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| May-20-04 | | PinkPanther: <Benjamin Lau>
I do play the Benko Gambit from time to time (good memory on your part) but I also play a ton of other openings against both e4 and d4. And no, I didn't mention the Nimzo Indian at that time because I had put it "aside" for the time being. In fact, not including the last few weeks, I haven't played the Nimzo Indian or really studied it since July of '03. |
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| May-20-04 | | PinkPanther: <refutor>
What kind of point are you trying to prove by posting the Rubinstein Attack in the Orthodox Defense 4 times? That hardly counts as more than one opening, and in the QGA line you posted, the queen was moved to e2 not c2. |
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| May-21-04 | | PinkPanther: Here we go again, Sokolov played the e4 line in the classical Nimzo Indian today and beat Bologan...so much for me saying that line is crap for white...even though I still sort of believe it. |
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| May-21-04 | | refutor: he was asking about early queen moves, not necessarily to Qc2 < <get Reti:> Are there any other openings which involve movement of the Queen? >...and the ones i gave were just ECO codes. many of the semi-slav non-meran lines without ECO codes have early queen moves as well e.g. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 etc. in short, there are many, many queen's pawn openings where the queen is moved early |
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| May-21-04 | | PinkPanther: But YOU were talking about Qc2 and used examples to back up your claim, one of which didn't actually even involve Qc2, but Qe2 instead.
And concerning the those Semi-Slav lines you mentioned, there is only one small system in the Semi-Slav where an early Qc2 is established theory (the one you mentioned), it's not found in the Anti-Meran Gambit, or any of the other Anti-Meran Systems (Bg5 lines), and it's not found in the Meran either. |
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| May-21-04 | | BiLL RobeRTiE: Quit being so anal. ;) |
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| Aug-16-04 | | Helloween: Today's opening of the day, E32-E39. As White, I prefer 4.e3 over 4.Qc2. To me, it makes more sense to keep developing and putting your pieces on effective squares than to worry so much about doubled pawns. The early Queen move wastes a bit of time, allowing Black to get a lead in development. If he can then effectively make use of his light Bishop while keeping White's inneffective or trading light ♗'s, he should definitely have equality. In the Rubinstein(4.e3), White ignores the 3...Bb4 pin, keeps moving forces out towards the centre(Bd3,Nf3)and castles early. Sometimes White plays Nge2-g3 and follows with f2-f3 and a central break, opening the board up nicely for his pieces. White's doubled pawns that Black sometimes targets with (Nc6-a5) and (b6, Ba6) are compensated by the time and force White has to generate a Kingside attack. The early-middlegame h2-h4 push can also be very effective. |
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| Feb-02-05 | | azaris: Does anyone play the Adorjan Gambit (4...O-O 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. Qxc3 b5!?)? It seems to me it's not as unsound as it might look. Whenever I look at the stagnant White kingside in the NID I get a warm feeling inside. When playing Black, that is. So if White takes a risk delaying his kingside development and even foregoing castling in some lines, maybe Black has justification for lashing out early just in order to get some piece play in the opening? |
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| Feb-02-05 | | OneArmedScissor: Nizmo-Indian and Benoni: Two of my favorite defenses against 1. d4 Can anyone recommend any good books over the Nimzo or Benoni? |
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Feb-02-05
 | | Open Defence: <OneArmedScissor> Winning with the Nimzo is a nice book which deals with most of the lines you need to know including the IQP system and f3 lines,
if I am not mistaken it was written by Ray Keene! Ray correct me if I am wrong! |
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Feb-02-05
 | | mahmoudkubba: <Open Defence> and <OneArmedScissor>:u don't mean Nimzo book My style aren't u?? I also heard there r two books by Nimzo called My Style one of them is a very short book about applying chess theories in reality.. |
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Feb-02-05
| | mahmoudkubba: It is funny to notice on the chart above that no Nimzo name is there on playing the Nimzo Indian.. Isn't it funny?? |
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Feb-02-05
| | mahmoudkubba: I don't think it is very bad for black to answer the move of the white queen by playing BxN, any suggestions?? |
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Feb-02-05
| | Open Defence: no I meant "Winning with the Nimzo" btw I think theory suggests that BxN is not the strongest line after Qc2 I think more established lines run along d5, c5 and 0-0 I personally like d5 I think it is the critical line in the Nimzo |
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| Feb-02-05 | | zorro: <OneArmedScissor> If you want to take up Benoni seriously then Watson's book for Gambit is your book. Really excellent. After 4. Qc2, BxN doesnt quite make sense, you just lose a tempo over lines like: 4. Qc2 0-0 5. a3 Bxc3 6. Qxc3 b6 (6...Ne4) or 4. Qc2 c5 5. dc5 Na6 6. a3 Bxc3 7. Qxc3 Nxc5 <Open Defence> It is painful to me to have to disagree with an otherwise polgar fan but I think that responses to 4. Qc2 in order of decreasing strenght are 4. 0-0 (the strongest) 4. c5 and last one 4. d5 |
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Feb-02-05
| | Open Defence: <zorro> of course you are entitled to your opinion, but Anand's results against Kasparov in the PCA World Championship with d5 seem to suggest that its quite a solid line, critical too as it is a struggle around the Nimzo's core concepts and also helps develop the Q side which can be a problem for Black. |
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| Feb-02-05 | | euripides: After 4...d5 5 a3 Bxc3 6 Qxc3 Ne4 things tend to get extremely sharp- in theory this is part of my repertoire as White but in practice I fear I shall just run away when I see this position on the board ... |
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| Feb-02-05 | | hjsukthankar: Keres seems to have done very well against this variation as black; 15 wins and no losses according to the cg database. |
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| Feb-02-05 | | zorro: <Open Defense> PCA Ch Kasparov-Anand featured some quite old lines |
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Feb-03-05
| | Open Defence: <zorro> an old line does not necessarily mean unsound, on the contrary some old lines have been ressurected with good effect |
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Feb-04-05
| | mahmoudkubba: <Open Defence>:I personally don't like O-O because the white queen is on the line and can threat the black so easily yet <zorro> have a point any how in saying it is the strongest even though I don't like it. Also <euripides> have a pojnt and an opinion yet it is one of the suggestions of the opening explorer (my move I mean) and it is still possible to play it with the percentage of the O.Explorer!. |
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Feb-04-05
| | Open Defence: I think sufficient games show that d5, c5 and 0-0 are all more or less equally playable. I am still not convinced on what basis anyone can say which line is stronger. I do not think the Opening Explorer alone is sufficient evidence. |
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| Feb-04-05 | | euripides: <OpenDef> Pragmatically 4...d5 has the advantage that if White wants to play 5 a3 s/he has to be prepared for at least three different sharp lines, all of which can be very nasty if White doesn't know them - whereas Black need only know one of them. On the other hand White can keep things calmer by 5 cd. |
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| Feb-04-05 | | azaris: I think the 4...c5 line is suffering greatly at the moment; lots of ugly defeats. Onischuk vs D Gurevich, 2004
Aronian vs Karpov, 2003
Bareev vs Akopian, 2004
E Arlandi vs Naiditsch, 2003
When Karpov gets a lost position out of the opening, you know something's gone wrong. |
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Feb-05-05
| | mahmoudkubba: <Open Defence>:see it that way in applying reality into theory: when taking the night and cheking the king, there is a possibility of either ending the game by eastern methods or weakening the other side position, yet I agree the next move if there is one shall really delibitate the black position by leting him/her lose a bishop, but if the black player is sure enough of his move it should be played if the black player is not sure that it shall weaken or end the game then not to play it of course might be better.. |
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