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| Posted by spurtus uskidscompute.com 7/06/2005 02:40:48 Play online chess |  Subject: What to play against an IM?Message: I expect to be thumped. But hope to have some meagre chance of success if I play irregular openings that might use my opponents clock. Does anybody have any opening that is quick to 'rattle off' whilst putting the burden of thought onto my opponents clock? Spurtus. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by peppe_l uskidscompute.com 7/06/2005 03:11:32 Play online chess | Isn´t it best Message: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by spurtus uskidscompute.com 7/06/2005 04:00:54 Play online chess | Message: I play openings that give me a chance against my level 1300ish ELO, often I might know the game better than my opponent... but if I play a 2000+ player these openings are inviting instant doom.... I think? Anything 'odd-ball' but that has a clear plan and anything with reasonably tricky questions for my oppnent to answer might be handy when under such time controls. Spurt. ——— In Chicago, a Chess Tournament That Turns Out Grandmasters — In 1993, Laszlo Nagy began organizing monthly chess tournaments in Budapest that give players a chance to earn the norms needed to gain the grandmaster and international master titles. Called the First Saturday tournaments, the events have attracted many of the world’s best chess players. Five years ago, a Chicago man created a similar tournament series, the North American Masters, to help American chess players. The man, Sevan A. Muradian, organized the first one in April 2005. The 25th tournament ended March 24, and two players, Mackenzie Molner and Siddharth Ravichandran, each earned the third norm needed to become international masters ... Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 7/06/2005 07:29:28 Play online chess If you have WhiteMessage: I dont see why you cant play your Scandi as BL. Just look over your recent ones for the points of errors. And strive to at least get beyond such points. **** \ok, I've got to say it ... since you do play gambits ... \ive been advocating the Center Game e4 e5 2.d4 which can transpose to a Scotch, Goring Gambit, or Petroff ... since the way i play it 2....exd4 is not answered by Qxd4 (tho Alekhine did play that \i believe) but by 2....\nf3 and if ...c5?! 3.c3!? (3.~Bc4 isa bit early due to b5! A pawn that cannot be taken.) I wouldnt really recommend trying to pickit all up to play vs Masters in short time. But might suit you someday?! * * * * Another way to look at playing an IM might be to consider it a learning experience, and try to play against him what you find hard to play against. Then at least you come out with a stronger game. Even if you happen to not win :) well, an \im has given you a line to play against something you had trouble with before. \maybe something a rival plays, if you should get so fortunate as to play into such a thing. !? Regards, Craig ..... Good Luck & Skill to you ! ——— The late Vasily Smyslov was the composed champion of the 1950s — Vasily Smyslov, who died last weekend at 89, was the world's best chess player for most of the 1950s but held the championship crown for only one year and was nicknamed 'The Winter King'. Smyslov understood chess more profoundly than his great rival Mikhail Botvinnik, against whom he contested three world championship matches with honours even. But Botvinnik was the better psychologist, had a shrewd knowledge of chess politics and made wily use of rules where 12-12 kept his title in 1954 and his 1957 defeat gave him a return series where he caught the flu-stricken Smyslov at the start. Smyslov took his major reverse phlegmatically. Chess for him was an art form allied to ... Posted by wschmidt | uskidscompute.com 7/06/2005 15:17:19 Play online chess please...Message: ——— A glittering career — The 7th World Chess Champion Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (1921-2010) has died at the age of 89 in Moscow. He played four times for the world title including three matches against Mikhail Botvinnik. He won the title in 1957 and was one of the finest players in world chess for over 40 years. He remained an immensely strong chess player even into his 60s and was only eliminated from the world championship cycle by a young Garry Kasparov in 1984. Smyslov learnt the moves from his father, who was a very strong chess player, at the age of six and was schooled initially in endgames which doubtless led to his acknowledged mastery of this phase of the game. He became ... Posted by sorceress_queen | uskidscompute.com 7/06/2005 17:06:25 Play online chess My 5 cents! :)Message: You must concentrate in few openings for white / black. It's your choice (according your game spirit) what they will be. You must use the powerful weapon you have here, in GK, a CC site, to test once and again those lines, when you'd done; so you can meet a FM, even a IM, face to face. maybe you loose, but you got a chance to win, as you had learned what to