4 coses d'escacs  

Pal Benko, Eufim Bogoljubov, Bronstein, Gulko, Paul Keres, Victor Korchnoi, Marshall, Morphy, Najdorf, Nimzowich, Lev Polugayevsky, Zoltan Ribli, Rubinstein, Tarrash, Staunton.

Una altra foto.

El futur :

• Vladislav Artemiev

• wiki
• Madrid 1933
• gana a Capablanca en Hastings, en 1935 con sacrificio de dama
  Fischer le dice "¡e5xf6!"

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La partida Polugaevsky-Nezhmetdinov de Sochi 1958 es considerada como una de las mejores partidas de ajedrez de la historia, luego de un brillante sacrificio de dama por parte de Nezhmetdinov.

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Nezhmetdinov vs Tal, Baku 1961

1. atenció a varies coses a la vegada
2. autocrítica
3. autoestima
4. calcul de riscos
5. capacitat de càlcul
6. combativitat
7. compliment de les regles
8. concentració
9. creativitat
10. dessig d'aprendre
11. disciplina
12. espotivitat
13. imaginació
14. lògic
15. memòria
16. motivació
17. paciencia
18. pensament científic
19. planificació
20. previsió de consecuencies
21. raonament
22. respecte al adversari
23. responsabilitat personal
24. sang freda
25. tenacitat
26. visio espacial

El que s'aprèn matant un rei !!!

• you develop your pawns in your center
• you develop your knights in the center
• you develop your bishops in the center
• you castle
• you move your queen to a decent square
• you think of a plan

Yasser Seirawan, minute 6:00

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Wikipedia : the opening is largely based upon tactics on the queenside or the f6 and g7 squares.

Marek's 1.b4 encyclopaedia -> marek's (gone), AngeFire

Recopilacio de'n Bill Wall

La respuesta del "pibe", as Y Seirawan :

Una trampa en aquesta línia :

Una altra de millor :

Estil Jordi Bada, jugant 'normal' :

As Bernabe vs Marc in Sants :

1.b3 : wiki

Main lines :

Larsen suffered a setback in the 1970 USSR vs. Rest of the World match in Belgrade, where Larsen played it against reigning World Champion Boris Spassky and lost in 17 moves - play it at chessgames

Bobby Fischer employed 1.b3 on at least five occasions in 1970, winning all five, including games with GM Filip ( play it ), GM Mecking ( play it ), GM Tukmakov ( play it ), and GM Andersson ( play it )

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A good defense against Bird ?
I would recommend a setup with d5 Nf6 g6 Bg7 0-0 c5 and Nc6, with a flexible position.

Timothy Taylor's book on Bird's Opening puts the main line as follows:

(1) prevent white fianchetto on Queen's side

The possible responses are :

Wikipedia

Elementary video

Games :

• Capablanca vs Israel 1914

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The King's Indian Attack (or KIA), also known as the Barcza system, after Gedeon Barcza, is a chess opening system for white, characterized by several moves. The center pawns are developed to d3 and e4, the knights are developed to d2 and f3, the king's bishop fianchettoes at g2 following the g-pawn's movement to g3, and white castles kingside.

The resulting arrangement has multiple positional themes: the pawn at d3 and the knight at d2 both defend the pawn at e4, the knight at f3 attacks the center, the fianchettoed bishop may influence the center following subsequent moves, and castling removes the king to safety while bringing a rook into the game.

Conceptes a wikipedia : the KIA is often used against the semi-open defences where black responds asymmetrically to e4, such as in the French defence, Sicilian defence, or Caro–Kann defence.

Punts forts

Punts febles

Harry Golombek once said of Barcza :
"[he] is a most versatile player in the openings. He plays g2–g3 sometimes on the first, sometimes on the second, sometimes on the third, and sometimes not until the fourth move."

Fischer–Myagmarsuren, Sousse Interzonal 1967

Richard Reti vs Akiba Rubinstein, Karlsbad 1923

Gedeon Barcza vs Robert James Fischer Zurich (1959), King's Indian Attack: Symmetrical Defense

• exeter chess club
  • C1. KIA vs. Alekhin 1. e4 Nf6: 1. e4 Nf6 2. d3 and 3. g3/Bg2
  • C2. KIA vs. Caro-Kann 1. e4 c6: 1. e4 c6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2
  • C3. KIA vs. French 1. e4 e6: 1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2
  • C4. KIA vs. Pirc/Modern 1. e4 ...d6/...g6: 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nge2 and 5. g3, 6. Bg2
  • C5. KIA vs. Sicilian
  • D1. Center Counter (Scandanavian) 1...d5
  • D2. Gurgenidze Defence ...c6/...d5/...g6
  • D3. Nimzovitch Defence
  • D4(a) 1...b6 ( Owen's Defence
  • D4(b) St.George's Defence 1...a6,
  • D4(c) the Borg Defence 1. e4 g5

• wikipedia, Barcza system

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chessgames A10, 5348

The ideas behind : Exeter Chess Club [*****]

Good intro + 3 nice games : Petrosian vs Botvinnik, 1963, Smyslov vs V Liberzon, 1969, E Nikolic vs Fischer, 1968

Video apertura inglesa en 15 minutos, Luis Fernandez Siles.

Yasser Seirawan speech - sequence is like this :

Reti's comments :

"Now I will propose a thesis, the proof of which the reader and I can seek together.
It is known that the significance of a single tempo, and thus the significance of development, is greatest in open positions. In closed positions it plays almost no role.
Consequently, it would seem to be in white's interest to open the game (without loss of tempo, of course). How can this be achieved? Most likely by exposing and attacking the opponent's strong points. One would expect black's strongest point in the center to be d5 since, unlike e5, it has natural protection by the queen. Therefore, the ideal initial move is 1.c4, immediately taking aim at d5.
Should black support d5 by l...Nf6, then white reinforces the attack by 2.Nc3. Let's assume that black answers 2...e5. This weakens d5 and reveals his intention of building his position around e5 by such moves as ...Nc6 and ...d6. (Even with 2...e6 he could not control d5 in the long run.) Now white need not continue attacking d5, which black abandoned without a fight, by 3.g3 and 4.Bg2. Rather, following the logic given above, white should strike the new bastion e5 by 3.Nf3 and (in reply to 3...d6 or ...Nc6) 4.d4, and he thereby achieves an advantage."

exeter chess club {*** brillant ***}

Botvinnik system :

Variants :

Wiki

There are three major branches after 1. c4:

• 1. ...e5 would suit a 1.e4 player who likes to attack, especially if they play (as white) the Closed Sicilian or (as black) the Dutch or King's Indian. I think this is the best approach for beginners.
• 1. ...c5 would suit a Sicilian player who has the patience for a longer game but doesn't mind drawing occasionally.
• 1. ...Nf6 would suit a player who is angling for a version of their favourite Indian defence.

Partida super agresiva, 1988 :

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Annotations by Dejan Bojkov :

Una coleccio de partides a chessgames : English Opening (c4)

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"Benoni" is a hebrew term meaning "son of my sorrow" (pena, dolor)

Group of chess openings generally characterized by the opening moves 1.d4 c5 2.d5, although black's ...c5 and white's answer d5 are often delayed

Wiki Benoni

The most usual opening sequence for the Benoni is

Black can sacrifice a pawn entering the Benko gambit via 3...b5

3...e6 is the most common move, though 3...d6 or 3...g6 are also seen, typically leading to main lines.

Antiga:

Ideas : url, chessgames A43

Wiki on Modern Benoni - very good

It begins with the moves

After the initial moves, black proceeds to capture on d5, creating a majority of black pawns on the queenside. To support their advance, the king's bishop is usually fianchettoed on g7.

White has a very strong center, and consequently, his main plan is to crush black's defense with a timely e4-e5 break. Also, an attack on d6 pawn is usual.

Drazen Marovic says : it is a fortress with an open door : e5

But black :

• will try to use his pawn majority on the queenside to create a passed pawn which will be supported by the powerful Bg7
• will also attack white's center using the semi-open e-file
• surprisingly, an attack against white's King is also one of black's goals

Tahl showed many times the desirability of the exchange Bc8->Bg4->Bxf3, which has long been a basic tenet (dogma) of the Benoni. Black de-clutters his pieces and improves his control over the crucial e5-square. See 25 Tahl games on Modern Benoni

Tahl showed some more typical Benoni motifs:

• the activation of the queen on the queenside
• the advance b5 and c4
• and further combined pressure on the queenside via the pawn majority and the bishop's influence on the long diagonal along with pressure against e4

Yasser Seirawan excellent road map :

when black plays a6 preparing b5, white must play a4 to prevent it. And, if white has a knight on c4, white has to try to play a5 to place the knight on b6.

Scary moves for black are e4 plus f4. Alter Bb5+, black is in trouble, except if it plays Nf6-d7.

See Ivan Farago vs. Dragoljub Velimirovic, Amsterdam 1976

Mezgen Amanov (Turkmenistan ) – Zhanibek Amanov (Kazakhstan) : video Nov 2011 (30:54, gone), text by Mark Ginsburg

wiki :
The Modern Benoni suffered a serious theoretical crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, when players as black encountered great difficulties in meeting the Taimanov Attack and the Modern Main Line

Molta gent evita la Benoni fent servir l'ordre de la Nimzovich de manera que si el blanc no juga amb Cf3 no fa ...c5 per no entrar-hi.

Taimanov variation, or "Flick-Knife Attack", arising from the moves

The point of the check is that both 8...Bd7 and 8...Nbd7 allow 9.e5 with advantage to white, since the knight on f6 can no longer retreat to d7. After the strongest move 8...Nfd7 the most popular move used to be 9.Bd3, preparing to meet 9...a6 with 10.a4. But in two crushing and high-profile victories with white (against Frans Andre Cuijpers at the 1980 World Junior Chess Championship in Dortmund, and against Nunn at the 1982 Olympiad in Lucerne) Kasparov showed that 9.a4 was more dangerous for black, it having the advantage of not determining the bishop's retreat square for the time being.

To avoid the Taimanov, black often plays 2...e6 and waits until white plays 3.Nf3 before entering the Benoni with 3...c5. If white refuses to play 3.Nf3, and plays 3.Nc3 instead, black may opt for the Nimzo-Indian (3...Bb4)

El cavall negre de dama es desenvolupa via a6 i c4 o a6 i c7, i despres es juga a6.

• Modern Benoni A60 - A79 : clikable
• Fischer using it : game 3
• 11 instructive Tahl games

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wiki - as simple as

White sidesteps immense bodies of opening theory of various Indian Defences like the Queen's Indian, King's Indian, Nimzo-Indian, as well as the Grünfeld Defence.

If white goes "1.d4 Cf6 2.c4", then black can choose from all his repertoire :

London Chess classic, 2015 :

Play it !

Also Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016

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wiki, chessgames A51, video

The Budapest Gambit contains several specific strategic themes. After 3.dxe5 Ng4, there is a battle over white's extra pawn on e5, which black typically attacks with ...Nc6 and (after ...Bc5 or ...Bb4+) ...Qe7, while white often defends it with Bf4, Nf3, and sometimes Qd5. In the 4.Nf3 variation the game can evolve either with black attacking white's kingside with manoeuvres of rook lifts, or with white attacking black's kingside with the push f2–f4, in which case black reacts in the centre against the e3-pawn. In numerous variations the move c4–c5 allows white to gain space and to open prospects for his light-square bishop. For black, the check Bf8–b4+ often allows rapid development.

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The main move order of our suggested repertoire is 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 d6, but then to navigate away from the classical Old Indian lines with ... Nbd7 and ... e5.
Our repertoire will focus on active piece play, control of the centre, in particular the e4-square, and we have in store some surprises for unsuspecting opponents!

Modern interpretation of 2 systems\New Old Indian - Cherniaev, Alexander & Prokuronov, Eduard.pdf

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... when black is doing well due to the possibilities of .Nb4 and/or .e6

Unusually for a gambit, black does not generally mind if queens are exchanged.

Волжский гамбит

Topalov amb negres :

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Chess coach (01/2006)

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349 partides per jugar on-line (Java)

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Chessgames A80-A99, Botvinnik's (33)

What was so special about Botvinnik's treatment of the Dutch is its attacking potential and strategical simplicity.

Black's plan is :

• first place his pawns on the c6, d5, e6 and f5 squares - this formation resembles a wall and that's how the Dutch Stone Wall system got its name.
• then the black knight goes to e4
• the queen goes to h5 via the e8 square
• the rook lift (Rf8-f6-h6)
• then the 'f' and 'g' pawns storm completes this dangerous attacking set-up

After 1.d4 f5, play often runs 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 e6 4.Nf3 (4.Nh3!? is also possible, intending Nf4–d3 to control the e5 square if black plays the Stonewall variation) Be7 5.0-0 0-0 6.c4
And now black chooses between

• 6...d5 (the characteristic move of the Stonewall),
• 6...d6, the Ilyin–Zhenevsky System (less popular today), or
• 6...Ne4!?, Alekhine's move , retaining the option of moving the d-pawn either one or two squares.

Wiki Dutch

Doncs e6 és bo si penses fer una francesa si seguixen amb e4. D'altra banda evita tots els gambits que existeixen contra f5 directe.

Jo crec que podem anar a una Benoni :

Black's problem piece is the light squared bishop, due to the placement of the pawns on the light squares. White has three reasonable squares to place his king's bishop, namely e2, d3 or g2. If white decides to place his bishop on either e2 or d3 then black has the opportunity to get rid of his problem bishop via b6 and Ba6. If the king's bishop is placed on g2 this option is no longer available for black and he will have to find another plan to activate or trade his weak bishop.

It is the most aggressive response to f5 - wiki , rapporto di apertura [it, tons of links]

Incredible game Lasker Ed vs Thomas G, A83

Es pot jugar així :

Aixi el juga en Jordi :

Mine :

Tahl vs Paul Troeger, 1960 : gambit "Staunton"

Black wants to exchange the black-square bishop for the knight at c3, but dont kill until a3 or white castling!

We start at this position (reached by different move orders) :

Ideas de las blancas :

• avance central d4-d5 - habilita d4 para el caballo de f3, presion sobre e6 y c6
• avance b2-b4
• debilidad diagonal a2-g8
• ataque en el flanco de rey - sin enroque, Ch3+Cf4 +h4+h5

Ideas de las negras :

• avance e7-e5 contra d4-d5 (apoyado por De8 quizas)
• avance d6-d5
• avance f5-f4
• avance h5-h4
• ruptura b7-b5

After e5 we shall go with h6, g5 and Qh5 !

This variation may be played by black against 1.d4 and almost any second move except e4, Nc3, Bg5, and g4.
En aquestos cassos ens trobem amb :

Nice book we have : "defensa holandesa (Leningrado)" by Oscar de la Riva -> TG & MARS/Minie :

Por otro orden :

White can play d5 or b3 :

Atencio : Oscar de la Riva, pagina 27 de 205 !
La variante 8 ... Ce5 es la alternativa más incisiva para las negras si se quiere luchar rápidamente por la iniciativa
El principal problema de las negras en todo el sistema reside en la tranquila 9. Db3

This line is more solid and less sharp :

See Gelfand - Nakamura :

Atencio : Oscar de la Riva, pagina 43 de 205 !

La variante 8 ... c6 , a l contrario que 8 ... Cc6 analizada en el capítulo anterior, se caracteriza por su solidez pues no existe ninguna variante que ponga en serios aprietos al siste ma de juego.

El avance 8.d5 pretende dificultar el principal plan de juego negro) basado en la ruptura e5. La intención es asegurarse la captura al paso para así debilitar la cadena negra de peones, a la vez que se cede la casilla d4 para el caballo, desde donde controla todas las casillas críticas del centro.
Por supuesto) no todo iban a ser ventajas.
El que se cede la casilla de c5 que se convierte en el eje de todo el sistema de juego negro.
De este modo se puede completar el desarrollo y, posteriormente, atacar la cadena blanca con c6.

Existen dos jugadas posibles que mantienen la misma idea estratégica, pero que se separan en la realización de jugadas concretas por parte de las blancas.
En este capítulo analizaremos el plan a5 seguido de Ca6, mientras que en el siguiente veremos Ca6 inmediatamente.

Como ya he comentado) la idea estratégica es la misma, pero hqy que conocer los diferentes matices, con sus ventqjas e inconvenientes.

Inconvenient de la Leningrado : has de començar amb f5 i et respondran amb e4.
Solucio : començar amb g6

• 7...Nc6 :
  • Robert Fontaine vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 0-1,
  • Levon Aronian vs Hikaru Nakamura ½-½,
  • Magnus Carlsen vs Dennis Rylander 1-0.
• 7...c6 :
  • Boris Gelfand vs Gata Kamsky 0-1,
  • Anatoly Karpov vs Artur Yusupov 1-0.
• Explore chessgames A87
• 2 videos : "Chess Openings explained" by Jonathan Schrantz at Saint Louis Chess Club : part 1 : 7...Nc6, part 2 : 7...c6
• Leela plays a beautifully fluent Leningrad Dutch making it look comfortably easy
• my first Leningrad - Ravi vs Williams
• nice and heavy page
• large page with videos of GM's games {***} :
• GM Neil McDonald - lots of references to GM's games
• 2 lines :
  • g6 {min 2:05} - white pushes "h" pawn
  • e6 {min 5:22} - if black does not play 4. ...b6, white goes h3+g4
    if black plays 4. ...b6, white goes Be2+Bf3

From book "Dutch Leningrad 8.Nd5!.pdf" :

Vist que tenim f5, podem tenir greus problemes si el blanc fa h3 i g4 sense haver enrocat curt.

2 punts :

• si pots fer Ab4 clavant el cavall es mes util que jugarlo a e7. Aquest alfil es el alfil 'torpe', que mai saps molt be quina funcio et pot fer.

• es tracta de jugar g6-Ag7 i esperar a enrocar fins que el blanc no mostri les seves intencions.

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chessgames A95

Black plays an earlier ...d5 and places his dark-squared bishop on d6. Termed the Modern Stonewall, this setup has remained more popular than the traditional early ...Be7.

When white does not fianchetto, we usually come to this position (see image) by this sequence :

Has d’intentar fer e5 en bones condicions i tenir-ho preparat sobretot si el blanc et fa e4 en bones condicions (ara encara no es facil perque te el alfil negre “penjant”). No es aconsellable finachet en aquesta posicio un cop fet e6 perque un cavall a g5 combinat amb un d5 et pot fer molta pupa ...

chessgames + A97 opening, explorer

• Lev Aronson vs Mikhail Tal, 1957

• Mark Taimanov vs Viktor Korchnoi, 1950

Tahl vs. Reinemer :

Classical Variation Karjakin, Sergey (2791) vs. Carlsen, Magnus (2914)

The Simon William’s book covers "Classical Dutch" (with pawns on f5-e6-d6 and Bishop on e7, as Figure #1),
as opposed to the Stonewall (with pawns on f5-e6-d5-c6 and Bishop on d6, as Figure #2)
or Leningrad (King-side fianchetto).

The opening itself is a recommended choice for those looking for excellent winning chances as black versus 1.d4 / 1.c4 / 1.Nf3

Ginger GM homepage, Simon Williams

(rule 1/8) Black has to try to play ...e5 ; white has to try to play e4.
If black has no e5 available, it will lead to an inferior position because white will be able to open the e-file and attack our weak e6 pawn.
If white plays e4, black is forced to capture with ...fxe4 ; white will place a rook on e1 and place pressure against e6 pawn.

(rule 2/8) black's light-squared Bishop has to stay on c8 for a while, as it is already reasonably placed for black’s purposes, only moving it when it can come into the game with great effect perhaps on g4 or h3.

(rule 3/8) Black's queen has to try to reach h5 square.

(rule 4) If white does not fianchetto on short side, black has to play b6 and Bb7.

(rule 5) Rook lift via f8 and f6, then g6 or h6 - see G Abramovic vs Mikhail Botvinnik, 1924 :

(rule 6) Meet d5 with ...e5
This implies not to place a Knigth on c6, except if there a white Queen on c2 (and we have played a5, so we can play Nb4 in response to d5 and then we can play e5)

(rule 7) only attack when the time is right

10 variations

• 1. Ye Olde Faithful 7...a5 - amongst its uses, ...a5 can help secure a Knight or Bishop on b4 and allow the quick transfer of the a8 Rook to the King-side via a6
• 2. the Most Popular Move 7...Qe8 - initiating the Queen manoeuvre to h5. Simon Williams says that, although this is the most popular 7th move choice for black, he does not believe it to be the strongest option
• 3. the Modern 7...Ne4 - freeing f6 for the Bishop and potentially grabbing space if white exchanges Knights
• 4. new, fresh and slightly dubious 7...Nc6 when white can respond with d5 and Nd4
• 5. white plays g3 and Bg2, early deviations
• 6. white avoids Fianchettoing - overview of both sides strategies if white decides upon a Colle or London system versus the Dutch
• 7. aggressive set-ups and early gambits - including the wild Korchnoi variation
• 8. early deviations: 2.Nc3 and 2.Bg5 - important lines to know how to face if you open 1...f5 (as opposed to 1...e6 and 2...f5)
• 9. white avoids d4 and adopts an English set-up
• 10. white avoids c4 and d4, including 2.d3 Nc6 and the dangerous Lisitsyn Gambit (1.Nf3 f5 2.e4!?)

GM Simon Williams video

Gallagher vs Williams 2001, pg 64 :

Iskusnyh vs Williams 2005, pg 68 :

The refutation of 7...a5, pg 74 :

1.d4 f5 2.Bf4 e6 3.e3 Cf6 4.Cf3

White's strategy :

• Bf4 apreta d6 i c7
• molt perillós pel negre és g4 (després de Tg1)

Black's strategy :

• si el blanc juga 4.e3 jugarem g6, Ag7, d6, De7, Cc6 i e5 ! {pg 329}
• si el blanc juga 4.c4 jugarem g6 i Ag7
• si el blanc juga 4.c3 no juguen b6 i Ab7, sino que jugarem e5 ben d'aviat, després de d6, De7 i Cc6 {pg 341 i 348}

Jordi Bada video (gone 202003) holandesa vs London :

• fianchetto g6 + f5 + e6 + Bg7
• Cc6 si c3
• enroquem com el blanc ! No enroquem abans
• fem e5 a la primera oportunitat

En detall :

One of the most dangerous lines that black could face. White intends to play e4 gaining space in the centre.

video celada

The idea is to play g6, but we need d6 first to prevent Ne5 :

Simon video, 42 min - Longer Chess Games #32 Climbing the 2500 mountain (slowly...) Dutch vs London System

The Killer Dutch, by Simon Williams : video.

Tenim 3 línies principals :

• línia clàssica (d6 i e6 - hem de jugar e5 tard o d'hora)
• Stonewall (peons a c6, d5, e6 i f5)
• Leningrado (3... g6 4... Bg7 5... Cf6)

En diversos ordres les peces van aixi:

Conceptes :

• fem d6 per fer e5 quan estiguem preparats
• després farem f4 (sense prendre) per obrir pas a l'alfil de caselles blanques
• si ens fan d5 hem de poder fer e5 (per la rao anterior) [video, minut 6:29]
• atac contra fianchetto blanc : Dh5 + Ah3 + Cg4
• si el blanc no fa fianchetto i nosaltres si, compte que e6 queda desprotegit ! Haurem d'endarrerir d6 una estoneta
• si el blanc juga e4, mai agafarem fxe4 doncs e6 queda atacat per sempre {contradiccio amb llibre, pagina 35}

Si el rival d'inici no dona cap senyal d'enroc curt, es a dir, juga Cc3 rapid despres Ag5 etc, el millor es jugar mes activament amb Ab4 en comptes de Ae7 i amb b6 per fianchettar el teu alfil a b7 si el blanc no te intencio de fianchettar el seu a g2.

Mes tard si enroca llarg es pot començar amb c5 per trencar i obrir una bona columna per a tu, aixi con la maniobra de la dama a a5 en comptes de e8. Tambe a tenir en compte que si tenim el nostre alfil a b4 clavant el seu cavall, ja no es tan facil per les blanques treure peces i enrocar llarg si abans no vigilen el posible AxCc3 que doblaria peons i trencaria la estructura de peons del enroc llarg.

Example of a typical Dutch defense setup against the London system:

• 1. d4 f5
• 2. Nf3 Nf6
• 3. Bf4 e6
• 4. e3 Be7
• 5. h3 O-O
• 6. Nbd2 Nc6 - supports d4 and e5 squares, and prepares ...c5 or ...a6 depending on how White proceeds.
• 7. Bd3 b6

Magnus Carlsen plays the Dutch Stonewall Defence against Fabiano Caruana : video, chessgames

White's plans : remove black's black square bishop, by b3 and Ba3

Get it here skdps - w500

The Dutch system works for black against most opening moves except 1.e4

Mind your king :

You may play this normal setup if white starts with 1.d4 and on move 2 plays one of the following: c4, Nf3, g3, Bf4, or e3.
Black's preferred move order is: f5, Nf6, e6, d5, c6, Bd6, Nbd7, and O-O.
White can play several moves in a variety of orders, but usually they include: d4, c4, Nc3, g3, Bg2, Nf3, O-O, and Bg5 or Bf4.

Three sample continuations :

Questions to ponder:

• What are the most important squares?
  Black wants to control e4, and white wants to control e5. Both players would love to post knights on these central squares. If you can get a knight to e4 and at the same time prevent white from playing Ne5, you're doing great!

• What is black's most common middlegame plan in the stonewall Dutch?
  Black wants to start a kingside attack, using the pawns in front of the king. Typical moves are Ne4 followed by g5 and h5. The queen goes to e8 and h5, or sometimes to f6 and g7. The queen's knight might go to f6 and g4, or just trade itself for white’s knight on e5. Finally, don't forget a rook lift (Rf6 or Rf7).

