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| Posted by lapsekili chessbase.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 chessbase.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 chessbase.net 6/27/2008 14:55:46 Play online chess | Message: ——— Children 1, Astronaut 0 — In the end, the astronaut could not outwit the children. Wednesday, Greg Chamitoff, an American astronaut, resigned a long-running correspondence chess game against a group of children from Stevenson Elementary School in Bellevue, Wash. They had started the game in September 2008 while Chamitoff was stationed aboard the International Space Station. The game had been the idea of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Officials at the agency had asked the United States Chess Federation about having Chamitoff play a game of chess against some of the federation’s members. Stevenson was chosen as an opponent because the school ... Posted by ionadowman | chessbase.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 ——— London Chess Classic: Kramnik's lesson in positional play — McShane-Kramnik, London 2009. Black to play. With two rounds to go in the London Chess Classic, the Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen looks set to win the tournament. Vladimir Kramnik, his main rival, is in second place. In this game from round three, Kramnik displayed his refined positional understanding. RB I've been following this tournament online, but I missed this particular game, and more's the pity because I can't find a good continuation for Black. Clearly Kramnik has the better game – the two centralised knights look very threatening – but how to convert Black's positional superiority into a winning position? 1...Nxd2 2 Nxd2 doesn't lead anywhere and ... Posted by ionadowman | chessbase.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 ——— Gelfand Wins World Chess Cup — Boris Gelfand of Israel is the 2009 World Cup champion. Gelfand won the title by beating Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in a playoff on Monday. The first four games of the playoff were rapid games (25 minutes per player per game) and Gelfand took the lead by winning the second game. But Ponomariov, with his back to the wall, won the last rapid game to tie the match up again. The playoff then went to blitz chess (5 minutes per player per game) and Gelfand once again took the lead by beating Ponomariov in the first game when he managed to trap Ponomariov’s queen in 21 moves. Ponomariov rallied again, winning the second game. But Gelfand won the third and Ponomariov ... Posted by lapsekili | chessbase.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. ——— A tragic knight — The London Chess Classic, a fabulously organized eight-player elite tournament, shaped up as a confrontation between two great chess grandmasters, the top-rated Magnus Carlsen of Norway and the former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. By the luck of draw, they met in the first round, and Carlsen won. The Norwegian GM was still in a clear lead on Sunday with four points in five rounds, a full point ahead of Kramnik. U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura drew four games and lost one. The tournament concludes Tuesday. The Carlsen-Kramnik duel looked like a perfectly played game by the Norwegian, who took advantage of Kramnik's stranded knight. "If one piece is ... Posted by ganstaman | chessbase.net 6/29/2008 06:55:00 Play online chess lapsekiliMessage: ——— A Game Lasts 163 Moves, and That's Not Even a Record — Chess professionals are conditioned to games that take four to five hours and last about 50 moves, but occasionally play lasts much longer and the contest becomes a war of attrition. That is what happened between Nigel Short and Luke McShane of England in the first round of the London Chess Classic, which started on Tuesday. McShane, who had White, got a tiny advantage out of the opening, but Short defended well, and after 60 moves it seemed as if the game would end in a draw. But McShane, 25, persisted and Short, 44, was forced to continue to defend. It took McShane seven hours, and 163 moves, but he finally broke Short and forced him to resign. That ... Posted by lapsekili | chessbase.net 7/01/2008 02:54:05 Play online chess okayMessage: Posted by ketchuplover | chessbase.net 7/04/2008 16:03:59 Play online chess Message: |