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| Dec-04-04 | | Pawsome: <An Englishman> If you haven't seen it already, Geoff Lawton's "Its Only Me," a recent biography of Tony Miles, contains number of Miles' outings with the Nimzowitsch annotated by the man himself. An essay in the appendix of the work suggests that Miles "dabbled in" the Nimozwitsch, but the number of games in this database suggests his use of 1 ... Nc6 was more than a passing fancy. |
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| Dec-23-04 | | EnglishOpeningc4: Is 1 e4 f6 2 d4 e6 refuted? I know it is bad, but is it refuted? |
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| Jan-14-05 | | drukenknight: First a laugher than a homwork problem. Using Pawsome's advice from Nov 20; I played the Faux Gambit to the Owen Defense: 1. e4 b6
2. Nf3 Bb7
3. Bc4 Bxe4
4. Bxf7+ Kxf7
5. Ng5+ Ke8
6. Nxe4 d5
7. Qh5+ g6
8. Qe5 Nf6??
9. NxN! 1-0
After I stopped laughing a sobering thought hit me, what if he had played 8...pxN; is it really a won game? Some homework for you Owen defense specialists. WHat do YOU think? |
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| Jan-17-05 | | InspiredByMorphy: <drukenknight> Although I dont have a board here to analyze 8. ...PxN I do believe this line is very good as white, and I thank you for showing it to me. Ive played 3.Nc3 Bxe4 4.Bd3 before where white has 3 developed pieces to blacks 1, but 3.Bc4 Bxe4 4.Bxf7+ is much better. |
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| Jan-18-05 | | drukenknight: IBM: thanks, and we really must give credit to pawsome for taking an interesting idea and really sharpening it up. The reason I pose the question as I did (does sacking the exchange save the game?) is because....well, my gut feeling is if sacking the exchange does not save the game then 3...Bxe4?? loses the game. Is that possible? The reasoning is intuitive and so it is open to debunking but here is my reasoning it has to do w/ endgames of B vs B of opposite color endgames. I learneed that they dont behave in the normal way; when you are down a couple of pawns attacking the K does nothing, you must reposition the B in order to improve positional value. Or as Dvoretsky says "often small positional differences are of more importance than material." When black plays ...Bxe4 he grabs material however he will lose both tempo and position, or so it seems. His K cannot castle and white is ahead in development. Time and position, we see these factors over and over in B endgames, we have seen several of them in the past week. If black tries to rectify the situation by like 6...Nf6 it gets worse due to the Qh5+. Therefore it seems the only way for black to save this is to give up material and use this in order to rectify the time/positional problems. ANd if giving up material does not work, there is no other way, hence 3...Bxe4?? loses.... But I dunnno, just a guess. |
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| Apr-26-05 | | Chris00nj: I actually had someone play St. George's Defense (1. e4 a6) against me this past weekend. I unintendendly disheartened him when I exclaimed, "St. George's Defense, are you serious?" (it was in the club so I knew the guy) Knowing the name seemed to take away his "surprise" factor but I can't say I knew any lines, just remember that Tony Miles beat Karpov with it (Karpov vs Miles, 1980) I played 1. e4 a6 2. d4 b5 3. c4 bxc4 4. Bxc4 hoping for Bb7 but he played 4... e6 5. Nc3 Bb7 6. Qb3 Qc8. I think white's game is really easy.
Black's queen is out of place (while losing a tempo) |
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| Apr-26-05 | | aw1988: Yes, 3. c4 is what most players try, I find. |
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| May-09-05 | | Benzol: 1.e4 g5 - The Borg Defence.
"Borg, sounds Swedish".
"You will all become one with the Borg". |
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| May-09-05 | | FHBradley: <Benzol: 1.e4 g5 - The Borg Defence.
"Borg, sounds Swedish".
"You will all become one with the Borg".>
I guess "Borg" derives from "Grob" (1. g4). Is that correct? |
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May-09-05
 | | Eric Schiller: <FHBradley> Yes, Borg is just Grob backwards, but it fits nicely with the Star Trek villans, so the name is a nice one. Of course, those of us who are ancient, and tennis fans, are reminded of the Swedish ace, but I doubt he'd want to be associated with such an opening! |
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| Jun-01-05 | | cuendillar: Possibly shortest corr. game ever: 1.e4 b6 2.Ba6!! Bb7 3.Bxb7 1-0 The secret behind it? Black wrote 1...b6 2.[any] Bb7 on his postcard! |
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| Jun-11-05 | | aw1988: So what exactly are "Uncommon" responses? 1...a6 1...b6 1...g5 1...h6 1...a5 1...h5 are the only ones I can think of. And perhaps 1...Nh6. |
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| Jun-11-05 | | aw1988: 1...Na6 |
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| Jun-11-05 | | get Reti: 1...f6 and 1...f5 |
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| Jun-11-05 | | Rocafella: Why is this called UNCOMMON. It's the most widely used first move in chess isn't it :o| |
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| Jun-11-05 | | Montreal1666: <Rocafella:> UNCOMMON does not reffer to 1)e4, but what follows. B00 is a collection of games that start with 1)e4 but do not belong to any of the well-known opening categories. |
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| Jun-11-05 | | Rocafella: <Montreal1666> *Slaps head and says duh* I should have guessed. I'm so stupid. Forgive me! |
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| Jun-11-05 | | Montreal1666: It is not all that clear. Don't worry
we are here to learn and have fun. |
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| Jun-11-05 | | Rocafella: <Montreal1666> I am here to make a fool of myself. Any comments on how I am doing at the moment would be appreciated! :=) |
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| Jul-29-05 | | aw1988: This should probably be clarified. "Uncommon King's Pawn Opening 1. e4"... well, if 1. e4 is uncommon, then I'm a mule's sister. |
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| Jul-29-05 | | mymt: dont be an ass its not e4 e4 e4 but da reply to e4 e4 e4 |
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| Jul-29-05 | | aw1988: Watch it. I know full well it's the response to e4, you don't have to be nasty about it. |
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| Jul-29-05 | | Robin01: <aw1988> It might have been a pun on the mule as opposed to a nasty response. |
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| Jul-29-05 | | aw1988: Oh. I'm a dolt. |
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| Jul-29-05 | | mymt: you have to say it out loud |
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