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Posted by houseofcook kttstudios.com 6/16/2008 10:29:18 Play online chess	Subject: French Defence, What do you play as White. Message: Hi there, A question for players who play the French defence as their main opening. What openings would you play as white ? I know this is dependant on the response by black. Is it a similar setup to the French, or totally unrelated? What was your thinking in choosing these setups ?
Posted by ionadowman kttstudios.com 6/16/2008 13:38:35 Play online chess	My own favorite... Message: ... for White is 3.Nc3, hoping for the Winawer (an opening I like as Black as well, which says something about this line): 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5. 3.Nc3 and if Black plays 3...Bb4 we have the Winawer line, leading to a good fighting game. Black can try instead the exchange on e4 (I have a consultation game going on Gameknot at the moment in which the opponents have played this). Or he can try 3...Nf6, an OK line, but one I dislike as Black. Playing the French OTB almost exclusively for several years, I found four opponents out of five favoured the Tarrasch, 3.Nd2, keeping the c-pawn free to advance. Not particularly committal, it's not easy for Black to get a hold on the ensuing game. I favoured the Guimard (3...Nc6) with considerable success, but blocking Black's c-pawn isn't everyone's cup o' java. Finally, there's the more committal Advance Variation: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 (3...c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 are often played. White can then continue with the "standard" 6.Be2, or try the more ambitious 6.Bd3, possibly heading for the violent Milner-Barry Gambit: 6...cxd4 7.cxd4 Bd7 8.0-0 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4 10.Nc3 Qxe5 11.Re1 ... An example is the game kikoursus vs ionadowman played in 2005. There may be other lines (I gather 1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 is sometimes played), but these are the main ones. Cheers, Ion
Posted by kansaspatzer kttstudios.com 6/16/2008 14:48:14 Play online chess	Message: I think he's asking what openings French players play when they're White. But FWIW, I play 2.Qe2 when faced with the French. ——— Russia face a battle for gold at the Istanbul Olympiad, as England collapse — Russia faces a tense battle for the gold medals while England tries to recover from late defeats when the final round of the 150-nation Chess Olympiad is played in Istanbul on Sunday. The No1 seeds have not won the biennial Chess Olympiad since 2002, so the team's grandmasters had to attend a pre-Olympiad training camp with "bruising" fitness sessions, while the legendary Yuri Dokhoian, who helped Garry Kasparov, was hired as coach. After eight of the 11 rounds Russia led with 15/16, two points clear, after the ex-world champion Vlad Kramnik scored a key win over Armenia's world No2, Levon Aronian. Kramnik opened as White with the Exchange Slav, seemingly too quiet for a must-win game but an old favourite of the Soviet chess patriarch Mikhail Botvinnik, who ...
Posted by chessisvanity kttstudios.com 6/16/2008 22:34:55 Play online chess	pffft... Message: Throw them off....I play the exchange. Why would I sit there and let a guy play his favorite opening? If i play 1.e4 and he plays 1...e6 I know he knows the French. So i play 2.d4...d5 3.exd5! Yes some say this might be drawish....but unless he is 2200 or better then i have the advantage. The same goes with the caro-kann. The exchange variation!! ——— Magnus Carlsen Storms New York's Chess Scene — They could barely reach the other side of the chess board, but playing against the world's top-rated grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was a thrilling experience for many New York kids. Carlsen visited New York during the last two weeks in August. He played chess against children at the NYC Chess summer camps and against adults at the club near the Washington Square and the Marshall Chess Club. He was also engaged at the chess board with a billionaire investor and philanthropist, George Soros, and played a blitz game against one of the world's leading economists, Kenneth Rogoff. He shot baskets at pick-up games, visited the New York Yankees, and saw friends. Some people may recognize Magnus from his appearance on ...
Posted by houseofcook kttstudios.com 6/16/2008 23:27:35 Play online chess	French Defence,what do you play as white. Message: Thanks for the replies. It was interesting to find out what French players would play against the French. I appreciate the in depth reply from ionadowman, but I did mean what does a French player play as white, what would be your initial moves, would you start with 1.d4 or 1. e4 or something else ? ——— Young Hua schools his elders on way to chess victory — He’s an excellent student, has played a piano recital at Carnegie Hall and just scored an unexpected triumph in one of Washington’s signature chess tournaments. It will be interesting to see what David Hua will achieve when he’s old enough to drive. As detailed here last week, the 15-year-old rising sophomore at Princeton (N.J.) High School finished alone in first at the 44th annual Atlantic Open last month, scoring 41/2-1/2 and crossing the 2400 ratings mark for the first time. He is believed to be the youngest chess player ever to win the event. “I had no real expectations,” Hua told Chess Life Online’s Jamaal Abdul-Alim, but he handled the late-round pressure superbly with a draw against top-seeded GM John Fedorowicz and ...