• How does the bad light-squared bishop get out?
  There are three strategies:
  1. play b6 and then Bb7 or Ba6
  2. go the long way via d7-e8-h5
  3. if white ever advances his c-pawn to c5 (so that it no longer attacks your d5 pawn), then you can play e5 to open the e6 square for your bishop

• What should black do if white takes the d5 pawn with the c4 pawn?
  You want to play exd5. However, sure your f5 pawn doesn't hang in the meantime. A smart chess player will realize ahead of time that white is threatening the f5 pawn after white takes cxd5. Watch out if white plays Bd3 or Qc2!

• When does the dark-squared bishop belong on e7 instead of d6?
  This is really an advanced topic. Here is a partial answer: always play Bd6 except if white plays Bg5 (pinning Nf6) or if white tries Nh3 with the aggressive idea of advancing pawns to f3 and e4.

White will typically play d4, c4, g3, Bg2, Nf3, O-O, and Nc3
Black’s preferred move order is : f5, Nf6, g6, Bg7, d6, O-O, and Qe8

Six sample variations, with reasonable moves for white and recommended moves for black.

Questions to ponder:

• How does black proceed after completing the first 10 to 12 moves?
  He can choose from three major plans: The first is more solid (safe and sane) involving queenside and center play. The second is a direct kingside attack, which is far more aggressive yet also more risky.
• Explain the queenside positional plan.
  Black wants to develop his pieces and connect his rooks before playing anything risky. For example, from a6, the knight might go to c5 and e4, or to c7 (where it controls e6). Typical moves are Bd7 and pawn to c6, Nc5 followed by pawn to a5 (to prevent white from kicking the knight with a4) and Rb8 or Rc8 (to vacate the long diagonal, which frequently opens up).
• Explain the kingside attack plan.
  One major purpose of Qe8 is to go to g6 or h5. Naturally, black needs to play his g-pawn to g5, and perhaps support it with h6 first. The king’s knight might go to g4 and, if attacked, retreat to e5. If white ever plays e2-e4, black can consider advancing his f-pawn to f4. In fact, pawn sacrifices on f4 are common, or black can choose to play Nh5 for support. By moving the f-pawn, the light-squared bishop also comes to life.
• What other favorable tactics may arise?
  Keep an eye out for tricks on the long diagonal (a1-h8). White often plays b3 or b4, which leaves the c3 knight undefended. This may result in discovered attacks when Nf6 moves. Another common theme involves occupying e5 or d4 with minor pieces, generally the f6 knight or the g7 bishop.

The four anti-Dutch alternatives for white on move 2 are: e4, Nc3, Bg5, and g4.
The first, 2.e4, is called the Staunton gambit.
The next two moves are often played in tandem: 2.Nc3 and 3.Bg5 or 2.Bg5 and 3.Nc3. Black may play a flexible hybrid Leningrad-stonewall system that works against both.
The Bayonet variation (2.g4) is a pawn sacrifice that can actually be accepted, but it is safer to decline it.

Complete video

Key idea is to capture on e4 and immediately develop both knights

Sample 3.Nc3, 4.f3

Flexible approach to Nc3 and Bg5 using "hybrid Leningrad-Stonewall" system:

• 2.Nc3: key idea is to play d5 to discourage white’s e-pawn advance (stonewall structure) - sample - inconvenient : peó a c2
• 2.Bg5: key idea is to fianchetto on the kingside (Leningrad structure)

2 samples :

White plays 2.g4, sometimes 2.h3 and 3.g4
Key idea is to play d5, intending Bxf5

Sample :

Questions to ponder:

• What is the number one thing to think about when playing black against one of these tricky moves?
  King safety! Remember that the main disadvantage of playing the Dutch defense is that you weaken your kingside on move 1. Make sure that castling is your number one priority. Your second concern should be the smooth development of all your pieces, ideally on active squares.

• Does black ever try to keep the pawn that white sacrifices?
  There are exceptions to every rule, but almost always black should be content to give back the material in order to finish his development. As one saying goes: “The nice thing about being up a pawn is that you can give it back in a clever way and still be even material.” Maybe the simple way to summarize this paragraph is to say: almost never capture a pawn on f3.

• Can white do something other than what is in this document?
  Certainly he can! That means you must be alert for tactics and take extra time in the opening. Don’t do anything stupid. If your opponent plays something unexpected, stop and think!

• What if white makes up his own anti-Dutch variation in an effort to confuse black?
  Simply remember the opening rules. They provide excellent guidelines to getting your pieces out on active squares, controlling the center, and getting your king safe. Sometimes additional tactics may override these rules, but your chances of surviving a surprise tactic are greater if you have developed and castled.

Avoid the stonewall setup against the English opening - isolated e5 may come :

Use the "anglo-dutch" system :

If black plays the Dutch defense after 1.Nf3, white can choose one of three approaches:

1. play d4 early and transpose into a normal stonewall or Leningrad;
2. play c4 early and avoid d4, thereby playing into the Anglo-Dutch system;
3. throw caution to the wind by playing the pawn sacrifice 2.e4.

You should already be prepared to handle the first two options.
To face the so-called Lisitsin gambit, you merely need to memorize the first four moves (f5, fxe4, d5, and Qd6) and then patiently calculate the tactics that arise.

Two samples :

Questions to ponder:

• When do you know that you must play the Anglo-Dutch system rather than the stonewall or Leningrad variations?
  First of all, remember that the Anglo-Dutch is very similar to the Leningrad where black plays the central e5 plan. Hence, this question is more aimed at stonewall players. Observe that f5 and Nf6 are the first two moves in both the Anglo-Dutch and the stonewall variation. Therefore, you can wait to see if white plays d4 before your third move. You would like to wait even longer, but on your third move, you must choose d6 or g6 (Anglo-Dutch and Leningrad) or e6 (stonewall). To answer the question: you know after white’s third move whether the game will be a normal queen pawn opening or a more flexible English opening.
• What are the typical plans in the Anglo-Dutch?
  Black prefers to play on the kingside by advancing pawns to h6+g5+f4. Furthermore, a bishop and queen battery on the light squares e6 and d7 will allow penetration with Bh3 (after the f5 pawn moves). The king’s knight will go to g4 or occasionally h5. The queen’s knight would love to end up on g6 but frequently needs to stay on e7 in order to defend weaknesses on c6 and d5. White, on the other hand, has two plans at his disposal: either push pawns on the queenside to create weaknesses on c6 and b7 or play for the central break e4.
• Should black try to keep the gambit pawn in the Lisitsin?
  If your opponent plays well, then you should not try to keep the extra pawn. Perhaps if you can develop a piece while defending the pawn, then that is worthwhile. But never bend over backwards or go out of your way to save it. Like in all gambits, the biggest key is finding good squares for all of your pieces and keeping your king safe (often by castling).

365chess, chess.com

El meu desastre

Mirem video (13:47) :

White plays 1.d4 f5, 2.Bf4, 3.Nf3, 4.e3 etc ... usually without playing c4

Basically the London is a set of solid lines where after 1.d4 White quickly develops his dark-squared bishop to f4 and normally bolsters (reforçar) his centre with pawns on c3 and e3 rather than expanding.

Alfonso Jerez : quan veiem Bf4, fem d6

Wiki on London System : D02, A46, and A48.

1, Korchnoi gambit or trap

From here :

• 2015, A90 Caruana - Carlsen
• 2015, A90 Anand - Carlsen
• 2014, A90 Kramnik - Svidler
• 2012, A88, Leningrad. Warsaw Variation - Gelfand - Nakamura

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wiki, Chessgames B00

Pedro vs Mario @ enroque corto :

Teoria vs Sebas :

Jordi Bada vs Mario lichess :

It is the Matovinsky gambit - wiki :

SAG vs Mario, 20200322 lichess

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An "improved" Caro-Kann ?

Maybe the best black's opening for large castling ...

Chessgames B01 ...

wiki

wiki

Idees pel blanc :

• juguem d4 i intentem d5 ... mentre el negre ho hagi enrocat !
• posar el alfil a f4 doncs la dama negra vol anar a c7 !

No agafem amb la dama sino ataquem amb el cavall

• Svitlana's smart moves - Suri Vaibhav 2542 - Magnus Carlsen 2834 (2018)
• world rapid 2019 - Magnus vs Savchenko

No posem la dama a a5 sino a d6

Black goes a6, b5 and Bb7 ; also Tiviakov : {4...Cf6 5...c6}

White : com perseguim la dama en aquesta variant ?

365chess, partides a RedHotPawn

Chess Openings Explained, minut 40:16 :

Game Piotr Dobrowolski - Jacek Tomczak, European Rapid Championship (2010), white bishop vs black knight, ideal for black : chessgames (0-1)

wiki :

1895, Jacques Mieses vs Johannes Wilhelm Ohquist - chessgames :

Video castigando la Defensa Escandinava by Luis Fernandez Siles : Dd8 {m6:48}, Dd6 {m7:53}, Da5 {m9:56} :

Tricks & traps {Cxd5, 3.c4 Cb4 ***}

Video The Icelandic Gambit 3.c4 e6-Part1

• exam of lots of variation and traps {2...Qxd5}
• 5 min on 2...Cf6
• IM Bill Paschall - mainline with 2...Cf6
• excelent mr Jonathan Schrantz - white has to try "d5"
• also
  • "The Scandinavian Gambit Part I with 3.d4" : 1.e4 d5, 2.exd5 Cf6, 3.d4 Ag4 ; [portuguese gambit]
  • "The Scandinavian Gambit Part II with 3.c4" : 1.e4 d5, 2.exd5 Cf6, 3.c4 c6 4.Cf3 e5 ;

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Chessgames B02, B02-B05

Main variations :

• Aranjuez
• Wiki -> Four Pawns Attack

Luleerik vs SAG :

Luleerik vs FM (2200+) :

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The Pirc Defense is a hypermodern opening.
This means that black does not try to control the center early on with his pawns, but spends some time fianchettoing his dark-squared bishop and only later attacks the center. Black first leaves the center to white and then tries to conquer it back, taking advantage of his better development.

Generally speaking, black’s plan is to attack white’s center with either c7-c5 or e7-e5, and perhaps also advance his queenside pawns.

wiki, chessgames B07, Yasser Seirawan (Saint Louis Chess Club), ChessOpenings (negritu calb), iChess {concepts, video 27 min GM Damian Lemos}, chess.com {variants}

Pirc defence decision tree :

NM Robert Ramirez 3 Pirc lines

• the dark-square bishops for both sides are the critical piece in the Pirc
• white doesn't have many attacking chances if you get rid of his dark-square bishop
• Pirc vs KID

chess.com, part 10, Bg5

• 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Bd3!?
• 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.h4!?

Kasparov - Seirawan :

Candidates jewel; bishop sacrifice. Fischer vs. Viktor Korchnoi, Curaçao 1962 [0-1]

Capablanca vs Marshall - play it !

Tbilisi 1967, David Bronstein vs Yuri V Nikolaevsky : chessgames, video

On his fourth move, white choses a plan rather than merely a move

365chess.com

austrian attack

Anand wins an "Austrian Attack" : chessgames

Fischer vs Korchnoi, 1962 ; chessgames

Spassky vs Fischer, 1972 uTube, game 17 (1/2-1/2)

After 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3, black has an alternative to 3...g6 (Main line) known as the Pribyl system or Czech defence, beginning 3...c6 - wiki

Paragua v Akobian, 2008 Chicago Open

• "The Pirc Defence", Mihail Marin, Quality Chess de 2017 {gracies, Bosco !} - video
• Pirc Alert - a complete defence against 1.e4 [Lev Alburt, Alex Chernin, 2001].pdf - {sagpdf}, 96 MB.

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Chessgames B10, the chess website, lichess Caro-Kann Defense. The Theory: Where to start?

The Caro-Kann starts with the moves

If you are a positional player, the Caro-Kann will definitely suit you well.
You will be able to handle Caro-Kann well when you understand the characteristics of the opening.
Maintaining a good pawn structure is one of the key points of the Caro-Kann system.
If you want to play the Caro-Kann, calculating ability is not as important as having good technical skills.

Often played by players who want to avoid long theoretical lines and still want to maintain complications.
White intends to castle queenside and wants to attack on the kingside and has already committed f3 preparing g4-h4.
Black has several choices here such as 3...e6, 3...g6 3...dxe4 and 3...Qb6. All the mentioned choices are good and give black a very solid position.

Black has to try to :

• play c5 to undermine white's pawns structure
• play Rc8 to control the open column

Black's weaknesses or what white must do:

• the light squares are important for white to dominate. Avoid, if possible, exchanging your light square bishop.
• develop the b-knight to Nc3 to defend the light squares d5 and e4.

Video - structure explained. The following is a list of positional concepts that you must know:

• the exchange of pieces favors black.
• the trade of the dark-squared color bishops also favors black - it is the main defender of d4 pawn.
• the main goal is to target the d4 pawn. Black often doubles the rooks on the D file and brings his queen to b6 in order to exert big pressure against white’s center.
• an important idea seldom seen is the advance b7-b5.
  With this pawn thrust, black seeks to weaken the white pawn on c4; if white plays c5 then black obtains the d5 square for a knight and the white pawn on d4 is a permanent backward pawn.
• the advance with c6-c5 is NOT ALWAYS an equalizer.
  Although it brings some freedom for the black pieces, the structure arising after dxc5 or cxd4 gives white a queenside majority in the endgame. So before advancing c5, it is best to make sure that there are dynamic factors such as piece activity to keep the balance.
• keep an eye on the d4-d5 break.

White can counter the Caro-Kann with four main lines :

1. Classical system

2. Advance system

3. Exchange or Panov-Botvinnik system

4. Fantasy or Tartakower variation

Wikipedia

See tons of Tahl-Botvinnik games, Tahl as white, Tal as black

Traps on Bg4

MVL versus Ding Liren :

The Kenilworthian : Caro Kann advance with h4

Kramnik novelty :

chessgames :

Caro Kann, Panov-Botvinnik attack :

White has accepted an isolated Queen pawn that will need support, and he hopes to utilize his space and superior development to gain a King side attack.

lichess The Caro-Kann/Panov Attack in depth

chessgames : 1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 exd5 cxd5 4 c4 Nf6 5 Nc3 e6

Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs Magnus Carlsen 2020 :

Chessgames B17, Steinitz variation

URL

See (ru)

Una coleccio a chessgames : The Best of the Caro-Kann

Karpov shows how to put pressure on the d4 pawn and what pieces to trade.
The game is considered a positional masterpiece : Karpov - Spassky candidates semifinal, Leningrad URSS, rd 6, Apr-24-1974

Hamburg, May 1885:

Korchnoi plays it like this :

Reti vs Tartakower, Vienna 1910

Shirov contra la Caro-Kann : pgn, 19 moves

Karina Ambarcumova vs Valentina Gunina, B12 Moscu 2011, 0-1 - la blanca juga Cd2 i Cb3 per defensar c5 !

El italià :

Aronian vs Yasser Seirawan (1-0)

2014.11.18 video :

Shirov vs Ivanchuk (B17, Linares 1998, 0-1)

See (ru) or play

Bada destrossa en Rafael Gonzalez (2332) :

En Jaume fa taules :

En Carlsen jugant agressiu amb en Fedosseyev :

Chessplayer :

• fantasy

• must know

• trap :
  1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bg4 5. h3 Bh5 6. Ng3 Bg6 7.h4 h6 8.Ne5 Bh7 9.Qh5 g6 10.Bc4! e6 11.Qe2 with the threat of Nxf7, Qxe6

• desatre total :
  1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Ne5 Bh7 8.Qh5 g6 9.Bc4 Nf6 10.Bxf7+ * Solució : Nb8-d7 o Nf6

• fast classic trap :
  1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Qe2 Ngf6 6.Nd6++ 1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Qe2 Ngf6 6.Nd6# 1-0

• Rafa 2015 :
  1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Nc5 - mind b7

• mine
  1.Nf3 c6 2.c4 d5 3.e3 Bg4 4.Nc3 e6 5.cxd cxd5 6.Qa4 Nc6 7.Qxg4

• K vs K {white wins}

• Video amb descripcions de MI Alfonso Jerez per les negres.

• Chess Poster - es pot jugar + Quiz ! {***}

• Gunderam's variation

• The Dunst - learn tactics : 1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Qf3 !?

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Chessgames B20

Wiki (*** excelent ***)

The open sicilian can be broken down into four basic systems

• in the Dragon, the black bishop is fianchettoed on g7
• in the Scheveningen, it is developed on e7 while black adopts a "little center" of pawns on d6 and e6.
• in a third, the black e-pawn is pushed to e5, leaving the d-pawn backwards ; this encompasses the Boleslavsky variation, the Lowenthal/Kalashnikov, and Sveshnikov Sicilians.
• a final development pattern involves black playing ...e6 but leaving the dark bishop free to develop to a variety of squares such as b4, c5, or even d6. The last scheme encompasses the Taimanov, Paulsen

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Resum

Very complete analysis : Caissa

5 nice traps

url :

• Smith-Morra
• Alapin
• closed
• classical
• Sveshnikov
• dragon
• accelerated Dragon
• hyper-accelerated Dragon
• Scheveningen variation
• Najdorf variation

Reached by moves

It is one of the soundest lines of the Sicilian for black, if not always the most enterprising. White has several options beginning on the sixth move, such as the Richter-Rauzer attack and the Sozin attack.

Marked by an early e5 thrust by black :

Named for the formation of pawns from h7 to d6, the Dragon Variation is one of the sharpest openings in chess.

Perhaps the most challenging line for both sides is the Yugoslav Attack, where white plays 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 - both sides typically launch fierce attacks: white on the kingside, black on the queenside.

JB :

La dragón acelerada es una defensa sólida que admite una lucha a largo plazo por el punto entero. Surge tras la sequencia

The Accelerated Dragon features an early g6 by black. An important difference between this line and the Dragon is that black avoids playing d7–d6, {2nd move is Nc6} so that he can later play d7–d5 in one move, if possible.

The Accelerated Dragon allows black to adopt a Dragon setup avoiding the Yugoslav attack. By playing g6 earlier (usually in line 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6), black retains the ability to play d5 in just one move (rather than having previously played d6 in the standard Dragon), saving a tempo.
Com això impedeix el atac yugoslau ?

Conversely, since white has not been forced to play Nc3 yet, this setup allows white to play 5.c4, Maroczy Bind (1.e4 c5 2. Cf3 Cc6 3.d4 cxd4 4. Cxd4 g6 5. c4), making this opening a much more positional one than the standard Sicilian Dragon.

The Accelerated Dragon generally features a more positional style of play than many other variations of the Sicilian.

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If black really wants to play g6 as soon as possible, an even faster way is the Hyper-Accelerated Dragon, where black plays g6 on the second move (1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6)

Reached by

Allows black to have a solid but flexible position that offers plenty of chances for counterplay on the queenside. Conversely, white has an obvious central space advantage and can choose from a variety of plans.

Chessgames B84

The Najdorf Variation (marked by 5. ... a6) is today the most popular line in the Sicilian. This system is designed to exert control over b5 and later put pressure on white's e4 pawn.

Dedicat a en JAMC : {1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6}

Najdorf wiki

wiki :

wiki

See wing gambit victories

Or "delayed Wing gambit"

3 videos : 1, 1, 2, (ICC user name & password) 3. T42:\Escacs\Siciliana\Smith_Morra\3videos ideas & plans El blanc ha de jugar e5 ! Quadres importants : c7 i f7; h7 després de enrocar. White playing e5 within the Smith Morra is by far one off the most crucial elements of the gambit. I find that e5 generally removes a lot of the space black attains and can result a large amount of tactical opportunities. Miniature : 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nc3 d6 5.Bc4 Nf6 {a very tempting move for Open Sicilian players!} 6.e5! dxe5? and now 7.Bxf7+ Game over : black loses Queen from ChessVille (why), ChessVille (how), etc Declined.

Wiki

Estudi detallat :

url.

1-er video, 21:37 de 29:00, 2-on video, 24:50 de 46:47

Smith Morra links :

• blog !
• GM Boris Alterman (very interesting) page.
• book

url, youTube

wiki, chessgames B22 - 10.544 games

White goes mostly for a type of position, rather than a concrete line. Safe, little theory, easy to learn, active - what else can one expect from an opening variation ?

White's intention is obvious - to play d4 and build a strong pawn-centre, with pawns on e4 and d4.
Black's most natural way to prevent it is to attack the e4-pawn, by 2...d5 or 2...Cf6 (much better)

White can choose some drawish lines, as B33121, or more ambitious as B21 {Dorian Rogozenko "Anti Sicilian Book"} {sagpdf}, 6 MB.

"Black has only two good replies (to 2.c3) – 2...d5 and 2...Nf6"

After 1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nc6 the continuation 6.dxc5 is one of white’s most challenging
6...Qxd1+ - not Qxc5 because of 7.Na3 e5 8.Be3 and 9.Nc4

The complete line is :

A mi m'agrada pel negre :

Stevic (2607) - Topalov (2803), Khanty Mansiysk (ol) 2010

1 video with 3 games of Alisa Melekhina. Ideas por Luis Fernandez Siles

PGN amb 9 partides magistrals - gracies, Lucas !

La jugo sota ensenyament de'n Ramon !

Usual start :

URL :

• main idea(s) for white: build up position slowly, possibly attack on the kingside with a slow pawn storm; possibly open the center later with a d4 break.
• main idea(s) for black: pawn storm on the queenside; depending on the position, black could possibly break in the center too.

URL :

• White’s e4-pawn, knight, and bishop on g2 will work together to control the central light squares and make it difficult for black to break in the center with …d5.
• Black's : queenside expansion

Dedicat a la família Ros !

Some realy nice Dirty Chess Tricks against Sicilian - 10 (Closed Sicilian)

Korchnoi defense :

Les idees pel blanc son

• f4 + f5
• h3 prevenint Cg4, Ae3 + Dd2 + Ah6
• d4

ronda 12 St Louis blitz 2017 [all pgns]

1.e4 c5 2.f4 is the Grand Prix Attack or McDonnell Attack: the latter name stems from the 14th match game played in London in 1834 between Alexander McDonnell and Charles Louis Mahé de La Bourdonnais, won by black.

According to Jeremy Silman and others, black's best reply is 2...d5 3.exd5 Nf6!, the Tahl Gambit, which has caused the immediate 2.f4 to decline in popularity.
1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Nc3, the Toilet Variation (named for its place of discovery) is one way of declining the gambit.

The modern main line runs 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7.
Here white can play the positional 5.Bb5, threatening to double black's pawns with Bxc6, or the more aggressive 5.Bc4, aiming for a kingside attack.

Wiki Sicilian

White only needs to do 3 things to complete his development :

• find a place for the white-square bishop :
  Bc4 is the most dynamic, but allows d5 ;
  Bb5 has the idea of exchanging the bishop for the knight, as "Bb5 e6 + Bxc6 bxc6 + e5 d5 + exd6 Qxd6 + d3 Nf6"
• castle king-side
• push d-pawn 1 step to give black bishop some scope

Dereque Kelley

Then, white can proceed to move the queen to e1 and then g4 or h4, followed by e5 or f5.
f5 sacrifice opens the way for the black-square bishop. Usually black shall play exf which is lots worse than the un-natural gxf. Why is it worse ? Because now the white-square bishop at c4 has become a monster and we have to keep it even playing a3. Now white shall play (Q is on h4) Bh6, Ng7 and both h7 and f7 are under attack.

Gracies, Joan Bastida !

{Jordi Bada}
Quan el negre no juga d6, és dubtós colocar alfil a c4. L'explicació és que llavors el negre juga e6-d5 molt comodament, molestant el desenvolupament de les peces blanques.
Si quan fas Ab5 et juguesin Db6, compte que tenim un truc que convé recordar, que és Cd5, atacant la dama que no pot menjar el alfil pel doblet a c7 :

• hem de fer "f5" per obrir pas a l'alfil de caselles negres
• hem de moure la dama a e1 -> g3 o h4 (millor)
• hem de posar el alfil a "h6"
• hem de posar el cavall a "g5"
• si a6 hem de fer a4

Si el negre pot jugar Bg4, el pla del blanc s'enfonsa

If exf then white-square bishop at c4 (or b3 or a2) becomes a monster

Ens agafen el centre :

• Explained
• The Left Hook Grand Prix with a3
• huge bibliography
• exemples Jordi Bada :
  • Mathilde congiu vs monika seps, steinburn 2005
  • sophie aflalo vs milica milosavljevic, halkidi Wc girls 2003
  • vincent moret va claude wirtz, thionville 1998
  • Iannis iglesias vs redwan maatoug, pau tt jr 2000
  • theo ciccoli vs adriana timkova slovakia 2012
• si hi ha g6 sense Cc6, podem agafar la diagonal com en Nakamura vs Karjakin amb "4.d4"
  1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 g6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Qxd4
• partida vibrant per ambdós cantons
• view 6253 chessgames B23 - compte amb "sicilian closed variation"
• aquest paio juga "Ae2" : 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Be2
• The Nuclear Option in the Sicilian Grand Prix
• url :
  black will place a knight on d4 right in the center sooner or later and if you capture it he will recapture with the c-pawn and you get a weak c-pawn which will be attacked along the half open c-file in the long run. And the black d-pawn gives black more space and is quite annoying.

Jordi Bada Navarra vs. Daniel Mari Miguel, 9th Sant Boi Spain, Open, 2017.06.09

Chessgames B28

It starts like this :

The main idea is

Important moves for black are : e6 and Qc7

Anand vs Morozevich, Calvia 2004.10.24 :

More or less it goes as

Veig que el blanc fa ... Qe2 ... e5 ... c4 ... Cg5 i f4 ... a3 i b4 ...
I el negre fa ... Ce7 i Cg6 ... Dc7 ...

El cavall de c6 ha de morir

Chessgames position and games

As Marc a 20180420

good video

B32, posicio :

good video - ideas :

Amb en JA jugo

doraemon87 vs Perezsaurio, 20210409 :

Usual lines :

Kosteniuk - Polgar Moskow 2009 blitz (1-0 en 78 mov per 1 peo),
Spassky - Fischer 1972 (0-1, Torre vs Alfil+pawn).

