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There are 0 results for Igor in the games. There are 11 results for Igor in the forum. Jose Carrillo (2006-05-13 00:28:45) Re: Qualifying In a Knock out you can have 3rd vs 4th in the final. In the Page system you can't. It's just a matter of whether you want to acknowledge the top players in the round robin. In the page system ONLY the top four players in the round robin qualify for the playoffs. Look at the Page system in practice in the Gligoric Cup tournament that we are running in FRCEC at: http://frcec.chess960.info/GligoricCup.htm Thibault de Vassal (2006-05-28 01:06:10) Other quotes by famous chess players "I really believe that Go is destined to take the place of Chess as the leading intellectual game of the Occident, just as it has reigned supreme in the Orient for some four thousand years." - Edward Lasker, Go and Go-Moku, c. 1934 "While the Baroque rules of chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play go." - Edward Lasker, international chess master "You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go." - Hans Berliner, The New York Times, Feb 6, 2003 "... {it is} something unearthly ... If there are sentient beings on other planets, then they play Go." - Emanuel Lasker, chess world champion Elmer Valderrama (2006-12-04 14:18:02) intuition I disagree, chess knowledge can't be equated to intuition, here is my long post about it (why am I writing about the same things all over and over and at the same time of year, I dunno ;) 1. Players without any intuition whatsoever but great working capabilitites (as Botvinnik, Fischer, Kasparov, ..engines..) -they never relie on intuition (they dont have any at all after all) so everything must be subject to calculation, they have the "hardware" (perfect body and mental conditions, rigorous training, perfect visual/realistic representation of positions and a great chess knowledge which must be kept fresh in mind -if not, they wouldn't have reference points to judge/evaluate resulting positions. When on top form they can beat anybody and I mean ANY body: human, extraterrestial, ultragalactic, trans-natural, hyper-divine,etc, and for an overwhelming score, like 6-0 ;)..well you know what I mean. The drawback well you already know it, it last a mig, except for the engines, no-one can keep up with this regime (GK could for a long time, but resorting to short breaks (not playing for WC, choosing carefully where to play etc,) But most important it's impossible to implement for long if the "hardware" -see above- starts to "leak oil" then it's all over.. This can be brought up to an art, like Kasparov or Fischer, it is more powerful than understanding chess as a natural tongue (as intuitive players) because the "top-form" competitive element is always present and the "hardware" works in pristine conditions. From the above it follows of course that engines are the ultimate chess warrior over the board at least (and only there, not in CC) 2. Those who have strategical intuition. (Capablanca, Petrosian, Karpov maybe Anand..)The general impression is that they are simply lazy people: not need to work out any thing as they just "know" where pieces should go and what the point is of their moves, usually there is no need for deep calculations, just two or three moves (4 to 6 plies) to corroborate the "feeling" and the game is won. The "feeling" is hard to express in words, and usually