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 The Maróczy Bind is a pawn formation in chess, named after the Hungarian grandmaster Géza Maróczy and primarily, but not exclusively, played against the ... | Read More
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Without a doubt the Sicilian is the best reply to the King Pawn, but, it takes skill and knowledge to play it. There are too many specialist lines at whites disposal, in which he can direct the game into areas of his own expertise.Â
For years ... | Read More
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S - Squares/Space. This gets back to Pawn Structure, but shifts the focus a bit, and is more complex in some sense. Oversimplified, extra space offers that side more maneuver room for pieces. However, hedgehog defenses prove that sometimes the pie... | Read More
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Just finished playing a game where I decided to give the hedgehog a try once more. I've not had the chance to play it in a long time, but thought that a 5 minute game would be the ideal place to bring him out of hibernation! He served me well, and... | Read More
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Variations on an article by Dana Mackenzie (May 2008, CL&R), who was building on precepts espoused by IM Jeremy Silman. Why repeat their efforts? I hope it's not repetition, but offers some additional insights. For starters, I shuffled Dana's... | Read More
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Greetings,The NM Josh Bloomer "Going Away Simul" was a huge success! Thanks Josh for 17 years of great chess and good luck in Florida!New photos from the event are posted:1. Dragan wins DVD, Chess Parables, on far right in blue.http://cschess.we... | Read More
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In the spirit of the Nimzo-Indian, we complete our series on the Rubinstein System by reviewing the defense favoured by Nimzowitsch, himself, where Black plays b6 on move four. There plenty of variations in the video, as follows:
Fischer Varia... | Read More
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Last week, or a couple of weeks ago, or some time in the recent past that wasn't earlier this week I played in the Minor (U-1200) section of the Bunratty Chess Festival. I don't get to play in tournaments as often as I'd like to but Bunratty is ju... | Read More
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This is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code. In 1966, Chess Informant categorised the chess openings into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken down into one hundred subcate... | Read More
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1. Birds binge drink.More details
2. Bald people grow the wrong type of hair - so fine it's invisible to the naked eye. More details
3. Aristotle is thought to have been the last individual to know everything that was known at the time.Mo... | Read More
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Today I'm going to upload another game played by myself. Its quality is not too high, but nevertheless I think there are some valuable ideas in my notepad annotations. These were of course written directly next to the game while playi... | Read More
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You dress up like a crazy person at the 2010 SPICE Cup tournament... yeah, that's me!
No, actually not the purpose of this post ... I haven't blogged in a while, as I've simply been short of "inspiration" (or is it perspiration???) and/or things... | Read More
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Ultimate hedgehod fighting is the best! But you have to e a really good trainer such as me.. You can't just send a hedgehog out to fight in a battle without proper training. Thats like seending yoda out to fight with other untrained yoda's! Bu... | Read More
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I have recently been trying to teach my smarter hedgehogs how to play chess. So far they have won partiallly because they ruined the board so i had to forfit. Go Hedgehogs! | Read More
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Recently on my hedgehog farm I alowed my hedgehogs to wacth paranormal acitvity! That was not such a good idea. Little Gimmy here will not stop following me! It's really annoying and i think i just might have to kill him. But ever since they... | Read More
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This is meant as a sequel to my former blog post:
Defending against 1.d4 - the Modern Benoni
If you are planning to take up the Modern Benoni, it is useful to invest some thought into how to arrange your defenses against other Closed Games around... | Read More
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1. Inggris, 1...b6
     1.c4 b6
    Unduh contohnya di sini (466,76kb, PGN, 2181 game)
2. Inggris, 1...f5
     1.c4 f5
    Unduh contohnya di sini (1,16MB, PGN, 5712 game)
3. Inggris, 1...c6
     1.c4 c6
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As you may have noticed from my profile. Empire State Building broke his two front paws. He broke his paw because one day i was trying to kill him to eat for breakfast and he got hit by a garbage truck. He was in the hospital for 6 whole mi... | Read More
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1) You choose the hedgehog you want to eat. I prefer the fat ones that usually just sit around all day and do nothing.
2) Sneak up on them from behind and slice their heads off.( But save the head because thats the best part. especially the e... | Read More