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| Jul-31-08 | | chocobonbon: <keypusher> Your rating is 50% over mine but I'd like to mine your expertise if I may. Was 9...Qb6 that good? What about ...b6 at some point early on (like there) to be followed by Bb7. Looks to me like Black has two major problems (besides Kasparov): 1) he is blocked in the center & 2) White has those raking Bishops. On my level I'm looking to give up both Knights for a Knight & a Pawn (after ...f6 & ... fxe5, of course). But my idea was to free that QB so maybe I'm mixing variations here, but it seems to me that if Black has anything it should develop while that White King is sashaying around. Perhaps you can find a TN here. From looking at the Opening Explorer I think Black needs one. Come back? |
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Jul-31-08
 | | keypusher: <chocobon> You are right, the big pawn center is the problem and Black has to try to break it down. For that reason, as <shajmaty> pointed out in his 4/23/06 comment, Black should play 10...g5 (If 11...fxg5, Black can take the e-pawn with one of his knights, because the d-pawn is pinned) or 10...f6. Here is an exciting example of that strategy working for Black. Reshevsky vs Vaganian, 1976 I don't think ...b6 is a good alternative to ...Qb6 because (i) it gives up the pin on the d-pawn and (ii) Black's white-square bishop really isn't much better off on b7 than it is on c8. Either way, it's blocked by its own pawn. Re 15....Rxf3 see tpstar's joke comment & my response from 3/18/06: Mar-18-06
<tpstar> <There were unconfirmed reports that Black was ordered to lose, best shown by the retreat 15 ... Nf8 instead of the attack 15 ... Rxf3!? (Topalov) and White's King is his furthest advanced piece.> <keypusher> <Ha! I really wanted to play something like 15...Rxf3, of course -- anything but ...Nf8. But 16 Kxf3 Nxd4? 17 Nxd4 Qxd4 18 Bxh7+ would be even more embarassing than the game continuation. > So 15....Rxf3 would have been fun, but Black's game was already in very bad shape by then. |
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| Aug-02-08 | | chocobonbon: <keypusher> Thank you for your response. Truly interesting & instructive commentary. The Vaganian game was tremendous & probably illustrates very well the difficulties incurred by each player in this opening, which I had never seen before your game. White actually seems to invite the kind of speculative crap I try to play. I think discipline in Chess might be under rated. |
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| Mar-06-09 | | Travis Bickle: Was playing The French a good idea vs Kasparov?? |
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| Mar-23-09 | | AnalyzeThis: He did fine in this game. Yes, he did too much stuff on the queenside, while the house was burning down near his king. The rest of us would have found a different way to lose to Kasparov. |
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| Mar-23-09 | | rchczrms: <Was playing The French a good idea vs Kasparov??> Well, Ivanchuk and Radjabov defeated Kaspy with the French. |
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| Mar-23-09 | | Jim Bartle: The French was in fact a terrible choice, since Kasparov had such a poor record against the Sicilian, Ruy Lopez and Caro Kann. |
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Mar-23-09
| | keypusher: Well, the French and the Pirc were pretty much all I knew in 2003. Now I play Alekhine's Defense. Would that have worked better? Kasparov vs Palatnik, 1978
Probably not. |
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| Mar-23-09 | | Jim Bartle: Honestly, it's a case of choose your poison. |
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| Mar-24-09 | | AnalyzeThis: The point is that Kasparov is going to win anyway, so you might as well get a free chess lesson in an opening you use on a daily basis. |
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Mar-24-09
| | keypusher: <AnalyzeThis: The point is that Kasparov is going to win anyway, so you might as well get a free chess lesson in an opening you use on a daily basis.> Yes, that was the idea. I got a lesson alright!
