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BIO:
Real Name: N. Lundgren
Age: 23
Nationality: Swedish
Sex: Male
current rating: 1715
Active club player since: May 2003
Sidenote: I play shogi and xiang-qi as well as normal chess.
Curiosity: I like the queen's bishop, I like active knightplay, I like opening traps, and I really like 'locked' positions or static pawn formations, such as this one Capablanca vs K Treybal, 1929
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Fav Player (of all time):
Tal, Nezhmetdinov, Fischer.
Fav Modern Player:
None in particular... young stars with tactical prowess like Morozevich...
http://www.gmsquare.com/Morozevich/...
and chess players with 'attitude', like, hm.. Kosteniuk and Manakova ;)
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
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other random links:
- dragon discussion
http://altmax.com/cgi-local/cpf/YaB...
- unknown masters of chess
http://www.angelfire.com/games/SBCh...
- unknown games of Tal
http://www.chessarch.com/excavation...
- The hypermodern approach
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/Open...
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primary openings:
As white - 1.c4 English
As black
- against 1.e4 - The Sicilian Dragon
- against 1.d4 - The Benoni
- against 1.c4 - The Symmetrical English
- against 1.b4 - The Polish gambit
- against 1.f4 - The Lasker defense
- against 1.Nc3 - The Novosibirsk :) (Morozevich vs Kasparov, 2000)
secondary openings:
As white - 1.e4
- (after 1.-e5)
- The Giouco Piano
- The Vienna
- (after 1.-Nf6)
- The 2.Bc4 Krejcik variation
- (after 1.-c5)
- The Richter-Rauzer
- The Keres attack
- The Poisoned pawn
As black -
- against 1.d4
- The QGD Chigorin Defence
- The Queen's Indian
- against 1.e4
- The Sicilican Sveshnikov
- Kan
- Scheveningen
- Accelerated Dragon Maroczy Bind Simagin Variation
- The Alekhine defense
other openings i like to play:
- the larsen-attack english variation
- the Polish gambit
- old-Benoni or Anti-benoni variations
- All anti-sicilian openings
- The anti hyperaccelerated dragon 4.Qxd4 variataion.
(1.e4-c5 2.Nf3-g6 3.d4-cxd4 4.Qxd4)
- The other anti-dragon openings (the 6.f4 levenfish etc.)
unknown (?) and interesting openings:
The Sonja attack (...d5 deviation in the kalashnikov) and the Rubicon line (...Ne8 in the accelerated dragon maroczy bind)
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