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| Posted by spurtus playchesscomputer.net 9/24/2008 06:53:47 Play chess computer | Message: 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Ke7 3.Nc3 Qe8 4.Nf3 Kd8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by tim_b playchesscomputer.net 9/25/2008 12:29:30 Play chess computer | Message: 1. f3 e5 2. Kf2 I can't really explain it, maybe it's an attempt to c*** a snook at your opponent or lull him into a genuine sense of security. ——— So Holds Lead in Biel, as Negi Gets on the Board — Wesley So of the Philippines drew his Round 4 game Thursday in the Biel Chess Festival, which was enough for him to hold on to the lead. He has 3 points. Most of the other games also ended in draws, with the exception of the contest between Dmitry Andreikin of Russia and David Howell of Britain. In that game, Andreikin found a new idea in a well-known variation of the English opening. Surprised, Howell struggled and quickly fell into trouble. Andreikin’s rooks penetrated to the seventh rank, after which there was little Howell could do and he resigned after only 30 moves. Andreikin is tied for second with Fabiano Caruana of Italy and Evgeny Tomashevsky of Russia. They each have 2.5 points. Once ... Posted by ionadowman | playchesscomputer.net 9/25/2008 13:56:18 Play chess computer What is the Talon?Message: There are more "Chessic" openings that are unusual, but known to have been played, many at Master level. E.g Anderssen's Opening 1.a3. In his match against Paul Morphy, Adolf Anderssen opened the first game with this debut: 1.a3 e5?! 2.c4, with a Reversed Sicilian. Anderssen went on to win the game, but then got hammered in the rest of the match. More weirdly, Tony Miles (playing Black) once responded to Anatoly Korpov's opening move by 1....a6, and went on to win that game! I've always been rather intrigued by Breyer's Gambit - a strange-looking offshoot of the King's Gambit. 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Qf3!? Capablanca once played it and won comprehensively (can't remember against whom, though). I recall reading an article and accompanying poem (rather a better effort than the usual kind of thing) in a British Chess Magazine about the King's Own Gambit, a.k.a. the Tumbleweed. 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Kf2. The thing is more playable than it looks. Finally, though probably most players know of it, few would dare play the opening I'm about to mention There was one Kiwi player out of Dunedin, apparently, who played it regularly, but, given his name, perhaps he could call it his own. Peter or Philip (can't recall which) Paris was the name; and 1.Nh3 is the Paris Opening. Do these qualify? Cheers, Ion ——— Two Draws and a Blunder in Dortmund — One of the eternal frustrations of chess is that a well played game can be lost with one careless move. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan, the No. 6 chess player in the world, was reminded of this on Wednesday at the elite Sparkassen Chess-Meeting in Dortmunt, Germany. In Round 6, Mamedyarov was White against Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany. Mamedyarov got a clear edge out of the opening and had his opponent under pressure for much of the game. Naiditsch defended well and the game seemed to heading for a draw when Mamedyarov blundered, taking a knight with his rook that was defended by Naiditsch’s queen. As chess blunders go, it was not exactly colossal, but ... Posted by lighttotheright | playchesscomputer.net 9/25/2008 22:07:20 Play chess computer Message: The biggest problem I have with it is that Queens are likely to be traded early. That could make it drawish, even though White gains a slight initiative. Another problem I have with it is that the White's Queen lands on a good square that more rightfully belongs to the White knight. It might be good for a surprise weapon OTB; but you would need a pair of brass ones to use it in competition these days. As far as the Paris Opening is concerned, it is deceptive too but somewhat less sound. ——— Shankland Is US Junior Chess Champion — Samuel Shankland, an 18-year-old international master, survived a three-way playoff on Tuesday to win the United States junior chess championship. Shankland was the No. 2 seed, but he beat Ray Robson, the top seed and a chess grandmaster, in an Armageddon game to claim the title. As there were three players tied for first, there were two playoff games. Robson, by virtue of having the better tie-breaker scores, met the winner of the first game. In that one, Shankland beat Parker Zhao. The playoff involved long Armageddon games, just like the one used at the U.S. Chess Championship earlier this year. Shankland and Zhao, each chess player secretly bid on how much time, up to ... Posted by blake78613 | playchesscomputer.net 10/23/2008 17:02:28 Play chess computer Message: [Site "St Louis"] [Date "1929"] [Round "?"] [White "Anderson, J"] [Black "Amateur"] [Result "1-0"] 1. h3 g6 2. g3 Bg7 3. f3 Nf6 4. e3 O-O 5. d3 d5 6. c3 e5 7. b3 Nh5 8. Kf2 Qg5 9. Ne2 Bf5 10. a3 e4 11. f4 Qh6 12. g4 exd3 13. g5 dxe2 14. Bxe2 1-0 ——— Krush Is US Women's Chess Champion; Playoff Will Decide US Junior — Irina Krush, 26, won the United States Women’s Championship on Monday by defeating Abby Marshall, 19, in the final round of the chess tournament. Krush finished with 8 points. It is Krush’s third title. She previously won in 1998 and 2007. For winning this time, she earned $16,000. Krush’s principal rival, Anna Zatonskih, 32, the 2009 champion, who was tied with Krush