Educational. I'm going to have to play Bc5 against the Italian. Nf6 gets me into trouble fast.
In a lot of my games, there are pawn storms against opposite castles. Knowing how to launch them and how to stop slow them is important.
What problem do you have with Nf6? I've recently taken the 2 Knights defense as my response to the Italian, and I haven't found any problem.
'Cause he probably ain't know how to deal with Ng5.
Educational. I'm going to have to play Bc5 against the Italian. Nf6 gets me into trouble fast.
In a lot of my games, there are pawn storms against opposite castles. Knowing how to launch them and how to stop slow them is important.
What problem do you have with Nf6? I've recently taken the 2 Knights defense as my response to the Italian, and I haven't found any problem.
'Cause he probably ain't know how to deal with Ng5.
I know Na5 is considered the Mainline, but I prefer the Traxler (4...Bc5!?, leading to very sharp games), and I've started to look at the Ulvestad (4...b5!?) after my game against Attila Turzo.
Educational. I'm going to have to play Bc5 against the Italian. Nf6 gets me into trouble fast.
In a lot of my games, there are pawn storms against opposite castles. Knowing how to launch them and how to stop slow them is important.
What problem do you have with Nf6? I've recently taken the 2 Knights defense as my response to the Italian, and I haven't found any problem.
'Cause he probably ain't know how to deal with Ng5.
I know Na5 is considered the Mainline, but I prefer the Traxler (4...Bc5!?, leading to very sharp games), and I've started to look at the Ulvestad (4...b5!?) after my game against Attila Turzo.
I tested the gambit with an engine. It got a really poor score.
This gambit has yet to work for me.
Educational. I'm going to have to play Bc5 against the Italian. Nf6 gets me into trouble fast.
In a lot of my games, there are pawn storms against opposite castles. Knowing how to launch them and how to stop slow them is important.
What problem do you have with Nf6? I've recently taken the 2 Knights defense as my response to the Italian, and I haven't found any problem.
'Cause he probably ain't know how to deal with Ng5.
I know Na5 is considered the Mainline, but I prefer the Traxler (4...Bc5!?, leading to very sharp games), and I've started to look at the Ulvestad (4...b5!?) after my game against Attila Turzo.
I tested the gambit with an engine. It got a really poor score.
This gambit has yet to work for me.
The traxler needs practice and a good knowledge of some variations, specially if your opponent plays Nxf7 and then captures the bishop. It's difficult to make it work (some people say all you can get is a perpetual, but I don't think so), but I have a lot of fun playing it.
If you want, we can play a practice game in the Traxler. 
Educational. I'm going to have to play Bc5 against the Italian. Nf6 gets me into trouble fast.
In a lot of my games, there are pawn storms against opposite castles. Knowing how to launch them and how to stop slow them is important.
What problem do you have with Nf6? I've recently taken the 2 Knights defense as my response to the Italian, and I haven't found any problem.
'Cause he probably ain't know how to deal with Ng5.
I know Na5 is considered the Mainline, but I prefer the Traxler (4...Bc5!?, leading to very sharp games), and I've started to look at the Ulvestad (4...b5!?) after my game against Attila Turzo.
I tested the gambit with an engine. It got a really poor score.
This gambit has yet to work for me.
The traxler needs practice and a good knowledge of some variations, specially if your opponent plays Nxf7 and then captures the bishop. It's difficult to make it work (some people say all you can get is a perpetual, but I don't think so), but I have a lot of fun playing it.
If you want, we can play a practice game in the Traxler.
Your beloved Trexler is already refuted.
Here are several different ways:
Educational. I'm going to have to play Bc5 against the Italian. Nf6 gets me into trouble fast.
In a lot of my games, there are pawn storms against opposite castles. Knowing how to launch them and how to stop slow them is important.
What problem do you have with Nf6? I've recently taken the 2 Knights defense as my response to the Italian, and I haven't found any problem.
'Cause he probably ain't know how to deal with Ng5.
I know Na5 is considered the Mainline, but I prefer the Traxler (4...Bc5!?, leading to very sharp games), and I've started to look at the Ulvestad (4...b5!?) after my game against Attila Turzo.
I tested the gambit with an engine. It got a really poor score.
This gambit has yet to work for me.
The traxler needs practice and a good knowledge of some variations, specially if your opponent plays Nxf7 and then captures the bishop. It's difficult to make it work (some people say all you can get is a perpetual, but I don't think so), but I have a lot of fun playing it.
If you want, we can play a practice game in the Traxler.
Your beloved Trexler is already refuted.
Here are several different ways:
Educational. I'm going to have to play Bc5 against the Italian. Nf6 gets me into trouble fast.
In a lot of my games, there are pawn storms against opposite castles. Knowing how to launch them and how to stop slow them is important.
What problem do you have with Nf6? I've recently taken the 2 Knights defense as my response to the Italian, and I haven't found any problem.
'Cause he probably ain't know how to deal with Ng5.
I know Na5 is considered the Mainline, but I prefer the Traxler (4...Bc5!?, leading to very sharp games), and I've started to look at the Ulvestad (4...b5!?) after my game against Attila Turzo.
I tested the gambit with an engine. It got a really poor score.
This gambit has yet to work for me.
The traxler needs practice and a good knowledge of some variations, specially if your opponent plays Nxf7 and then captures the bishop. It's difficult to make it work (some people say all you can get is a perpetual, but I don't think so), but I have a lot of fun playing it.
If you want, we can play a practice game in the Traxler.
Your beloved Trexler is already refuted.
Here are several different ways:
That's not a refutation.
You give up a piece for some dubious position.
You are losing in this position.
It's not even a matter of opinion.
The sooner people stop playing stupid gambits, the better.
Here is my first annotated game. I also happens to be my best game.
http://blog.chess.com/sfriedman71/best-game-first-annotated
@TonyH:
I am still looking to get together at Coffeetime or PCH if you feel like getting together. Posted on our club page today.
V69
If you feel like meeting at one of those places, Re: to this post and we will see if we can meet up sometime this week.
lol yereslov's trolling is showing flaws again. btw, the traxler is one of the exceptions to where you can't rely on your engine. it's too complicated, even after computer analysis for a short amount of time. Try turning on your computer for 4 days in a row-maybe you'll solve one variation.
Actually there are several refutations. The simplest one is the third one I mentioned.
With excellent play white gets dominated.
lol yereslov's trolling is showing flaws again. btw, the traxler is one of the exceptions to where you can't rely on your engine. it's too complicated, even after computer analysis for a short amount of time. Try turning on your computer for 4 days in a row-maybe you'll solve one variation.
Traxler-Angriff (AKA Petroff is not irrefutable against engine play. It has some highly aggressive Counter-attack lines but to say that engines cannot analyze the TGA would be akin to saying that an engine cannot compute all lines of the Sicilian Defense, which are far more copious than the TGA. I have Fritz11 and I play @ 866mhz with 8GB ram setting at 2899 rating and the results are 20/20/60 approx w/l/d in nearly all lines. Not sure where the idea came from but i think people might look at that we use our brains not Intel to analyze the games.
I just executed my first smothered mate. This is the blog post with a puzzle from that game: http://blog.chess.com/sfriedman71/my-first-smothered-mate
Here's a game where I played an unsound line in the opening, overlooked a piece sacrifice by my opponent... and then had to fight my way back into the game.
Here's a game where I played the Traxler and won. I'll admit my opponent might have not played perfecly, but I'm sure I also missed some moves:
ok, found it, tnx. So seems Bishop sac was right? :)
I don't know. Your opponent would have probably made the wrong move.
I'll say yes.