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| Oct-28-05 | | KingG: I assume that this is the same Thomas Johansson who wrote 'The King's Gambit for the creative aggressor'. Great book by the way. |
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| Jan-06-06 | | taljechin: Yep, that's me alright! Though there is at least one other Swedish chessplayer with the same name. I'm glad you liked the Aggressor! Btw, a year ago I published another one, this time on the Bishop's Gambit (The Fascinating King's Gambit) - and in a few months there might be a third book from me, this time on the Reti Gambit vs the French (1.e4 e6 2.b3!?). |
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| Mar-07-06 | | Chris00nj: I have recently ordered "The Fascinating King's Gambit" and due to get it this week. I think the Bishop's Gambit may solve some of my problems. The line I run into most often by higher rated players (2000+) was not really covered in 'The King's Gambit for the creative aggressor'. It was the Cunningham (1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Be7), but the bishop was only used to support g5, not the check on h4. My opponent would get the cramping pawn chain with ease. White: 1904 (Me)
Black: 2084
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Be7 4. Bc4 d6 5. O-O Nc6 6. d4 g5 7. Nc3 h6
8. Nd5 Nf6 9. Nxe7 Qxe7 10. e5 dxe5 11. Nxe5 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Qc5+ 13. Kh1 Ng4 14. b3 Nf2+ 15. Rxf2 Qxf2 16. Ba3 f3! and black went on to win More recently I faced the same variation. I tried something
else and it went a little better, but the same result. White: Me
Black: 2042 (different opponent)
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bc4 Be7 5. d4 g5 6. O-O h6 7. b3 c6 8. Nc3 b5 9. Bd3 a6 10. Bb2 Nf6 11. e5 dxe5 12. dxe5 Ng4 13. Ne4 Ne3 14. Qe2 O-O 15. Nf6+ Bxf6 16. exf6 Bg4 17. h3 Bh5 18. Rfe1 Nd7 19. Qf2 Nc5 20. Be2?? Ne4!! and I was lost, but I had a much worse position anyway. |
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| Mar-10-06 | | taljechin: Well, the Cunningham is one of black's best defences - but white should be able to handle this Be7+g5 plan. I don't have the time to look into it, but in my database there seems to be a few ideas that are scoring rather well (+12 =4 -3), e.g: Silman,J - Pitre,H [C34]
NWC August, 1985
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Be7 5.0-0 Nc6 6.d4 g5 7.c3 Nh6 8.b4 a6 9.g3 fxg3 10.hxg3 Rg8 11.Kg2 Rg6 12.Qb3 Qd7 13.Rh1 Nd8 14.d5 f6 15.Nd4 Kf8 16.Be2 Nhf7 17.Nf5 g4 18.Rxh7 Kg8 19.Rh4 Ne5 20.Bf4 Ndf7 21.Nd2 Ng5 22.Rah1 Nh3 23.Bxg4 1-0 Leisebein,P - Busch,S [C33]
Königsläufergambit G 2 corr http://home.t-online.de/, 2001 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Nc6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.0-0 d6 6.d4 g5 7.c3 h6 8.b4 Bf6 9.Bb2 Bg4 10.Nbd2 Nge7 11.b5 Nb8 12.Qb3 Rf8 13.e5 Bg7 14.exd6 Nf5 15.Rae1+ Ne3 16.Bd5 a5 17.bxa6 Rxa6 18.Nc4 cxd6 19.Nxe3 fxe3 20.Rxe3+ Kd7 21.Qxb7+ Qc7 22.Re7+ Kxe7 23.Qxc7+ Bd7 24.Re1+ Kf6 25.Bb7 1-0 Van Landeghem,P - Thissen,T [C30]
Hengelo op U12 Hengelo (6), 1997
1.e4 e5 2.f4 d6 3.Bc4 Nc6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.0-0 exf4 6.d4 g5 7.c3 g4 8.Ne1 f3 9.gxf3 gxf3 10.Qxf3 Bf6 11.Bg5 Be6 12.Bxe6 fxe6 13.Bxf6 Nxf6 14.Qxf6 Rg8+ 15.Kh1 Qd7 16.d5 exd5 17.exd5 Ne7 18.Qf7+ Kd8 19.Qf8+ Qe8 20.Qxe8+ Kxe8 21.c4 Kd7 22.Nc3 c6 23.dxc6+ Nxc6 24.Ng2 Rg7 25.Nd5 Na5 26.b3 a6 27.Nb6+ 1-0 Krasnopeyeva,J - Haller,O [C34]
SBRhH-ch M Germany, 2001
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Be7 4.Bc4 d6 5.0-0 Nc6 6.d4 g5 7.Nc3 Bg4 8.g3 Bh3 9.Nxg5 Bxg5 10.Qh5 Qd7 11.Qxg5 Bxf1 12.Bxf1 Nge7 13.Qf6 0-0-0 14.Bxf4 Qe6 15.Bg5 Rhe8 16.Qf2 Qg6 17.Bh4 Qg7 18.d5 Ne5 19.Bxe7 Rxe7 20.Qxa7 Qh6 21.h4 Nf3+ 22.Kh1 Nxh4 23.Qa8+ Kd7 24.Bb5+ c6 25.Bxc6+ bxc6 26.Qxc6# 1-0 Anyway, welcome to the Bishop's Gambit! I think you'll soon notice that black's g7-g5 plans lose their bite thanks to the absence of white's Nf3! :) |