Chessgames B43 :

Bona intro :

Chessgames B45 :

Topalov vs Kasparov

After 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6, white's most important alternative to 3.d4 is 3.Bb5+, known as the Moscow Variation or the Canal-Sokolsky attack.

Sicilian defense Moscow variation - YouTube

365 chess

1992 Tahl vs Kasparov :

Jo veig 3 linies :

We are under "classical variation" of sicilian :

White's most common reply is 6.Bg5, the Richter–Rauzer Attack, threatening to double black's pawns after Bxf6 and forestalling the Dragon by rendering 6...g6 unplayable.

After 6...e6, Vsevolod Rauzer introduced the modern plan of Qd2 and 0-0-0 in the 1930s.

Sergey Karjakin vs Fabiano Caruana, world championship candidates (2016) :

Chessgames B71 :

White prepares 7.e5 attacking black's f6-knight. Therefore in the pre-computer era 6... Nc6 or 6... Nbd7 were considered mandatory to meet the Levenfish variation

Today, after 6... Bg7 7. e5 Nh5 8. Bb5+ Bd7 9. e6 fxe6 10. Nxe6 Bxc3+ 11. bxc3 Qc8 ... black might actually be better.

ChessGames B71 242 games

Chessgames B76, yugoslav attack

The Dragon Variation is one of the main lines of the Sicilian Defence and begins with the moves:

Usual continuations are :

ChessGames B76 1900 games

Wiki

Basic moves are

Tahl vs Larsen play it like this in 1965 :

20171227 - gracies, Joan Anton ! Read wiki

En Anand dona una lliço en Jiangchuan a Kuala Lumpur 1989

Objectius pel blanc (si hi ha enroc curt) :

• g4 + h4 + g5

Objectius pel negre (si hi ha enroc llarg) :

• a7 + b5 + b4 (si hi ha cavall a c3)

chess24

pgns 8a ronda

Chessgames B82 865 games

Un molt bon article by Ignacio Marin :

Stanford

Very very nice sample : Milan Matulovic vs Vladimir Simagin , Kislovodsk (1966)

Najdorf's intention with 5...a6 was to prepare ...e5 on the next move to gain space in the centre

The immediate 5...e5?! however is met by 6.Bb5+!, when black must either play 6...Bd7 or 6...Nbd7
The former allows white to exchange off black's light-squared bishop, after which the d5-square becomes very weak
The latter allows 7.Nf5, when black can only save the d-pawn by playing the awkward 7...a6 8.Bxd7+ Qxd7
In both cases, white's game is preferable

ChessGames B90, Wikipedia

The oldest, sharpest response by white is an immediate 6.Bg5, generally countered by 6...e6, followed by 7.f4, hoping to exploit the pin on the knight. The simplest response by black is 7...Be7, when the main line continues 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.0-0-0 Nbd7 and now 10.g4 or 10.Bd3. However, black's most popular choice at the master level is 7...Qb6!, leading to the extremely complicated Poisoned Pawn Variation (8. Qd2 Qxb2 9. Rb1 (or 9.Nb3) Qa3.

Currently, white's most popular weapon against the Najdorf is 6.Be3, called the English Attack.
Since the early 1990s, the English Attack (6.Be3 followed by f2-f3, g2-g4, Qd2 and 0-0-0 in some order) has become extremely popular.
But black is extremely comfortable after 6.f3?! e5 7.Nb3 Be7

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Polgar vs Kasparov

If you play the main move 7.f4, you enter the Devil's Labyrinth.

Black can choose

• the Polugaevsky variation
• the Poisoned Pawn variation
• the Goetheborg variation and many other complicated lines

Chessgames B96

Polugaevsky was a noted theorist whose work on a number of openings has stood the test of time. He is best remembered for a variation of the Sicilian Defense that bears his name:

This "Polugaevsky Variation" of the Najdorf Sicilian leads to extraordinarily complicated play.

365chess Najdorf

Chessgames B97 :

Selected games : Spassky wins Fischer (1972), Short loses to Kasparov (1993)

Goteborg / Argentine variation

Moltes partides : B98 @ chessUI

• Atacs creuats ! (10...Rb8, 13...b5)
• Fischer vs Tahl, 0-1, B86 o B90 (Najdorf) al 1959 : video, chessgames
• guaita que fa en Nakamura :
  Nakamura, Hikaru (2769) vs. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (2789) - Altibox Norway Chess | Stavanger | Round 6.3 | 3 Jun 2018 | 1/2-1/2 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qd2 g6 6. b3 Bg7 7. Bb2 Nf6 8. O-O-O O-O 9. Kb1 Qa5 10. Nge2 e5 MVL wanted to prevent Nf4.

5 best opening traps in the sicilian defense :

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Wiki, advance anatomy

The classical French main line :

White's light-square bishop eyes the weak h7-pawn, which is usually defended by a knight on f6 but here it has been pushed away by e5. A typical way for white to continue his attack is

... when black must give up his queen to avoid being mated, continuing with

Black has three minor pieces for the queen, which gives him a slight material superiority, but his king is vulnerable and white has good attacking chances.

Watch this game - Gaudersen s Faul, Melbourne 1928

An interesting variation:

Pepe Cuenca's magistral comments on So vs Akobian, USA 2016

A simple but nice trap

DDG - e4 gambit !

Korchnoi-Spassky Candidates 1977 - french winawer part 1, part 2. Petrosian variation (C16) sample.

See wikipedia for a list of "french" ECO codes :

See 439 games at chesstempo

See this video on Reti gambit

See 1448 games at chesstempo or Chigorin's and lots more at 365 chess

Note that black still can play 1. ...e6 and 2. ...d5 (and c5 !) :

White plays d3 and g3, as here and h4

Sveshnikov, E. (2541) vs. Komarov, D. (2582) - see it chessgames.com

Aron Nimzowitsch vs Arthur Hakansson

wiki:

En Ramón a Toulouse, desafiant els gabatxos :

En canvi un altre gabatxo juga, amb negres, així:

També veig gent que juga "9...Qe7"

En Ramon Chalmeta, a Sant Boi, al Chalmeta 2016 :

chess games :

Winawer (3.Bb4) Alessandro's "pet" French is 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Qd7 {5.Qg4}

Candidates final 1977 :

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Rapporto di apertura.

wiki :

The Bishop at c4 (with Queen at b3) must be removed via pawns at c6 and b5.

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wiki, 365 : 47,5%-19,9%-32,6% ; chessgames C22

Paulsen's attack - white castles queen's side : Cc3 + Bd2 + 0-0-0.
Bishop shall try to go to "c3", nice diagonal.
Then we attack on King's side : f4 + g4 + Cf3 + Ac4, h4 as fast as possible
If black goes Qf6, then white does Nd5 or Nb5 pointing at c7.

A la línia principal, els trets van així :

Gracies, Lucas !

Centre game at 365 :

Altres linies que he anat trobant :

Amb g6 :

Amb 2. ...Cf6 : jo feia 1.e4 e5 2.d4 Cf6 3.dxe5 Cxe4 4.De2!? con idea de molestar al caballo
Después jugar tranquilo ; si Cc5 jugar Cc3 ; el alfil puede ir a e3 ; jugar f4 i Cf3 enroque largo ; reciclar la dama por f2 y sacar el alfil de casillas blancas.
El peón de e5 da mucha ventaja de espacio; no hay que tener prisa, desarrollar tranquilamente y esperar que el negro rompa. Sino, tirarle los peones del flanco de rey h3 g4

3 videos 1 (4...g6 - Almira Skripchenko vs Tatiana Kostiuk), 2 (4...Cf6 - Sanchez vs Hardarson), 3 (Nepomniachtchi vs Raetsky)

Partides :

• Chessgames C22, 590 partides !
• 402 partides a chesstempo

O'mine :

Nepo amb blanques, 15 partides :

Conclusió : si el negre fa g6, el blanc ha de fer h4 !

En Miguel Muñoz Pantoja te moltes partides a chesstempo, a chessgames (173)

Videos

Ell sempre juga c4 quan el negre fa d6 - pregunta : com desenvolupa el alfil de f1 en aquestos casos ?

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Si treu el cavall, em precipito :

video, text & PGN

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Carlsen vs Caruana, Norway 2018 - video

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Chessgames C29

See this "complete" video [****]

The original idea behind 2.Nc3 was to play a kind of delayed King's Gambit with an eventual f4, but in modern play white often plays more quietly, for example by fianchettoing his king bishop with g3 and Bg2.

chess arch [****], wiki

En Jordi Bada la manega aixi per guanyar un 2308 amb blanques :

Partida standard :

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Chessgames C29, 365 C29 :

S'hi pot arribar en rebre una Alekhine ... Keres vs Rootare ! (1942, very nice game)

En Jordi Bada el juga aixi:

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Gambito de rey, con razón llamado el rey de los gambitos. Promete un juego agresivo y propenso a combinaciones. El objetivo de las blancas es abrir la columna "f", para situar su torre en f1 y atacar la casilla f7.

Farsalia, GM Marian Petrov

Look for Fischer's games and his article, again

The Modern Defense to the King's Gambit

També trobo interessant jugar 1.P4R, 2.A4AD abans de P4AR ... O també 1.P4R, 2.P4AR, 3.A4A ... (crec que D4T destrossa el blanc).

King's gambit ideas ... [*** exeter chess club]

Detalls i BB.DD.

Kieseritzky gambit :

See Zukertort vs Anderssen, KGA, Muzio, Sarratt Defense (C34), Breslau (1865) : 23 jugades, 20 jugades

See Spassky vs Fischer, 29 ganivetades !

Un mat al centre facil de veure

Mine (20160122)

Una altra (derrota) :

Els mestres moderns ho juguen aixi :

Existen muchas líneas para jugar el gambito de rey aceptándolo, (ECO C33-C39), pero dos son las líneas principales : el Gambito de caballo y el Gambito de alfil.

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Les linies principals del KGR son :

Good video on Classical Defense

Caro-Kann style :

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Black can play 2...d5 (intending 3.exd5 e4!?, cramping white's position), the aggressive Falkbeer Countergambit, where black disdains the pawn and instead makes an all-out attempt to take advantage of white's kingside weakness. A more modern interpretation of the Falkbeer is 2. ... d5 3 exd5 c6!?, as advocated by Aron Nimzowitsch. The Falkbeer is generally considered to slightly favor white, however, and only if white plays 3.fxe5? would it be a mistake. On this line, black can play 3...Qh4+, followed by 4.Ke2 Qxe4+ 5.Kf2 Bc5+, and a heavy loss of material follows to avoid mate.

ChessGames C35.

KG, KGA + Cunningham + gambit 3 peons, 365.

Gracias, Luiso !

Una partida de 1842 :

Estudi variants a Ajedrez de Ataque :

• 11 games

• Spassky - Bronstein [C36], 1960.

• "El gambito de Rey" de Paul Keres.

• Mira quina llista de variants més impresionant ... C33 thru C39

• un Gambit de Rei posicional !

• A Falkbeer game at ChessGames

• Muzio by Shirov(2500) vs Lapinski(2200), 17 jugades only : green point chess, chessgames, youtube

• destrossa el enroc blanc ... però el blanc guanya ...
  1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Be7 4. Bc4 Bh4+

• com es defensa això : (PxP+P4CR del negre) - h4 ! També ... senzillament 0-0 !!
  1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.Bxf7+ Kxf7 6.Ne5+ Ke8 7.Qxg4 Nf6 8.Qxf4 d6 9.Nf3 Rg8 10.0-0 Rg4 11.Qe3 Rxe4 12.Qb3 Be6 13.Qxb7 Bd5 14.Qb5+ c6 15.Qb7 Re7 16.Qxa8 c5 17.Qxd5 Nxd5 18.d4 Qb6 19.Nc3 Nxc3 20.bxc3 Qa5

• Partida maca ! (baron Tassilo Heydebrand und der Lasa vs NN)

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What is required to play the Latvian Gambit with any degree of success is a sharp eye for tactics and a mental attitude of total contempt (desprecio) for whatever theory has to say about it.

Paul van der Sterren, "Fundamental Chess Openings"

Refutation : lichess.org

Variants 1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 f5 [C40] Contragambito Leton 1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 f5 3.Cxe5 Df6 4.d4 d6 5.Cc4 fxe4 6.Ce3 [C40] Leton, Variante Nimzowich Cc3 Dg6 1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 f5 3.Cxe5 Cc6 [C40] Leton, Defensa Fraser 1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 f5 3.Ac4 [C40] Leton, 3.Ac4 1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 f5 3.Ac4 fxe4 4.Cxe5 Dg5 5.Cf7 Dxg2 6.Tf1 d5 7.Cxh8 Cf6 [C40] Leton, Variante Behting 1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 f5 3.Ac4 fxe4 4.Cxe5 d5 [C40] Leton, Variante Polerio 1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 f5 3.Ac4 fxe4 4.Cxe5 Cf6 [C40] Leton, Contragambito Corkscrew Sergi 1.e4 e5 11.Bf1d3 Qe7xe4 21.Bf5e6 Nc7xe6 2.Ng1f3 f5 12.Bd3xe4 c6 22.Nf4xe6 Be7d8 3.Nf3xe5 Qd8f6 13.d5 c5 23.Ra1e1 Bd8a5 4.d4 d6 14.0-0 Ng8f6 24.Ne6g5 Kf7g7 5.Ne5d3 fxe4 15.c4 Nb8a6 25.Re3xe8 Ba5xe1 6.Qd1e2 Bc8f5 16.Rf1e1 Ke8f7 26.Re8xh8 Kg7xh8 7.Nb1c3 Qf6e6 17.Be4f5 Na6c7 1-0 8.Nd3f4 Qe6d7 18.b3 Ra8e8 9.Nc3xe4 Bf5xe4 19.Bc1b2 Bf8e7 10.Qe2xe4 Qd7e7 20.Re1e3 g6 Exemples 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.exf5 Bc5 4.Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5.Kxf2 Qh4+ 6.Ke3 Nf6 7.Bd3 Nd5+ 8.Ke2 Nc6 9.Nxc6 dxc6 10.Nc3 Nf4+ 11.Kf1 Nxd3 12.cxd3 0-0 13.g4 Bxf5 14.Kg2 Bxg4 15.Rf1 Bxd1 16.Rxd1 Rf2+ 17.Kg1 Qxh2# [0-1] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.exf5 Bc5 4.Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5.Kxf2 Qh4+ 6.Kf3 b6 7.Ng4 Bb7+ 8.Ke3 Ne7 9.Qe2 0-0 10.Kd3 Nxf5 11.Rg1 h5 12.g3 Qg5 13.Bh3 hxg4 14.Bxg4 Nh6 15.Bh3 Rf3+ 16.Qxf3 Bxf3 17.Bg2 Qd5+ [0-1] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.exf5 Nc6 4.d4 e4 5.Ne5 Nf6 6.Be2 d6 7.Bh5+ Ke7 8.Nf7 Qe8 9.Bg5 g6 10.fxg6 hxg6 11.Nxh8 gxh5 12.Nc3 [1-0] ChessWorld Més, mes,

No s'ha de fer, però ... com es juga contra ...

ChessVille (Clyde Nakamura)

Wikipedia (en) (es)

No fewer than 11 responses for white have been analyzed : 3.Nxe5 ; 3.Bc4 ; 3.Nc3 ; 3.exf5 ; 3.d4
The responses not mentioned in this article are 3.d3, 3.b4?!, 3.c4!?, 3.Qe2!?, 3.b3?!, and 3.g4? None of those moves offer white any advantage.

3.Nxe5
White's 3.Nxe5 is the main line. After the usual 3...Qf6, white chooses between 4.d4 d6 5.Nc4 fxe4 and the immediate 4.Nc4, which has the advantage of allowing white to open the center with d3, for example 4...fxe4 5.Nc3 Qg6?! 6.d3 exd3? 7.Bxd3 Qxg2? and now white is winning after 8.Qh5+ Kd8 (or 8...g6 9.Qe5+ and 10.Be4) 9.Be4. The main line continues 5...Qf7 6.Ne3! Black usually responds with 6...c6!?, when white can either accept the pawn sacrifice with 7.Nxe4 d5 8.Ng5 Qf6 9.Nf3, or decline it with the more popular 7.d3 exd3 8.Bxd3 d5 9.0-0. The latter variation has been deeply analyzed; the British grandmaster Anthony Kosten analyzes one line to move 32. One line discussed by International Master Jeremy Silman is 9...Bc5 10.Na4 Bd6 11.c4 d4 12.Nc2 c5 13.b4 Ne7 14.Nxc5 Bxc5 15.bxc5 Nbc6 16.Bb2 0–0 17.Nxd4 Nxd4 18.Bxd4 Bf5 19.Bxf5 Nxf5 20.Be3 Qxc4 21.Qb3 Nxe3!? 22.fxe3 Rxf1+ 23.Rxf1 Qxb3 24.axb3 Rc8 25.Rf5 and now 25...Rd8 or 25...Rc6 gives black excellent chances to draw the pawn-down endgame. Silman later argued that 10.b4!! and now 10...Bxb4 11.Ncxd5 cxd5 12.Nxd5 or 10...Bd6 11.Re1! Ne7 12.Nexd5 cxd5 13.Nb5 is close to winning for white, and that the "old, discredited" 9...Bd6 (rather than 9...Bc5) might be Black's best try, though still insufficient for equality.
Also possible is the eccentric 3...Nc6?!, against which John Nunn recommends 4.d4. After 4.d4, Kosten analyzes 4...Qf6!? 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.exf5! Nxe5 7.Qe2. Instead of 4.d4, Kosten says that white can accept the proffered rook with 4.Qh5+ g6 5.Nxg6 Nf6 6.Qh3 hxg6 7.Qxh8 Qe7 (7...fxe4? 8.d4! is strong) 8.d3! (Stefan Bücker gives an alternative 8.Nc3! Nb4 9.d3 as also winning for white) 8...fxe4 9.Be3 Nc6 10.Bc5! Qxc5 11.Qxf6 Bf5 12.dxe4 Nd4 13.exf5! Nxc2+ 14.Kd1 Nxa1 15.Bd3 Qd6 16.Re1+ Kd7 17.Qf7+ Be7 18.Re6 winning.

3.Bc4
White's 3.Bc4 may lead to perhaps the most notorious and heavily analysed line of the Latvian, which begins 3...fxe4 4.Nxe5 Qg5 5.d4 Qxg2 6.Qh5+ g6 7.Bf7+ Kd8 8.Bxg6! Qxh1+ 9.Ke2 Qxc1 (9...c6 is a major alternative) 10.Nf7+ Ke8 11.Nxh8+ hxg6 12.Qxg6+ Kd8 13.Nf7+ Ke7 14.Nc3! However, instead of 4...Qg5, "nowadays players often give preference to 4. ... d5", the Svedenborg Variation. According to Latvian Gambit experts Kon Grivainis and John Elburg, black wins more often than white in this line. After 4...d5 5.Qh5+ g6 6.Nxg6, Black chooses between 6...Nf6 and 6...hxg6. 6...Nf6 usually leads, after 7.Qe5+ Be7 8.Bb5+! c6 9.Nxe7 Qxe7 10.Qxe7+ Kxe7 11.Be2 (11.Bf1!?), to an endgame where black is a pawn down but has considerable positional compensation.[17] Sharper is 6...hxg6, when 7.Qxh8 Kf7 9.Qd4 Be6 gives white a large material advantage, but his "position is constantly on the edge of a precipice", and the line has accordingly fallen out of favor. More often, white plays 7.Qxg6+ Kd7 8.Bxd5 Nf6, leading to sharp and unclear play.

3.Nc3
White's 3.Nc3 was originally analyzed by the American master Stasch Mlotkowski (1881–1943) in the 1916 British Chess Magazine. Kosten gives as Black's two main responses 3...Nf6 4.Bc4 (4.exf5 is also possible) fxe4 5.Nxe5 d5 6.Nxd5! Nxd5 7.Qh5+ g6 8.Nxg6! hxg6! 9.Qxg6+ Kd7 10.Bxd5 Qe7 11.Qxe4 Rh4 12.Qxe7+ Bxe7, reaching an endgame where white has four pawns for a minor piece, and 4...fxe4 5.Nxe5 Qf6, when white can choose from 6.Nc4! (transposing to the main line 3.Nxe5 Qf6 4.Nc4 fxe4 6.Nc3), 6.d4, and 6.f4!? Black can also play 3...d6, when 4.d4 transposes to the Philidor Counter-Attack (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5!?) favored by Paul Morphy in the mid-19th century and still seen occasionally today.

3.exf5
white's 3.exf5 followed by e4 4.Ne5 Nf6 5.Be2 is recommended by John L. Watson and Eric Schiller. 4.Qe2, 4.Nd4, and even 4.Ng1!? (leading to a sort of King's Gambit with colours reversed) are also possible.

3.d4
white's 3.d4 followed by fxe4 4.Nxe5 Nf6 5.Bg5 d6 leads as usual to sharp play. white often offers a piece sacrifice with either 6.Nc3!? or 6.Nd2!?, but black seems to have adequate resources against both.

We enter Elephant gambit with the moves wiki

Mr Tal amb blanques : Talin 1964

Analisi a la jugada 4 :

Si caballo f6, entonces caballo g5; estas dispuesto a continuar esa linea ?
Si alfil c5, la misma: caballo g5, con amenaza en f7, dama h5 luego de e por f5 etc
d6 reduce la accion del alfil de f8, se puede contestar la misma caballo a g5

La mejor creo que es alfil a e7 evitando caballo g5 que es la que considero peor amenaza del blanco.

Analicemos 5. ... d6 :
Posibles respuestas :

• 1 alfil b5 ... c6
• 2 alfil f7 ... rey d8
• 3 caballo f7 ... la tipica d5 y cayo en una mini trampa o celada

1430 partides

Part one :

• 1. Greco Variation 3.Nxe5 Qe7
• 2. Fraser Variation 3.Nxe5 Nc6!?
• 3. Main Line 3. Nxe5 Qf6 4.d4 d6 5.Nc4 fxe4
• 4. Leonhardt Variation 3.Ne5 Qf6 4.Nc4

• 5. 3.exf5 Variation
• 6. 3.d4 Variation
• 7. Svedenborg Variation 3.Bc4 fxe4 4.Nxe5 d5
• 8. Mlotkowski Variation 3.Nc3

Readers who would like to play a Latvian game against mr. Elburg can do so at http://www.gambitchess.com, excelent place [*****] !!!

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Espectacular + visor. Gran partida de Richard Guerrero.
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6th World Championship Latvian Gambit. 4th.

Bon estudi - no es bo per les negres. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Nxe5 Qf6 4.Nc4 (Leonhardtïs variation)

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wiki, chessgames C41

His original idea was to challenge white's centre by the pawn thrust f7–f5.

Other :

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Chessgames C42

web resources, (7) interesting videos, etc

analysis, nice page

wiki

Everything about Petrov + "Table of Theory" ...

Chess Website

Analisi TOTAL !!!, by Uwe Bekemann - u/k

Few games. Zapata wins Anand in 6 moves, Biel 1988

Compilation at chessgames (impressive)

Error clàssic (no 3...d6) :

Chessgames C43

Kramnik as black:

Versus Pallus:

Petrov tree:

Topalov - Kramnik Linares 1999 [ (1) ½-½]

Short - Shirov Dubai 2002 [0-1]

2018.04.09, Vitiugov vs Nikita Caruana, Fabiano in Karlsruhe/Baden Baden GER 0-1

All Linares 1991 , as Ivanchuk - Karpov [1-0]

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wiki :

Kasparov's (12) games - 7 wins, 5 draws

Alekhine 1951, sacrifici de dama :

Taylor & Emms

• Saint Louis Chess Club

• Partides i variants : chessgames, 365chess. Gambit Chess

• Video on traps

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Wiki 3 knights + f5

Then 4.Bb5 transposes into the Schliemann variation of the Ruy Lopez with 4.Nc3.

365chess.com

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Tree :

Basic ideas:

• bring your Bishop onto the a2-g8 diagonal, eyeing up the tender f7 point
• play c2-c3 and d2-d4 to take over the centre
• bring your King's Rook to e1
• don't make time-wasting pawn moves, like h2-h3

The idea is to play c3, d4 ; and only after "...exd4, cxd4" you play Nc3.

Analisi :

• Youtube
• wiki
• Jordi Bada [pgn], txt

Top-5 Italian attacks! :

C50 "King's Pawn Game" includes Blackburne Shilling Gambit, Hungarian Defence, Semi-Italian Opening, Italian Gambit, Légal Trap, Rousseau Gambit and Giuoco Pianissimo.

Una maravella d'atac lent i perillós :

Un atac ràpid i desastrós (Mario/ferna1411 vs Jordi Bada/jobana) :

chessgames

Moscu 2016, ronda 9 : World Chess

In the main line, Greco Variation, white plays 4.c3 in preparation for the central advance d2–d4.

wiki

Jordi Bada guanya en "trispios" (1er del campionat), 20200329 @ lichess :

Video, video

wiki

YouTube:

Here are some ideas and the wiki

The main lines start with :

wiki, Evergreen game. 70 games collection

Main squares :

• Bc4 and Qb3 pointing to f7
• Ba3 and Re1 pointing to e7

Kostic trap :

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Wiki - bona intro i discusió variants. PDf

Depending on white’s reaction, black comes out fighting with ...Nf6 or a quick ...f5.

See Zsofia Polgar vs Vasily Smyslov, 1996, 0-1; Karjakin vs Carlsen, Tata Steel 2016

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I think that the Schliemann, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5, is not only viable but constitutes a dynamic winning try. It is a particularly nice choice because it is reached already on the third move. Marshall Gambit specialists, who so rarely have the opportunity to play their line because white almost always deviates early, should take note of this. After white's stronger responses, positional considerations more or less vanish and tactics becomes everything. The better prepared player will most likely win.

