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Jun-25-17 cormier chessforum    The Chess Express: I hope you are healed soon.      Jun-24-17 The Chess Express chessforum    The Chess Express: It's good that you stay in touch with her. I hope she's in good health.      Jun-18-17 A David vs Nakamura, 2012   The Chess Express: Which ones?      Jun-15-17 OhioChessFan chessforum    The Chess Express: <<Big Pawn: <the chess express> These are the kinds of positions I was talking about in the exchange French. Opening Explorer >> Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll become more comfortable with the exchange once I study it more.      Jun-13-17 Sutovsky vs V Akopian, 2002   The Chess Express: After 15. d5 Akopian must have missed the simple 15. ... Qxd5 [DIAGRAM] 16. Be4 Qg5 17. Bc6 Ke7 18. Bxd7 Rxd7 19. Rxd7+ Kxd7 20. Qxf7+ Kc8 21. Qxe6+ Kb8 = [DIAGRAM] White has no advantage. Another try was 15. Qb7 Qf4 16. Qxa7 h6 17. g3 Qd6 ...      Jun-12-17 Nyback vs C Balogh, 2001   The Chess Express: Interesting game. In this line where black voluntarily takes white's Nf3 to play e5 I think it's unnecessary and slow to play 5. ... c6. I would prefer to play for e5 ... e4 more rapidly: 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 d5 3. Bb2 Bg4 4. e3 Nbd7 5. Be2 <Bxf3> 6. Bxf3 ...      Jun-12-17 capafan chessforum   ...      Jun-12-17 ketchuplover chessforum    The Chess Express: "ketchuplover: you look mahvelous dahling :)" Thanks for the compliment. I hope you're a chick :)      Jun-12-17 P Haba vs J Degraeve, 2007   The Chess Express: Black was better after the opening, but the position was complicated. 18. ... Nbc6 was an unnecessary retreat. After 18. Nb3 <d3> 19. Qd2 Ng6 [DIAGRAM] The complications favor black. For example if 20. Qxb4 Nxf4 21. Qd2 Ng6 22. Nc5 Qc6 23. Nxd3 Rfd8 ...      Jun-12-17 S Zhigalko vs N Krishna Teja, 2016   The Chess Express: Black's troubles started with 8. ... Qb6. In this line 8. a4 Qd8 is necessary and good. See P Haba vs Degraeve, 2007 when after 8.a4 Qd7 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.b4 Bb6 11.a5 Bc7 12.O-O Ne7 13.Bf4 Nbc6 14.Qe2 a6 15.Rd1 O-O 16.Nbd2 d4

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