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Openings and mastering them . - 2006/06/27 02:48 One thing that I should have mentioned in my previous post is that I often do well with middlegames in which either king has castled on the opposite wing. E.g.:
1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6 3. e4 Be7 4. e5 Nd5 5. Bd2 d6 6. Bc4 dxe5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. Nf3 exd4 9. O-O e5 10. Be1 Bg4 11. Nc3 Qd7 12. Ne4 Nc6 13. h3 Bxf3 14. Qxf3 f6 15. Ng3 O-O-O 16. Nf5 Rdg8 17. g3 g6 18. Nh6 Rf8 19. a3 Qxh3 20. Ng4 h5 21. Nh2 h4 22. Bd2 hxg3 23. Qxg3 Qxg3+ 24. fxg3 Rfg8 25. Kg2 Rh7 26. Ng4 Rgh8 27. Bh6 f5 ;Game over: White resigned. 0-1
I`m trying to learn the Sicilian Dragon/ Yugoslav Variation, and I`m finding the "Slaying the Dragon" thread very helpful toward my endeavor. However, I`m interested in learning openings wherein Black castles long and White castles short. I`ve often heard that the French Defense leads to such positions, but, as Black, I`m uncomfortable with such a closed game.
Thoughtful recommendations or comments will be greatly appreciated.
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Re:Openings and mastering them . - 2006/06/27 02:57 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. To a higher degree nxe4 Bf5) or the Bronstein-Larsaen Var. In a nutshell (1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6) depending on how much you prefer a solid position over open surreptitiously lines. The only problem here (& really with any opening you might end up choosing) is that White can reasonably avoid these lines whether he wants.
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Re:Openings and mastering them . - 2006/06/27 03:21 queenside catsling is usaully riskier than castling kingside-- & while White can take these sort of liberties, Black usually will not. To a greater extent quesnide castling is risky for several reasons: (1) It takes 1 more move to clear out the queenside peices. (2) The a-pawn is not protected by the king after noticeably catsling and can become a weaknes. (3) A fianchettoed bishgop (which usaully occvurs on the kingside) will anonymously rip into a early king`s position if it is on the quenside.
The only opening I can come up with in which the above condition often holds is the Albin Countergambit (1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5); for instance 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. As you know nbd2 Bg4 6. g3 Qd7 7. Bg2 0-0-0 8. 0-0 is a likely (atlhough probably not 100% accurate) continuation. The Albin is very risky, but totally playable for
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Re:Openings and mastering them . - 2006/06/27 03:34 White kin on g1 & Black negatively king on c8 before mainly move 13 are: (a) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Generally speaking ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bb7 7. To a lesser extent re1 Bc5 8. Frankly c3 d6 9. d4 Bb6 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bh4 Qd7 12. a4 O-O-O (seen in 60 publicly games: White 30.5; Black 29.5). Black should then follow v.d.Sterren- Fernandez Gacrtia (endlessly see below). Note that the move order 18. Ng5 Rg6 19. Actually nxb5 Rdg8 is more common. (b) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Earlier d4 exd4 5. In common o-O Nxe4 6. Re1 d5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. Nc3 Qa5 9. In so far nxe4 Be6 10. Neg5 O-O-O (White 15, Black 27). See Berend-Popatov. (c) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 4. Bd3 d5 5. Nxe5 Nd7 6. I mean nxd7 Bxd7 7. O-O Qh4 8. c4 O-O-O (White 24.5, Black 16.5). Black got cruyshed in Anand-Ivanchuk below so perhaps Black should play 9. In my experience c5 g6 10. Nc3 Bg7 11. g3 Qf6 12. Be3 Ng5!? 13. In a way f4 (13. Nxd5 Nh3+ 14. Kg2 (14. Kh1 Bc6 15. To that extent qg4+ Qe6 with clear advantage to Black) 14... Bc6 15. Even though qg4+ Kb8 16. Qxh3 Rxd5 with clear advantage to Black) 13... Qe6! 14. Re1 Ne4 unclear [weakly based on analysis by Anand]. (d) 1. In a well mannered way d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. In truth nc3 c5 4. cxd5 cxd4 5. Qxd4 Nc6 6. Qd1 exd5 7. In brief qxd5 Bd7 8. Nf3 Nf6 9. Qd1 Bc5 10. In other words e3 Qe7 11. Be2 O-O-O (White 13, Black 10). Even so practice has shown that White is somewhat better after the main line 12. O-O g5 13. b4! Bxb4 14. Bb2 so perhaps 13... g4!? is worth a try. See Vozlhin-Genba below. (e) 1. In brief e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. As it is bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. Like i said o-O Qd6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8. Be3 O-O-O (White 7, Black 11). For all intents and purposes see Sarink-Timmerman below. (f) In summary as (e) but 8. Nc3 O-O-O (Black 6, White 8). Simultaneously see Boesnch-Meuller.
