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| Posted by kinderboy mailcafe.net 8/31/2008 13:08:29 Play online chess |  Subject: Unusual openingsMessage: Contact numis with questions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Posted by tim_b mailcafe.net 9/25/2008 12:29:30 Play online chess | Message: 1. f3 e5 2. Kf2 I can't really explain it, maybe it's an attempt to c*** a snook at your opponent or lull him into a genuine sense of security. ——— Vishy Anand and Magnus Carlsen lead the field for London Classic — Last year's London Classic at Olympia attracted large audiences, so its 2010 version on 8-15 December, with the reigning world chess champion Vishy Anand now in the field, will be of great interest. Its added spice is the rivalry at the top of the world chess rankings between Anand, Norway's 20-year-old Magnus Carlsen, and Russia's ex-champion and current world No4, Vlad Kramnik. The global chess body, Fide, still hopes to persuade Carlsen to rescind his withdrawal from the May 2011 candidates matches and has announced a new date of 22 December for contract signing. How he performs in London, just a week before the contract deadline, may affect the talks and whether he can take ... Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 9/25/2008 13:56:18 Play online chess What is the Talon?Message: There are more "Chessic" openings that are unusual, but known to have been played, many at Master level. E.g Anderssen's Opening 1.a3. In his match against Paul Morphy, Adolf Anderssen opened the first game with this debut: 1.a3 e5?! 2.c4, with a Reversed Sicilian. Anderssen went on to win the game, but then got hammered in the rest of the match. More weirdly, Tony Miles (playing Black) once responded to Anatoly Korpov's opening move by 1....a6, and went on to win that game! I've always been rather intrigued by Breyer's Gambit - a strange-looking offshoot of the King's Gambit. 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Qf3!? Capablanca once played it and won comprehensively (can't remember against whom, though). I recall reading an article and accompanying poem (rather a better effort than the usual kind of thing) in a British Chess Magazine about the King's Own Gambit, a.k.a. the Tumbleweed. 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Kf2. The thing is more playable than it looks. Finally, though probably most players know of it, few would dare play the opening I'm about to mention There was one Kiwi player out of Dunedin, apparently, who played it regularly, but, given his name, perhaps he could call it his own. Peter or Philip (can't recall which) Paris was the name; and 1.Nh3 is the Paris Opening. Do these qualify? Cheers, Ion ——— 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 lighttotheright | mailcafe.net 9/25/2008 22:07:20 Play online chess Message: The biggest problem I have with it is that Queens are likely to be traded early. That could make it drawish, even though White gains a slight initiative. Another problem I have with it is that the White's Queen lands on a good square that more rightfully belongs to the White knight. It might be good for a surprise weapon OTB; but you would need a pair of brass ones to use it in competition these days. As far as the Paris Opening is concerned, it is deceptive too but somewhat less sound. ——— 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 blake78613 | mailcafe.net 10/23/2008 17:02:28 Play online chess Message: [Site "St Louis"] [Date "1929"] [Round "?"] [White "Anderson, J"] [Black "Amateur"] [Result "1-0"] 1. h3 g6 2. g3 Bg7 3. f3 Nf6 4. e3 O-O 5. d3 d5 6. c3 e5 7. b3 Nh5 8. Kf2 Qg5 9. Ne2 Bf5 10. a3 e4 11. f4 Qh6 12. g4 exd3 13. g5 dxe2 14. Bxe2 1-0 ——— 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 easy19 | mailcafe.net 10/24/2008 15:39:44 Play online chess Message: 1 e4 e5 2 d4 exd4 3 f4, Jerome Gambit > very effective wen playing F2F confusing and winning if they do not know it 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Crazy anti sicilian very very sharp 1.e4 c5 2. f4 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Ng5 Nf6 5.Bc4 Bg4 6.Qxg4 Nxg4 Dresden Variation 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c4 Latvian Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 Patzer Opening : always fun against lower rated players 1. e4 e5 2.Qh5 There are many more but these above are a few of the best.. ——— 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 easy19 | mailcafe.net 10/24/2008 15:42:10 Play online chess Message: Posted by blake78613 | mailcafe.net 10/24/2008 18:58:43 Play online chess Message: Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 10/25/2008 01:07:47 Play online chess The line ...Message: w What has given up a Q+P for a B. To what end? 7.Bxf7+ Kd7 8.Be6+ Kc6 9.Bxg4 ... White emerges with 2 pieces for the Q, a threatened fork, an active position, and the immediate threat to pick up the e-pawn. For certain types of player, that is quite sufficient to justify the sac! So much I can figure out - but I have to admit I've never seen the thing before! The Latvian can be fun, but it has I think been rather over-explored in some lines. Check out the recent ionadowman vs jstevens (accessible via the latter's profile and annotated game list). Interestingly enough, I've never seen in any chess primer, a proper treatment of how to combat the "Patzer Opening". Very occasionally it appears in Master chess, would you believe?! Although it is no trivial matter to meet, I quite like the standard 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Qf3 Nf6, with ...d6 and ...Bg7 to follow and a fine game for Black. But don't imagine that White has lost all that much by the Queen sortie: a tempo or two, nothing more, and certainly not fatal. Cheers, Ion Posted by alice02 | mailcafe.net 10/25/2008 05:22:37 Play online chess evans gambit jrobichess youtubeMessage: Posted by easy19 | mailcafe.net 10/25/2008 05:59:27 Play online chess Message: Played games  gameknot.com 1-0
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Jerome Gambit ( stil really nice wen playing face to face ) en.wikipedia.org < Info J Gambit
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Posted by easy19 | mailcafe.net 10/25/2008 06:05:30 Play online chess Message: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nxe5 I have played a tournament so you can look up several games gameknot.com Posted by easy19 | mailcafe.net 10/25/2008 10:55:34 Play online chess IONMessage: gameknot.com
She handled it quite well. :) Posted by chessnovice | mailcafe.net 10/26/2008 01:10:16 Play online chess ...Message: I stopped playing it after a while, though. I'm not completely satisfied with the value of the gambit. Black can definitely take advantage of subtle mistakes by white, but I dunno... I never managed to find black's very best line. I've wanted to go through some of those old games (I think I played 97 of the 344 games on the database) and annotate a few of them. I dunno if I'll ever find the time to, though. Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 10/26/2008 12:29:40 Play online chess easy19...Message: I suppose one might consider this sort of thing rather unusual: 1.e4 g7 2.c4 e5 ... (The Great Snake Opening. The game sago vs ionadowman began this way; an epic 100-mover that I annotated some time ago) It's 'unusualness' is considerably mitigated by the fact that it is susceptible to considerable transposition. After half a dozen moves or so the thing looked fairly 'normal'. A couple of years ago I had a discussion with someone on GK about the Jerome Gambit. It's quite hard to meet if you don't know what you're doing... Cheers, Ion Posted by schnarre | mailcafe.net 10/28/2008 01:12:41 Play online chess Message: I'll have to check out some of these others! Posted by spclpnngslknc | mailcafe.net 10/31/2008 15:50:01 Play online chess Message: |