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Dec-05-04 | | EnglishOpeningc4: use the french with black and white < 1d3 e5 2e3 d5 3d4> |
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Jul-02-05 | | Shrivel Up DEVO: the computers don't seem to use the French defence. That might tell you something. the French is sort of a counterpunching opening, you wait for white to over extend, make a mistake. The Progs don't wait for a mistake to happen, they force the mistake, and don't depend on their opponent playing less than top notch. I think thats why the Bots don't open with the French too often. By definition, its inferior. |
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Jul-15-05 | | Jamespawn: I don`t think its an inferior defense. Its just not a tactical defense like the Sicilian. Its strategical rather than tactical and computers are not good at strategy , but do excell at tactics. |
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Oct-28-05 | | notyetagm: In his excellent book "365 Ways To Checkmate", GM Joe Gallagher calls the mating pattern which ends this Uhlmann game "one of our favorite mates". In Descriptive Notation the mate runs ♖-R8+! ♔x♖ ♕-R6+ ♔-N1 ♕xNP#. In words, the enemy king is <decoyed> onto the long diagonal to create a pin so that the queen has access to the Rook 6 square with check and then the queen gives mate on Knight 7. I do not know if this matting pattern has a name so I call it the Gallagher Mate. [Event "DDR-ch 13th"]
[Site "Aschersleben"]
[Date "1963.02.11"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Maedler,Juergen"]
[Black "Uhlmann,Wolfgang"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "D86"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 0-0 8.Ne2 Nc6
9.0-0 b6 10.Be3 Bb7 11.Qd2 Na5 12.Bd3 c5 13.Bh6 cxd4 14.cxd4 Rc8 15.Rfc1 Bxh6 16.Qxh6 Qd6
17.h4 Nc6 18.Rd1 Qf6 19.Bb5 Rfd8 20.Bxc6 Rxc6 21.e5 Qf5 22.Ng3 Qg4 23.d5 Rc5 24.d6 Rxe5
25.Rac1 Rxd6 26.Rxd6 exd6 27.Rc7 Re1+ 28.Kh2 Rh1+ 0-1 |
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Dec-17-05 | | netlava: Nice mating pattern. I didn't see it right away? What are some other common mating patterns? |
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Dec-17-05
 | | Gypsy: <I do not know if this matting pattern has a name so I call it the Gallagher Mate.> Nice monicker. But why not Uhlman's? |
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Mar-08-06 | | HolyKnight: GMs like Korchnoi, Uhlmann, Glek I just got to really admire these guys. Here is a guy who played Kings Indian against d4 and French against e4. It's like him saying, ok beat me at my favorite I dare you! The French (if you count all the Sicilians as one opening) it is then the most complex reply to e4. By far. It is more complex than the Dragon, or Najdorf if you count them as one opening. So in ways he is playing the most complex reply to e4 all his life! |
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Mar-28-06 | | BIDMONFA: Wolfgang Uhlmann UHLMANN, Wolfgang
http://www.bidmonfa.com/uhlmann_wol...
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Jun-08-06
 | | WTHarvey: Here are some crucial positions from Uhlmann's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/uhlm.html |
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Jul-25-06 | | siggemannen: this guy surely knows his french |
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Aug-27-06 | | Bonol: The French complex?. Do me a favour, try the Max Lange. |
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Aug-29-06 | | Albertan: Oct-28-04
offramp: Does anyone have any idea about how many games Uhlmann lost with the French Defence? Hi Offramp,Uhlmann has lost 102 games with the French Defense in my chessbase database (which covers games he has played until 2003). |
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Aug-16-07 | | SniperOnKN2: With black, this guy likes blockaded centers alright. Must have great patience. |
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Mar-29-08 | | whiteshark: player of the day
Happy birthday, Wolfgang!!! |
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Mar-29-10 | | wordfunph: At Hastings 1972-3, GM William Hartston turned down a draw offer against Wolfgang Uhlmann and lost the game. If he had accepted the draw offer, he would have become England's first GM. happy birthday Wolfgang! |
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Jan-05-11 | | wordfunph: Larsen-Uhlmann 1971 Match:
According to Bent Larsen's wife, Wolfgang Uhlmann is the nicest loser of all the chess masters she has seen. |
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Mar-29-11 | | paavoh: A good choice for the POTD! I tried to emulate his game with the French defense when I was active in OTB and in CC, though I was less uncompromizing than he ever was. |
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Mar-29-11
 | | Penguincw: < paavoh: A good choice for the POTD! I tried to emulate his game with the French defense when I was active in OTB and in CC, though I was less uncompromizing than he ever was. > Indeed.Someone who defeated Fischer with black in a classical game should deserve to be Player of the Day eventually. |
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Mar-29-11 | | theagenbiteofinwit: Uhlmann is second only to Psakhis when it comes to playing the French, IMHO. Actually it was probably Ulmann's French win and draw against Fischer that influenced Psakhis to make it his main weapon. |
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Mar-30-11 | | paavoh: Some Armenian players are also active with the French, Vaganian comes to mind. |
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Aug-18-11
 | | Dionysius1: Uhlmann's home page here needs adjusting. He plays the French defence almost exclusively against p-k4, but as the text stands, the figures don't support it: about 38 percent of Uhlmann's black games are French defences - not "almost exclusively" |
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Aug-18-11 | | TugasKamagong: Well, <Dionysius1>, the text in Uhlmann's bio here does indeed say he plays the French almost exclusively against 1.e4. We've had some help from <getReti>: on page 1 here, he says he found only 3 games where Uhlmann didn't play the French against 1.e4. That does sound almost exclusive. Uhlmann has 1772 games here. I'm too lazy to do the actual count, so let's just estimate he had Black in half of them or about 886. How many of those began with 1.e4? Let's go for a real low estimate, and call it one-tenth, or 88 games. If he didn't play the French in only 3 of those games, that would still mean he played the French in more than 96% of the games where he had Black against 1.e4. Now, where did you get that figure of 38%? Perhaps you included Uhlmann's Black games where White opened with 1.d4? |
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Aug-23-11
 | | Dionysius1: Hi <TugasKamagong>. <the text in Uhlmann's bio here does indeed say he plays the French almost exclusively against 1.e4>. It does now - I'm almost sure it didn't when I posted. Either way I'm happy now, and if someone changed the text that quickly - thanks! |
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Aug-24-11 | | MartijnvanWingerden: I have a challenge for everyone. Try to find a game where Wolfgang Uhlmann didn't answher 1.e4 with 1...e6. Good Luck! |
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Aug-24-11
 | | keypusher: <MartijnvanWingerden: I have a challenge for everyone. Try to find a game where Wolfgang Uhlmann didn't answher 1.e4 with 1...e6. Good Luck!> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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