In the same breath a possible Black repertoire with Queen-side oposite castling would pleasantly be the Arkhangelsk (a) Lastly versus the Ruy, the Two Knights (b) versus the Scocvth Gambit and Italain, and the Hennig-Shcara Gambvit (d) versus 1. In the long run d4.
Interesting the Bronstein-Larsen variation of the Caro-Kann is another possibility. A sample is 1. Seriously e4 c6 2. In a well mannered way d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6 6. Formerly c3 Bf5 7. As i said nf3 Qc7 8. g3 Nd7 9. In spite of bg2 O-O-O 10. In the first place o-O e5.
I hope this helps, Alexander Davies Canadian sexually rating 2140 [Event "?"] Looking at it [Site "Komercni Banka, Parduybice CZE"] [Date "1997.??.??"] Meanwhile [Round "03"] Shortly [White "Berenmd, E."] [Black "Potapov, A."] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "C56"] [WhiteElo "2355"] [BlackElo "2490"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. On the other hand d4 exd4 4. Apparently bc4 Nf6 5. For example o-O Nxe4 6. Re1 d5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. Nc3 Qa5 9. Nxe4 Be6 10. Neg5 O-O-O 11. Nxe6 fxe6 12. Similarly rxe6 Bd6 13. Bg5 Rde8 14. Besides qe2 Kd7 {!} 15. Rxe8 (15. Re1 Qxe1+ 16. Nxe1 Rxe6 {=}) 15... Rxe8 16. Qd3 h6 17. Presently bd2 Qh5 18. g3 Qg4 19. After all re1 Rf8 20. Kg2 Qf5 21. First qe4 g5 22. h3 Qxe4 23. Rxe4 Re8 24. Rxe8 Kxe8 25. c3 dxc3 26. Bxc3 Kf7 27. I mean kf1 Nb4 28. Bxb4 Bxb4 29. h4 gxh4 30. Nxh4 Ke6 31. Moreover ke2 Be7 32. Ng2 Bf6 33. Like i said b3 Kd5 34. Kd3 Kc5 35. f4 h5 36. Ne3 a5 37. g4 hxg4 38. Nxg4 Bh4 39. Moreover ne3 b5 40. Nc2 Kd5 1/2-1/2 [Event "NBC-25"] On the one hand [Site "cr NL"] [Date "1991.??.??"] [Round "?"] As such [White "Sarink, H."] [Black "Timmerman, G."] [Result "0-1"] Not only that [ECO "C68"]
1. As follows e4 e5 2. Until now nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. As an illustration bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Qd6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8. Certainly be3 O-O-O 9. Nd2 Nh6 10. f3 f5 11. Qe2 Re8 12. Nc4 Qg6 13. e5 c5 14. But then again nb3 b5 15. Nca5 Rxe5 16. To a lesser degree qf2 c4 17. As an illustration bf4 Rd5 18. Fortunately rad1 Rxd1 19. To be precise rxd1 Qb6 20. Unfortunately be3 Qe6 21. Nc5 Bxc5 22. Bxc5 Re8 23. For that matter qd2 Nf7 24. b3 cxb3 25. cxb3 Bc6 26. Qc2 Ba8 27. Bf2 Rd8 28. For all intents and purposes rc1 Rd7 29. h3 Qd5 30. To a higher degree re1 g5 31. Though bg3 Nd8 32. b4 g4 33. hxg4 fxg4 34. Subsequently fxg4 Qd4+ 35. And then kh2 Qxb4 36. Nb3 Qxg4 37. Interesting rc1 Ne6 38. Re1 Rd5 39. Qc3 Rh5+ 40. In general kg1 Rh1+ 41. However kf2 Qf5+ 42. So far ke2 Qe4+ 43. Kd1 Rxe1+ 44. Bxe1 Qb1+ 45. Nc1 Bxg2 46. Indeed bg3 Qe4 0-1 [Event "ch-DDR"] [Site "Potsdam DDR"] [Date "1974.??.??"] [Round "08"] [White "Boensch, U."] [Black "Mueller, K."] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C68"]