is lost if expressed in words ;). It goes beyond a simply pattern recognition, or a full database of chess knowledge, it is about predicting the future possibilities (not having real positions in mind, just the "possibilities" or general lines of play in future positions which may or may not happen to appear for real in the game. They can play for long long time and win a lot of tournaments (Karpov I believe have the record of won tournaments) 3. Those who have special understanding in unbalanced positions (Alekhine, Tal, Korchnoi..) They are dynamic players who love to calculate but not for the sake of finding the best of the best of the best of the moves (as those in group 1 would do), they calculate SOME variations, those who have meaning to them I see them as players of group 2 with a more or less working "hardware" i.e they are not going to trust 2 or 3 moves variations neither they are going to speculate on the future possibilities without any ground/basic calculation under it. Their "feeling" is again hard to express in words, but I believe it is something like calculating a 10-12 plies variation with every position in-between being subconciously excrutinated for crushing unexpected turning moves (this is not done by players of group 1, they would calculate "normal replies" in that 10-12 plies variation and would have to go deeper (like 20-30 plies to see the point ;) So that "feeling" is what enable us to compose music, create art etc but also it is something that enable us to err like fools :( Whether it can be mimicked by software or not it's an open question but as I said a calculation 40-50 plies deep it's practically equal to using intuition... Obviously the above classification of G Kasparov it's a bit rough in the sense that there are very few "pure intuitive" players (of either group 2 or 3) as mentioned by Don in his post most of the players is a mix of talent I believe, if I had to choose a pure intuitive player from those groups I would point Capablanca and Korchnoi, and of course Kasparov of group 1 Nick Burrows (2007-03-18 19:41:58) masked politicians? This may well reinvigorate the whole of politics for as Oscar Wilde said;- "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Garvin Gray (2007-06-04 11:41:42) Wch 3 in rating order KAZ Balabaev, Farit 2580 FRA de Vassal, Thibault 2512 USA Ingersol, Harry 2502 NZL Noble, Mark 2497 DEU Schuster, Peter 2480 POL Ostrowski, Leszek 2458 ARG Brunsteins, Daniel 2452 CAN Zubac, Marius 2415 ROU Mathe, Iosif 2414 UKR Khokhlov, Igor 2370 MLT Sammut, Ronald 2362 ROU Helmer, Janos 2343 PRT Pires, Miguel 2270 LKA De Silva, Dinesh 2235 POL Sanner, Zdzislaw 2219 RUS Dyakov, Alexander 2217 DEU Schiller, Wilfried 2217 DEU Koslowski, Volker 2204 DZA Ould Ahmed, Samy 2195 FRA Appendino, Jérome 2192 GBR Taylor, William 2182 GRC Bleker, Frits 2171 DNK Jorgensen, Poulerik 2168 DEU Kesselheim, Peter 2149 CAN Repa, Jason 2144 PRT Louro, Eugénio 2123 USA Kotlyansky, Edward 2114 DEU Markus, Roland 2103 FRA Czekaj, Christophe 2098 AUT Dudulec, Konstantin 2084 CAN Plante, Marc-Eric 2079 LVA Borisovs, Leonids 2078 AUT Mueller, Robert 2069 DEU Unger, Peter 2065 AUT Riha, Josef 2019 POL Skwarczylo, Marek 2018 MUS Stephenson, Andrew 2000 CZE Stanislav, Musil 1990 SCG Vidanovic, Djordje 1966 USA Burden, Don 1959 DEU Haluschka, Rainer 1950 CAN Rotaru, Dan 1937 GBR Wyborn, Graham 1890 GBR Burrows, Nick 1884 POL Broniek, Mariusz Maciej 1879 BIH Dautovic, Dzenan 