| May-03-04 | | iron maiden: Everyone should learn this trap; you'll snare many a Philidor player with it. |
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| May-03-04 | | Calchexas: Why 4. h3? If Greco really composed this game, it's hard to believe he missed 4. Nc3 g6? (etc.) 5. Nxe5 and continue to Legal's mate. |
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| May-03-04 | | mkochhal: (Calchexas) I think white will still need some good strategy to force a legal mate in a few moves. (iron_maiden) Everyone meaning, the ones playing with black pieces should learn the trap?? It seems to me that black is getting a lot of beating :-) |
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| May-03-04 | | iron maiden: No, no, I said that you'd snare many a Philidor player ("snare" basically in this case another word for "defeat") with it. Of course, if you're Black and you're a Philidor player (please let us know you exist) you should also learn the trap so that you can stay out of it. |
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| May-03-04 | | Calchexas: <mkochhal>: after 5.Nxe5! Bxd1 6.Bxf7+ Ke7 7.Nd5#. Yeah, if Black takes the Knight instead of the Queen, it's a little harder, but White's still up a pawn... |
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| May-13-04 | | Cloud: I play philidor , and the one thing you need to do (as a philidor player) is know various white styles of playing against you . Philidor is a turtles shell opening. It says "come and get me " all over it . Philidor is the common drawing weapon, and also has a suprise element to it , beacause white really never sees it much any more. |
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| Aug-29-04 | | morphy234: This looks just like Morphy's opera game! Except it's not. |
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| Oct-12-04 | | InspiredByMorphy: Grecos 3.Bc4 instead of 3.d4 is starting to look convincing. |
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| Nov-16-04 | | Knight13: I have enjoyed this game very much. This game tells me that you need to watch out for Bxf7+. |
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| Mar-04-05 | | InspiredByMorphy: According to the database 3. ...Nc6 is the most common move. Opening Explorer
I however like 3. ...f5 |
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Apr-11-13
 | | Conrad93: <I play philidor , and the one thing you need to do (as a philidor player) is know various white styles of playing against you . Philidor is a turtles shell opening. It says "come and get me " all over it . Philidor is the common drawing weapon, and also has a suprise element to it , beacause white really never sees it much any more.>
That's because the opening is refuted. |
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