Feb-28-05
 | | IMlday: In those days, Kevin could still be freaked by an odd opening. |
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| Feb-28-05 | | Minor Piece Activity: lol. Is it possible to freak you out with an odd opening IM Day or not really? Have you ever accidentally freaked yourself out in a weird opening? =) |
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Feb-28-05
| | IMlday: Many times I have freaked myself out with totally unsound defences played off the cuff. 1. b4 g5?--I lost that once to an Expert. In Ivkov-Day, Canadian Open, 1966 my 3..Qe7 vs the Spanish got zugzwanged in about 20 moves. Defending with 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. Nxe5 Nc6? also got clobbered totally. Finding where the 'line' is that one can't cross is worth some random berzerk adventures perhap? |
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| Feb-27-06 | | Gejewe: <Imlday> A very interesting discussion. And one of the weirdest responses I have ever witnessed in a game! At the Western Canadian Open in 2004, Dale Haukenfrers played 1.b4 g5?! against me , and I presumed that noone in a right frame of mind would ever have tried that.. Little did I know.
What even shocked me more than the move itself, was the fact that Dale played it instantly and confidently, as if it were the only move ! After 2. Bb2 Nf6 I did not play 3.Bxf6 ( with a horrid black pawnstructure ) fearing that the fact that the pawn is a target on b4 combined with the two bishops might give black good compensation. The game continued 3. c4 c5?! 4. b5?! ( in retrospect I like the central pawns after 4.bxc5 even if black regains the pawn immediately with 4..Qa5 ) 4..a6 5.a4 axb5 6. axb5 Rxa1 7. Bxa1 Bg7 8. Nc3 O-O 9. e3 e6 10. Nge2 d5 , Welling,G.-Haukenfrers, Dale , Round 3, Western Canadian Open 2004. In a sense black has been rewarded for his enterprising play as the position seems quite playable now.
Do you remember why you played this, and how things developed ? |
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Feb-27-06
| | IMlday: Actually 1.c4 g5 makes more sense than 1.b4 g5. After 1.b4 g5?! 2.Bb2 Nf6 3. e4! Turkalj-Day, Toronto, 1972 was soon overwhelming for White.
Maybe I didn't defend that game well, but 1.b4 e5
2.Bb2 Bxb4 was effective thereafter.
Morphyesque in the development lead.
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| Feb-27-06 | | devilwolfdog: OK, I know I'm going to feel stupid when somebody points it out, but is there an immediate win here for black that forced white's resignation or was it an "I don't feel like getting tortured for another hour" resignation. |
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| Feb-28-06 | | reynolds: Hi everyone! This if my first post, your website looks really great, looking forward to kibitzing on here.
<devilwolfdog>, i maybe be wrong but i think the threat is 65. ..Qg6, to which there is no defence. After Qg6, black queen inevitably infiltrates with Qd3 or Qb1. |
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Feb-28-06
 | | tpstar: <reynolds> Hello! Welcome to the group! Your suggestion looks very solid. Another plan would be to eliminate the Bg3, sacrificing the exchange to win Pawns, like 65. R2e3 Rxg3!? 66. Kxg3 (66. Rxg3? Qxe4) Qg4+ & 67 ... Qxh4+, or 65. R4e3 Rxf4!? 66. Bxf4 Qxf4+ and the Ph4 also falls soon. See you around. |
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Feb-28-06
 | | ray keene: hi lawrence i loved this game-you broke his mind not his position-then you broke his position afterwards. i may be deluding myself but in 1969 against p durrant atheneum open i won what i consider to be a very similar game nine years before you beat spraggett-there was a similar pawn structure in the centre-similar invasion of f5 by whites knight-similar white break with f4 and a similar rout of whites forces when the hand to hand fighting started-take a look its in the database here and tell me what you think!! |
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Feb-28-06
| | IMlday: <devilwolfdog> Actually in the final position ..pg5 is probably the threat. It was the morning fifth round
of a six-game weekender so Spraggett didn't want to waste lunch for a hopeless cause.
<reynolds> Welcome to chessgames.com.
<ray> Yes I took a look at Durrant-Keene, '69. There are many similarities including driving our opponents nuts. At least Durrant was smart enough to trade off his light-squared ♗. Spraggett's got stuck on c6 and after 21.a4? it couldn't retreat
while a plan like ..♕c7 ..♘e7 can pick up his d-pawn. The move I really liked was 12..♗a6!? preventing ♘d3 and coaxing the ♗ into c6. I think we've both played Old Benonis with the early ..Nf8 and ..h7-h5 expansion. A successful example is Lautier vs Seirawan, 1991 |
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