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Dec-24-24 TheAlchemist chessforum   TheAlchemist: Thank you, you too!      Dec-09-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    TheAlchemist: The genius of Ding's play to me was how (except Nb5) he made moves solely on his own half of the board and in 25 moves he completely outplayed Gukesh.      Oct-28-23 D Lazavik vs Wojtaszek, 2023    TheAlchemist: White played a seemingly clever sacrifice, but the refutation on move 25 was simply stunning      May-09-23 M Kolesar vs O Sikorova, 1998    TheAlchemist: <goodevans: Will we have another Milan-based pun tomorrow when its two big football teams face each other in the Champions League Semi-Final? https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsl... It's a huge reach, but you could call it even timelier. Unfortunately Slovaks call it ...      Apr-30-23 Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren, 2023    TheAlchemist: Amazing, what a finish, what a match. Congratulations, Ding!      Nov-08-22 D Citra vs R Vaishali, 2016    TheAlchemist: Great pun!      Aug-08-22 European Team Championship (2001)   TheAlchemist: I'd have to dig out contemporary magazines to be sure, but I think it said Black simply left the playing hall and never returned, leaving everyone puzzled (teammates included).      Jun-26-22 David Moody    TheAlchemist: Terrible news. Rest in peace, PB.      Oct-17-21 Keres vs A Sakovski, 1936    TheAlchemist: I also forgot to add that both of those are masculine forms, the feminine one would be "šahistka". I was a bit too fast with the reply.      May-25-21 A Ilyin vs A Model, 1932    TheAlchemist: <OCF> Zheneral?

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 35 OF 129 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-08-07    dakgootje: <<Swapmeet> AND <dakky> AND <Rocafella> has been reported missing by the police.> Even if I wasn't kidnapped I wouldn't have been able to help at the opening =P Feb-08-07    Marco65: <Zebra> Read my posts, we now all agree that 8.Be2 Qb6 is not a good option, your knowledge of Scheveningen-like positions just confirm that. <TheAlchemist> <That was probably to prevent Be3> Yes, I said to myself if 12.Be3 Qb4 who cares, but now after taking care of b2 White can castle kingside while on b6 the queen keeps preventing that. Thanks Feb-08-07    Zebra: <Marco> I have read your posts. I wasn't taking issue with your recommendations, I was trying to clear up a misunderstanding arising from my earlier post. :) Feb-08-07    hitman84: <TheAlchemist> fin pesem! <I like 8.f3 Qb6 better than 8.Be2 Qb6>sem se strinjal! <Dak>Niet werkstuk, geleerdheid ervaring. <Marco>Grande analisi! Feb-08-07    Marco65: <hitman84> How come anybody can speak Italian? Uffa! (I bet you won't get this!) Feb-08-07    TTLump: This will probably be my last post before our next move is posted, so I am going to make a conditional vote. I vote 7... Nc6 on the condition that if White plays 8.Be2, that we respond 8...Nf6, otherwise I vote 7...Nf6 right away. Feb-08-07    hitman84: <Marco>boh! Feb-08-07    Zebra: I will do the same as <TTLump>, though I may look in again before voting time. Thanks for your analysis, guys. (I can use that in Canada to include girls, right?) Feb-08-07    TTLump: <hitman84: <TheAlchemist> fin pesem! <I like 8.f3 Qb6 better than 8.Be2 Qb6>sem se strinjal! ...> in keeping with the burgeoning international flavor of this forum, "moi aussi!" in fact, "Je n'aime pas <8.Be2 Qb6> du toute!" Feb-08-07    TTLump: <Zebra: I will do the same as <TTLump>, though I may look in again before voting time. Thanks for your analysis, guys. (I can use that in Canada to include girls, right?)> I know a girl in Massachusetts whose name is "Guy". Feb-08-07    chessmoron: 7...Nc6 What move should we make after 8. h3? Feb-08-07    chessmoron: Do we move Qb6 and let White create a double pawn structure and exchange our queens in this beginning stages? Feb-08-07    Marco65: <I vote 7... Nc6 on the condition that if White plays 8.Be2, that we respond 8...Nf6> That is likely to happen, but probably not with my vote! I prefer 8.Be2 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 e5 Feb-08-07    hitman84: <Chessmoron> <7...Nc6 What move should we make after 8. h3?> zhù F liù Feb-08-07    chessmoron: Any possibilities that they are going to exchange Knights after we move Nc6? Feb-08-07    hitman84: <Chessmoron>They'll lose another tempo! Feb-08-07    Zebra: <chessmoron> Good question. I thought Nf6 had to be OK, as h3 looks like a wasted tempo; but several good players have lost as black in that position, so we have to be a bit careful. <TTLump> Poor Guy. I knew a girl who liked to be called Reg because she was against "gender-specific names" on principle. Not a principle I care for myself. Feb-08-07    chessmoron: <but several good players have lost as black in that position, so we have to be a bit careful.> Those lost are all caused by blundering and weak mid-game NOT by opening. Feb-08-07    Zebra: That is what I would imagine, but I was just saying. Personally I think it looks fine. h3 is not usually played in the Keres attack, so I don't see any reason to be frightened of it. Feb-08-07    TheAlchemist: <hitman84> Close enough :-) <Marco65> I don't know how to translate "uffa" exactly into English, but I know it's an expression used when youre fed up or annoyed. I uderstand Italian reasonably well, but am totally out of practice as far as speaking, or writing for that matter, is concerned. Now things got really messy around here, Nc6 doesn't even seem to be prevailing anymore. Any second thoughts? Feb-08-07    Zebra: Something that's confusing me about this page: Opening Explorer. Anybody else? Feb-08-07    TheAlchemist: <Zebra> The opening explorer only recognises the resulting positions (wth the same colour to move), not the move order that led up to it. Feb-08-07    Zebra: That makes it a bit difficult to figure out what white usually does in this position when black sends them back to think again. Feb-08-07    TheAlchemist: <Zebra> I don't know, maybe a (slow) way is to go to Opening Explorer, click on the links to the games below, i.e.: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Feb-08-07    jessicafischerqueen: Captain let's post our Nc6? There is a quorum on it now, and we're already <Marco, Alchemist, Zebra> investigating lines after Nc6, sooner we get the move in now the better, no? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 129) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 35 OF 129 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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