1875 AUS Gray, Garvin 1863 USA Minkin, Alexander 1850 GBR Josse, Mark 1806 ARM Khachaturov, Vadim 1803 USA Kotlyanskiy, Ilya 1800 DEU Krueger, Karsten 1800 PRT Vasquez, Fernando 1775 DZA Toutaoui, Khaled 1763 DEU Wosch, Arkadiusz 1746 TUR Yuvarlak, Ugur 1732 ROU Hrubaru, Mircea 1726 ARG Carrizo, José 1724 USA Phillip, Lennox 1700 ROU Kondort, Mihai 1700 ROU Ioan, Bucsa 1700 BRA Miranda, Marcus 1691 VEN Flores, Luis 1680 RUS Ruzin, Mikhail 1639 DEU Faust, Dieter 1627 MYS Behrmann, Klaus 1617 FRA Bellanger, Michel 1606 POL Bester, Kazimierz 1600 DEU Nent, Alexander 1593 PRT Oliveira, Carlos 1586 HUN Nagy, Attila 1549 ROU Ionescu, Catalin 1535 HUN Kis-Kos, Laszlo 1512 ITA Lupinacci, Nicola 1492 BEL De Groof, Pieter 1465 DEU Odendahl, Marcel 1462 USA Hendricks, Richard 1459 BRA Queiroz, Florencio 1444 CZE Pech, Jaroslav 1433 USA Goodwin, Adam 1415 HUN Csoma, Robert 1400 USA Gillz, Nicolas 1400 BGR Toktas, Ibrahim Ugras 1400 IND Veeraiah, Karuppaiah 1400 MEX Ortiz Durán, Esteban 1400 TUR Ilhan, Alper 1400 CHE Margot, Alain 1400 TUR Erdonho, Erdinç 1400 USA Lipsits, Sasha 1400 BRA B. Lima, Edmilson 1400 DEU von Buttlar, Paul 1386 HUN Fenyves, Adam 1330 BGR Stoianov, Stoian 1316 GRC Serd, Than 1300 TUR Ak, Murat 1300 GBR Willoughby, Peter 1294 ARG Orden, Jorge 1264 GBR Neil, Charlie 1212 NLD Oldenhof, Dwight 1203 USA Greer, Stephen 1200 BRA Barradas, Anderson 1194 IND Malvankar, Vikrant 1188 BEL Tuteleers, Bruno 1145 DEU Bothe, Matthias 1143 BGR Stoyanov, Zdravko 1136 Sergey Pligin (2007-06-27 19:24:46) Our team Here is our squad, in accordance of boards: 1. Sumets Andrey, Member # 2137, GM 2. Pljusnin Ivan, Member # 2147 3. Pligin Sergey, Member # 2189 4. Doinikov Owl, Member # 2191 5. Romitsin Nikolay Sergeevich, Member # 2159 6. Vovk Andrey, Member # 2144, IM 7. Yunusov Adkham, Member # 2124 8. Pavlikov Andrey Nikolayevich, Member # 2182 9. Leskiv Miroslav, Member # 2133 10. Domanov Dmitry, Member # 2130 11. Kragujevcanin Stole, Member # 2148 12. Silkin Aleksey, Member # 2198 13. Orlov Sergei, Member # 2207 14. Kim Vladimir, Member # 2139 15. Gerasimov Vladimir, Member # 2190 16. Larin Igor, Member # 2193 17. Zarullin Ivan, Member # 2203 18. Filimonov Evgeny, Member # 2176 19. Pezikov Evgeny, Member # 2174 20. Stork Denis, Member # 2180 21. Mancubov Boris, Member # 2156 22. Ilyuschenko Yury, Member # 2168 23. Prokopenko Alex, Member # 2182 24. Basiliev Iouri, Member # 2205 25. Shpakovsky Alexander, Member # 2185 The following players will play using their real names: Sumets Andrey GM Pligin Sergey Romitsin Nikolay Sergeevich Vovk Andrey IM Yunusov Adkham Pavlikov Andrey Nikolayevich Leskiv Miroslav Domanov Dmitry Silkin Aleksey Orlov Sergei Gerasimov Vladimir Larin Igor Pezikov Evgeny Ilyuschenko Yury Prokopenko Alex Shpakovsky Alexander Thibault de Vassal (2007-06-27 21:18:36) FICGS vs. IGAME.RU, the games Hello to all. The friendly match between FICGS & IGAME.RU teams just started :) http://www.ficgs.com/tournament_FICGS__CHESS__FICGS_VS_IGAME_RU_MATCH.html I'd like to thank Sergey Pligin for organizing this match and all players who registered to play. I apologize to the players who couldn't play :/ .. 