Open Defence Member since Oct-22-03 Hi All, amateur from India who has not played a game in maybe what 5-7 years at least? Work and family took priority. I am not as frequent to the site as I once was but still pop in when there is WC match.

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Apr-27-25 Chessgames - Sports    Open Defence: <HeMateMe: I read somewhere that Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi were going to enter a pickleball tournament this year, somewhere, and, Graf: "We will be pretty serious."> YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS! XD      Apr-25-25 Chessgames - Music    Open Defence: < Check It Out: <OD> You play bass in proggie rock bands?! Awesome.> mainly blues bands, however in my college days Prog was all the rage <perfidious> this is my favorite Moody Blues song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoY...      Apr-23-25 P Shuvalova vs J Zhu, 2025   Open Defence: 17...Kh7 struck me as odd, probably 17...exd4 18.cxd4 d5 19.exd5 Nxd5 and I don't think Black has many problems      Apr-23-25 Pune Women's Grand Prix (2025)    Open Defence: 7 out of 9 for both Humpy and Zhu, some nice games in this Grand Prix      Apr-22-25 Jiner Zhu   Open Defence: She is having a good run in the Pune Womens' Grand Prix and should win the tournament but let's see      Apr-22-25 USSR Junior Championship (1988)   Open Defence: Kamsky 5.5/7 with his sole loss against Ulyibin      Apr-22-25 Koneru vs J Zhu, 2025   Open Defence: nice win by Humpy, I hope she can keep her lead      Apr-22-25 WannaBe chessforum    Open Defence: hehe yeah Tim Russ was in Spaceballs, that meme is doing the rounds now.... That Michael Dorn, Brent Spinner anecdote was hilarious heh!      Apr-15-25 Freestyle Grand Tour Paris (2025)    Open Defence: <IvKolisch: No idea why <chessgames.com> insists on putting Rameshbabu's last name first as opposed to every other name on the list.> His name is Praggnanandhaa. Rameshbabu is his father's name      Apr-11-25 Ivanchuk vs E Kirk, 2025    Open Defence: nice find <offramp> In the opening 9...h6 seems a waste of a tempo and can be played if White actually plays Bg5 9...c6 may be better a move earlier maybe Qe7 is not best, I think maybe Re8

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