| Mar-20-06 | | HolyKnight: Wow all this guy plays is the English as White looks like. That is rare these days. |
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| Apr-23-06 | | notyetagm: Miezis is a specialist in the IQP positions resulting from the 4 c4 French Exchange 
click for larger viewonly he arrives at this position from the English move order 1 c4 e6 2 e4 d5 3 exd5 exd5 4 d4. That's why he has so many games listed under A13. |
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| Jun-07-06 | | ganstaman: I was thinking about the Modern Benoni and the Taimanov Variation, which many seem to agree makes playing the Modern Benoni in its natural move order dangerous. So I was thinking that the reason the Taimanov is possible is because black's king is uncastled and his d-pawn is on d6. Black can castle sooner, and for this I think starting out as a KID makes most sense (and then playing ...c5 hoping to transpose). Or, black can avoid playing d6 until it is safe to do so. The latter sounds like more fun, so I thought briefly about just not playing d6 until I've castled. Unfortunatley, not playing ...d6 allows white to play d6. My first question is: is this really a problem? The d6 pawn for white may be difficult to support. Black has traded use of the c7 and e7 squares for the c6 and e6 squares. I haven't played the Benoni much (only occasional transpositions from the Modern Defense), so I don't know if this is a good trade, or if black can ever actually win white's d6 pawn. There is an alternative, however, and that is what brings me to this page (besides all the open room around here). There is the Snake Benoni: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 Bd6?!, planning ...Bc7 and maybe ...Ba5 (the movement of this bishop is somehow reminiscent of a snake). Our good friend Miezis has played this numerous times with good results. In this database, it has +24 -24 =16 results overall (from http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... ). Anyone here ever use this, or know black's basic plans? In other words, if I plan on using this ever, can anyone help me not get crushed? Otherwise, I'll just play over Miezis's games. You should too; they're quite interesting. |
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| Nov-03-06 | | nescio: In a minor tournament in Gausdal, http://home.online.no/%7Eeirikgu/by... , Akesson and Miezis played a game which left me speechless. The last ten moves may have been played in time-trouble, but even so... I don't think <chessgames.com> will bother to include this tournament in their database, but perhaps someone could shed a light on this game, for instance with the help of one of those chess engines I hear so much of on this site: [Event "Gausdal Byggern Masters 2006"]
[Site "Gausdal"]
[Date "2006.09.28"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Åkesson, Ralf"]
[Black "Miezis, Normunds"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E38"]
[WhiteElo "2449"]
[BlackElo "2527"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2006.09.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "NOR"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 c5 5. dxc5 Bxc5 6. Nf3 b6 7. Bg5 Bb7 8. e4
h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Nc6 11. Rd1 Nh5 12. Bd6 Bxd6 13. Rxd6 g4 14. Nd2 Rc8 15.
Qd1 Rg8 16. Rd3 Ne5 17. Re3 a6 18. h3 Nf6 19. hxg4 Nfxg4 20. Rg3 Qf6 21. Qe2
Qf4 22. Rhh3 Ke7 23. Nd1 b5 24. f3 h5 25. cxb5 Rc1 26. fxg4 hxg4 27. bxa6 Bc6
28. Rc3 gxh3 29. Rxc1 h2 30. Nf2 Rg3 31. Rc3 Rxc3 32. bxc3 Qg3 33. Kd1 Ba4+ 34.
Nb3 Qxc3 35. Qc2 Qe3 36. Nh1 Qg1 37. Qf2 Qxh1 38. a7 Bc6 39. Nd4 Bxe4 40. Qh4+
f6 41. Qxe4 Qxf1+ 0-1
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May-11-07
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: Happy birthday to GM Miezis. One of my favourite players. (Mainly because he likes playing 1...b6, just like me :) ) |
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May-11-08
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: Happy birthday to GM Miezis, again :-) |
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| Sep-16-08 | | Xeroxx: Hahaha Happy birthday :D hahaha :D |
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| May-06-09 | | BIDMONFA: Normunds Miezis MIEZIS, Normunds
http://www.bidmonfa.com/miezis_norm...
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Aug-31-10
 | | Tabanus: GM Normunds Miezis, Latvia, born 11 May 1971. Now rated 2519, http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... IM in 1993, GM in 1997. Rated 2601 in Jan. 2001.
Champion of Latvia 1991 and 2006.
Olimpbase:
http://www.olimpbase.org/players/7b...
http://www.olimpbase.org/playerse/7...
Biographies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normun... (in English)
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normun... (in Dutch)
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normun... (in Polish) Pictures:
http://entwicklungsvorsprung.de/wp-...
http://www.parsportu.lv/f/resources... Placed 3rd in Lithuanian University of Agriculture Cup 25-31 Aug. 2010: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr371... |
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| Jun-24-12 | | waustad: Today he gave Etienne Goudriaan a nice rook and pawn endgame lesson at: http://live.hsgopen.nl/ |
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| Sep-05-12 | | vinidivici: The most opening he has used as white is English...wow...he should note as one of the player who develop the opening. |
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| Jan-29-15 | | mrandersson: Having gone over quite a few of his game i must say i really like his style of play and ideas he has. The c4 e4 idea is one i have used a few times but his ideas give me ideas as well. |
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| Feb-20-15 | | Volmac: <nescio: ...Akesson and Miezis played a game which left me speechless.>
R Akesson vs N Miezis, 2006 |
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| Jan-28-25 | | Delboy: The four 1964 games ascribed to this GM clearly belong to a different player with that name |
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Feb-28-25
 | | offramp: <Mar-20-06 HolyKnight: Wow all this guy plays is the English as White looks like. That is rare these days.> Normunds Miezis really likes the English. In the database he has 1275 games.
As White, he has played 662 English openings.
Can you imagine all those Englisheses?
Sometimes he plays 1.e4. That seems to always end up as a French Exchange (1. e4 e5, 2. d4 d5 3. exd5...).
We've seen that 116 times.
N Miezis vs Short, 2012 Short won this interesting game, not a French and he IS English. |
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