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| Posted by roland_l mailcafe.net 1/26/2006 23:50:59 Play online chess |  Subject: Your favorite line as black in the Sicillian ...Message: Anyone care to share on this? | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by vegeta17 mailcafe.net 1/27/2006 04:22:22 Play online chess | Message: I just started playing the exact same way. I've recently started study on the matter but the books I have are usually based on white making the best move. This doesn't seem to happen much in my rating group so it is making for some interesting games. Everyone I've played so far castles short and I surely have problems attacking that side considering my dark square bishop. Better to play for material? I'm just getting started so I'd love to see were this thread goes. Brian | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by cairo mailcafe.net 1/27/2006 04:50:07 Play online chess | Sicilian Najdorf Message: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6! it is always exciting to see, what white will play in his 6th move! Good luck! Best wishes Cairo ——— Meteoric Rise for One Who Had Turned Away — Chess players earn ratings through their performances, and the easiest way to gauge improvement is to chart a rating over time. Ratings usually rise gradually as a player gets better. The exceptions involve young chess players whose ratings have not caught up to their development. Matthew Herman, a 24-year-old American, would seem to be an even bigger exception. For many years, Herman’s international rating was 2,149, the level of a candidate master, because he rarely played and almost never entered tournaments sanctioned by the World Chess Federation. But late last year, after competing in five tournaments, his rating jumped to 2,392. He also fulfilled two-thirds of ... Posted by roland_l | mailcafe.net 1/27/2006 21:00:59 Play online chess Cairo ...Message: 1. what to do with my e pawn? e6 or e5? Care to share principles behind the differences here? 2. What to do when white puts his queen on d2, and then Bg5? Put the question to the bishop? If so, the Bishop sac (Bxh6 gxh6, Qxh6) seems particularly dangerous to me, but I'm not sure. 3. Good aggressive ideas on the queen side after devoloping? ——— Nigel Short maintains reputation despite age and loss of form — Nigel Short, at 45, is now the oldest chess player in the top 100 grandmasters in the world and has dropped far below his peak but the England No2 is still often invited to elite chess events. Short has the prestige of a player who met Garry Kasparov for the world title and won a match against Anatoly Karpov in the Russian's best years. He has built a reputation as an outspoken, energetic and entertaining personality who is popular with ordinary amateurs and who at the board is ready to use offbeat gambits. He has coached rising talents and given exhibitions in Third World countries. At present Short is in something of a form crisis after finishing last at the London Chess Classic and ... Posted by cairo | mailcafe.net 1/28/2006 00:33:32 Play online chess It's Message: After white's 6th move 6.Bg5 e6 follow by 7.f4 black has a choice of the notorious "poisened pawn" variation with his 7.... Qb6!? or a slowly development with 6.... Be7, again a matter of taste and temper. No matter what black or white decide of lines in the Sicilian Najdorf, it almost always lead to unbalanced positions and in many casses to opposite castling and this is really what you want, to bring the game across the drawing line! Good "skullcrushing" onwards! Bw. 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Merim Bilalic at the University of Tübingen in Germany used fMRI to scan the brains of eight international chess players and eight novices while they identified either geometrical shapes or whether the pieces on a chess board were in a check situation. The expert players were quicker at solving the chess problem, activating areas on both sides of their brains as they did so. The novices used just the left side. Bilalic had expected ... Posted by ruzina | mailcafe.net 1/29/2006 01:17:32 Play online chess SicilianMessage: Its an interesting opening, but Ive had some problems with it lately, getting bad positions against strong opponents. Maybe Najdorf and Sveshnikov are better. But anyway Sicilians are fun, because they are challenging white early. Brave choise :-) Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 1/29/2006 11:15:46 Play online chess Roland_l - in answer...Message: Cheers, Ion Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 1/29/2006 18:43:45 Play online chess Some further investigation...Message: Posted by schnarre | mailcafe.net 1/31/2006 23:03:29 Play online chess Hmmnnn...Message: I myself use the offbeat line 2...Na6. Not easy to use, but scrappy. |