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Posted by odonata mailcafe.net 1/11/2006 11:59:12 Play online chess	Subject: Bird Opening Message: Any Bird opening players that want to share thougths on this opening? Cheers, odonata
Posted by apastpawn mailcafe.net 1/13/2006 20:51:23 Play online chess	Kinda quite here Message: Guess we have few Bird Fans. Maybe something to do with From's Gambit taking all the fun out of Mr Birds opening. Several little traps involved also in the gambit. You still collecting traps Odonata? Wayne
Posted by bucklehead mailcafe.net 1/14/2006 06:13:52 Play online chess	The From Gambit is not to be feared Message: If it bothers you, you can always decline it in what I consider to be a fairly advantageous way: 1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. Nf3 dxe5 4. Nc3. ——— Kramnik claims Carlsen — Vladimir Kramnik played what he described as feeling like “his greatest ever game” to defeat Magnus Carlsen in the ninth round of the Corus chess tournament at Wijk aan Zee. The former world chess champion moved into the joint lead with Alexey Shirov and avenged his defeat at Carlsen’s hands at last December’s London Chess Classic. Scores with four to play: 1-2 Shirov, Kramnik 6.5/9; 3-4 Carlsen, Karjakin 5.5; 5-7 Ivanchuk, Dominguez, Nakamura 5; 8-9 Leko, Anand 4.5; 10 Caruana 3.5; 11-13 Tiviakov, Short, Van Wely 3; 14 Smeets 2.5; ...
Posted by schaakhamster mailcafe.net 1/15/2006 00:58:15 Play online chess	From's gambit Message: is nothing really to be feared if you know your stuff. What drove me away from it is a kind of pirc-like setup. Not that it is to be feared but it's just not my style ——— Shirov in Sveshnikov — Vladimir Kramnik made his move in the eighth round of the Corus chess tournament at Wijk aan Zee and defeated the US chess champion Hikaru Nakamura to join Magnus Carlsen in second place. Alexey Shirov remains half a point ahead with five to play and he tested Magnus Carlsen’s chess opening preparation by challenging him to repeat the line that decided last year’s MTel tournament when Carlsen lost badly. A fascinating game. In the Sveshnikov Sicilian Black often sacrifices pawns for activity. White is three pawns ahead at the end but cannot coordinate. ...
Posted by wschmidt mailcafe.net 1/17/2006 14:16:15 Play online chess	I don't play it, Message: but I just happened to read a short review of Timothy Taylor's new book on the opening over at Jeremy Silman's site. It sounds as though it's pretty thorough. Might want to check it out. ——— Hikaru beats leader at Corus Chess Tournament — Let's start with an update to the Corus Chess Tournament, which is getting more exciting by the day. It had seemed that U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura's bid to win the event might be slipping away. Coming into the seventh round Saturday, Hikaru had made three straight draws. He was tied for second place, 1.5 points behind the leader, Alexei Shirov of Spain. Not a bad showing, but the 22-year-old New Yorker has ambitions of winning the chess tournament and clearly establishing himself as one of the world's elite players. So for Hikaru, Saturday was crucial. He was paired against Shirov and had the advantage of playing the white pieces. Here was a chance to cut ...
Posted by odonata mailcafe.net 1/18/2006 03:32:52 Play online chess	I agree with schaakhamster Message: that the Pirc is an annoying setup, most lines I have my strategy at place, yet there I'm looking for a proper answer. Yet Black doesn't come up in that one with a clear aggresive plan so White doesn't have to fear too much.. From is tough for both sides, but indeed if white survives the opening it has always better chances. ——— The Scotch Opening, part 3: the Kasparov approach — The former world champion was responsible for a revival of interest in the chess opening. But how does he exploit it here? More on the Scotch. Garry Kasparov was responsible for its revival. Here he finds his e-pawn under pressure. What should he play? RB There are so many possibilities that I'm going to have to go through a process of elimination. We can discard the obvious hara-kiri options of 1 cxd5 and 1 exf6 Qb4+. Nor does 1 f4 fxe5 2 fxe5 Qg5 look particularly appealing. 1 Bg2 looks like it just loses a pawn and gives Black all the play after 1...fxe5 2 0-0, and 1 e6 is just bad. Nor do 1 Nd2, 1 Kd1 and 1 Ba3 solve the problem. That leaves ...
Posted by bogg mailcafe.net 1/18/2006 22:42:41 Play online chess	Bucklehead Message: I used to play the Bird and looked at your declined variation years ago. I don't see how it is advantageous for White. The best I was able to come up with was 5. ... Nc6 6. e3 Nf6 7. Bb5 e4 8. Nd4 (of course not 8. Ng5 Bd6) Bd7. Black seems to be clearly better to me. Maybe White can obtain approximate equality with 8. Ne5 but I still don't see an advantage. CTC (Bogg) ——— Russia return to form after slump — Russia, with a new-look young chess team, recovered from an early setback against Greece and won the World Team Chess Championship at Bursa, Turkey. The result eases the pressure on Moscow chess officials whose once invincible squad failed to justify top seeding in the last three Olympiads. The United States, without their No2, Gata Kamsky, took silver and India, missing the world chess champion, Vishy Anand, won bronze, both fine performaces. But the show stealer was this week's spectacular brilliancy, which helped the 22-year-old US chess champion to the individual top board gold medal. Boris Gelfand had planned the sharp opening and ...
