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Hi people, Is this a good book for a 1700-1800 rated player? Regards

I played a game on ICC today as black where I got rather lost in the opening. Following 1. e4, I played 1...e6 with the intension of playing the French Defence. But my opponent did not reply with the usual 2. d4, but instead 2. f4, which rather took me by surprise. Afterwards he did not seem too keen to discuss the game (despite he won), but said it was the King's gambit. Yet when I stuck the...

I've recently had to re-install Fritz 8 on my laptop. I go to File, Print, Publish Game to publish my games on my various websites and after it asks for a filename and I select a directory to save the files to, it acts like it's publishing. After about 20 seconds, I get this pop-up message: "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error!

Hi, I am not sure of the name of this opening, maybe just Queen's Pawn, but would like to know what you think about it from each side's perspective, thanks.

I have posted this message recently in rec.games.misc but haid no answers. Maybe here I will have some help. I worked hard recently to improve the presentation of the studies on my site (Benko, Timman, Kasparian, Kubbel, Smyslov) Click on the chessbox at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jmrw/index.htm I would like to know if there are still imperfections with the presentation wich can vary with the OS...

I played this game with Black, and was very disappointed to loase because I failed to punish White's inferior choice of opening. Could anyone please analyse and tell me where I went wrong (or, at what point the game was lost ?) 1)d4 d5 2)c4 e6 3)Nc3 Nf6 4) Nf3 Nbd7 5)c5 !! ...c6 (if b6 6.c6!) 6)b4 Be7 7)Bf4 b6 8)Qa4 Bb7 9)e3 a5 10)b5 Qc8 11)Ne5 Ne5 12)Be5 bc 13)bc Bc5 (winning a pawn) 14)Rc1 Bb4...

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Drew an expert for the first time last week at the Interservice Chess Championships. Not a very pretty game, but one I'm proud of nonetheless. I would like to hear some comments on it -- especially about the endgame. I know 56.Kf2? is bad because it allows black to infiltrate my side of the board for a perpetual, but if 56.Kf1 instead, does white have winning chances with the extra pawn? All...

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How about this? Test all players for drugs, but don't punish anyone. Instead, use the results as the basis for an academic study of whether or not any drugs can enhance chess performance. This would let FIDE probe every player, and maybe advance humanity a bit. Might even lead to a few breakthroughs.

im sure these openings are positionally weak, so if someone can point out a huge flaw in them, other than being weird, id appreciate it. 1.c4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.d4 or 1.c4 d5 2.f4 dxc4 3.e4 both of which carry the idea of the bishops taking the c and f pawns, establishing a two to 1 or possibly 2 to none pawn center. any thoughts? has this been analyzed before in major works? thanks.

im sure these openings are positionally weak, so if someone can point out a huge flaw in them, other than being weird, id appreciate it. 1.c4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.d4 or 1.c4 d5 2.f4 dxc4 3.e4 both of which carry the idea of the bishops taking the c and f pawns, establishing a two to 1 or possibly 2 to none pawn center. any thoughts? has this been analyzed before in major works? thanks.

On 24 Jun 2004 10:02:24 GMT, (John Fernandez) wrote: Sam Sloan wrote: Thanks for explaining this. I had often wondered how it could be that you were running a tournament at the Marshall Chess Club and then running home to post something here the same night. Often I do, I have a few hours of website work every week after the event.

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Check out the opening played by Ni Hua (GM from China, rated 2587). He had the misfortune to get paired against his compatriot, Ye Jaingchuan in the 2nd Round of the FIDE WC. Thus, the last two reaming Chinese players had to play each other, and one would be eliminated. The match between Ni and Ye was tied after the first two "slow" games. So, they played 2 rapid games. Then 2 blitz games with...

Gata Kamsky really is Back!! Any doubts that Gata Kamsky has returned were erased last night when he showed up again to play in the weekly New York Masters tournament. After a ten-year absence from USCF Chess, Kamsky has now played two weeks in a row. It seems obvious that Kamsky is preparing for next week's World Open in Philadelphia, with a $180,000 guaranteed prize fund. Kamsky was still off...