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| Mar-26-06 |
| pazzed paun: <Hendrexx> I am not interested in a flame war but a book I would suggest is Dan Hesman's "everyone's second chess book "
It is the only book i have ever seen that taks about the stages a player passes thru on their way to 2000. the book plus some of Heisman's columns make great learning material. |
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Mar-26-06
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| whiskeyrebel: I don't know why some folks seem to select their chess books as if they're going to ye olde desert island. I also don't understand why they seem to often think that if book "a" is by a higher rated GM it'll teach them more than book "b". Larry C. is an enthusiastic teacher and attacker. "Storming the barricades" is a great read. If you can understand the subtle differences strength wise between Kasparov and him..you're good enough not to need either book. I don't mean to argue or be snotty. Vukovic's XLNT work is more like a text book..Larry's is part memoir. He's been described elsewhere as the premier U.S. attacking playing of his generation. That's my 2 cents worth. |
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| Mar-29-06 |
| DP12: Larry Christiansen will be teaching at a chess camp alongside GM Lubomir Ftacnik and IM Lev Milman in Philadelphia from June 26th-30th. He will then play in the World Open. http://www.olympicchesscamp.com |
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| Mar-29-06 |
| offramp: <DP12: Larry Christiansen will be teaching at a chess camp...> Larry Christiansen: Okay! Does everyone know what en passant means? You know, when you take the pawn in passing? [points] Do you know it? Do you? Anyone? Anyone? Okay. Everyone here know about castling? [points] Do you know it? Do you? Anyone? Anyone here know of castling? Anyone here ever heard of castling? Not that kind of castle. I mean a chess kind of castle. Okay. Do we all know how the pieces move?
You... Do you know how a rook moves? No? Do you know it? Do you? Anyone? I've gotta tell ya all. I ate a big batch of bad shrimp earlier. I won't be long! |
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| Mar-29-06 |
| Jim Bartle: <DP12: Larry Christiansen will be teaching at a chess camp...> LC: Now here's my game vs. Karpov. Can anyone spot black's error on move 11? Seriously, from reading his column in Inside Chess, he looks as if he'd be a great teacher. And Ftacnik, too. His annotations are among the most thorough yet lucid I've read. |
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| Mar-29-06 |
| offramp: I should say that I also think he would be a great teacher - he is a great player. But you can never guess what the quality of your PUPILS will be like. |
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Mar-29-06
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| MaxxLange: I have a funny story about meeting Heisman. I played his son in the last round of a tournament some years ago, and won by swindling after getting a lost position. This tied me for first in the U1400 section. The boy was disappointed but very sportsmanlike and wanted to go over the game. So his Dad, totally unknown to me, insists on tagging along, and is contradicting almost everything we say...I was pretty annoyed until I figured out he was basically right all the time, and found out he was 2200+ and a chess teacher. |
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Mar-30-06
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| whiskeyrebel: Ooops! well, at least you were able to figure that out eventually. We've all seen instances of big mouthed players in skittles rooms dispensing advice to players rated several hundred points higher. Maybe masters should be required to wear badges or special gaudy crowns. |
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| Apr-03-06 |
| blingice: Speaking of Mr. Christiansen's teaching skills/instruction, get Chessmaster 10th Edition. It has so many teaching features that you really shouldn't have to buy a book again. It provides puzzles of all types, game analyis, a 500,000+ game database, Christiansen's instruction regarding too many things to list here, and Joshua Waitzkin's instruction regarding too many things to list here. It's only 20 bucks, and you get a good chess engine with it. Definetely the best thing you can buy if you want to learn chess by instruction. |
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| May-18-06 |
| zerowley: Can anyone recommend a few d4/c4 openings to look into? I consider myself an attacking player (although I really haven't played enough to find out what my "style" is). I was taught the "e4 leads to a more tactical game, while d4 leads to a more positional one" so I always opened with e4 as white (I usually meet d4 with the KID as black, although my lack of success with it which I assume is due to its complexity and my lack of experience, has turned me off of it). When I came across Christiansen and found out many consider him to be one of the world's best attacking players I was baffled by his opening repertoire. I'm looking to broaden my horizons and hopefully find out what my "style" is and thought getting some d4/c4 openings to try out would help. Any recommendations, opinions, or similar experiences would be great. Thanks. |
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May-18-06
