Bash vs Algae

Hm-m-m... Do you prefer cramped position as well as Smash?
Well, I feel to be oblidged for pressing you as hard as possible for giving best pleasure to fight in really cramped stance :). Catch it!

1. e4 d6
2. d4

Never really understood Ufimtzev' idea - black position REALLY cramped for my pleasure...
 
1. e4 d6
2. d4 Nf6

well I came across the Robatsch about 1966 in Golombek's Penguin book "The Game of Chess" and since everyone disregarded it I thought it would be a good idea, especially as there was little published analysis at that time. The Pirc/Robatsch/Ufimtsev/Pytel/Modern Defense has been an addiction ever since. Earlier this week I won in seventeen moves with it, playing as a sacrificial board 4 in an 8-board match:).

I could tell you of many triumphs over the years but, of course, sometimes I get a little bit passive and never take off.

Which will this be?:)
good luck:):)

The system is a favourite of one of the very few Scottish GMs, so I also play it out of comradeship:D

edit: [I got a name wrong above; I should have said Antal, not Pytel; Antal is also an originator/developer of the Pirc and it was sometimes called Antal's defence; Pytel is associated with lines beginning 1.e4, d6 2.d4, Nf6 but without the fianchetto. I don't know much about that]
 
Well, it was coaxing of some sort for luring you into Phylidor system with change of pace. (I prefer playing Phylly rather Pirce-Ufimtsev - you see). But if you intend to play it as "pure" P-U let it be so...

1. e4 d6
2. d4 Nf6
3. Nc3
 
1. e4 d6
2. d4 Nf6
3. Nc3 g6

Philidor's: I looked it up. That involves putting a pawn on King-4! in the opening!! This is chess:D I don't do things like that:) Never have.... well once ever.......in special circumstances. Placing a pawn on e4 or e5 at the beginning, first it can be attacked; secondly your opponent might think you are being aggressive...and he might do something about it.
 
sorry I was playing my move before your second post got through

1. e4 d6
2. d4 Nf6
3. Nc3 g6
4. f4 Bg7
5. Nf3 c5

I haven't been in this position since .... earlier this week:)

[edit:] now that I have c5 in, I'm no longer cramped:D:D
 
What. No Bishop check?:)

1. e4 d6
2. d4 Nf6
3. Nc3 g6
4. f4 Bg7
5. Nf3 c5
6. e5 Nfd7

[the game I won on Tuesday went 6.d5,O-O 7.Be2,b5 8.Bxb5,Nxe4 and then got better very quickly. I think you will last longer with this line:)]
 
1. e4 d6
2. d4 Nf6
3. Nc3 g6
4. f4 Bg7
5. Nf3 c5
6. e5 Nfd7
7. Be3

Bishop check??? Weird idea - just waste of really all-important time. I thought that P-U for White is about crushing Black position - not about checking around. Oh, general fighting in P-U is on BLACK squares - not on the white! Then d4 is a grave mistake!
 
1. e4 d6
2. d4 Nf6
3. Nc3 g6
4. f4 Bg7
5. Nf3 c5
6. e5 Nfd7
7. Be3 O-O

I agree, but I meet Bb5+ much more frequently. My moves may slow down soon as we are at the fringe of my direct experience (hope that does not give you too much encouragement).

What time are you on? is it three hours+ on GMT?
How is the weather in moscow? I believe winter tends to settle in early and long (compared with UK).
 
Sure thing - +3GMT & it is heavy snowing now. Yes, it's rather cold today, but we always have got snowing in "october Revolution celebrities". Do you saw famous "red Army parade in Red Square in 1941"? Weather today is the same... I'm glad that today isn't 1941 - by the way... :)

1. e4 d6
2. d4 Nf6
3. Nc3 g6
4. f4 Bg7
5. Nf3 c5
6. e5 Nfd7
7. Be3 O-O
8. h4

Yesss... My preciousss...
 