25 boards was not enough this time. To build FICGS team I selected players with the highest ratings but one cause his rating should be clearly >2000 already. Also IM Mark Noble plays at table 6 because his opponent is another FIDE IM. I wish good games to everyone, this is a great opportunity for us to meet russian chessfriends. Amici Sumus ! ... quote of the day : "Top boards make the show, last ones win matches." :-) Here are the complete teams : FICGS : 1. Thibault de Vassal # 1 2. Michael Aigner # 139 3. Peter Schuster SM # 323 4. Janos Helmer # 47 5. Miguel Pires # 83 6. Mark Noble IM # 1991 7. Leszek Tymcio # 2151 8. Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff # 142 9. Silviu Nenciulescu # 1319 10. William Taylor # 1232 11. Poulerik Jorgensen # 940 12. Wayne Lowrance # 135 13. Edward Kotlyansky # 1140 14. Christophe Czekaj # 1193 15. Konstantin Dudulec # 1329 16. Robert Mueller # 1233 17. Josef Riha # 157 18. Dan Rotaru # 1394 19. Garvin Gray # 1363 20. Nick Burrows # 1643 21. Vadim Khachaturov # 1078 22. Daniel Khayman # 1032 23. Gaetano Laghetti # 138 24. Alexander Nent # 1411 25. Ilmars Cirulis # 533 IGAME.RU : 1. Sumets Andrey, Member # 2137, GM 2. Pljusnin Ivan, Member # 2147 3. Pligin Sergey, Member # 2189 4. Doinikov Owl, Member # 2191 5. Romitsin Nikolay Sergeevich, Member # 2159 6. Vovk Andrey, Member # 2144, IM 7. Yunusov Adkham, Member # 2124 8. Pavlikov Andrey Nikolayevich, Member # 2157 9. Leskiv Miroslav, Member # 2133 10. Domanov Dmitry, Member # 2130 11. Kragujevcanin Stole, Member # 2148 12. Silkin Aleksey, Member # 2198 13. Orlov Sergei, Member # 2207 14. Kim Vladimir, Member # 2139 15. Gerasimov Vladimir, Member # 2190 16. Larin Igor, Member # 2193 17. Zarullin Ivan, Member # 2203 18. Filimonov Evgeny, Member # 2176 19. Pezikov Evgeny, Member # 2174 20. Stork Denis, Member # 2180 21. Mancubov Boris, Member # 2156 22. Ilyuschenko Yury, Member # 2168 23. Prokopenko Alex, Member # 2182 24. Basiliev Iouri, Member # 2205 25. Shpakovsky Alexander, Member # 2185 Edit : There was a mistake while building the games, I had to make a replacement at board 23. Thibault de Vassal (2007-08-28 12:42:38) Who is chess champion in your country ? Maxime Vachier-Lagrave just won the France chess championships in Aix-Les-Bains, after a great tournament (other players in National A tournament were Vladislav Tkachiev, Andrei Sokolov, Christian Bauer, Josif Dorfman, Robert Fontaine, Laurent Fressinet, Jean-Marc Degraeve, Anatoly Vaisser, Igor Nataf, Olivier Renet, Laurent Guidarelli)... Thal Abergel won the National B tournament. Now the question is : Do you know who is champion in your country ? .. Not only to know who is champion, but to see if this information is well known or not... Thibault de Vassal (2007-09-15 12:59:08) IECG WC 2006 final As the IECG WC 2006 final just started, this is a good time to end the game. Quite surprising but finally, after 2 or 3 discussions about it, noone solved it and found me (some really looked for though) ;) Clues were : Playing this year in a world championship final, birthdate (1973-04-13), first FICGS rating (2407, IECG rating), movies (a few players at IECG and FICGS knew about it, the trailer of 'A Clockwork Orange' where the other name is mentioned... Here is the message I sent to my opponents : "Dear chessfriends, That's a real pleasure and honor to play my first IECG WC final with you all. Dinesh, Carlos, Farit, Massimiliano and John, nice to play again :) I'm 34, single, living in the center of France... I play correspondence chess since 2002, IECG is the place I started with. I made a few strange movies and videos a few years ago (soon available on the internet) :) http://www.ficgs.com/psi/download/psi_divx411_vost_720x360.avi