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| Posted by loreta uskidscompute.com 11/02/2005 03:24:00 Play online chess |  Subject: Alapin gambit in Ruy LopezMessage: --- There are basic ideas as they appeared: [loreta 11/01/2005: You wrote: " have played on GK a gambit line in this very variation though: a (temporary) sacrifice of a B on g4 to open up the h-file against the White K" Do you mean Alapin variation? One of my last games on GK is by using that line (as White): 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5. 0-0 Bg4 6. h3 h5!] [loreta 11/01/2005: That is my last finished game against therealjimfriar No access to it, already :-) But it isn't very interestng as went 20+ moves in known areas and only then I did my first move to side - anyway, after few moves we agreed a draw... Anyway, if you want to see it, I'll try to extract its text [I've it in Lithuanian notation, so I could transfer it to English one]] [ionadowman 11/01/2005: I played this line in April I think. I won in 17 moves, but it was by no means as one-sided as that sounds! It got very complicated, both sides tried to attack on the K-side of the board, and the position after white's 17th I thought was lost for Black! But then I found the winning move. Actually I had foreseen the position, and was looking for alternatives when the killer move occurred to me. Quite an exciting brevity: [myntzky v ionadowman] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.O-O Bg4 6.d3 h5 7.h3 Bd6?! 8.hxg4 hxg4 9.Ng5 Nh6 10.Nxf7 Kxf7 11.g3 g5 12.Be3 Qf6 13.f3 Kg7 14.Nd2 Qe6 15.f4? [I began fancying my chances after this...] 15...exf4 16.gxf4 Nf5! 17.Qxg4 [You can see why at first glance I thought this was good for White!] 17...Qh6! 0-1] ------- [Private message of loreta: I wandered why you marked as ?! the move 7.... Bd6?! After 8. hxg4 it seems both sides has their chances... But seems more prospects could offer 8. Re1 (but there I neeed for more analysis) ] [Private message from ionadowman: … Your suggestion of 8.Re1 (before exchanges on g4?) or 9.Re1 (after exchanges) seems worth a look. One of the examples I have (S. Georges vs. P Blatny) went 8.Nbd2 Nh6 9.Re1... without exchanges on g4. In fact myntzky, by exchanging at once at g4, really put the whole line to the test. I think he was right to do so. But that is something we can take up in the new thread... Cheers, Ion] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by loreta uskidscompute.com 11/02/2005 03:28:23 Play online chess | Exact message of loreta Message: --- About your game - I'm not sure about ?! for 7. ... Bd6?! [I didn't look deeply into this line...] as after 8. hg both sides has their chances... Maybe (maybe?) more prospects White has after 8. Re1 - But I need more analysis on this... --- In my game Black did 7. ... Qf6 - that is the main variation of gambit.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 11/02/2005 10:54:14 Play online chess | Main line, Alapin Ruy Lopez Message: ——— Three French Chess Players Punished for Using Technology to Cheat — Cheating has become more common in recent years. But a recent French case is the most sensational, and the most troubling. In January, the French Chess Federation accused three of its members, including Sebastien Feller, a 20-year-old grandmaster, of cheating during last year’s Chess Olympiad. Feller, who is ranked No. 4 among French players, played Board 5 for the national Olympiad team and won an individual gold medal for his performance. But the federation said he had help from Cyril Marzolo, an international master, who watched Feller’s games online and put the positions into a computer, which suggested moves. Marzolo relayed the suggestions to Arnaud Hauchard ... 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Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 11/04/2005 00:52:29 Play online chess Message: ——— Chess: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer? — Fischer's famous attack on the King's Gambit is interesting – but a long way from a refutation. In 1961 Bobby Fischer wrote "A Bust to the King's Gambit", a now famous article in which he set out, in typically uncompromising language, to do exactly as the title says. His idea was to play 1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Nf3 d6, avoiding the Kieseritsky variation (3...g5 4 h4 g4 5 Ne5) which Spassky had used to defeat him a couple of years before. The diagram position arises after 3...d6 4 d4 g5 5 h4 g4 6 Ng1 Bh6 and here Fischer claims that White has "no compensation" for the pawn. RB: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer? And you can see his point. With White's pieces all on ... Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 11/05/2005 23:54:34 Play online chess My gameMessage: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. 0-0 Bg4 [the critical move by Fisher but more popular is the move of Gligoric 5. … f6 – cyrano played it against me, too] 6. h3 h5!? 7. d3 Vf6 [the main line; alternatives are 7…. Bd6 and 7. … Bc5!?] 8. Nbd2 Ne7 [again, the main line; alternatives are same 8…. Bd6 and 8. … Bc5!?] 9. Re1 [another good plan is associated with 9. Nc4!?] 9. … Ng6 10. d4!? Bd6 [from Fisher's time; at current moment more popular move is 10. … Nf4!?] 11. hxg4 hxg4 12. Nh2 Rxh2 13. Qxg4 Qh4! [=, P.Keres!] 14. Qxh4 Rxh4 15. Nf3 Rh5 [alternatives 14. .. Rh7; 14. … Rh8] 16. dxe5 [16. c3; 16. Re3] 16. … Nxe5 17. Nxe5 Bxe5 18. c3 g5! [18. … 0-0-0] 19. g3 0-0-0 20. Be3 Rdh8 21. Kg2 g4! 22. Rh1 Kd7! [22. … Rxh1] 23. Rxh5 Rxh5 24. Rd1+ [my first own move! Maybe, more convenient is 24. Rh1 Rxh1 25. Kxh1 (=) – has anybody any game examples in this line?] 24. .. Bd6 25. Bf4 Ke6 26. Rd2 b5!? 27. f3 gxf3+ 28. Kxf3 Rh1 29. Re2 c5 30. Rd2, a draw, ˝ - ˝ ——— On Chess: Fischer's reputation as egomaniac unfair — In his account of the 1992 rematch between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, Yasser Seirawan offered his opinion - after spending hours with Fischer - that 60 percent of what he had read about him was wrong. Indeed, despite his often grievous negatives, there was another Fischer whom many of us experienced and admired. He could be kind and appreciative of others in many contexts. In a 1969 column that he wrote for Boys' Life magazine, Fischer praised U.S. junior chess champion Ken Rogoff and added: "It should encourage each of you who read this column to know that by applying yourself, as Ken did, you can become a fine chess player in a relatively short time." When the father of ... Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 11/06/2005 00:00:40 Play online chess SorryMessage: ——— Aronian Wins the Last Amber Chess Tourney — Levon Aronian won the Amber chess tournament in Monaco this month. He will be known as the last winner. After twenty years, the combined blindfold and rapid chess event, featuring the world's top players, comes to a halt. Named after his daughter Melody Amber, the Dutch sponsor Joop van Oosterom, created a dream tournament for the world's best grandmasters, allowing them to have fun and be well paid for it. This year's prize fund was 227,000 euro (aprox. US $317,000). Last year's co-winner, Vassily Ivanchuk, went as far as calling it " the greatest tournament." It was a perfect chess event to watch: a nice mixture of different creative efforts from brilliant and funny ... Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 11/06/2005 01:33:31 Play online chess MistakeMessage: Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 11/06/2005 01:53:20 Play online chess loreta...Message: Cheers, Ion Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 11/06/2005 01:57:48 Play online chess Maybe that line?Message: Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 11/13/2005 04:03:45 Play online chess More...Message: Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 11/14/2005 01:37:42 Play online chess Plenty...Message: The 7...d6 line that I played has 11 examples. It seems that 8.Be3 has been a successful line, with 100% success (3 games). The gambit's acceptance (8.hxg4 hxg4) in this line has achieved 1 win out of 4. All 4 games featured different 9th moves. Interestingly the 3 Black wins were fairly contemporaneous, about March/April this year, the White win was about a year or two ago. By the way, I think myntzky's move 9.Nxf7 was pretty good... maybe the best?! Cheers, Ion Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 11/24/2005 22:40:38 Play online chess SorryMessage: Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 12/07/2005 22:05:21 Play online chess testMessage: Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 12/08/2005 10:58:58 Play online chess Nobody...Message: |