before the final round, could only draw against Sabina Foisor, 20. She finished with 7.5 points and tied for second with Tatev Abrahamyan, 22, who beat Katerina Rohonyan, 26. Zatonskih and Abrahamyan each earned $10,500. Krush’s win over Marshall was not easy. Marshall, playing in her first U.S. Chess Championship, had ... Posted by easy19 | playchesscomputer.net 10/24/2008 15:39:44 Play chess computer Message: 1 e4 e5 2 d4 exd4 3 f4, Jerome Gambit > very effective wen playing F2F confusing and winning if they do not know it 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Crazy anti sicilian very very sharp 1.e4 c5 2. f4 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Ng5 Nf6 5.Bc4 Bg4 6.Qxg4 Nxg4 Dresden Variation 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c4 Latvian Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 Patzer Opening : always fun against lower rated players 1. e4 e5 2.Qh5 There are many more but these above are a few of the best.. ——— Mamedyarov Leads in Dortmund — Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan took over the lead of the elite Sparkassen Chess-Meeting tournament in Germany on Sunday after he drew his game while his co-leader, Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine, lost. Mamedyarov has 3 points after four rounds, Ponomariov has 2.5, Le Quang Liem of Vietnam, who beat Ponomariov, has 2, and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the defending chess champion, Peter Leko of Hungary and Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany are tied for last with 1.5 points each. The standings are startling as Kramnik, Leko and Naiditsch are all previous champions in Dortmund, while the top three players have never won there. Mamedyarov faced Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the defending chess ... Posted by easy19 | playchesscomputer.net 10/24/2008 15:42:10 Play chess computer Message: Posted by blake78613 | playchesscomputer.net 10/24/2008 18:58:43 Play chess computer Message: Posted by ionadowman | playchesscomputer.net 10/25/2008 01:07:47 Play chess computer The line ...Message: w What has given up a Q+P for a B. To what end? 7.Bxf7+ Kd7 8.Be6+ Kc6 9.Bxg4 ... White emerges with 2 pieces for the Q, a threatened fork, an active position, and the immediate threat to pick up the e-pawn. For certain types of player, that is quite sufficient to justify the sac! So much I can figure out - but I have to admit I've never seen the thing before! The Latvian can be fun, but it has I think been rather over-explored in some lines. Check out the recent ionadowman vs jstevens (accessible via the latter's profile and annotated game list). Interestingly enough, I've never seen in any chess primer, a proper treatment of how to combat the "Patzer Opening". Very occasionally it appears in Master chess, would you believe?! Although it is no trivial matter to meet, I quite like the standard 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Qf3 Nf6, with ...d6 and ...Bg7 to follow and a fine game for Black. But don't imagine that White has lost all that much by the Queen sortie: a tempo or two, nothing more, and certainly not fatal. Cheers, Ion Posted by alice02 | playchesscomputer.net 10/25/2008 05:22:37 Play chess computer evans gambit jrobichess youtubeMessage: Posted by easy19 | playchesscomputer.net 10/25/2008 05:59:27 Play chess computer Message: Played games  gameknot.com 1-0
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Jerome Gambit ( stil really nice wen playing face to face ) en.wikipedia.org < Info J Gambit
Patzer opening ( i love to play it sometimes against 1600 avarge rated players) letmetellyouaboutmybestfriend.blogspot.cHalasz Gambit ( very very rare opening) I wil play a Halasz tournament soon on THEM >> users.skynet.be
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Posted by easy19 | playchesscomputer.net 10/25/2008 06:05:30 Play chess computer Message: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nxe5 I have played a tournament so you can look up several games gameknot.com Posted by easy19 | playchesscomputer.net 10/25/2008 10:55:34 Play chess computer IONMessage: gameknot.com
She handled it quite well. :) Posted by chessnovice | playchesscomputer.net 10/26/2008 01:10:16 Play chess computer ...Message: I stopped playing it after a while, though. I'm not completely satisfied with the value of the gambit. Black can definitely take advantage of subtle mistakes by white, but I dunno... I never managed to find black's very best line. I've wanted to go through some of those old games (I think I played 97 of the 344 games on the database) and annotate a few of them. I dunno if I'll ever find the time to, though. Posted by ionadowman | playchesscomputer.net 10/26/2008 12:29:40 Play chess computer easy19...Message: I suppose one might consider this sort of thing rather unusual: 1.e4 g7 2.c4 e5 ... (The Great Snake Opening. The game sago vs ionadowman began this way; an epic 100-mover that I annotated some time ago) It's 'unusualness' is considerably mitigated by the fact that it is susceptible to considerable transposition. After half a dozen moves or so the thing looked fairly 'normal'. A couple of years ago I had a discussion with someone on GK about the Jerome Gambit. It's quite hard to meet if you don't know what you're doing... Cheers, Ion Posted by schnarre | playchesscomputer.net 10/28/2008 01:12:41 Play chess computer Message: I'll have to check out some of these others! Posted by spclpnngslknc | playchesscomputer.net 10/31/2008 15:50:01 Play chess computer Message: |