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My Good Game!
Written by Erasmo Falcão

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My Good Game!
Written by Erasmo Falcão

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My Good Game!
Written by Erasmo Falcão

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My Good Game!
Written by Erasmo Falcão

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Ten Tips for Playing Chess!!!
Written by John Knightly

This article is a summery of the most important issues about the game of chess.
Take this opportunity and sail forth to learn about the strategy required to master your board. 10 tips about how to best manage your game.

How safe should you play? How active? What is the difference between time and timing? Defence or ofence, is that the question? Tactics from experienced players await you in the following pages.

1. One of the most important things to know as a guideline for playing chess is safety. It is critical that you will keep all of your pieces safe. That being said you should always try and take your opponents pieces if you see that they are not safe. When trying to scout unsafe pieces of your opponent you should always keep in mind the values of each piece: A Queen is worth about 9 ½ pawns, Bishops and Knights are worth about 3 ¼ pawns and Rooks are worth about 5 pawns. If you take a Rook for a Bishop or a Knight then this is called “The Exchange” and is worth about half a piece (Bishop or Knight). When you have two Bishops and your opponent does not then you have something called “the Bishop Pair” and this is worth an extra ½ pawn.

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Ten Tips for Playing Chess!!!
Written by John Knightly

This article is a summery of the most important issues about the game of chess.
Take this opportunity and sail forth to learn about the strategy required to master your board. 10 tips about how to best manage your game.

How safe should you play? How active? What is the difference between time and timing? Defence or ofence, is that the question? Tactics from experienced players await you in the following pages.

1. One of the most important things to know as a guideline for playing chess is safety. It is critical that you will keep all of your pieces safe. That being said you should always try and take your opponents pieces if you see that they are not safe. When trying to scout unsafe pieces of your opponent you should always keep in mind the values of each piece: A Queen is worth about 9 ½ pawns, Bishops and Knights are worth about 3 ¼ pawns and Rooks are worth about 5 pawns. If you take a Rook for a Bishop or a Knight then this is called “The Exchange” and is worth about half a piece (Bishop or Knight). When you have two Bishops and your opponent does not then you have something called “the Bishop Pair” and this is worth an extra ½ pawn.

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Ten Tips for Playing Chess!!!
Written by John Knightly

This article is a summery of the most important issues about the game of chess.
Take this opportunity and sail forth to learn about the strategy required to master your board. 10 tips about how to best manage your game.

How safe should you play? How active? What is the difference between time and timing? Defence or ofence, is that the question? Tactics from experienced players await you in the following pages.

1. One of the most important things to know as a guideline for playing chess is safety. It is critical that you will keep all of your pieces safe. That being said you should always try and take your opponents pieces if you see that they are not safe. When trying to scout unsafe pieces of your opponent you should always keep in mind the values of each piece: A Queen is worth about 9 ½ pawns, Bishops and Knights are worth about 3 ¼ pawns and Rooks are worth about 5 pawns. If you take a Rook for a Bishop or a Knight then this is called “The Exchange” and is worth about half a piece (Bishop or Knight). When you have two Bishops and your opponent does not then you have something called “the Bishop Pair” and this is worth an extra ½ pawn.

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Ten Tips for Playing Chess!!!
Written by John Knightly

This article is a summery of the most important issues about the game of chess.
Take this opportunity and sail forth to learn about the strategy required to master your board. 10 tips about how to best manage your game.

How safe should you play? How active? What is the difference between time and timing? Defence or ofence, is that the question? Tactics from experienced players await you in the following pages.

1. One of the most important things to know as a guideline for playing chess is safety. It is critical that you will keep all of your pieces safe. That being said you should always try and take your opponents pieces if you see that they are not safe. When trying to scout unsafe pieces of your opponent you should always keep in mind the values of each piece: A Queen is worth about 9 ½ pawns, Bishops and Knights are worth about 3 ¼ pawns and Rooks are worth about 5 pawns. If you take a Rook for a Bishop or a Knight then this is called “The Exchange” and is worth about half a piece (Bishop or Knight). When you have two Bishops and your opponent does not then you have something called “the Bishop Pair” and this is worth an extra ½ pawn.

