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| Posted by adrianallen ability-tw.com 7/15/2002 06:59:26 |  Subject: Sicilian AlternativesMessage: Not had amazing amounts of Sucess with the Sicilian. I have played Petroffs defence a few times as both black and white, with some success on both sides. E4 E5 Ktf3 Ktf6 Anyone else ever use this? and what are peoples views on this as an answer to E4? I like it because it stops having to play against the Ruy Lopez as black (Which I have played as white for years and served me pretty well). Any other Alternatives that are worth looking at, I have looked at Philidors Defence (But it is difficult to equalise with this) and centre counter (which I think is a bit underrated if you know it very well) | ||||
| Posted by snyper ability-tw.com 7/15/2002 07:41:01 | I like the pirc! Message: Pirc! | ||||
| Posted by certainratio ability-tw.com 7/15/2002 09:14:01 | try Message: 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 and then possibly the Icelandic Gambit. -CertainRatio ——— On Chess: Is struggling Anand looking ahead? — Recent months haven’t been kind to reigning world chess champion Viswanathan Anand, who posted mediocre results in three consecutive chess tournaments. His last effort — the London Chess Classic, in which he scored six draws, one loss and just one win — was, in his words and by his standards, “a disaster” not befitting the status of world chess champion. No doubt he was distracted, in part, by preparations for an upcoming May title defense against Boris Gelfand in Moscow’s renowned Tretyakov art gallery — a venue that Anand hopes will inspire “ beautiful and artistic chess.” Based on their past performances in hundreds of games, Anand is an almost a 3-to-2 favorite to win the 12-game match. He also has ... Posted by onlyapawn | ability-tw.com 7/15/2002 09:52:15 :)Message: 1.e4 e6 "The French" :))))) ——— Chess: The Year in Review — Chess again crossed paths with politics in 2011, with the most remarkable moment occurring in Tripoli, Libya, during the NATO bombing campaign against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the World Chess Federation president, flew to Libya in June and played Qaddafi. Ilyumzhinov had known the Libyan leader since at least 2004, and there was speculation that he was on a mission to try to end the war. The game ended in a draw, but the war continued. (Tripoli fell to the rebels two months later, and Qaddafi was killed in October.) Politics also shadowed an achievement by Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, an Iranian chess grandmaster who set a record in February by playing 614 people at ... Posted by persianelephant | ability-tw.com 7/15/2002 13:20:10 Message: c6! ——— Marc Lang catches the eye by breaking world blindfold record — When Miguel Najdorf played 45 chess games simultaneously blindfold in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1947 the exhibition took over 23 hours, including an interval for Najdorf to change his perspiration-soaked shirt and rest his eyes. Later the Hungarian Janos Flesch played 52 games without sight of the board, but his claim unravelled because many opponents resigned after a few moves, and it seemed that Najdorf's performance would never be approached. But last month a little-known 41-year-old 2300-rated German chess master, Marc Lang, toppled the record with 46 games in 21 hours. In previous years Lang set a German record, then broke George Koltanowski's historic European mark of 34 games played at ... |