http://www.ficgs.com/psi/download/A_clockwork_orange_2005__teaser.avi http://www.ficgs.com/psi/download/Aphex_Twin_-_Inkeys_video_clip.avi I wanted to play correspondence chess under my director's name but I'm now more known in our small CC world as Thibault de Vassal... I'm the webmaster of FICGS - http://www.ficgs.com , another Correspondence Chess Server, where I knew some of you :) .. Sorry about the confusion. I don't know how IECG rules will apply, I hope I can play this tournament anyway. Best of luck to all ! David Gordh." TS: Gordon Evans +---------------------------------+---+----+----+---+---+----+----+------+-----+ |IECG WC-2006-F-00001 1 1 1 1 1 1 | | | |WC 2006 Tournament # 00001 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 | Tot | Plc | +---------------------------------+---+----+----+---+---+----+----+------|-----| | 18149 Robson, Nigel ENG 2646 | # | 0,0 | | | 16702 Sirota, Anatoli AUS 2553 | # | 0,0 | | | 19142 Pappier, Carlos ARG 2518 | # | 0,0 | | | 18096 Chovanec, Milan SVK 2508 | # | 0,0 | | | 15446 Makovsky, Petr CZE 2500 | # | 0,0 | | | 11273 Blanco, Cesar GUA 2451 | # | 0,0 | | | 13336 Gordh, David FRA 2443 | # | 0,0 | | | 17738 De Silva, Dines SRI 2425 | # | 0,0 | | | 10969 Rocca, Horacio ARG 2422 | # | 0,0 | | | 17342 Perez, Brigilia PHI 2410 | # | 0,0 | | | 16273 Fiala, Jaroslav CZE 2406 | # | 0,0 | | | 13552 Claridge, John WLS 2403 | # | 0,0 | | | 21524 Balabaev, Farit KAZ 2398 | # | 0,0 | | | 15174 Massimini Gerbi ITA 2363 | # | 0,0 | | | 18311 Bendig, Frank GER 2341 | # | 0,0 | | +---------------------------------+-------------------------------+------+-----+ Rating Average = 2452 Category = 9 Start date: 12.09.2007 I didn't know that I would create FICGS when I registered at IECG and I prefered to use my director's name. I hope you don't mind. Sorry to Igor Khokhlov, Harry Ingersol and Farit Balabaev (I played them under both names). Best wishes, Thibault Phil Cook (2008-08-12 07:34:16) Morales Vs Cook [Event "Single game, E4EC"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2008.04.22"] [Round "-"] [White "Morales, Rafael (rafafallo)"] [Black "Cook, Phil (Kiwi)"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1078"] [BlackElo "1170"] [TimeControl "10/30"] 1. d4 {(D 00 Queeens Pawn,Chigorin varation) 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 } d5 2. Nc3 {(D 00 Queeens Pawn,Chigorin varation) 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 e6..not commonly played } e6 {(D 00 Queeens Pawn,Chigorin varation) 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 e6..not commonly played} 3. a3 {3.blocking ..Bb4} h6 4. e4 a6 5. g3 dxe4 6. Nxe4 Nf6 {3. ....... h6 4. e4 a6 5. g3 dxe4 6. Nxe4 Nf6 attemps white into another exchange} 7. Bg2 {7.Bg2 defends } Nxe4 8. Bxe4 c6 9. c4 Be7 10. d5 {7. Nxe4 8. Bxe4 c6 9. c4 Be7 10. d5 (white here,trying to open the middle up) so black attacks} cxd5 11. cxd5 O-O 12. dxe6 {12.dxe6,,(black gives up a pawn or does he)} Qxd1+ 13. Kxd1 Rd8+ 14. Bd2 fxe6 {12. dxe6 Qxd1+ 13. Kxd1 Rd8+ 14. Bd2 fxe6(wins the pawn back,has white in disarray here)} 15. Nf3 Bf6 16. Rb1 Nd7 17. b4 Ne5 18. Ke2 Nxf3 19. Bxf3 {15. Nf3 Bf6 16. Rb1 Nd7 17. b4 Ne5 18. Ke2 Nxf3 19. Bxf3 (note whites black bishop)} Rb8 20. a4 b5 21. a5 Bb7 22. Rbc1 Bxf3+ {19. Bxf3 Rb8 20. a4 b5 21. a5 Bb7 22. Rbc1 Bxf3(white lost contol and game from here,yet plods on)} 23. Kxf3 Rxd2 {22. Rbc1 Bxf3+ 23. Kxf3 Rxd(loss of bishop)} 24. Rc6 