009 - Game 1

Karpov (2644) - Kasparov (2812)
Valencia, 22.09.2009

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nb6 7.Ne2 c5 8.d5 0–0 9.0–0 e6 10.Nbc3 Na6 11.h3 exd5 12.exd5 Nc4 13.b3 Nd6 14.Bf4 b6 15.Qd2 Bb7 16.Rad1 Nc7 17.g4 Qd7 18.a4 f5 19.g5 Rad8 20.Bg3 f4 21.Nxf4 Nf5 22.Nb5 Nxb5 23.axb5 Nd4 24.Ne6 Black wins 0–1

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

New Chess Video - King's Indian Attacks!

[Event "Linares"]
[Site "Linares ESP"]
[Date "2009.03.02"]
[EventDate "2009.02.19"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Teimour Radjabov"]
[Black "Levon Aronian"]
[ECO "A07"]
[WhiteElo "2761"]
[BlackElo "2750"]
[PlyCount "111"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Bg4 3. Bg2 e6 4. O-O Nd7 5. d4 c6 6. Nbd2 Ngf6
7. Re1 Be7 8. e4 dxe4 9. Nxe4 O-O 10. c3 Re8 11. Nxf6+ Bxf6
12. h3 Bh5 13. Qb3 Qb6 14. Nd2 e5 15. d5 Qc7 16. d6 Qb8
17. Ne4 Bd8 18. Be3 Bb6 19. h4 h6 20. Bh3 Qd8 21. Bxh6 Nc5
22. Nxc5 Qxd6 23. Nd7 Qxh6 24. Nxb6 axb6 25. Qxb6 Bf3 26. Qe3
Qh5 27. Bg2 Bxg2 28. Kxg2 Ra4 29. Qg5 Qxg5 30. hxg5 Kh7 31. a3
Kg6 32. Rad1 Re6 33. Rd7 b5 34. Red1 Rc4 35. Rc7 e4 36. Rdd7
e3 37. fxe3 Rxe3 38. Rxf7 Rg4 39. Rxg7+ Kh5 40. Rh7+ Kg6
41. Rcg7+ Kf5 42. Rf7+ Kg6 43. Rhg7+ Kh5 44. Rf3 Re2+ 45. Kh3
Rxg5 46. g4+ Kh6 47. Rxg5 Kxg5 48. b3 Kg6 49. Kg3 Ra2 50. Kf4
Rxa3 51. b4 Kf7 52. Ke5+ Ke7 53. Rh3 Kd7 54. g5 Ra1 55. Rh7+
Ke8 56. Rc7 1-0

[Event "Sousse izt Rd: 3"]
[Site "Sousse izt Rd: 3"]
[Date "1967.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Robert James Fischer"]
[Black "Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. g3 c5 5. Bg2 Nc6 6. Ngf3 Be7
7. O-O O-O 8. e5 Nd7 9. Re1 b5 10. Nf1 b4 11. h4 a5 12. Bf4 a4
13. a3 bxa3 14. bxa3 Na5 15. Ne3 Ba6 16. Bh3 d4 17. Nf1 Nb6
18. Ng5 Nd5 19. Bd2 Bxg5 20. Bxg5 Qd7 21. Qh5 Rfc8 22. Nd2 Nc3
23. Bf6 Qe8 24. Ne4 g6 25. Qg5 Nxe4 26. Rxe4 c4 27. h5 cxd3
28. Rh4 Ra7 29. Bg2 dxc2 30. Qh6 Qf8 31. Qxh7+ 1-0

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

New Chess Video: King's Indian Attack Opening

[Event "Chess Opening King's Indian Attack"]
[Site "www.jrobichess.com"]
[Date "2009.09.06"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "A08"]

1. e4 (1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c5 4. O-O Nc6 5. d3 e6 6. Nbd2 Be7 7. e4 O-O
(7... dxe4 8. dxe4 O-O 9. e5)8. Re1 b5) (1. d3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c6 4. Nf3
Bg4 5. O-O Nbd7 6. Nbd2 e5 7. e4 dxe4 8. dxe4 Bc5 9. h3 Bh5 10. Qe2 O-O 11. Nb3
Bb6 12. a4 a5 13. Bd2 Bg6 14. Nh4)(1. g3 d5 2. Bg2 Nf6 3. Nf3 c6 4. O-O Bg4 5.
d3 Nbd7 6. Nbd2 e5 7. e4 dxe4 8. dxe4 Bc5) 1... c5 (1... e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6
4. Ngf3 c5 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O)(1... c6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 e5 4. Ngf3 Bd6
5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O) 2. Nf3 e6 3. d3 d5 4. Nbd2 Nc6 5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2
Be7 7. O-O O-O *

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

Chess Grandmaster Nigel Short - Experiences in Chess

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jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

Do you wanna date my Avatar?

These guys created an original comedy sketch on YouTube called "Watch the Guild" and it's a parody of a group of online gamers interacting both in-game and in real life.

They are entering into season 3 now and the show got sponsored by Microsoft. Not too bad at all considering it all started off as a fun YouTube series!

Note: Press the full screen button on the lower right-hand side of player to get full screen.



Original "Watch the Guild" Season 1 - Episode 1



Watch the Guild YouTube Channel

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

New Chess Video: US Chess Phenom - IM Ray Robson

[Event "Arctic Chess Challenge 2009"]
[Site "Scandic Hotel, Tromsø"]
[Date "2009.08.01"]
[EventDate "2009.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Ray Robson"]
[Black "Vadim Malakhatko"]
[ECO "B18"]
[WhiteElo "2491"]
[BlackElo "2570"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6
7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bd2 Ngf6
12. O-O-O Be7 13. Qe2 O-O 14. Nf1 c5 15. g4 cxd4 16. g5 hxg5
17. Bxg5 Nd5 18. Bxe7 Qxe7 19. Rxd4 Qf6 20. Kb1 Qh6 21. c4
Rac8 22. Qd1 N5f6 23. Ne3 Nc5 24. Ne5 Nce4 25. Qf3 Qh7 26. Ka1
Rcd8 27. Rxd8 Rxd8 28. h6 Rd2 29. N3g4 Qf5 30. Nxf6+ Nxf6
31. Qxb7 Qh5 32. a3 Rd1+ 33. Rxd1 Qxd1+ 34. Ka2 Qh5 35. Qa8+
Kh7 36. hxg7 Kxg7 37. f4 Qf5 38. Qxa7 Nh5 39. Qd4 Qxf4
40. Qxf4 Nxf4 41. a4 1-0

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

Gaming Addict Talks about Losing Family

This is a very deep video. This man lost his family because of his hobby, and shares the experience and gives some very important advice. A person doesn't have to be married with children to get something out of this; anyone who has a strong passion for a hobby has relationships that are important, whether it's immediate family, or friends.



NOTE: This isn't anyone affiliated with the blog (or even chess as far as I know) but it's a powerful video nonetheless. The man who created the video has his YouTube channel located HERE.

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

New Chess Video: Chess Tactics #6

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.

Time Travel Possible?

jrobichess makes chess videos and has a chess blog along with a personal chess site at http://www.jrobichess.com.