There are those who think that 4. d3 is an easy way to get a slight advantage against the Schliemann, but I disagree. After 4...fxe4 5. dxe4 Nf6 the half-open f-file (which sometimes becomes a half-open g-file when Black is forced, after white's Bg5, Nc3-d5 and Nxf6, to recapture ...gxf6) compensates for white's somewhat more efficient development.

But black must be ready to gambit his e-pawn after 6. 0-0 Bc5!

The best Schliemann reference, by far, is V. L. Ivanov's and A. Kulagin's Play the Schliemann Defense, Olbrich 1994.

The line 4. Nc3! fxe4 5. Nxe4 Nf6?! has lately been called into question, so that Black, if he plays the Schliemann, should go in for 5...d5! 6. Nxe5 dxe4 7. Nxc6 Qg5! -- a complicated line treated at great length by Ivanov and Kulagin.

Chessgames C63 1434 partides.

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The best reference is Mikhail Krasenkov's The Open Spanish, Cadogan 1995

The Classical Defense is unsophisticated, requiring no very deep understanding of positional themes. It merely opposes the Spanish bishop with an Italian one and asks white the question, How much can you hurt me if I just put my pieces on good squares and then play actively? On the other hand, a fairly high degree of sophistication is demanded of white if he is to make use of the advantage he obtains, with best play, against this defense.

The Classical Defense begins with the moves

Chessgames C64, video tutorial

Cordel gambit:

Nice game, pure attack & sacrifice :

Theory

wiki. Judit vs Kasparov (Spanish Berlin)

A sample :

Another :

Preciosa Lasker - Capablanca - atenció a 10.f4 i 12.f5, sense preocupar-se de la debilitat a "e4"

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Posición & partides.

365chess : The Dilworth is a fun line. It occurs in the Open Ruy Lopez:

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En la Española la compleja Variante Zaitsev merece atención. El intento más agresivo de las blancas sin duda es

Ahora el juego continúa normalmente con

Ahora sigue 18.Cd4, el intento más importante de las blancas. Otra variante interesante 18.Tee3!?.

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wiki RL, wiki MA

Important novelty in the Marshall Attack - play It ! [esc_marshall.htm]

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Queen's gambit @ Wikipedia

A mi m'agrada

Que segueix

O també

Main variations

• 2. .. dxc4 (Queen's Gambit Accepted, QGA, D20-D29) - url
• 2. .. Nc6 (Chigorin Defense, D07) - url
• 2. .. c5 (Symmetrical Defense, D06) - url
• 2. .. c6 (Slav Defense & semi-slav, D10-D17) - url
• 2. .. e5 (Albin Countergambit, D08-D09) - url
• 2. .. e6 (Queen's Gambit Declined) (QGD) - url
• 2. .. Bf5 (Baltic Defense, D06) - url
• 2. .. Nf6 (Marshall Defense, D06) - url

Kramnik-Anand play it like this :

Old-style:

Book : Giovanni Falchetta - 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Bf5 - Keres Defence.pdf

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After 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6

After 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6

Nice page on QGA

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After 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 or 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c6

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The Anti-Meran gambit (ECO code D44) comes after 5.Bg5

This line is also extremely complicated. White refuses to shut in the dark-squared bishop, instead developing it to an active square where it pins the black knight, but black can now win a pawn by 5...dxc4. White takes charge of the centre with 6.e4 and black proceeds to defend his booty with 6...b5

Usually the game now continues with 7.e5 h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Nxg5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 Nbd7. White will get his piece back, along with two pawns, meaning he will be a pawn up, but black will soon complete his development while white will be lagging behind.

This is frequently referred to as the Botvinnik system. White will fianchetto his king's bishop and castle kingside, while black will play ...c5, ...Qb6, castle long, and can carry an attack on either flank leading to absurdly complex play.

chessGames D44, wt harvey puzzles on D44

Magnus Carlsen – Jan Smeets, Corus A Wijk aan Zee NED (2), 17.01.2010

Topalov-Anand game :

Aronian beats Carlsen - Altibox Norway Chess | Round 4.2 | 10 Jun 2017 | ECO: D45

From Alexey Dreev book "The Moscow and anti-Moscow variations - an insider's view"

Continuations

Continuations

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Main line

The line remains popular among amateurs because there are several traps White must avoid. For example,

Also, the Elephant Trap {gràcies, Ramón!}

White has several choices on his seventh move. The most common are:

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365chess :

Fischer vs Spassky game 6 :

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Grunfeld Defense is a hypermodern chess opening. This means that Black does not try to control the center early on with his pawns, but spends some time on fianchettoing his dark-squared bishop and only then attacks the center with his pieces.

Therefore, it is essential to know that Black needs to rely on several pawn breaks against White’s center. With White’s pawn on d4, typical pawn breaks to destroy the center are …e5, …c5. If White has no pawn breaks against the d4-pawn, the move …f5 can be considered.

The Grunfeld Defense is a tactical and sharp opening in its nature. Many lines lead to very concrete play. For this reason, Black can not only enjoy all the rich possibilities but also needs to be familiar with several critical ideas, tactical themes and strategic plans for both sides.

The Grunfeld Defense is separated into numerous important sub-variations that can arise including

• the Exchange Variation
• the Taimanov Variation (4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5)
• the Russian System (4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3)
• the lines with 4.Bf4
• the 5.Bd2 Variation
• the variations with g3
• and the Anti-Grunfeld with 3.f3

Most important variations :

Anti Grunfeld :

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Opening ChessGames, Chess-db, chesstempo

Carlsen vs Chao B Li, 2015 Qatar.

Mamedyarov vs Kurnosov (2009, 0-1).

Viktor Arsentievich Goglidze - 110 games.

As Joana (2003, FIDE id 32013426, Cat 26910) and Jaume !

365 :

• Byrne - Fischer (1956) - see 11. ...Na4 !
• Kramnik - Kasparov (2001, draw)
• Kramnik - Shirov (2008, 0-1)
• Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi (2020, 1-0) D85, exchange variation

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Tartakower originated the Catalan Opening at Barcelona 1929. This system starts with 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.g3

Blancas: Leko, Negras: Anand

Turquia, 5/10/2007 - blancas: A.Shirov, negras: S.Azarov

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Las ideas básicas para el negro son :

• enroque corto
• alfil casilla blancas en fianchetto : b6 + Bb7
• cambiar en c3 y presionar en c4 incluso con Ba6, Nc6 y Na5

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videos de Tyrone Ferrara

Botvinnik wins in 12 moves without Keres error !

Play the game, comentaris

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Wiki's details are excellent !

"Mona Lisa", Bagirov-Gufeld, USSR championship 1973 (0-1) :

Mark Taimanov vs Miguel Najdorf, 1953, Orthodox Variation., Classical System Neo-Classsical Line (E99)

Few concepts for white by Varuzhan Akobian, from his game against Igor Foygel, using Smyslov-Petrosian system :

• no white pawn in e4
• keep black squares bishop to weaken black's castling
• white pawn to c5 (and b4) and knigh to d6
• queen on c2, rooks on c1 and d1
• play positional, closed
• castle short-side, as black

A difference between the Pirc and the KID is that the Pirc is played against open systems 1.e4.
This means that white will often be attacking on the King side with either an e5 or f5 thrust, while black often looks for counter play in the center and Queen side.

The KID defense is played against closed systems 1.d4.
This means that white will often be attacking on the Queen side with d5 and c5 while black will be storming the Kingside with his pawns.

Play this beautiful game : Yuri Zimmerman vs Zombor Erdelyi (1-0) !

wiki : the classical plan for White is to castle queenside and initiate an attack on the kingside involving advances of the g- and h- pawns.

After 6...e5, if White chooses to close the centre with 7.d5, White's typical plan is to castle queenside, and then launch an assault on the kingside with moves like g4 and/or h4.

How Tahl destroys King's Indian

All at chessgames E93, fantastic Tahl vs Fischer, 1-0

Wiki basic openings :

best opening moves for white and for black

Some gambits :

• King's Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.f4
• Queen's Gambit : 1.d4 d5 2.c4 [1]
• Evans Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4
• Rousseau Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 f5
• Smith-Morra Gambit: 1.e4 c5 2.d4 intending 2. ..cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3
• Two Knights Defence: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 with 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 likely to follow
• Blackmar-Diemer Gambit (BDG): 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 followed by 4.f3
• From's Gambit: 1.f4 e5
• Staunton Gambit: 1.d4 f5 2.e4
• Budapest Gambit: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5
• Scotch Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4
• Latvian Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5
• Blackburne Shilling Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4?! [2]
• Elephant Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5
• Englund Gambit : 1.d4 e5?!
• Italian Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d4

[1] This is the most played "gambit", but it is technically not a gambit since white can guarantee the recovery of his pawn (most simply 2. ..dxc4 3. Qa4+, but usually more subtle lines).

[2] This is not a true gambit by Black, since after 4.Nxe5!? Qg5! Black wins material. White can (and from this position should) play a gambit himself with 5.Bxf7+! Ke7 6.0-0! Qxe5 7.Bxg8 Rxg8 8.c3 Nc6 9.d4, when White's two pawns and rolling pawn center, combined with Black's misplaced king, give White strong compensation for the sacrificed bishop.

Llista complerta.

Stafford gambit - study at lichess - 7 traps in one :

• Evans gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4)
• King’s gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4)
• Scotch gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4)
• Danish gambit (1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3)
• Göring gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3)
• Wing gambit (1.e4 c5 2.b4)
• Morra gambit (1.e4 c5 2.d4)
• Milner-Barry gambit (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Bd7 8.Nc3 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4)
• Blackmar-Diemer gambit (1.e4 d5 2.d4 dxe4 3.Nc3 followed by 4.f3 against the Caro-Kann, Scandinavian and French)

wiki starts with

Tahl vs Lutikov by Yasser Seirawan

wiki book

After 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 ...

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Puc fabricar una forquilla ?

2 tipus de mat a 8va

• King & Queen on same column (by Rook)
• King & Queen on same colour (by Bishop)
• atacar una pieza desprotegida
• pieza sobre-cargada, que defiende 2 piezas simultaneamente
• atacar la seva dama amb una peça menor
• atac "en descoberta"
• doble escac
• torres en septima linea doblarás y la partida ganarás
• mat a la 8-va fila
• fork - fer una "forquilla : fer escac amb l'alfil/cavall a la vegada que s'ataca (amb el mateix alfil/cavall o una peça destapada) una torre
• pin (clavada)
• com crear un peo passat ? Per exemple ... 3 enfront 3
• atac al enroc - atac al fiancheto
• si juguem contra una Caro-Kann o una escandinava, i el rival ha fet "c6", el nostre alfil de caselles negres s'ha convertit en monstre

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Trampas que no descomponen nuestra posicion si el rival no cae en la trampa

• siciliana, 4...Cf6
• siciliana, 4.c3
• (5:30) Caro-Kann :

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He regards the following as the elements of chess strategy:

1. the center - el centre
2. play on the open files - les columnes obertes
   Shirov-Anand, 2000
3. play on the 7th and 8th ranks - la 7a i 8a fila
4. the passed pawns - el peo passat
5. the pin - la clavada
6. discovered checks - escac a la descoberta
7. exchanging - els canvis
8. the pawn-chain - la cadena de peons

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1. el joc posicional i el centre
2. el peo doblat
3. el peo aillat
4. els 2 alfils
5. sobreprotecció
6. mainobrant contra un punt feble

Quan no hi ha el cavall a f6, ens poden atacar h7 :

alfil agafa h7, as

Compte amb Bf5 !

Si el rei te 3 caselles també el podem matar :

Hem de veure de seguida que podem agafar g4 amb el cavall

dama agafa b2 - trap

posem el cavall (segurament al centre) en un lloc on poguem atacar la seva dama en un sol salt, primera casella de la forquilla - d5 regalem la torre (amb escac) per a portar el rei a la segona casella de la forquilla - a8 fem la forquilla, guanyant material - c7
	La forquilla és a d5, guanyant el alfil de c5 amb l'escac, que cobreix el cavall que és a punt de desapareixer : TxC !

Normalment jugariem Cxg6, hxg6 i Axg6

Pero aqui hi ha un truc : Cxg6, Cxd5 i ara el alfil està clavat, o si Cf3 llavors Cf6 i el negre guanya cavall per peó.

• si h6 i g5 (contra cavall i alfil), quan puc agafar 2 peons per peça i amb què (alfil o cavall) ?
• si estic en fianchetto i m'ataquen l'alfil, agafo i faig baixar la dama a h6, o espero a que m'el matin i agafo amb el rei a g7 ?
• si estem 3 peons contra 3 peons (exbiaixats), amb quin ataco ?
• posar el cavall darrere els seus peons, en un quadre de color diferent del seu alfil
• en la banda on tinc majoria, quin peó he de avançar ? El que te la columna lliure (la majoria de vegades)

• quines jugades puc fer ?
• en que ha cambiat la posició amb la seva darrera jugada ? video
  (a) qué ataca
  (b) que no defensa
• quines intencions te la seva jugada ?
• per què ha fet aquest moviment el contrari ? Quin plan te al cap ?
• la seva jugada ha deixat algun unt feble en la seva posició ?
• mira els punts febles de la seva posició i de la teva
• mira les peces desprotegides de la seva posició i de la teva
  Una peça pot estar desprotegida i estar darrere una altra peça (que podem treure o que fa doble feina)
• quines peces no tinc protegides ?
• tinc peces en posició de rebre una "forquilla" ?
• puc amenaçar mat en 1 ?
• puc fer-li escac a la descoberta ?
• puc fer-li una "forquilla" ?
• després de fer jo la meva jugada, quines bones jugades te ell ?
• fes un pla - estavia molt de temps
• si no tens atac, millora la posició de les teves peces
• pensa les "forquilles" de cavall i clavades de alfil (o de torre) que et puguin fer
• mira on apunten els "tandem" Alfil+Dama o Torre+Torre
• hi ha alguna peça "sobrecarregada", es a dir, que fa 2 feines a la vegada ?
• procura moure deixant les peces protegides
• es millor si mous la teva peça a una casella que ja està defensada
• quan ja hem decidit quin moviment fem, pensem quins moviments pot fer el rival llavors

Només farem canvis si

• guanyem un temps
• segueix desenvolupament o alliberació

So its your turn to move, what do you do first? Most players tend to look at moves they can play, ie he's moved there so I can now move here and so on. I wont go as far to say that this is wrong but from personal experience and talking to most players I do believe it can be improved on.

The first thing you need to do before making any moves is weight up the position, understand it, you need to look for key features. The way you look at the position will determine what you need to do and how, and then you can decide on what moves you need to play. I will talk through my own personal check list

1. Define areas of control
This is basicly something that iv learned from IM Bangievs square strategy training. The first thing I do on each move is to look at the area I control and the area the other player controls. This helps show yours and their general strong and weak points of the board, just to get an over all feel for the game.

2. Define direction of attacks
So you know the area that you control - where your pieces are coordinated. Now you need to find in which direction you want to attack. Pieces can normally only work well when working together on one part of the board, so you need to group them and coordinate them there.

3. Square complex/colour weaknesses (maybe the most important)
A lot of the middle game of chess is all about square colour. You can only attack one colour at a time, if you try to play on black and white, then your pieces automaticly become uncoordinated, however once you define which colour you want to play on and get all your pieces controling squares of that colour, you will find a flow to the game and the other player will find it very hard to stop you from moving around on the colour you control. Try to limit your colour weaknesses and if you have one, trade off the other players pieces that can control the weak squares.

Google search under Bangiev squares

4. Enemy pieces to be challenged (traded)
I expect everyone knows what the pieces are worth, pawns = 1 knights = 3 bishops = 3, rooks = 5 and queen = 9. Well thats a good lie. The piece values are never static, for example at the start of the game the rooks in the corners are basicly pointless and after 1.Nf3 the knight is better than the rooks (at least for that move) since it is doing something and the rooks arent. You have to make pieces work for you in the most effective way, which normally means centralisation, a cental piece will control more squares. If a bishop can control more squares than a rook, or more important squares then the bishop is worth maybe 5 and the limited rook is worth 3.5 etc, its all about your judgement. You have to look at each piece and give it a value, a rating, how good is this piece etc. Once you have worked out how good each piece is you then know which one of your pieces you need to keep on and which of the enemy pieces you need to trade, if you can trade your bad pieces for their good pieces you will find yourself winning effortlessly.

5. Own pieces to use and how
Pretty much like the last one, you are aiming for max amount of control with your pieces, finding good squares for them or exchanging them for better enemy pieces.

6. Enemy plan
Work it out!

7. Your plan
Get one!! ie, short term improving piece position, controling a colour, challenging the other players good pieces. Maybe move a pawn to take away a good square from an enemy piece (mainly knight), but also have a long term plan, like kingside attack, on central breakthrough.

8. Look for tactical chances
Weak king, undefended piece, weak pawns, overloaded piece, etc

If they have only one weakness dont attack it, ie if a piece is undefended DONT attack it, leave it undefended because the only way tactics or combinations happen is the rule of two weaknesses. You need to hit two weaknesses at once for a tactic to work, so dont help the other player and pointless attack things forcing them to strengthen their position.

9. Positional moves
If theres no tactical tries then its time to use everything you looked at and judged in the position and start to list candidate moves. Once you have the moves, caculate and find the best one for you.
Improving the position of your pieces. Trading good enemy pieces. Taking away good squares from their pieces. Trying to control a colour complex. Gain space. Controling center. Controling open files. Prophylaxis moves (ie taking care of your own weaknesses, undefended pieces, exposed king etc etc)

Mike Splane, 2008

• recognize when the nature of a position has changed and adjust your mind
• try to make as difficult as possible for your opponent to execute his plan
• be on the lookout for opportunities to take advantage of your opponents complacency
• create situations in which your opponent must make decisions

In other words

• mentally adapt to a change in the position
• resist by preventing your opponent from executing their only winning plan
• take advantage of complacency
• make your opponent make decisions

FM Alisa Melekhina

• si faig Caro-Kann, segurament acabaré enrocant llarg
• si faig Siciliana, he de fer a6 i b5 per atacar en el flanc de dama
• si faig Siciliana amb c5xd4, he de posar la torre a c8
• si faig London, no he de canviar el alfil blanc de quadres negres (jugar h3)
• si faig defensa india, he de fer "f5" en algun moment
• si jugo holandesa, he de fer e5 en algun moment

• Siciliana contra enroc llarg : Tc8xCc3
• Grand Prix : f5

simplify chess : As you must know by now, there are 17 essential pawn structures in chess, and they are the very foundation of each chess position - complete guide to pawn structures

Molt interessant : cursos y teoria :

• Lección 9 | El Ataque al enroque. El sacrificio de alfil en h7
• Lección 10 | El ataque al enroque | El doble sacrificio de alfil en h7 y g7
• Lección 11 y 12 | Debilidades tras la jugada …h6 | Parte 1 y parte 2
• Lección 13 y 14 | Debilidades creadas por las jugada …g6 | Parte 1 y parte 2
• Lección 25 | Posiciones típicas. La cadena de peones en la Francesa
• Lección 27 | Posiciones típicas. Ataque Indio de Rey
• Lección 32 y 33 | Los Finales. Finales de Alfil contra Caballo Parte 1 (mejor el alfil) y parte 2 (mejor el caballo)
• Lección 34 | Los finales. Finales de Alfiles del mismo color
• Lección 35 | Los finales. Finales de Alfiles de diferente color

• cuando hay peones en ambos lados, cuanto más desequilibrada está la cantidad de peones, más favorece al alfil.
• la existencia de peones pasados, especialmente si están alejados, también resulta favorable al alfil
• cuando la posición de peones está bloqueada, es fundamental ver que bando tiene sus peones en las casillas por donde juega el alfil
  Si es el poseedor del alfil (alfil malo) la ventaja del caballo suele ser muy grande.
  En cambio, si el bando del caballo tiene sus peones en casillas donde pueden ser atacados por el alfil, a menudo se encuentra en clara inferioridad.

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See "Saidy vs Fischer, 1963" and "Karpov vs Kasparov, Moscú, 1984"

Aquí son importantes varios factores :

• la mejor estructura de peones, especialmente si hay peones débiles o peones pasados
• la presencia de un alfil malo
• la mayor actividad del rey

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Mireu Smyslov vs Keres, Moscú, 1951

La regla de oro es, para el bando fuerte, colocar los peones en casillas diferentes a su alfil, mientras que el bando defensor debe colocarlos en las casillas de su propio alfil.

El primer factor para desequilibrar un final con alfiles de diferente color es la creación de peones pasados. Pero en general, un solo peón pasado puede ser detenido por el rey o el alfil defensor, y es necesario buscar la creación de otro, preferiblemente alejado del primero.

leccion 35

La característica principal es la posición de los peones en e4 y c4 con la columna «d» semiabierta, contra los peones negros en d6 y e7, siendo la columna semiabierta de las negras la «c».

Ello hace que la ruptura …d6-d5 sea muy difícil de realizar y que el punto d5 se convierta en una excelente casilla para un caballo, puesto que si es desalojado con …e6, el peón d6 perderá su principal defensor y podría ser atacado por la columna semiabierta.

Nudo Maroczy ajedrez castellón {***}, simplify chess {+++}, wikipedia

La lucha contra la formación Maroczy principalmente intenta la eliminación de alguno de los peones que forman el nudo. Para ello se utiliza la ruptura …f5 o …b5.

Hedgehog setup : black’s main idea in this system is to breakthrough rapidly and under good conditions, with either b7-b5, supported with a7-a6, or d7-d5, supported with e7-e6.

A basic concept of chess strategy is that when you have less space, you must exchange pieces in order to have more room for those that are left on the board. This is precisely what black must try to do. In addition to this, endgames can be good for black, because White’s advanced pawns have left weak squares behind them.

Common opening lines :

• The Moscow variation of the Sicilian defence: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7 Qxd7 5.c4 Nc6 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nxd4
• English opening

• Mikhail Botvinnik vs Andre Lilienthal - A15, english
• Larsen vs Tal - A37, symmetrical english
• Petrov vs Tosic : 8... Ab7, 20... d5 !

If the Bishop is removed, all that will be left is a network of holes.

user's guide (Exeter), Smirnov

Two short samples to paste

Black has played the pawn to h6. If white Bishop goes to h4 and black pawn moves to g5, when is it correct to sacrifice a piece for 2 pawns ? No sacrificar mai si te alfil negre que pugui tapar inmediatamnet la diagonal o te un cavall a d7 que apoya el de f6   Do we always sacrifice the Knight and keep the Bishop ? Yes, to keep the Knight pin to the Queen.

7 in this video

Anem a veure si podem resumir que cal fer en posicions conegudes

Atac al pió 7TR, as {use load FEN} :

Also known as greek gift

Read about bishop sacrifice on h7 (video)

Vladimir Vuković, Art of Attack in Chess – chapter 6 is dedicated to the classical bishop sacrifice {sagpdf}

What if Kh8 ?

video Jonathan Schrantz, St Louis Chess Club, 46 min

url

chjess.com 1, 2

Endgame frequency table

Estudiar finals, com

• rei contra rei i peó (nice wiki article, *****)

  Key squares : a key square is a square such that if White's king occupies it, White can force the pawn to promotion, regardless of where the Black king is and regardless of which side is to move, and against any defense.

  Opposition : the player not having to move is said to "have the opposition"

  

• Torre i pió versus Torre; acaben en Lucena position o Philidor position,

  The side with the pawn will try to reach the Lucena position to win; the other side will try to reach the Philidor position to draw.

  Philidor : the basic idea for the defender is to keep his rook on his third rank until the pawn advances to that rank, then check the opposing king from behind.

  La torre ha de atacar el peo pel darrere, o, si no es pot, pel davant. Mai pel costat {Chalmeta, 20160207}

• Reina contra peó.

• Dama contra Torre ! {***}

	(1) quan el rei negre avançi a la fila 5, el rei blanc s'hi ha de posar enfront.		(2) d'una altra manera, quan el rei surt del darrere el seu peó, i es posa al seu costat, el rei blanc s'ha de posar al davant del rei contrari.		(3) si no es posa al seu costat directe, sino en diagonal, anem al davant del peo i estem en bucle : quan el rei torni a e6, el nostre rei anirà a e3
	(4) si Rf6, llavors Re4		(5) si Re6, llavors Re3		(6) si e4+, llavors Re2 Això ens porta a un rei ofegat en arribar a (1) amb el rei blanc a e1 i que toqui moure al negre.

S'empata si es juga be. Requisits :

• saber empatar amb rei contra rei i peo (veure secció anterior)
• tenir el rei abans del peo

Anem per parts

Comencem aixi : el peo negre no ha arribat a la fila 3 La torre blanca s'ha d trobar al cantó llarg del peó, es a dir, al cantó on hi ha mes caselles, per a que el rei no la pugui tocar.		La torre blanca es manté a la fila 3 per impedir que s'hi posi el rei negre. Si la torre negre es posa a la fila 1 tocant el nostre rei blanc, el rei blanc pot anar a la fila 2. Tard o d'hora, el rei negre anirà a la fila 4 i el peó avançarà a la fila 3. O be, ens proposarà un canvi de torres, que acceptarem ràpidament.
Fase 2 : el peo negre ha arribat a la fila 3		La torre blanca es posa mes enrere del peo i dona escac al rei negre quan es posi a la fila 3 obligant-lo a ficar-se darrere el peó.

The defender should keep his king in front of the opposing pawn and keep his rook on the third rank until the pawn advances to that rank. Then go to the far end of the board (the seventh or eighth rank) and check the king from behind. If the attacker tries to get his king to his sixth rank by moving his rook to that rank first to block the checks, the defender simply exchanges rooks and has a drawn king and pawn versus king endgame.

