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| Posted by nathanman22 play-chess-online.com 6/03/2008 20:33:40 Play online chess |  Subject: Benoni DefenseMessage: -Nathan | ||||||||
| Posted by ganstaman play-chess-online.com 6/03/2008 22:40:07 Play online chess | Message: 1) You have pawn breaks at f5 and b5 to constantly strive for, while having to watch out for an e5 break by white. So, simple pawn-related lessons in every game. 2) You'll get to play a lot with your pieces, using their activity (especially the g7-bishop) to make up for the positional disadvantages. Plus, many players (I'm guessing many around your rating level, but I can't say for sure) will 'chicken out' of playing d4-d5, opting for e2-e3 or Nf3 or d4xc5 instead. These positions will give you no trouble as they allow for easy and equal development. It can get crazy though, so you'd have to like tactics to play this. I'd look over Tal's games, as they can be entertaining, and they'll make you think that you need to play like him in order to win. Fischer also had great success with this opening, so see how he did it before getting in too deep. | ||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman play-chess-online.com 6/04/2008 13:24:04 Play online chess | The Modern Benoni ... Message: Here's a game recently played in emtogsdia's MT:  game
Quite a ding-dong affair. It has to be said, though, that the risk factor is high. I've had one loss where the enemy's K-side attack proved too quick for my Q-side advance, even though I "got in" a pawn promotion; and another that was a complete disaster after I misplaced my queen to b6 then castled Q-side. But if the risk factor is high, so is the excitement factor. My one warning is that (in my view) it is a very difficult opening to play, especially for Black, especially in its main lines. You can make life easier for yourself if you play the Benko Gambit, though. This opening I would highly recommend, as, for the pawn, Black gets an easy development, a clear-cut plan early on, and quick pressure against White's Q-side: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 Bxa6 w Enjoy, Ion ——— As Chess Olympiad Begins, No Surprises, but More Controversy — The first round of the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, on Tuesday did not produce any upsets, though a few high-ranked chess teams yielded a draw or two. According to the Olympiad’s Web site, there are 1,300 players from 144 countries. The Chess Olympiad, which was first held in 1927 (or 1924, unofficially), is convened every two years. The 2010 Olympiad is particularly important as elections for the top offices in the World Chess Federation, the game’s governing body, will be held near the end of the competition. Prior to the start of the Olympiad, it had been plagued by problems, including a race to finish building the main venues before the teams arrived. Now that the chess event has ... Posted by ionadowman | play-chess-online.com 6/04/2008 13:27:21 Play online chess Message: game ——— Chess Puzzles: Richard Reti's Marvelous Squares — A chessboard is a square, divided into 64 black and white squares. But there are more squares in chess, mostly invisible, as part of an amazing chess geometry hidden in chess players' minds. One classic square is often used in pawn endgames when a king is chasing the enemy's passed pawn. The king doesn't have to walk in horizontal or vertical lines, he can run diagonally or zig-zag across the field. But he needs to be close enough to catch the pawn. How close? The king has to walk into a square whose one side is defined as the distance between the pawn and its promoting square at the edge of the board. We can use a famous study by Richard Reti as an example. The world-class player ... Posted by ccmcacollister | play-chess-online.com 6/06/2008 02:22:52 Play online chess Fischer 2007Message: But Beware the Taimanov var! (Hey, I have since the late 80's, glad Bobby climbed onboard haha :)  www.chess.com ——— Lahno Wins Women’s World Blitz Chess Championship — To be good at blitz, or speed, chess, players must think quickly and have good tactical skills. That is why the best chess players under slow, or classical, chess time controls are not necessarily the best at the faster form of the game. Though only 20 years old, Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine has been among the best women players in the world for seven years and is now ranked No. 7. She is actually ranked higher than Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia, the current women’s world chess champion, who is No. 10. She is clearly an excellent classical chess player and has won the European Individual Women’s Championship twice (in 2005 and 2008). Now she has proven that she may be even more adept at speed chess. ... Posted by ccmcacollister | play-chess-online.com 6/06/2008 02:24:56 Play online chess Hey ... Message: www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/which-openings-give-you-the-most-trouble ——— A tribute to Bent Larsen — Danish chess grandmaster Bent Larsen died Sept. 9 at age 75 in Buenos Aires, his home since the 1970s. Larsen was the most successful tournament player of the late 1960s, when he rose to third in the world behind Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer. Only losses to those two stars in Candidates matches kept him from playing for the world chess championship. Larsen had a lively mind and strong opinions, enabling him to speak knowledgeably about many subjects in more than a half dozen languages. Among chess players, he stood out for his fondness for discarded openings and his disdain for draws. He popularized 1 b3, now called Larsen's Opening. Typically, he used it irregularly over a four-year period and ... Posted by ogedei | play-chess-online.com 6/11/2008 15:37:47 Play online chess For Andrew Martin Fans...Message: chessbase.com
Might be worth a look for people who like studying openings that way. ——— Remembering Bent Larsen: chess's most popular grandmaster — Bent Larsen, who died last week aged 75 was world No 3 to Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky and the most popular chess grandmaster of his time. Larsen was articulate, gregarious, outspoken and witty, so his passing stimulated an outpouring of reminiscencies and affection. Larsen's resilience, inventiveness, hard work and readiness to risk the odd loss in his quest for chess tournament victories have proved a model for some current top GMs like Vasily Ivanchuk and Shak Mamedyarov, though his liking for the offbeat openings 1 b3, 1 g3 and 1 f4 remained his lone trademark. He described himself as self-made, with only Aron Nimzovich's My System a major style influence. He thrived in ... |