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| Posted by happinessisawarmgun uskidscompute.com 11/28/2005 06:39:23 Play online chess |  Subject: 7.f3..in the sicilian dragon.Message: Can anyone who plays this line a lot explain to me the purpose of this move. I have just started to look at the dragon and this has struck me as a strange move . Thanks | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by odonata uskidscompute.com 11/28/2005 07:55:27 Play online chess | Re: Message: Propably you are puzzled because in other openings f3 is a clear weaknes for the K-side, yet in the Dragon White usually castles Q-side so f3 is OK. The dragon is known for it's sharp play with a black pawn rush on the Q-side (towards the enemy King) and a white pawn rush on the K-side.. (yet white can choose for quiter lines by castling also K-side) | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by sahsakkchess uskidscompute.com 11/28/2005 07:58:07 Play online chess | 7.f3 Message: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cd 4. Nd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg6(If black play 6...Ng4?? after 7. Bb5+ black losing a piece.) 7. f3 I dont play dragon any more but i played and i knew 3 reasons for 7.f3: 1. Overprotect e4 pawn. 2. Stops black to play Ng4.Bishop on e3 is wery important later in attack -Qd2 -Bh6. 3. Prepare g4(without 7. f3 is imposible) h4 king side pawn storm. Good luck. ——— Hou Yifan Defeats Judit Polgar at Gibraltar Chess Festival — There was a changing of the guard at the top of the world chess rankings a few years ago, led by Magnus Carlsen, the current No. 1. But Judit Polgar’s spot at the top of the women’s list has been secure. The best woman chess player in history, Polgar, 35, has been No. 1 for 20 years, and no one had ever come close to challenging her. Until last week, when Hou Yifan, the 17-year-old women’s world chess champion, turned in a spectacular performance at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, which ended on Thursday. Hou’s results will put her on the cusp of the top 100 among all chess players, and it seems only a matter of time before she joins Polgar, now No. 32, to become just the second woman in that ... Posted by happinessisawarmgun | uskidscompute.com 11/28/2005 09:57:06 Play online chess thanks guys...Message: ——— Chess Champ Hou Yifan in the Limelight — Levon Aronian's brilliant victory at the prestigious Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, would normally be the topic of our conversation. But it was a young Chinese girl, Hou Yifan, 17, who stole the limelight. The women's world chess champion shared first place at the powerful Tradewise Chess Festival in Gibraltar, one of the world's strongest open chess tournaments. Hou was in the lead going into the last round, but was caught at the last moment by Nigel Short. They both scored 8 points in 10 games and the English grandmaster grabbed the title in a blitz playoff. But Hou faced much tougher opponents. Facing six grandmasters rated above 2700 points - a barrier reserved for the best 40 chess players ... Posted by anaxagoras | uskidscompute.com 11/30/2005 09:42:04 Play online chess Message: ——— Levon Aronian shrugs off losses to triumph at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee — Levon Aronian shrugged off an early loss to the chess world No1 Magnus Carlsen and a late defeat by a tail-ender to win first prize at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee this week with impressive authority. The Armenian world No2's 9/13 total was a point clear of Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov, and the Italian 19-year-old Fabiano Caruana who shared second prize. The elite chess events which make up the chess equivalent of a Grand Slam include Moscow's Tal Memorial and the London Classic as well as Wijk. Aronian was subdued in London, but he tied first with Carlsen in Moscow and his overall rating is closing in on the Norwegian's. Aged 29 and at the height of his powers, Aronian would have been a good bet to capture ... Posted by wolstoncroft1 | uskidscompute.com 12/08/2005 02:55:05 Play online chess its more to defend the g4 squareMessage: 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd 4 Nxd4 g6 5 Nc3 Bg7 6 Be3 Nf6 7 f3 -- here you need to defend the g4 square before creating the battery with Qd2(which also clears out for potential 0-0-0) if not 7 Qd2 Ng4 and white has to decide upon losing his initiative and kingside attack allowing the Bishop to be traded off for blacks knight. The longterm effects for white of not having the dark squared bishop will be that the Bishop on g7 will have an excellent diagonal and will be unopposed he will be blacks best minor piece an will defend well as well as attack so thats why you play f3. In fischer's games in the open sicilian i have seen him play h3 instead to defend g4 and later he played f4 and so on. but id be careful straying from mainline in the first 10 moves or so because those who play the sicilian dragon know the lines well and will punish you for mistakes.,. ——— Low-key Aronian soars high in Wijk aan Zee chess tournament — Armenian GM Levon Aronian has added another chapter to a chess career that has been both illustrious and somewhat under the radar, capturing the 74th Tata Steel Grandmaster “A” Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, Sunday by a full point over Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Azerbaijan’s Teimour Radjabov. Despite a loss to Carlsen during the Category 21 event, Aronian won going away, notching a quick last-round draw to finish at a very impressive 9-4. The genial 29-year-old Aronian, ranked second in the world behind Carlsen, led his small country to gold in the 2006 and 2008 Chess Olympiads and to a World Team Chess title last year. 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