AT our local chess club we have the Kemper Memorial Tournament going on at this time. Although there are some players who don’t come to play on the Tuesday night that they are due to play, it’s still a good tournament.

Here are the results up to Tuesday, May 15 after three rounds:Phil Shadick, Nigel Chudleigh, Bobby Miller 2|0xbd| points

Sami Lill, Larry Ebbin, Moses Mufandaedza, Ezra Turner, Richard Burton 2 pts

Gary Cooper, Kumi Bradshaw, Ray Trott 1|0xbd| pts

Kennedy Simmons, Alvin Amore, Ricardo Davis, Neville Darrell 1 pt

Neil Trott 0 ptOn Tuesday of this week it was round 4 with the four top boards playing each other. I’ll bring you the results until a later date.

It is an important skill to visualise the combination that goes into 4-6 moves deep. Well, Chessbase has a workshop that teaches just that. I have lots of books and they do help.

Anyone who’s been playing the game for a long time could tell you how much this could help. If you have a computer there is a web site called chessbase.com where you can get the information about Visualise search in Fritz 10.

An important part of chess is to calculate in your mind, move the pieces and then go through the “what if” in your plan of attack.

Here is a game from my hero Mihail Tal (pictured below)<\p><$>playing White and Martin Romero playing Black.

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4 4. Qc2 c5 5. a3 Ba5 6. e3 d5> [6. . . . 0-0 7. d4 d6 8. Be2 Nbd7 9. 0-0 Qe7 10. b3 Bxc3 11. Qxc3 b6 12. Bb2 Ne4 13. Qc2 f5 14. Nd2 (14. Ne1!?$>14. . . . Bb7 15. f3 Nxd2 16. Qxd2 e5 17. f4 exd4 18. exd4 Rae8 = Illescas Cordoba, M-Romanishin, O. Terrassa 1991 CBM/24] 7. Na4! b6 8. Rb1<$> [(8. . . . Na6 9. cxd5 Nxd5 10. Bb5+ Kf8 11. 0-0 Bb7 12. d4 Rc8 13. dxc5 Nxc5 14. Nxc5 bxc5 15. Rd1 Qc7 16. Bd2+ Smyslov, V-Matanovic, A. Monte Carlo 3/25)] 9. cxb5 c4 10. B3! cxb3 11. Rxb3+ 0-0 12. Bb2 Ne4 13. Be2 Nd7 14. 0-0 Bb7 15. Ba1! Rc8 16. Qb2 Ndf6 17. d3 Nc5 18. nxc5 rxc5 19. Qb1 Bb6 20. Bd4 Rc8 21. Rc1 Qd6 22. Rbc3 Nd7 23. Rxc8 Rxc8 24. Rxc8+ Bxc8 25. Qc2 Bb7 26. Bxb6 axb6 27. d4 e5 28. Qc3 exd4 29. Nxd4 Nf6 30. Nf5 Qd7 31. Qe5 Bc8 32. Bd3 Kf8 33. Qb8 g6 34. Nd6

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