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| Posted by p8ntballjunky1 ability-tw.com 8/09/2002 16:57:05 |  Subject: KING'S GAMBIT ??Message: HELP ME, SHOULD I TAKE IT OR NO! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by acne ability-tw.com 8/09/2002 20:30:22 | Message: i almost always take it, played the declined only once. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by pbarts89 ability-tw.com 8/09/2002 20:47:07 | I think you have this posted in two forums... Message: but yes take it! You'll have fun ——— Iceland Court Hands Bobby Fischer Estate to Japanese Claimant — A long fight over the estate of the chess champion Bobby Fischer appears to have reached its endgame, with a court ruling that a Japanese woman is indeed his widow and heir. A district court in Iceland, where Mr. Fischer spent the last years of his life, ruled Wednesday that Miyoko Watai, a pharmacist and the president of the Japan Chess Association, had been married to Mr. Fischer and was therefore entitled to inherit his estate. Mr. Fischer, who died in January 2008, left no will; his estate is said to be worth about $2 million. Mr. Fischer’s nephews, Alexander and Nicholas Targ, who also filed a claim to the estate, plan to appeal the ruling to the Icelandic Supreme Court, said ... Posted by persianelephant | ability-tw.com 8/09/2002 21:05:40 Message: Why wouldn't you take the pawn? ——— Book Review: ‘Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall’ — Bobby Fischer was a bad man. A bad friend, he easily took offense, cut off those who helped him and held lifetime grudges. A bad American, he renounced his citizenship and went on the radio to gloat at our nation’s tragedy on Sept. 11, 2001. A bad son, he lived for years off his mother’s Social Security pension. A bad person all round: hateful, angry, grandiose, most likely, at least for a period, insane. Fischer wouldn’t just say awful things; he screamed them. But he was a good chess player, not just good, great, maybe the greatest, and brought the game of chess to its pinnacle of international acclaim in the game’s very long history — his chess match against Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky in ... Posted by tulkos | ability-tw.com 8/10/2002 07:47:22 Practice makes perfect---Message: you'll probably lose your first games,but then you'll learn more about the opening and start to win yourself.declining is safer,but you get a worse position---at least thats my experience. ——— Chess: Anand takes his time — Sometimes it can be worth sacrificing a piece – if you play the long game. Anand-Wang Hao, Wijk aan Zee 2011. White has sacrificed a piece for two pawns. How should he continue? RB: I would never have the nerve to make the kind of positional sacrifice Anand has made here, no matter how unimportant the game. The only way I can think of to try to make something of the impressive central pawn phalanx is to push the pawn – 1 d5. Wait a minute! Doesn't that regain the piece at once? If Black tries to retreat the bishop with 1...Bc8 the d-pawn will cause mayhem: 2 d6 and Black will be forced to take with the rook (or 2...Qb8 3 dxe7) ... Posted by philaretus | ability-tw.com 8/10/2002 08:36:02 The opinion of theorists....Message: .....is that the King's Gambit Declined is more difficult than the King's Gambit Accepted, so that to begin with you're advised to accept. ——— Team Championship Rewards the Whimsical and the Skilled — Amateur team championships are held every year over the Presidents’ Day weekend in four cities, and they are the most popular chess tournaments of the year. For some players, it is the only tournament they enter all year, and people plot for weeks to come up with the ideal team lineup. They must keep in mind that results are based on the score of the four players on each team, whose average ratings cannot exceed 2,200, the level of a chess master. For all the planning, though, winners get only congratulations and a set of chess clocks. The biggest of the four chess events this year was held in Parsippany, N.J., and attracted almost 1,200 players. The chess tournament, as usual, had ... Posted by certainratio | ability-tw.com 8/10/2002 13:43:12 consider decliningMessage: I personally have a much better record with 2...d5 than with 2...exf4. CertainRatio ——— On Chess: As his fame grows, Nakamura hopes others take up game — A little more than four years ago, Hikaru Nakamura wrote: "We shall see what the future holds for me, but, as of right now, playing chess professionally is not on my mind." After his astonishing victory last month at the Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands - ahead of stars such as Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik - the 23-year-old American expressed hope that other young U.S. players might see a future in chess because of his success. Nakamura, indeed, is an inspiring phenomenon. He is fearless. As he once explained, "There is no point in taking draws." He is also relentless, quickly putting even painful losses behind him and ... Posted by adrianallen | ability-tw.com 8/12/2002 07:45:52 Check out old gamesMessage: Do a search on www.chessgames.com for kings gambit and look at games won by white in 10 moves or under. All the games I checked were accepted, so it gives you an idea of what not to do :) Posted by brunetti | ability-tw.com 8/12/2002 10:00:00 No.Message: You can't get an idea by looking at short blunder-featuring games (that's the case if White wins in 10 moves)! You should make a search, instead, of games played by two players rated, say, at least 2300, and compare the results. Nowadays the best defences are considered the Modern (2...exf4 3.Nf3 d5), Fischer (2...exf4 3.Nf3 d6 followed by ...g5 and ...h6), and KG declined with 2...Bc5, some complex lines of Nimzowitsch 2...d5 3...c6, and 2...Qh4+ 3.g3 Qe7. Alex Posted by adrianallen | ability-tw.com 8/13/2002 12:38:50 I guessMessage: But not making the same blunders is always good. Posted by p8ntballjunky1 | ability-tw.com 8/14/2002 13:12:05 Message: thank you all very much for the help Posted by paulvalle | ability-tw.com 8/14/2002 18:04:15 BrunettiMessage: tell me more about 2...Qh4+ 3.g3 Qe7, is it really considered one of the best defences? what is the idea behind it? Posted by p8ntballjunky1 | ability-tw.com 8/15/2002 18:04:02 Message: i guess it is half and half then, i still am unsure!! Posted by p8ntballjunky1 | ability-tw.com 8/18/2002 09:59:11 Message: thx.for all the help !! Posted by keiserpaul | ability-tw.com 8/18/2002 10:27:27 paul valleMessage: The idea behind 2. .. Qh4+ 3.g3 Qe7 is that g2-g3 create weakness and that Black has a strong reply on 4.fxe5 ( and that's 4. .. d6 ) |