Dec-20-06 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack (C86) 
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| marn0: I believe that Andrew Greet has written a recent book on this line for Everyman. Has anyone seen this book or read it? I think I might take up the Ruy Worrall ... |
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Jul-09-06 marn0 chessforum
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| marn0: <wannabe<the Najdorf against e4, I would like to know more about your difficulties.>> It isn't the Najdorf in particular, it's the whole Sicilian thing. And it's nothing specific I can say about the Sicilian that troubles me, except to say that playing either side of it ... |
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Jul-06-06 Kibitzer's Café
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| marn0: Excuse me? I just happen to know that <I> am VERY unimportant! |
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Jul-05-06 Sergei Rublevsky
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| marn0: Does the PinkPanther have personal issues with Rublevsky or something!? Sheesh! |
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Jun-17-06 King's Indian Defense (E60)
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| marn0: Can someone who plays the KID tell me: what characterizes the main variations and at what point in the game do you know which one you are playing, whether Saemish, Classical, 4-pawn, etc.? And aren't the variations mainly determined by WHITE? |
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May-22-06 King's Indian Attack (A07)
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| marn0: Hurrah for the KIA!
I like to play the 1.e4 open games as White (especially the Vienna or Scotch). What I enjoy so much about the KIA is its facility versus the non-1...e5 replies (Sicilian, French, C-K). The KIA with the 1.e4 move order frees me from having to study the mainlines of |
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May-03-06 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4 (B21)
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| marn0: How about setting up the wing gambit first? Maybe Black's smile at 2.a3 will change when he sees 3.b4...? |
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Mar-19-06 French, Tarrasch (C07)
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| marn0: This is Rublevsky's main line versus the French. |
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Mar-11-06 F Vallejo Pons vs Topalov, 2006
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| marn0: <Al Notation: Greco is right. Black is dead.> That was Philidor. |
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Mar-08-06 Scotch Game (C45)
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| marn0: <who: another way to get the scotch> Well I did not mean that I deliberately head for the Scotch Gambit from the start, but it is a variation among several that often develop when opening with 1.e4 e5 2.c4. I also like the Urusoff quite a bit, and the Evans... I'm just a gambit ... |
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Mar-06-06 M Guid vs M Cebalo, 2004
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