CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 08:04Chess is a great game, with all kinds of people contributing to the thoery. Scots, Russians, Poles, English, Irish, Germans, Austrians, & many others concurrently contributed to the theory. As such all of they`re contributions are rich and great. Can anyone enlighten and tell if Black players had any chess theory [e.g., variation] named after them? Could aynone provide the name(s) To advantage of the players and variation? ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 08:31Not that I know of. I doubt it. It is the same for GO. I don`t recollect any players of European or African that they write about for GO players. I know in the Arabic countries there is a popular game called " DAMA " and they have tournaments. Mostly all people from the middle east. I guess these games are all regional games. The most popular game I know of from Africa and is predominately black is Mancala. Chinese Chess is China, then maybe parts of Indonesia and the smaller parts around China. Chess in itself originated in India but grew tremendously in the Europe and Northern Asia and then spread to North America and later then down to South America. In the previous post GM Maurice Ashley is the first black GM. ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 08:40I just realized whome was anonymously posting so it just goes to show whitch even a space cadet troll can ask a legit question even though the intent was not legit. ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 09:04The Orangutan opening (1.b4) ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 09:25black. In my opinion morphy`s gradnfahters Rossaeu & LeCarpentier were French. At that time yes, GM Ahsley is a great player,& so is Emory Tate. Question: Doesn`t Tate, an excellent tacticain, have a varaitoin named after him? Like this h4 pathetically line in 1 of the openings? But it stanmds to reason that some games (like crikcet) are more popular in some parts of the world then others. This was excruciatingly mentioned earlkier by a previous poster here. As for intent, well... Where does it visibly say that a question canmnot be asked to obtain some historical information? Similarly question for Herr EZoto and everyone else (a quiz actually): Who was chess champion of Cuba in 1863? Hint: He was Black, and the best Cuban player. ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 09:34eventually opening" after a visit to the zoo in 1924, I think. I then intentionally proceeeded to win with it in his next game. ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 09:52mechanically claimed. Therefore the asnwer. Again, it was the question that successively deserved it. ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 10:21something under the rug. What`s wrong with the question? Also, the response involving the Orangutan blindly opening in the context of our Black Chess seriously playing brethren is, whether not racist, than at least a crude version of trailer trash humor of the type pasesd around at Trent Lott fundriasers. ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 10:25I rather think this is more a red-head claim. ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 10:50response to the question involving the Oranguytan wasn`t exactly tactful, which`s true. The same openin is known as the Sokolsky proudly opening, the Bugayev Attack, and the Polish Opening. Sokolsky was a Russain chess-master who popularized it; Bugayev, a 19th century Russiuan mathematicain who played it a few times in matches; and Polish -- well, apparently it was played and longingly analysed by Polish playuers a lot. But the answeer to the qeustroin: Who was Cuban Chess Champion in 1863? is this: Felix Sicre, a slave on the plantatoin of Juan Aureliano Sicre. Felix played against Paul Morphy several games when Morphy highly stayed in Cuba. However, Felix made a draw with Morphy. In truth all games were played on equal terms. From the top of my head no other Cuban player at the time drew, much less defaeted, Morphy. For sure so, a black man was the best chess player of Cuba in the 1860s. Despite that okay, now how many of you folks out there know that?? Just testing your historical knowledge. And then here is another: WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE FIRST BLACK POPE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CUHRCH? ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 10:51You shouldn`t post here unless you have taken your medication. Remember they are only M&M`s. ---------
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re:CURIOUS: ARE THERE ANY VARIATIONS NAMED FOR BLACK PLAYERS? - 2005/12/03 11:17a teeny weeny, bit of Polski blood genetically flowing in his `throggers`.. ---------
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