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| Mar-13-06 | | Chris00nj: Yes, I received my Bishop's Gambit book on Friday! I've started reading it. I like so far! I've started playing it online, but haven't had a chance to play it over the board. So far, the Qh4+ response is common as well as sticking to their Nf3 defense, meaning g5 is still common (all blitz against about 1500 rated players). Unfortunately the response e5 isn't actually very common over the board for people rated between 1600-2000. Either it is played by lower rated players, around 1400, or by higher rated 2100+ rated players (I'm 1930). But I need to start beating some more of them if I want to hit 2000. By the way, email to the address on your website gets rejected. You should blog as well. Cheers,
Chris
http://chesspundit.blogspot.com/ |
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| Mar-14-06 | | taljechin: >>By the way, email to the address on your website gets rejected. You should blog as well.<< Hmm, I haven't noticed / heard about any problem with that email address before, but maybe you've clicked on it at some page where I may've forgotten to update the address? It used to be '@hem.passagen.se' but since a few years back it's only '@passagen.se' Blogging could be something worth investigating I s'pose, but as it is I hardly get around to updating the website and a blog isn't really a blog if it's not updated often and regularly... |
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| Mar-14-06 | | Chris00nj: You probably forget to update it on a page. I looked back and sent it in Sept 2005, but it was to the @hem address. My personal blogging is cyclical, depending on what else I have going on. However, all the King's Gambiteers could have a common blog, to which they all could post to either discuss their games or which variation they prefer. If there are multiple people on a common blog, then it's there will be likely always be someone posting something. I like your book so far. I had the Foxy Opening DVD on the Bishop's Gambit which was recorded back in mid-90s and it either has a different take on positions (it likes exd5, rather than Bxd5) or it talks about outdated lines, like 7.Kf1 in Westernin. |
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| Mar-24-06 | | taljechin: Btw, I liked your review at amazon, nice to see that someone defended the FKG against the 'lame guy'! :) |
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| Mar-27-06 | | 17.Bxg7: This is a short biography of this remarkable player (I have included in Tigran Nalbandian 's forum a complete list): <Thomas Johansson (b. March 24, 1975, in Linköping, Sweden) is a professional tennis player. He joined the pro tour for the first time in 1994 and has won 9 top-level singles titles, including the 1999 Canada Masters (df. Yevgeny Kafelnikov) and the 2002 Australian Open Grand Slam championship. Johansson became the first Swedish player to win a Slam since Stefan Edberg won the 1992 U.S. Open title, and the first Swede to claim the Australian since Mats Wilander in 1988.Personal:
Idol growing up was Mats Wilander, who is captain of Swedish Davis Cup team. Enjoys reading books from Swedish author Henning Mankell and National Geographic magazine. His favorite actors are Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. Chess is also one of his great interests; after a bad year in the ATP circuit (1998), he decided to pursue his chess career, achieving only a partial success. Consequently, he recover his motivation for playing tennis again, achieving his best results on the ATP tour since then. Currently, he is on 13th place in the ATP rankings and is also a regular commentator in several chess tournaments.> |
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| Mar-27-06 | | Jim Bartle: Earlier in that 2002 Australian Open Johansson played one of the best sets of tennis I've ever seen against Bjorkman. He had no errors! Not unforced, not forced, every single ball he touched went in. The eight points he lost were clean winners from Bjorkman. I'd never seen that before, and haven't seen it since. And he's actually a serious chess player! |
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| Mar-27-06 | | taljechin: "And he's actually a serious chess player!"
