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| May-18-07 | | MaxxLange: square dance - that's why I stopped playing the KIA. It just felt like I was giving up my White after a while. I started playing 2.d4 against the French . As for 3.Bc4, even then kids have the same problem, but they get into a symmetrical Italian Game, they don't know the Greco lines with 4.c3 or the Evans Gambit. Pandolfini had a great article about this in his "ABC of Chess" anthology - how to play the Very Quiet Game as White right, if you must play it - and the old Exeter Chess Club site had some nice handouts on the question of getting beginners out of that stage in their openings. |
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| Jan-17-08 | | 2021: I believe that baton de colle means glue stick in french. |
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Jan-18-08
 | | Calli: http://pedagosite.nexenservices.com... |
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| Jan-18-08 | | 2021: And colle, in French, means tough question, I believe. |
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| May-26-08 | | Sem: As for pronunciation of Colle's name: it is as EmperorAtahualpa says (Jan-10-06). |
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| May-18-09 | | Cees Verhagen: Thank you for your legacy. |
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| May-18-09 | | YoungEd: <GrandpatzerSCL> asked this a couple of years ago, but does anyone know what specific ailment(s) Colle had? I used to have Reinfeld's book of Colle's best games, but it had no details--just a remembrance by Hans Kmoch saying that Colle was always wracked with pain. |
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| May-18-09 | | myschkin: . . .
<@Ed> He had the operations because of <gastric ulcer>. Addendum: Isn't his name Edgar<d> Colle? |
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| May-18-09 | | YoungEd: Thanks, <myschkin>! |
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Jan-02-10
 | | speedmerchant 49: Any opening can be deadly if played right. As a sportsman, you don't need the biggest gun to kill your opponent. All you need to perfect aim. |
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| Jan-02-10 | | gezafan: The Colle is a good opening, especially at the club level. There is nothing wrong with beginners using it but I do agree that at some point beginners should experiment with open games. |
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| Jan-03-10 | | PierreTheLion: I adopted it specifically to get closed game experience. In my early stages, I might as well have had 1.e4 tattooed on my forehead. A book I saw advertised on this site linked to a cute youtube video where a girl tries to sell a lion sock puppet on the tactical chances afforded in the Colle. Through the looking glass we go! |
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May-18-10
 | | Phony Benoni: In response to earlier questions about Colle's death: he suffered from a gastric ulcer and died after undergoing a fourth operation for the condition. |
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| Aug-03-10 | | mrandersson: What do people use the most on here. either c3 or b3 with the bishop on b2? I like either system and i think the colle is a good opening my self. |
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Aug-03-10
 | | Eric Schiller: b3 always! My book The Rubinstein Attack is filled with exciting games. Many strong players use it, few use c3. |
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| Jan-14-12 | | einherjar: Colle is a fine opening indeed. |
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Dec-30-12
 | | FSR: Isn't his first name Edgard? |
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Dec-30-12
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| Dec-30-12 | | Karpova: I don't have the book but whoever does - Winter's <A Chess Omnibus> (Russell Enterprises, 2003) and look up <348> - with more information on the forename. |
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| Dec-30-12 | | IndigoViolet: <Although virtually all chess reference books put Edgar, almost all contemporary sources had Edgard. The latter was also the spelling on his gravestone (see page 37 of <Histoire des maitres belges> by M.Wasnair and M.Jadoul). It was, moreover, the way he signed his name alongside the photograph in the booklet <Le match Colle-Koltanowski>, published in Brussels in 1926.> From C.N. 2382. |
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| Dec-30-12 | | thomastonk: There is a chess academy "Edgard Colle" in his hometome Ghent. He is probably not the only Edgard who lost here and there the final letter. Another one is the composer Varèse. BTW, who knows Varèse's relation to chess? |
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May-18-13
 | | brankat: R.I.P. master Colle. |
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| May-18-13 | | backrank: Reinfeld's book on Colle is rather good:
Game Collection: Colle's chess masterpieces by Fred Reinfeld Maybe it's still the only book on this remarkable attacking player? |
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| May-18-13 | | dark.horse: Chernev's book "Logical Chess Move by Move" has a number of Colle System games. The potential of the Colle System is well explained in it. |
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May-18-13
 | | waustad: I had a dedicated chess computer board many years ago and could draw it consistently by playing the Colle system. It probably had a Z80 as the CPU to give a notion of how long ago it was. |
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