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A Heroic Defense in the Sicilian Najdorf - Kids, don't try this at home!
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Mar 27, 2019
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#83
Yeah, I still get crushed right in the opening occasionally... but then I occasionally play games like this one.
It balances out.
Mar 28, 2019
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#84
Yeah, and what if they do that stupid berlin thing... or what if White play Giuco Piano, or Scotch game? pushwood is dumdum...
Mar 30, 2019
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#86
Please don't use my thread to slag other posters. I will be very upset if you succeed in getting it closed.
Mar 30, 2019
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#88
hikarunaku wrote:
Amazing game @blueemu . I like your style,very creative.
Thanks.
Sometimes I play like a Master, other times I play like an idiot.
Apr 1, 2019
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#89
blueemu escribió:
Yup. For anyone not familiar with that 13, Bh6!! move in the Petroff, the story goes like this:
That innovation was found by none other than Bobby Fischer, when he was preparing to play Petrosian in the World Chess Championship Candidates cycle. Petrosian often played the Petroff, and had been known on occasion to play that specific line as Black. Fischer showed the move to a few friends, such as GMs Biyiasis and Browne, after swearing them to secrecy. As I recall, at that time they were discussing the possibility of writing a chess book and the subject of novelties came up in that context.
But Petrosian's "spider sense" must have been tingling, because when he actually faced Fischer over the board, he varied from his usual lines and Fischer never had the chance to uncork his novelty.
Fast-forward a few years, to Fischer's "wilderness years" as an expat in the late 1970s and 80s. He was no longer playing competitive chess. During one of the US tournaments, Browne ended up paired against Bisguier... who played this exact line in the Petroff.
The moment was not a great one. But neither are our times. Browne played the novelty.
This is the kind of stories that make me keep playing chess in the hopes of becoming a low end master.
Apr 22, 2019
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#90
ghost_of_pushwood escribió:
Prometheus_Fuschs wrote:
This is the kind of stories that make me keep playing chess in the hopes of becoming a low end master.
Makes me wonder why the hell I keep playing.
Kids these days, they are addicted to chess.
Woah! Nice game!
Apr 25, 2019
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#93
IMRonilm1204 wrote:
This game is posted religiously in the forums .
It is indeed. It is my offering to Caissa, the Goddess of Chess.
Apr 26, 2019
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#95
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
I figure this is more like the Goddess of Chess...
An inspiring illustration, but I still prefer Dominico Maria Fratta's "Caissa Trying To Distract Her Opponent By Taking All Her Clothes Off" (1763).
Of course, we all have our personal favorites...
Apr 26, 2019
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#96
blueemu wrote:
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
I figure this is more like the Goddess of Chess...
An inspiring illustration, but I still prefer Dominico Maria Fratta's "Caissa Trying To Distract Her Opponent By Taking All Her Clothes Off" (1763).
Of course, we all have our personal favorites...
"Goddess" is far too much of a stretch in my opinion. Admit it though, wouldn't most guys be at least somewhat distracted by this? You are supposed to play the board and not the opponent (no pun intended), but I'd lie if I were to say my chess play would be unfazed in this scenario.
Apr 26, 2019
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#97
KeSetoKaiba escribió:
blueemu wrote:
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
I figure this is more like the Goddess of Chess...
An inspiring illustration, but I still prefer Dominico Maria Fratta's "Caissa Trying To Distract Her Opponent By Taking All Her Clothes Off" (1763).
Of course, we all have our personal favorites...
"Goddess" is far too much of a stretch in my opinion. Admit it though, wouldn't most guys be at least somewhat distracted by this? You are supposed to play the board and not the opponent (no pun intended), but I'd lie if I were to say my chess play would be unfazed in this scenario.
Maybe you can counter-attack in, ummm, creative ways.
Apr 26, 2019
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#98
As long as you don't expose your flanks!
I'm not just making this up, by the way... that illustration really is Caissa (the Goddess whose portfolio is Chess), by Fratta, from the 1700s.
Apr 26, 2019
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#99
verylate wrote:
Why is it that all my creative sacrificial attacks are inspired by Dominico Maria Fratta; but by the endgame all I've got is Broomhilda?
lol I am the opposite. Dominico Maria Fratta better represents my endgame preference, but sometimes I don't reach such an ending due to an opponent's well executed attack mid-game. I am guessing it is partly what stage of the chess game you prefer and correspondingly practice more. I take it that you probably solve tactics more than I do, and that I might look at more endgame studies 
But is that not scheveningen anyway bluemu... with pawns side by side?
Or do you play like a Kasparov... hybrid style?
And what happened to Deardrie? Maybe she went bats and put in sanatorium...