Lawrence Day vs Albert Charles Chow (1988)

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Lawrence Day vs Albert Charles Chow
Oakham House (1988), CAN, rd 2
King's Gambit: Accepted. Becker Defense (C34) · 1-0

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Jul-17-04		rochade18: 3...h6 is the best way (or at least a good way) to crush the KG as black. Is b3 the best way for white to strike back?

Jul-17-04		IMlday: 4.b3 is just a test of Black's move order. It creates original play while ordinary moves like 4.d4 or 4.Bc4 will lead back into the mainline. As the game goes, Black is better after he finds 16..Ncb4! The 2 B's vs B&N are significant here. Time ran down. Then 30..Bc2?! was bozo, attempting to cash out at once. With 31.Ng4! White was suddenly back from the tomb. Note that this was a Futurity tournament; to make IM norms possible, then foreigners were required. Toronto and Chicago swapped them in the 1980's. In some ways they are very similar cities.

Nov-18-04		dickweed: its interesting how a subtle move like 3) .. h6 can be so powerful, also IMIday I don't quite agree that other moves transpose in to mainlines, move order is of great significans here

Nov-19-04		IMlday: After 4.d4 g5 the position is the same as 3.Nf3 g5 4.d4 h6 as in a Day-Nickoloff game in the mid-90's.

Nov-26-04		dickweed: Yes but why would you play 4) .. h6 in that variation, can hardly be black's main line

Nov-26-04		IMlday: Black's logic is that he wants to keep the f-file closed by protecting the f4 pawn. So if he plays ..h6 and ..g5 he can meet the advance h2-h4 with Bg7 guarding the R/h8. This is mainline theory, as old as Chigorin and Lasker's Manual. after 1e4 e5 2f4 ef 3Nf3 g5 4d4 options are 4..d6 (Fischer's line by transposition) or Muzio-style 4..g4!? when 5.Bxf4!? is the modern try. You might ask Ray Keene about this gambit. As I recall Milner-Berry sprang it on him in a friendly game.

Nov-26-04		Ron: <IMIday> Interesting comment about Toronto, I'm from Chicago. I'll make Toronto one of the places I will plan to see. There was a time when I saw Master Alber Chow every so often, he used to run a pretty good chess club I went to, now defunct, alas. He has a weekly chess puzzle in the Chicago Sun Times.

Oct-29-05		KingG: <IMlday> Perhaps you could have tried 7.d4 0-0 (7 ...d5 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.Nxd5 Qxd5 10.Qd2) 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Qxf4 (0-0-0!?) as recomended by Bangiev. Fritz also seems to agree that the resulting position is better than after 7.Bc4. Do you agree?

Oct-30-05		IMlday: Yes <KingG> 7.d4!? definitely looks better than 7.Bc4. Thanks.

Oct-30-05		IMlday: 7.d4 is a definite improvement. Thanx.

Oct-31-05		DAL9000: I've never seen a finish quite like the Queen march here. That's good clean family fun.

Oct-31-05		KingG: <IMlday> No problem. Any chance you might try it out in a future game, or have you been put off 4.b3!? for life?

Nov-09-05		Caissanist: Hehe, that reminds me of the old children's game of "yes means no and no means yes, do you want me to hit you?". Perhaps if he can convince some future opponent that he would never ever play such a thing, then we'll see it again.

Nov-10-05		IMlday: I'm just happy after 1.e4 e5 2.f4 if they take it. It makes the game interesting. The particular variation then isn't so important. 4.b3 wasn't prepared, just improvised at the board. I scored 2-1 with the KG in that Oakham event, +2-1, way more FUN than facing Petroff's or Berlin Walls which might have produced 2-1 via +1=2. Now, thanks to CGers informing me about the Bangiev improvement, I might play 4.b3 again; it has points. btw, the really nice classical attack from that tournament was L Day vs J R Stopa, 1988

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