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| Posted by rabbit8181 uskidscompute.com 8/22/2002 09:10:18 |  Subject: The NoteboomMessage: I have the book on this opening written by Mark Van Der Werf and Teun Van Der Vorm. However, I am looking for more resources on the Internet. Does anyone out there know any good web sites devoted to this? |
| Posted by tonlesu uskidscompute.com 8/26/2002 07:28:30 | rabbit Message: You got "the" book on the Noteboom. You might try some of the large databases on the web like chesslab and chessbase. I recall there was a nice Noteboom game in "Logical Chess move by move" Chernev. The British master Abrahams was playing the opening regularly while Noteboom was still in knickers---So why did they name it the Noteboom and who is they? Notebooms early death perhaps was the reason. Hey that would make an interesting forum---How do openings get their names? |
| Posted by paulvalle uskidscompute.com 8/26/2002 16:07:34 | some links Message: -The Campbell Report: www.correspondencechess.com/campbell/h991227.htm www.correspondencechess.com/campbell/h000131.htm -Tim Harding: www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz02.txt -Werf and Teun van der Vorm: home.pi.net/~vorm/noteboom.htm Leonid's Chess Megapage: www.550m.com/usuarios/chesstheory/show.asp?loc=noteboom.html ——— Chess: Shrewd moves to enhance winning chances — We continue our study of Ulf Andersson's positional play. Here the lack of pawns increases the likelihood of a draw. How would you maintain winning chances? RB: So few pieces on the chess board, so few possible moves – and yet these are always the trickiest positions. One small inaccuracy and your game goes to pieces. I think I have to develop the bishop and get the queen's rook into the game, preferably via c8, but there's the small problem of how to defend the b7-pawn. I certainly don't want to play a move as craven as 1...Rb8. But maybe I can still get the bishop out immediately because after ... |