Tags: online chess, online chess, chess, chess online, chess, chess online, backgammon online
Chess Forum
uskidscompute.com << online chess - < chess - chess > - chess online >>
| From | Message | Posted by ccmcacollister
uskidscompute.com
12/01/2004
00:10:01
Play online chess |  Subject: Fav Opening(s)
Message:
I thought it might be interesting to ask players: "Do you have a favorite opening" & if so, what is it that you like about it so? Perhaps a Fav vs e4 and vs d4? Or several ?
| Posted by invincible1
uskidscompute.com
12/01/2004
05:03:02
Play online chess | .
Message:
My favourite is the sveshnikov sicilian! Simply love it! And well I actually love playing against all variations of the sicilian except the classical, and perhaps sveshnikov :-). What I like... the open positions that result.. the active piece play etc etc!
Against d4 i used to play KID, now play f5, but I am not such a big fan of either...
I am now planning on trying new openings.. I have always been a 1.e4 play (barring minor experimentations), but I wish to expand my repertoire soon.. so I am trying to join mini tournaments with interesting openings in which I have limited knowledge! So would also be up for a series of games in any particular opening against any players stronger than me!! :-).
| Posted by premium_steve
uskidscompute.com
12/01/2004
07:08:25
Play online chess |
Message:
i almost always play 1.e4, but sometimes 1.f4
i don't like sicilians and i always play 2.c3 against it.
against 1.d4 i usually play the budapest defense and i will try my best to learn this really well, because it seems like a great idea against 1.d4 and 2.c4. it is very simple to play, and i really like it. i like to play the 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.Bf4 g5 line.... and i'm thinking of playing 4...Bc5 against 4.Nf3, because i have poor results using 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Bf4 Bb5+ 6.Nc3 Qd7
sometimes i also play 1...f5 leningrad and QGD tarrasch.
against 1.e4 i play 1...Nf6 most often, but i'm thinking of trying something different because my results aren't very good.
maybe 1...b6 or another opening where i hold back my center pawns for a little bit. maybe a pirc. i don't know.
———
Chess Grand Prix — Ukraine grandmaster Pavel Eljanov, probably the least-known of the world's leading chess players, won the sixth Grand Prix chess tournament in Astrakhan, Russia. Eljanov's 8-5 score in the round robin gave him a distinct edge over his 13 rivals, who all finished between 7-6 and 5 1/2 -7 1/2. Eljanov, who turned 27 during the chess tournament, won five games, mostly by superb handling of Queenless middlegames. This success unofficially boosts him to sixth in the world rankings. He modestly said, "Today I am in the top 10, and tomorrow I can be far, far away." Thus the trouble-plagued 2008-2009 Grand Prix cycle ends, six months behind schedule. Levon Aronian of ...
| Posted by spurtus
uskidscompute.com
12/01/2004
08:51:38
Play online chess |
Message:
I too have recently discovered the Budapest Defense, against beginners and intermediate players you can play for a few traps... theres a beautiful cheapo checkmate in the Rubenstein variation.
The Alder Variation is the hardest to play against 4.Nf3 bc5 5. e3 Nc6... it then gets rather complicated!
But the Normal, Rubenstein, Alekhine variations along with the gambit refutations are really easy to get to grips with.
This opening exerts a good deal of pressure on the white position and white can struggle to find a safe way through this opening if not prepared to deal with it.
Spurtus.
———
11 Chess Tournaments Over 2 Weeks Create a Competitive Logjam — The past couple of weeks should have dispelled any doubts about the vitality of chess. It would be hard to imagine a busier schedule. Last weekend, no fewer than eight chess tournaments were in play. In Odessa, Ukraine, the World Rapid Cup was won by Sergey Karjakin, a Ukrainian who now plays for Russia. In Malmo, Sweden, Anish Giri, 15, a Dutch chess grandmaster, took first in the Sigeman & Company tournament. And in Paraguay, Eduardas Rozentalis of Lithuania coasted to victory at the Asunción Copa Roggio. Meanwhile, 6 players out of a field of more than 200 tied for first at the Star Chess School tournament in Bhubaneswar, India, and Martyn Kravtsiv of ...
| Posted by bucklehead
uskidscompute.com
12/01/2004
09:47:52
Play online chess | Teacher, mother, secret lover
Message:
Ah, the Petrov! What opening compares to thee? What other opening could have forced Leko to abandon the kingpawn? How often do I hear the groans from the other side of the virtual chessboard: "The Petrov?! What did I do to deserve this!" Yea, have I not heard this very lament from Craig Collister himself?*
Thou uninitiated ones! You flee to thy mother's bosom with 3 Nc3, you carelessly cast your knights at me via 4 Nxf7! And yet these avail you not. Stand fast, join bravely, let us t'the pell-mell...and in vain, all in vain.
===========
*In a casual discussion following a series of net-games in which Craig spanked me with the greatest authority, of course. Something like 0-5.
———
Chess Notes — The decisive game in the Anand/Topalov chess match, Game 12, was oddly a well-trodden Queen’s Gambit Declined, the Lasker Variation. However, Anand as black varied slightly from the normal variation, electing to defer equality for a move and then getting a bishop for a knight but putting a queen bishop pawn at risk. In effect on move 21, Anand seemed to be willing to take a draw with the black pieces, but Topalov would not repeat moves. Topalov had weakened his king side slightly, and apparently ...
| Posted by ecfchamps2002
uskidscompute.com
12/02/2004
20:39:41
Play online chess | Caro-Kann
Message:
I absolutely love the Caro-Kann. I can't explain it but it seems like the only defense that I can play well. Against 1.d4 I used to play the KID but I think I need to brush up on it some more because I'm not having good success with it as of late. Perhaps it is because I rarely play against anyone who plays 1.d4
———
Gata Kamsky qualifies for 2011 candidates — American chess has a munificent sponsor, Rex Sinquefield. The retired fund manager has bankrolled the last two US chess championships, the latest with a $170,000 prize fund, in his Missouri home city Saint Louis where he has created a state of the art chess club which hosted the title event. The 2009 chess champion, Hikaru Nakamura, was stimulated to hone his inconsistent talent and is now ranked in the world top 20. Its format, a 24-player Swiss, included top US women plus Ray Robson, 15, who has since become a grandmaster. The 2010 championship last month went to Gata Kamsky, the former chess prodigy who went close to the world title in 1996, gave up to become ...
|
|