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| Jun-13-07 |
| babakova: I just like how he pronounces it... "poolar beer" - makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. |
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| Jun-17-07 |
| FICSwoodpusher: I played the following blitz game today:
[Event "rated blitz match"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]
[Date "2007.06.17"]
[Round "?"]
[White "lrzal"]
[Black "elberra"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1753"]
[BlackElo "1801"]
[ECO "A03"]
[TimeControl "300"]
1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 g6 4. e3 Bg7 5. Nbd2 Nf6 6. c4 e6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O
a6 9. Ne5 Nb4 10. Bb1 c5 11. a3 Nc6 12. Ndf3 cxd4 13. Nxc6 bxc6 14. Nxd4 c5
15. Nc6 Qc7 16. Ne5 Bb7 17. cxd5 Nxd5 18. e4 Nb6 19. Qe1 Bxe5 20. fxe5 Qxe5
21. Ra2 Qd4+ 22. Kh1 e5 23. b3 c4 24. Be3 Qd6 25. b4 Rad8 26. Bc5 Qe6 27.
Bxf8 Rxf8 28. Rd2 Rc8 29. Bc2 Nd7 30. Qf2 Rf8 31. Qa7 Bc8 32. Rfd1 Nf6 33.
Rd6 Qg4 34. Rxf6 Qg5 35. Rf2 Be6 36. Qxa6 Qe3 37. Rff1 Qc3 38. Bb1 Qb3 39.
Rc1 Qb2 40. Qa4 Kg7 41. Rc2 Qd4 42. Rcf2 c3 43. Qd1 Qa7 44. a4 Qb6 45. b5 Qc5
46. Bc2 Bc4 47. Bd3 Be6 48. Rc2 Qb4 49. Qf3 f6 50. Qe3 Rd8 51. Qa7+ Rd7 52.
Qe3 Qxa4 53. Rxc3 *
I won on time. I wonder whether white should play c4 or c3 here. I think that even though it appears that the black c pawn will not move for some time, c3 should be played. 
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| Jun-22-07 |
| Halldor: This webside http://www.videochess.net was made as a part of a chess teaching plan for Namibia and Greenland on behalf of the chessclub Hrókurinn in Reykjavik. Henrik Danielsen has been traveling for the chessclub in these countries, and he has been working on making this chessmaterial for children on this new webside. The plan is to broadcast there weekly live programmes on chess teaching. |
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| Jun-27-08 |
| ravel5184: chessgames.com! Please post the game Henrik Danielsen vs Thomas Luther! I will be eternally grateful if you do! |
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| Jul-01-08 |
| Swifty31: I like his website thanks for the link. Im going to learn the Polar Bear System and start playing it for white on fics. I think its a good system for blitz chess, probably not so much for long tournament games though. |
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| Jul-02-08 |
| ravel5184: I love his website! Especially the "Chess Art" puzzles. Anybody looking for REALLY GOOD chess, visit the following: http://www.chesskids.com/ckbook/fir... I guarantee you'll get a slightly harder game than you would get playing against a slice of cheese. |
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| Sep-05-08 |
| BirdBrain: To woodpusher...you can play c3, but more aggressive against Black in my opinion is to get in Bb5 and cripple his queenside pawns. The bishop can be reserved for battle with Bd3 plans also, or Be2, but then White gets the opportunity to attack the doubled pawns, and when Black switches to that side of the board, White's true intentions come to light - attack Black's king. And of course, if Black does not respond (which they most likely will do) to protecting the doubled pawn, then White is up a pawn with a solid position, which should lead to a win. |
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Sep-13-08
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| blacksburg: birdbrain and woodpusher,
from watching his videos, i think danielsen plays Bb5, Bxc6, doubling the pawns, whenever black allows him to. |
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Sep-18-08
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| blacksburg: <I guarantee you'll get a slightly harder game than you would get playing against a slice of cheese.> is it bad to lose to a slice of cheese? jeez, i need to work on my game. |
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| Oct-20-08 |
| sergeidave: <<ganstaman> ...and I still don't know why he calls the Bird the Polar Bear System...> In one of his youtube comment replies, he mentioned "I'm the Polar Bear!". So, I guess he means that this system he has developed, which is based on the Bird, is HIS system. And since HE calls HIMSELF "the Polar Bear", that's why the system is called "The Polar Bear System". :) |
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| Oct-20-08 |
| sergeidave: By the way, the whole bunch of live blitz games videos he has posted (with live commentary) are simply amazingly instructive! And he plays the "PBS", the Dutch, the Caro-Kann and the Scandinavian as much as possible!! Folks, they are a must-watch! Also, he recognizes that 1.f4 may not be the best move but (he quotes Bent Larsen) it's not a bad move either, rather a normal move, which makes it even more interesting to study in today's chess world filled with 1.d4 openings and Sicilian defenses! |