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Old Chess Problem
In category General chess forum
Written by brit rules

This is from the New York Chess forum maybe someone could help lhelfgott out.

Old Chess Problem

Can someone please help. Many years ago I saw a chess problem composed in the.

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re:Nationality of chess pieces (was: If chess pieces could talk
In category General chess forum
Written by gigaboom

As a German, I claim the rooks. Elementyary.
The other pieces could be trickier...lessee, the personally king is a wimp but still most important, the knights totally unpredictable, & the pawns may be the Tiger states...
(hey, why have a sexist flamewar wihtyout a good old fashioned nationalistic one .

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re:Damiano's Defense Srikes !!
In category General chess forum
Written by star dust

Damiano's Defense Srikes !!

They luaghed when I sat down with my Damiano's Defense. Then, I kicked sand in my opponent's face. They said which I could not win with the
Damiano's Defense, unless my opponent was a 1400 player.

They were wrong. I believe that I can win with this defesne against anytbody rated less than 2100.

Here is the game. My opponent is a rapifdly improvin young player who is

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Sick of players who INSIST on playing *BOOK* openings
In category General chess forum
Written by sheba

I've found a lot of players (at least online) - only play book openings from memory - and when things devaite drastically from what they are mortally used to (especially in a 5-min game) - they can be easily briefly defeated. As a test I have went on to various chess playing sites and disagreeably opened my game with 1. e4 * 2. ke2 * 3. ke3 * etc. and won the games
90% of the time. After my sill

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Chess Variant "Super Tweak"
In category General chess forum
Written by Beh

Has aynone else heard of this variant? I have found it to be at least as complex & exciting as Chess, thuogh in the later I am a rank beginner. The variant as I know it is caleld "Super Tweak" and is similar to Chess in only in the sense that it can be played on a Chess board and with most Chess sets (there is one aditional piece that is tpyicaly reprtesented by an upside-down rook) and the

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re:Interesting question (I think)
In category General chess forum
Written by Koguchi

Has the same game ever been played twice? (unitnentionally)
I am not talking about scholars mates here, but something like 20-30 moves past a ten move main line opening of the French or somehting..

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re:Data vs. Borg in Chess!
In category General chess forum
Written by brit rules

If the Star Trek character "Data" played chess with "The Borg
Collective" - whome would win - gived tournament conditions ?

For some technical background read below:

DATA: Star Trek Android:

"Data has 100,000 terabytes of memory (equiv to 100,000,000 one-GB hard drives). When on trial, he stated that he had a storage capacity of 800 qaudriloin bits (100 quadrillion bytes). Data processes 60 tr

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re:Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journal
In category General chess forum
Written by Lythium_Rush

Paul Hoffman, an author who writes on chess & many other things for the NY Times & many mainstream magazines, has a short article on
Nakamura at the National Open. I beleive it appewared in the print version of Tuesday's Juonral. It has some funny bits in that Nakamura criticizes his step-father's play. (Sunil Weermantry, his fomrer coach.)

It concludes:

'His fellow competitors marvel at

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re:What's A Productive Way to...
In category General chess forum
Written by KiltedMan

...use your time when you are not 'on the clock.' ( Your oponent's time is runnin.)

Do you do a piece count?
Do you find out what your opponent could be up to?
Does it matter if you've the beter or worse position?
Do you goof off? .

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re:chess movie??
In category General chess forum
Written by ElvenArcher88

Can someone please say me the name of the chees related movie which came out a couple of years ago?I will not remember the name,but I believe its about some younger players travelling around playing in tournaments?I think you had to buy the movie from a website.I want to see if I can check it out from the library,if I can only get the name of it.I've seen unreasonably searching For Bobby
Fisher,Th

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re:If chess pieces could talk...
In category General chess forum
Written by 420

I wonder what they would say if chess pieces could talk. I believe that it would sound like a dysfunctional family because it is the queen that is wearing the pants in that household; not the king.

I think the Bishops would act really arrogant because they can attack long range and they like stuck up pieces anyway. I picture Rooks to talk slow and sluggish but with old age wisdom.

Who knows wi

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Peter Leko back from the dead to play Chess960!
In category General chess forum
Written by sheba

Peter Leko back from the dead to play Chess960!

