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| Posted by loreta uskidscompute.com 11/16/2005 01:28:27 Play online chess |  Subject: On Elephant gambitMessage: Now I went on Elephant gambit: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 Yesterday I looked some lines of it... Not very encouraging... [ but I looked a view from side "how to refute it"... I nead look from another side - "how to win with it"...] Could we share some basic ideas about this gambit? What about level of its soundness? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 11/16/2005 17:39:57 Play online chess | Elephant Gambit... Message: Cheers, Ion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 11/16/2005 18:05:28 Play online chess | Elephant Gambit... Message: Not exactly "pro" the gambit, but does indicate that there is more to the beast than meets the eye! It mentions Mark Hebden as championing the line, and I do believe he was the author of the article I mentioned in my earlier msg. Cheers, Ion ——— Hikaru beats leader at Corus Chess Tournament — Let's start with an update to the Corus Chess Tournament, which is getting more exciting by the day. It had seemed that U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura's bid to win the event might be slipping away. Coming into the seventh round Saturday, Hikaru had made three straight draws. He was tied for second place, 1.5 points behind the leader, Alexei Shirov of Spain. Not a bad showing, but the 22-year-old New Yorker has ambitions of winning the chess tournament and clearly establishing himself as one of the world's elite players. So for Hikaru, Saturday was crucial. He was paired against Shirov and had the advantage of playing the white pieces. Here was a chance to cut ... Posted by schnarre | uskidscompute.com 11/16/2005 19:08:35 Play online chess Hmmnnnn....Message: ——— The Scotch Opening, part 3: the Kasparov approach — The former world champion was responsible for a revival of interest in the chess opening. But how does he exploit it here? More on the Scotch. Garry Kasparov was responsible for its revival. Here he finds his e-pawn under pressure. What should he play? RB There are so many possibilities that I'm going to have to go through a process of elimination. We can discard the obvious hara-kiri options of 1 cxd5 and 1 exf6 Qb4+. Nor does 1 f4 fxe5 2 fxe5 Qg5 look particularly appealing. 1 Bg2 looks like it just loses a pawn and gives Black all the play after 1...fxe5 2 0-0, and 1 e6 is just bad. Nor do 1 Nd2, 1 Kd1 and 1 Ba3 solve the problem. That leaves ... Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 11/16/2005 22:25:16 Play online chess TnxMessage: ——— Russia return to form after slump — Russia, with a new-look young chess team, recovered from an early setback against Greece and won the World Team Chess Championship at Bursa, Turkey. The result eases the pressure on Moscow chess officials whose once invincible squad failed to justify top seeding in the last three Olympiads. The United States, without their No2, Gata Kamsky, took silver and India, missing the world chess champion, Vishy Anand, won bronze, both fine performaces. But the show stealer was this week's spectacular brilliancy, which helped the 22-year-old US chess champion to the individual top board gold medal. Boris Gelfand had planned the sharp opening and ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 11/17/2005 02:28:01 Play online chess QP Countergambit in play...Message: Mark Hebden had been playing it, so his article (if you can trace it!) was from a user's point of view... Cheers, Ion ——— Magnus and Hikaru -- the Ali-Frazier of Chess? — ... But I can't tell you I've ever been more excited about a game than one that lasted five-and-a-half hours Thursday and ended in a tie. The sport was chess. If in everyday conversation you throw around terms like "zugzwang'' and "pawn island,'' you would have found the 59-move contest riveting. But even if you don't, the storyline was irresistable. Playing the white pieces was Hikaru Nakamura, the reigning U.S. chess champion and at 22, perhaps America's best hope for capturing the world title. On the other side of the chess board was Magnus Carlsen, the 19-year-old Norwegian phenom who is now the top rated chess player in the world. Both are brilliant grandmasters on the rise. Each ... Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 11/17/2005 22:17:03 Play online chess ... booksMessage: --- In my opinion - the critical line is the line pointed by ionadowman : 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 3.exd5 Bd6 ——— Playing poker in a game of chess — Hikaru Nakamura began the New Year by leading the United States to a silver medal at the chess World Team Championship. On the heels of that success, Nakamura continued his impressive play in Wijk ann Zee, Netherlands, which annually hosts the world’s most prestigious annual chess tournament. Nakamura won two of his first four games and drew the world chess champion Vishy Anand. The tournament concludes on Jan. 31. Nakamura has adopted an extremely bold style. At key attacking points Nakamura looks to sacrifices a piece. The sacrifice opens up lines and facilitates an attack on the king. Objectively, it may not be the best move, but ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 11/17/2005 23:58:22 Play online chess loreta...Message: At any rate, there could be two distinct discussions here, which might indicate beginning a new, parallel thread... Cheers, Ion Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 11/18/2005 00:33:21 Play online chess After some researchMessage: --- I found a reference to "ChessBase Magazine 102" where an article on the opening that begins with the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5. The name “Elephant Gambit” comes from Danish chess circles, an is supposed to illustrate the role of the two bishops, which often decide how things will go in these games.... ...I would not recommend this defense for very important games, but if from time to time you wish to escape from generally fashionable openings, you will have a good canvas here on which to try out some creative ideas. In over the board chess, in rapid chess and especially in blitz chess, this gambit is a good surprise weapon. It is somewhat of a positional risk in correspondence chess, but even there Black has some chances... Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 11/18/2005 00:41:03 Play online chess To ionadowmanMessage: ------- As example of other possible line too: [Event "Bank Pocztowy SA Open"] [Site "Bydgoszcz POL"] [Date "1999.??.??"] [White "Ziolkowski, D"] [Black "Pavlenko, O"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2123"] [BlackElo "2295"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 3. d4 dxe4 4. Nxe5 Bd6 5. Nc4 Nf6 6. Be2 Nc6 7. Be3 O-O 8. O-O Nd5 9. Nc3 Nxe3 10. fxe3 Qg5 11. Nxe4 Bxh2+ 12. Kxh2 Qh4+ 13. Kg1 Qxe4 14. Bd3 Qg4 15. Rf4 Qxd1+ 16. Rxd1 Be6 17. c3 f5 18. Rdf1 g6 19. b3 Kg7 20. e4 fxe4 21. Rxf8 Rxf8 22. Rxf8 Kxf8 23. Bxe4 Bxc4 24. bxc4 Nd8 25. Kf2 b6 26. Ke3 Ke7 27. Bd5 Ne6 28. Ke4 Kd6 29. Bxe6 Kxe6 30. g4 h5 31. g5 h4 32. Kf4 h3 33. d5+ Kd6 34. Kg3 Kc5 35. Kxh3 Kxc4 36. Kg4 Kxc3 37. Kf4 Kd4 0-1 Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 11/19/2005 01:15:08 Play online chess Fair comment...Message: Cheers, Ion Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 11/19/2005 01:15:17 Play online chess Fair comment...Message: Cheers, Ion Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 11/20/2005 02:15:46 Play online chess Ziolkowski v. Pavlenko... Message: Cheers, Ion Posted by bogg | uskidscompute.com 11/21/2005 09:22:17 Play online chess loretaMessage: tpurser@worldnet.att.net CTC Posted by loreta | uskidscompute.com 11/21/2005 22:01:02 Play online chess Tnx, boggMessage: |