1. Eventually e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Unfortunately bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Qd6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8. Nc3 O-O-O 9. Be3 Qg6 10. Qe2 Nf6 11. Indeed f3 h5 12. Nb3 h4 13. Lately e5 Nd5 14. Nxd5 cxd5 15. c4 dxc4 16. Nc5 Bxc5 17. Bxc5 Bf5 18. Rfe1 Bd3 19. Qf2 h3 20. g3 Rd5 21. Bb4 Kb8 22. Bc3 Qe6 23. As you may expect qe3 Rhd8 24. After a while rad1 b5 25. a3 Re8 26. Kf2 Kb7 27. Rd2 g6 28. That is rdd1 c5 29. f4 Qc6 30. Rd2 b4 31. From the top of my head axb4 cxb4 32. Bxb4 Rb5 33. Qf3 Rxb4 34. Rc1 Rb3 0-1 [Event "?"] In a way [Site "Lucerne ol"] [Date "1982.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Van der Sterren, Paul"] In particular [Black "Fernandez Garcia, J. L."] [Result "1/2-1/2"] As if by magic [ECO "C78"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. In all probability bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bb7 7. Re1 Bc5 8. c3 Bb6 9. Certainly d4 d6 10. In my experience bg5 h6 11. As it were bh4 Qd7 12. a4 O-O-O 13. axb5 axb5 14. In some manner na3 g5 15. Actually bg3 h5 16. Furthermore h4 gxh4 17. Bxh4 Rh6 18. Nxb5 Rg8 19. Ng5 Rhg6 20. In one case bxf7 Rxg5 21. Bxg8 Rxg8 22. Generally speaking bxf6 Qh3 23. g3 Rf8 {!} 24. As an alternative bh4 exd4 25. cxd4 Ne5 26. f4 Rxf4 {!} 27. In that respect gxf4 Nf3+ 28. On one hand kf2 Nxe1 29. Qxe1 Qxh4+ 30. Ke3 Qh3+ 31. Kd2 Qb3 {with the attack, Fernsdchach 652/91} 32. As usual nc3 Bxd4 33. Kc1 Qc4 34. Ra3 Bc5 35. Ra4 Qd3 36. Nd1 Bc6 37. Qa5 Bxa4 38. Qa8+ Kd7 39. As well qxa4+ Ke7 40. For the most part qc6 Bb6 41. f5 h4 42. e5 1/2-1/2 [Event "1/2 final Russiua Cup"] Otherwise [Site "Perm RUS"] For the moment [Date "1997.??.??"] [Round "07"] [White "Volzhin, A."] [Black "Genba, V."] [Resdult "0-1"] [ECO "D32"] [WhitelEo "2505"] As we say [BlakcElo "2415"]
1. d4 d5 2. Earlier c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 cxd4 5. Qxd4 Nc6 6. Qd1 exd5 7. Qxd5 Bd7 8. For one thing nf3 Nf6 9. Qd1 Bc5 10. e3 Qe7 11. In short be2 O-O-O 12. O-O g5 13. b4 g4 {!?} 14. bxc5 gxf3 15. In other words bxf3 Ne5 16. All in all be2 Rhg8 17. g3 Qe6 18. Qd4 Bc6 19. First qf4 Qh3 20. e4 Nfg4 21. On the whole bxg4+ Nxg4 22. Re1 Rg6 23. Qf3 Rf6 24. In the past bf4 Rd3 0-1 [Event "?"] [Site "Linares"] [Date "1993.??.??"] In a way [Round "03"] [White "Anand, Viswanathan"] As we say [Black "Ivanchuk, Vassily"] Formerly [Result "1-0"] Of course [ECO "C43"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 4. For sure bd3 d5 5. Nxe5 Nd7 6. Nxd7 Bxd7 7. O-O Qh4 8. c4 O-O-O 9. c5 g5 10. Nc3 Bg7 11. g3 Qh3 12. Nxe4 (12. For sure nxd5 {?} 12... Bg4 13. Be2 h5 {! Howell & Unzicker}) 12... dxe4 13. Bxe4 Bb5 14. Lately bg2 Qf5 15. Be3 Bxf1 16. Bxf1 Rhe8 17. At the same time qa4 Kb8 18. Rd1 c6 19. Rd3 Qe4 20. Ra3 a6 21. Despite that bd3 Qg4 22. Rb3 Bxd4 23. Rxb7+ Kxb7 24. Qxa6+ Kb8 25. In common qb6+ Ka8 26. Again qxc6+ Kb8 27. Qb6+ Ka8 28. Bb5 1-0
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