Play chess online, free chess online, chess games database, board games, free online chess games, chess clubs, chess league, chess puzzles, chess teams, chess games, online games and more...

Tags: play chess online, chess online, play chess, chess, play chess, play chess, backgammon

Chess Forum
uskidscompute.com   << - < - > - >>
FromMessage
Posted by kansaspatzer
uskidscompute.com

6/12/2008
13:48:07

play online chess
Subject: The X-Rated Albin Counter-Gambit

Message:
This article by Andrew Martin, which Martin admits himself is propaganda in favor of the opening, inspired me to buy Martin's DVD on the opening. I know it's probably not sound, but it really is a fun opening. And it was used successfully by no lesser of a player than Lasker.

www.jeremysilman.com


Posted by lapsekili
uskidscompute.com

6/14/2008
07:46:05

play online chess
thanks

Message:
really interesting opening even though some moves look funny but then you understand they have a purpose.

Posted by sf115
uskidscompute.com

6/14/2008
14:48:56

play online chess


Message:
After 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 what does black do if white doesn't play dxe5.?

Posted by ccmcacollister
uskidscompute.com

6/14/2008
15:29:15

play online chess
sf115

Message:
Probably equalize on move 3, since bl has been permitted to play a move he should not have been able to get in without penalty...
I love the Albin on both sides. It just feels like one of those openings one could spend a lifetime playing and studying and never lose interest :)


Posted by ionadowman
uskidscompute.com

6/14/2008
16:38:05

play online chess
A very pawnographic debut...

Message:
... I can think of worse ways of getting your jollies! I never knew the line was so replete with possibilities.
Must try it some time...
Cheers,
Ion


Posted by lapsekili
uskidscompute.com

6/16/2008
03:09:34

play online chess
to stf115

Message:
you said what happenes if white doesnt play dxe5? black controls the center and have an advantage i think.because he will have both pawns on e5 and d5

Posted by ccmcacollister
uskidscompute.com

10/14/2008
13:01:12

play online chess
albin ...

Message:
Take it for granted that a bad word has been said which does not show up on the screen.... for I saw a real interesting Albin annotation and been awhile, Ive forgotten exactly where. I think it was on Silman's site.

Anyone been to it?


Posted by bogg
uskidscompute.com

10/15/2008
02:20:50

play online chess
It can't be all that bad.

Message:
Morozevich has been winning with the Albin.

CTC (Bogg)


Posted by ccmcacollister
uskidscompute.com

10/15/2008
04:20:45

play online chess
and ....

Message:
Morozevich IS my Hero~! I think probably the highest rated player I have seen be as
adventurously innovative & into new ideas that can be really far out ...but they generally work
out, tho maybe walking a fine line. Perhaps its just that on one else understands or expects
them~? For eg getting hit with an Albin Counter-gambit. But really looking back, even Max
Euwe, despite his win against it, can't say it didnt give him a thinking game. Thanks bogg, I'll
have to look at some of those Moro's!


Posted by schnarre
uskidscompute.com

10/28/2008
01:43:11

play online chess
if not dxe5

Message:
then Black has a number of options: if 3. Nc3 then ...exd4, 4. Qxd4 Nc6, 5. Qxd5 Be6! leaves Black in good stead. Another option for Black is ...Nc6, clamping down on the central squares.

Posted by jstevens1
uskidscompute.com

10/28/2008
14:16:41

play online chess
I have an Albin Game for you all!

Message:
Hi everyone, just to let you know that I have publicly annotated a draw game between me and a buddy called rjacobs. That one started as an Albin.

Cheers.

Joanne





Chess news:

At Gibraltar Chess Event, Women Begin to Close Gender Gap -- Why aren’t there more great female chess players? One theory is that men are physically stronger and more aggressive by nature and therefore better suited at a game that simulates warfare. Another is that the talent pool among women has not been big enough to produce many great chess players. That has been changing over the last 20 years. And the results of the Eighth Gibtelecom Chess Festival in Gibraltar, which ended on Feb. 3, seems proof of that change. The chess tournament had a strong field that included 35 grandmasters, 5 of them ranked among the world’s top 40 players. The festival offered special prizes for women, and ...

The f-pawn, part 1: cheap, crude and obvious? -- Is an f-pawn advance the chess game's equivalent of route-one football? RB For some time I've been nagging Dan to do a series of columns on the f-pawn advance. He's been resistant, partly, I suspect, because pushing the f-pawn is a bit like route-one football, the long ball punted down the park in hopes of a quick goal. The advance can sometimes be crude, obvious and speculative, but, like the infamous route-one game, it can also produce results, and, as we will see over the next few weeks, some very classy chess players have used it. We start with one of the classiest of all time, Botvinnik, in a chess game played in the decade before he became world chess champion. Having ...

At Halfway Point, Topalov Leads at Linares -- The annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain began earlier this week, and after five rounds — or halfway through — Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed and No. 2 chess player in the world, is leading with 3.5 points, a point ahead of the field. Linares has been among the world’s elite chess tournaments since the early 1990s, when Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov were regular competitors. This year’s tournament has only six players, though they are all among the world’s best. The format is a double round robin in which each chess competitor faces all the others twice, playing once with White and once with Black. Aside from Topalov ...