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| Posted by kansaspatzer mailcafe.net 6/12/2008 13:48:07 Play online chess |  Subject: The X-Rated Albin Counter-GambitMessage:  www.jeremysilman.com | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by lapsekili mailcafe.net 6/14/2008 07:46:05 Play online chess | thanks Message: | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by sf115 mailcafe.net 6/14/2008 14:48:56 Play online chess | Message: ——— The Man With Too Much Chess Talent — Dragoljub Velimirovic used to be one of the world's most feared attackers, always looking for the impossible. His imaginative play was compared to the colorful world chess champion Mikhail Tal's razzle-dazzle. His playing style was unique, daring and often falling off the edge. He made risky moves and so many of them that you wondered how much punishment his chess pieces could take. He loved to create confusion on the chessboard, always believing he could find a beautiful escape from a bad situation. He had enough talent to pull it off, perhaps "too much talent" as Bobby Fischer once put it when we discussed the play of the Serbian grandmaster and champion. At 68, Velimirovic doesn't seem to ... Posted by ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 6/14/2008 15:29:15 Play online chess sf115 Message: I love the Albin on both sides. It just feels like one of those openings one could spend a lifetime playing and studying and never lose interest :) ——— 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 ionadowman | mailcafe.net 6/14/2008 16:38:05 Play online chess A very pawnographic debut...Message: Must try it some time... Cheers, Ion ——— 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 lapsekili | mailcafe.net 6/16/2008 03:09:34 Play online chess to stf115Message: ——— 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 ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 10/14/2008 13:01:12 Play online chess albin ... Message: Anyone been to it? ——— 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 bogg | mailcafe.net 10/15/2008 02:20:50 Play online chess It can't be all that bad.Message: CTC (Bogg) Posted by ccmcacollister | mailcafe.net 10/15/2008 04:20:45 Play online chess and .... Message: adventurously innovative & into new ideas that can be really far out ...but they generally work out, tho maybe walking a fine line. Perhaps its just that on one else understands or expects them~? For eg getting hit with an Albin Counter-gambit. But really looking back, even Max Euwe, despite his win against it, can't say it didnt give him a thinking game. Thanks bogg, I'll have to look at some of those Moro's! Posted by schnarre | mailcafe.net 10/28/2008 01:43:11 Play online chess if not dxe5Message: Posted by jstevens1 | mailcafe.net 10/28/2008 14:16:41 Play online chess I have an Albin Game for you all!Message: Cheers. Joanne |