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Sep-17-12
 | | perfidious: <hms123> must be aging a little, but in fairness, now that I'm past fifty, it's tougher to chase down them ambyoolances. They're too damn fast and they got them sireeens that make all that noise. |
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| Sep-20-12 | | crawfb5: I played in a lot of local/state events and only one US Open, so I don't have near as many opponents in the database as others around here. Pohl would not remember me. I lost to him once a long time ago in a state event. I know Joan and Ernie Schlich quite well. We were the three local TDs when we were all in Charleston, SC together. |
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Sep-20-12
| | perfidious: <crawfb5> Same here-there's little or no chance Pohl would remember our single tournament meeting in fall 1976 at Burlington, Vermont, though I let him out after getting a won position; at the time, I was ~1700 and he was already c 400 points higher. Bet he'd recall our blitz encounters in Montreal in the 1990s, though. Klaus wasn't bad, but I scored heavily against him at $2 per game. Long before meeting Joan Schlich, I remember seeing her name as a TD in SC, but the only time we met was at that US Open mentioned on your page. Never actually met Ernie, though I remember him playing in some larger New England events in the 1980s and 1990s. Ernie was ~1700 or so back then-my recollections are hazy, to put it mildly. |
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| Sep-20-12 | | crawfb5: Ernie was career Navy. I know Joan went to at least one Open when he was at sea. Otherwise, they both would have been playing bridge. After he retired from the Navy, they moved to NH, I think, for a time. Then I think they moved to NY state for a while, then to VA, which is where they are now. That sounds about right for his rating. |
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| Sep-26-12 | | thomastonk: Dear Alan, I saw recently that you called the 1974 candidates final a "de facto title match". I know what you mean, but I think "de facto" means something slightly different. The match between Karpov and Korchnoi was "de jure" and "de facto" a candidates final. If, hypothethically, Fischer had declared before or during this match that he would not defend his title, then it would have been a "de facto" title match. But Fischer negotiated with FIDE until 1975. |
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| Sep-26-12 | | Shams: <thomastonk> Your point seems to be that 'de facto' status cannot be conferred retroactively. Is that the case? |
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| Sep-27-12 | | Shams: <perfidious> What do you think of double fianchetto setups against the Dutch? |
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| Sep-28-12 | | thomastonk: <Shams> Yes, you got it. "De facto" is used, if there is a descrepancy between the formal situation and the real one just when the event is happening. |
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| Sep-29-12 | | shivasuri4: <Shams>, doesn't the b2-bishop get temporarily wasted, blocked as it is by the d4 pawn? I'd prefer playing Bg5, and subsequently exchanging the bishop for black's knight if possible. |
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Oct-02-12
| | perfidious: <thomastonk> Would ex post facto be correct, then? |
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Oct-02-12
| | perfidious: <Shams> Never played one of those systems as far as I remember. |
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Oct-02-12
| | perfidious: <shivasuri4> At the end of my playing days, 2.Bg5 was my weapon of choice against the Dutch, and was featured in my last but one serious game (A Shaw vs J Curdo, 2001), though the game was hardly a masterpiece. |
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| Oct-02-12 | | morfishine: Yes <perfidious>, Its a pity about the Red Sox. It seems to have started last year when they went on that horrendous losing streak at the end and wound up being knocked out of the playoffs (by the Orioles) on the last day of season. As much as I dislike the Yanks, I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the Red Sox...Perhaps this is related to my admiration of Red Sox greats like Ted Williams and 'Yaz' and Rice and on and on...Of course, for me, the Orioles are my team |
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| Oct-03-12 | | thomastonk: <perfidious: Would ex post facto be correct, then?> Well, could be correct de jure, but de facto who will understand that?! ;-) |
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| Oct-11-12 | | Jafar219: What do you mean? |
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| Oct-12-12 | | Shams: <perfidious> What do you think White's best is on 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4<?>:
click for larger viewI've been playing 3.e3 but 3...Nc6 scores too well for Black. What do you think of 3.g3<?> |
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| Oct-12-12 | | parmetd: Dear perfidious,
Please enjoy this quote as much as I do:
"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place, then come down and shoot the survivors." - Ernest Hemingway |
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Oct-12-12
 | | WannaBe: Like. +1 |
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Oct-13-12
| | perfidious: Been a while since I posted here, so I'll take things one at a time: <Shams> My knowledge of that opening is next to nil after 2....d4, but I wonder whether 3.b4 is another possibility. About the only thing I remember is that, as you say, 3.e3 Nc6 gives Black few problems-possibly this goes as far back as one of the Euwe-Alekhine championship games. |
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Oct-13-12
| | perfidious: <parmetd> Nice one from Hemingway, and typically direct. |
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| Oct-13-12 | | Shams: <perfidious> <My knowledge of [<1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4>] is next to nil after 2....d4, but I wonder whether 3.b4 is another possibility.> Sure is, also seen in play between the two players you mentioned:
Euwe vs Alekhine, 1926
But both 3...f6 and 3...Bg4 score well for Black, per the opening explorer. Short made the latter line look pretty effective in this game:
E Ghaem Maghami vs Short, 2003
As far as <3.g3> goes, my basic question is whether I'm looking for anything other than a Benoni reversed with e2-e3/exd4. I quite like this Larsen game, where White may or may not have been intending to move his e-pawn, but things took a turn and White was playing a Benko reversed, which I've never seen before.
Larsen vs Chandler, 1987 |
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| Oct-14-12 | | Everett: <perfidious> Thank you for the invite to look at some of <Shams> ideas. Regarding the double fianchetto in the Dutch, it is not the system that worries me most when I play Black, since I prefer the Classical. Vs the Stonewall it makes more sense, but I have no idea vs the Leningrad, since I get blown up on both sides if those positions and avoid them. The thing is, bishops often just suck in the Dutch Stonewall if you are not careful, and even the Ba3 lines to swap off DSBs seems to allow an earlier than usual ..e5 from Black. This is not a double fianchetto, but note the play of pieces V Sergeev vs Glek, 2004 |
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| Oct-14-12 | | Everett: <Shams> I think 3.g3 is the most flexible continuation in the Reti-advanced, and most principled. A player to check out for ideas (with colors reversed) is Velimirovic. He does not commit either ..b5 nor ..e6 early, and I often play this way as White when I am at my most responsible. But let me give you some fun <meaning dubious> ideas from my own brain: After 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4 I also play, <in addition to my favorite 3.Na3> the interesting 3.e4. Most times I receive 3..Nc6 in return, to which one can reply either 4.c5!? or 4.e5?! I'm sure even 3.Bd3 is possible here. Please let me know if you are interested in discussing any of these lines in particular. |
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Oct-20-12
| | perfidious: From <Ragh> in his Notable Chess Quotes: <If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off. [Nigel Short]> In the 1997 Vermont championship, Michael Casella proposed a draw in what seemed to me a balanced position when our scores were 2/3, and the first thought that ran through my head was that there was not the ghost of a chance he would make the offer if he were not afraid of something. After spending most of my remaining time in futile search of anything in the position, I accepted my opponent's offer. Casella then admitted that he had feared some possible play which I had analysed as coming to nothing and was put out with himself that he had offered the draw. |
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| Oct-31-12 | | Shams: Saw a fantastic ESPN documentary today on the 1962 Ole Miss football team and their undefeated 1962 season...1962 also being the year Ole Miss admitted its first black student, James Meredith. It's called "Ghosts of Mississippi" and you should catch it if you can, for the interviews at least. Obviously I learned a lot more than you would by watching it. Sounds like the Governor at the time was something of a joke until he stood up to the Kennedys. |
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