Rd3+ 25. Ke4 Rbd8 26. Rxe6 Rd3d6 27. Rxd6 Rxd6 28. Rc1 Rd4+ 29. Kf5 Rxb4 30. Kg6 Rg4+ 31. Kf5 Rc4 32. Rd1 Rc5+ 33. Ke4 b4 34. Rb1 Rb5 35. Rb3 Bc3 36. f4 Rxa5 37. f5 Ra3 0-1 Phil Cook (2008-08-16 10:54:51) (D 00 Queeens Pawn,Chigorin varation) Morales Vs Cook [Event "Single game, E4EC"] [Date "2008.04.22"] [Round "-"] [White "Morales, Rafael (rafafallo)"] [Black "Cook, Phil (Kiwi)"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1078"] [BlackElo "1170"] [TimeControl "10/30"] 1. d4 {(D 00 Queeens Pawn,Chigorin varation) 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 } d5 2. Nc3 {(D 00 Queeens Pawn,Chigorin varation) 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 e6..not commonly played } e6 {(D 00 Queeens Pawn,Chigorin varation) 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 e6..not commonly played} 3. a3 {3.blocking ..Bb4} h6 4. e4 a6 5. g3 dxe4 6. Nxe4 Nf6 {3. ....... h6 4. e4 a6 5. g3 dxe4 6. Nxe4 Nf6 attemps white into another exchange} 7. Bg2 {7.Bg2 defends } Nxe4 8. Bxe4 c6 9. c4 Be7 10. d5 {7. Nxe4 8. Bxe4 c6 9. c4 Be7 10. d5 (white here,trying to open the middle up) so black attacks} cxd5 11. cxd5 O-O 12. dxe6 {12.dxe6,,(black gives up a pawn or does he)} Qxd1+ 13. Kxd1 Rd8+ 14. Bd2 fxe6 {12. dxe6 Qxd1+ 13. Kxd1 Rd8+ 14. Bd2 fxe6(wins the pawn back,has white in disarray here)} 15. Nf3 Bf6 16. Rb1 Nd7 17. b4 Ne5 18. Ke2 Nxf3 19. Bxf3 {15. Nf3 Bf6 16. Rb1 Nd7 17. b4 Ne5 18. Ke2 Nxf3 19. Bxf3 (note whites black bishop)} Rb8 20. a4 b5 21. a5 Bb7 22. Rbc1 Bxf3+ {19. Bxf3 Rb8 20. a4 b5 21. a5 Bb7 22. Rbc1 Bxf3(white lost contol and game from here,yet plods on)} 23. Kxf3 Rxd2 {22. Rbc1 Bxf3+ 23. Kxf3 Rxd(loss of bishop)} 24. Rc6 Rd3+ 25. Ke4 Rbd8 26. Rxe6 Rd3d6 27. Rxd6 Rxd6 28. Rc1 Rd4+ 29. Kf5 Rxb4 30. Kg6 Rg4+ 31. Kf5 Rc4 32. Rd1 Rc5+ 33. Ke4 b4 34. Rb1 Rb5 35. Rb3 Bc3 36. f4 Rxa5 37. f5 Ra3 0-1 There are 8 results for Igor in wikichess. Thibault de Vassal (2407) d4 Nf6 c4 g6 The King's Indian Defence is a chess opening that begins 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 followed by ...Bg7 and ...d6. The King's Indian is a "hypermodern" opening, where Black lets White take the center with the view to later ruining White's "wonderful" position, often by an attack on White's king. It is a risky opening, which has been a favourite of players such as former world champions Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer and Tigran Petrosian. Prominent grandmasters John Nunn, Svetozar Gligoric, Wolfgang Uhlmann, and Larry Christiansen have also played this opening frequently. According to Chessbase, black chances are about 42% ============ Contributors : Thibault de Vassal Thibault de Vassal (2407) e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Bc5 b4 The gambit is named after Captain William Davies Evans, the first player known to have employed it. The first game with the opening is considered to be Evans - McDonnell, London 1827, although in that game a slightly different move order was tried (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O d6 and only now 5. b4). The gambit became very popular shortly after that, being employed a number of times in the series of games between McDonnell and Louis de la Bourdonnais in 1834. Players such as Adolf Anderssen, Paul Morphy and Mikhail Chigorin subsequently took it up. It was out of favour for much of the 20th century, although John Nunn and Jan Timman played some games with it