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| Posted by roland_l uskidscompute.com 1/26/2006 23:50:59 Play online chess |  Subject: Your favorite line as black in the Sicillian ...Message: Anyone care to share on this? | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by vegeta17 uskidscompute.com 1/27/2006 04:22:22 Play online chess | Message: I just started playing the exact same way. I've recently started study on the matter but the books I have are usually based on white making the best move. This doesn't seem to happen much in my rating group so it is making for some interesting games. Everyone I've played so far castles short and I surely have problems attacking that side considering my dark square bishop. Better to play for material? I'm just getting started so I'd love to see were this thread goes. Brian | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by cairo uskidscompute.com 1/27/2006 04:50:07 Play online chess | Sicilian Najdorf Message: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6! it is always exciting to see, what white will play in his 6th move! Good luck! Best wishes Cairo ——— Mission to Moscow — I am writing this column from the fabulous Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow, which is about a five-minute walk from Red Square. My mission in Moscow is to help Hikaru Nakamura do well in the 2011 Tal Memorial. This chess event is the elite-of-the-elite playing in an all-play-all (round robin) format of 10 players. Nakamura is ranked No. 7 at the start, as all the top chess players in the world were invited to duke it out for first prize. Why am I in Moscow, and what can I do for Hikaru? Well, I am what as known as a "second." I help Hikaru prepare the chess games each day by looking at previous games of his opponent in an effort to figure out what each will do, mainly in the opening phase of the game. Of course, since his opponent ... Posted by roland_l | uskidscompute.com 1/27/2006 21:00:59 Play online chess Cairo ...Message: 1. what to do with my e pawn? e6 or e5? Care to share principles behind the differences here? 2. What to do when white puts his queen on d2, and then Bg5? Put the question to the bishop? If so, the Bishop sac (Bxh6 gxh6, Qxh6) seems particularly dangerous to me, but I'm not sure. 3. Good aggressive ideas on the queen side after devoloping? ——— On Chess: Pleasure of pursuit keeps Gelfand going — Israeli chess grandmaster Boris Gelfand anticipates his world title match with reigning world chess champion Viswanathan Anand with his usual aplomb. He does so, in part, because of a rational, well-ordered approach to each game. He is superbly prepared, impossible to intimidate and unwilling to make the slightest concession each step of the way. If Gelfand maintains the form that gained him the right to play for the title, Anand will have to battle for every square and then some when they meet in May in Moscow. Gelfand is described on the website www.chessintranslation.com as “good-natured, well-mannered — . . . a pleasant man to know.” But he is also dauntlessly hardworking; ceaselessly striving; and ... Posted by cairo | uskidscompute.com 1/28/2006 00:33:32 Play online chess It's Message: After white's 6th move 6.Bg5 e6 follow by 7.f4 black has a choice of the notorious "poisened pawn" variation with his 7.... Qb6!? or a slowly development with 6.... Be7, again a matter of taste and temper. No matter what black or white decide of lines in the Sicilian Najdorf, it almost always lead to unbalanced positions and in many casses to opposite castling and this is really what you want, to bring the game across the drawing line! Good "skullcrushing" onwards! Bw. Cairo ——— Hou Yifan, Defending Women's Champion, Is Likely to Keep Title — The match for the Women’s World Chess Championship is all but over. On Monday, after six games of the best-of-10 match, Hou Yifan, the defending chess champion, led her challenger, Humpy Koneru, 4 points to 2. Hou only needs 1.5 points in the last four games to clinch the title, making her lead almost insurmountable. The chess match, which began Nov. 14 in Tirana, Albania, is in some ways as much a competition between the two most populous countries as it is a contest between two individuals. Hou is Chinese and Koneru is Indian. The overall world chess champion is Viswanathan Anand, another Indian, and Koneru is ranked No. 2 among women, while Hou is No. 3, so Indians may ... Posted by masros | uskidscompute.com 1/28/2006 10:56:05 Play online chess Message: ——— Milestone for a Benefactor of Historic Matches — Jacqueline Piatigorsky, one of the most important figures in American chess in the 1960s, turned 100 this month. Piatigorsky, a member of the Rothschild banking family, was married to the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and together they sponsored three significant chess events. The first was a 1961 match between Bobby Fischer and Samuel Reshevsky, the two best American chess players. It was a best-of-16 match, and after 11 games, each man had won twice and the other games were draws. And that is how it ended. Fischer quit after a fight with Mrs. Piatigorsky over the scheduling of the 12th game. (Fischer wanted an afternoon game so he could sleep in, and she wanted a morning game so she ... Posted by snakeking | uskidscompute.com 1/28/2006 21:56:02 Play online chess sveshnikovMessage: ——— Joys of Chess: From Krabbé to Hesse — Christian Hesse's book The Joys of Chess: Heroes, Battles & Brilliances, published by New in Chess, was endorsed by the world chess champion Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. It is a compilation of chess stories, biographical sketches, chess games and fragments with references to art and science. The author is a professor of mathematics, and the book was first published in German. It resembles work previously done by Tim Krabbé, a prominent Dutch writer, on his website Chess Curiosities. Krabbé was born in the same year as Bobby Fischer (1943) and on the same day as Garry Kasparov (April 13). The combination of the two could have made him a strong chess player, but when he ... Posted by ruzina | uskidscompute.com 1/29/2006 01:17:32 Play online chess SicilianMessage: Its an interesting opening, but Ive had some problems with it lately, getting bad positions against strong opponents. Maybe Najdorf and Sveshnikov are better. But anyway Sicilians are fun, because they are challenging white early. Brave choise :-) Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 1/29/2006 11:15:46 Play online chess Roland_l - in answer...Message: Cheers, Ion Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 1/29/2006 18:43:45 Play online chess Some further investigation...Message: Posted by schnarre | uskidscompute.com 1/31/2006 23:03:29 Play online chess Hmmnnn...Message: I myself use the offbeat line 2...Na6. Not easy to use, but scrappy. |