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| Posted by indiana-jay mailcafe.net 6/12/2005 22:10:49 Play online chess |  Subject: Dutch "Winawer" QuestionMessage: When learning Dutch defense, I came up with similar variation, which is: 1. d4 f5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bg5! I have tried to fight this with: 3. ... e7-e6 4. e2-e4 fxe4 5. Nxe4 d7-d5?! The following forced moves didn't happen in my game but after a lot of thinking I think the resulting end game position is a definite win for White: 6. NxN g7xN 7. Qh5+ Ke7 8. Bg5xf6 KxB 9. Qh4+ Kg7 10. QxQ Bb4+ 11. c2-c3 Bxc3+ 12. b2xB RxQ 13. Kd2 So I stop playing 5. ... d5? Do you think that d5 is a blunder? |
| Posted by bogg mailcafe.net 6/12/2005 23:43:39 Play online chess | indiana-jay Message: |
| Posted by indiana-jay mailcafe.net 6/13/2005 00:09:19 Play online chess | Message: And in 2 of my games, I came up with positions similar to KI, but I like it better than KI. I guess white should have been mad allowing black to achieve that hehehe... I checked also somewhere that in recent tournaments, black has much success with Dutch defense??! And, it seems that the likely end game positions are not too complicated for my level (due to it's closed nature). ——— The late Vasily Smyslov was the composed champion of the 1950s — Vasily Smyslov, who died last weekend at 89, was the world's best chess player for most of the 1950s but held the championship crown for only one year and was nicknamed 'The Winter King'. Smyslov understood chess more profoundly than his great rival Mikhail Botvinnik, against whom he contested three world championship matches with honours even. But Botvinnik was the better psychologist, had a shrewd knowledge of chess politics and made wily use of rules where 12-12 kept his title in 1954 and his 1957 defeat gave him a return series where he caught the flu-stricken Smyslov at the start. Smyslov took his major reverse phlegmatically. Chess for him was an art form allied to ... |