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| Mar-24-09 | | JuliusCaesar: Knowing next to nothing about the French, I'm curious to find out exactly where you erred. Playing against a guy of Kasparov's calibre, you cannot afford to make even the minutest slip in the opening (at least not in the French, where Black is cramped to begin with) as you'll just get steamrollered inside 30 moves. This game is a good example of that. And it's no effort for Gazza either. He sees your mistake instantly and switches on auto-pilot. I know what it's like from experience. I've been thrashed by Timman, Andersson, Gashimov and others - both on and offline! |
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| Mar-24-09 | | Jim Bartle: You were "thrashed" by Andersson? I thought he prefers to oh-so-slowly strangle his prey. |
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| Mar-24-09 | | Ziggurat: GMs usually like to play flashy games against lesser mortals. I have been spectacularly thrashed by supposedly positional GMs as well. |
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| Mar-24-09 | | JuliusCaesar: Jim Bartle, Andersson strangled me. He wasn't even sidetracked by good moves (to borrow an expression from the late, great Bobby Fischer). I offered him an exchange in a terribly cramped position. Objectively, it was a bad move, but it would've given me some wriggle room. But did he take it? Did he heck! He just carried on with his plan of sucking every drop of blood from my veins. The man didn't even break a sweat. I remember him jogging (no, literally) from board to board This was about 25 years ago when he was ranked in the top 4-5 players in the world. He's a pale shadow of that now, a nervous wreck by all accounts. |
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| Mar-24-09 | | Jim Bartle: Good story, nice description! |
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| Mar-24-09 | | AnalyzeThis: <JuliusCaesar: Knowing next to nothing about the French, I'm curious to find out exactly where you erred. > There were inaccuracies, but the only move you can really criticize is 20... Na7. If I could offer one more suggestion, it would be that the idea of getting rid of the c8 bishop for anything of white's is desirable, but you usually see this done earlier with something like ...Be8 and ...Bh5 or ...Bg6. |
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| Apr-18-09 | | blacksburg: <Scotty Boy>...oops, i mean <chesszarg>...you're persistent, i'll give you that. but i fear that <subtlety> is not something you are familiar with. |
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| Mar-28-11 | | Akavall: <Keypusher>
<Belzberg-Kasparov Simultaneous Chess Exhibition 2003> Was that the same simul where this incident took place? http://www.mrfixitonline.com/viewto... |
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Mar-29-11
 | | OhioChessFan: I am certainly not good enough to find this, but Fritz at lower levels suggests 14..Nxd4 15. Nxd4 Nxe5 
click for larger viewFWIW, I'm not convinced fxe5 was a good idea in a general sense of releasing tension in a Pawn center. It's a little off-center, but I don't think there was a hurry to do it. |
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Apr-05-11
| | keypusher: <Akavall: <Keypusher> <Belzberg-Kasparov Simultaneous Chess Exhibition 2003> Was that the same simul where this incident took place? http://www.mrfixitonline.com/viewto...;
No, mine was at the New York Stock Exchange. There was a young woman there rated around 2100 who was quite miffed that she couldn't play Kasparov. Interesting story, thanks for posting! |
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Apr-05-11
 | | perfidious: <keypusher><Black should play 10...g5.> In two games with the young Patrick Wolff about a month apart back in 1984-85, I played 3....Nf6-in the first, I played 10....g5 and got a decent position, but wound up losing. The second time out, I tried an idea I'd seen in one of Ivan Farago's games: 7....Qb6 8.g3 f5. Though objectively I still believed 10....g5 was fine for Black, I liked the types of positions which arose after 8....f5, being a bit less theory-oriented (always a strength of Wolff, even as a young master). <OhioChessFan: I am certainly not good enough to find this, but Fritz at lower levels suggests 14..Nxd4 15. Nxd4 Nxe5.> OCF, this idea is thematic in this line, thus well worth remembering, as one of the ways to attack the White centre. |
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Apr-09-11
| | keypusher: <perfidious> <OhioChessFan> Thanks for your ideas. I had read that Black had to take down White's center somehow, so a continuation like 7....Qb6 8.g3 f5 would never have occurred to me. But I'll bear it in mind for the future... |
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| Sep-11-12 | | Travis Bickle: Wow what a beating! Just think if you had played Fischer. ; P |
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Sep-11-12
| | keypusher: <Travis Bickle: Wow what a beating! Just think if you had played Fischer. ; P> I would have won by forfeit. |
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