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| Posted by greenrat777 mailcafe.net 4/20/2008 12:59:06 Play online chess |  Subject: evans gambitMessage: | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by cairo mailcafe.net 4/20/2008 14:14:09 Play online chess | Another Message: Best wishes Cairo | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by cascadejames mailcafe.net 4/20/2008 23:07:48 Play online chess | Green Message: accept it I will send another. cj ——— Chess: A sacrificial rook — Sacrificing a chess piece is a nerve-racking business, but think of the warm glow when it pays off. RB If chess pieces could talk, they would be screaming at me something like: "Can't you take a hint, dummy? We're all pointing in one direction – at c3!" And I would say back to them: "Yes, thank you, I see that, but I have to tell you that I am always nervous of sacrificing a chess piece when I can't calculate a forced mate or win of material." But let's try to get the nerves under control and venture the less valuable piece first: 1...Bxc3. What's to stop White playing 2 bxc3, and if 2...Qxc3 3 Bb3, with threats against f7? That doesn't seem to help Black much, so what about the rook: ... Posted by marinvukusic | mailcafe.net 4/21/2008 01:09:24 Play online chess How serious are you?Message: It was written in 1997. but is still the best book on Evans IMHO ——— Polgar Defeats a Slumping Topalov at Ajedrez Event — Marriage seems to have hurt Veselin Topalov’s chess career, for now. Topalov, 35, a former world chess champion who was ranked No. 1 in the world as recently as 14 months ago, has seen his ranking slide to No. 5. His manager, Silvio Danailov, said in a recent interview that Topalov married a few months ago and was “enjoying life a little bit,” adding, “He is not motivated to play chess tournaments right now.” Topalov may also be suffering from a sort of psychological hangover after losing a grueling world chess championship match in April and May to Viswanathan Anand. He has not really played well since. His latest setback occurred at the Ajedrez UNAM Quadrangular chess tournament in ... Posted by tim_b | mailcafe.net 4/21/2008 08:17:02 Play online chess Message: ——— Magnus Carlsen suffers dramatic collapse at world blitz chess championship — The world blitz chess championship in Moscow has become a popular annual event. Vishy Anand, the world chess champion, stayed away this year but the world No1, Magnus Carlsen, who won in 2009, returned to defend his title in an elite 20-grandmaster field. Carlsen led after the first day's play but had a bad run ("My head went on strike") on the second and Armenia's world No3, Levon Aronian, went three points clear before easing up. Final leading scores were Aronian 24.5/38, Teimour Radjabov 24, Carlsen 23.5. The time limit shortened from four minutes per game plus two seconds per move for each side in 2009 to 3/2. It is tough to play a high-class opponent under such conditions. Quite apart from ... Posted by marinvukusic | mailcafe.net 4/22/2008 01:50:50 Play online chess tim_bMessage: There are only 2 pages of analysis, since it is a rare move. White should probably play "main" variation: 6.d4, Qe7; 7.0-0, Nf6; 8.Nbd2, 0-0; 9.Bd3 with some advantage. In any case the move is good enough for Black players that fear White's preparation (no need to learn a lot of theory and White's advantage is small). I have never seen it played since obviously only White players buy books on the Evans and it does look too dangerous to improvise with 5...Bd6 :) ——— Chess: How to continue the attack? — Sometimes the way ahead is obvious, sometimes a little more obscure... RB The position arose from a Sicilian and, racking my memory, I vaguely recall that there are sometimes sacrifices on e6 and b5 in similar set-ups. So I looked, first, at 1 Ndxb5 (or 1 Ncxb5), but after 1...axb5 2 Nxb5 Qc6, Black has a knight for two pawns and White still has no attack. I then looked at 1 Nxe6, but again after 1...Bxe6 2 Bxe6 (what else?) fxe6 Black was, once more, ahead on material and under no threat. 1 Nf5 doesn't do anything either, apart from lose a piece for even less material, and 1 a4 is answered by 1...b4. The pawn on e4 is obviously a target, but ... Posted by heinzkat | mailcafe.net 4/22/2008 02:28:05 Play online chess After 5. ... Bd6Message: ——— Chess: Remembering Larry Evans — Larry Melvyn Evans (1932-2010), one of the most prominent American chess grandmasters, prolific writer and commentator, died in Reno, Nevada, on November 15 at the age of 78. Evans began playing chess in New York City. He quickly progressed and in 1951, at age 19, won his first U.S. chess championship ahead of Sammy Reshevsky. He would win four more U.S. titles as well as four U.S. Opens. With steady play, Evans was a calm presence on the U.S. olympiad teams. In his first olympiad in Dubrovnik in 1950, Evans scored an impressive 9 points in 10 games. In 26 years, from 1950 to 1976, he played 100 games in eight olympiads and scored 64,5 points, winning gold, silver and bronze medals for ... Posted by tim_b | mailcafe.net 4/22/2008 05:34:42 Play online chess Message: Heinzkat, I'm a little unsure how to manoeuvre the b1 knight to f5? Have you got a game example, please? Posted by cairo | mailcafe.net 4/22/2008 13:44:02 Play online chess Bent Larsen Message: Best wishes Cairo Posted by davido_check | mailcafe.net 4/26/2008 23:42:47 Play online chess Message: That opening lost its popularity throughout the years due to effective counterplay until one day when Kasparov used it to beat Anand (I think, he discovered a new line?). Look up Paul Morphy's games for the Evans! Posted by cairo | mailcafe.net 4/27/2008 03:31:01 Play online chess Here is the famous game Message: DO YOU REMEMBER THIS FAMOUS GAME? EVANS GAMBIT Riga 1995 Kasparov Garry - Anand Viswanathan 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Be7 6.d4 Na5 7.Be2 exd4 8.Qxd4! Nf6 9.e5 Nc6 10.Qh4 Nd5 11.Qg3 g6 12.0-0 Nb6 13. c4 d6 14. Rd1 Nd7 15.Bh6 Nxce5 16. Nxe5 Nxe5 17. Nc3 f6 18. c5 Nf7? 19.cxd6 cxd6 20.Qe3 Nxh6 21.Qxh6 Bf8 22.Qe3+ Kf7 23.Nd5 Be6 24.Nf4 Qe7+ 25.Qe1 1-0 DID ANAND HAD TO PLAY 11...g6? Best wishes Cairo |