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For me, I dislike the Sicilian as white. As black I must admit I don't like the thought of facing the Stonewall Attack. How about you?
Dutch is difficult to play against also Caro-Kann.
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what? you must be kidding :)
against the dutch play Bg5 and you get an easy game (see jiri's book). Against the caro kann you can try the fantasy variation (like ivanchuk at the olympiad).
against the dutch play Bg5 and you get an easy game (see jiri's book). Against the caro kann you can try the fantasy variation (like ivanchuk at the olympiad).
How about Dutch versus the English?
mmh. don't play the english :) over the board 2.g4 may be funny :)
Cerainly playable at my level. I guess I may come up against Dutch systems. Have just started playing 1. Nf3. Think if 1...f5 I'd probably try 2. b3.
I would try 1. Nf3 f5 2. d4 Nf6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. b4 - black's plans don't really work then. A GM showed me that line. Also good is 2.e4, but that may be a bit complicated.
Cool line! Although I don't doubt that 2. d4 is objectively a very good move, I think that most Dutch players would be comfortable in the position. I guess 2...Nf6 3...e6 and black is in "Normal" Dutch territory.
in corr play we have found it very difficult to win against Dutch ref match games on this forum and Hiarcs forum against HEM i believe it was.no disrespect to jiri's book but in corr games we do AN to much greater depths than any bookmaker could possibly do.also we have a number of excellent otb players to guide us as well as Nelsons wise advice.in mickey mouse games Bg5 may well be best move.
in mickey mouse games Bg5 may well be best move.
at least it worked well in some mickey mouse freestyle games :)
but these have time limitations,corr is a different ballgame as you should know 48/hr move.
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Nelson's wise advice?! One day I am a bookmaker-charlatan and the next I am an oracular shaman!
i just pick the right day.
oracle when i agree and shaman otherwise.
oracle when i agree and shaman otherwise.
This could be explained by a misplaced period:
as well as Nelsons wise advice in mickey mouse games. Bg5 may well be best move.
as well as Nelsons wise advice in mickey mouse games. Bg5 may well be best move.
i made sure my grammar was correct here,but you make an amusing point esp for a yank.
It's true that you Brits are much better at delivering subtle insults than we are!
sorry Alan,Nelson is king of english language and he is also american.
Nelson is King of the English Language, but he is rarely subtle!
quite frankly i do not know where his knowledge comes from.Vytron is another, in over 3 years i have found no fault with his grammar and he is a Mexican bandit i believe.
he is a Mexican bandit i believe.
Really? I always pictured him as a drug lord...
Really? I always pictured him as a drug lord...
i can vouch he is not that.he is very family oriented i believe.however i think he is a great guy and no doubt can speak for himself alan.expect a strong reply shortly when he looks on THE EDGE.
Well, most of our drug trade is very family oriented. Generally the families are of Italian, Russian, or Mexican decent.
hi remember we are only having fun.
Of course. If Vytron were really a drug lord, he would have much better hardware!
Damn those drug lords, sitting on so much money--do they have cutting edge hardware that they use for computer chess? No. They probably have never heard of computer chess. The fools! They are rich beyond dreams of avarice and they have no idea how to use the money properly!
Yes, unfortunately we are still searching for the Ilyumzhinov of computer chess!
Do you suppose aliens might be interested in computer chess if we taught them the basics? Kirsan probably knows the answer.
If he will sponsor a few freestyles, I will be happy to bear witness to his stories about being abducted by aliens...
maybe just maybe kirsan has seen aliens, who are we to say he hasnt?? its very easy to be a sceptical cynic, much harder to open your mind to a truth that is very difficuilt to swallow. and why must a person who mentions aliens or such experiences be automaically deemed mad?? does this mean that if a man genuinly sees aliens he cant make mention of it for fear of being labelled 'mad'? strikes me that there are many people who actually think all those who do not share their own snug safe limited world view are mad and i simply fail to see why he is such a bad fide pres based on his views about aliens, hardly the most important aspect of the man. i have seen ufos myself (don't bother, i heard them all 1000 times) so i know that much is true enough, did he see aliens? i dont know, thats right, i dont know, and neither will i use my own views as 'evidence' for or against him or make out he is a bad mad fide pres because his experiences may not square with my own 'beliefs'. im not smug enough to try and score smartarse points off the guy, after all, how did claiming such experiences ever profit a man? theres a similar trend with religion, all the smart science guys like to jump on the atheist bandwagon, and they assume being atheists makes them so utterly superior to the superstitious religious crowd. so i fail to see how the kirsan/alien saga is even relevant, much more relevant to my mind is his implication in murders and organised crime, but hey, who wants to hear about that? the fact is those who do not believe in aliens or anything else that they have never actualy seen have only that, their own beliefs, therefore to condem a man based solely on your own beliefs is no better than the very worst religious bigotry. if we are going to label all those who have publicly claimed to have experienced aliens/ufos then we need to include ronald reagan, jimmy carter, john lennon, half a dozen astronauts and 100s of pilots. but of course a cynical one liner will put their claims to bed eh.
as for openings...catalan and najdorf are what i aim for, lopez is what i always avoid.
as for openings...catalan and najdorf are what i aim for, lopez is what i always avoid.
Two remarks.
