| Dec-12-05 |
| Halldor: GM Henrik Danielsen was now getting an Icelandic citizenship. He has been the headmaster of the Chess School of Hrókurinn, http://www.hrokurinn.is/ ('The Rook chessclub') in Reykjavik and plays for the club. He has been living in Iceland for some years, he's just under 40 years old, 2520 ELO, and the 6th strongest active Icelandic GM now (Fischer not included, since he doesn't play). The list of the strongest active Icelandic players now:
1. Johann Hjartarson (2.640 ELO)
2. Margeir Petursson
3. Hannes Stefansson
4. Helgi Olafsson
5. Jon Loftur Arnason 6. Henrik Danielsen |
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| May-02-06 |
| DanRoss53: Probably the highest rated player in the world that currently uses Bird's Opening (A02) on a regular basis. |
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| Jan-29-07 |
| Themofro: <DanRoss53> Yes he is, i beleive that IM Tim Taylor is the next highest. Although of all time it would of course have to be Larsen. It's a pity that no one plays it nowadays that much, I play the Bird's all the time and love it. Still, it being unknown makes my opponents unprepared! lol, jking. |
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Feb-26-07
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| ganstaman: I think he's my new hero. Playing both the Dutch and the Bird, and teaching us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFfQ... And you can view the other videos of this user as it's a series of videos. I haven't seen them all yet, and I still don't know why he calls the Bird the Polar Bear System, but as long as he teaches his ideas I'll let him call it whatever he wants. |
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| Feb-26-07 |
| Themofro: Yeah he's emerging as one of my favorites too, theres this game which CG doesn't have, but I'm trying to get posted which is just plain awesome. Black plays the recipe variation against the Bird's, Danielssen takes back with the queen. Then we go into a series of pawn moves for white, finally we reach a position at move 14, where the only peice white has developed is his queen at f3, and he's just made 8 (!) consecutive pawn moves, so what does he move?? His queen!! Completely shuts down his opponent's (who's a GM by the way) kingside, Danielssen ends up winning on like move 23 i think. It's one of the most bizarrely awesome games ever, trying to get CG to post it. |
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| Feb-26-07 |
| Strelz: www.videochess.net is where he has all sorts of chess related substance in a few languages. I think he was just sponsoring a school chess competition between kids in Iceland and Namibia. |
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| Mar-07-07 |
| Themofro: <Strelz> Thanks for the link. Really kool that he's doing that. Being a Bird's player i especially like the series of videos he has on the Bird's opening, which he calls the polar bear system, lol, anyone know why? |
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| Mar-20-07 |
| atripodi: Thanks Strelz, Danielsen's site is amazing, and updated virtually every day. The game <Themofro> is talking about is, I believe Danielsen-Luther. |
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| May-14-07 |
| FICSwoodpusher: The polar bear strikes again:
[Event "rated blitz match"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]
[Date "2007.05.14"]
[Round "?"]
[White "lrzal"]
[Black "AlexMax"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1706"]
[BlackElo "1620"]
[ECO "A03"]
[TimeControl "300"]
1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 c6 3. c3 Bg4 4. Ne5 Bf5 5. d3 f6 6. e4 fxe5 7. exf5 exf4 8.
Qh5+ Kd7 9. Bxf4 Nf6 10. Qe2 Ke8 11. Qe6 Qd7 12. Nd2 Qxe6+ 13. fxe6 c5 14. d4
c4 15. Nf3 Nc6 16. Ng5 h6 17. Nf7 Rg8 18. Rg1 g5 19. Bg3 Ne4 20. Be2 Nxg3 21.
hxg3 Rg6 22. O-O-O g4 23. Rgf1 Bg7 24. Rde1 b5 25. Bd1 b4 26. Ba4 Rc8 27. Rf5
Rf6 28. Rxd5 Kf8 AlexMax resigns 1-0
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| Jun-03-07 |
| Themofro: <atripodi> Yes that is indeed the game i was talking about. It is covered in Timothy Taylor's most excellent book "Bird's Opening" and also by Danielsen himself on his website. I have sort of combined their analysis along with a small bit of my own commentary and posted that analysis of the game in the Bird's Opening (A02) page, it's since crept down about halfway down the page. It's a superb GM vs. GM game, that ends in a 23 move route despite not that bad at all play by black. hope you enjoy it, cheers!. |
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| Jun-12-07 |
| geraldo8187: does anybody else call the bird the polar bear? |
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| Jun-13-07 |
| OneArmedScissor: <geraldo187>
I hate polar bears... They ate my family last winter. |
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Jun-13-07
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| 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. 
click for larger view |
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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
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| 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
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| 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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