Nature utters a sigh of feeling relieved, which means to slaak or slaken, slaak,is not a modern description anymore, of relief.. I'm not going to complicate things here, Knightlord is right too...

Robert & Jim Pollard, 'Frogmen', c.1980.

You're just lucky the regal <diktat> against <science fiction> has been lifted.

And are you investigating me?

I happen to be a student at <Dank U.> at the moment.

It's a bet cold, dark and damp in the classrooms, and sometimes slugs come.

Tired of losing to Black in the <Winawer>, I recently started playing <Josh Waitzkin's> system, a version of the <French> that he says he and <Maurice Evans> (or is it Maurice Ashley? the guy who was the first American black GM) developed during an intense study session.

1. e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.c4! dxc4 5.Bxc4...

The idea is that white accepts an <isolani> in exchange for an open game, rapid development, and space.

So far I've lost every try, but the opening still appeals to me.

<Dr. Dom> should I stick with it?

I actually started analyzing my losses like Josh Waitzkin told me to do. He says I will never improve unless I do that hard work.

sigh

It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind. //Robertson Davies//"The Pleasures of Love"

Are you currently on a <Robertson Davies> binge?

<I re-read Fifth Business> early this year and laughed my head off.

Jiminy Cricket you ever see a picture of him? whoooo

And he doesn't know who i am!! sob

All I have is his mechanical voice speaking to me from software.

HELP I'M OBSESSED

Order of instruction he received from <Bruce Pandolfini>

1. Pawn structure
2. End game
3. Midlle game
4. Openings

BTW I know what you said already.

i spent a lot of time with the two games <Waitzkin> heavily analyzes in this opening, and yes Nf6 is normally played but in both games white did suffer an isolani a bit later on.

<Waitzkin> says something similar to you, that if black goes for dxc4 it's very good for white. And in the games I played so far on Yahoo Black has in fact gone for dxc4 each time (five games against 1500-1600 opposition.

The five opponents all beat me, but all paused for a think after c4.

I don't think the opening is well known among the 1550 Yahoo set.

Jess of the <Chess Shtruggle>, as <Josh> pronounces it. He can't say the letter <s>.

Robertson Davies

It's probably sound enough to become fashionable, but I agree with Eyal about not playing ...dxc4 at once.

Lev Psakhis, in his 2003 book on the Exchange, Advance and other Anti-French Variations, says 4.c4 is "an interesting move which radically alters the pawn structure and considerably reduces the drawish factors that are so characteristic of this variation. Objectively speaking, White can scarcely reckon on an advantage, especially against accurate play by Black, yet he does undoubtedly set his opponent some problems."

'He' does, does 'he'? Don't she-persons ever play this stuff, Lev?

<newt>

Salamander or Gingrich?

Or is there a difference?

May-06-07
Nigel Short: By the way, did anyone notice that I won with the English Opening yesterday? I think that it is the first time in my life that I played 1.c4 in a serious game. Who says that you can't teach an old dog new tricks? :-)>

LMAO!!

hahHAHAHAHAHAAHA

thanks for the tip, <major domo>.

Am I a <harem castoff>? Probably not cuz i was never "cast in" in the first place.

LOL <old dog> indeed. I wish I had his wife's email so I could forward his incredibly clumsy <mash note email> to me.

I'm sure she'd be thrilled.

Jess of the giggling unconrtollably.

On the opposite tack, I played slowly through one of the games <Kurtz> drew against <Kaspy>- a Fischer-Sozin in which <Short> got out of hot water with an inventive attack kingside giving him perpetual.

Dam that guy can play chess.