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| Posted by longbow57 sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 3/24/2008 20:17:14 Play online chess |  Subject: Stonewall AttackMessage: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 3/25/2008 12:15:33 Play online chess | longbow57 - Message: Cheers, Ion | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by longbow57 sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 3/25/2008 14:09:55 Play online chess | Stonewall Attack one of my games Message: ——— Underdogs on Top in World Chess Championship Candidates Matches — The first round of the World Chess Championship Candidates Matches in Kazan, Russia, produced several surprises. The biggest was the elimination of Levon Aronian, who is ranked No. 3 in the world, by Alexander Grischuk (No. 12), whose recent play has been inconsistent but who prevailed in the tiebreaker games. Gata Kamsky, fresh off winning the United States title, produced another upset by beating Veselin Topalov, a former world chess champion. Topalov (No. 7) has not played much in recent months, and that hurt him. He was outplayed by Kamsky (No. 18) in Game 2, which Kamsky won, and in the last game, when Kamsky forced a draw. Boris Gelfand (No. 16), who will be 43 next month and ... Posted by tim_b | sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 3/25/2008 14:56:21 Play online chess Message:  game ——— Bobby Fischer: from chess prodigy to pariah — He played some of the most sublime chess ever seen. Then, as a new book and film illustrate, he disappeared from view. What made such a brilliant mind go into freefall? In 1999, I spent three days sitting in a variety of thermal baths dotted around Budapest. As grand and attractive as the Hungarian capital's spas are, I wasn't stewing myself for therapeutic or leisure purposes. Instead, I was waiting for someone I'd been told frequented the baths, someone who was said to be a genius and a paranoid obsessive, the greatest chess player who ever lived and an obnoxious crackpot. I was looking for Bobby Fischer. For the last four decades of his life, that's what people ... Posted by longbow57 | sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 3/25/2008 15:07:45 Play online chess Message: ——— On Chess: Computers hardly a threat to game — Some chess grandmasters have lamented that computers take the creativity out of chess, but their concern for the future of the game of chess is off the mark. An excessive use of chess computers undeniably dulls a player's mind - especially if the reliance on computer analysis leaves no room for hardscrabble human inquiry. The games of top chess players such as Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura vividly demonstrate that free-flowing, swashbuckling creative chess might thrive even more in the age of computers. It is, however, no longer possible to hide behind time-tested lines of play based on years of personal exploration and expertise. Computer analysis usually can ... Posted by ionadowman | sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 3/25/2008 15:56:22 Play online chess Thanks, longbow57...Message: The only time anyone tried a Stonewall attack against me, I didn't recognize the opening and had to ask. The fact is, my opponent got the move order wrong - or something - which led to this disaster: Labour weekend Tournament, Auckland, 1979 White: I.A.D. Black: G.T. Munted Stonewall Attack 1.d4 Nf6 2.e3 g6 3.Bd3 ... - I like this posting for the bishop, too... 3...Bg7 4.Ne2?! 0-0 5.Nd2? d3 6.0-0 7Nc6 7.a3? ... - Why not 7.c3, then? 7... e5 8.c3 Re8 9.Ng3 d5 10.dxe5 Nxe5 11.Bc2 h5 12.h3 h4 13.Ne2 Qe7 14.f4? ... At last "getting in" his planned thrust! b 14...Neg4 15.hxg4 Qxe3+ 16.Rf2 Nxg4 17.Ne4(!) Qb6 18.Nd4 dxe4 19.Re2 e6 20.Nf3 Be6 21.Bd3? Rad8 22.Qc2 Bb3 23.Qb1 ... b 23... Nf2? - Sufficient, but 23...Bd1 was way better. 24.Ne5 Nxd3 0-1. Possibly my opponent was expecting a more direct response to his opening play. I can think of no other explanation for his artificial handling of the opening. Cheers, Ion ——— Queen to Play (movie review) — In “Queen to Play,” a subtle, absorbing film that features Kevin Kline in his first French-speaking role, the only thing that happens, really, is that a hard-working, soft-spoken woman learns to play chess. Seriously. That’s it. Because this “Queen” arrives in Washington at the start of the summer movie season, nearly two years after its initial release in France, that narrative simplicity has a certain appeal. At a time when most pictures are all CGI’d up and Imaxed out, there’s something particularly enjoyable about settling into a film whose pleasures reside in quiet moments, understated performances and the reading of subtitles. “Queen to Play,” originally