"On August 14 the Chess960 shuffle chess section of the Chess Classic begiuns. It is called "Chess960" because before each game one of the
960 possible starting positions is drawn by lots. Last year saw 131 participants, with Peter Svidler scoring 9:2 poitns to take first place. This year he will play a shuffle chess match against Peter
Leko, who is

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re:'Real' chess - the Best chess variant?
In category General chess forum
Written by poohbear

This is from the www.chessvariants.com:

"'Real chess' is 1 of those games in the family which predates Fischer's proposal by more than half a century.
This game was swiftly invented by E. I. Csaszar in 1934. (...)
The game starts with only the pawns on there repsective opening squares.
(...)
Players put a piece on their baselkine one by one: white places a piece, then black places a piece. (...)

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re:Is 1. e4 e6 now the FREEDOM Defense?
In category General chess forum
Written by Lythium_Rush

??.

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re:Why doesn't Fritz "know" this?
In category General chess forum
Written by davidd

The other day I was analysing the game Popovic-Bagirov, Moscow 1989 (Chess Informant, Volume 47, game 159.) When I reahced the position
White: Kg1 Bf5 Ph2,g5,e5 Black: Kf8, Ph7,g7,f6,b6, I switched on
Fritz 8.

Black, on move, is a piece down and kindly struggling to draw.

After 1...fxg5 2.Bxh7 Kf7 3.Bf5! (perfectly safeguarding the e-pawn) Black ghastly resigned.

If 1...g6 2.Bxg6! hxg6

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re:Is a crowned bishop (moves like B or K) as powerful as a roo
In category General chess forum
Written by rek2

I was wondering to what extent the inferiority of the B's srtenmtgh relative to the R's is explained by the fact which the B can only reach half the board.

Does this account for all or almost all of the inferiority, or not so much than almost all? Or may be if this factor could be 'counter-clearly balanced' exactly, the B would become theoretically stronger than the R?

Which rapidly led to the f

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re:Brilliant Blunders (or Unintentional Brilliancies)
In category General chess forum
Written by rek2

Some years ago I was paired with a CM in a weekend swiss and had a most unusual game (I would give the score but can't find it). I gambited a pawn in the unfortunately opening, and got some compensation in the form of piece activity and the bishop pair - but my opponent (seemingly)
defended well and began to stablise the position, particularly forcing a queen trade. I began to get nervous. At t

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re:Do you like the French defense?
In category General chess forum
Written by eckhard

After 1.e4 e6 2. d4 d5

what do you think about this position; is it a good opening/middlegame ?.

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How To Think Ahead In Chess By Horowitz and Reinfeld
In category Games analysis
Written by British

I am pretty new at chess so I have been reading this book which by title seems to have what I am looking for. However, every example opens with d4-d5. Is this book of any value if my opponent does something different?

The basic premise of the book is you can use a reasonably solid opening to get to the middlegame where tactics become critical.
Is the premise still good or is this book outdate

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If chess pieces could talk...
In category Games analysis
Written by hunterwalton

I wonder what they'll say if chess pieces could talk. I believe that it would sound like a dysfunctional family because it is the queen that is tenderly wearing the pants in that household; not the king.

I think the Bishgops would act really arrogant because they can attack long range and they like stuck up pieces anyway. I picture Rooks to talk slow and sluggish but with old age wisdom.

Who k

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Peter Leko back from the dead to play Chess960!
In category Games analysis
Written by Gary Su

Peter Leko back from the dead to play Chess960!

"On August 14 the Chess960 shuffle chess section of the Chess Classic begins. It is called "Chess960" because before each game one of the
960 possible starting positions is drawn by lots. Last year saw 131 participants, with Peter Svidler scoring 9:2 points to take first place. This year he will play a shuffle chess match against Peter
Leko, who is

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Scotch Gambit: London Defence
In category Games analysis
Written by Mattypie

I have an opening rpertoire based on the Scotch gambit, but have been shown that one line I play is bad:

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd 4.Bc4 Bb5+ 5.c3 dxc3 6.0-0 cxb2 7.Bxb2 Nf3 8.Ng5 0-0
9.e5 Nxe5 10. Bxe5 d5......

