Eugen
Eugene Rusin
from Cherkessk, now in Moscow, Russia 
Member Since:
May 30, 2007
Last Login:
Feb 9, 2012
Profile Views:
5126
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3824
Homepage: www.chess.com/groups/view/team-russia
Birthday: Apr 6, 1986
About Me:
Chess is my hobby. Once I was happy to find a website like chess.com and joined it immediately. It was just created then, and no online chess was available! At that time I couldn’t even imagine it would evolve into something like this - the best chess site on the Internet!
I learned to play chess with a computer program lacking real game experience vs human. I am a strong intermediate player, sometimes unstable though. More often middle game is the main cause of this instability. My strong points are opening (even if there are no opening books at hand, and of course I mean more or less popular opening lines) and endgame. And my weakness, as I have already mentioned, is middle game. Perhaps that's why the following style of play has been shaped: I usually trade away pieces and seek chances in the endgame. Nevertheless I am always happy to perform any creative combination that will dawn upon me in the middle game. I also like to set traps for my opponents, though I very often fall for them myself 
So if you haven't crushed me in the middle game, be prepared for a tough ending...
Almost always I play e4 as white (currently trying out Scotch game). I am also studying the Sokolsky (Polish, Orangutan) opening (1. b4). As black I usually respond e6 (French defense) or e5 (usually Petrov's defense (Russian game)) to white’s e4. I am currently trying out various continuations of Keres defense (1. d4 e6 2. c4 Bb4+) which I consider a solid response to d4 (at least for me). I am also interested in the Dutch defense (1. d4 f5) and the Albin countergambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5), which I would like to study and practice later.
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