Ha! Attila the Hun and Chinghis Khan all rolled into one. If this was otb, I would take a fifteen minute (minimum) think before my next move. So I am going to set up a proper chess board and take a wee look at the situation before replying. nice to see your deeds back up your words. No paper tiger here! Now I know for sure why Smash calls you Bash:).

I remember reading somewhere that thousands once stood out in the snow in Moscow when the World championship was being played before a capacity audience. The moves were relayed out of the theatre. I can't remember which year it was, though I feel it might have been when Tal (or perhaps Smyslov) was involved.

My other favourite chess story from your part of the world is when all (but one, I think) of the games in a round of the soviet Championships, which was also a Zonal, were very quick draws because there was live international football on the telly.
 
Yeah< it seems that very many guys attended matches between Bronstein & Botvinnick; Smyslow & Botvinnick in rather cold weather hearing radioreport from Collonny zal, but Tal fighting was in warm-time period (I'm not sure, but I have a Tal photo with living flowers & laurel without any coat - definitely out of building (he was chronically ill - weak lungs, then I'm sure it was a very warm day outside - indeed).
Oh, I come into stansco & if you wish you can fight me there as well. (Recently I had a mounting prblms with connect to civfanatics from my workplace - then I connect this place only from my home, but my exchange rate here rather small in comparison with my working console...)
Suit yourself - it's rather turning point of our game - I'll definitely try to cave in your skull now if you won't get any remedy & fast! (By the way - I definitely puzzled by our choice of moving - your c5 move is rathe premature & you would need your Knight on e8 square - not in d7 - then you had to made 0-0, then Ne8 & only after that - c5 - AFAIK. You would got a very cramped position, but you'd have less problem then in this variant - NOW. By the way - I have an intention to move my h pawn to the hilt - as far as you let me, of course. Then If your Knight would be in e8, you would get your c8 Bishop for relieve mission, but in this variant your problem begin looming now...
 
Sorry, I forgot to add Smeagol to the list of your role models.

6. e5 Nfd7
7. Be3 O-O
8. h4 cxd5

You have gone right to the heart of why chess is such a rich and beautiful game. I have always favoured the c5 line because I never could get any counterplay without it. It is all very well to have a slightly better defensive position, but once the storm is weathered it is nice to have some means of hitting back. I know what you mean about the Knight on e8. I used to play it in more classical positions where the WB was on g5, pinning things on the Qd8, and the w-pawn advanced to e5 so that I could answer exd with Ne8xd6.

Of course if you tell me first that your intention is a direct King assault, I will deploy optimally to meet it, but if I play 5..... O-O you can simply play Bd3 and O-O and force me to indulge in a tactical melee with .... e5 to avoid being slowly crushed. not my cup of tea.

On the whole I favour getting some space on the Q-side and hoping it all comes back to me when my opponent over-reaches his attack:). As they say, one man's fish is another man's poisson or something like that.

5. ..., c5 was a bit controversial when I first used it (in May 1966 - I just looked it up -sad really), but it has stood the test of time and is now part of accepted theory. In fact Nunn and McNab say it "must be considered black's most reliable answer to the Austrian Attack"

All of which is so much hot air as far as finding the next right move is concerned:) (for both of us)
 
I had just posted an edit above to correct Pytel to Antal and I went back to my google search where I have been browsing references to Vasja Pirc. (Sad isn't it? But Bash has been bashing him so I thought I'ld do a little digging.)

Anyway I found this site: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.delaire/Tournois/Hastings.htm
and browsed through to the early seventies when I lived in Hastings and both took part in and spectated at the Hastings Congress. Only to discover that in 73-74 I had actually seen Pytel play in the top event! Oh for a decent memory!!

The next year was my last in Hastings and then I witnessed a very young Tony Miles take 2 points from Vaganian and Beliavsky in successive rounds.
 
Sorry. You are correct. Counting was never my strong point:)

6. e5 Nfd7
7. Be3 O-O
8. h4 cxd4
9. Bxd4 ......

dammit! I had worked out what to do next this morning. Now I've forgotten. I'm going to have to sleep on this position. Sorry.
 
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