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Once all the byes and late entries are taken into account, the total entry count could be over 200. Two GM's (Bator Sambuev, Aleksander Lenderman), and some IM's including Leonid Gerzhoy and Jean Hebert.
There should be some games posted (either by me or others) sometime Saturday evening.
At least three live games will be available each round (and will be available for viewing until the next round):
You're not getting lots of responses here Hugh. I wonder if live DGT fingerfeihler glitch for rd 3 23 Ra1 shud be Rf1 intending.. R2d1..e4 looks marvellous pour Jean...petrosian sys is winning:)EDIT WRONG HERE 23Ra1 played
Last edited by David McTavish; Saturday, 11th September, 2010, 06:42 PM.
You're not getting lots of responses here Hugh. I wonder if live DGT fingerfeihler glitch for rd 3 23 Ra1 shud be Rf1 intending.. R2d1..e4 looks marvellous pour Jean...petrosian sys is winning:)EDIT WRONG HERE 23Ra1 played
I thought Jean might have played 1. e4 to see if he could get a chance to hammer the Winawer. Maybe be the hammerer instead of the hammeree. :)
Two Winawer players and we get this. Doesn't it make you laugh?
EDIT Just caught ur note ICCF IM Ruben, yes, no winawer... Jean bailing for draw into a bad french structure though?
Actually, I made SIM. I got both titles (IM and SIM) the same year. For my final SIM norm 3 players unleashed their French Defence against me. I picked up 2 1/2 points. One of my wins cost the a nation which invited me the final GM norm for one of their players. He got it in something else about a year later. I really liked that game and annotated it. It should copy and paste.
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e6 7. f3 b5 8. g4
Nfd7 9. Qd2 Nb6 10. O-O-O Bb7 11. Nb3 N8d7 12. Na5 Qc7 {
To here is Anand - Ponomariov 2002.} 13. Nxb7 Qxb7 14. Bd4 Rc8 15. Bd3 Ne5 16.
f4 Nbc4 17. Qe2 Nxd3+ 18. Qxd3 b4 19. Nb1 {
The idea was to try to dislodge the Knight at c5.} e5 20. b3 Be7 21. bxc4 exd4
{Now I wondered if I had enough pieces to conduct an attack on the King side.
Often such attacks involve the sacrifice of a minor piece bishop or a knight
and I only have one knight remaining.} 22. h4 O-O {
The attack target squares are now set.} 23. Nd2 Bd8 24. g5 Bb6 25. h5 f6 {
An attempt to get some counter play.} 26. gxf6 Rxf6 27. h6 g6 28. f5 Kh8 29.
Rdg1 {Getting ready to open up the king.} Rg8 30. Rh3 Qf7 31. Rhg3 Rf8 32. Nf3
{Time to bring the Knight into the attack.} Rc8 33. Ng5 {Nh4 is an interesting
try. I played with that move for awhile and wondered if it might be difficult
to win the full point.} Qxc4 34. Qxc4 Rxc4 35. Nxh7 $1 Kxh7 36. fxg6+ Rxg6 37.
Rxg6 d3 38. Rg7+ Kh8 39. R1g2 {With the King completely out of play and down a
rook for a bishop black can not hold the position so he resigns.} 1-0
Nice game. B can deviate w/ 14...b4. In fact, all formerly main line ...e6 English Attack w...h6 has Black in BIG BIG trouble. So I really like ..Nfd7 instead, a la Novikov, as counterintuitive as it superficially seems. Recnltly Black has given up on the old Kasparov(...h6 after...e6, not earlier...Ng4 stuff)) mainline w/ an earlier...b4/...Rc8 ( instead of ...
).Does Black have to give up the B on b7 though in your game? And above is just an alternative for B w/ a hypothetical line; you can bust it if u like:)
).Does Black have to give up the B on b7 though in your game? And above is just an alternative for B w/ a hypothetical line; you can bust it if u like:)
Probably he saw the Anand game. I didn't want to follow it exactly because he might have found an improvement. Some players like 6. Be3 Ng4. If they have games like that in the database then I play 6. f3 with Be3 to follow or 6. Bg5.
Probably he saw the Anand game. I didn't want to follow it exactly because he might have found an improvement. Some players like 6. Be3 Ng4. If they have games like that in the database then I play 6. f3 with Be3 to follow or 6. Bg5.
I was black and black lost. I thought I'd try that variation and it didn't work out. So simple is losing a chess game. My coach suggested I forget that variation and move on to other things. Like sitting in a rocking chair by the wood stove and thinking about the good old daze. :)
I was black and black lost. I thought I'd try that variation and it didn't work out. So simple is losing a chess game. My coach suggested I forget that variation and move on to other things. Like sitting in a rocking chair by the wood stove and thinking about the good old daze. :)
But you are not classically conditioned i hope, as correspondence chess, and i speak w/ no iccf exp., is thankless for the first ten years. One loss and the variation is no good? I am just about to give up this line as well, but only 'cause i'm getting a Poor Irish Dragon, ie., w/ pawn on g5 intead of g6, and then getting manuts crushed after a timely h4.King not as safe is crucial, as well.Who still plays this as Black?:)
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