Intensive Training

In this month I will do an intensive tactical training to win the tournament I've spoken about, so I will have less time to post here. I beg you pardon, but stay tuned for the results, photos, and games. I will also keep posting the nunn's puzzles and endgame studies.

Worst Rating Ever

Today after an unprecedented series of 10 succesive defeats I reached my worst rating peak in the playchess.com server! 1777, ten losses, pieces losses like a patzer... Perhaps they were right saying I started too late... I'm training very hard and the results is that I'm worse than when I started. Perhaps i should give up my too ambitious dream to become a GM.....
If I don't wake up EARLY, it will remain a dream FOREVER...

#1 Chess Study

It's often boring to study endgame, isn't it? But it's tremendously useful to improve our chess understanding and positional intuition. So, a funny way to study endgame is to resolve endgame studies, which in the meantime will also improve your tactics.
I took this studies from Kusnetsov's book 'Brilliant Chess Studies', but as it is only a collection of the greatest chess studies, there's no violation of copyright.
WHITE TO MOVE AND WIN
If no one find the complete solution I'll post it in a week.
Enjoy the Fantastic World of Chess Studies!

#2 Problem - Hint

Okay, since no one has posted the solution
to the second problem I give you the hint:
"The first point to note is that Black's king has a possible escape route to e4, so White's first move must either prevent Ke4 or prepare a reply to it. The second point is that if White loses control of c4 or e6 then Black can give a discover check by moving his king. However composers love an element of paradox in their problems, so..."
(taken from Chessmaster 9000)

When Garry Got Really Upset...

ahah Kasparov is too funny when he makes a blunder... he really doesn't want to lose from anyone!
I keep falling off my chair when I watch this video.
You can find the complete game here, the blunder is on move 33 (Qxe3) not seeing the discover attack (Qg4). Don't worry Garry, you are still the greatest player in the history of the game!

Kasparov in Milan

Garry Kasparov, my chess hero, on the 29th of June went to my hometown, Milan, to sign autographs and make photos and I...WAS NOT THERE!!!!!!!
Damn it! I was in holiday very far from Milan (I was in Boston, USA) so I couldn't see the greatest player of all the time right there, in my city... I hope he'll come back in Italy, I won't surely miss another occasion to speak to my chess idol.
Garry, COME BACK!

Fischer Random Chess

Without any doubts it is fun, being a purely tactical affair from move one. I'm talking about Fischer Random Chess (also called Chess960), a variant of the game where piece placement is randomly determined before each game. It has been created by Bobby Fischer to eliminate opening preparation and quick draws (it's too comlicated to make a draw on move 20!!).
I think it's a good game but it cannot replace the entire game of chess, it cannot delete two century of history. Is the opening preaparation killing chess (only at supergm level of course)? Well, no problem; just play an UNCOMMON opening and demonstrate your superior strenght on UNCOMMON grounds. What do you think about this?