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| Posted by happinessisawarmgun mailcafe.net 11/28/2005 06:39:23 Play online chess |  Subject: 7.f3..in the sicilian dragon.Message: Can anyone who plays this line a lot explain to me the purpose of this move. I have just started to look at the dragon and this has struck me as a strange move . Thanks | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by odonata mailcafe.net 11/28/2005 07:55:27 Play online chess | Re: Message: Propably you are puzzled because in other openings f3 is a clear weaknes for the K-side, yet in the Dragon White usually castles Q-side so f3 is OK. The dragon is known for it's sharp play with a black pawn rush on the Q-side (towards the enemy King) and a white pawn rush on the K-side.. (yet white can choose for quiter lines by castling also K-side) | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by sahsakkchess mailcafe.net 11/28/2005 07:58:07 Play online chess | 7.f3 Message: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cd 4. Nd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg6(If black play 6...Ng4?? after 7. Bb5+ black losing a piece.) 7. f3 I dont play dragon any more but i played and i knew 3 reasons for 7.f3: 1. Overprotect e4 pawn. 2. Stops black to play Ng4.Bishop on e3 is wery important later in attack -Qd2 -Bh6. 3. Prepare g4(without 7. f3 is imposible) h4 king side pawn storm. Good luck. ——— Chess as a Slow Dance of Seduction (movie review) — Caroline Bottaro’s tangy comic bonbon, “Queen to Play,” plucks the game of chess out of the metaphorical realm of spy thrillers and reimagines it as a fable about relationships and upward mobility. Adapted from Bertina Henrichs’s novel “The Chess Player,” this slight but captivating movie (Ms. Bottaro’s directorial debut) compares the strategies of chess to the erotic maneuvers in a flirtatious pas de deux that may be more satisfying than actual sex. At the same time, a woman’s winning the game symbolizes female empowerment in a man’s world and ascent from working-class drudgery to the bourgeoisie. Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire), the movie’s sly, middle-aged Cinderella, is ... Posted by happinessisawarmgun | mailcafe.net 11/28/2005 09:57:06 Play online chess thanks guys...Message: ——— Chess: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer? — Fischer's famous attack on the King's Gambit is interesting – but a long way from a refutation. In 1961 Bobby Fischer wrote "A Bust to the King's Gambit", a now famous article in which he set out, in typically uncompromising language, to do exactly as the title says. His idea was to play 1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Nf3 d6, avoiding the Kieseritsky variation (3...g5 4 h4 g4 5 Ne5) which Spassky had used to defeat him a couple of years before. The diagram position arises after 3...d6 4 d4 g5 5 h4 g4 6 Ng1 Bh6 and here Fischer claims that White has "no compensation" for the pawn. RB: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer? And you can see his point. With White's pieces all on ... Posted by anaxagoras | mailcafe.net 11/30/2005 09:42:04 Play online chess Message: ——— On Chess: Fischer's reputation as egomaniac unfair — In his account of the 1992 rematch between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, Yasser Seirawan offered his opinion - after spending hours with Fischer - that 60 percent of what he had read about him was wrong. Indeed, despite his often grievous negatives, there was another Fischer whom many of us experienced and admired. He could be kind and appreciative of others in many contexts. In a 1969 column that he wrote for Boys' Life magazine, Fischer praised U.S. junior chess champion Ken Rogoff and added: "It should encourage each of you who read this column to know that by applying yourself, as Ken did, you can become a fine chess player in a relatively short time." When the father of ... Posted by wolstoncroft1 | mailcafe.net 12/08/2005 02:55:05 Play online chess its more to defend the g4 squareMessage: 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd 4 Nxd4 g6 5 Nc3 Bg7 6 Be3 Nf6 7 f3 -- here you need to defend the g4 square before creating the battery with Qd2(which also clears out for potential 0-0-0) if not 7 Qd2 Ng4 and white has to decide upon losing his initiative and kingside attack allowing the Bishop to be traded off for blacks knight. The longterm effects for white of not having the dark squared bishop will be that the Bishop on g7 will have an excellent diagonal and will be unopposed he will be blacks best minor piece an will defend well as well as attack so thats why you play f3. In fischer's games in the open sicilian i have seen him play h3 instead to defend g4 and later he played f4 and so on. but id be careful straying from mainline in the first 10 moves or so because those who play the sicilian dragon know the lines well and will punish you for mistakes.,. ——— Aronian Wins the Last Amber Chess Tourney — Levon Aronian won the Amber chess tournament in Monaco this month. He will be known as the last winner. After twenty years, the combined blindfold and rapid chess event, featuring the world's top players, comes to a halt. Named after his daughter Melody Amber, the Dutch sponsor Joop van Oosterom, created a dream tournament for the world's best grandmasters, allowing them to have fun and be well paid for it. This year's prize fund was 227,000 euro (aprox. US $317,000). Last year's co-winner, Vassily Ivanchuk, went as far as calling it " the greatest tournament." 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