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Posted by houseofcook uskidscompute.com 6/16/2008 10:29:18 Play online chess	Subject: French Defence, What do you play as White. Message: Hi there, A question for players who play the French defence as their main opening. What openings would you play as white ? I know this is dependant on the response by black. Is it a similar setup to the French, or totally unrelated? What was your thinking in choosing these setups ?
Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 6/16/2008 13:38:35 Play online chess	My own favorite... Message: ... for White is 3.Nc3, hoping for the Winawer (an opening I like as Black as well, which says something about this line): 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5. 3.Nc3 and if Black plays 3...Bb4 we have the Winawer line, leading to a good fighting game. Black can try instead the exchange on e4 (I have a consultation game going on Gameknot at the moment in which the opponents have played this). Or he can try 3...Nf6, an OK line, but one I dislike as Black. Playing the French OTB almost exclusively for several years, I found four opponents out of five favoured the Tarrasch, 3.Nd2, keeping the c-pawn free to advance. Not particularly committal, it's not easy for Black to get a hold on the ensuing game. I favoured the Guimard (3...Nc6) with considerable success, but blocking Black's c-pawn isn't everyone's cup o' java. Finally, there's the more committal Advance Variation: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 (3...c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 are often played. White can then continue with the "standard" 6.Be2, or try the more ambitious 6.Bd3, possibly heading for the violent Milner-Barry Gambit: 6...cxd4 7.cxd4 Bd7 8.0-0 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4 10.Nc3 Qxe5 11.Re1 ... An example is the game kikoursus vs ionadowman played in 2005. There may be other lines (I gather 1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 is sometimes played), but these are the main ones. Cheers, Ion
Posted by kansaspatzer uskidscompute.com 6/16/2008 14:48:14 Play online chess	Message: I think he's asking what openings French players play when they're White. But FWIW, I play 2.Qe2 when faced with the French. ——— A Match All About the Sicilian — An unusual chess match is being held in South Carolina. It pits Judit Polgar of Hungary, the strongest woman chess payer in history, who is now ranked No. 46 in the world, but once was in the top 10, against Gregory Kaidanov, a Ukrainian-born American grandmaster, who is ranked No. 261. The match is four games and has an interesting twist: Each game begins with a different variation of the Sicilian Defense. The first game was on Monday and was won by Kaidanov, who had White, and featured the Sveshnikov. The second, which was won by Polgar, was on Tuesday and was a Dragon. The third chess game, which is being played on Wednesday, and can ...
Posted by chessisvanity uskidscompute.com 6/16/2008 22:34:55 Play online chess	pffft... Message: Throw them off....I play the exchange. Why would I sit there and let a guy play his favorite opening? If i play 1.e4 and he plays 1...e6 I know he knows the French. So i play 2.d4...d5 3.exd5! Yes some say this might be drawish....but unless he is 2200 or better then i have the advantage. The same goes with the caro-kann. The exchange variation!! ——— The f-pawn, part 2: is f5 the answer here? — Does White have a better option than moving the f-pawn? Continuing our look at the chess equivalent of route one football – the f-pawn advance... RB Well, let's see what happens when we push – 1 f5. The answer comes back faster than Manchester United on the break, not much. Black is under no compulsion to take the pawn and can instead centralise with 1…Nd4 or even 1…Qd4, or start getting the queen's rook into play with 1…Rac8, and 1…Nb4, hitting the d-pawn, would be irritating. All right, let's try to be logical. What's wrong here is that even if we could swap off pawns on the f-file, the f1-rook would remain blocked by the bishop. Let's ...
Posted by houseofcook uskidscompute.com 6/16/2008 23:27:35 Play online chess	French Defence,what do you play as white. Message: Thanks for the replies. It was interesting to find out what French players would play against the French. I appreciate the in depth reply from ionadowman, but I did mean what does a French player play as white, what would be your initial moves, would you start with 1.d4 or 1. e4 or something else ? ——— Big Surprises in Europe — Europe has been a center of chess activity over the last month with a series of major open tournaments. The first was the Gibtelecom Chess Festival in Gibraltar, which ran from Jan. 26 through Feb. 4. Among the world-class chess players who competed were Etienne Bacrot of France, Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia, Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain, Michael Adams of England, and Gata Kamsky of the United States. The chess tournament ended in a nine-way tie for first, with Adams winning a four-person playoff to take the title. The Moscow Open, which overlapped with Gibtelecom and ended on Feb. 7, was divided into four sections — A, B, C and D — with ...
