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| Posted by kinderboy kttstudios.com 8/31/2008 13:08:29 Play online chess |  Subject: Unusual openingsMessage: Contact numis with questions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by spurtus kttstudios.com 9/24/2008 06:53:47 Play online chess | Message: 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Ke7 3.Nc3 Qe8 4.Nf3 Kd8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by tim_b kttstudios.com 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. ——— Chess: When going gung-ho doesn't work — Subtlety is often the key to unlocking pawn endgames. We continue our theme of pawn endgames. White may be a pawn up, but care is required to force a win. RB: It's tempting simply to go 1 Kb4, gobble up Black's queenside pawns and hurl the a- and b-pawns down the chess board to promote. But that would mean allowing Black to capture the two e-pawns and queen on f1. White would still have an extra pawn, but in a queen endgame it would take more technical skill than I possess to be confident of victory. So instead I'm looking at 1 Kd3 and 1 e4. I think both work, but I'm going to go for the immediate pawn advance because it has the added advantage of ... Posted by ionadowman | kttstudios.com 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 ——— Underdogs on Top in World Chess Championship Candidates Matches — The first round of the World Chess Championship Candidates Matches in Kazan, Russia, produced several surprises. The biggest was the elimination of Levon Aronian, who is ranked No. 3 in the world, by Alexander Grischuk (No. 12), whose recent play has been inconsistent but who prevailed in the tiebreaker games. Gata Kamsky, fresh off winning the United States title, produced another upset by beating Veselin Topalov, a former world chess champion. Topalov (No. 7) has not played much in recent months, and that hurt him. He was outplayed by Kamsky (No. 18) in Game 2, which Kamsky won, and in the last game, when Kamsky forced a draw. Boris Gelfand (No. 16), who will be 43 next month and ... Posted by lighttotheright | kttstudios.com 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. ——— Bobby Fischer: from chess prodigy to pariah — He played some of the most sublime chess ever seen. Then, as a new book and film illustrate, he disappeared from view. What made such a brilliant mind go into freefall? In 1999, I spent three days sitting in a variety of thermal baths dotted around Budapest. As grand and attractive as the Hungarian capital's spas are, I wasn't stewing myself for therapeutic or leisure purposes. Instead, I was waiting for someone I'd been told frequented the baths, someone who was said to be a genius and a paranoid obsessive, the greatest chess player who ever lived and an obnoxious crackpot. I was looking for Bobby Fischer. For the last four decades of his life, that's what people ... Posted by blake78613 | kttstudios.com 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 ——— On Chess: Computers hardly a threat to game — Some chess grandmasters have lamented that computers take the creativity out of chess, but their concern for the future of the game of chess is off the mark. An excessive use of chess computers undeniably dulls a player's mind - especially if the reliance on computer analysis leaves no room for hardscrabble human inquiry. The games of top chess players such as Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura vividly demonstrate that free-flowing, swashbuckling creative chess might thrive even more in the age of computers. It is, however, no longer possible to hide behind time-tested lines of play based on years of personal exploration and expertise. Computer analysis usually can ... Posted by easy19 | kttstudios.com 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.. ——— Queen to Play (movie review) — In “Queen to Play,” a subtle, absorbing film that features Kevin Kline in his first French-speaking role, the only thing that happens, really, is that a hard-working, soft-spoken woman learns to play chess. Seriously. That’s it. Because this “Queen” arrives in Washington at the start of the summer movie season, nearly two years after its initial release in France, that narrative simplicity has a certain appeal. At a time when most pictures are all CGI’d up and Imaxed out, there’s something particularly enjoyable about settling into a film whose pleasures reside in quiet moments, understated performances and the reading of subtitles. “Queen to Play,” originally titled “Joueuse” in French, or “Player,” introduces us to ... Posted by easy19 | kttstudios.com 10/24/2008 15:42:10 Play online chess Message: Posted by blake78613 | kttstudios.com 10/24/2008 18:58:43 Play online chess Message: Posted by ionadowman | kttstudios.com 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 | kttstudios.com 10/25/2008 05:22:37 Play online chess evans gambit jrobichess youtubeMessage: Posted by easy19 | kttstudios.com 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
Patzer opening ( i love to play it sometimes against 1600 avarge rated players) letmetellyouaboutmybestfriend.blogspot.cHalasz Gambit ( very very rare opening) I wil play a Halasz tournament soon on THEM >> users.skynet.be
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Posted by easy19 | kttstudios.com 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 | kttstudios.com 10/25/2008 10:55:34 Play online chess IONMessage: gameknot.com
She handled it quite well. :) Posted by chessnovice | kttstudios.com 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 | kttstudios.com 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 | kttstudios.com 10/28/2008 01:12:41 Play online chess Message: I'll have to check out some of these others! Posted by spclpnngslknc | kttstudios.com 10/31/2008 15:50:01 Play online chess Message: |