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Mar-27-11
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Borg Defense
1.e4 g5 |
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| Sep-03-11 | | druknight: Hey everybody I am back from a long vacation and I am fully rested. Hey it’s good to see everyone. By the way I spent most of my time in the hospital showing my friend how to win from the following. But you guys are smarter than me so set your chess clock for 5 min and try to find the winning move!
click for larger viewI know you want to know how it started, I told the guy not play 1...a3 but he told me some guy beat Karpov with it which is cazy: 1 e4 a6
2. c3 e5
3. Nf3 Nc6
4. Bc4 h6
5. d4 exd4
6. b4 dxc3
7. Nxc3 Nxb4
8. Bxf7+ Kxf7
9… |
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| Nov-03-11 | | rapidcitychess: <drukenknight>
Indeed, someone did beat Karpov with 1.e4 a6?!
Karpov vs Miles, 1980 |
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| Jan-14-12 | | the eel: In the Nimzovich Defence to 1 e4 after Nc6 2 d4 d5 3 e5 f6 4 Bd3 the books say that Nxd4 is refuted by 5 Qh5ch. But after g6 6 Bxg6ch hxg6 then 7 Qxh8 can be answered by the strange looking Qd7! with all sorts of tactical threats. For instance 8 Qxg8 is answered by Nxc2ch 9 Kd1 Qg4ch! and 8 Na3 is well met by Qg4. Is this a viable line for black? |
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Feb-28-12
| | Penguincw: Opening of the Day
St. George Defense
1.e4 a6
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| May-12-12 | | parisattack: <the eel: In the Nimzovich Defence to 1 e4 after Nc6 2 d4 d5 3 e5 f6 4 Bd3 the books say that Nxd4 is refuted by 5 Qh5ch. But after g6 6 Bxg6ch hxg6 then 7 Qxh8 can be answered by the strange looking Qd7! with all sorts of tactical threats. For instance 8 Qxg8 is answered by Nxc2ch 9 Kd1 Qg4ch! and 8 Na3 is well met by Qg4. Is this a viable line for black?> Sure looks like it. Anyone with an engine to check?
My problem with the Nimzovitch - I could never get anyone to play e5. |
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| May-13-12 | | mrbasso: <the books say that Nxd4 is refuted by 5 Qh5ch>
Must be very old book..
4.Bd3? is weak.
You know what's the best place for old opening books? The garbage can! |
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| May-13-12 | | King Death: < mrbasso: ...You know what's the best place for old opening books? The garbage can!> Some ideas come out of variations that were "refuted" beause chess is always changing if in a different way than in my early days (the 60s). This statement is a little too simplistic. Besides for folks like <parisattack> and me it's fun to read old stuff. |
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| May-13-12 | | parisattack: Openings develop historically. The best way of learning them is to start with <old opening books>. I typically begin an investigation with MCOs, Schwarz and Euwe, move on to Keres and 'bis' then Schiller's monographs and the Batsford/Chess Digest 'White' series - sprinkling in the Informants along the way. What's a 'database' I hear people talking about lately? ;) |
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| May-20-12 | | the eel: I'm not saying that 4 Bd3 is a strong move just that the reply Nxd4 is an alternative to g6 a fact which is not mentioned in my books. You are right though Parisattack most games I have played go 3 PxP and not e5 unfortunately. |
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| Sep-07-12 | | rapidcitychess: Chessgames Challenge: Team White vs Team Black, 2006 St. George is the OOTD, figure this could be good for it. |
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| Mar-16-13 | | Amarande: St. George. Hmmm.
