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This game, to some degree, recreated Sheridan's Ride, one of the great events that helped win the Civil War for the Union Forces. Appropriately enough, it was played in the US Women's Championship, an American chess event.
On October 19th, 1864,... | Read More
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The variation 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8. Na3 b5 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. Nd5 Bg7 11. Bd3 Ne7 12. Nxe7 Qxe7 13. O-O f5 14. c4 O-O is one of the tabiyas of the Pelikan/Sveshnikov variation. But one of the t... | Read More
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This was a game between Anna Zatonskih (White) and Tatev Abrahamyan (Black) in the recent US Womens' Championship. White tried the new 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. c4 d6 6. Nc3 Nc6 7. O-O a6 8. Bf4!?, which sets up a possible e5 br... | Read More
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The Center Counter is easy to play -- if you know what you are doing and you want to learn to play positionally. It is similar to the Caro-Kann defense with ...Bf5 (1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5). The fundamentals are similar in both o... | Read More
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