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| Dec-28-14 | | IFNB: <conrad93> That's a pretty standard move in this type of french position, moron. |
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Dec-28-14
 | | perfidious: <IFNB> To refer thus to <donkrad> goes practically without saying. PS Of course, your note is correct--the ....g5 idea is thematic in more than one French line--not that <donkrad> will be deterred from his course to the land of Moronicity. |
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Dec-28-14
 | | Fusilli: Looking at the video I would say that that is not a chess set appropriate for serious blitz, let alone a tournament of this caliber. The board is slippery and the pieces are not heavy enough. That's why Naka repeatedly knocks pieces. In 1978, for the Olympiad in Buenos Aires, a local designer came up with a chess set that to this day continues to be my favorite. The pieces were opaque, the stylistic design was simple, and best of all, the weight was distributed so that most of it would be in the lower half of the piece. The pieces also fattened slightly at the bottom. The result was heavily stable pieces, even in blitz. Korchnoi and Polugaievsky used that set in their 1980 match in Buenos Aires. I heard it was the favorite chess set of many a grandmaster who played in Argentina. I have one at home, though my board is slightly slippery. They were meant to be used on a board painted on a table. You don't want a shiny polished board, it's slippery. |
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Dec-28-14
| | Fusilli: Okay, here it is. Scroll down a bit for a photo of the pieces: http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/s... It's called "modelo Olímpico King" (yes, King in English). The text notes that you can see the horse's (the knight in Spanish is called caballo, the same as horse) teeth; the king is almost 10cm tall (so is the queen), and the proportions between piece size and square size is superb. I can attest to the latter. It feels solid and spacious at the same time. (This may not be quite conveyed by that photo, where the board may not be the right one.) Again, to me, the best property of this set is the piece's weight distribution, which the article neglects to mention. |
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| Dec-28-14 | | Conrad93: <PS Of course, your note is correct--the ....g5 idea is thematic in more than one French line--not that <donkrad> will be deterred from his course to the land of Moronicity.> Someone completely unfamiliar with the French. g5 is not a normal move in this line. |
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Dec-29-14
| | perfidious: <IFNB: <conrad93> That's a pretty standard move in this type of french position....> This poster did not state that the idea was specific to this subvariation, nor did I. Rea-ding com-pre-hen-sion.
Try it sometime. |
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| Dec-29-14 | | IFNB: <Conrad93 Someone completely unfamiliar with the French. g5 is not a normal move in this line.> If by "not a normal move" you somehow mean "main line," then you would be correct. http://www.365chess.com/opening.php... |
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| Dec-29-14 | | Wyatt Gwyon: Lol. Just quit, Conrad. |
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| Dec-29-14 | | Conrad93: 269 games with this position out thousands in a very limited database... Must be the mainline...
Perfect reasoning.
No book on the French recommends this, and I have several. Instead of being a unquestioning devotee to databases, how about you actually study the openings? |
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| Dec-29-14 | | Wyatt Gwyon: It is most definitely a main line in the Morozovich variation, and a completely thematic move in numerous other French variations. Time to get some better, more current books, son. (And some better neurons as well.) |
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| Dec-29-14 | | Conrad93: If you can mention any books that actually recommend this, I'd like to know, otherwise it's your word against mine. |
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| Dec-29-14 | | Wyatt Gwyon: <Conrag> Oh, if you insist: "Dejan Antic & Branimir Maksimovic, "The Modern French,"2012, p. 211 (described on p. 201 as "the main move."): "Black has no chances of organizing meaningful counterplay without this move." John Watson, "Play the French" 3rd. ed. 2003, p. 112.("An older, likely better, and still hotly contested line is 8...g5!?, to chase the f3 knight away from defense of the centre and/or to grab space. I won't attempt to cover ALL THE DENSE THEORY OF THIS VARIATION, but here are a fuew lines that should indicate roughly where things stand:" (emphasis added). Those are just the first two I pulled off my shelf from the section of my chess library devoted to the French Defense, an opening I've studied probably longer than you've been alive, little man. |
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| Dec-29-14 | | Wyatt Gwyon: This is almost as good as Conrad's lesson in the en passant rule. Not quite. But almost. |
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| Dec-29-14 | | john barleycorn: <Wyatt Gwyon: This is almost as good as Conrad's lesson in the en passant rule. Not quite. But almost.> Forgive him as he is here to learn... |
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Dec-29-14
| | perfidious: Good thing someone else realises that....... |
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| Dec-29-14 | | Wyatt Gwyon: Yeah, I keep forgetting. What exactly he's here to learn is the question. If it's how to get styled on, he's getting plenty of practice. |
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| Dec-29-14 | | N0B0DY: Thus my nomination for a Darwin Award goes to <Dumbrad>. |
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| Dec-29-14 | | Conrad93: NOBODY deserves a Darwin Award for not understanding what the Darwin Award is actually for. |
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| Dec-29-14 | | Wyatt Gwyon: <N0B0DY> is probably engaged in the same wishful thinking as the rest of us. But, more figuratively speaking, you kinda got killed here, Conrad. Like I said, you should just quit. You are basically an annoying fungus. |
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| Dec-29-14 | | ragtag: Here's the sixth finger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqBK... |
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| Dec-29-14 | | zanzibar: Is this game really the first meeting between these two players? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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| Dec-30-14 | | FairyPromotion: <zanzibar: Is this game really the first meeting between these two players?>
Nope, this is their first game: Caruana vs Nakamura, 2010 Corus is played in January, while the 2010 Blitz Championship was played in November. In case you are curious about the first decisive result between them, than the other game from this tournament was the earlier one: Nakamura vs Caruana, 2010 |
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| Dec-30-14 | | zanzibar: Thanks <FairyPromotion>. I made a stupid mistake thinking that <CG> sorted the games chronologically (when I know all too well it doesn't from bistro work - I just forgot). Still, it's interesting to know when these two first met, and when their first decisive game was played. Thanks for that. |
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| Dec-30-14 | | RookFile: If Botvinnik were here today and could spend 5 minutes with Nakamura, he would tell him to quit with the high school openings and play principal main lines. |
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| Dec-30-14 | | Wyatt Gwyon: <RookFile> Conrad, is that you? |
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