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| Cactus: M Basman vs D Gurevich, 1994
Possibly the coolest name for an opening. |
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| Nov-12-08 |
| thebribri8: Why does this page have "1. b3" listed as an uncommon opening? 1. b3 is A01. |
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| Nov-12-08 |
| apple pi: I think they meant b4 |
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| Jan-19-09 |
| thebribri8: Someone should fix that. |
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| Jan-20-09 |
| WhiteRook48: why is 1. Nc3 g6 2. e4 Bg7 an uncommon opening? |
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| Jan-22-09 |
| WhiteRook48: why is 1. g4 uncommon? 1. g4 is the Grob Opening. |
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| Feb-17-09 |
| WhiteRook48: I'm fond of 1. a3 |
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Feb-23-09
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| blacksburg: omg, 1.Na3, 94% wins. |
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| Feb-24-09 |
| chessman95: <blacksburg> That's only in 16 games, and if they were played at all at high levels most of those games were probably played against much weaker opponents. Does anyone know what a knight on a3 can do? I've played very few openings with knights on their side posts, so I wouldn't know how to play against it. An interesting reply to 1.Na3 would be 1...Na6, which gives an equal position and cancles out any tactics that a knight has on a3. |
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| Feb-24-09 |
| MaxxLange: 1 e4 g6
and 2 Nc3 is not common compared to 2 d4 or 2 Nf3
any more questions? |
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Mar-17-09
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| whiteshark: Opening of the Day:
<Orangutan Opening (Polish Opening) <1. b4>> aka
<Sokolsky Opening>, as Alexey Sokolsky wrote a monograph on it. --> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Mar-17-09
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| parisattack: As in the English white often gets a central pawn majority in the Polish. Curiously, it almost never gets mobilized... |
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| Mar-18-09 |
| swarmoflocusts: <WarmasterKron>
I must say, that game may be an unwise example of the opening 1.Na3. After 4.d4, right away black can play 4...Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Bxa3 and you're dead lost. He missed it, but so did you, and black can still play 5...Bb4+, winning again. (If 6.Ne2, then 6...Ne4 wins.) Black missed the win again, and again so did you, with 6.Ne5. Again, in this position, 6...Bb4+ wins completely. However, black gives you a way out after 6...Nxe5, after which Bb4+ is far less winning than it was before. Black, however, misses the tactic yet again, and you kindly give him one more opportunity. At last, on his 8th move, black plays Bb4+. However, your opponent then committed a series of blunders that allowed you to win, for which you should be grateful. I am commenting on your game not because I am rude and enjoy pointing out the mistakes of others but because I wanted to warn you against showing this game as an example of 1.Na3, as it is in fact a perfect example of what can go wrong tactically in this opening. |
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| Apr-01-09 |
| Alphastar: I have played both the white and the black side of the Hammerschlag, and I must say it should not be underestimated. Players who become victim of the Hammerschlag often think that with the early king sortie, they should try to attack the king as soon as possible. Only, the a7-g1 and h4-e1 diagonal are not as weak as supposed, with the king giving pawns on e3 and g3 extra cover, besides which it is quite hard to get a knight in since the f3-pawn crucially covers e4 and g4. All in all, the attack on the white king is an illusion. My advice is to play 1. .. c6 and 2. ..Qc7 so as to confuse the Hammerschlag player, who cannot grasp this mysterious set-up, so you will be at a psychological advantage, besides which you will actually retain the possibility of castling. |
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| Apr-01-09 |
| chessman95: <My advice is to play 1. .. c6 and 2. ..Qc7 so as to confuse the Hammerschlag player, who cannot grasp this mysterious set-up> I don't think anyone who plays the Hammerschlag is going to have trouble 'grasping' strange peice set-ups. |
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| Apr-01-09 |
| chessman95: I've got an interesting gambit that I think was posted by <blacksburg> on another page (it's also in my bio): 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Rg8?! 3.exf6 gxf6
click for larger viewand now you could do the same thing on the other side: 4.d4 Nc6 5.d5 Rb8?! 6.dxc6 bxc6 
click for larger viewand a possible continuation: 7.Nf3 e5 8.Nc3 d5
click for larger viewand black has incredible control over the board. I admit that for 4 points this gambit is very tempting. |
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| May-11-09 |
| mrandersson: I personal quite like 1 c3 and i play more or less every game now with white. its a good way to get people out of book and i like the set up with d3 and Nf3 Bg2 and 0-0 with the other knight on d2. |
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May-11-09
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| blacksburg: hehehe another <1.c3> devotee? you are among friends, <mrandersson>. |
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| Jun-05-09 |
| Moses2792796: What do people think of this line in the Benko opening. 1 g3 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qd1 Nf6 5. Nh3 Bc5 6. Nf4 OO 7. Bg2 Ne5 8. Nc3 c6 9. OO d5 10. h3 and white has a good position I usually manage to get to this position in most games where I play 1.g3, with some variations of move order. There are other lines that black can play but this seems to be the strongest. White will proceed to play e4 followed by active play in the centre. I like this opening because it makes full use of 1 g3, by developing the bishop there and using it as support for the Knight. The main disadvantage is that white gives away alot of tempo early, although in my experience it isn't enough for black to launch a sucessful attack and often players become over eager and end up losing material by attacking too early. |
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| Jul-30-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Sometimes I play 1 d3 and try to steer it toward (A07) King's Indian Attack |
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Sep-23-09
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| whiteshark: Andrew D Martin 's ebook on the Sokolsky, "The B-formula - an awesome repertoire for the chessplayer with limited time to study" is one of the biggest heaps of rubble that ever came before my very eyes. |
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| Jan-07-10 |
| swarmoflocusts: <chessman95>
I'll play you that as white any day. I'd love to see some games you've played with it, if you have any. |
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Jan-08-10
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| parisattack: <whiteshark: Andrew D Martin 's ebook on the Sokolsky, "The B-formula - an awesome repertoire for the chessplayer with limited time to study" is one of the biggest heaps of rubble that ever came before my very eyes.> There are some good book on Sokolsky's - but that is not one of them. 1) b2-b4 by Sokolsky
2) The Moravian Series (1-4)
2) Play 1. b2-b4 by Lapshun
4) Orangutan by Wall
5) b2-b4 by Levy
6) Orang-Utan by Schiffler
7) Theory and Practise of the Sokolsky by Konikowsky |
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Jan-08-10
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| parisattack: There is also (Sokolsky's Opening) -
1. P-QN4 - Soltis |
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Jan-23-10
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| seagull1756: "grob" = "a coffin" in russian. very telling.... :) |
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