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Hi everyone, I joined the group as I'm a fan of this repertoire and use it as a change-up from 1. d4 2. c4 now and again. What I know about the C-Z, Barry and 150 attacks I got from Richard Palliser's book, though the fact that the Summerscale exists may get me to buy it as well. (Getting me to buy a chess book is like twisting a drunk guy's arm into having another round). Just curious: has anyone else read Palliser's book? What did you think?

I came across this trap in a FM's game a while ago, and since then I've been able to use it many times. Especially in blitz. Maybe you can get some use out of it as well. Take for example this position: Black has delayed c5xd4, and therefore allows white d4xc5, opening the powerful bishop on b2. Combined with Bd6 - not protecting the Knight on f6 - this can lead to some devastating trickery. Try to find all white's moves; the first ones were already hinted at :) This tactic presents itself more often than you would expect. Realise that even if the black bishop is on e7 it might be possible, because after d4xc5 black wouldn't be able to take c5 with the bishop, as it releases the defence of the knight on f6. Have fun with it!

GM Mark Hebden, one of the strongest players of the Barry Attack, is often a good source of inspiration. In this particular game black chooses a standard pattern to stop the marching h-pawn: first he plays h6, and when white plays h5, he plays g5 - closing it up and attacking white's bishop on f4. But Hebden says no. He takes the pawn on g5 with his bishop and continues to push the h-pawn, completely disorganizing black's pieces! The never disappointing youtube-annotater Mato Jelic ('Hi, this is Mato ...') shows us the very instructive chess game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiwmlsMuiFM (Watch this before continuing with my game, since Hebden's play is obviously more intructive than mine) A few months after I saw this game I played in an OTB tournament. It was the last round, and I knew that if I won I would have good odds to win in my rating category - so I didn't mind taking some risk. The Barry came on the board and after h6, h5, g5 I did it: Bxg5?! My opponent was rated in the low 1800s. I'm fully aware the piece sac at move 10 wasn't objectively sound, and with better defense my opponent could have freed himself with a material plus and won the game. But this 1800 player couldn't solve the problems on the board and lost in 16 moves. Not to mention I became first in my group. So I hope you guys will remember this pattern - and use it to put the challenge to your opponents. Especially the way Mark Hebden used it: that after white plays h7 black cannot take the pawn and has to play Kg7, with very awkward pieces. That will wipe the contemptuous look your opponent gave you after Bxg5 quickly off his face.

I played my first C-Z game OTB yesterday, would love to get some feedback from C-Z experts out here. I have annotated the game with my thoughts during the game. I didn't do any computer analysis, so I could be completely wrong with many of my observations. Please feel free to critique and correct. This was a slow game (2 hours each) with a 5-second delay. I thought I got a decent position in the opening with attacking chances on king-side. But I could not break through. I eventually got under time pressure, was even down a pawn at one point. But I eventually got a winning position, settling for a draw at the end though with just 10 seconds on my clock.

It was over in 28 seconds.

My morning started well with this game, using the same line as Alexhu8 in his recently posted 150-attack game:

This weekend I faced someone that tried out a KID setup against me. I couldn't remember the exact setup for the Barry Attack, but I did remember the line "shove the h pawn up the board..." So that's what I did. I made mistakes, but so did my opponent. It was fun. Next time I'll learn the right setup first.

...a variant that I am now incorporating in my C-Z repertoire. I struggle from quite a fair share of early bishop moves disrupting the "bishop on d3" strategy. Particulary the line d4, d5, Nf3, Nf6, e3, Bf5 has annoyed me for a while. So in "Zuke 'em" by David Rudel I found a complete chapter devoted to this bishop move, advocating the use of the "Elista slav" (I think this is Davids own name of the variation). So equipped with my newfound knowledge I threw myself at the laptop, started a new correspondance game and to my astonishment (and happiness) my opponent obliged and followed my prep up until move 14 Admittedly, my opponent didn't put up the best of fights (and he did play terribly fast, I often got more or less instantanious replies) but I thought I'd share the game with some brief annotations.

Watching Chessexplained is always fun, but now he even tries the Colle-Zukertort for a change: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ud5_WyF4I&list=UUd9RHivv7ryAQSS7Q8p1zgA

Enter the System. The Colle System.

Over the weekend I tried out the Colle Zukertort in a couple 5 minute blitz games just to get practice setting it up. This game was interesting. Since my opponent didn't castle, there was not a kingside attack. It was fun!

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This is a game I played on chess.com, after having played almost the exact same game in an otb tournament. Apparently defending against this attack is not so easy!

Hey guys, last week I played an otb game with my team and got a nice victory with the C-Z. I'll post it here with a few thoughts I had during the game, and maybe you can give me some notes ;) My opponent was rated in the 1600´s. Thanks

What when after d4 d5, Nf3 Nf6, e3... black plays g6. No more Barry, 150 etc... In his book Zuke em, David Rudel, explains how he and Aaron Summerscale found this a hard nut to crack until :

In this game Hebden uses the Barry set-up, but goes for an early Bh6, instead of the regular e3. I believe this is called the Tarzan attack, but that's not really important, as all those are very related anyway. KC calls it the Barry Attack. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN_LmvddfKQ

http://www.chess.com/chessmentor/view_course?id=231 Together with this blog-post could never harm your understanding: http://www.chess.com/article/view/quick-start-guide-to-the-colle-zukertort-an-opening-for-players-of-any-strength