Folks, whatever you do, please remember to castle first -- your king is a lot safer and it is a lot tougher for people to mate you when your king is castled. Also, if you're going to play the Phildor, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Bg4?! is a lemon -- after 4. dxe5, Black has to capture on f3 (taking back with the pawn drops at least the e5 pawn) when the Queen and later the Bishop will come into powerful play for White. If you want to know the ins and outs of any given opening system, I have currently used up all my tournaments, but we do take requests. If you're interested in running tournaments for us, please message me; if you're the right person for the job, I will make you an administrator so you can invite all of us to your thematics. That way, we can run more.
Red Army Scalps: Red Army 1 1/2, Power of Chess II 1/2
Folks, whatever you do, please remember to castle first -- your king is a lot safer and it is a lot tougher for people to mate you when your king is castled. Also, if you're going to play the Phildor, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Bg4?! is a lemon -- after 4. dxe5, Black has to capture on f3 (taking back with the pawn drops at least the e5 pawn) when the Queen and later the Bishop will come into powerful play for White. If you want to know the ins and outs of any given opening system, I have currently used up all my tournaments, but we do take requests. If you're interested in running tournaments for us, please message me; if you're the right person for the job, I will make you an administrator so you can invite all of us to your thematics. That way, we can run more.
Red Army Scalps:
Red Army 1 1/2, Power of Chess II 1/2
Matches Forming:
Red Army vs. Power of Chess -- 14 boards so far; 20 more needed. Could use more players rated between 2000 and 2300:
http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=60784
Red Army vs. Chess Bay (1800+) -- 2 boards so far; 4 more needed:
http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=60820
Red Army vs. Team Romania (1300-2200) -- 18 boards so far; 43 more needed:
http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=60911
Red Army vs. The Chess Club (1500-2000) -- 9 boards so far; 25 more needed:
http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=60835
Red Army vs. Chess Bay (OPEN) -- 7 boards so far; need more players rated 2000+. Waffen (2400+) will play for the other team.
http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=61000
Red Army vs. Team 54 (20 boards) -- 8 boards so far; 12 more needed:
http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=61020
Bronstein Gambit Thematic:
All games start 1. d4 Nf6 2. g4!? We have seven players so far; five more needed:
http://www.chess.com/tournament/red-army-bronstein-gambit-thematic
New Members:
Welcome to new members brown_ale_x, Jacob29, gatots65, MasterGnu, MarcusvS, and c45. We hope you enjoy your competition here!