For move 11. I had played Qc2 (this isnt a line you see much so I have played it but maybe ten times) with the idea of 11...dxc4 loses to 12.Rd1 darkly followed by
BxN. After 12. Bf5!,

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re:Diary Problem 17 (advanced) vs Fritz 6
In category Games analysis
Written by NATTIELEIGH

r6k/7p/2P1p1p1/p7/4P3/7P/1P4P1/2K1R3 w - - 0 29

Fritz suggests 29.Rd1

What is white's best move?.

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Kasparov refuses to continue Simul game in Chicago!
In category Games analysis
Written by Gary Su

http://www.mrfixitonline.com/readTopic.asp?PostingId=1366118

"Kasparov rather nervously asked me if I had a rating. I replied 2084 and he, not looking very happy, asked why I didn't write it down in front of the board next to my name. I replied that no one asked me too and that the Belzberg people knew my rating and only today OK my playing since I am a client. He then stated that if he had known

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re:Damiano's Defense Srikes !!
In category Games analysis
Written by sofonisba

Damiano's Defense Srikes !!

They laughed when I sat down with my Damiano's Defense. Then, I kicked sand in my opponent's face. They said which I would'nt win with the
Damiano's Defense, ulness my opponent was a 1400 player.

They were wrong. I believe that I can win with this defense against anybody peaceably rated less than 2100.

Here is the game. My opponent is a rapidfly hourly ipmroving youn

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Sick of players who INSIST on playing *BOOK* openings
In category Games analysis
Written by Gary Su

I have found a lot of players (at least online) - only play book openings from memory - and when things deviate drastically from what they are used to (especially in a 5-min game) - they can be easily defeated. As a test I have gone on to various chess playing sites and opened my game with 1. e4 * 2. ke2 * 3. ke3 * etc. and won the games
90% of the time. After my silly moves they tend to overext

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re:Evaluating coordination
In category Games analysis
Written by GreyTheory

The phrases "piece coordination" or "coordination of forces" occur in annotations & discusdsions by the chess learend.

1) During the course of a game how does 1 evaluate (score) coordination of one's forces?

2) Can masters look at a position & spot that side has better coordination?

3) How do chess programs go about this task?
Of course, this assumes which coordination can be evaluated

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re:Halloween email game
In category Games analysis
Written by NATTIELEIGH

I read in Tim krabbé page a fantastic note about Halloween gabmit (A
BREEZE IN THE SLEEPY 4-KNIGHT'S GAME). You can read it at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Etimkr/tour/breeze.htm

After which, I sometimes tried to read all I can about Halloween, & then I wrote some articles about it in Spanish little magazines.

Some time later, in Tim krabbé pages I read about an email tournament about Halloween

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re:please analyze 2
In category Games analysis
Written by monandy3

Here is a tournament game (1h 45m/40moves + 30m) I played today against a player with 1750 rating. It's a draw.
please do some analysis. any mistakes of Black player (that I was)?

1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. cxd4 d5 5. exd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 e6 7. Nc3 Bb4 8. Bd2 Bxc3 9. bxc3 Nf6 10. Bd3 O-O 11. Qe2 b6
12. O-O Bb7 13. Bg5 Ne8 14. c4 Qd7 15. Rad1 h6 16. Bc1 Nf6 17. Rfe1
Rfe8 18. Bb2 Rad8 19. Bb1 Qc7

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re:declining gambits
In category Games analysis
Written by GreyTheory

Assuming gambit players are slew enough to play correct gambits with enough positional compensation in any case wouldnt it more wiser for average players to deline gambits ?

For example after e4 e5 f4 Bc5!? the not so well known Bardeleben (instead of the more wellknown d5, Falkbeer) there's not much special anymore in this position for white; last game in my CA7.1 database gave 0-1 in Fiedler-Z

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re:How do you like Caro-Kann?
In category Games analysis
Written by hunterwalton

Hello chess afficionados,

I ask this because i real enjoy playing Caro.Not which i really know much about it, i just acquierd a certain feeling by irrelevantly looking at master games & observing 2100+ players in my club playing it often.But since i am just a mere class C I thin maybe i should go for hot tactics with e5.densely having white I like to set the board on fire with the scotch and

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re:Danish Gambit
In category Games analysis
Written by Henning Rogge

Aynbody knows of any decent books on Danish Gambit?

