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| Aug-18-04 | | square dance: <noodlehead> did you come to your conclusion by playing with or against the french? as an 1.e4 player i hated seeing the french, so it dawned on me one day that maybe there is a lot of people who feel the same way, hence my becoming a french defense player. if you play 1.e4 and think the french is horrible to play against, then that right there is reason enough to take it up. please no more saying eww though. |
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| Aug-18-04 | | checkpat: <Zenchess> What s the "Greek Gift
sac"?
Reference to these Korchnoi
Bareev miniatures?
<square dance> 2. Qe2 is
an anti French system
of growing popularity |
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| Aug-18-04 | | acirce: Bareev lost in 17 moves in this year's Corus: Svidler vs Bareev, 2004 and in 20 two years ago: Khalifman vs Bareev, 2002 Moro teaches Korchnoi a lesson in last year's Biel: Morozevich vs Korchnoi, 2003 |
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| Aug-18-04 | | checkpat: Thanks acirce!
I found actually quite a few Korchnoi games lost with the French in under
30 moves |
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| Aug-18-04 | | Zenchess: checkpat: The Greek Gift sac is where the White B is on d3, the N is on f3, the Q is on d1, and the B sacs on h7. After the sac, the N checks on g5 and the Q comes to h5 and mates on h7. For it to work, there should be no Black Knight on f6 and Black should not be able to bring a N to f6 (f8) or a B or Q to f5 to cover the mate on h7. Also, Black should not be able to capture the Knight on g5 when it checks unless White can recapture with the h-pawn with the R still on h1. If you want to learn more about the "Greek Gift" and other types of sacs, you could get "The Art of Attack" by Vuckovic. The "Greek Gift" frequently happens in the French because White has a P on e5, keeping the Black Knight off of f6. |
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| Aug-18-04 | | NoodleHead: Is that the same as The Chess Sacrifice, Vladimir Vukovic? |
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| Aug-18-04 | | Zenchess: I am not familiar with that title; "The Art of Attack" is the only Vukovic book I know of in print. |
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| Aug-19-04 | | NoodleHead: The book I have is a 1968 1st Edition, wonderful read. Who was it who said "Everythime I read a good book I wish life was 3000 years long!" |
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Aug-19-04
 | | Benzol: <NoodleHead> <Zenchess> "The Art Of Attack" and "The Chess Sacrifice" are two different books. "Art" is the more commonly available one but in my opinion the're both good. |
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| Aug-19-04 | | NoodleHead: Cheers Benzol, Which are the best books in your view Benzol?
The classical ones? |
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Aug-19-04
| | Benzol: The Chess Players Handbook by Staunton
Common Sense In Chess by Em Lasker
Modern Ideas In Chess by Reti
My System by Nimzowitsch
Chess Fudamentals by Capablanca
Alyekhin's annotations in 2 books of his best games.
Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games
Tal's life and games
Tal's book on his 1960 Match with Botvinnik.
Kasparov's The Test Of time
Polugaevsky's Grandmaster Preparation
Kotov's Think like a Grandmaster
These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. |
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| Aug-19-04 | | NoodleHead: Have you digested them all Benzol? |
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Aug-19-04
| | Benzol: No not all of them. The most unfortunate part is playing through them when younger and then finding you forgot most of it.LOL. |
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| Aug-19-04 | | checkpat: <Zenchess> Thanks!
I have no excuse not to know the terminology, having read
"how to beat your Dad at chess"
(borrowed from my sons rather :=)))
Since we are talking books I recommend strongly
Francois le Lyonnais
Les prix de beaute' aux échecs
where this sac is called
"sacrifice rituel"
Dont know if there is an English edition....sorry! |
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| Aug-19-04 | | Zenchess: <Benzol> I didn't know Vukovic had another book out; I will have to look for it some time. <checkpat> I don't have that book, but the reviews I've read say it's pretty entertaining. |
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| Aug-20-04 | | NoodleHead: Anyone know of a good resource for annotated games studying the Sicialian dragon? |
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| Aug-20-04 | | checkpat: <Zenchess>
Yes the comments are very entertaining, almost poetic sometimes.The cover is the famous game
by Nimzowitsch of Dresden 26
with the long march of the white
N starting in h1.
le Lyonnais was memeber of Oulipo , a group of artists comprising
Raymond Queneau |
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| Aug-20-04 | | Zenchess: <NoodleHead> You could check out www.chessbase.com; they have recently issues some CD's on the Dragon. Also, Mikhail Gobulev has written a book on it. <checkpat> Speaking of unusual maneuvers, here are some examples of middlegame King wandering: Petrosian vs J Peters, 1976
Fischer vs Petrosian, 1959
Petrosian vs Unzicker, 1960 |
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| Aug-22-04 | | NoodleHead: Thanks zenchess |
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| Aug-24-04 | | checkpat: Thanks Zenchess!
In the same vein there is a beautiful
game by Short (as W). |
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Oct-28-04
 | | offramp: Does anyone have any idea about how many games Uhlmann lost with the French Defence? |
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Oct-28-04
| | offramp: Sorry - I found it. It looks like it is about 89. Kortschnoi seems to have lost about 60 but he varied his black openings to 1.e4 more often. |
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| Oct-28-04 | | Bogdanel: GM Nigel Davies, at chesscafe.com doesen't reccomend french for the begginersand young players (under 16), because he says it inhibits the development of their tactical abilities.He says it's an opening for those good at planing, defense and counter-attack, and that "relatively few such beasts exists at amateur level" But it's almost my only defense to e4, and i'm an intermediate player |
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Oct-28-04
 | | cu8sfan: <Bogdanel> I think if it works out for you and you achieve good results by playing the French go for it. |
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| Dec-05-04 | | EnglishOpeningc4: the french is home to the most boring opening in chess <the exchange> and the most exciting <the winawer> |
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