Posted by chessisvanity uskidscompute.com 6/16/2008 23:31:54 Play online chess	... Message: well duh... A french player will have an advantage playing against the French so I imagine they play 1.e4 as white. ——— Topalov Closes In on Linares Title — After eight rounds, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed, holds a one point lead in the annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain. Alexander Grischuk of Russia, the defending champion, is in second place after beating Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan in Round 8 on Sunday. Levon Aronian of Armenia is in third, having managed, like Topalov, not to have lost a game in the chess tournament. Unlike Topalov, who has won three games, Aronian has not won a game either. So far, 25 percent of the games have been decisive, but that does not mean that the other 75 percent have been dull. Quite the contrary. The games have mostly been hard fought and exciting, even ...
Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 6/17/2008 00:44:42 Play online chess	Sorry - Message: - Misunderstood you to mean what would I play if faced with the French. But you can infer that I was not afraid to face the French myself, so would open 1.e4 at least sometimes. But my stock opening as White, for even longer than the French was when I was Black, was the English Opening: 1.c4. 1.e4 was more of a "change" opening, just for the sake of variety. Some "English" players tend to stick with "pure" English positions, but I was more than happy to transpose into King's Indian Defences (from White's perspective), Sicilians Reversed or (surprisingly frequently) Maroczy Binds. Quite a few French defence player like the King's Indian Attack as White, but I never had much luck with it... Cheers, Ion ——— Weekend of Fun and Friends Between Battles on the Chess Board — The highlight of the year for many chess players is Washington’s Birthday weekend, when four amateur team championships are held across the country. There are no cash prizes, but the chess tournaments are popular because of the camaraderie. Players walk back and forth chatting before, after and even during the games. Some renew friendships with competitors they see only once a year. The World Amateur Team East tournament in Parsippany, N.J., the biggest and oldest of the chess events, celebrated its 40th birthday this year. There were 1,150 players and 271 teams, down from 283 teams last year, said Steve Doyle, the tournament’s director, who ...
Posted by lighttotheright uskidscompute.com 6/18/2008 12:53:52 Play online chess	Message: Ion, You and I apparently like the same openings with the same variations! That's spooky. Maybe we know some things others don't.:-O
Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 6/18/2008 13:43:38 Play online chess	... Message: Ken - I wonder what they can be?? :-/ Maybe we just like lines with a bit of fight in them? (I have to admit, though, my record with the English on GK hasn't been all that wonderful...) Cheers, Ion
Posted by premium_steve uskidscompute.com 7/07/2008 12:25:10 Play online chess	Message: i'm a french player now (i used to play the alekhine and scandinavian), and i most often prefer 1.e4. it's true that as black i like to play fairly solidly with 1.e6 because i have found that most lines give me a position i am comfortable with - without much risk of being a lot worse out of the opening. as white i feel i can take more liberties in an open style game and look for some kind of attack. (that being said, i still fear open sicilians as white!) sometimes i'll give 1.d4 or 1.f4 a try, or maybe 1.g3.
Posted by markb56 uskidscompute.com 7/13/2008 15:44:40 Play online chess	Maginot Line / Hitler Gambit Message: If I were playing white against the French I would try to try to get black to play the Maginot Line after which it's an easy matter to maneuver your pieces around the flank. However, white must be careful and avoid the now refuted Hitler Gambit, because if white gets too bold he will find himself fighting on two different fronts.
Posted by kansaspatzer uskidscompute.com 7/13/2008 17:19:33 Play online chess	Message: I just recently switched to the French and I normally play e4, although there are certain opponents I'll play d4 against. I must admit I'm not all that booked up against the Sicilian but playing lots of Gameknot games using the opening DB helps when you get OTB, IMO.
Posted by wulebgr uskidscompute.com 7/25/2008 12:03:17 Play online chess	As I French player, Message: I understand the futility of 1.e4. I play 1.g3, 1.d4, 1.c4, and 1.Nf3, reserving 1.e4 for weaker opponents and blitz.
Posted by kansaspatzer uskidscompute.com 7/26/2008 22:27:47 Play online chess	Message: So what is the Hitler gambit? The only Google hit for it is this page...
Posted by jstevens1 uskidscompute.com 7/26/2008 23:49:54 Play online chess	Expert Draw! Message: Hi everyone! Just to let you know that there is a game on the Public Annotations where I had the black pieces and played against The Tarrasch. The game is called Expert Draw because at the time my opponent was 832 points north of my rating. Despite a 2 pawn deficit I managed to draw it. This was a big result because it is still the only time I have managed to draw against an Expert. Ionadowman has already commented on the game but if any of you have anything to add please feel free to do so. Hope you have all enjoyed your weekend. Cheers and bye for now. Joanne
Posted by savage4731 uskidscompute.com 7/29/2008 01:22:30 Play online chess	Kansaspatzer Message: That's because the correct way for black to play is just to resign as soon as possible.