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| Posted by longbow57 diddyonline.com 3/24/2008 20:17:14 Play online chess |  Subject: Stonewall AttackMessage: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman diddyonline.com 3/25/2008 12:15:33 Play online chess | longbow57 - Message: Cheers, Ion | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by longbow57 diddyonline.com 3/25/2008 14:09:55 Play online chess | Stonewall Attack one of my games Message: ——— Rise of computers has lifted game — Bobby Fischer was rarely wrong about chess matters. But in one critical issue, he erred grievously: Late in life, he concluded that chess was played out. Most of the important possibilities in the opening phase had been explored and understood, he thought, and grandmasters’ reliance on computers had taken the creativity out of the game. But it seems that the opposite is true. A complete database of chess games now would be in the millions, not in the tens or hundreds of thousands as in Fischer’s time. And that volume continues to grow as an increasing number of strong chess players, playing an ever larger number of games, dominates chess. Not surprisingly, chess players’ repertoires have ... Posted by tim_b | diddyonline.com 3/25/2008 14:56:21 Play online chess Message:  game ——— Armenia Takes Team Title; Chinese Player Is Top Scorer — The Chess Olympiad, which was first held in 1924, is the most elite national team event in the chess world. But the World Team Chess Championship is in some ways more competitive because it includes only 10 squads, so there are no easy matches. This year, Armenia, the No. 4 seed, was the runaway winner at the chess event, which ended on Tuesday in Ningbo, China. It was hardly an upset; the Armenians, behind Levon Aronian, have won two of the last three Chess Olympiads, which are held every two years. China, the No. 6 seed, finished second, and Ukraine lived up to its seeding by winning the bronze medal. Russia, which was the top seed and had won the last two Team Chess Championships, finished ... Posted by longbow57 | diddyonline.com 3/25/2008 15:07:45 Play online chess Message: ——— Armenia replaces England as nation that punches above its weight — In the 1980s and 1990s England punched above their weight in world chess events. Silver medals in the Chess Olympiads of 1984, 1986 and 1988 and bronze at the 1985 and 1989 world teams were followed by gold at the 1997 Euroteams. After that the England chess team aged or retired, while competition increased with the break-up of the Soviet Union. There have been hopes in the past two years that a new England chess group could become international contenders, as Luke McShane, David Howell and Gawain Jones became strong chess grandmasters to support the established stars Michael Adams and Nigel Short. But recently McShane has reverted to a full-time job and is not competing in ... Posted by ionadowman | diddyonline.com 3/25/2008 15:56:22 Play online chess Thanks, longbow57...Message: The only time anyone tried a Stonewall attack against me, I didn't recognize the opening and had to ask. The fact is, my opponent got the move order wrong - or something - which led to this disaster: Labour weekend Tournament, Auckland, 1979 White: I.A.D. Black: G.T. Munted Stonewall Attack 1.d4 Nf6 2.e3 g6 3.Bd3 ... - I like this posting for the bishop, too... 3...Bg7 4.Ne2?! 0-0 5.Nd2? d3 6.0-0 7Nc6 7.a3? ... - Why not 7.c3, then? 7... e5 8.c3 Re8 9.Ng3 d5 10.dxe5 Nxe5 11.Bc2 h5 12.h3 h4 13.Ne2 Qe7 14.f4? ... At last "getting in" his planned thrust! b 14...Neg4 15.hxg4 Qxe3+ 16.Rf2 Nxg4 17.Ne4(!) Qb6 18.Nd4 dxe4 19.Re2 e6 20.Nf3 Be6 21.Bd3? Rad8 22.Qc2 Bb3 23.Qb1 ... b 23... Nf2? - Sufficient, but 23...Bd1 was way better. 24.Ne5 Nxd3 0-1. Possibly my opponent was expecting a more direct response to his opening play. I can think of no other explanation for his artificial handling of the opening. Cheers, Ion ——— Chess-mad Armenia's heroes return in triumph — Armenia's top chess players, lauded as heroes after winning the 2011 World Team Chess Championship this week, vowed on Friday to boost the small chess-mad country's status in the game even further. The team's head coach said that future successes will be secured through official support and an unusual new scheme to promote the game among schoolchildren initiated by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian, a keen chess player who also heads the country's Chess Federation. "Because of this attention and care, we can improve our game," coach Arshak Petrosian told