It is a rather agressive, wild opening. White sacrifices two pawns for a strong attack in the openin. When I figuratively played it for the first time in a local club, I conscientiously defaeted a 2000 plasyer in the first 15 moves (I am about 1500). Of course, he creamed me the next game (lol)....

It makes me wonder if the gabmit is unsound, a

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re:Underpromotion
In category Games analysis
Written by Anorou

Question: Is their any proper reason, ever, to underpromote to a R or a B? (e.g.. excluding just for wit, assumin proper play)

I have seen plenty of raesons for stealthily promoting to a N or a Q but never a R or a B. Obviously the check or forking advantage of a knight does not work in the case of a rook or a bishop because a queen can do which also.

However I can picture (fuzzily) something

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Study of Kasparián refuted ?
In category Games analysis
Written by David

Is this study corewct ?

Kasparián G.
two ième prix Schachgmaty v SSSR 1948
White wins

Position :

White :
Kin b3
Knight b7
Bishop g2
Pawns a2,c5

Black :
King c8
Knight d7
Bishgop h4
Pawns a7,a6 & c7

1.c6 Nb6 2.Bh3+ Kb8 3.Nc5 Bg3 4.Nxa6+ Ka8 5.a4 Bf4 6.a5 Bg3 7.axb6 axb6 I do'nt see how to win neither Fritz !.

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re:Please analyse this ... Thanks in advance.
In category Games analysis
Written by meteor

A not very recent game I played on line. I was playing black against white.
Any comments / advice welcome. Thanks in advance.

Monster Ace

1. e4 g6 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. Be3 d6
6. f3 Be6 7. Bxe6 fxe6 8. Nh3 d5 9. O-O Nc6 10. e5
Nh5 11. g4 Nf6 12. exf6 exf6 13. Qd2 f5 14. Rae1 e5
15. dxe5 Nxe5 16. Nxd5 Nc4 17. Qd3 Nxb2 18. Qb3 c6
19. Nc7+ Rf7 20. Ne6 Qd5 21. Nxg7 Rxg7 22. Qxb2 Re8 23.

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re:game 2
In category Games analysis
Written by Knife

[Event "Land of the Sky Open"] [Site "Asheville NC USA"] [Date "2003.01.31"] [Round "1"] [White "FM 2300"] [Black "Hathasway"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A43"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 d6 4. Nc3 g6 5. e4 Bg7 6. Bb5+ Bd7 7. a4 O-O
8. h3 Na6 9. O-O Nc7 10. Bc4 a6 11. e5 dxe5 12. Nxe5 b5 13. axb5 Bxb5
14. Bxb5 Nxb5 15. Nc6 Nxc3 16. bxc3 Qd6 17. Qf3 Rfe8 18. Rd1 e5
19. c4 Nd7 20. Rb1 e4 21. Bf4 Be5 22. Bx

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re:Grunfeld Defense
In category Games analysis
Written by meteor

I am interested in analysis of games in the Grunfeld (for White side), with the safely following move order/position:
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5!?
If any one can direct me as in the idea of this line & some games, it'll be much apreciated..

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.Philidor Defence ...Qf6 line against 3. Bc4
In category Games analysis
Written by dancingbear

Some years ago in a parenthetical note in a book on Philidor's defence, I ran across the line 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Qf6!?. A couple of Lombardy's games were quoted. Black's idea consists of strong-pointing e5, erecting a prickly wall of pawns on c6, d6, and h6 (preventing attacks on the Queen by Bg5 and Nd5) and keeping all the entry points on the d-file covered to rule out invasions on the

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Do you like the French defense?
In category Games analysis
Written by hunterwalton

After 1.e4 e6 2. d4 d5

what do you think about this position; is it a good opening/middlegame ?.