do and what not. Not all the FIDE titulated knows ALL the openings nor all the hot lines. Usually, when in a unknow line for they, they looks for simplify with things like this: pawn structure, good/bad bishop, Knight vs Bishop, and many others than can give they a bit (but enough) advantage in the game against you. Just this. It's very hard for an amateur beat a titulated, but if you want to do, you must play ALL what you BEST know. No labo experiment or something like this... Just MHO sorceres_queen ——— European Chess Championship attracts huge field — The 11th European Chess Championship, which finished March 18 in Rijeka, Croatia, attracted a mammoth field of 408 chess players representing 41 European countries. A record 187 grandmasters competed. At stake were 23 places in the next World Cup, plus a prize fund of 120,000 Euros (about $163,000). Ian Nepomniachtchi, a 19-year-old Russian grandmaster ranked a mere 35th at the start despite his formidable 2656 rating, took first prize with an undefeated score of 9-2. Next were Baadur Jobava of Georgia and Artyom Timofeev of Russia, each 8 1/2 -2 1/2 . Veteran Pia Cramling of Sweden won the 158-player women's chess tournament, which ... Posted by chuckventimiglia | uskidscompute.com 7/06/2005 17:12:52 Play online chess Offer a Draw!! Message: ——— Can you keep up with the world's best? — It can be addictive following the Amber chess tournament - but what should Black do here? Carlsen-Smeets, Amber (Blindfold) 2010. How should Black play? RB Every now and then, when a deadline looms, I go and hole up in an attic for a week or two. With no – or at least fewer – distractions, I can get a lot of writing done. However, the attic does have an internet connection, and one distraction I've been unable to resist is the live coverage of the Melody Amber chess tournament. The rapid and blindfold games are the perfect internet spectator sport – it's great when you can keep pace, even just for a move or two, with the world's elite. I watched Carlsen-Smeets live, but such is my chess memory that ... Posted by tag1153 | uskidscompute.com 7/06/2005 21:12:25 Play online chess Scandanavian........Message: tag1153 Posted by spurtus | uskidscompute.com 7/08/2005 09:08:00 Play online chess Message: Spurtus. Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 7/09/2005 17:37:17 Play online chess Spurtus ... Message: ..... It went 1.e4 d5 2.ed5 Nf6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bc4 and now before his Bg4 he first played 4...b5 !? , forcing me to commit my KB immediately; whether to Bb3 or Be2. I went with Bb3. And BL had a lot of ideas. Like Bg4, or a5 or b4 playing against the WT Bb3 or Nc3 ... etc. In my blitz game I ended up more cramped than usual and he more active than usual. So I've been thinking to blitz the BL side myself soon and see how it feels. [Perhaps zwishening-in ...b5 like that might even add some new twists to the ....c6, ...e6, or ...Bg7 gambit lines?! This just occurred to me, sans board, but is getting me interested enough, \i better go look it over! ] Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 7/09/2005 19:49:33 Play online chess Oh my, what d'ya know .... Message: ******************* ######## ******************** ########### ..................................... [Event "EM/M/187"] [Site "ICCF Email"] [Date "2002.04.20"] [Round "?"] [White "Kachaev, Sergey Georgievich ("] [Black "Breuer, Engelbert (GER)"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B01"] [PlyCount "57"] [EventDate "2002.??.??"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bc4 b5 5. Bb3 a5 6. a3 Bg4 7. f3 Bc8 8. Nc3 Ba6 9. Nge2 g6 10. d3 Qd7 11. Nf4 Bg7 12. O-O c6 13. Re1 a4 14. Ba2 h6 15. Be3 g5 16. Bc5 gxf4 17. Rxe7+ Qxe7 18. Bxe7 Kxe7 19. Qe2+ Kf8 20. Qe5 Kg8 21. Qxf4 c5 22. Re1 Nbd7 23. Re7 Rh7 24. d6 c4 25. dxc4 bxc4 26. Nd5 Rf8 27. Nxf6+ Nxf6 28. Bxc4 Bc8 29. Bd3 1-0 Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 7/09/2005 19:56:57 Play online chess PS ..... My Question:Message: What do I play if paired with SPURTUS !!?! ******************************* [ spurtus , It only Just occurred to me that we might Possibly be going to the SAME TOURNAMENT ?!? In any event, Good-Luck-&-Skill to you tomorrow in Your event ! ] ... }8¬) Posted by spurtus | uskidscompute.com 7/11/2005 03:15:50 Play online chess Message: -> www.chessedinburgh.co.uk Got 4 opportunities with the Scand. No bad games at all, but it was interesting that you can pretty much get a reasonable chance of playing it, and a decent game out of the Scand. I'm going to put a lot of work into the Scand from now on. Spurtus. Posted by hamis | uskidscompute.com 7/11/2005 16:59:24 Play online chess scandi.....Message: 1. e4 d4 2. exd4 e4 the so called boehnke gambit? Ive been playing this once in a while and an attack along the half opened k-file always develops. The only thing is you must have at least a grasp of this gambit because there are numerous traps for white to exploit. But once black is out of this traps, he would have a realively easy win. |