User Profile: Robin01

Robin01
Member since Apr-28-04 · Last seen Nov-26-09

I enjoy teaching chess, especially to children. I enjoy a longer game of chess better than blitz. I play both OTB and correspondence chess.

Longest OTB game I ever played was 204 moves for 7 hours and 45 minutes.

   Current net-worth: -5,825 chessbucks
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   Robin01 has kibitzed 3726 times to chessgames [more...]

   Nov-25-09 Battle of the Brains 3, 2009
   Nov-25-09 positionalgenius chessforum

Robin01: <Where is my mind>Thanks for posting our game (Robin01 v. shadrach -- 1-0) result. It was a well played game on both sides.

   Nov-24-09 World Cup (2009)

Robin01: How is Polgar doing? Thanks.

   Nov-13-09 Carlsen vs Ponomariov, 2009

Robin01: How does the computer evaluate this position? Thanks.

   Nov-11-09 Kramnik vs Ponomariov, 2009

Robin01: How does the computer evaluate this? It almost looks like black is better.

   Nov-10-09 French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line (C04)

Robin01: I recently faced this line with the white pieces OTB. It was a new experience for me. I noticed a couple of games in the database. However, I played 6.h3 in this position for white. After 6...Nh6, I then continued 7.c3. It was an interesting game and ended in a draw. Has anyone else

   Nov-10-09 Gelfand vs Kramnik, 2009

Robin01: If 22.Qa3, then perhaps 22…Nb4. There are no pawns exchanged. The pawn on d6 is protected by the white knight.

   Nov-10-09 WannaBe chessforum

Robin01: <WannaBe>Glad you had a good day at the track. I did not have time to follow the Cup this year. I plan to get back with it soon though.

   Nov-05-09 OhioChessFan chessforum

Robin01: == Round 2 Fri Nov 6 Kramnik - Anand 1/2 30 Svidler - Ivanchuk 1/2 35 Ponomariov - Aronian 0-1 38 Leko - Gelfand 1/2 34 Carlsen - Morozevich 1/2 41 == Round 3 Sat Nov 7 Morozevich - Kramnik 1/2 35 Gelfand - Carlsen 1/2 45 Aronian - Leko 1/2 43 Ivanchuk - ...

   Nov-05-09 YouRang chessforum

Robin01: Round 2 Fri Nov 6 Kramnik - Anand 1/2 Svidler - Ivanchuk 1/2 Ponomariov - Aronian 0-1 Leko - Gelfand 1/2 Carlsen - Morozevich 1-0 Round 3 Sat Nov 7 Morozevich - Kramnik 1/2 Gelfand - Carlsen 1/2 Aronian - Leko 1/2 Ivanchuk - Ponomariov 1-0 Anand - Svidler 1/2

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Feb-14-09		brankat: Happy Valentine's Day Robin!

Feb-16-09		Robin01: <brankat>Thanks. And I hope your Valentine's Day was enjoyable also.

Feb-19-09		OhioChessFan: You still have time to get in the predicition contests. The first round pairings were messed up and that round was cancelled.

Feb-23-09		ahmadov: Hello! Congrats for winning in our game on QA! I need to resign but I think I cannot do that unless you make your next move...

Jun-22-09		brankat: Hello Robin! How are things? We haven't talked in a while. Perhaps we should get together at QueenAlice sometime :-)

Jun-30-09		OhioChessFan: 2009 Dortmund 'Guess how Many Moves' Prediction Contest begins July 2. Click on Elvis to join the fun.

Jul-16-09		blacksburg: <Bob says, "I bet you I can do <<two>> to <<three thousand>> push-ups in 10 minutes." Jon says, "Fine, let's see it. You couldn't possibly win that bet."> i can do <two> pushups in 10 minutes. :)

Jul-16-09		Robin01: <blacksburg>I can get <three> on a good day!:)

Aug-02-09		rchczrms: Hello <Robin>! I have already challenged you at QA for the final matches.

Aug-03-09		Robin01: <rchczrms>Sounds good. If you want to challenge me to two more, then we can just play all four at once.

Aug-04-09		arsen387: hello <Robin01>, I'll challenge you for first 2 games, hope it's ok, I just have now too many games in progress. I'll challenge you for 3rd and 4th games a little later

Aug-04-09		Robin01: <arsen387>Sounds good.