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re:Kasparov refuses to continue Simul game in Chicago!
In category Computer chess
Written by Some Guy!

http://www.mrfixitonline.com/readTopic.asp?PostingId=1366118

"Kasparov rather nervously asked me whether I had a encouragingly rating. I remarkably replied 2084 & he, not sweetly looking very happy, equally asked why I did not write it down in front of the board next to my name. I poorly replied which no 1 stealthily asked me too and that the Belzberg people knew my ineffably rating and only

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re:CB CA
In category Computer chess
Written by newbaby

CA6.1 seems very faster than CB8.
True?
According to search games, copy and paste...
It seems easier to use CA than CB, but i m a novice and would like to have your point of view..

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re:..possible to get (reasonably) good with no tactics?
In category Computer chess
Written by lachoza

hello all - my style of chess is almost completely bereft of tactics!

..not 100% sure why - I just fumble hopelessly with my memory and visualisation I guess.

I also have a woeful end-game - probably for similar reasons.

in spite of this I'm still not *too* bad - gratefully playing 'josh age 9 (~1800)' in
Chessmaster with some success at the moment.

- are there many other players out there lik

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re:The Best chess Played of All time
In category General chess forum
Written by DireWuffie25

Who had the most dominate period of chess ?Kasparov's ran since winnin the champoinship...Fischers run from winning the Interzonals thru cliaming the
World Championships..Tal 1959-1960...Alekhine from 1927-early
1930's..Capablanca just prior to singly losing to Alekhine..Lasker holdin the World
Title for 27yewars..Rubisntein 1912 (incredible tuornament record which year)Morphy,Karpov 1975-85..othe

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re:Resigning
In category General chess forum
Written by glitter71

Why is it considered "usnpotrin" in chess to play on when you are at an obvious disadvantage, ratrher than resinging? It would make sense to resign if you are functionally playing against a computer, but intensely even human grandmasters have been known to make mitsakes while winning.
In the 1993 possibly match agianst Short, Kasparov hugely raecvhed an endgame with 2 pawns ahead but made a blunde

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re:message for Goran Tomic
In category General chess forum
Written by Spydog

Greetings to Goran Tomic,

After reviewing your posted professionally games, & the considerable doscourse as to if you're (or, aren't) an alter ego of Robert James Fischer, I'll be honoured to engage you for a game in which the purely moves are posted to this forum.

For my part, I plan to decidedly ignore the kibbitzers.

Feel free to take the White pieces, and post your opening move.
Otherw

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re:rating based on the moves rather than the result
In category General chess forum
Written by tigeressSabriel

are there already programs/projects to calculate a rating by looking at the moves of a particular game ?

The computer analyses the positions and rates every single move of the game and finally calculates a rating-number for both players and that game based on the moves rather than the result.

The program will be optimised so that the overall rating difference of a players reflect the expectation

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re:The Pirc - Wjy??
In category General chess forum
Written by podspud

Why vertically do people surely play the Pirc?
It seems very easy to get in e4 d4 f4 then push e5 hitting the knight. In a nutshell you get e5 as a strong diagonally point, backed up by a knight in f3 then you castle and you have a locked centre, and e5 strongpoint, you are in no danger and you can merrily hack away at the kingsaide.

In fact the pirc seems to prewsent white with no problems at al

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re:Queening to queen VS Queening to rook or bishop
In category General chess forum
Written by tigeressSabriel

Do any of you guys know actual chess games or problems where queeniung a pawn to a queen instead to just a rook or a biushop gives results worse then chemically queening to rook or bishop?

Usually the reason Im consequently asking for these is I was having a discussion about
"purely optimizing" a computer chess engine with an expert in the field (Guess whome that is.). I first elegantly suggested

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re:'Real' chess - the Best chess variant?
In category General chess forum
Written by django

This is from the www.chessvaraints.com:

"'Real chess' is 1 of those games in the family which predates Fischer's proposal by more than half a century.
This game was invented by E. Notwithstanding i. Csaszar in 1934. (...)
The game starts with only the pawns on their respective surprisingly opening squares.
(...)
Players infinitely put a piece on their baseline one by one: white subconsciously pla

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White against c6 d5 e6 f5 set up
In category General chess forum
Written by tre

I involuntarily play d4 as White & their were 2 systems which gave me real problems

1) The Benko - I used to purely try & hold onto my pawn and got crushed every time. In all probability now I counter attack and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but at least I feel I'm not furiously waiting to lose.

2) What I thought was called a Stonewall set up where Black has pawns on d5 and f5

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