Philidor position

• dama contra torre
• 2 alfils - es pot guanyar
• 2 cavalls - es pot empatar
• 1 alfil i un cavall

Pawnless endgame

"T'has de quedar al mig i donar voltes a la torre" - Ramón

• pensem que dos alfils juntets son com una torre, però en diagonal
• el rei, al igual que quan te una torre, ha de tapar el forat d'escapament del rei contrari quan movem el alfil per arreconar el rei
• hem de aconseguir la posició indicada al esquema, on un sol alfil i el rei tenen retingut el rei contrari en 2 caselles
• el altre alfil és el que dona el penultim "escac" - serà el alfil del quadre del racó el que doni el "mat"

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• el esquema anterior també aplica en aquest cas
• el mat només es produirà al racó del color del alfil - the checkmate can be forced only in a corner that the bishop controls
• per arribar-hi, el cavall ha de fer un moviment en forma de "W"
• si sembla que el rei s'escapa, fem 2 moviment anti-naturals i el tanquem de nou

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metode super facil - GM Carlos Matamoros

• el bandol "fort" (que te alfil i torre) ha de portar el rei contrari cap a una banda, és a dir, que el rei quedi en la darrera fila o columna "tallat" per la torre.
• el bandol "fliux" pot escollir cap a on anar, i ha de anar a
  • una casella de cavall. Compte que n'hi ha 8 en el tauler - les 4 on hi ha cavall de veritat (b1, g1, b8 i g8) i les 4 corresponents "verticals", es a dir a2, a7, h2 i h7.
  • del color que NO sigui el del alfil del bandol "fort"
• tot i aixi, per poc que s'equivoqui el "fluix", li fan mat o li roben la torre, mentre el "fort" només ha de vigilar de no ofegar el rei contrari.
• compte que s'ha de fer "mat" en menys de 50 jugades !

Xarxa :

• Wiki
• Chess Insights
• com es guanya - partida Svidler vs Carlsen, guanya Carlsen
• com es fa taules - partida

See Llibres section, "Los 100 finales que hay que saber"

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Carlsen loses to Morozevich, World Blitz Championship 2012, (3'+2'')

Another :

GameKnot : monkeyballz !

Homepage, manuals, man chess, info chess, ...

File gnuchess.ini allows seting config options. The file is looked in three places according to the following precedence:

1. the directory where the program was started
2. environment variable GNUCHESS_PKGDATADIR
3. the package data directory stated at configure time

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Homepage, Q&A, filenames, news

Get CB14 (iso+patch+keygen)

Add Stockfish 13 :

1. "Crear modulo UCI" - find the ".exe"
2. "Añadir apuntador" - set "default engine"

   Or use "File + Options + Modules" - url

Fritz 8 can Save a game as

• CBH
• CBF
• PGN

Base de Datos de Referencia :

• Kayak : c:\D&S\user\My Documents\ChessBase\Bases\database.cbh
• T42 : c:\D&S\user\My Documents\ChessBase\Bases\fritz10\database.cbh

[+/-] : number of lines that are calculated in parallel.

To restablish standard layout:

• windows
• standard layots
• big board

• move just made - Tools, Options, Game : "Mark Move" checkbox
• long-term plans - Tools, Options, Engine : "Show Plans" checkbox

Get Fritz 9.eng from Emule ! @

Get it here ! [446.464 bytes, DVD still required to Load] and place it in c:\Program Files\ChessBase\Engines.

• Window
• Panes
• Chess Media System (CTRL+ALT+"V")

Play a lecture :

• start Fritz in Classical Offline mode ("Play Chess" in the start dialog)
• Open - Chess Media File
• Select "filename.wmv"

A Chess Media System for Fritz

Para poder usar el sistema Chess Media debe :

• Archivo
• Abrir
• Archivo de Chess Media

1. create a new database or access and old one to add games to it
   "database" icon (last group on the right) + "application" (up-left) + "new" : sag-cat.cbh {c:\Users\bisc\Documents\ChessBase\Database\Work}
2. access the PGN file to import
   "application" + "open" + FileType := "PGN" + navigate to PGN directory {D:\escacs\StBoi\2016-campionat-1a-catalana}
3. doble-click on the game to open it into Rybka
4. goto "Recent Databases" + select "sag-cat" + "application" + "Save"

url

1. "database" icon + "application" (up-left) + double-click "sag-cat.cbh" to display all games in database
2. select any game + "delete" key : the game is in gray now
3. click "Database" icon, then select "Database" tab (between Home and View) + click "Database Functions" icon
4. select "Remove Deleted Games" from drop-down menu

1. import a PGN game
2. create a New Database (empty)
3. "Save" game
4. "backup" database into CBV file

Fritz Chess Benchmark.exe says :

{1} : Performance relative to P3 1,0 GHz (480 Knodes/sec)

• que passa amb (no catalogat a ChessGame.Com)
  • 1. ... b5 !?
  • 1. ... g5 !?

• per què el Fritz 8 amb Engine del 9 per avaluar una posició i arribar a la mateixa fondaria triga més si hi ha mes variacions "visibles" ? Vull dir, escollides amb el botó "+" ...

rn2k2r/ppq2ppp/2p1p3/3n4/2BP4/P1P2Q1P/2PB1PP1/R4RK1 w kq - 1 13

Si tanquem a nomes estudiar 2 variacions, llavors aquesta posició

8/1p6/5B2/b6p/2k2K2/8/8/8 w - - 2 55
...

Fondaria	Veure 2	Veure 15
12	00:05	00:22
13	00:10	00:51
14	00:38	02:00
15	01:28	04:45
16	03:44

• que son les extensions ...
  • CBB
  • CBG
  • CBH = DataBase's
  • CBJ
  • CTG = "Openings Book" Tab ; Rybka : Turk Book.ctg
  51.910.034 database.cbh 58.680.908 database.cbb 83.507.404 database.cbj 93.124.307 database.cbg

120 €

Minimum : Pentium II 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM, Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9

Recommended: Pentium IV 2,2 GHz or better, 256 MB RAM, Windows XP, GeForce5 graphics card (or comparable) with 128 MB memory or better, 100%DirectX compatible, sound card, Windows Media Player 9, DVD-ROM-drive

Network installation => "Please insert Fritz 10 DVD" message.

Engines @ d:\P F\ChessBase\Engines

SVCHOST.EXE @ T42

Get serial (10 a day)

Fritz 9 S/N:

T42 : KGF.exe

Kayak : Keygen.

RAP : Keygen v9

Rybka 4 :

Fritz does not see a winning move in this position ... But there is one. Gràcies, Javier ! Use FEN here : 4r3/4q1r1/P2p2Pk/2p1pQ1P/2P2p2/1P5R/6RK/8 w - - 0 1

• getchessx-1.5.6.tgz, 4 MB
• read INSTALL : requires QT v 5.7
• deb package, 32 or 64 bit - comanda "uname -m"

Which ones are available ? Penguin PGN editor requires one ...

engine list

Top Chess Engine Championship

Read this :

• Chess Engine Communication Protocol (wiki)
• Chess Engine Communication Protocol by Tim Mann & H.G.Muller
  Tim homepage
• Universal Chess Interface (wiki)

Gràcies, Ramón !

201505 : Houdini, wiki

201408: StockFish, homepage (Open Source)

What interface does it need ? using stockfish

download it and run "stockfish-6-64.exe", then GUI as Arena or SCID or Tarrash-UI

• from python
• with UCI

molt interessant !

6-men tablebases : 161 GB vs 1.2 TB - (Syzygybases vs Nalimov's)

• wiki
• wiki spaces
• kirill online

DroidFish 1.40, 1.61 - Stockfish chess engine

• top-left : Edit board, File, Select opening book, Manage chess engines, Set color theme, Settings, About/help.
• middle-of-board : Tools = Clipboard, File, Share game Share as text, Share as image, Retrieve position
• bottom (off-the-board) : Edit Game = edit headers, edit comments, truncate game tree, move variation down
• 6 icons under the board : (?), Hint, Select action, Menu (as top-left or Analysis Mode, Edit/replay game, play white/black), Go Back, Go Forward

What is a FEN ?
FEN stands for "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", and the similar EPD for "Extended Position Description".

A FEN is a representation of a single position in a game of chess. Here is the FEN of the position after white makes the first move of the game - PK4.

The first part of the FEN gives the position of the pieces on the board. Lower case letters indicate black pieces, upper case letters indicate white pieces and numbers represent the number of empty squares between pieces. The FEN reads from the top-left of the board to the bottom-right of the board.

• The b indicates that it is black's turn to move.
• The KQkq indicates that both sides have queen-side and king-side castling still available.
• e3 indicates that square e3 is open to an en passant capture.
• The 0 shows that no moves have been made since the last pawn move or piece capture.
• If this reaches 50, the game is drawn (except in certain, defined, end-games).

The final 1 shows that this is the first move of the game. This number is incremented directly after each of black's moves.

FEN viewer, paste a FEN

Few items :

• Use ChessFigRdrLite {Android}

• Oldie : chess scan {Java}

• chessBoardCapture.zip

• Chessify - sometimes server is unavailable, but works fine [***] PlayStore for Android - Armenian startup

• chessputzer, web interface !
  source at github {quite bad}

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White can lead Black into dangerous traps. Many of these traps rely on Black's replying with 1...d5, attacking the pawn with his queen's bishop. After 2.Bg2 Bxg4!?, White has an attack after 3.c4 and eventually Qb3, aiming at the weakened squares d5 and b7, an attack that may well be worth a pawn.

A key element of the Grob is deploying the king's bishop on g2 and having it rule the diagonal. In order to further this goal white must keep the center clear of pawns. This leads to frequent "tearing at the center" with c4 often being white's third move.

Wiki, 5.000 games PGN

Some tactics advice

365chess

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• diu en Jorge : no hay mejor experiencia que la propia

• play with your pieces, not with your pawns

• Nimzowitsch : the strongest point should be overprotected

• we should avoid playing moves where we are weaker, since this creates targets of attack

• regla de Philidor : teniendo un alfil que domina las casillas blancas procuraremos colocar nuestros peones en las casillas negras, a fin de que sea posible rechazar (atacar), con la ayuda del alfil, las piezas enemigas situadas entre nuestros peones.
  página 136, "El Final", Miguel Czerniak, Buenos Aires 1975.

  Capablanca : si el rival tiene un alfil de casillas blancas, pondremos nuestros peones en los cuadros negros, y mas si no tenemos alfil del mismo color.

• cuando el rival propone un cambio de piezas, no tomes tu primero - aprovecha para desarrollar.

• nunca juegues rápido - cuenta 10 antes de mover

• si tenemos una pieza desprotegida y nos atacan al rey con la dama, hay que moverse por los cuadros del otro color de la casilla dondes esta la pieza desprotegida, para que nos pueda hacer un doble ("gafas")

• cuando acaba la fase de "desarrollo" ? En cuanto comuniquemos las 2 torres ... [Jorge]

• cuando entramos en la fase "final" ? Cuando el Rey forma parte activa del juego [Luís]

• al acabar la apertura, hemos de componer un plan

• cual de dos piezas movemos ? La que tenga menos posiciones a las que poder moverse.

• donde la pondremos ? En un cuadro apoyado por nuestras piezas.

• procuramos desarrollar lanzando amenazas directas, sobre la Dama si es posible

• rules for the player who owns a passed pawn
  1. control the square directly in front of the pawn
  2. trade all the minor pieces so that a Knight or Bishop can't block the pawn
  3. keep the Queens on, so the opponent's King won't feel comfortable rushing up to combat your pawn
  4. keep at least one Rook on

• Reuben Fine - there are 2 questions which must be answered for each move played :
  • how does it affect the center ?
  • how does it fit in with the development of my other pieces and pawns ?

• millora el teu joc mig : patterns, combinations (checkmate, for material gain, and for achieving a draw), plans, double attack, open lines,

• dos estils :
  • e4 = tactical games
  • d4 = positional games - we castle same side as our oponent

• (francesa) tactica vs (anglesa) estrategica

• abans de fer Qc7 (per recolzar e5), hem de fer a6 per prevenir Nc3-b5

• si volem fer un atac anglès (Be3 i Qd2), abans hem de fer f3 per prevenir Ng4

• controla tus nervios
• manten la concentracion
• gestiona bien el tiempo
• evita errores graves
  El factor mas decisivo son los errores graves, no las aperturas ni la estrategia ni los finales.
• jaques y capturas
  Repasa TODOS los jaques y capturas disponibles, tanto tuyos como del contrario.
• anticipate al rival
  Antes de mover, trata de adivinar la respuesta del rival.
• juega de forma natural
  Coloca tus piezas en posiciones activas, ocupa el centro, enroca rapido.
  No inicies un ataque si no lo tienes claro. Haz las jugadas mas logicas.
• habla con tus piezas
  Pregunta a cada pieza qué le gustaria hacer, a qué casilla querría ir.
  Si no tienes un plan claro, mejora tu peor pieza o ataca la pieza mas avanzada del rival.
  Haz que tus piezas trabajem en equipo.
• respeta al oponente
  Levántate de la silla y mira el tablero con los ojos de tu rival.
  Refuerza tus puntos vulnerables.
• disfruta de la partida
  Intenta aprender de tus errores. Sé humilde pero optimista.

• warm up before the fame : tactical puzzles (simple ones), visualization (openings, your winning games)
• focus on chess, not on ELO or other : visualization
• avoid tactical openings (sharp positions) when your oponent is better prepared
• keep track of your opponent's plans - what's the last opponent's move and what's its idea ? What is he going to do next ?
• anti-blunder check : before playing the chosen move, think "which forcing reply can my opponent play" ?
• grasp the initiative - defenders blunder more often
• when you are short of time, simplify the position and avoid tactical complications
• training : solve tactical puzzles from the other side - find your opponent's plan

part 1, part 2

4 tips :

• be fresh - sleep well
• keep developing your pieces
• if you attack your opponent's queen, there is always a possibility for intermediate moves
• remove pieces from active positions only if they are threatened directly
• on the long run, giving up king's safe is always a bad idea

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• posen sempre les fitxes en quadres protegits per les seves peces - mai deixen una peça desprotegida
• milloren la seva posició amb petites amenaces directes
• mai canvien fitxes - aprofiten que l'altre ho fa per millorar la seva posició - "To take is a mistake" (min 1:50)
• mai regalen ni un peó - si te'l ofereixen, és una trampa {dedicat a en Ramón}

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• the word "gambit" was originally applied to chess openings in 1561 by Spanish priest Rúy López de Segura, from the Italian expression dare il gambetto (to put a leg forward, i. e., to trip someone).

• fianchetto = Italian "little flanking"

• "j'adoube" per "composo"

• "en passant" o "en pris" pel "matar al pas"

• discovered check = jaque a la descubierta

• glossary of chess : Zwischenzug - in between move. Zugzwang - compulsion to move - squeeze, Trébuchet.

• Vocabulari, glossari : french 5 idiomes.

  Alfil : originàriament era un elefant, de fet el nom català prové de l'àrab "al fil", الفيل, «l'elefant»

  in English of course it is a bishop, in Russian it is an elephant, in French a joker, in German a runner, and in Czech – an archer.

  knight (vocabulari) - steed - corcel

  La Dama simbolitza el primer ministre o un alt funcionari, per això és anomenada «emir» en el món àrab, però convertit aquí en la dona del rei.
  La figura representa una persona estilitzada, d'alçada gran, normalment amb diadema. Antigament rebia el nom d'«alferza».
  wiki

• Rus :
  • reina = fersy
  • torre = ladya
  • alfil = slon
  • cavall = cony
  • endgame = эндшпиль ;

• "greek gift" sacrifice with 14.Bxh7!

• Stalem o stalemate = ofegat !
  Stalemate = пат

• Pin = "clavada"

• Skewer or thrust = clavada inversa

• Fork = forquilla o "doble"

• smothered mate

• a pawn on the sixth rank, with an opposing pawn in front of it is called a "thorn pawn", "fawn pawn", or "nail pawn".

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What is the worst chess joke of all time? Garry Kasparov's Russian joke

Topalov-Shirov, Linares 1998 : 47... Ah3

Your Next Move (Blitz) (2018) : all Nakamura games

Video,

Nakamura vs So

Nakamura vs Mamedyarov

Nakamura vs Giri

Fried Liver Attack in the Two Knights Defense.
The logical moves (1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6), then my opponent jumped 4.Ng5 and I played 4...d5. He captured and so did I (5.exd5 Nxd5), then out of the blue came a thunderbolt (6.Nxf7!). I don't remember the rest of the game, but my King got checkmated very quickly.
Solution : 5... Na5

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Lucena.

• centralize your king
• create an outside passed pawn
• place rooks behind passed pawns
• whenever your opponent has a weak pawn, make it unmovable

• Kotov - Botvinnik : game

• Tal - Botvinnik, final 1960, 21 partides :
  • game 6, KID [0-1, Tal]
  • game 1, french [1-0, Tal]
  • game 9, Caro Kann [0-1, Botvinnik]

• Boris Gelfand squeezes Wang Yue into dust :
  • youtube
  • chessgames

• Garry Kasparov vs Boris Gelfand 1993 Linares - Najdorf defense, Fischer attack :
  • youtube
  • chessgames

• Tal es sempre espectacular :
  • 2x thorn
  • playlist (matxacant en Fischer)

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Submitted by WGM Natalia_Pogonina

• playing without a plan
• underestimating opponent’s threats
• failing to convert a winning position due to loss of concentration
• giving up (or starting to play the game out without any interest) too early
• poor time management

• at the beginning of the game the forces stand in equilibrium
• correct play on both sides maintains this equilibrium and leads to a drawn game
• therefore a player can win only as a consequence of an error made by the opponent - there is no such thing as a winning move
• as long as the equilibrium is maintained, an attack, however skillful, cannot succeed against correct defence - such a defence will eventually necessitate the withdrawal and regrouping of the attacking pieces and the attacker will then inevitably suffer disadvantage
• therefore a player should not attack until he already has an advantage, caused by the opponent's error, that justifies the decision to attack
• so, at the beginning of the game a player should not at once seek to attack. Instead, he should seek to disturb the equilibrium in his favour by inducing the opponent to make an error - a preliminary before attacking
• when a sufficient advantage has been obtained, a player must attack or the advantage will be dissipated

From Steinitz' Theory, British Chess Magazine Vol. 104, p.370 Sept 1984

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From Jordi Bada channel :

• {minut 13} Pirc contra e4 i India de Rey contra d4
• {minut 14} Francesa contra e4 i Holandesa contra d4

Pero encara que les estructures de peces siguin similars, els plans i/o objectius de cada obertura son ben diferents. Així, també ens cal un estudi dels plans de cada obertura.

Explicitar diferencies :

• entre sicilianes :
  • Najdorf Sicilian
  • Sicilian Scheveningen
  • Sicilian Paulsen
  • Sicilian Taimanov
  • Sicilian Richter Rauzer
  • Sicilian Kan
• entre francesa i Caro-Kann - com recolzar d5
  • francesa 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 - el peo de d5 es recolza amb e6
  • Caro-Kann 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 - el peo de d5 es recolza amb c6

	Scheveningen
	Najdorf

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Got :

• "My system", by Nimzowich. {sagpdf}, 48 MB. [es], {sagpdf}, 8 MB. djvu

• Watson los secretos de la estrategia moderna (1998) {sagpdf}

• Reuben Fine (1949), "The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings" - {sagpdf}, 9 MB

• Yasser Seirawan, "Winning Chess Openings" - {sagpdf}, 9 MB

• Staunton, "The Blue Book of Chess" - here or {sagpdf}, 350 KB

• Capablanca, "Chess Fundamentals" - here or {sagpdf}, 12 MB
  qualificat per Mikhaïl Botvínnik com "el millor llibre d'escacs mai escrit"

• Edward Lasker, "Chess Strategy" : {sagpdf}

• Petrosian system against QID

• Modern Chess Openings - tinc el del 39 !!!

• Jesús de la Villa - 100 Endgames You Must Know - {sagpdf}, [es] Los 100 finales que hay que saber - {sagpdf}

• The Seeds of Tactical Destruction - Dan Heisman

• "The Art of Attack in Chess" by Vukovic (a classic!) - here or my gDrive or {sagpdf}

• táctica : Kurt Richter, "Combinaciones en ajedrez" {sagpdf} + gDrive - Un tratado de la táctica del medio juego con 404 ejemplos prácticos

• Reuben Fine : "Basic Chess Endings" (1941) - {sagpdf}, 29 MB

• "The Method in Chess", by Iossif Dorfman - the real talent is the hability to work hard
  • Part 1: The elements
  • Part 2: King safety
  • Part 3: Material correlation I
  • Part 4: Material correlation II
  • Part 5: Outposts
  • Part 6: The static balance
  • Part 7: Playing according to the balance
  • Part 8: Which pawn structure to play for?
  • Part 9: Static vs. dynamic play

• "Zurich 53" by Bronstein - 210 games - got "david-bronstein-zurich-international-chess-tournament-1953.pdf". La final Botvinnik - Smyslov (24 games)

• Entrenamiento de elite II - Yusupov i Dvoretsky

See my gDrive {j*ume.p*re.puny*tes@g*.com}

• Alekhine - mis mejores partidas {sagpdf}

• Botvinnik - "estrategia I (1923-1941) II (1942-1956) i III (1957-1970)" - ISBN 978-84-92517-16-9

• Capablanca - lecciones elementales de ajedrez {sagpdf} - iniciación al ajedrez

• Capablanca - fundamentos del ajedrez {sagpdf}

• Nimzowich - mi sistema {sagpdf}

• Mikhail Shereshevsky, "Endgame Strategy", 1985, ISBN = 0-08-029746-3
  From ch warez, 1 i 2 - got it here, 5,75 GB

• 2 llibres JB - modern interpretation of 2 systems
  • New Sicilian Dragon, The - Williams, Simon
  • New Old Indian - Cherniaev, Alexander & Prokuronov, Eduard

• 20200127 : Ajedrez bajo la superficie, Jan Markos

• 20220215 : la idea en ajedrez, Sharjan Guliev {see c. Francisco Giner, 42. Lunes a Viernes 16-20 h.} - 20220331, SAG

• easily the best reference is Mikhail Krasenkov's The Open Spanish, Cadogan 1995 {sagpdf}, 16 MB

• the best Schliemann reference, by far, is V. L. Ivanov's and A. Kulagin's Play the Schliemann Defense, Olbrich 1994 {pend}

• best books on practical endgames ever written -- "Endgame Strategy" by Mikhail Shereshevsky
  42 games {pend}

• if you wish to study openings in greater depth
  • "Chess Openings For Juniors" by J. N. Walker is a very good introduction to opening play
  • more advanced : Gabor Kallai's "Basic Chess Openings" and "More Basic Chess Openings"

• Caro Kann : "Práctica de ajedrez magistral", match Botvinnik- Tal, 1960, by Tal - {sagpdf}
  21 partides, pgn

Coneguts :

• M. Blokh, Combinational Motifs, ISBN 5900965325. Exercicis : {sagpdf} : 1 a 102 {20140815}
• "Manual de jugadores avanzados" de Miguel Suetin.
• "Winning Chess Tactics" by Seirawan & Silman
• Nigel Povah's "How to Play the English Opening" - (pathtochessmastery)
• "Starting Out: The Caro-Kann" by Joe Gallagher - (pathtochessmastery)
• Peter Romanovsky, "Middlegame Planning"
• Mihai Suba’s excellent book, "Dynamic Chess Strategy"
• otro libro interesante : "Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games", 1994 ( ISBN 1884822312) Laszlo Polgar.

Llibres gratix (chesszone, DJVU format).

If you want more detailed works, you should check out:

• Dvoretsky’s endgame manual
• "Fundamental chess endings" by Muller and Lamprecht
• "Practical endgame play – beyond the basics" by Flear
• "Basic chess endings" by Fine

A couple of old but very fun easy to read endgame books are:

• "Practical endgame play" by Reinfeld
• "Capablanca’s best chess endings" by Chernev

If you are after a more thinking man’s approach to the endgame:

• The classic "Endgame strategy" by Mikhail Shereshevsky is highly recommended.
• "Chess endgame lessons" (books 1 & 2) by Benko are great, but very hard to find.
• "Technique for the tournament player" by Dvoretsky and Yusupov is excellent, but advanced.

If you want to study specific areas of the endgame: Any from the old (but wonderful) Averbakh series are great (ROOK v. MINOR PIECE ENDINGS, PAWN ENDINGS, QUEEN AND PAWN ENDINGS, BISHOP ENDINGS, QUEEN v. ROOK/MINOR PIECE ENDINGS, KNIGHT ENDINGS, etc.), and John Emms’ the SURVIVAL GUIDE TO ROOK ENDINGS is also high on every list.

Finally we come to "The final countdown" by Hajenius and Van Riemskijk. I love the title, but I think it was a bad marketing ploy since most people likely thought it was an end of the world thriller. In reality, it’s all about King and pawn endgames. For the most part it’s quite advanced, and the many tiny numbers and symbols on various squares (key squares) can be quite daunting. However, it’s a delight to read and is one of my favorite books.

Russian system for training children.
I would highly recommend Lev Alburt's series, The Comprehensive Chess Course series. The first two volumes, Comprehensive Chess Course Vol 1 and Volume 2, deal with the basics.

ICC Every Russian Schoolboy Knows (video), as Alex Yermolinsky learned

• cómo he podido hacer semejante jugada ?
• no evaluamos primero la posición y después buscamos jugadas - todo sucede al mismo tiempo
• Capablanca : si usted ve una buena jugada, hágala !
  If you see a good move, sit on your hands: you'll find a better one - E. Lasker
• somos en gran medida dependientes de alguna suerte de generador de jugadas que claramente no forma parte de nuestro proceso de pensamiento consciente

106 Seirewan at Saint Louis Chess Club

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• "escac + 3" - en fer jo una jugada, he de escriure 3 possibles jugades del meu rival

• avaluador On-Line - in: partida en PGN; out: millor jugada. Sense GUI !