Aug-10-09		Robin01: Here is a recent game of mine. Any comments appreciated (either good or bad) Enjoy! [White "NN"] [Black "Robin01"] [Result "0-1"] GAME/100 w/5 second deley 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 f5 3. g3 Nc6 4. d3 Nf6 5. Bg2 g6 6. e3 Bg7 7. Nge2 O-O 8. O-O Ne7 9. Rb1 c6 10. f4 exf4 11. exf4 d5 12. cxd5 Nexd5 13. Nxd5 Nxd5 14. Qb3 Kh8 15. Nc3 Nxc3 16. bxc3 Qxd3 17. Ba3 Re8 18. Bc5 Qxc3 19. Qxc3 Bxc3 20. Rfc1 Bf6 21. Bf2 Kg7 22. a4 Re7 23. a5 a6 24. Bb6 Be6 25. Re1 Rae8 26. Bc5 Rd7 27. h4 h5 28. Kh2 Kf7 29. Bb6 Bc4 30. Rxe8 Kxe8 31. Re1+ Kf7 32. Rc1 Bd5 33. Rd1 Ke8 34. Re1+ Re7 35. Rxe7+ Kxe7 36. Bf1 Kd7 37. Kg1 Bd8 38. Bd4 Bxa5 39. Kf2 b5 40. Bc5 Bc7 41. Ke3 a5 42. Kd4 Be4 43. Be2 Bd6 44. Bb6 a4 45. Ba5 Bd5 46. Bd1 a3 47. Bc3 Bc4 48. Bc2 c5+ 49. Ke3 b4 50. Ba1 b3 51. Bxb3 Bxb3 52. Kd3 a2 53. Kd2 Bd5 54. Bb2 Ke6 55. Kc1 Be7 56. g4 fxg4 57. f5+ gxf5 58. Kc2 Bf6 59. Bxf6 Kxf6 60. Kb2 g3 61. Ka1 g2 62. Kb2 a1(Q)+ 63. Kc2 Qa3 64. Kd2 g1(R) 65. Ke2 Rb1 66. Kf2 Rb2+ Resign

Aug-18-09		nescio: <<nescio>Just click on my name and you can go to my site. It is just an entry near the bottom of my site> That's what I already did, but I didn't look further than your bio. I never occurred to me that a personal forum would be referred to as "my site" :) I also often supervise chess playing children, en passant teaching them some things. I'll look at your game more closely when I have time, concentrating on the opening, for let's be frank, after 18.Bc5? the game isn't very interesting anymore for an outsider.

Aug-18-09		Robin01: <nescio>Yes, 18.Bc5? was not a good move by white.

Aug-21-09		nescio: 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 f5 3.g3 Some 1.c4 players, grandmasters among them, are reluctant to play moves like 3.d4 because they like the closed Sicilian and don’t want to explore unknown territory. 3...Nc6 4.d3 In a recent game I insisted on playing d4, resulting in an unusual opening battle. My idea of Nh4-g2-f4 and h4 wasn’t tested however, because Black played some bad moves right away and lost quickly. [Event "Chessgames.com 2008 New Year Invitational"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=109..."] [Date "2009.04.10"] [Round "-"] [White "wagenaar"] [Black "buddyrevell"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2062"] [BlackElo "1954"] [TimeControl "604800+259200"] [Mode "ICS"] [Termination "normal"] 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 f5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. d4 e4 6. Nh4 g6 7. Bg5 Bg7 8. Qd2 O-O 9. Ng2 Re8 10. Nd5 d6 11. h4 Be6 12. Nxf6+ Bxf6 13. d5 Ne5 14. dxe6 Nxc4 15. Qd5 Nb6 16. Qxb7 Bxg5 17. hxg5 Rxe6 18. Nf4 Re5 19. Rc1 c5 20. Qxh7+ 1-0 4...Nf6 5.Bg2 g6 After this move we get a standard closed Sicilian. While it is a good move, I would prefer 5...Bb4 here, giving White something to think about. 6.e3 The other major approach is 6.e4, following Botvinnik in his match against Smyslov (Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1954), while 6.Rb1 followed by b2-b4 is another idea. Some of my own games went (6.e4 d6) 7.h4 Bg7 8.h5 with the idea 8...Nxh5 9.exf5, but I suppose that’s not to everyone’s taste. 6...Bg7 7.Nge2 0-0 8.0-0 Ne7 Now this is different from the standard ...d6. As the idea is clearly to play ....c6 and ...d5 I would probably have played 9.e4 or 9.d4, if only not to fall in with Black’s plans. 9.Rb1 c6 10.f4 This can’t be bad either and has the merit of having been played by a world class grandmaster: Ivanchuk vs Gelfand, 1994 10...exf4 11.exf4 But here 11.Nxf4 should have been preferred, not allowing ...d5 (which would be answered by cxd5 and Qb3). From now on Black takes the lead. 11...d5 12.cxd5 (12.c5!?) Nexd5 13.Nxd5 Nxd5 14.Qb3 Kh8 15.Nc3?! I can see that the d-pawn is quite weak, but I don’t understand why White gives it up so easily. Why not prepare this with 15.Bd2 ? A single tempo doesn’t collapse the white position. 15...Nxc3 16.bxc3 Dxd3 17.Ba3 Re8 18.Bc5? Losing a second pawn and the game. Positions where both sides have a bishop pair can be quite tricky and difficult to win, as is clear from the fact that the game lasts for another 50 moves, but in this case I think the win is pretty straightforward.