Posted by bucklehead mailcafe.net 1/19/2006 04:58:16 Play online chess	In this matter... Message: ...I have been impressed with the analysis of ICCF IM Keith Hayward ( -> www.geocities.com ) who recommends 5 e4 instead of 5 e3, and favors Bc4 over Bb5, though I see the merits of both your approaches. In any event, I don't have the intellectual goods to debate you in a meaningful way on this point; but at my level of chess, this system has been useful in defusing an attack and confusing an opponent. I've always thought that the familiar military maxim applies to chess: being able to choose the ground is half the battle. Of course, I very often have terrible trouble with the other half...
Posted by bogg mailcafe.net 1/19/2006 15:32:55 Play online chess	bucklehead Message: I didn't spend much time looking at Kieth's analysis. Perhaps he has come up with something to refute the assessment that has stood for hundreds of years that evaluated KGD lines with White playing fe: as inferior. As you can't here my voice, I am not being sarcastic, evaluations are overturned, especially very old ones. RJF made a living finding improvements in old lines. Many strong correspondence chess players also specialize in this area. My only suggestion would be: For completeness you should compare his analysis with the KGD analysis in the books. If you like what Kieth has to say then follow his suggestions. CTC (Bogg)
Posted by sough mailcafe.net 1/19/2006 21:50:57 Play online chess	Message: I tried the from's gambit(is that the correct way of phrasing it?) the other day at the club but I'm not expert in it and my opponent while solid knows little theory. It was a wild opening. If I remember right... 1.f4 e5 He looked strangely at this move for a while before moving 2.fxe d6 Again slightly puzzled lol 3.Nf3 dxe 4. e4 Bc5 I didn't expect e4 but wasn't worried about it, Bc5 looked natural and also has the trap of Nxe 5.Bc4 Nh6 I was aiming for Ng4 while still keeping the diagonal open for the queen, not sure if it was a great idea or not. 6.d3 Ng4 7.Rf1 Nxh 8.Bg5 NxN I expected NxN from white, although I completely missed(as did he) the possibility of Bxf7 that fritz suggests but I think I could still draw. 9.QxN now QxB nets a large and clear advantage for black...of course I thought white then had checkmate because I forgot d8 would be vacated! I ended it up losing but I liked the opening, I hate a slow manuevering game and this opens things up big time.
Posted by ccmcacollister mailcafe.net 1/20/2006 02:49:51 Play online chess	Weeell .... Perhaps it should be said?! Message: There is some ground KH maybe didnt cover or I didnt see ... and picked up on in One hard game of such gambit related lines as mentioned. :( Of course that was a long time ago, too. Tho after he started publishing his great monogram @ APCT and perhaps beyond( bucklehead ? I've never googled it ...just saw the original ) *** Nobody has seemed to mention that one strange peculiarity in the Birds, mainlines where BL tries to occupy center and such all, developing as if in a Rev.Dutch for EG. That WT can initiate a Kingside pawn storm that often Cannot be countered effectively, in time, by a center counter strike!? It can be not-easy to contend with at times.
Posted by ccmcacollister mailcafe.net 1/20/2006 02:51:32 Play online chess	PS// Message: Lest there be any misunderstanding ... I got my clock-cleaned from the WT side of That One game :) :(
Posted by odonata mailcafe.net 1/20/2006 14:00:01 Play online chess	From Declined Message: [White "Goldin, Roman"] [Black "Bitansky, Igor"] [Result "1-0"] 1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. Nf3 dxe5 4. e4 Bc5 5. Bc4 Nc6 6. Qe2 Nf6 7. Bxf7+ Kxf7 8. Qc4+ Kg6 9. Qxc5 Nxe4 10. Qe3 Nf6 11. O-O Re8 12. Nc3 Kf7 13. Ne4 Nxe4 14. Ng5+ 1-0 Can anyone explain to me why Black resigned this game? 14.... Kg8 and all is open, not?
Posted by odonata mailcafe.net 1/20/2006 14:00:01 Play online chess	From Declined Message: [White "Goldin, Roman"] [Black "Bitansky, Igor"] [Result "1-0"] 1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. Nf3 dxe5 4. e4 Bc5 5. Bc4 Nc6 6. Qe2 Nf6 7. Bxf7+ Kxf7 8. Qc4+ Kg6 9. Qxc5 Nxe4 10. Qe3 Nf6 11. O-O Re8 12. Nc3 Kf7 13. Ne4 Nxe4 14. Ng5+ 1-0 Can anyone explain to me why Black resigned this game? 14.... Kg8 and all is open, not?
Posted by mattdw mailcafe.net 1/20/2006 15:05:43 Play online chess	Message: I can't see any reason why black should resign so I put it in Fritz and it says Black is only down about half a pawn.
Posted by bogg mailcafe.net 1/20/2006 15:55:04 Play online chess	odonata Message: I just looked at it blindfold but isn't Black nearly squished after 14. ... Kg8 15. Qb3+ ? 15. ... Be6 16. Ne6: Na5 17. Nd8:+ Nb3: 18. ab: Red8: 19. d3 and unless I am miscounting material is even and White has all of the plusses although I suppose he may not be winning. Perhaps your opponent didn't see 16. ... Na5. CTC (Bogg)
Posted by ionadowman mailcafe.net 1/21/2006 02:21:07 Play online chess	A fair assessment, bogg... Message: The sequence suggested seems pretty likely, and leaves White with not much of an edge at all. Maybe the isolated e-pawn will turn into a problem-child for Black if he's not careful, but it sure lord beats resigning! :-/