  Alex (10 €), Smart Chess (20 USD), NagaSkaki (free).

• com "fullejar" LatvianGambit.pgn ? WinBoard !

• estudiar Siciliana amb 2 cavalls sense P3TD del negre

• Benko opening (1.g3) url

• buscar un bon llibre de "millors atacs al enroc, w/o fianchetto"

• Maroczy ...

• idees bàsiques en una Arkangelsk

• Evans gambit

• french defense + Spassky Qg4 as white

• como crear un peon pasado

• ataque al enroque

• como hacer "mate"

  • 13 mates que debes conocer
    • 2 piezas mayores en el ultimo rango
    • 2 peones
    • octava fila
    • en diagonal (alfil i dama)
    • rey inmovilizado
    • alfil y caballo contra fianchetto
    • Anastasia (caballo y torre)
    • dos alfiles
    • alfil y dama en clavada
    • alfil y dama contra fianchetto
    • torre y dama en columna abierta
    • rey y dama
    • torre y alfil (mate de Morphy)

• active king
• using an outside passed pawn
• creating an outside passed pawn
• king and pawn vs king
• 2 extra pawns
• using extra pawn
• bishop and knight versus rook

• georgia chess :

  Kasparov vs Vukic, 1980

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• Chess, like love and music, has the power to make people happy - Tarrasch

• When you don't see good moves, you start playing bad moves

• "Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyze. A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. The attention is here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed, resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers."
  An excerpt from "Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe. ThinkChess (soft)

• patzer - a poor or amateurish chess player

• Els escacs son un joc per la seva forma, un art pel seu contingut i una ciència per la seva dificultat - T. Petrosian

• Winning isn't everything; a good game is. [TRP40@RHP]

• "Chess is a sea in which a gnats may drink and an elephants may bathe" - indian proverb, from mr Zug - (gnat = mosquit, mosca petita)

• el talento tiene una ventaja: el derecho a trabajar más duro que los demás

• Never meet a threat with a threat = nunca respondas a una amenaza con una amenaza

• cuidado despues de cometer un error : estas a punto de cometer otro

El GM armeni Guènrikh Kasparian :

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• Para retransmitir las partidas en directo, los torneos actualmente utilizan los tableros electrónicos DGT, los cuales son elegantes y muy confiables, aunque también muy costosos. Un nuevo sistema, creado por una compañía israelí llamada Chess Vision, es una aplicación que puede ser instalada en cualquier teléfono o dispositivo electrónico. Si el árbitro permite montar el teléfono encima del tablero, el programa utiliza software de procesamiento de imágenes para identificar las jugadas y crear un archivo PGN. Esto permitirá la apertura de muchas más partidas al mundo de la retransmisión online y de las bases de datos.
  startUp : Eliyahu Sivaks, Co-founder & CTO ; Eliyahu Sivaks, Co-founder & CTO

  Jo vull fer una app pel Android, en python webcan, pero funciona millor Chessify

  Similar :

  • chess eye
  • neural chessboard
  • Chessify

• search for people's games/buscar partides de la gent :

  • Yota chess , as Travesset's

  • ChessGames, as : Botvinnik as Black (dutch A93), MMP (151)

  • chess-db - (u s@g.c) tons of games, everybody's games, as Bosco (219). JB (90), Ramon (9), JAMC (1), Miguel Munoz Pantoja (404), jaume Ros (135) games,

  • chesstempo : Miguel Munoz : 26x C22 !

  • chess-results.com

  • escacs.cat [JB = 7 partides]

  • biggest database

  • 365 players, as Ricardo Vidal

• opening explorers :
  • Chess Games - with "notable" games attached [u=bo-not,p=ya$]
  • chess-db {u = s-anet/ya$(8)}
  • 365chess [RamonetNet/ya$(8)] - renovat i maco !
  • Gameknot, with names by move ! [rtta/ya$(3)]
  • Chess Tempo {***} openings by move, by name {s-net/$=(13)}
  • Chess.com - nice interface {***} [/]

• Chessgames : find games by player names, ECO code, etc. [% & socis] + Opening Explorer, login {premium only} & search over 445.000 chess games (by name, year, etc), game of the day

• Chess Tempo {****} : aperturas, BB DD partidas, tactica

• ChessCorner : Opening Survey - taulers, continuacions habituals, etc. [***]

• Analysis board at chess.com

• Apertures : nomenclatura ECO i búsqueda [*****]

• Wikipedia : ECO apertures, classificació ECO (numèrica).

• Obertures :
  • llista
  • WikiBook : teoria de apertures
  • Wiki basic openings

• learn chess

• Igor Smirnov - Effecient Calculation Techniques. Intuitive decisions => unstable results ! Constant good results -> well-defined thinking algorithm.
  Classical books : typical combos or analysis of GM's games.

• problemas, aprender a jugar, aperturas, finales, celadas, mates, etc etc etc

Per poder fer "Paste" en un viewer on-line, la partida ha de estar escrita en anglès !

Full PGN headers :

PGN viewers :

• ChessX - free chess database and PGN viewer {Linux}
• Penguin
• Xboard sources
• WinBoard - all progs, this one. Get v 4.7.3 [***]
• On-Line :
  • Lutanho
  • Chess Tempo
  • chess poster - paste your game !
  • paste your game and let StockFish analyze it !
• chess-db + db (ftp)

at C:\sebas\miscosas\escacs\eines\pgn-extract we have : PGN extractor :

• pgn-extract homepage, help

• huge-man

• how to install :
  $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install pgn-extract {mars, 20220819}

• all packages, focal = version 20, AMD architecture :
  You should be able to use any of the listed mirrors by adding a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list like this: deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main universe

• get pgn-extract_19.04-1_amd64.deb and install :
  $ sudo dpkg -i package_file.deb

• extract into 1.pgn, 2.pgn, etc :
  $ pgn-extract -#1 Sants_Ronda1-2-3.pgn

• PGN player - paste your game !

• chess24
• chesstempo

Amb cavall i 6 peons guanya alfil i 6 peons : A32, NY 1964

Inventor del Chess960 !

Play it at lichess : "play" + "create game" + "variant := Chess960"

Siciliana, Benoni

MI amb 10 anys 10 mesos i 9 dies, aca "Prag"

Дубов, Даниил Дмитриевич

L'any 2020, guanya al 1er i al 2on del campionat de Russia, pero perd amb el 3er (Fedosseyev) i 6e :

• Dubov vs Nepomniachtchi , Russian Championship Superfinal (2020), Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange Variation (D85), 1-0

• Dubov vs Karjakin , Russian Championship Superfinal (2020), Italian Game: Classical Variation. Center Attack (C53) - queen sacrifice, 1-0
  1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. b4 Bb6 7. e5 Ne4 8. Bd5 Nxc3 9. Nxc3 dxc3 10. Bg5 Ne7 11. O-O h6 12. Bh4 O-O 13. Re1 Qe8 14. Bb3 a5 15. Bf6 a4 16. Bc4 Ng6 17. Qd3 d5 18. exd6 Be6 19. Qxg6 fxg6 20. Rxe6 Qf7 21. Bxc3 Kh8 22. Re4 Qf5 23. Re7 Rg8 24. Bxg8 Rxg8 25. dxc7 Qc2 26. Be5 Bxf2+ 27. Kh1 Bb6 28. h3 Kh7 29. Re1 a3 30. Kh2 g5 31. Nd4 Qc4 32. Nf5 Qxb4 33. Rc1 Kg6 34. Rxg7+ Kxf5 35. Rxg8 Bxc7 36. Bxc7 Qb2 37. Rc5+ Ke4 38. Rd8 1-0

• Fedoseev vs Dubov , Russian Championship Superfinal (2020), Italian Game: General (C50), 1-0

• Nodirbek Abdusattorov , born 2004

• Javokhir Sindarov , born 2005

I el guanyador és ... ?
... Radjabov ... Karjakin

El GM mes jove : S. Karjakin

• Joshua Waitzkin, film

• Sergey Karjakin

• Magnus Carlsen

• Firouzja

• Nodirbek Abdusattorov

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• Magnus Carlsen at Lichess : Dr Cahmpionstein, twitch channel (MaskenIssen)

• Kramnik's homepage

• Alexandra Kosteniuk official site. Lots of videos.

• mestre de la tàctica : Mikhail Tahl - sacrifici de dama vs Suetin, 1969 - vaja parell d'alfils ! Others : Fischer, Kasparov.

• mestres del joc posicional : Petrossian, Karpov.

• GM Aman Hambleton plays vs GM Joey

• Zhigalko, Sergei

youtube 7 + 3

• 10 {08:30} - Tahl - Suetin 1969 : 20.Qxe5
• 9 {13:15} - Bukhuti Gurgenidze - Tahl 1957 : 14...Nxf2
• 8 {20:00} - Tahl - Simagin 1956 : 12.Nxf7, 15.Rb1
• 7 {25:30} - Bobotsov - Tahl 1958 : 11...Nxd5, 20...c3
• 6 {32:20} - Tahl - Smyslov 1959 (Caro-Kann) : 14.Qh4
• 5 {40:00} - Tahl vs Hans-Joachim Hecht 1962 (Queens Indian) : 19.exf6, 21.Bf5
• 4 {45:54} - Mikhail Tahl vs Alexander Koblents, Riga 1957 (Sicilian) : bogeria total
• 3 - Botvinnik - Tahl 1960 (english, kings indian)
• 2 -
• 1 -

Fa un enroc llarg super-rapid, Tahl vs Koblents 1957 :

Tambe a Tahl vs Koblents 1961 :

Vugar is among the most wonderful people I ever had the pleasure to meet. The strong emotional bond we developed transformed quickly into a deep love, we were not only a couple, but also best friends. To this day all I know about chess are the basic rules, and I haven't yet played in a proper game of chess. Chess never played a preeminent role in our relationship, yet Vugar's successes and his Elo rating bear testimony to his outstanding talent for the game.

Being a layperson in this area myself, I could neither assess the course of chess tournaments, nor their results, like a professional player might have been able to. I was always very proud of Vugar's talent and abilities in this field, but more than that I saw his other positive traits, which were even greater than every single brilliant chess game he played. Vugar was a level-headed person who always put more emphasis on the well-being of others than his own. He was a person with a great sense of beauty and aesthetics, a person, who could find joy in the simple things of life – always with a smile on his face. For him, happiness meant making other people happy. Vugar was a thoughtful person with a lot of interests: he was a person with an affinity for everything cultural, he composed poems and loved philosophizing about life, listening to music for hours on end, interpreting song lyrics, telling anecdotes, and playing tennis and FIFA on his computer.

A few weeks before he was diagnosed with having a "recurrent, malignant brain tumor" he made a dream of his come true: he learned to play the piano. Since then he played the piece "River flows in you", which he was able to learn in this short amount of time, for me on several occasions. My joy and enthusiasm turned into a state of shock very quickly after learning about his diagnose, and only Vugar's fighting spirit and optimism could alleviate this. Even at times when Vugar was burdened mentally or physically he offered me a shoulder to lean on.

I remember well when he was about to go into surgery at the hospital in Bonn: he had a smile on his face. Two days later, when he returned from the ICU to his room, same thing: he had a smile on his face. One can very well describe Vugar's nature with words like humor, vitality and openness, and that is exactly how he will remain in my memory.

Vugar, I have never loved a man as much as I have loved you. Thank you for the countless, wonderful moments, that I had the honor to share with you. You will always be with me in my heart, accompanying me every step of the way, and my memories of you will brighten my days and give me courage.

Vugar, you were an amazing person! Thank you.

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• Tata Steel chess tournament at Wijk aan Zee (January) -

  2021 : Esipenko, Andrey - Carlsen, Magnus [1-0] - bio

• Sochi 2014

• AeroFlot & results.

• Norway 2020

• Russian championship (all)

• Sunway a Sitges , 12.12.2021 - 23.12.2021

• Gukesh 2732 - Tari 2642, London system

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• Fischer book "My 60 Memorable Games", published in 1969

• el club mes complert : Exeter {*****}

• nezhmet - interesting games that are not yet part of electronic databases

• un semanari molt complert : the week in chess

• unica revista en castellà : Peón de Rey
  pdf.ar

• chessmaestro.ru

• chess bomb - munts de resultats i partides

• Chess News in russian or english

• Articles, openings, quite interesting site : Kenil Worth chess club

• Master Chess Open - All Chess Openings + Tactics & End Games. Tricks and Traps, checkmate training (as "28 Checkmate Patterns you need to know") etc etc

• Informant yugoslavo

• Few pdf chess books - gracias, Roberto ! {gone 201703}

• Jugar Mejor !

• Noticies diaries : AjedrezNF, Chess Base,

• Wiki's "Chess Strategy" ; Opening Theory in chess

• Ajedrez espectacular [***]

• K vs K (ru)

• Chessz Vibes

• Chess World - nice articles

• British Chess Magazine

• bons clubs, amb bons articles :

  • Kenilworth

  • Exeter

  • Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis YouTube channel; ALL playlists, as Jonathan Schrantz [***]

    With teachers as Varuzhan Akobian on Carlsen vs. Li Chao, Qatar 2015, "Chao down" or Tactics and Important Ideas , Alejandro Ramírez on Tactics Training Session, Ben Finegold (divertit) or Mike Kummer (divertit, però fa classes molt bàsiques, moltes vegades per nens, li agrada la sang i fetge en els escacs)

    Gracies, Ramón !

• Canals de YouTube d'escacs :
  • en Mato Jelic li encanta Tahl
  • Luis F Siles {gracies, Joan Bastida}
  • Олег Соломаха, en rus
  • Jordi Bada Enroque Corto, un crack !

• Mihail Tahl best games collection, as vs Dutch:
  1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bg5 Ne4 4.h4 Nxg5 5.hxg5 g6 6.Nc3 d5 7.Qd2 Bg7 8.Qf4 c6 9.O-O-O Qd6

• videos, as modern benoni

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• ChessTempo : dedicated to helping chess players improve their game. Exercicis tactics, finals ! u(dimoni/sag$5)

• chess 24 - site with nice videos, by Lawrence Trent, good comentarist. Watch few games (1h) Carlsen Giri, o Caruana Carlsen; RSS; Pepe Cuenca i el peó "facundo"; neveres

  Pepe Cuenca en la Copa Dicharachera 2018 : un francesa amb enroc llarg {minut 6}

  It uses HTML5 canvas fingerprinting instead of cookies to identify users

• Chess.com [535.505 users, 03/09] : Explorer + Openings + delete account. [/]

  En Dretch destrossa en GM Joey {*** partides increibles ***} -
  També en MinhGTrAn (VietNam)

  Un altre vietnamita : Minh Le i en Hiraku

  En Anton Demchenko guanya en Minh.

  Blitz Meister apallissa Genghis Khan.

  Eric Hansen és apallissat per en Joey !

  LexySexy es en Baadur Jobava, and this is what he does against a "boring" CaroKann :

  1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 de4 4. Ne4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bd3 10. Qd3 Ngf6 11. Bd2 e6 12. 0-0-0 Be7 13. Qe2 0-0 14. Kb1 c5 15. d5 ed5 16. Bh6 gh6 17. Nf5 Re8 18. Nh6 Kf8 19. Ng5 Qb6 20. Qf3 Ne5 21. Qg3 Bd6 22. Nf5 Qb2 23. Kb2 Nc4 24. Kb3 Bg3 25. h6 Na5 26. Ka4 b5 27. Ka5 Bc7 28. Kb5 Rab8 29. Ka4 Ne4 30. Rd5 Nc3 31. Ka3 Nb5 32. Kb2 Nd4 33. Kc3 Nb5 34. Kd3

  Lukasz Licznerski, gran lluita amb en Tamir Nabaty, gran fera atacant ! La bestia tambe te nivell.

  El Lovlas es un mestre, i tambe destrossa en Joey.

  Nakamura, David Smerdon, GM Francisco Vallejo Pons Timur Gareev. Yaacovn, homepage. Titas Stremavicius,

• Red Hot Pawn [185.680 jugadors (31/12/2006)] Flag index. Blitz requires "Port 1935 must be open".

• GameKnot [861.992 users, 03/09] {opening display}

• ChessColony ! [671.000 registered players]

  Bon programa per jugar Man vs Computer ...

• Play Chess.de {rakitik},

• Chess live {m.edra},

• Chess Corner ! [62.384 members]

• Lets Play Chess [450.000 members, mal lloc]

• Chess World ! [ IE only ]

lichess homepage, uTube channel

• API with NJS sample ! bot
  oAuth token for personal API

• hacked source code -> github :

  Lichess is written in Scala 2.13, and relies on the Play 2.8 framework. scalatags is used for templating. Pure chess logic is contained in the scalachess submodule. The server is fully asynchronous, making heavy use of Scala Futures and Akka streams. WebSocket connections are handled by a separate server that communicates using redis. Lichess talks to Stockfish deployed in an AI cluster of donated servers. It uses MongoDB to store more than 1.7 billion games, which are indexed by elasticsearch. HTTP requests and WebSocket connections can be proxied by nginx. The web client is written in TypeScript and snabbdom, using Sass to generate CSS. The blog uses a free open content plan from prismic.io. All rated games are published in a free PGN database. Browser testing done with Browserstack. Proxy detection done with IP2Proxy database.

  April fools! Lichess wasn't "hacked" but we do make all our source code available for everyone, and we always have.

• companys de SB :
  • Aglaiarion - Africa Gonzalez
  • asacopaco - Dani Reyes
  • badals - Jordi Bada
  • boig88 - Oskar Prats
  • damoma - Dani Moreno
  • doraemon87 - Ramon Chalmeta
  • Fast_fingers - Alejandro Casaus
  • ferrosantboi - Miquel Castells
  • javigon - Javi Gonzalez, pare Afrika
  • Jmjordan35 - Josep Mª Jordan
  • J M Lucas - presi - 1780
  • jordiarkano - pare Mario
  • lohengrid - Miguel Angel Ramos
  • migamic - Jaume Ros - 2000
  • pastrami54 - Joana Ros - 2003
  • Pokachu - Bea
  • RamonRos - Ramon Ros
  • sumicat - Miguel Muñoz {gone}
  • Whis1709 - Alejandro -
  • xustimario - Mario

• GM Joey {closed 202205}, wiki , chessgames (341 games)

• Magnus Carlsen

• Svidler

• Andrew Tang

• Minh Le, Brandon Jacobson, Dmitry Andreikin

• Eric Rosen,

  Knight and Bishop and Pawn better that Queen

• Igor Kovalenko , 111 del mon

• On-Line : Visual !

• Jugar Jchess (java)

• Jugar On-Line

Tal had the congenital deformity of ectrodactyly in his right hand. Despite this, he was a skilled piano player.

From BCN 1992 all 1992 games, as winning Kasparov (by time) !

La seva darrera partida - visor :

En rus, Barcelona 92 :

You can watch it here

• Tal vs. Alexander Tolush, USSR Championship, Moscow 1957, King's Indian Defence, Sämisch Variation (E81)
• Boris Spassky vs. Tal, USSR Championship, Riga 1958, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Sämisch Variation (E26)
• Tal vs. Vasily Smyslov, Yugoslavia Candidates' Tournament 1959, Caro–Kann Defence (B10)
• Robert James Fischer vs. Tal, Belgrade, Candidates' Tournament 1959, Sicilian Defence, Fischer–Sozin Attack (B87)
• Mikhail Botvinnik vs. Tal, World Championship Match, Moscow 1960, 6th game, King's Indian Defence, Fianchetto Variation, Classical Main line (E69)
• István Bilek vs. Tal, Moscow 1967, King's Indian Attack, Spassky Variation (A05)
• Boris Spassky vs. Tal, Tallinn tt 1973, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Leningrad Variation (E30)
• Tal vs. Tigran Petrosian, 8th Soviet Team Cup, Moscow 1974, rd 5, Pirc Defence, Classical System, (B08)

1984-85, WCC index - notable games :

• 9a ronda, D34 : Karpov gave a master class in why knights are sometimes better than bishops in endings

In 2013 the candidates were :

Magnus Carlsen	Vladimir Kramnik	Levon Aronian	Teimour Radjabov
Alexander Grischuk	Vasily Ivanchuk	Peter Svidler	Boris Gelfand

wikipedia : 6 ½ / 3 ½

chesspro.ru

wikipedia : 6 ½ / 4 ½

chesspro.ru

wikipedia : 6/6 with 1 win each, then 1/3 on rapid chess

chesspro.ru

Read ajedrez21 blog, read chessgames : see 16 games+, go wiki

Victories :

• C-K, 0-1 - D05 Rubinstein opening
• C-K, 1-0 - C65 spanish game, Berlin defense, "Turkey Grinder"
• K-C, 0-1 - rapides, C78 spanish game, Martinez variation
• C-K, 1-0 - rapides, B54 Sicilian defense, Prins variation, "Navigating the Rapids", 50.Dh6+ !!

Here is what they got :

Hunon Chess amb noms de obertures, get wchcand18.pgn

live.chessbase.com - totes les partides comentades - get "all.pgn"

chess 24

Chess Games

wiki, World Chess , Hunonchess, Chess Games, chess.com

wikipedia : 6/6 by 12 draws, then 3/0 on rapid-chess

chesspro.ru

chess.com, tot

Rd 5, Nepomniachtchi vs Hao : Petrov

Se disputará entre el 24 de noviembre y el 16 de diciembre de 2021, en Dubai, Emiratos Árabes Unidos.

• chess.com amb comentaris [en]

• directe chesspro.ru [ru] : tauler amb comentaris escrits - 1a , 9a

• watch chess24 , tauler (1) + Pepe Cuenca (PC) ; (2) + PC ; chess FM Illescas ; (3) + PC ; (4) , (5) , (6) , (7) , (8) , (9) , 9th game press conf , (10) , (11)

• FIDE official site

wiki

chess24

Comentari 1a ronda, ronda 4

chess24, lichess

Defensa siciliana, variante Taimanov

Непомнящий vs Дин

FIDE homepage - the champion is determined in 14 games and a tiebreak in case of a tie

• chess24 (all)

• directe (1), Matamoros i Ibarra
  (2), GM Viswanathan Anand and GM Irina Krush
  (2) en rus - Олег Соломаха

• game 5 Anish

• game 8 Anish Giri

• Pepe Cuenca game 10, game 14

• game 14 Caruana

Desempat :

• angles
• castellà

Homepage, wiki, chess results - quadre, chess games - partides

Round 3 : Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi vs Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa : Schliemann Defense Deferred - chessgames

Round 8 : Gujrathi 0 - 1 Gukesh - defensa dels 4 cavalls : 29.c5 i cau tot

With the draw, Gukesh won the tournament and the right to play for the title against Ding Liren later in 2024.

lichess Ding, Liren vs Gukesh

FIDE homepage, chess.com, wiki ; all games chessgames, chess.com

Javokhir Sindarov won the World Championship Candidates (2026), earning the right to challenge reigning world champion Dommaraju Gukesh for the title in late 2026.

• Javokhir Sindarov vs Fabiano Caruana, ronda 4, guanya Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense. Steinitz Development Variation (D26). analisi maquina

Top

• how do you learn to know, to feel the type of position that comes after the opening ?

• what if, with every move I do, I write down my move and also the move I foresee my oponent will do ? (or a list of 3)

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• ECO codes wikipedia, Siberia

• Norway 2018 chessgames blitz

• Enciclopedia pratica dei Gambetti

• Ara els GMs juguen a Avalon o Go : mr Morozevitch

• Aronian guanya Kramnik - Oslo Juny 2017 - rus

• Torneig candidats 2013 @ London, 2016 @ Moscow - homepage

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  Campionat del Mon, 2016, at chessgames
  Pepe Cuenca, siempre genial : 9a

• Russos : Federació Russa [ru, ***]; chesspro.ru [ru, ***]; Chess Siberia, as Tata Steel 2017

• Pepe Cuenca at Tehran : Tan Zhongyi vs Anna Muzychuk

• Capablanca at Cuba

• Chess Arch index

• Chess Cafe, nice site. Lots of PDF in archives

• Kingston chess, another nice site.

• Kchess

• Graduate chess (PC)

• Thinking Machine 6 - [Java] accepta el Gambit de Rei ...

• variants :
  • pychess.org

• Fritz

• escola EDAMI, Illescas - Fco Giner, 42

  Has a Java Blitz Chess Server@216.218.132.82 ! Java Applet + "TCP ports 4001-4003"
  Bona gent : mrzazou, nimzofishbait. El meu capi. 2000 congrats : dgould, dispirit ;

  TELNET 216.218.132.82 4002 HELLO: 104

  Up to 6 games initially, plus 1 additional game for each 4 wins (any rated games), up to 12 games total maximum;

• Chess servers :
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  • WinBoard - Cliente de FICS. Visor de partidas PGN

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  • PlayChess [*****] Installs http://www.fritzserver.org/PlayChessSetup.exe
    You have full access for 30 days. You can then purchase a serial number for one year or continue to play as guest for an unlimited time for free.

  • Tim-Mann's list of them ...

• De pago :

  • ChessClub - 1 any = 60 USD.

  • PlayChess, ChessBase - 1 any = 30 €.

• Classificació ECO 365Chess, Chess Arch.

• Wiki's Basic Openings

• MCO = modern chess openings

• FICGS = Free Internet Correspondence Games Server + Wiki Chess

• Links by opening

• just tons of good links

• Chess is fun ! (Jon Edwards, Princeton)

• WatchBot

• Kramnik vs Fritz ! (4-4)

• World Championship games (java)

• Great players - bios and fotos

• ChessMix - site by 47-year old Bulgarian GM Ventzislav Inkiov (current FIDE Elo 2478)

• rec.games.chess.computer

• FoxWoods Open [daromott]

• TCEC = Thoresen chess engines competition

• Qué és el "Hiarcs 10" ? Manufacturer : ChessBase. ELO (SSDF): 2856 Athlon 1200 MHz
  HIARCS 11 leads CCRL FRC rating list with ELO 2896

  Homepage

• Rybka 2.3; wiki.

