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| Posted by odonata uskidscompute.com 6/24/2005 11:28:08 Play online chess |  Subject: Bird's Defence - Dutch defenceMessage: I've studied mainly Bird's defence for now, but I was wondering if the bishop fianchetto which is quite common in Bird's defence (in Bird the Bb2 fianchetto) is also to be played in the Dutch defence (Bb7)? Any thoughts on this issue (as well in general as on the fianchetto question) are welcome! Odonata | ||
| Posted by bogg uskidscompute.com 6/24/2005 18:52:33 Play online chess | odonata Message: The extra tempo confers upon White extra options. When Black plays the Dutch defence White usually plays an early g3 making b6 problematic. Even when White delays g3, b6 in the Dutch tends to be a bad idea. There are tactitcal ideas common to the Queen's Indian defence that work very well against the Dutch with b6 included, as the move f5 puts Black a tempo behind with regard to his Queenside development. The primary idea is the d5 psuedo pawn sacrifice followed by Nd4 available for instance in the following variation: 1. d4 f5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Nf6 6. OO Be7 7. Nc3 OO 8. d5 ed: 9. Nd4 | ||
| Posted by odonata uskidscompute.com 6/25/2005 06:21:52 Play online chess | RE: Message: Thanks for your ideas on the fianchetto, I thought the same, for so far I've read about Bird's opening the author seems also rather negative about a fianchetto Queenside when the openent has one on his King's side.. In the Dutch a queenside fianchetto is clearly more "dodgy" in all variations.. Anyway, for so far I've played it some plans are similar, f.e. when playing Bird the Queen manoeuvre against the K-side fianchetto 1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 g6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Be2 c5 5. O-O Bg7 6. Qe1 Nc6 7. d3 O-O 8. Qh4 The stonewall setup is also something I've seen a lot in the Dutch.. May I also suppose that also in the Dutch playing e6 or g6 is to personal taste..? ——— Familiar Face Leads Cuban Chess Tournament in Honor of Capablanca — Any list of the greatest chess players of all time always includes José Raúl Capablanca, the third world chess champion. During his heyday, he was considered almost invincible (one of his nicknames was “the chess machine,” long before computers proved to be better than people) and he lost only one game in a 10-year period. Since 1962, a memorial tournament in his honor has been held almost annually in his homeland. (That is not surprising as Fidel Castro and Ché Guevera were both fans of the game.) This year is the 45th edition and it started June 10. The chess tournament is in three parts: An elite double round-robin (where each competitor plays all the others twice); a premier ... Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 6/26/2005 20:45:28 Play online chess For Google Search ....Message: then the games and explanative writings of ICCM Keith Hayward would be fantastic for you; since he took the opening ... which he himself suggested to be a less than top-notch, and turned it into a personal weapon used for attaining his ICCM title. * * * * To do so, he changed the emphasis from attacking the e5 square, as in the b3 system, toward support and attainment of an e4 push. And his means for doing so feature some interesting and unusual examples of piece play with rather unique coordination, producing a definate but logical churning sensation, not unlike a ballroom of dancers, waltzing ... }8-) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In addition to ICCM Hayward a subsequent review was done in the GK Chess Forum by bucklehead, which should also be available by Google if it was prior to the spacemaking page removals by Webmaster Mike. ——— Robotic "Monster Chess" set uses 100000 LEGO pieces — The idea is simple — a chess game where you can play against the computer. But the implementation here is what's truly monster about it. Each chess piece is its own autonomous robot, and there are actually a couple of 'spares' (as well as NXT blocks built into the King & Queen), so that ends up with 38 separate NXTs that must be controlled, commanded, and communicated with. Ron McRae did the bulk of the software work on the PC end for this, and it really works well. The chess board has squares based on the large LEGO baseplates, making the entire assembly roughly 12' on a side. On top of that is a way to input the humans moves, and a laptop running chess software and helping ... |