1. a4: Best Chess Opening!
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KairavJoshi
Jul 17, 2011
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#201
I forgot control the center! Sorry...
Ah but according to a book i have by john nunn , the best grandmasters always break opening rules :D
If the inventor of chess saw people playing a4, he would look somewhat like this:
I have some analysis regarding this so called "refutation" of a4
This is looking at wing openings and king development and their importance and how to use them both to win.
The second game takes a look at how the false principles (whoever wrote them loses to the true ones)
The true principles:
1.Control the wings so you can fly
2.Develop your king early
3.Make moves that release one piece at a time (1.a4 releasing the rook)
4.Rooks should be placed on the 3rd rank and control it.
The false ones:(Warning don't do any of this or you will lose your games immediately
1.Control the center???!!! (What?! Why would you want to have the center?)
2.King safety? (Isn't the king safe anywhere?)
3.Develop all your pieces?( Okay,this one's okay, but make sure rooks on the third rank.)
Jul 18, 2011
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#207
except the knight hung the move before mate... but I guess if the hung knight was taken.... someone would get cancer.
GeniusKJ wrote:
except the knight hung the move before mate... but I guess if the hung knight was taken.... someone would get cancer.
No, that knight can't be taken, its not cancer, black will get "knight syndrome" and die
LegoPirate wrote:
akintews wrote:
Joseph-S wrote:
akintews wrote:
I might be wrong but doesn't 31. Qxf7+ force mate?
Looks like it to me. Good call!
It would make a good Sunday puzzle
No because Rxf7 is a check.
Are you cross-eyed?
Jul 19, 2011
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#211
What is checkmateibeatu's ridiculous obsession with "controlling the center"? And why does he keep trashing the well-known and respectable strategy of king developement? He seems to be blinded by his own out-moded ideas, and is now presenting us with defective and absurd analysis. Witness this glaring blunder:
It was really a matter of which bishop to take, so since one of the false principles says control the third rank, I had 'em go Rxa3.
Rxg7 loses a rook and poses no mate threat at all.
duskrevival wrote:
GeniusKJ wrote:
except the knight hung the move before mate... but I guess if the hung knight was taken.... someone would get cancer.
No, that knight can't be taken, its not cancer, black will get "knight syndrome" and die
The knight doesn't need to be taken if it has been hung because there is no point in taking a dead knight.
Joseph-S wrote:
LegoPirate wrote:
akintews wrote:
Joseph-S wrote:
akintews wrote:
I might be wrong but doesn't 31. Qxf7+ force mate?
Looks like it to me. Good call!
It would make a good Sunday puzzle
No because Rxf7 is a check.
Are you cross-eyed?
Oh yeah the king is still on g1 on move 31. I thought that the king was already on f2.
to all of you who took this post seriously: you have been nerdsniped. good day.
on a serious note, running the pawn from the a4 opening like that is actually a halfway decent strategy. allows a pawn guarding that b7 square, basically takes away the kingside castle for black. perhaps i'll use that strat at some point.
Moving the rook pawn forward is a move that will usually have to be made later to avoid back rank mates, but not on the very first move.
Jul 20, 2011
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#218
checkmateibeatu wrote:
Rxg7 loses a rook and poses no mate threat at all.
Judas Priest! Will somebody pleez get this guy a copy of Bob Dylan's "Modern Chess Opening Stuff"? In it, this exact position is analyzed. Bob shows a forced mate in 85 moves......
theRonster456 wrote:
checkmateibeatu wrote:
Rxg7 loses a rook and poses no mate threat at all.
Judas Priest! Will somebody pleez get this guy a copy of Bob Dylan's "Modern Chess Opening Stuff"? In it, this exact position is analyzed. Bob shows a forced mate in 85 moves......
I won't believe you until you make a diagram that does the mate against every single legal responce by black.
Jul 20, 2011
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#220
Hahaha, checkmateibeatu, you must be the most sarcasm-immune guy I've ever seen. I'm actually impressed of you - in this thread there's such a high level of irony that even a blind guy could read the posts and get it...
Anyway, 1. a4!! clearly wins over any of your "principles" of chess. That, and developing the king as early as possible. Wins 100% of the time.