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| Open Defence: <zerowley> in my humble opinion, the best way is to study games of attacking players...instead of concentrating on a few opening systems... Tal for example was renowned for attacking and played many types of openings.. the English Opening 1c4 though known for its quiet positional type play can quickly become tactical if Black doesnt find the right moves or White goes astray.. hence study master games.. try to spot the combinations they do.. Alekhine's games are a great start.. some of his tactics erupt from a seemingly quiet position .. hope I have been of help |
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| May-19-06 |
| zerowley: <Open Defence> Thanks. Also, sorry if this was a bit off-topic. I didn't know where to put it and figured that Christiansen's page was the most relevent. Would the Kibitzer's Cafe have been better? |
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Aug-04-06
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| whiskeyrebel: I brought "Rocking the ramparts" by Larry home from the library a few days ago and can't put it down. It's a 3 ring circus of great attacking games with his comments and insights. Most of the motifs are familiar but others are new to me. I'm a positional player by nature...but I read all the attacking manuals I can find to try to improve in that area. The way he explains how deep he would calculate (or follow his instincts) in certain positions and what candidate moves he would choose dovetails nicely with other aggressive works I've studied. |
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Aug-04-06
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| Caissanist: <zerorowley> - try Queen's Pawn Game (D00) and English (A10). |
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Jan-21-07
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| Strongest Force: Is larry still living on the internet? He had to be on icc 10 hours a day! |
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Jan-21-07
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| JointheArmy: Larry loves to stay home. |
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Mar-22-07
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| ketchuplover: Me too! |
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| Jun-27-08 |
| BIDMONFA: Larry Christiansen CHRISTIANSEN, Larry
http://www.bidmonfa.com/christianse...
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Jun-27-08
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| Travis Bickle: GM Christiansen looks like either he is auditioning for the rock band KISS or is going to be on the cover of Elle magazine with all that makeup on. ; P |
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Jun-27-08
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| Marmot PFL: No recent games it seems. Does LC only play blitz these days? |
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| Jun-27-08 |
| RookFile: I know that he played US Chess League games last year for Boston. |
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Jun-27-08
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| Akuni: <hey WMD, why does the right-wing always think to be a true-blooded American" you have to be pro-war?> I think this belief (Which is certainly not held by every member of the self-labelled right, so stereotyping is going on on both sides right now) is rooted in the idea that people who are against the war are also not supporting the troops. Contradictory considering that many people agree that the best way to support the troops would be to bring them home. Anyway, now that i've put my two cents in, how is this relevant? |
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| Jun-27-08 |
| najdorfman: RookFile: Having seen his wife Natasha playing in Foxwoods and at the 2008 National Open, without Larry with her, I wondered about whether he had retired from over the board chess. Basically Larry told me that he was tired of staying in the same hotels, visiting the same cities, playing in essentially the same tournament(s) over and over again. Plus, being a highly ethical player, he's tired of the cheaters and buyers-and-sellers of chess games getting away with their "business". The organizers and top players know what's going on. Very little has been done to punish the cheaters and the burden of proof is substantial. The cost of litigation is enormous and one successful lawsuit could put the Continental Chess Assn. out of business. Goichburg doesn't want to act like a cop and he's not going to risk his livelihood because of a difficult to prove "allegation" of cheating. The best he and others can do is to avoid certain late round pairings between certain players with "reputations" for funny business. Larry has decided that he's simply had enough.
One of the fundamental problems in the chess world is that there is too much talent chasing after too little prize money.... |
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| Jun-27-08 |
| Interbond: If he is tired of playing in the USA maybe he should take a tour in Europe.
I think europeans would be very happy to see him play here again. |
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| Aug-05-08 |
| myschkin: . . .
"Santa Christiansen"
http://tinyurl.com/5datgh
for the coffee enthusiasts ^^
http://tinyurl.com/5zwqva
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