• AlphaZero and TPUs, is an AI accelerator application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) developed by Google specifically for neural network machine learning

  

  Download Rybka 1.0 (32 bits) free : 2809 ELO ! Install instructions :

  • "ENGINE" then "CREATE UCI ENGINE"
  • click on "..." and go to "Rybka.exe"

  Vasik Rajlich - author of Rybka, problems and controversy

• Pàgina monstre - RusChess Aquí tenim ... Campionats del Món i de la URSS.

• A. Kotov : (Old Indian, A55)
  1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nf3 Nbd7 4.Nc3 e5 5.e4 Be7 6.Be2 0-0 7.0-0 c6 8.Qc2 Re8 9.Rd1 Bf8 10.Rb1 a5 11.d5 Nc5 12.Be3 Qc7 13.h3 Bd7 14.Rbc1 g6 15.Nd2 Rab8 16.Nb3 Nxb3 17.Qxb3 c5 18.Kh2 Kh8 19.Qc2 Ng8 20.Bg4 Nh6 21.Bxd7 Qxd7 22.Qd2 Ng8 23.g4 f5 24.f3 Be7 25.Rg1 Rf8 26.Rcf1 Rf7 27.gxf5 gxf5 28.Rg2 f4 29.Bf2 Rf6 30.Ne2 Qxh3+ 31.Kxh3 Rh6+ 32.Kg4 Nf6+ 33.Kf5 Nd7 34.Rg5 Rf8+ 35.Kg4 Nf6+ 36.Kf5 Ng8+ 37.Kg4 Nf6+ 38.Kf5 Nxd5+ 39.Kg4 Nf6+ 40.Kf5 Ng8+ 41.Kg4 Bxg5 42.Kxg5 Rf7 43.Bh4 Rg6+ 44.Kh5 Rfg7 45.Bg5 Rxg5+ 46.Kh4 Nf6 47.Ng3 Rxg3 48.Qxd6 R3g6 49.Qb8+ Rg8 0-1

• Blogs :

  • http://chesslodge.blogspot.com/

  • Bitácora
    La variante portuguesa de la defensa Escandinava, una de mis armas favoritas contra el peón de rey : 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Cf6 3.d4 Ag4!? 4.f3 Af5 5.Ad3 Axd3 6.Dxd3 Dxd5 7.c4 Dd7 8.Ce2 e6 9.0-0 Cc6 10.Ae3 0-0-0 11.a3?!

• Siciliana - noms de variants. A 2 E

• Anécdotas (y fotos)

• Apertures (mini intro)

• noms d'apertures per gent

• Chess rules : wiki, gameknot.
  • pawn promotion
  • castling
  • 2 hands
  • draw
  • touch-move

  Do you know 50-move rule ? And the Troitzky line ?
  Two knights versus pawn is sometimes called the "Halley's Comet" endgame.

• Alekhine's gun. Alekhine's grave : Montparnasse Cemetery, sector 8

• Marochess links

• el cap dels hiper-moderns : Aaron Nimzowich - My System {sagpdf}

• una partida magnífica : Karpov- Kasparov, 1985: B44, Siciliana. Ell té ... 22 anys ! Observeu la força de 16. ... Nd3 !!! [gracias, Javier]

• GM Sedlak (2605) - IM Sebenik (2484) - 26 Nov 2007

• English chess glossary.

• Draw with each opening (Kramnik)

• Guide to chess openings Improve your openings & Openings at a glance.

• EducaRed -> JaqueMate

• Chess Assistant -> ConVekta store.

• Apertura Sant Jordi !

• Halloween gambit (vs 4 cavalls) - 1. e4 e5, 2. Nf3 Nc6, 3. Nc3 Nf6, 4. Nxe5 - some thoughts

• Control de tiempo - sistema Fischer [gracias, Javier]

  Rellotges a ajedrez21 (c Francisco Giner, 42) :

  • "DGT 1001" de 20 eurus
  • DGT 2010 de 78 eurus
  • "DGT 3000" de 90 eurus

• Fischer Random Chess

• Per mesurar finals : Web Query for Nalimov Endgame Tablebases.

• GNU Chess
  gnuchess-5.07.tar.gz 07-Aug-2003 10:15 229K

• conceptos y partidas modelo sobre el ataque con enroques opuestos - ajedrez365, ajedrez365, ajedrez365

• los 100 patrones que hay que saber :
  • #1 el tapón de Karpov,
  • #2 el perro que no guarda la casa (el cavall del fianchetto),
  • #3 el caballo a la sombra del peón (bloqueando el avance),
  • #4 los caballos de Sterling (el C3c),
  • #5 Steinitz y el Rey de Plomo,
  • #6 las enseñanzas de Buda,
  • #7 la pistola de Alekhine,
  • #8 el servicio de habitaciones,

• Que és el "Silman method of imbalances" ?
  • material
  • bishops vs knights
  • pawn structure
  • development
  • initiative
  • space
  • open lines and weak squares

• Computer chess wiki -> Crafty : open source chess program ; FTP.

• Chess bot

• tabla de Flandes, tons of links. Bon index de apertures [****], amb visor i llista molt complerta. Increíble Cuadernos de Ajedrez ! {****}

• Armageddon - mètode per desempatar. Empat per les negres, que tenen menys temps. Common times are six minutes for White and five for Black, or five minutes for White and four for Black.

• CrazyHouse : CrazyAra - the neural crazyhouse chess engine - github

• website for programming chess engines

• Daily Chess - partides per tipus i per jugador

• Exeter Chess Club : improving at chess - a route through the maze (excelent pages)

• test your positional chess + do you really understand positional chess ?

• Las aperturas de ajedrez a modo de diagramas de flujo - está escrito en R y usa las librerías rchess y plyr.
  página de Steininger, Marshall best (pdf)

• els meus companys :

  • Dani Reyes al Prat, Primera Provicial grup VI (2020) - ELO 2140 ; Learn the Black Lion Opening ; partida fetiche vs Grigor Grigorov - email

  • J.J. Aoiz, FIDE ELO 2200, FIDE title : FIDE Master; 2216 FCE

    Club : "Foment Martinenc", divisió d'Honor, ELO 2211 [20160204]

    Search Chess Base for his games ... Or yottachess ... His metrics are here ... Una partideta ...

    Sants :

    1.- 85 92 CM Aoiz Linares Jose Javier 0 1 - 0 0 Tornay Gomez Raul 244 [1947] 1/1 2.- 4 6 GM Narciso Dublan Marc 1 1 - 0 1 CM Aoiz Linares Jose Javier 92 [2552] 1/2 3.- 57 92 CM Aoiz Linares Jose Javier 1 ½ - ½ 1 Nielsen Per 179 [2040] 1½/3 4.- 69 200 Rios Torondell Jaume 1½ ½ - ½ 1½ CM Aoiz Linares Jose Javier 92 [2017] 2/4 5.- 63 92 CM Aoiz Linares Jose Javier 2 1 - 0 2 Greis Bernhard 192 [2024] 3/5 6.- 50 156 CM Castells Briones Miquel 3 1 - 0 3 CM Aoiz Linares Jose Javier 92 [2077] 3/6 7.- 60 92 CM Aoiz Linares Jose Javier 3 ½ - ½ 3 Alonso Gonzalez Carlos 161 [2069] 3½/7 8.- 63 173 Schroer Marcel 3½ 1 - 0 3½ CM Aoiz Linares Jose Javier 92 [2048] 3½/8 9.- 83 305 Repiso Alvarez Jorge 4 1 - 0 3½ CM Aoiz Linares Jose Javier 92 [2035] 3½/9 10.- 99 92 CM Aoiz Linares Jose Javier 3½ ½ - ½ 3½ Garreta Martinez Albert 209 [1999] 4/10

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    (2) 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. e4 d6 4. d4 c5 5. dxc5 Qa5 6. Bd3 dxc5 7. e5 Nfd7 8. f4 Nc6 9. Nf3 a6 10. 0-0 Be7 11. Ne4 Qc7 12. Bb1 0-0 13. Qc2 Nb4 14. Qe2 b5 15. a3 Nc6 16. Rd1 Nd4 17. Nxd4 cxd4 18. Rxd4 Nc5 19. Be3 Bb7 20. Nd6 g6 21. Ba2 Bc6 22. R1 bxc4 23. Rdxc4 Bb5 24. Nxb5 axb5 25. R4c2 Rfc8 26. Qxb5 Rcb8 27. Qe2 Qb6 28. Qf2 Nd3 29. Bxb6 Nxf2 30. Bxf2 1-0

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    4 puntos de 10 posibles ... 3 de 5 en la primera mitad 1 de 5 en la segunda mitad Con blancas : 2 victorias, 3 empates. *** invicto *** Con negras : 1 empate, 4 derrotas. *** a mejorar ***

    Tambe juga el Campionat de Catalunya per equips (2008) amb el Barceloneta, a Primera Divisió, grup II. url

    Abril 2008 : III Obert Ateneu Colon

    Trepat - Aoiz [A77], 08.02.2009

    1.d4 Cf6 2.c4 e6 3.Cf3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Cc3 g6 7.Cd2 a6 8.a4 Cbd7 9.e4 Ag7 10.Ae2 0-0 11.0-0 Te8 12.Dc2 Dc7 13.Cc4 Cb6 14.Ce3 De7 15.Af3 Cbd7 16.Cc4 Ce5 17.Cxe5 Dxe5 18.g3 Ch5 19.Ag2 f5 20.exf5 Axf5 21.Dd1 Dd4 22.Ae3 Txe3 23.fxe3 Dxe3+ 24.Rh1 Cxg3+ 25.hxg3 Dh6+ 26.Rg1 Ad4+ 27.Tf2 Tf8 28.De1 Ad3 29.Cd1 Ac2 30.Rf1 Axd1 31.De6+ Rh8 32.Tf7 Dg7 33.Tf4 g5 34.Txf8+ Dxf8+ 35.Re1 Ah5 36.Rd2 Df2+ 37.Rd3 Ag6+ 38.Ae4 De3+ 39.Rc4 De2+ 0-1

    Una francesa interesante ...

    1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Qb6 5. a3 Nc6 6. Nf3 c4 7. Be2 Na5 8. Nbd2 Bd7 9. 0-0 Rc8 10. Rb1 Be7 11. h4 Nh6 12. g3 0-0 13. Kg2 f6 14. Rh1 Nf7 15. exf6 gxf6 16. Nf1 Nd6 17. Bh6 Rfd8 18. Ne3 Be8 19. h5 Nf7 20. Bf4 Bd6 21. Ng4 Be7 22. Nh6+ Kh8 23. Rh4 Nxh6 24. Bxh6 Bf7 25. Bf4 Bd6 26. Qd2 Rf8 27. Rbh1 Qd8 28. Bxd6 Qxd6 29. Qh6 Qe7 30. Rg4 Bg8 31. Nh4 1-0

    Yes, this is his preferred Queen's pawn game.

    Actualmente se está emitiendo un programa de radio sobre ajedrez, cien por cien ajedrez, los jueves de 22h a 23h en la 94.2 "Som Radio". Lo lleva un colega mío, Pepo Viñas, así que vamos a darle publicidad entre todos.

  • Jorge Adrián Pérez Grizia, yotta, FIDE , del club "La Cadena" (Segona Prov BCN (VIII) any 2009) acá "Ulises". [tf]

    Consulta FCE [codi 18.515] : 1823 @ 14-03-2009, 1953 @ 08-12-2009, 1979 @ 25042010, 2038 @ jul2010, 2052 @ 2011, ...
    FIDE 1972

    Buscar partides : chess-results + "Perez Grizia"
    2012, Ajedrez al instante,

    Francesa amb negres, C03, Tarrasch, 20120624 :

    1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 f5 4.e5 c5 5.c3 Nc6 6.Ngf3 Bd7 7.Bd3 g6 8.0-0 c4 9.Bc2 b5 10.Re1 Be7 11.Nf1 a5 12.Qe2 Qb6 13.Ne3 Nd8 14.g3 Ra6 15.Ng2 Kf8 16.Be3 h6 17.Nfh4 Be8 18.g4 Bxh4 19.Nxh4 Bf7 20.Qf3 Ne7 21.Kh1 Ke8 22.Rg1 Qb7 23.gxf5 exf5 24.Rg2 Re6 25.Rag1 Qc6 26.a4 b4 27.cxb4 axb4 28.b3 Rh7 29.Rc1 c3 30.Bd3 Kf8 31.Bb5 Qb6 32.Qh3 Be8 33.Nf3 Nf7 34.Ng5 Nxg5 35.Bxg5 Bxb5 36.axb5 Qxd4 37.Ra1 c2 38.Ra8 Kf7 39.Bxh6 c1=Q 40.Rg1 Rxh6 0-1

    Holandesa amb negres, A85, 20120508 :

    1.d4 g6 2.e3 Bg7 3.Nf3 f5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g3 c6 7.Bg2 a5 8.Qc2 0-0 9.0-0 Na6 10.a3 Be6 11.Qe2 h6 12.Rb1 Qd7 13.b4 axb4 14.axb4 Nc7 15.Bd2 g5 16.b5 Ne4 17.bxc6 bxc6 18.Rfd1 Ra3 19.Nxe4 fxe4 20.Ne1 Bg4 21.f3 exf3 22.Bxf3 Bxf3 23.Nxf3 Ne6 24.Bb4 Ra4 25.d5 cxd5 26.cxd5 Nc7 27.Kg2 Qg4 28.e4 Na6 29.h3 Qxf3 30.Qxf3 Rxf3 31.Kxf3 Nxb4 32.Kg4 Kf7 33.Rf1 Kg6 34.h4 h5 35.Kh3 g4 36.Kg2 Nd3 0-1

    Poco comun, A00, 20160711 :

    1.a3 Nf6 2.h4 e6 3.h5 h6 4.b4 d5 5.Bb2 Be7 6.e3 a6 7.d4 b6 8.Nd2 Nbd7 9.Bd3 Bb7 10.f4 Ne4 11.Ngf3 f5 12.Rh3 Rb8 13.Qe2 Ndf6 14.Ne5 Nxd2 15.Kxd2 Ne4 16.Bxe4 dxe4 17.Rg3 Bf6 18.Ng6 Rg8 19.Rd1 c5 20.Ke1 cxb4 21.axb4 Rc8 22.Rh3 b5 23.Kf2 Bd5 24.Ra1 Ra8 25.Bc3 Bc4 26.Qd1 Qc7 27.Be1 Kf7 28.g4 fxg4 29.Qxg4 Bd5 30.c3 a5 31.Ne5 Bxe5 32.Qg6 Ke7 33.dxe5 a4 34.Kg1 Raf8 35.Rh2 Kd7 36.Rd1 Kc6 37.Rxd5 Kxd5 38.Rd2 Kc6 39.Qxe6 Kb7 40.Rd7 Qxd7 41.Qxd7 Kb6 42.Qd6 Kb7 43.Qc5 Ra8 44.Qxb5 Kc7 45.Qc5 Kd7 46.Qd6 Ke8 47. Bh4 1-0

    Antonio Vega, presidente del "Club Cadena Escacs", interior de las Estrellas Altas, dentro del cruce entre las calles Mineria y Mare de Deu del Port. [tf]

    CADENA ESCACS AV PORT
    Ntra.Sra del Port, 389 interior
    08038 BARCELONA
    934313129
    Associació de Veïns Estrellas Altas

    Ateneu Colon, Agost 2009 amb ELO 1899.

    Sants, 1898 :

    70 215 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 0 ½ - ½ 0 Oliver Monfort Sergio 74 {1855} 66 78 Lorenzo Gallardo Eduard ½ 0 - 1 ½ Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 215 {1928} Española, v. cambio : 4.Axc6 39 215 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 1½ ½ - ½ 1½ Castillo Escario Yolanda 90 52 215 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 2 1 - 0 2 Alquezar Calpena Marc 75 28 48 Savignoni Eric 3 ½ - ½ 3 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 215 31 215 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 3½ 0 - 1 3 Rios Torondell Jaume 10 42 44 Mut Company Guillem 3½ 0 - 1 3½ Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 215 30 49 Avramov Petkov Plamen 4½ 0 - 1 4½ Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 215 18 215 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 5½ ½ - ½ 5½ Palau Fontanet David 25 22 43 Arnedo Ruiz Alberto 6 ½ - ½ 6 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 215 39/287 215 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian ESP Cadena 6½ 45½ 57 36½

    Octubre 2009, amb 1899 punts : 3 peons, Gracia.

    38 38 Muntane Rodrigo Josep Maria 0 0 - 1 0 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 97 {1974+} 22 97 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 1 1 - 0 1 Colom Andres Xavier 24 {2014+} 10 20 Delgadillo Torrico Felipe 2 1 - 0 2 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 97 {2038-} 23 97 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 2 0 - 1 2 Andreu Termes Frederic 33 {1988-} 34 97 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 2 ½ - ½ 2 Prats Cabaces Lluis 62 {1852=} 26 45 Schneider Ristol Alejandro 2½ ½ - ½ 2½ Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 97 {1943=} 30 97 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 3 1 - 0 3 Sanchez Rodriguez Jose Manuel 48 {1929+} 19 32 Torrents Ludewig Miguel 4 0 - 1 4 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 97 {1990+} 12 97 Perez Crizia Jorge Adrian 5 0 - 1 5 Jordan Garcia Jose Maria 25 {2013-}

    Resultats III Obert Internacional d'escacs Vila de Gràcia 2009 : 5 punts de 9

    VII Abierto Ciudad de La Plata - 2 de Noviembre 2014 : 4 punts de 9

  • Sergi Hostalot, del club "Gavà", ELO 1735. 03-2009 : 1797 També juga a Gràcia, Viladecans (2016 - ELO 1755), Mataro
    http://www.trespeons.com http://www.escacsgava.com http://www.ajedreznd.com http://www.buho21.com http://torreroja.com/cecastelldefels http://www.redhotpawn.com {MORPHY}

    També es dedica a la bona teca ! {Cabrera de Mar}

  • Bosco Prats, 2131 punts. Consulta ELO. 5 punts a Sitges en 9 partides ... Sabadell (Sept'2010).
    2012, Agost : Riga, Bulgària.
    Veure partides/ i resultats. 8 partides !

  • Ramón Ros Gorne, 1797 (cat), 1602 (fide) - CBUC, LitLove, AutoHotKey, intervac (home exchange) "pallus" @ chess.com ;

    Els seus fills juguen el Campionat de Catalunya! En Jaume queda 1er al Campionat Territorial de Barcelona - grup Baix Llobregat

    2012 : Jaume Ros Alonso (2000) - 3er a S-12 ; 2003@201306, sub-14 Joana Ros Alonso (2003) - 1a a S-10 ; 1894@201306, sub-10 2013 : Joana 3-a S-10 (16 absolut), Jaume 27-e S-14.

    

    2013 - fotos sub-10, sub-14, Jaume Joana ! Jaume Ros Alonso - 15e a S-14 ; Joana Ros Alonso - 4a a S-10 ;

    2014 : Joana S-12 (5,5 de 9, 19 de 91), Jaume S-14 (2on de 71, 7,5 de 9) Resultats. Jaume vs Povill :

    1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Bb4 7. Bd3 Nc6 8. Nde2 d5 9. cxd5 exd5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. 0-0 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Be7 13. Qc2 h6 14. Bh7 b5 15. Re1 Bb7 16. Nd4 Nxd4 17. cxd4 Qd6 18. Be4 Rc8 19. Qd3 Bxe4 20. Qxe4 Rc6 21. Ba3 Qxa3 22. Qxc6 Kd8 23. Rac1

    2015 : Ametlla : Joana es Sub-12, Jaume Sub-16.

    Tambe van a Esparraguera, i també al memorial Lorente de St Boi (15+5), amb la Ana Matnadze (2503) (blog) i en Josep Oms (2537) i en Roberto Segura (feina)

    Video promocional del torneig XXVIII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi – Memorial Mateu Chalmeta [bonissima !!!]

    Joana @ campionat d'Espanya sub-10 2013 a Salobreña ; resultats - guaita que fa en 7 jugades :

    1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Ne7 4.Bd3 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Nbc6 6.c3 g6 7.Nf6#
    
    Salobreña 2014 (Ffox only) class Joana Jaume
    Salobreña 2016 : feda.org, info64, chess24 : 1 (+1), 3 (+1),

    Jaume @ campionat d'Espanya sub-14 2013 a Salobreña ; resultats. El seu entrenador : Angel Martin. Resultats Salobreña 2014.

    Estiuegen jugant a Pic Anie !

    XIV Open Internacional de Sants, Hostafrancs i la Bordeta - Grup B - 2012 :

    M. No Nom Gr Elo Pts Res. Pts Nom Gr Elo No Rd. 1 50 46 Sanz Serrano Alvar 2031 1873 0 1 - 0 0 Ros Gorne Ramon 1769 1614 194 Rd. 2 137 194 Ros Gorne Ramon 1769 1614 0 1 - 0 0 Andreu Centelles Antonio Ernes 1700 0 285 Rd. 3 84 98 Calderon Alzate Ivan Alejandro 1989 1773 1 1 - 0 1 Ros Gorne Ramon 1769 1614 194 Rd. 4 92 194 Ros Gorne Ramon 1769 1614 1 0 - 1 1 Beaskoa Estany Gabriel 1992 1843 56 Rd. 5 122 233 Gomez De Argila Lluis 1748 1513 1 ½ - ½ 1 Ros Gorne Ramon 1769 1614 194 Rd. 6 123 194 Ros Gorne Ramon 1769 1614 1½ 1 - 0 1½ Espinoza Eduardo 1900 263 Rd. 7 90 102 Garcia Ruiz Adrian 1877 1766 2½ ½ - ½ 2½ Ros Gorne Ramon 1769 1614 194 Rd. 8 95 105 Sinyol Monne Lluis 1814 1758 3 1 - 0 3 Ros Gorne Ramon 1769 1614 194 Rd. 9 103 194 Ros Gorne Ramon 1769 1614 3 1 - 0 3 Fischetti Luciano 1772 99 Rd 10 81 194 Ros Gorne Ramon 1769 1614 4 1 - 0 4 Salvador Munoz Jose Maria 1901 1713 135

    O també

    Rd. M. No.Ini. Nombre FIDE EloN FED Club/Ciudad Pts. Res. 1 50 46 Sanz Serrano Alvar 1873 1881 ESP Peona i Peo 7.0 s 0 - perd amb negres 2 137 285 Andreu Centelles Antonio Ernes 0 0 ESP Sant Feliu 2.5 w 1 - guanya amb blanques 3 84 98 Calderon Alzate Ivan Alejandro 1773 1783 ESP Catalunya 6.0 s 0 - perd amb negres 4 92 56 Beaskoa Estany Gabriel 1843 1831 ESP Peona i Peo 5.5 w 0 - perd amb blanques 5 122 233 Gomez De Argila Lluis 1513 0 ESP Tres Peons 3.5 s ½ - empata amb negres 6 123 263 Espinoza Eduardo 0 1900 PER 3.0 w 1 - guanya amb blanques 7 90 102 Garcia Ruiz Adrian 1766 1729 ESP Jake 4.0 s ½ - empata amb negres 8 95 105 Sinyol Monne Lluis 1758 1773 ESP Catalunya 5.0 s 0 - perd amb negres 9 103 99 Fischetti Luciano 1772 0 ITA Il Cervo Parma 3.5 w 1 - guanya amb blanques 10 81 135 Salvador Munoz Jose Maria 1713 1802 ESP Molí Nou 4.0 w 1 - guanya amb blanques

    Stats Sants 2013:

    Rd. M. No.Ini. Nombre FIDE Res 1 20 21 Farre Buil Carles 1926 s 1 2 66 84 Amargant Masferrer Jorge 1799 w ½ 3 54 80 Povill Claros Xavier 1803 s 0 4 78 76 Torrents Senal Marc 1809 w 0 5 123 267 Gonzalez Garcia Soraya 1488 s ½ 6 118 272 Marzo Pie Xavier 1458 w 1 7 76 44 Banki Brigitta 1870 s 0 8 117 278 Freixa Rofastes Ernest 1443 w 1 9 73 78 Vicente Soriano Josep 1805 s ½ 10 73 102 Fibla Costa Roger 1779 w 0

    2014 maybe Viena amb InterVac

    Martorell, 2014, 2016

    2015, brutal : Joana Ros se ha proclamado Campeona de España Femenina sub-12 con 6,5 puntos gracias a su última victoria contra Haizea Salvatierra. La subcampeona ha sido Laura Henríquez con 6 y el tercer puesto para Bianca Andrade también con 6 puntos.

    Stats chess.com :

    white black 1. e4 165 55/37/8 1.e4 115 48/44/8 1. c4 15 40/60/0 1.d4 37 48/48/4 1. d4 6 66/33/0 1.c4 7 43/57 1. b4 1 1/0/0

    Campionat Catalunya 2017 per edats

    blanques -> anglesa
    negres : e5 -> francesa {try 2.f4 as here}
    d5 -> gambit de dama refusat, variant Cambridge Springs (si puc)

    La nostra anglesa simètrica:

    1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.0-0 0-0 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 d6 10.Rb1 a6 11.Nd5 Nxd5 12.Qxd5 Qc7 13.b3 Rb8 14.Bb2 Be6 15.Qd2 Qc5 16.Bxg7 Kxg7 17.e3 b5 18.cxb5 axb5 19.Rfc1 Qe5 20.Rc7 Rfe8

    A Sant Boi fan bones croniques !