LOL! Well, maybe I am - but unfortunately I don't play tennis. 'Johansson' is probably the most common swedish last name (- though 'Andersson' is a close 2nd). So, virtually every major sport in Sweden has at least one 'Thomas Johansson' participatin'. In chess, there's at least two of us with an Elo - and chess isn't very popular in Sweden, so just imagine how many soccer, hockey etc players there are too... |
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| Mar-27-06 | | Jim Bartle: Thomas: I was referring to the 2002 Australian champion, who I read above is also a competitive chess player. |
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| Mar-28-06 | | taljechin: Well, if he is a serious chess player I'm sure I would have heard about it by now, and from a more reliable source e.g a swedish chess magazine. "17.Bxg7" has probably just drawn his own conclusions from seeing the same name in the database... So, don't believe everything you read! |
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| Mar-31-06 | | 17.Bxg7: <Jim Bartle, taljechin> Actually it was a joke, by adding a ficticious fragment to the Wikipedia biography of Mr. Johansson, taking advantage of the common name. Jin: My apologies, probable I wrote it too serious so it wasn't clear the joke from the beginning. |
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| Mar-31-06 | | Jim Bartle: Well, you took me in...well done. Next you'll tell me Simen Agdestein was a top-level football player. |
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| May-11-06 | | taljechin: For those interested, my new book - The Fascinating Réti Gambit (i.e. 1.e4 e6 2.b3!?), should soon be available for purchase online. (ETA = 1-2 weeks from now! :) |
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| Aug-17-06 | | TheKid: Is the King's Gambit for the Creative Aggressor still available somewhere? (Is the Cunningham covered at all?) |
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| Aug-24-06 | | taljechin: Yes, it should still be available from Kania Schachverlag and some of the major resellers should probably still have it in stock as it was reprinted for the 2nd time in the fall of 2005. |
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| Nov-20-06 | | TheKid: What do you, personally, use more: the Bishop's Gambit or the King's Knight? Or which would you recommend? |
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| Jan-11-07 | | taljechin: Nowadays, I only play the Bishop's Gambit, which I'd also recommend of course, hence the FKG book! :) However, my opponents rarely answer 1...e5 these days, so atm I'm leaning towards doing something useful instead - or perhaps take up Gothic chess. ;) |
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| May-12-07 | | thesonicvision: your lectures on the reti gambit
at videochess.net are very informative.
this expert at the local chess club
is always outplaying me in the french.
i'm considering the reti gambit as
a playable alternative when i'm not
in the mood for a main line winawer. |
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| May-14-07 | | taljechin: Thanks! :) Btw, if you always get beaten in the main line Winawer by this guy then the Reti should be an excellent choice. The RG does tend to bring out the patzer in black, simply because 1) they're not used to that kind of position and 2) play becomes critical much sooner than usual in the french. |
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| Mar-06-08 | | arthurp: Mentioned this before but a Fascinating Scandinavian Defence book
would be something to think about?Writing about an opening from the black side would "balance" your chess writing career!Enjoy your Reti Gambit videos! |
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| May-19-08 | | Zygalski: I recently got a copy of King's Gambit for the Creative Aggressor from chessdirect.co.uk
I just want to say what a great author this guy is. I also have The Fascinating Réti Gambit which is a superb resource for a 1.e4 club player who struggles in the normal French Defence lines.
The Fascinating Ruy Lopez Schliemann would be my personal wish, as there isn't a great deal on this dynamic opening. I don't know what Thomas thinks of this for Black though, being a 1...c5 player.
I strongly recommend any of Mr Johansson's books as they are not only thorough, but they convey Thomas's enthusiasm so well.
Long may he continue to inspire others! |
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