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| Feb-10-09 |
| MaxxLange: I looked at a couple of his videos, and I'm not sure exactly what he means by the "Polar Bear System" - just playing the Bird to try for a reversed Leningrad Dutch, with a repetoire for handling assorted Black counters that don't permit this? |
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Feb-10-09
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| parisattack: <MaxxLange: I looked at a couple of his videos, and I'm not sure exactly what he means by the "Polar Bear System" - just playing the Bird to try for a reversed Leningrad Dutch, with a repetoire for handling assorted Black counters that don't permit this?> That is the impression I brought away from them. But they are sort of interesting if you like the Bird - I played it long ago, too sterile/fixed for me these days. |
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| Feb-22-09 |
| arthurp: Can it be he has lost faith in the Bird's Opening since the last time he played it was 2006? |
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| Feb-22-09 |
| Phoenix: So far as I know, he still plays it in online blitz. |
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| Feb-22-09 |
| MaxxLange: Noooooooooo! The mighty Polar Bear has been hibernated. It does look like he was playing the Reti in the 2008 events in his games. |
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| Mar-13-09 |
| OnlyBelieve: I heard on one of his videos that he calls the system the "Polar Bear" because he has played it so long and developed the lines so much so that he thought of it as a system now instead of just an opening. Hence, the Polar Bear SYSTEM, and not the Bird OPENING. But has it really hibernated? It's still good as far as I know. If you're not playing master level, you'll wreak havoc and then some! |
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Apr-19-09
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| blacksburg: polar bears!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eKI... |
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| May-25-09 |
| arthurp: Phoenix
Playing the Bird's opening only in blitz does not show much faith in the strength of the opening as compared to OTB. |
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May-26-09
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| keypusher: He seems to have replaced 1. f4 with 1. g3.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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May-26-09
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| blacksburg: interesting that he has not also taken up the KID, and is still playing the dutch, despite switching to KIA system with white instead of 1.f4. |
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| May-26-09 |
| MaxxLange: the idea of playing the "reversed" Black openings with an extra move in hand hasn't worked out so well in practice -very interesting - I think Suba and Dvoretsky other theoretical writers have discussed this issue As far as I can tell, as I say upstream, the "Polar Bear" was a reversed Leningrad Dutch, with a good repertoire to handle other anti-Bird lines |
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Jul-10-09
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| parisattack: <MaxxLange: the idea of playing the "reversed" Black openings with an extra move in hand hasn't worked out so well in practice -very interesting - I think Suba and Dvoretsky other theoretical writers have discussed this issue> Reverse openings lose the thrust-counter thrust that makes them work in their original form. A good example is 1. e4, c5 and 1. c4, e5. Not necesaarily a bad choice, of course - unless you do expect to get a good Black line with an extra tempo... |
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| Sep-03-09 |
| fhl: Henrik is doing well in this tournament (The Icelandic Championship 2009): http://chess-results.com/tnr24951.a...
He has 3 wins after 3 games.
1st round games: http://dl.skaksamband.is/mot/2009/b... 2nd round games: http://dl.skaksamband.is/mot/2009/b... 3rd round games: http://dl.skaksamband.is/mot/2009/b... You can watch the games live here: http://skaksamband.is/?c=webpage&id... |
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| Sep-11-09 |
| MaxxLange: So. What is the best play against the "Polar Bear" system, as a reversed Leningrad Dutch from the Bird, anyway? I told one chess friend about it, and now he is Polar Bearing-me hard every time, unless I play From's Gambit. I am getting good results with the gambit, but I feel like I should know how to play the main lines too |
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