For the most part this seems a virtual certainty to become a transpositional Sicilian, with few unique lines. Black needs to make that ... a6 move count, and as it doesn't directly help development at all (as, say, ... b6 does, allowing for the Queen's side fianchetto), the only really significant aspect of it can be openings in which Black would have played ... a6 anyway. In terms of e-pawn openings, the only ones that really come to mind are the Giuoco Piano (in which case Black sometimes plays it to avoid conceding the two Bishops to White, as after ... d6 and Nc3 White threatens to force a N for B swap with Na4), the Ruy Lopez Morphy main lines, and many variations of the Sicilian. However, as White is likely to play d4 or Nf3 soon if not immediately, Black is unlikely to play an early ... e5 and therefore the Giuoco and Ruy variations are of only passing thought. This leaves only the Sicilian variations to be considered (and thus makes this an opening I'm not very likely to play personally - I find the Sicilian to be rather dry due to how analysed it is, with so many lines forcing you to play 15-20 or even up to 30 moves from more or less rote memorisation with little or no opportunity to vary without disadvantage), and in particular whether Black can enforce a Sicilian transposition. Against any move but 2 d4 or b4, Black can play c5 at once, at which point we have our Sicilian already. Therefore, the only "unique" lines can come of those two moves. After 2 b4, e6 follows and White can hardly avoid transposing into some form of Sic, as his b-pawn is threatened and the only move to defend it that also holds back ... c5 is 3 Ba3. But then Black has interesting options, especially 3 ... b5, making way to develop the DSB on the wing, taking control of c4, and at the same time firmly stamping 3 Ba3 as a lost move, for the Bishop will now have to move at least once more to really get into play. To add insult to injury, after that further Bishop move, Black will still play ... c5 and still have his Sicilian formation, and ... a6 can hardly be stamped as a lost move as it is virtually never the case that Black can play ... b5 (a bread-and-butter move in the Sicilian due to its tie-in with Black's play on the c-file) without preparing it with ... a6. After 2 d4 e6 again. 3 b4 is not sound due to 3 ... Bxb4+, and against almost any other reasonable move by White, Black continues 3 ... c5, and the Sicilian transposition is again essentially complete. This leaves as the only really uniquely "St George" line perhaps this: 1 e4 a6 2 d4 e6 3 Be3 (preventing ... c5 for the moment). I am not quite sure of the relative prospects here; cg.com has extremely few examples of this line, which seems to officially ECO as a generic French (C00). Of the three games that the variation has been essayed in, White has won once (although Black's resignation at least looks premature - I wonder if he overstepped the time limit?), Black has won once, and the third game was drawn. It's perhaps worth exploring. |
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Sep-16-13
| | Penguincw: Opening of the Day
St. George Defense
1.e4 a6 |
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| Sep-16-13 | | parisattack: Nice review <Amarande>. I think the only book on are Basman's (St George and New St George)? Very often Sicilian or French formations out of it, sometimes favoring Black if White isn't cognizant of the possibilities. It is similar to the Polish Defense 1. d4, b5 where Black doesn't have all the defensive options for the b5 pawn (he's effectively already chosen to defend it with ...a6 spent move/tempo. Still, both the Polish Defense books make good supplemental material - Kapitaniak's Polish Defence and Zimmer's Die Polnische Verteidigung |
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| Nov-03-13 | | Kikoman: <Opening of the Day> Borg Defense
1. e4 g5
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| Feb-08-14 | | pajaste: no Borg has played the Borg defense http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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| Feb-08-14 | | SChesshevsky: < no Borg has played the Borg defense > It's not on the site but one might've to win the French Open. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yis1... |
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| Dec-18-14 | | parisattack: Owen's/1. ...b6 Opening of the Day
1. ...b6/Owen's BOOKS
Bauer - Play 1.... b6
Kapitaniak - 1.... b6!
Keene / Plaskett / Tisdall - The English Defense
King - English Defence
Lakdawala 1. ...b6 Move-By-Move (Jan 2015)
Soltis - The Defense 1. ...P-QN3
Soltis - Winning with the English Defense
Wall - Owen's Defense
It can also transpose into a Hippo - sometimes a fine idea if White commits to Bd3. |
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May-31-18
| | Penguincw: ♔ Opening of the Day ♔
St. George Defense
1.e4 a6
I wonder if this has ever been the OOTD on Apr/23. |
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Jun-01-18
 | | OhioChessFan: Okay, I give up. What is significant about April 23? |
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Jun-02-18
 | | tpstar: A: Anthony Miles Karpov vs Miles, 1980 |
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| Jul-26-19 | | Chesgambit: Owen defense is not uncommon opening |
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| Mar-05-20 | | parisattack: I've played the Owen some lately. Perhaps not 100% 'correct' but a lot of unexplored territory. The lines where black delays ...Nf6 seem best. An idea I found in the appendix to Basman's St.George book. Also allows for a transposition to a Hippo. |
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Mar-06-20
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< no Borg has played the Borg defense >Is "Borg Defense" not just letter play on being the opposite of "Grob Defense" 1.g4? About Owen's Defense, I am not a fan, but surely I cannot "refute" it. I met it once in a serious game and won easily but the opposition was rather weak. I went Nc3, Bd3, Qe2 and as Black casted Q-side I commenced the attack with Ba6 at some point. I feel that Black tries to entice White to reckless measures as his play seems rather limited otherwise. |
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| Nov-14-22 | | Ninas Husband: Would the Bongcloud Opening go here? :) |
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