paultopia has kibitzed 42 times to chessgames   [more...]

Nov-09-04 King's Gambit Accepted (C33)    paultopia: ugh, I just found that exact line in Fischer's original "bust", where he declares it a win for black. Whoops!      Nov-01-04 Sicilian (B32)    paultopia: for example, assuming black also gets greedy and goes pawn-grabbing :-) 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 d5 6. exd5 Bc5 7. dxc6 Bxf2+ 8. Kxf2 Qxd1 9. Nc7+ Kd8 10. Nxa8 bxc6 11. Nc3 Qd4+ 12. Be3 Qb4 13. Rd1+ Ke7 14. Nc7 Qxb2 15. Bc5+ Kf6 16. Rd6+ Kg5 17. Be3+ Kg4 ...      Oct-29-04 Alekhine vs Vardonenko, 1931    paultopia: Even though I think it's the worst imaginable way to decline the KG, that 2.f6 business seems surprisingly hard to spank. A correspondence game of mine (which you can tell is weak correspondence because of all the unsound sacs and/or blunders by each side) as white where I barely ...      Oct-14-04 Morozevich vs A Aleksandrov, 2000    paultopia: What about 61 Rxe6?! Maybe white can last long enough to queen?      Sep-23-04 Dutch (A81)    paultopia: Thanks! Although it worries me terribly that the "anti-dutch" Bg5 is sufficiently credible that Gurevich, one of the most expert dutch players in the world, uses it.      Aug-28-04 Sicilian (B33)    paultopia: It would appear that it doesn't. Shame, really. I'd like to see a separate ECO for the pelikan. I've been experimenting with 6. ... Bb4, and would be nice to get other people's thoughts...      Aug-14-04 Ivanchuk vs P Nikolic, 2004    paultopia: The King's Gambit lives! Ha!      Jun-14-04 Alekhine's Defense (B02)    paultopia: Thank you very much cyphelium and ksadler! I'll have to study those lines.      May-28-04 French, Advance (C02)    paultopia: In the line 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 f6 that f6 business, as white, and in my official capacity as a king's gambittey swashbucklin' kingside attacker, seems to BEG for tactics to be aimed at the king. Sooo... what do y'all think about 6. ...      May-25-04 Einstein vs Oppenheimer, 1933    paultopia: Pretty trappy play on Einstein's part. That whole business with the queen and all. Oppenheimer seems to have been a bit of a patzer :-)

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