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Below the "most" favourable line for white after 5.d4 Qe7 and gaining a 3 pawn centre. There are still some alternatives left for black and white to deviate from this line. Black for example might try to push the b-pawn forward, or play 6.g6 with a later Bg7. Best regards, Fernando

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Dear all, are you searching for millions of free downloadable chess-games for your database? Just have a look at: http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~balzer/chessgames.html It is a collection of links which link to WWW-pages all around the world where you can download chessgames in various formats (pgn, cbf, cbv, nic,...) for free!

Played at the Iowa Open this weekend. Motto for this game: "Damn the torpedoes.....full speed ahead!" (Had a little sputtering during the middlegame, but came out alright in the end.) Any and all comments are welcome. (7) Hesse,Tom (1724) - Nemmers,Matt (1617) 49th Iowa Open (5), 07.09.2003

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In the following game, in which I played White, my opponent played the unusual 2...b6, and I think I proceeded in an acceptable manner to win the game. However, I can't help but think that there must be a more direct response to 2...b6. I cannot find 2...b6 in any openings book. Any suggestions? Thanks! 1. d2-d4 d7-d5 2. c2-c4 b7-b6 3. b1-c3 e7-e6 4. c1-f4 f8-b4 5. a1-c1 g8-f6

I am looking for studies (not mate in x moves) where the theme Plachutta or Novotny occur. If you can give me the start position of these studies, it would be fine o) Thanks For example below is a Plachutta :

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:36:17 +0200, "Fernando" wrote: Below you can find my analysis of this line. It will be the last analysis to see which way the opening should lead. This contains quite enough material to show the strength and weaknesses of both players in this opening. I shall post a couple of the games of the Cochrane Gambit which I am now still playing (7...

Hi all, There's a beatutiful chess database program called SCID (see http://scid.sourceforge.net/). I used it for quite some time. Now, I needed to reinstall my windows, and decided to download scid again. However, now it turns out that the reference database of 500.000+ games is no longer available for download. The author of SCID claims to put a new database there

Hello, motivated by Fernando's problems I composed a little problem of my own. It's not too difficult, your favorite chess engine will solve it in a millisecond. So try it alone. The position is so simple that it could have been done before though I do not know it. I hope you will find it of practical value. White to begin and draw:

Ruy Lopez Anti-Marshall C88 - Wolff,Patrick G 2565 - Blatny,Pavel 2515 1996 1/2-1/2 Has Black's play been refuted? (Or did I just mess it up - twice?) The first 16 moves of this game we 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0–0 8.a4 Bb7 9.d3 d6 10.Nbd2 Nd7 11.Nf1 Nc5 12.axb5 axb5 13.Rxa8 Qxa8 14.Bd5 Nd8 15.Bxb7 Qxb7 16.Ng3 g6

Hi all, I seem to be stuck in my progress on playing chess. Very often I encounter the problem, that after a decent opening, which maybe even left me with an advantage, I don't know how to proceed. This is especially the case if there seem to be no possibilities for tactical gains - I'm just lacking a plan. Take this as an example, me playing...

1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Bd2 Nxc3 7. bxc3 Be7 8. Bd3 d6 9. h4 dxe5 10. dxe5 O-O 11. Bxh7+ Kxh7 12. Ng5+ Kg8 13. Qh5 Bxg5 14. hxg5 f6 15. g6 Qxd2+ 16. Kxd2 Rd8+ 17. Ke2 Rd2+ 18. Kxd2 Kf8 19. Qh8+ Ke7 20. Qxg7+ Kd8 21. Rh8#

Sometimes I think I should go back to it and force myself to learn how to play knights vs bishops in the middle game. You hit the nail on the head about this opening. Chigorin is sound but you are playing an opening where you will have knights against bishops. The problem is the positions in the chigorin favor the bishops a lot of the time. Your position is sound but to get anywhere in the...

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