titled “Joueuse” in French, or “Player,” introduces us to ... Posted by longbow57 | sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 3/25/2008 16:16:00 Play online chess Message: ——— Vishy Anand able to smile after world title candidates take shape — Vishy Anand can smile. The chess champion's hopes of retaining his crown in 2012 were already boosted when the world No2 Magnus Carlsen withdrew as a candidate. Now the world No3 and favourite Levon Aronian is also out after his tense and nervous play led to missed chances and a 3.5-4.5 loss to Russia's Alex Grischuk. Anand has good form against all four semi-finalists. Gata Kamsky (US), Boris Gelfand (Israel) and Vlad Kramnik (Russia) are from the Indian's 40ish generation, while Grischuk splits his time between chess and poker. Cautious waiting tactics ruled for most of Kramnik's match with the 23-year-old Azeri Teimour Radjabov, as they drew four classical chess games and four rapid. The ninth ... Posted by longbow57 | sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 3/25/2008 22:14:01 Play online chess Message: Posted by ionadowman | sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 3/26/2008 17:35:04 Play online chess The advantage...Message: But the big thing about sticking to an opening like this (or any particular opening) is that you get a lot of experience and understanding of the sort of positions you are likely to reach. If you manage to avoid dropping into routine thinking (which can happen with overfamiliarity with any line of play), you will find yourself more at home in the kind of game you get than your opponents will be. It's no hardship neither that, despite its apparently 'defensive' appellation, it is an aggressive line. Much more fun. Cheers, Ion Posted by jamesdriggs | sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 3/29/2008 20:49:44 Play online chess ColleMessage: Jim Posted by houseofcook | sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 6/10/2008 15:42:03 Play online chess Stonewall AttackMessage: Posted by ccmcacollister | sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 6/10/2008 18:24:35 Play online chess houseofcook ... Message: ******* If you prefer a more "classical" formation as BL, then there are a number of good choices for handling of the Queen's Bishop from c8. You can fianchetto with ...b6 and from there play ...Ba6 in such way & time as to try to force the exchange of your Bishop for WT's traditional Bd3 placement, since that is an obviously "good Bishop" and usually a key piece in the WT game plan as well. It may be sac'd at h7 sometimes, or help enforce an e4 push, or used in battery with the WT Queen for pressure, etc. Alternatively, there is also Bb7 which is very thematic for playing to control the e4 square and often backing-up placement of a BL Ne4. ******* It may also be placed upon the King-side. The caution in doing so is that it should not be allowed to become a significant target that temporizes WT's attacking of the K-side. Especially not to be trapped by pawns or forced into passivity such as to Bh7 with a pawn to g6 blocking it or such, as I've seen happen at times. IMO if you are going to play it to the King-side, you must be prepared to trade it or have it traded for. Fortunately, it is often quite alright or even beneficial to see it played to Bg4, then traded for a Knight on f3. Or for a Be2 if WT should happen to choose that less aggressive B placement. It can also be played to Bf4 if one is not afraid to play it from there to the "hole" with Be4, tho it may often be traded for there. *** IMO, in a Stonewall game, the Best Bishop on the board will almost invariably end up being WT's King Bishop, usually Bd3. And I feel that piece is nearly always good & beneficial for BL to capture whether done by Knight or his Bishop. Other than that particular WT Bishop however, I feel that the Knights of both players will usually be better pieces than the other Bishops, in that the opening usually remains substantially closed in the center that is difficult to open, which will severely limit the scope of Bishops, and the existence of the "hole" at e4, as well as other potential outposting chances will probably be quite Knight favorable. So unless there are other considerations involved in the trade, I never fear trading either B for a N in this opening, and generally look forward to that chance. For instance, when the trade is made of a Bg4 playing BxNf3 then it also serves to weaken WT's control of e5, unless he has a Nd2 with which to recapture. It is e4 and e5 that are almost invariably the most importantly contested center squares in the Stonewall. *** Posted by houseofcook | sleepingdogsliethemovie.com 6/10/2008 22:49:33 Play online chess Stonewall AttackMessage: |