    En català es diu peó

    Sants 2014 B :

    114 115 MASLOV Ivan 2163 1 0 ROS ALONSO Jaume 1797 291 124 291 ROS ALONSO Jaume 1797 ½ ½ VINAS RACIONERO Josep 2010 197 32 112 ROS ALONSO Joana 1923 1 - 0 CODINA SENTIAS Teresa 1700 251 26 36 FLORES LINAN Jose Luis 2016 1 ½ - ½ 1 ROS ALONSO Joana 1923 112 24 112 ROS ALONSO Joana 1923 1½ 1 - 0 1½ PLA CARULLA Joaquim 2065 9 14 22 CANO SEVILA Ivan 2039 2½ 1 - 0 2½ ROS ALONSO Joana 1923 112 42 112 ROS ALONSO Joana 1923 2½ 0 - 1 2½ LOZANO DIAZ Antoni 2015 38 77 220 MOLINA WHEATLEY Emilio 1764 2½ 0 - 1 2½ ROS ALONSO Joana 1923 112 43 112 ROS ALONSO Joana 1923 3½ 0 - 1 3½ GONZALEZ MARTIN Fernando 2063 11 76 273 MADIAI Filippo 1700 3½ ½ - ½ 3½ ROS ALONSO Joana 1923 112 72 112 ROS ALONSO Joana 1923 4 0 - 1 4 HERNANDEZ BERMUDEZ Alberto 1837 189 70 183 PENALVER GUARDIA Esteban 1840 4 0 - 1 4 ROS ALONSO Joana 1923 112 # 117 112 ROS ALONSO Joana U12 D CAT 1923 Sant Boi 5.0 0 42.5 52.0 55 188 ROS GORNE Ramon 1833 1 0 GOUMA Ronald 1997 50 58 73 FERRES SAEZ Joan 1965 1 0 ROS GORNE Ramon 1833 190 70 190 ROS GORNE Ramon 1833 1 0 - 1 1 TORTOSA MOROS Joan 1941 91 114 275 MENENDEZ CABRERA Enric 1700 1 0 - 1 1 ROS GORNE Ramon 1833 190 81 190 ROS GORNE Ramon 1833 2 ½ - ½ 2 POVILL CLAROS Laura 1911 122 76 98 SOLE BOVE Josep 1934 2½ 0 - 1 2½ ROS GORNE Ramon 1833 190 55 190 ROS GORNE Ramon 1833 3½ ½ - ½ 3½ PALLARES GURREA Aitor 1956 77 140 190 ROS GORNE Ramon 1833 4 0 not paired 68 90 GORBUNOV Grigoriy 1946 4 1 - 0 4 ROS GORNE Ramon 1833 190 74 190 ROS GORNE Ramon 1833 4 0 - 1 4 VENTURA SOLANS Victor 1880 143 # 180 190 ROS GORNE Ramon D CAT 1833 Sant Boi 4.0 0 42.0 52.5

    Llibre que em recomana : Angus Dunnington - can you be a positional chess genius ? {sagpdf}

    Dimarts 20141209 quedem a Club Escac San Boi, Casal Marianao, c. Miquel, 2 (08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat). Amb en Lluís Chavero repassem "My System", d'en Nimzowich, i fem Kasparov vs Vasilchenko

    Dimecres 20151028, amb en Ramon Chalmeta (profe 2370) fem Mihail Marin {sagpdf} - torre i peo contra cavall i alfil.

    Open 2015 : grup A, grup B, grup C.

    

    Sants 2015 : Jaume es el 293 (de 380) al grup A, Joana és la 94 i en Ramon és el 98 al grup B (de 141 jugadors).

    Ronda	Data	Hora	Jaume	Joana	Ramón
    1	2015/08/21	16:30	[-w]0/1	[+b]1/1	[+w]1/1*
    2	2015/08/22	16:30	[-b]0/2	[+w]2/2	[-w]1/2
    3	2015/08/23	16:30	[+w]1/3	[-b]2/3	[-b]1/3
    4	2015/08/24	16:30	[+b]2/4	[-w]2/4	[-w]1/4
    5	2015/08/25	16:30	[-b]2/5	[+b]3/5	[-b]1/5
    6	2015/08/26	16:30	[+w]3/6	[+w]4/6	[+b]2/6
    7	2015/08/27	16:30	[=b]3,5/7	[=w]4,5/7	[-w]2/7
    8	2015/08/28	16:30	[=w]4/8	[-b]4,5/8	[+b]3/8
    9	2015/08/29	16:30	[-b]4/9	[+w]5,5/9	[=w]3,5/9
    10	2015/08/30	9:30	[=w]4,5/10	[+b]6,5/10*	[-b]3,5/10

    Jaume 4,5/10 : guanya 2 amb blanques i 1 amb negres, empata 2 amb blanques i 1 amb neges, i perd 1 amb blanques i 3 amb negres (2, 5 i 9).
    Joana 6,5/10 : guanya 3 amb blanques i 3 amb negres (1 no presentat), 1 empat amb blanques, perd 1 amb blanques i 2 amb negres (3 i 8).
    Ramon 3,5/10 : guanya 2 amb negres (6 i 8, i 1 no presentat), empata 1 amb blanques (9).

    Setembre 2015 - la Joana s'en va al campionat mundial, a Grècia a finals d'octubre. Es troba al grup World Youth & Cadets Chess Championships 2015 - Girls under 12 girls-12
    {20151025} 1a ronda - guanya la Claire Cao [USA, 1514] {1 / 1 - negres, francesa, 58 moves}
    {20151026} 2a ronda - perd amb Ngoc Han Julia Bui [1620] {1 / 2 - blanques, francesa, 32 moves}
    {20151027} 3a - guanya la Yuliya Khegay [1554] {2 / 3 - negres}
    {20151028} 4a - empata amb la Thyra Kvendseth [1656] {2 1/2 / 4 - blanques, italiana, 47 moves}
    {20151029} 5a - perd amb la Xue Bai [1639] {2 1/2 / 5 - negres}
    {20151030} 6a - guanya a la Anais Rubsamen [1551] {3 1/2 / 6 - blanques}
    {20151101} 7a ronda - perd amb la Serchinbal Lkhagvadolgor [1510] {3 1/2 / 7 - negres}
    {20151102} 8a ronda - perd amb la G. Tamrazyan [1597] {3 1/2 / 8 - blanques}
    {20151103} 9a ronda - guanya a la Y. L. Ehsani [] {4 1/2 / 9 - negres}
    {20151104} 10a ronda - empata amb la T. Tharushi [1455] {5 / 10 - negres}
    {20151105} 11a ronda - perd amb la Noam Portnoy [1516] {5 / 11 - negres}

    Resum : guanya 4, empata 2, perd 5. Per colors : B(1/1/2), N(3/1/3).

    Del 26 al 30 de Desembre 2015 : CEI Toulouse. 6ème Open de Noël du CEIT.
    Grille américaine après la ronde #6: 9 ROS ALONSO Jaume 2004 (4 pts), 29 ROS ALONSO Joana 1674 (3 pts), 39 ROS GORNE Ramon 1585 (2 1/2 pts).

    Dissabte 20160109 - Actiu d'Hivern de Sant Boi - en Rafa Rodriguez em deix guanyar una siciliana Najdorf/Drac

    

    Salou live, Març 2016 : Joana sub 14 (4½/5), Jaume sub 16 (3½/5).

    23 a 26 de Juny de 2016 : Campeonato de España por Selecciones Autonómicas. Categoría Infantil (Sub-14), Padrón (Galizia) : directe

    Estiu 2016 : Poznan (POL) ! Jaume : 42-e amb 5 punts. Joana : 60-va amb 4,5 punts. Ramon : 89-e amb 3 punts sobre 9 possibles i 108 participants.
    Resum del Ramon (3/0/5). Per colors - blanques (2/0/2), negres (1/0/3).

    1 - Woloch, Oskar vs RRG (1-0) : 1.e4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Be7 7.g3 b6 8.Bg2 Bb7 C00 French, Reti (Spielmann) variation 2 - RRG vs Tamon, Agata (1-0) : 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Nd5 7.Bc4 Nb6 C44 Scotch opening 3 - Sobczak, Miroslaw vs RRG (1-0) : 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 Nbc6 C17 French, Winawer, advance 4 - RRG vs Purczynski, Andrzej (1-0) : 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd5 C44 Scotch opening 5 - RRG vs Weglarz, Janusz (0-1) : 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 h6 5.Be2 e6 6.0-0 Nd7 7.c4 dxc4 8.Bxc4 B12 Caro-Kann, advance variation 7 - Grochowski, Michal vs RRG (1-0) : 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.Bd3 c5 5.e5 Nfd7 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ngf3 cxd4 C05 French, Tarrasch, closed variation 8 - Piasecki, Andrzej vs RRG (0-1) : 1.g4 c6 2.Bg2 e6 3.b3 Ne7 4.Ba3 d5 5.d4 g6 6.e3 Bg7 7.Nf3 0-0 8.h3 Nd7 A00 Grob's attack 9 - RRG vs Wojdak, Karol (0-1) : 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Be3 Qf6 6.c3 d6 7.Bb5 Bd7 C45 Scotch game

    2017 a Salobreña - Joana és #19 - chess24, ronda 2

    20170717, 10:00. 1 - JRA - Manzanares Lopez, Alejandro 1470 : 1-0 {1/1} 20170717, 17:00. 2 - Duller Llopis, Jouke 1631 - JRA : 0-1 {2/2} 20170718, 10:00. 3 - JRA - Lopez Azorin, Alejandro 1607 : 0-1 {2/3} 20170719, 10:00. 4 - Atipov Hadzhiev, Cristian 1618 - JRA : 0-1 {3/4} 20170719, 17:00. 5 - JRA - Jimenez Fernandez, Rebeca 1676 : ½-½ {3½/5} 20170720, 10:00. 6 - Rodriguez Ferreiros, Andres 1684 - JRA : 0-1 {4½/6} 20170721, 10:00. 7 - JRA - Moya Nunez, Salvador 1792 : ½-½ {5/7} 20170721, 17:00. 8 - Blesa Fernandez, Ignacio 1814 - JRA : 1-0 {5/8} 20170722, 10:00. 9 - JRA - Bustos Bernardo, Diego 1589 : 1-0 {6/9}
    
    Per colors : B(2/2/1), N(3/0/1).

    En Jaume (2017) a Salobreña [info64, chess24]

    20170731, 10:00 [0-1] JRA - FM Lianes Garcia, Marcos 2352 20170731, 17:00 [0-1] Rodriguez Redondo, Adhara 1764 - JRA 20170801, 10:00 [1-0] JRA - FM Nieves Cabanes, Jose Manuel 2277 20170802, 10:00 [0-1] Vidal Fernandez, Pablo 2167 - JRA 20170802, 17:00 [0-1] JRA - Castillo Dalmau, Albert 2258 20170803, 10:00 [1-0] Perez Tores, Juan Miguel 2163 - JRA 20170804, 10:00 [0-1] JRA - Munoz Avila, Jose Luis 2176 20170804, 17:00 [1-0] Tevar Becerra, Alvaro 1953 - JRA 20170805, 10:00 [1-0] JRA - Prohens Lopez, Aitor 1686

    El 2017 s'en van a Berlin : resultats i totes les partides

    Hivern 2017 : Mont Marsan

    2018 :

    • Jaume al Campionat de Catalunya sub 18, en directe a Vilaseca
      (1) 6 27 Olivas Montoya Albert 1969 0 0 - 1 0 Ros Alonso Jaume 2231 6 (2) 6 6 Ros Alonso Jaume 2231 1 1 - 0 1 Juan Bartrolí Marc 2082 17 (3) 3 10 Pulido Leon Manuel 2190 2 ½ - ½ 2 Ros Alonso Jaume 2231 6 (4) 3 6 Ros Alonso Jaume 2231 2½ ½ - ½ 2½ Castillo Dalmau Albert 2315 FM 3 (5) 4 12 Marzo Pie Xavier 2130 3 1 - 0 3 Ros Alonso Jaume 2231 6 (6) 7 6 Ros Alonso Jaume 2231 3 1 - 0 3 Norberto González Oriol 1934 30 (7) 5 13 Sama Salinas Alejandro 2130 4 0 - 1 4 Ros Alonso Jaume 2231 6 (8) 2 6 Ros Alonso Jaume 2231 5 1 - 0 5 Solé Pijuan Ferran 2226 7 (9) 1 1 FM Ayats Llobera Gerard 2349 7½ 1 - 0 6 Ros Alonso Jaume 2231 6
      

    • 2018, Joana a Salobreña, chess24, info64
      1 53 Ros Alonso, Joana 1888 1-0 Padron Diez, Daniel 1379 2 13 Lazaro Pujol, Abel 2110 1-0 Ros Alonso, Joana 1888 3 39 Ros Alonso, Joana 1888 1-0 Lopez Oliva, Victor 1654 4 16 Cubas Cabrera, Angel Luis 2072 1-0 Ros Alonso, Joana 1888 5 38 Ros Alonso, Joana 1888 1-0 Sanabria Taskila, Jenny Maria 1667 6 20 Villacorta Nicolas, David 2179 ½-½ Ros Alonso, Joana 1888 7 30 Ros Alonso, Joana 1888 1-0 Padilla Picuasi, Wuayra David 1687 8 19 Rodriguez Del Cerro, Ricardo 2041 1-0 Ros Alonso, Joana 1888 9 33 Ros Alonso, Joana 1888 1-0 Fernandez Rozas, Javier 1667

    • Joana a Grecia (Porto Carras Grand Resort, Chalkidiki, Octubre) : World Youth Chess Championship, pgns, chess-results G16, chess24
      1 42 87 Booysen Tineke 1173 0 0 - 1 0 Ros Alonso Joana 1952 2 14 42 Ros Alonso Joana 1952 1 ½ - ½ 1 WFM Cervantes Landeiro Thalia 2129 3 15 29 Gombocz Zsofia 2038 1½ ½ - ½ 1½ Ros Alonso Joana 1952 4 15 42 Ros Alonso Joana 1952 2 0 - 1 2 WFM Bulatova Kamaliya 2108 5 27 72 Simkunaite Gabija 1650 2 0 - 1 2 Ros Alonso Joana 1952 6 15 42 Ros Alonso Joana 1952 3 0 - 1 3 WFM Schulze Lara 2122 7 23 57 WCM Nguyen Vu Thu Hien 1841 3 ½ - ½ 3 Ros Alonso Joana 1952 8 26 42 Ros Alonso Joana 1952 3½ 0 - 1 3½ Kalyva Kyriaki 1779 9 30 82 Michielsen Lies 1398 3½ ½ - ½ 3½ Ros Alonso Joana 1952 10 30 42 Ros Alonso Joana 1952 4 1 - 0 4 Bojanic Bojana 0 11 21 27 Aubert Estee 2064 5 0 - 1 5 Ros Alonso Joana 1952

      Acaba a la posició 36 amb 6 punts !
      Blanques (1/1/3), Negres (3/3/0)

    • 2019 - Campionat de Catalunya Individual Femeni i Absolut - 50a ; sub-16 - 4a
      Campionat Espanya sub-16 chess24, info64
      23 Casares Garc. (0) 1612 0 - 1 Ros Alonso (0) 2045 21 Ros Alonso (1) 2045 1 - 0 Mamani Beltr. (1) 1827 13 Mamani Beltr. (2) 1916 0 - 1 Ros Alonso (2) 2045 4 Ingunza Curro (3) 2131 0 - 1 Ros Alonso (3) 2045 2 Ros Alonso (4) 2045 ½ - ½ Diaz Mino, P. (4) 2109 3 Arjol Lopez (4½) 2141 ½ - ½ Ros Alonso (4½) 2045 4 Ros Alonso (5) 2045 0 - 1 Gomez Carreno (5) 2078 cavall per 2 peons 13 Ros Alonso (5) 2045 ½ - ½ Salvans Serra (5) 1853 8 Garcia Gimen. (5½) 2198 1 - 0 Ros Alonso (5½) 2045 alfil per 3 peons . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . total .--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---.---------------- bl . . 1 . . ½ . 0 ½ . . 2 punts de 4 neg . 1 . 1 1 . ½ . . 0 . 3 ½ punts de 5 .--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---.----------------

    L'estiu de 2019 se'n van a Txequia : Jeseník Open A, Open B, online

    deit	Jaume - 2189	Joana - 2064	Ramon - 1619
    20180817 sa	10 Ros Alonso Jaume 1 - 0 Slavinský Rostislav 2002	28 Ros Alonso Joana 0 - 1 Bartoš Václav 1809	59 Ros Gorne Ramon 1 - 0 Tschulik Daniel 0
    20180818 do	9 Sacharewicz Krzysztof 1797 0 - 1 Ros Alonso Jaume	24 Slavinský Rostislav 2002 0 - 1 Ros Alonso Joana	17 Maceška Bohumír 1777 1 - 0 Ros Gorne Ramon
    20180819 lu	2 Ros Alonso Jaume 1 - 0 Banasik Krzysztof 2247	19 Ros Alonso Joana ½ - ½ Sacharewicz Krzysztof 1797 .	42 Ros Gorne Ramon 1 - 0 Vaníček Daniel 0
    20180820 ma	1 Michalicka Milan 2190 0 - 1 Ros Alonso Jaume	18 Cap Piotr 1907 1 - 0 Ros Alonso Joana	24 Jedrusik Adam 1751 1 - 0 Ros Gorne Ramon
    20180821 mi	1 Ros Alonso Jaume 0 - 1 Jirásek Pavel 2284	21 Ros Alonso Joana 1 - 0 Rozumek Vlastimil 1955	41 Ros Gorne Ramon 1 - 0 Čupr Radomír 1558
    20180822 ju	2 Bureš Jaroslav 2389 1 - 0 Ros Alonso Jaume	14 Banasik Krzysztof 2247 1 - 0 Ros Alonso Joana	16 Filipík Jaroslav 1798 ½ - ½ Ros Gorne Ramon
    20180823 vi	5 Ros Alonso Jaume ½ - ½ Matras Ondřej 2126	21 Ros Alonso Joana 1 - 0 Křena Bohuslav 1976	20 Ros Gorne Ramon 0 - 1 Pešl Jan 1757
    20180824 sa	4 Ros Alonso Jaume 0 - 1 Kowalczyk Rafal 2234	13 Huřťák Otto 2040 0 - 1 Ros Alonso Joana	27 Ros Gorne Ramon ½ - ½ Halama Vladimír 1778
    20180825 do	9 Ros Alonso Joana 2064 1 - 0 Ros Alonso Jaume	9 Ros Alonso Joana 2064 1 - 0 Ros Alonso Jaume	34 Dudková Josefína 1395 0 - 1 Ros Gorne Ramon

    2019 Setembre : Torneig Centenari Casal Catolic Sant Andreu, Jaume grup MF, Ramon, tram C

    Octubre 2020, Mollet, 17 Oct - 19 Des :
    

    • Ramon : 1850
    • Joana : norma MC
    • Jaume : MF

    Març 2021 - Campionat de Catalunya 2021 Sub18-20

    Juliol 2021, Salobreña chess24.com

    2022, Octubre - campiona de Catalunya !

  • el profe de la Joana és en Michael Rahal - a Youtube te Steinitz vs Bardeleben : "la inmortal de Giocco Piano" - coin game.

    També Carlsen vs Guseinov, posició Philidor

  • Joan Anton Marcer Casas & Lali - juga a Chess Presso (comunitat Android).

    És home de 1.e4 amb blanques i espanyola. Amb negres juga

    • 1.e4 c5 {siciliana}
    • 1.e4 e6 {francesa}
    • 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 (D80, Grunfeld)

    A chesstempo és "jamaca" ; a chess.com, "xicarro" ; a chess24.com, "xicarro" ;

    Al campionat "Chalmeta-2016" fa 6 punts en 9 partides !

    Les seves partides, a chess-db o chess-results

    Punts forts :

    • atac al enroc amb alfil a la diagonal llarga
    • control de columnes obertes amb torres

    Punts febles :

    • pressió del rellotge
    • defensar no li agrada
    • va molt a pinyó fixe : 1.e4 c5, 1.d4 Cf6

    L'estiu de 2018 s'apunta a Platja d'Aro - chess-results :

    1. Ronda el 2018/06/24 a las 17:00 : 5 5 FM Vidal Zamora Alex 2384 0 1 - 0 0 Marcer Casas Joan Anton 1669 39 2. Ronda el 2018/06/25 a las 10:00 : 25 39 Marcer Casas Joan Anton 1669 0 1 - 0 0 Marzo Ruiz Xavier 1417 54 3. Ronda el 2018/06/25 a las 17:00 : 14 21 Alvarez Albiol Victor 1971 1 1 - 0 1 Marcer Casas Joan Anton 1669 39 4. Ronda el 2018/06/26 a las 17:00 : 25 39 Marcer Casas Joan Anton 1669 1 1 - 0 1 Barraca Borozenets Enric 1131 63 5. Ronda el 2018/06/27 a las 17:00 : 16 22 Alvarez Serra Jordi 1961 2 1 - 0 2 Marcer Casas Joan Anton 1669 39 6. Ronda el 2018/06/28 a las 17:00 : 20 39 Marcer Casas Joan Anton 1669 2 1 - 0 2 Roqueta Maffei Oscar Nahuel 1501 47 7. Ronda el 2018/06/29 a las 17:00 : 16 34 Corbacho Chaves Oscar 1785 3 1 - 0 3 Marcer Casas Joan Anton 1669 39 8. Ronda el 2018/06/30 a las 17:00 : 18 39 Marcer Casas Joan Anton 1669 3 1 - 0 3 Vidal Palou Jordi 1643 42 9. Ronda el 2018/07/01 a las 10:00 : 13 12 Bielsa Franco Javier 2085 4 1 - 0 4 Marcer Casas Joan Anton 1669 39

  • Sants 2016 - del 19 (vi) al 28 (do) d'agost de 2016, a les 16:30, c Sants 79. 38 € - IBAN: ES17 2100 3005 41 2500019132

  • King & Pawn endgames - beginner breakdown - Mike Kummer (44 min)

  • amb en Roberto Segura (1800, 07/2013) mirem tornejos a ajedrez ND, com Rubi (22/6/2013) 3,5 punts sobre 9
    

  • Torrellencs de nivell :
    • Angel Ribera, avi d'en Jordi Travesset
    • Joaquim Travesset Barba, pare - Ajedrez de ataque amb 5 partides, Santander 1961 , Lleida 1963
    • Daniel Travesset Ribera, germa - cat(2238), fide(2148)
    • Joaquim Travesset Ribera, germa - cat(2324), fide(2233)
    • Jan Travesset Sagré, fill del Dani, nascut 2005
      • iotta - ELO 2286
      • 3 punts al grup "A" de Sants, 2019 - "trave7" a lichess i chess24 - li fot canya al David Anton, minut 54 a 57
      • Espanya sub-18, Agost de 2022

    Juguen al Sant Andreu

    Articles d'en Joaquim :

    • historia dels escacs a Tarragona o
    • Lucien Francino i Vallet (1) i (2)
    • Murcia 1927

    I una partida amb negres del 1976 contra en Mas, amb sacrifici de dama :

    1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. Nf3 d6 6. O-O Nc6 7. Rb1 Bf5 8. d3 Qd7 9. Re1 Bh3 10. Bh1 h6 11. b4 e5 12. b5 Ne7 13. Nd2 c6 14. Nb3 Ng4 15. Na5 Rab8 16. Qa4 e4 17. Ne4 f5 18. bc6 bc6 19. Rb8 Rb8 20. Nd2 f4 21. Nc6 fg3 22. hg3 Rf8 23. Ne7 Qe7 24. Bf3 Bd4 25. Ne4 Bf2 26. Nf2 Rf3 27. Ne4 Qe4 28. de4 Rg3 29. Kh1 Nf2 30. Kh2 Rg2#

    En Jan a Salou - Campionat de Catalunya 2021 Sub16 - queda 5è amb 5½/8

    En Jordi em regala una bandera de pregaria budista

  • Ramon Chalmeta a Paris 2019 - perd amb torre contra torre i alfil

    Josep Chalmeta - jchalmet@xtec.cat

  • Perez Mitjans, Orelvis (Cuba)

  • Rotkopf (gKnot) va jugar contra en RJF (1964) ! [1] - "The blunders are all there, on the chessboard, ready to be made" - Savielly Tartakower

  • http://es.lichess.org/ - juga OnLine ! (Arcadi - sag = "ramonetnet")

  • "SpellForce" es David Raheb, ELO 2232

  • "Opaline" té http://www.oddsfidus.dk and http://www.sportspicks.dk !

  • (RHP) Restless Soul (1853) ... juga de maravella !

  • EFC té una ... vila a Montego ... Alessandro es considera Friulian : grappa -> sgnape "Nonino", i després "Picolit". One that wants a better one has to choose among the 'monovitigno' (20 or more dollars)

  • (RHP) jangeles em vol (KissMe) de mestre ...

  • (RHP) Ludi (2274) es una màquina al Blitz ...

  • Chemtrail (GK) - li encanten "System Of a Down" i SickSince

  • (RHP) Mathurine : "Au Lecteur", Les Fleurs du Mal, url, by Charles Baudelaire :
    Serré, fourmillant, comme un million d'helminthes,
    Dans nos cerveaux ribote un peuple de Démons,
    Et, quand nous respirons, la Mort dans nos poumons
    Descend, fleuve invisible, avec de sourdes plaintes.

  • (RHP) NightKnight = Nevin Hawlman - pic - Search for "Winters Jewels" - Emilio

  • mr Alisher West Michigan chess

  • mr Lernci (ch.com) says "Hajogh" = armyanski "udachi"

  Bona gent !

• Altres llocs :
  • canal uTube de'n Pepe Cuenca
  • Ciudad de León, torneo.
  • Badalona
  • Benasque
  • Villarrobledo
  • Partides a Mexico ! Veure Kramnik vs Gelfand.
  • Frayer (GK)
  • Partides Kramnik vs Anand : Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

• Campionat d'Espanya 2019 : Santos vs Shirov, Vallejo vs Cuenca

• Vallejo twitch !

• Carlsen perd versus Alisher Suleymenov, Quatar 2023 : chessgames or uTube