Kenilworth Chess Club Champion and FIDE Master Steve Stoyko lectured
in the club’s skittles room on Thursday, April 21, 2005. He played
over and discussed some of his games published in Dr. Orest Popovych’s
book featuring games by former champions of the Ukrainian Sports
Federation of the USA and Canada (USCAK) — which Steve has won several
times.
Instead of the standard demo board, Steve played his moves
on a regular board and they were shown on the widescreen television
monitor using the Fritz interface. Each move thus had both human
and computer analysis. In some ways, the lecture became a commentary
on the limitations of computer thinking, since Fritz found many
of Steve’s deepest combinations and ideas unfathomable given its
relatively limited horizon.
You can play through the games and commentary
below using the Palmede Java viewer, or go first to
the four quiz positions from these games. You can also download the
PGN file of all games and annotations using the links at the bottom
of the page.
