It doesn't matter who the player is. Heck, he could have looked it up on the
USCF site.

Folks got all worked up because I posted a crticism of a badly played
opening. You know what? If it were me playing I would expect the same. I
don't believe in having a condecending attitude towards a player just
because that player is a woman. If that player plyed like a 1000 ELO player,
I will say so.

The above question was a sincere quest for opinions yet yo want to twist it
around. I could be as rude as you are but i won't. it seems you're reading
more into the post than anyone else. Stop being so judgemental.

If you have nothing positive to contribute to the post why even bother? Did
you even try to analise the position?

I'm done.
"Nick" wrote in message
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Claus-Jürgen Heigl wrote:
John J. wrote:
r1bqkb1r/ppp5/3p1nn1/2PPp2p/4Pp2/1NN2Pp1/PP2BBPP/2RQK2R w Kkq - 0 16

In this position Cottrel played Bg1. What's wrong with hxg3?
I don't see any immediate attacks by Black.

The basic difference is that f4 becomes available to the black knights
after hxg3 fxg3 or Lh6. I can't say if that's enough for the pawn.
Do you have a game score? Looking for masters games in this
variation may help in the evaluation.

Cottrel also doesn't appear on FIDE's Elo list. It may be that he
(or she?) doesn't have an Elo which might also be an explanation.

1) Her name is Kelly Cottrell-Finegold. (John J. misspelled it.)

2) Kelly Cottrell has a FIDE rating of 1887.

3) Kelly Cottrell has a USCF rating of 1717
(her last published USCF rating is 1663).

4) By the way, she is married to IM Ben Finegold.

John J. already has shown that he's a careless writer who tends to
post without being clear enough in his writing or careful enough with
his facts.

In rec.games.chess.misc, John J. created a thread, "What's
with the Class B rated player", apparently in order to criticise
Kelly Cottrell-Finegold for playing in the 2006 US Championship.
Please read my posts in that RGCM thread if you are interested in
factually accurate comments about Kelly Cottrell-Finegold's rating.

In rec.games.chess.misc, John J. created a thread, "How
not to play the Benko Gambit", apparently in order to ridicule
how Kelly Cottrell-Finegold lost a game to IM Dmitry Schneider.
Some other writers in that thread took exception to John J's
comments about Kelly Cottrell-Finegold.

--Nick