choose your colour. If you want black, I play 1.d4

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The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing;
the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing.

I'd love to, but I'm trying to be self-disciplined and not play more than two games at once and I already have two games going with Håkan. Any more than that and I couldn't give my time to all the other things I need to do, and I couldn't afford my opponent with the courtesy and respect they deserve which is to play as well as I can against them.

So much to do, so little time to do it. It's a good job that we have no TV in the house!

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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage" - Anais Nin

ill play. ive been wanting to play you.

1. d4 Nf6

i think this is my fourth gamehttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif. but johann seems to have disappeared, and one i started yesterday, and haakans and mine are going slow. good luckhttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

Originally posted by Algernon Pondlife:
choose your colour. If you want black, I play 1.d4


There we go! http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/lol.gif

Thanks Stellar. Here's to a good game and may we confound the kibitzers!

Pay no mind to Anand he's just trying to frighten me http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4

I expect I'll have to be on my best behaviour against a moderator http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

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The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing;
the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing.

lol! maybe against sun tzu. you never know, maybe he is me in diguise!

out of spite to sun: civ sucks!!!

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6

ill try that.

hey sun, look how big my sig is!

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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
-Albert Einstein

2+2=5
-George Orwell, 1984

I don't fear Sun........at least while I'm playing you!

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3

I think I see what you are up to. Let the battle commence!

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........................"Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still"

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6

i heareth thee.http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3

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........................"Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still"

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7

i am reletively new to playing d4 Nf6 this way. i think i like it better. it is more aggressive, i think.

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5

You must have been reading my civ3 posts, Stellar; you know how I hate aggression!http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

I've never been on the White side of this opening before.

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"Ridicule can do much...but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas"
-Aaron Nimzovitch

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4

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"Ridicule can do much...but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas"
-Aaron Nimzovitch

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7.

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3

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"Ridicule can do much...but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas"
-Aaron Nimzovitch

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5

im pretty sure thats my move
thought i moved before. sorry

"Several options here.Hmmmm....caution or swashbuckle?"

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5

"swashbuckle" just like smashhttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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"Ridicule can do much...but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas"
-Aaron Nimzovitch

...cept I went cautious <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0>


guess the GM

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[This message has been edited by Smash (edited March 16, 2001).]

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5 Ne8

pretty damned swash-buckling if you ask me.http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif. you had me scared there, for a moment. i should have pushed e5 when i had the chance. my position is still good, though. i like it. what do you think, smash? everyone?

getting a little cramped.Complicated position allready

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5 Ne8
9. h4

I like my position to, but I'm not used to pushing so far forward this early (I once won a game without playing over the half-way line - fitba' metaphor), so maybe I don't know what I'm talking abouthttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif. Anyway I have a plan so "look sharp young man".

Smash I haven't a clue about the photo. I always think it strange that, seen singly like that, chessplayers look human; in fact you can't even tell he is a chessplayerhttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gifhttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

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"Ridicule can do much...but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas"
-Aaron Nimzovitch

Paul Keres

Ah. I believe I have heard him described as the best of his generation not to have become world champion. But I have to confess I have very little on him in my collection. All I could find quickly was a couple of games in Alekhine's "107 great chess battles"

And (I kept looking) this:

white: Keres black: Arlamowski

1.e4 c6
2.Nc3 d5
3.Nf3 de
4.Nxe4 Nf6
5.Qe2 Nbd7??
6.Nd6 mate

...accompanied by a warning about maintaining a sense of danger right from the start!

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"Ridicule can do much...but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas"
-Aaron Nimzovitch

His last tournament(he won) before passing was right here in Vancouver.It is now known as The Keres Memorial.

That is a funny game.Looks a little like a set up.I would hope that even I could avoid that http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5 Ne8
9. h4 pxp

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5 Ne8
9. h4 pxp
10. cd

just to make up for that little ditty, I have found a site with 2011 games of Paul Keres: http://www.phileo.demon.co.uk/uk_files.htm and they don't believe they have missed any!



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"Ridicule can do much...but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas"
-Aaron Nimzovitch

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5 Ne8
9. h4 pxp
10. cd d6

i saw what you were up to. amazing how vulnerable king is when knight is not there. ill have to try that one out sometime.

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5 Ne8
9. h4 pxp
10. cd d6
11. Bg5

If you are going to see all my plans I'll have to stop making anyhttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif (there is something clever in SMAC about that. I forget the exact quote)

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"Ridicule can do much...but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas"
-Aaron Nimzovitch

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5 Ne8
9. h4 pxp
10. cd d6
11. Bg5 f6 looks good.

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5 Ne8
9. h4 pxp
10. cd d6
11. Bg5 f6 looks good.
12. Qh5

in for a penny, in for a pound.

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"Ridicule can do much...but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas"
-Aaron Nimzovitch

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5 Ne8
9. h4 pxp
10. cd d6
11. Bg5 f6 looks bad. damn thats a terrible move! thats what you get when you dont look at what youre doing.
12. Qh5 f5

f6 looks terrible now.

Whoa!that is an awesome site.Just what I was looking for http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 b6
4. a3 Bb7
5. d5 Be7
6. e4 o-o
7. Bd3 c5
8. e5 Ne8
9. h4 pxp
10. cd d6
11. Bg5 f6
12. Qh5 f5
13. e6 ....
be that as it may, I don't think this game is over by a long way. I've found before that when I get clever it all looks good for a while then fizzles out.

Smash, I take it you mean uncrowned kings. Another site that gets my attention is http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/britbase/ which is trying to compile all games in British tournaments ever! So for example, Hastings 73 with Tal and Timman which I watched.

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"Ridicule can do much...but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas"
-Aaron Nimzovitch

I just thought I'd pop this to the top before I go away on holiday. Perhaps the phantom editor will notice ithttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Nothing is too wonderful to be true

i resign.

Thanks for the game Stellar. I'm still not sure it was all over but your position was a bit on the back foot as the English might sayhttp://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif You didn't have any more luck with their defence than I seem to. Do I gather from your comment in another place that you are giving up b6 as a system of play?