Aug-21-09		Robin01: <nescio>Thanks for all your great analysis.

Sep-03-09		Robin01: 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. Nge2 c6 6. d4 b5 click for larger view An interesting position. I am not sure if 6...b5 is good for black or not.

Sep-25-09		OhioChessFan: Be sure to stop by my forum for the Pearl Spring Moves Prediction Conteset. OhioChessFan chessforum

Oct-08-09		Robin01: Recent OTB game. [White "Robin01"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B01"] [TimeControl: "40/2hr, G/1hr"] > > 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. d4 Nxd5 4. c4 Nb6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be3 e5 7. Be2 Bb4+ > 8. Nc3 Nc6 9. d5 Bxf3 10. Bxf3 Ne7 11. Qc2 Qd7 12. a3 Bxc3+ 13. Qxc3 Qf5 > 14. a4 O-O 15. O-O Nd7 16. h3 Qg6 17. b4 f5 18. Bc5 Nxc5 19. bxc5 e4 20. > Bd1 f4 21. Kh1 Rf5 22. Rg1 Rg5 23. Bg4 Rf8 24. Be6+ Kh8 25. Rae1 Nf5 26. > Bxf5 Qxf5 27. Qd4 Rh5 28. Kh2 Re8 29. g4 fxg3+ 30. Rxg3 Qe5 31. Rxe4 Rxh3+ > 32. Kxh3 Qf5+ 33. Rgg4 Qf3+ 34. Kh2 Rg8 35. Qxg7+ 1-0

Nov-04-09		OhioChessFan: Be sure to check out my forum for the Tal Memorial Moves Prediction Contest starting tomorrow. Click on Elvis for details.

Nov-06-09		WannaBe: Going to take Einstein in tomorrow's big Breeder's Cup race, going to be there in person, should be a lot of fun.

Nov-08-09		WannaBe: Einstein did not come close, will give you full detail of the Classic Race later. Needless to say, it was one of the greatest, if not the best race I've ever seen!! (In person, or on TV!)

Nov-08-09		WannaBe: The crowd this year, was definitely more than last year at Santa Anita for the 2009 Breeder's Cup Challenge. If you saw it on TV, horse number 12 had problem getting into the gate, and had to be scratched, this caused a delay about 15 minutes, all the horses had to be let out and re-loaded. The roar of the crowd was amazing when the gate opened, there was signs being passed out with the <Girl Power> written all over them. Trevor Denman the track announcer made the comment that Zenyatta broke out late, and was dead last after 30 yards, he even repeated <"She's dead last"> twice!! After the horses made the last turn, and coming down the stretch, as Zenyatta started to make her move, another big, huge roar went up. It was just about the loudest I've ever heard/encountered. Over all, it was a great experience, and to witness Zenyatta win. I won $100 bucks in race 5, by taking Vale or York across the board with a $2.00 wager!! :-)) Over-all, even with the food, and T-shirt that I bought, I only spent about 30 bucks for the whole day!

Nov-25-09		Red October: congrats on winning your game against <where is my mind> who is a very strong player as you are

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