a press conference, two days after returning from the chess tournament in China to a rapturous welcome from fans and ... Posted by longbow57 | diddyonline.com 3/25/2008 16:16:00 Play online chess Message: ——— U.S. doesn't medal in China — During a long and grueling chess tournament here in Ningbo, China, the U.S. team had real chances to capture a medal at the World Team Championship. But the competition proved too fierce, and we had to settle for tie for fourth place with 10 total points. However, after the complex tiebreak system, the U.S. ended up in sixth place, which is slightly better than our original seventh-place seeding. Still, it was a bit disappointing, as we squandered some golden opportunities. In a normal chess tournament, an individual receives one point for a win and a half point for a draw. The same was true for this event, but individual results were tallied up after each round and then teams were awarded points based ... Posted by longbow57 | diddyonline.com 3/25/2008 22:14:01 Play online chess Message: Posted by ionadowman | diddyonline.com 3/26/2008 17:35:04 Play online chess The advantage...Message: But the big thing about sticking to an opening like this (or any particular opening) is that you get a lot of experience and understanding of the sort of positions you are likely to reach. If you manage to avoid dropping into routine thinking (which can happen with overfamiliarity with any line of play), you will find yourself more at home in the kind of game you get than your opponents will be. It's no hardship neither that, despite its apparently 'defensive' appellation, it is an aggressive line. Much more fun. Cheers, Ion Posted by jamesdriggs | diddyonline.com 3/29/2008 20:49:44 Play online chess ColleMessage: Jim Posted by houseofcook | diddyonline.com 6/10/2008 15:42:03 Play online chess Stonewall AttackMessage: Posted by ccmcacollister | diddyonline.com 6/10/2008 18:24:35 Play online chess houseofcook ... Message: ******* If you prefer a more "classical" formation as BL, then there are a number of good choices for handling of the Queen's Bishop from c8. You can fianchetto with ...b6 and from there play ...Ba6 in such way & time as to try to force the exchange of your Bishop for WT's traditional Bd3 placement, since that is an obviously "good Bishop" and usually a key piece in the WT game plan as well. It may be sac'd at h7 sometimes, or help enforce an e4 push, or used in battery with the WT Queen for pressure, etc. Alternatively, there is also Bb7 which is very thematic for playing to control the e4 square and often backing-up placement of a BL Ne4. ******* It may also be placed upon the King-side. The caution in doing so is that it should not be allowed to become a significant target that temporizes WT's attacking of the K-side. Especially not to be trapped by pawns or forced into passivity such as to Bh7 with a pawn to g6 blocking it or such, as I've seen happen at times. IMO if you are going to play it to the King-side, you must be prepared to trade it or have it traded for. Fortunately, it is often quite alright or even beneficial to see it played to Bg4, then traded for a Knight on f3. Or for a Be2 if WT should happen to choose that less aggressive B placement. It can also be played to Bf4 if one is not afraid to play it from there to the "hole" with Be4, tho it may often be traded for there. *** IMO, in a Stonewall game, the Best Bishop on the board will almost invariably end up being WT's King Bishop, usually Bd3. And I feel that piece is nearly always good & beneficial for BL to capture whether done by Knight or his Bishop. Other than that particular WT Bishop however, I feel that the Knights of both players will usually be better pieces than the other Bishops, in that the opening usually remains substantially closed in the center that is difficult to open, which will severely limit the scope of Bishops, and the existence of the "hole" at e4, as well as other potential outposting chances will probably be quite Knight favorable. So unless there are other considerations involved in the trade, I never fear trading either B for a N in this opening, and generally look forward to that chance. For instance, when the trade is made of a Bg4 playing BxNf3 then it also serves to weaken WT's control of e5, unless he has a Nd2 with which to recapture. It is e4 and e5 that are almost invariably the most importantly contested center squares in the Stonewall. *** Posted by houseofcook | diddyonline.com 6/10/2008 22:49:33 Play online chess Stonewall AttackMessage: |