... Mike, Trying to convert Advance into Tarrasch has been my pet project as well. I would try one move later ie after playing ...Bd7. This bacically takes...
Hi! I live in Turkey and met an IM from Azerbaijan some time ago. He showed me some variations in a gambit i used to name "French Wing gambit" before, but once...
Slightly Off Topic. Can anyone help? In the British press some 8 to 10 years ago there was an article about someone who had invented a three way chess game. ...
Slightly OT..... Yes I remember it well, in fact it was quite a clever idea, except I seem to recall that the players had to wear a rubber head-band and...
Thanks for the interest but no thanks for the caustic remarks. I found all I was looking for on another group----it seems their members are more friendly than...
Well norman.....that is just great, you got what you were looking for! But I see that you are not sharing it with anyone! Well then again norman.....a...
What is the best reply to 1 e4 e5 2 d4 d5 3 e5 c5 4 Nf3 Nc6 5 Bb5. I notice that a number of replies have been tried but is any one of them better than the...
If you really want to know then YOU ask the silly question. That way YOU will be the recipient of the idiotic answers. Norman ... for! ... board? ... except ...
First of all hello everybody! This is my first post. I'm an 1830 rated player from Belgium. (I tell my rating not because I'm proud of it (I'm not!) but...
He means 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 I played this French opening against Karpov but I got into serious trouble later.. 3. Sd2 c5 4. Se2 b5 5. a3 Sc6 6. c3 Sf6 7. e5...
Yes but thats not the same variation as discussed by goodgrief6. Were talking the advance variation here . 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5 Bb5 (ps...
Welcome mrxjn I think you are right to put the question to the Bishop and make him do something but not all players play this move. I too have encountered Bb5...
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Hi: There is a transposition from an Alapin Sizilian into an Advanced French that goes like this: 1.e4 c5 2.c3 e6 3.d4 d5 4.e5 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6.Be2 Nh6 1st...
Wolfgang Uhlmann (70) against Viktor Korchnoi (74) http://www.chessbase.de/2005/uhlmann/Kortschnoi-Uhlmann.jpg Chesmetrics Career ratings for: Wolfgang Uhlmann...
The French Spike Attack (1.e4 e6 2.g4) Recently I have been playing 1.e4 e6 2.g4 against the French Defense. Although the move g4 as a second move can be...
.Right clyde!......Someone played this (g4) against me while I was playing around in pogo.com and it really caught my attention, it is quite a disarming move...
If you have the score for that game I would be interested in looking at it. There are other games with this same 2.g4 move in my chess databases. I will have...
It is mentioned in Lucena's work in 1497. The name of the opening comes from a correspondence game between London and Paris, where the French played 1...e6 and...
... showed me ... before, but ... by an ... they do in ... want to ... "1.e4 ... Black's main ... The wing gambit is a terrible "coffee-house" line that is...
Then what do you think of this which was posted in another news group. The French Spike Attack (1.e4 e6 2.g4) Recently I have been playing 1.e4 e6 2.g4 against...
If you say that the French Wing Gambit is a forced win for black you should prove it by showing us the line. And I will have Fritz8 take a look at your line to...
I uploaded to files section a pdf from chesscafe articles of gary lane related with - Wing Gambit - 6.b4 - And another gambit line I deleted the unnecessary...