Posted by chessisvanity kttstudios.com 6/16/2008 23:31:54 Play online chess	... Message: well duh... A french player will have an advantage playing against the French so I imagine they play 1.e4 as white. ——— Taking a Break From Poker to Win a Championship — The French chess championship was notable for the outcome on the women’s side and for a stirring display of sportsmanship among the men in the face of tragedy. Almira Skripchenko won the women’s title for the fifth time. Skripchenko, who was born in Moldova, was the top seed, but she no longer competes regularly in chess: she is a professional poker player. Skripchenko has said she switched to make more money. She has won about $250,000 since she started playing poker in 2003. Other accomplished chess players who have switched to cards include Dan Harrington, who is now one of poker’s top stars and was the Massachusetts chess champion in 1971; Josef Klinger, an Austrian chess grandmaster; and ...
Posted by ionadowman kttstudios.com 6/17/2008 00:44:42 Play online chess	Sorry - Message: - Misunderstood you to mean what would I play if faced with the French. But you can infer that I was not afraid to face the French myself, so would open 1.e4 at least sometimes. But my stock opening as White, for even longer than the French was when I was Black, was the English Opening: 1.c4. 1.e4 was more of a "change" opening, just for the sake of variety. Some "English" players tend to stick with "pure" English positions, but I was more than happy to transpose into King's Indian Defences (from White's perspective), Sicilians Reversed or (surprisingly frequently) Maroczy Binds. Quite a few French defence player like the King's Indian Attack as White, but I never had much luck with it... Cheers, Ion ——— On Chess: Competitive juices sometimes overflow — A chess game is usually a well-mannered affair. In formal chess tournaments, a handshake is expected before play begins. Bobby Fischer, although usually intent on fighting “to the naked kings,” was famously respectful and courteous toward his grandmaster opponents. But tempers can and do fray in intense chess competitions. Grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch is said to have once jumped on a table and screamed, “Why must I lose to this idiot?” Conflicting reports say that, during a 1974 match, Tigran Petrosian, a former world chess champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a future challenger to the world title, repeatedly kicked each other under the playing table. I recall watching the robust and irascible Korchnoi violently sweeping the chess pieces ...
Posted by lighttotheright kttstudios.com 6/18/2008 12:53:52 Play online chess	Message: Ion, You and I apparently like the same openings with the same variations! That's spooky. Maybe we know some things others don't.:-O
Posted by ionadowman kttstudios.com 6/18/2008 13:43:38 Play online chess	... Message: Ken - I wonder what they can be?? :-/ Maybe we just like lines with a bit of fight in them? (I have to admit, though, my record with the English on GK hasn't been all that wonderful...) Cheers, Ion
Posted by premium_steve kttstudios.com 7/07/2008 12:25:10 Play online chess	Message: i'm a french player now (i used to play the alekhine and scandinavian), and i most often prefer 1.e4. it's true that as black i like to play fairly solidly with 1.e6 because i have found that most lines give me a position i am comfortable with - without much risk of being a lot worse out of the opening. as white i feel i can take more liberties in an open style game and look for some kind of attack. (that being said, i still fear open sicilians as white!) sometimes i'll give 1.d4 or 1.f4 a try, or maybe 1.g3.
Posted by markb56 kttstudios.com 7/13/2008 15:44:40 Play online chess	Maginot Line / Hitler Gambit Message: If I were playing white against the French I would try to try to get black to play the Maginot Line after which it's an easy matter to maneuver your pieces around the flank. However, white must be careful and avoid the now refuted Hitler Gambit, because if white gets too bold he will find himself fighting on two different fronts.
Posted by kansaspatzer kttstudios.com 7/13/2008 17:19:33 Play online chess	Message: I just recently switched to the French and I normally play e4, although there are certain opponents I'll play d4 against. I must admit I'm not all that booked up against the Sicilian but playing lots of Gameknot games using the opening DB helps when you get OTB, IMO.
Posted by wulebgr kttstudios.com 7/25/2008 12:03:17 Play online chess	As I French player, Message: I understand the futility of 1.e4. I play 1.g3, 1.d4, 1.c4, and 1.Nf3, reserving 1.e4 for weaker opponents and blitz.
Posted by kansaspatzer kttstudios.com 7/26/2008 22:27:47 Play online chess	Message: So what is the Hitler gambit? The only Google hit for it is this page...
Posted by jstevens1 kttstudios.com 7/26/2008 23:49:54 Play online chess	Expert Draw! Message: Hi everyone! Just to let you know that there is a game on the Public Annotations where I had the black pieces and played against The Tarrasch. The game is called Expert Draw because at the time my opponent was 832 points north of my rating. Despite a 2 pawn deficit I managed to draw it. This was a big result because it is still the only time I have managed to draw against an Expert. Ionadowman has already commented on the game but if any of you have anything to add please feel free to do so. Hope you have all enjoyed your weekend. Cheers and bye for now. Joanne
Posted by savage4731 kttstudios.com 7/29/2008 01:22:30 Play online chess	Kansaspatzer Message: That's because the correct way for black to play is just to resign as soon as possible.