Sadly, he was only <Scriabin> for about a week.

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=VK2uT...

He was a genius.

Almost impossible to play, but surely findable on YouTube (Horowitz has a famous rendition of it)

Thanks for this!

"I'll have to take the jacket off - very thrilling piece..."

(I once specialized in mimicking Horowitz with those expressions of his....)

(copywright by <chessmoron>)

Heh

you're just jealous cuz we haven't given you a nickname yet.

I will consult with <Mommy> and we will get back to you on that.

Actually I secretly like your Baby, as i said in my first ever post to you.

Good Grief man I'm not getting them accounts.

I have a free 10 year membership to <Letsplaychess.com> that I got by agreeing to do some video analysis on a few games with my Engine.

I'm just finishing up one Correspondence game there, and then I'm not playing any more for the forseeable future.

My Chess destiny until I can get back to a country with an actual Chess Club is this:

<Yahoo> only.

<2 hours each> time control only.

That's it man!!

Also, normally I can only play one day a week- Saturday.

My job takes up most of my intellectual energy.

No blitz, no Correspondence tournaments ever again for me.

Blitz destroys my chess game and like I said, Correspondence interferes with my sanity because it's so slow-- I keep dreaming and obsessing about the positions.

My goal is to get back to a place with an OTB chess club, only play long time controls, and finally enter some tournaments.

<Jess> A belated EMU flew into yer mailbox a few minutes ago!

Congrats on your two wins today btw...

AROOOBA

Ok when I started studying the KID, it took me a long time to figure out why Black can play <...e5> from this position:

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Yes, I know it's perfectly "elementary" but it drove me nuts-- I saw this move played a lot and I kept thinking "doesn't this just lose a pawn for nothing?"

OF course it doesn't, but I maintain it's not easy to see why if you play casually. In fact, in <Kingscrusher's> first video where he analyzes a KID, he actually takes time to explain why <6...e5> doesn't lose a pawn for Black.

OK- to my game: I am currently in the 1800 range on <yahoo> at 2 hours a side time control, and holding steady there. But all my time at CG.com has taught me more about Opening Theory than most players at my ratings level typically know-- so I have a kind of "artificially" high rating in a sense.

IE- to get to 2000 I'll have to improve tactical vision, positional skill, and end game ability, because at that level my opponents will know at least as much as me about Opening Theory. Not now though, HAHAHAA.

heh.

Ok so this guy is some kind of Bobby Fischer fan I think cuz he whips out

1.c4

Ack no way I"m playing a symmetrical English or an English of any kind, simply because I don't know the proper moves.

Luckily, I can just force a transposition to a KID:

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. e4 d6 4. d4 Bg7 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 e5

and now he hands me the initiative on a plate cuz he doesn't know that he can't take my <e-pawn> for free:

7.dxe5 dxe5
8.Nxe5?

heh Nope

8...Qxe1+
9.Bxe1 Nxe4
10.Nxe4 Bxe5
11.0-0

My move now from this position:

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ok now Black has a very "easy" game-- Not because it's "won"- far from it. I worked hard to win from here.

However, at 12- ply <Shredder> gives Black about a third of a pawn advantage, and why not? White has essentially handed Black the first move advantage by trying to steal the "e pawn."

OK Here is my main question: Why is it so difficult (and not just for me) to see that White cannot get a free e-pawn here?

Second question: Is there any move order in which the <1.c4> player can force Black to avoid transposing into a KID?

I need to know...

Any thoughts on the KID questions I asked?

I'm pretty hopped up about it because I won with it for the first time in my life today.

"I thought Sonny was a bad Don..."

THREE AMIGOS-- hmmm...

Perhaps yet another case of greed trumping reason. As always the remedy is to do the work even when it seems obvious.

<Second question: Is there any move order in which the <1.c4> player can force Black to avoid transposing into a KID?>

<User: Tres Hombres>?>

There's another more common Queen exchanging variation you need to look at, and that's 7.dxe5 dxe5 8.Qxd8 (ugh, hate those people who do this) Rxd8 9.Bg5 (they can't get anymore annoying) Opening Explorer

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thanks for your answers!!

Is it me, you, and the alchemist?

Great to hear from you.

Yes, I know the position you posted there as well.

Bloody cheeky, for sure.

However, I like when they take my e-pawn, as the entire reason I'm trying to learn the KID is so I don't have to play closed games against 1.d4 and 1.c4 and 1.Nf3 and such things.

BOOM YOURANG told me I have to learn why certain lines shoudlnt be played by tactical battles in open positions before i can learn to be a "positional player."

I think that's what he said anyways.

I just like to move the pieces around and smash them in to each other, mainly.

Do you like the closed positions in the wonderful world of 1,d4, Captain?

Well, the center does tend to get closed if they play d5 instead of dxe5. Then it usually comes down to white attacking on the queenside and black on the kingside (pawn storm), where White is usually faster, but has to be very careful. I'm sure you've seen many examples of both.

<Do you like the closed positions in the wonderful world of 1,d4, Captain?>

I thought it would have been Clemenza..>

And if he'll ever do a "search kibitzing" on <capin> -- these are two of the hundreds of posts where he'll see "his name" mentioned:

< HI CAPIN!!

Yes, I have to agree. I was just analyzing <Bolshoi Ballet v. Krupp Steel> last night, in preparation.

CAPIN topPPY has JUST SACCED HIS KNIGHT ON MOVE 12

HOLY CRAPPAMUNKY >

I'm LITERALLY "ROFLMAO"

Regards,
Mr. Faversham
Bordering senile