User Profile: talmax

talmax
Member since Apr-01-03 · Last seen Nov-18-03

Hi everyone!
My name is Aaron Bellette and I live in Canberra, the capital of Australia.
My chess heroes...
Vishy Anand, Max Euwe, Darryl Johansen, Garry Kasparov, Ian Rogers, Mikhail Tal, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Josh Waitzkin.
Where I play chess...
The Internet Chess Club and Playchess.com (as tal-max), and The World Chess Network (under my own name).
My favourite openings...

As White: Scotch Game and Bird's Opening.
As Black: Scandanavian Defence 2. ...Nf6 (against e4), Tarrasch Defence (against d4).

talmax has kibitzed 32 times to chessgames [more...]

Nov-14-03 Viswanathan Anand

talmax: I'm not surprised that GK played the Berlin Defence, as VK played it very successfully against Deep Fritz in Bahrain. I don't, however, think it was a choice that suited GK's style of play.

Nov-14-03 Grob vs P F Johner, 1932

talmax: 1. e4 g5 is known as the Borg Defence because it is Grob spelled backwards!

Nov-11-03 M Basman vs C Daly, 1990

talmax: Basman's the A00 specialist, with both White and Black, and he manages to win a fair number of his games. Not as a result of the opening, mind you, just tactics and strategy!

Nov-09-03 Ponomariov vs Svidler, 2001

talmax: Not just you amigo - it rates on a level with dental extraction! :(

Nov-09-03 Bleischmidt vs Lytschuk, 1976

talmax: One word sums up this sorry mess - "D'Oh!" :-/

Nov-09-03 Darryl K Johansen

talmax: <Ken MacGillivray: By the way Johansen has won the Australian championship for a record 5th. time after defeating Nick Speck in a play off match 2 1/2 - 1/2> Nick writes a great article on the Play-Off Match, together with analysis of the first two games. The article is in the ...

Nov-08-03 The World

talmax: Search Google® for The World. Well if that doesn't sum up Google, I don't know what does! ;) P.S. When did the trend to play the Rossolimo Attack against the Sicilian start? Was it about this time (1999) or later?

Nov-08-03 Kasparov vs The World, 1999

talmax: <Kulla Tierchen: In the aftermath Microsoft treated the young woman with all the class one would expect from such a company.> Hmm, Microsoft. Say no more.

Nov-08-03 French Defense (C00)

talmax: Hey there Chessgamers! Any practitioners of the Exchange French 4. c4 out there? I've been looking for another answer as White to the French Defence (as well as the French Tarrasch) and I picked up on this after looking at work by Maurice Ashley and Josh Waitzkin. It seems to produce

Nov-08-03 Scandinavian (B01)

talmax: <ksadler> Isn't it ironic that Max played Alekhine's Defence (although it obviously wasn't named at that stage!) against Alekhine, and in a World Championship Match to boot! Now if that isn't cheek, I don't know what is! ;)

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