Chess Forum
mailcafe.net << online chess - < chess - chess > - chess online >>
| From | Message | ||||||||||||
| Posted by lapsekili mailcafe.net 6/27/2008 07:28:50 Play online chess |  Subject: f5 as a response to e4Message: Maybe someone thinks i ask a stupid question but it is enough to look at my rating to predict how much chess knowladge i have:D Regards, | ||||||||||||
| Posted by nemesis1010 mailcafe.net 6/27/2008 13:10:12 Play online chess | Fred Defence Message: Now I wonder what would happen with a themed Mini-Tournament based on this opening? | ||||||||||||
| Posted by tim_b mailcafe.net 6/27/2008 14:55:46 Play online chess | Message: ——— The f-pawn, part 2: is f5 the answer here? — Does White have a better option than moving the f-pawn? Continuing our look at the chess equivalent of route one football – the f-pawn advance... RB Well, let's see what happens when we push – 1 f5. The answer comes back faster than Manchester United on the break, not much. Black is under no compulsion to take the pawn and can instead centralise with 1…Nd4 or even 1…Qd4, or start getting the queen's rook into play with 1…Rac8, and 1…Nb4, hitting the d-pawn, would be irritating. All right, let's try to be logical. What's wrong here is that even if we could swap off pawns on the f-file, the f1-rook would remain blocked by the bishop. Let's ... Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 6/27/2008 16:35:45 Play online chess Fred Defence...Message: 1.e4 f5 2.exf5 Kf7??!! 3.d4 d5 4.Qh5+ g6 5.fxg6+ Kg7 6.Bd3 etc. A bit like the King's Own Gambit (a.k.a. the Tumbleweed Opening) with colours reversed (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Kf2 Qh4+ etc. The Fred Defence game quoted ended in a draw when White couldn't (?) find the win in a N+3P vs R ending: w (Not that it's so easy to find. It looks as though White's K will have to retreat to the back rank in order to free the knight to move to f2) But before that Black had to survive the middle game and early ending 3 and even 4 pawns to the bad before the win of the exchange game him any kind of chance at all. To be honest, the whole game looks a little bit sus to me. I think Black can do better to get a playable game: 1.e4 f5?! 2.exf5 Nf6 (Natural and good) 3.d4 d5 4.Bd3 c5 (threatens to dislocate the d3-bishop) Now White has three good options in: [A] 5.dxc5 e5 (making a bid for a solid chunk of the centre) 6.fxe6+ Bxc5 7.Qe2 (say) Qb6 and Black picks up the advanced e-pawn. Black has a slight lead in development, and a larger share of the centre, but White's game is solid and he has a pawn extra. I think this position is playable for both sides. [B] 5.g4 (White allows the bishop to be hit, whilst protecting the advanced f-pawn betimes. White intends a general infantry attavk of Black's K-side). 5...c4 6.Be2 h6 (to restrain White's g-pawn) 7.f4 (to reinforce the g-pawn's advance) 7...e6 (counterattacking the salient White has driven into his position) 8.g5 hxg5 9.fxg5 Ne4 A complicated and interesting position! [C] 5.c3 (this would be the first move I would think of: it seems the most "natural") 5...c4!? 6.Bc2 e6 7.fxe6 Bxe6 8.Qe2 Qe7 9.Nf3 Nc6 10.Bf4 I rather prefer White's game in this line. Maybe Black's 5...c4 is too strategically compromising. So much for my own investigations into this opening. Has anyone any theory on it? Cheers, Ion ——— Big Surprises in Europe — Europe has been a center of chess activity over the last month with a series of major open tournaments. The first was the Gibtelecom Chess Festival in Gibraltar, which ran from Jan. 26 through Feb. 4. Among the world-class chess players who competed were Etienne Bacrot of France, Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia, Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain, Michael Adams of England, and Gata Kamsky of the United States. The chess tournament ended in a nine-way tie for first, with Adams winning a four-person playoff to take the title. The Moscow Open, which overlapped with Gibtelecom and ended on Feb. 7, was divided into four sections — A, B, C and D — with ... Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 6/27/2008 16:50:55 Play online chess I've just had a quick squizz...Message: 1.e4 f5 2.exf5 Kf7 3.Qh5+ g6 4.fxg6+ Kg7 5.gxh7 Rxh7 6.Qg5+ Kf7 7.Qf5+ Kg7 8.Qg5+ Draw! The fourth game went 1.e4 f5 2.exf5 Nf6 3.d4 d5 4.g3 ... lapsekill, if you want to try the Fred, it would seem you have virgin territory to explore. The MT idea of nemesis1010 is a good one. I might be interested... Cheers, Ion ——— Topalov Closes In on Linares Title — After eight rounds, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed, holds a one point lead in the annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain. Alexander Grischuk of Russia, the defending champion, is in second place after beating Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan in Round 8 on Sunday. Levon Aronian of Armenia is in third, having managed, like Topalov, not to have lost a game in the chess tournament. Unlike Topalov, who has won three games, Aronian has not won a game either. So far, 25 percent of the games have been decisive, but that does not mean that the other 75 percent have been dull. Quite the contrary. The games have mostly been hard fought and exciting, even ... Posted by lapsekili | mailcafe.net 6/29/2008 04:41:38 Play online chess I think it transpoze to latvian gambit.Message: 2.exf5 e5 3.Af3 Ac6 It looks like latvian gambit i think and it seems playable. ——— Weekend of Fun and Friends Between Battles on the Chess Board — The highlight of the year for many chess players is Washington’s Birthday weekend, when four amateur team championships are held across the country. There are no cash prizes, but the chess tournaments are popular because of the camaraderie. Players walk back and forth chatting before, after and even during the games. Some renew friendships with competitors they see only once a year. The World Amateur Team East tournament in Parsippany, N.J., the biggest and oldest of the chess events, celebrated its 40th birthday this year. There were 1,150 players and 271 teams, down from 283 teams last year, said Steve Doyle, the tournament’s director, who ... Posted by ganstaman | mailcafe.net 6/29/2008 06:55:00 Play online chess lapsekiliMessage: ——— At Halfway Point, Topalov Leads at Linares — The annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain began earlier this week, and after five rounds — or halfway through — Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed and No. 2 chess player in the world, is leading with 3.5 points, a point ahead of the field. Linares has been among the world’s elite chess tournaments since the early 1990s, when Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov were regular competitors. This year’s tournament has only six players, though they are all among the world’s best. The format is a double round robin in which each chess competitor faces all the others twice, playing once with White and once with Black. Aside from Topalov ... Posted by lapsekili | mailcafe.net 7/01/2008 02:54:05 Play online chess okayMessage: Posted by ketchuplover | mailcafe.net 7/04/2008 16:03:59 Play online chess Message: |