in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and in the 1990s Garry Kasparov used it in a few of his games (notably a famous 25-move win against Viswanathan Anand in Riga, 1995), which prompted a brief revival of interest in it. The Evans Gambit is basically an aggressive variant of the Giuoco Piano, which normally continues with the positional moves 4. c3 or 4. d3. The idea behind the move 4. b4 is to give up a pawn in order to secure a strong centre and bear down on Black's weak-point, f7. Ideas based on Ba3, preventing black from castling, are also often in the air. The most obvious and most usual way for Black to meet the gambit is to accept it with 4... Bxb4, after which White plays 5. c3 and Black usually follows up with 5... Ba5 (5... Be7 and, less often 5... Bc5 and 5... Bd6 are also played). White usually follows up with 6. d4. ============ Contributors : Thibault de Vassal Thibault de Vassal (2407) d4 Nf6 c4 g6 Nc3 Bg7 The King's Indian defense is a "hypermodern" opening, where Black lets White take the center with the view to later ruining White's "wonderful" position, often by an attack on White's king. It is a risky opening, which has been a favourite of players such as former world champions Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer and Tigran Petrosian. Prominent grandmasters John Nunn, Svetozar Gligoric, Wolfgang Uhlmann, and Larry Christiansen have also played this opening frequently. ============ Contributors : Thibault de Vassal Christophe Sengez (1700) d4 d5 c4 Nc6 QGD Tchigorine ============ Contributors : Christophe Sengez Thibault de Vassal (2522) e4 e6 d4 f5 The 'Kingston Defence' is characterised by the opening moves: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 f5 It can also be reached after the transposition of moves 1.d4 f5 2.e4 e6 — a form of Staunton Gambit Declined. The first record of the defence being played is Schiffers-Chigorin, 1880. The first record of a win by Black is the 1892 victory of Elson over Emanuel Lasker. It remains obscure, but has considerable surprise value. The Kingston Defence shares a weakness with the French Defence — in the form of the constrained queen's bishop -- and a strength with the Dutch Defence — namely the early thrust of the f-pawn, which often supports a knight on e4. (These French and Dutch similarities led to the first, uncomfortable name for the defence: Frutch.) White's decision at move three tends to define the nature of the game that follows. ============ Contributors : Gavin Wilson Adam Goodwin (1365) e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 a6 Ba4 Nf6 O-O Be7 Re1 b5 Bb3 O-O h3 An Anti-Marshall move that can lead to other Ruy Lopez Defenses such as the Zaitsev, Chigorin, or Bryer Defenses. This move also has its own theory behind it. ============ Contributors : Adam Goodwin Telmo Escobar (2055) e4 c5 Nf3 d6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 Nf6 Nc3 e6 Be2 a6 O-O Nbd7 f4 b5 Bf3 Bb7 e5 Bxf3 Nxf3 b4 exf6 bxc3 fxg7 Bxg7 b3 Qb6+ Kh1 Nf6 f5 e5 Bg5 Qc6 Qe1 h6 Bh4 O-O Rd1 Rfe8 Gligoric-Simagin, Alekhine Memorial 1963. The position is about equal, although Black has some weaknesses that make his position more difficult to deal with. In this kind of situations Gligoric was a true grandmaster and he eventually won the game (1-0 in 56 moves) ============ Contributors : Telmo Escobar ... or search for Igor in FICGS via Google
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