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| Posted by lorddreyfuss uskidscompute.com 5/27/2003 08:36:33 Play online chess |  Subject: KG accepted - interesting lineMessage: I have recently witnessed an interesting line in KG accepted: 1.e4,e5; 2.f4,ef4; 3.Nf3,Se7!?; 4.d4,Sg6 with interesting game... I play exclusively Sicilian as Black, and always 2.Nf3 as White, but still I would be interested to know what people here think of this variation? Thanx! :) |
| Posted by verticalchess uskidscompute.com 5/27/2003 17:09:32 Play online chess | Message: Black is losing tempo by moving the Knight twice. In this variation white has complete control of the center with move in hand. Black will have to play aggressively to equalize the position. |
| Posted by silverwolfwsc uskidscompute.com 5/27/2003 17:15:10 Play online chess | S Message: What is an S? ——— Karpov the boa constrictor — The Russian is not ranked among the great masters of attack, but has a keen eye for an opportunity. Our final column in this series on the attack comes from Anatoly Karpov's My Best Games (Progress in Chess, 2007 – there are few better ways to improve your chess than by playing through games annotated by the greats). Karpov is not usually ranked among the great masters of attack, his style being more often likened to that of a boa constrictor. Artur Yusupov, whose own books are well worth a look, wrote after losing to Karpov in the 1983 USSR chess championship that he had not often felt that he had been outplayed, but in this game that's exactly what he did feel. "However," he ... |
| Posted by verticalchess uskidscompute.com 5/27/2003 17:41:44 Play online chess | Message: I assume its a Knight since the moves were e7 and g6 - what does it stand for though? ——— New York State's Chess Champion? He's 14 — Many states hold their chess championships over Labor Day weekend, among them New York State. Its championship is said to be the oldest chess tournament in the country. This year was the 132nd edition and it ended Monday. Many top chess players have been New York State chess champion, including Jose Raul Capabalanca (in 1910, before he became world champion), Reuben Fine (1941), William Lombardy (1954), Pal Benko (1961 and 1962), Robert Byrne (1987), Hikaru Nakamura (2004 and 2007), Gata Kamsky (2005), and Joel Benjamin (nine times between 1985 and 2002). In this year’s championship, Benjamin again finished atop the field, tying for first with Marc Esserman ... |
| Posted by dorisia uskidscompute.com 5/27/2003 18:44:30 Play online chess | S Message: Springer in German, skoczek in Polish, but lorddreyfuss, who is from Croatia, had probably skakac in mind. ——— Shirov Wins Shanghai Masters — Alexei Shirov of Spain has won the Shanghai Masters chess tournament, with a round to spare. Tuesday, he beat Wang Hao of China, clinching first place. It was Shirov’s third consecutive win. Under the scoring system used in Shanghai (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw), Shirov has 11 points (three wins and two draws). Levon Aronian of Armenia and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia are tied for second with 6 points each (one win, one loss and three draws), while Wang has 2 points (three losses and two draws). The top two scorers advance to the Bilbao Final Masters next month in Spain, which means that the final-round games on Wednesday will be pivotal. Aronian will be Black against ... |
| Posted by loreta uskidscompute.com 5/27/2003 20:57:47 Play online chess | Notation Message: Yep, multilanguage confuss. I see I ofter do mistakes in notation too - I had written B (Bogstas)- for Rook, R (Rikis) for Bishop -- and Knight could be Z (Zirgas) :-) ——— A New Theory on the Origin of the Lewis Chessmen — The Lewis Chessmen are the most famous and important chess pieces in history. They have a long historical and scholarly record, part of which is that they were made in Norway roughly 800 years ago. But now two Icelandic men are challenging that belief and trying to prove that the chess pieces came from their country. The pieces were discovered on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in 1831 — hence their name. Carved mostly out of walrus tusk, they were found in a small carrying-case made of stone inside a sand dune. There are different theories about how they ended up there, including that they were left over from a shipwreck or that they were stolen and buried on the island and ... |
| Posted by silverwolfwsc uskidscompute.com 5/27/2003 21:41:45 Play online chess | S Message: I figured it stood for something, but i couldnt figure out why move 3 for white was Nf3 and for black was Se7. Maybe the white player was speaking english and the other German eh? ——— Rapid Games Win Over New Fans — Many people who would like to see chess attract more fans agree that traditional games — which usually last several hours — are too slow for all but the die-hard. At the same time, blitz chess — where players have only five minutes for all their moves — are fun to watch and attract crowds on street corners, but they are riddled with errors. Rapid games, where each player starts with 20 or 25 minutes and then has additional time — often 10 seconds — added after each move, seem to be a happy medium. The format is becoming more popular, and there are now many chess tournaments that feature it. Two elite chess events last week used rapid-game time controls. One was the annual ... |
| Posted by lorddreyfuss uskidscompute.com 5/27/2003 23:55:11 Play online chess | Khm... :) Message: My mistake!!! In Croatia the notation is the same as in Germany and stands for: K=kralj (king) D=dama (queen) T=top (rook) L=lovac (bishop) S=skakac (knight) Very sorry for the mistake, I was in a hurry so I wasn't concentrated enough! :) Regarding the variation, actually I thought that it is playable! White will probably have to play something like 0-0, Nc3, Ne2 to take the pawn, which gives Black time for c6+d5 and after this maybe also Bd6 with stubborn defence of f4. What do others think? |
| Posted by caldazar uskidscompute.com 5/28/2003 00:50:29 Play online chess | Message: White is not going to make a serious effort to try to recover the pawn; it takes too much effort and since Black has spent some time knight hopping, White is probably better off just developing quickly and trying to take advantage of Black's slow play. 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Ne7 4. d4 Ng6 (4... d5 is a more typical try) 5. h4: 5... d5 6. h5 dxe4 7. hxg6 exf3 8. gxf7+ Kxf7 9. Bc4+ and 10. Qxf3 looks rather promising for White. 5... h5 6. Nc3 c6 7. Bd3 and White has decent play for the pawn. (6... Bb4 7. Bc4 c6 8. O-O is more of the same, trying to gain a large lead in development). I think Black simply loses too much time hopping his knight around only to have it become the target as soon as it arrives on g6. |
| Posted by raimon uskidscompute.com 5/28/2003 01:48:30 Play online chess | I don't play 1....e5 Message: so I'm probably not much use to you, but I did play this through out of interest and there are a couple of things that could stand being put to the test (if they haven't already) I agree with caldazar that a king's gambit player is not going to be at all concerned about winning back the pawn - so long as he can get good play for his pieces and open lines. After 5.h4, I believe that 5.....h5 is necessary, so after 6.Nc3 instead of playing 6....c6 which loses more time, black should probably develop a piece with 6....Be7 and if 7.Nd5 then I think that black instead of taking the pawn on h4 with either the knight or the bishop should instead play 7.....d6 which to me looks like a position that might contain good prospects for both defence and counterplay. |
| Posted by white_disc uskidscompute.com 5/28/2003 02:09:25 Play online chess | one line in the KG accepted Message: Has anyone tried this line in KG Accepted ? 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 h5 Here, this h5 is a prelude to the move g4. Thanks a lot :) Rgds, white_disc |