1. Your rant is among the best ever posted to this site. It's definitely a keeper.
2. I can assure you, if I saw an alien, I would be dogmatically telling people about it in a highly persuasive manner. After a while, I would be like the guy in the 1956 version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", with that crazed, harried, exhausted look at the end of the movie. I don't think I could go to work the next day. For that matter, I think I would quit my job, explaining to my boss "what, you think I'm crazy? I think you're crazy! There are freaking aliens invading the planet! You think I ought to calm down and work on next year's budget? You must be mad! Mad!" Around that point security might be showing up and I would tell them, "get your hands off me, you moron! Don't you see? Don't you see there are freaking aliens among us? Hey! Cut it out or I'll cold-cock you, you son of a bitch! Don't you--uhh!" (shouts, grunts, crashing furniture) At that point, undoubtedly, the cops would be called and I would repeat my story to them with a look of wild intensity and urgency.
1. Your rant is among the best ever posted to this site. It's definitely a keeper.
2. I can assure you, if I saw an alien, I would be dogmatically telling people about it in a highly persuasive manner. After a while, I would be like the guy in the 1956 version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", with that crazed, harried, exhausted look at the end of the movie. I don't think I could go to work the next day. For that matter, I think I would quit my job, explaining to my boss "what, you think I'm crazy? I think you're crazy! There are freaking aliens invading the planet! You think I ought to calm down and work on next year's budget? You must be mad! Mad!" Around that point security might be showing up and I would tell them, "get your hands off me, you moron! Don't you see? Don't you see there are freaking aliens among us? Hey! Cut it out or I'll cold-cock you, you son of a bitch! Don't you--uhh!" (shouts, grunts, crashing furniture) At that point, undoubtedly, the cops would be called and I would repeat my story to them with a look of wild intensity and urgency.
nelson, no u woudlnt do that at all, you would be bewildered and in shock - yr entire world view wud dissapear in an instant, u wud want to tell the whole world but very soon u wud realise they aint listrening, then pretty soon after u wud get sick of telling ppl yr experiences only for the smart arses to mock and ridicule and score measley easy points off u. so then u wud give up and content yrself with reading smug comments on the net made by those who only 'think' they know the truth and prefer to make childish jokes rather than actually engage their brains and come out of their man caves for long enough to see that the world is not how they want it to be. and after all, when we think about it in the cold hard light of day, of course it is sheer madness to even think there might be other life in an infinite universe...nah, silly me, course not, we are the one sole planet in all of space that can support life, hey what a great coincidence, and we get to be born here...great. and ps, it wasnt a rant, it was a post, i wud say yr post was more of a rant. or is anything that doesnt square with yr own views a rant as well?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
and btw, u wudnt be 'dogmatically' telling them at all, u wud be telling them based on yr own experiences, the very oppst of dogma methinks.
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That must be the 2nd best rant.
But you would be saved by the aliens ofcourse, putting all non believers to shame!
But you would be saved by the aliens ofcourse, putting all non believers to shame!
see the newly rehashed thread "rybka make you a GM strength player" for an entire rant book of calonic-cathartic pleasure.
+1
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> in over 3 years i have found no fault with his grammar and he is a Mexican bandit i believe.
Well, to be fair Vempele was very strict when correcting my mistakes, one day was truly shocking because he made be believe a word I used didn't exist in English!
I used the word "improvable" while I meant "improbable", and instead of telling me about the mistake (e.g. the b for v switch), he told me what I said was wrong, that I didn't mean "Capable of being improved", and that I should have used "unprovable" (can't be proven), but that was not what I meant, I meant to say "unlikely"! So I picked my dictionary and looked up "improvable" and "unprovable", and neither meant what I wanted, so I assumed the word didn't exist.
Only later on I told him I was thinking about Spanish's "improbable" that meant "unlikely", and that's when he told me it was the same in English, so that's when I realized it
, that was a great lesson, so that I'll never, ever confuse those three words again. I've always have such lessons since the beginning (circa 2000) and always thank the Internet Grammar Police for their corrections that help me improve my English As for being a bandit, or drug lord, such things are extremely lucrative, so I'd have a computer farm and hire Vas to build special versions of Rybka for my personal use, so, nope, am not
> It's true that you Brits are much better at delivering subtle insults than we are!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6A7-scpUjU&feature=related
>>Nelson's wise advice?! One day I am a bookmaker-charlatan and the next I am an oracular shaman!
As long as they don't call you 'Paul the octupus'. Whoops I meant "Nelson the octupus".
I find the Smith-Morra annoying.
As black? If you like the c3-Sicilian with (1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6), then 1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 Nf6 should transpose into those lines. Although you probably already knew that...
On this theme, I want to point out a truly shocking (well, shocking to a 2100, so that may qualify) move I recently saw played:
1. e4 c5
2. c3 Nf6
3. e5 Nd5
4. d4 cxd4
5. Bc4 (with the idea of a possible gambit line after ...Nb6 Bb3 dxc3)
5.... Qc7!
Now what?
1. e4 c5
2. c3 Nf6
3. e5 Nd5
4. d4 cxd4
5. Bc4 (with the idea of a possible gambit line after ...Nb6 Bb3 dxc3)
5.... Qc7!
Now what?
5. Bc4 is weak.
After Qc7 white could try Qe2, or a computer idea of: 6. Bb3 Qxe5+ 7. Ne2 e6 8. cxd4 Qh5
After Qc7 white could try Qe2, or a computer idea of: 6. Bb3 Qxe5+ 7. Ne2 e6 8. cxd4 Qh5
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I detest the Ruy Lopez, which is why I studied the Ponziani as White and the Scandinavian as Black.
i love the Lopez if only to prove a lot of GM play is crap esp in closed variations.
I think you might like the giucco pianissimo. A lot less theory.
> to prove a lot of GM play is crap
It goes without saying, really. But I think this is in the process of changing, and massive computer power is behind it. Problem is, there are human limits to what you can absorb and use in practice.
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