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| From | Message | Posted by greenrat777 blitzbrain.net
4/20/2008 12:59:06 Play online chess | Subject: evans gambit
Message: i have been learning how to play the evans gambit . have not done very good with it so far . lost about six games in a row . playing evans gambit from the white side of the board . not ready to give up on it yet though . if any one who knows how to play the evans gambit or wants to learn how to play the evans gambit . would you let me know . we can play two unrated games . one white and one black .
| Posted by cairo blitzbrain.net
4/20/2008 14:14:09 Play online chess | Another
Message: thing you also could do, was to start a Minitournament with the opening of Evans Gambit and then invite some players to play this opening.
Best wishes
Cairo
| Posted by cascadejames blitzbrain.net
4/20/2008 23:07:48 Play online chess | Green
Message: OK after a week off to do the taxes, that actually sounds fun. I will send you a challenge. If you
accept it I will send another.
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Posted by marinvukusic blitzbrain.net
4/21/2008 01:09:24 Play online chess | How serious are you?
Message: If you want to learn about the Evans, I suggest a book: "Play the Evans Gambit", Hardnig & Cafferty, Cadogan Chess
It was written in 1997. but is still the best book on Evans IMHO ——— Topalov Closes In on Linares Title — After eight rounds, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed, holds a one point lead in the annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain. Alexander Grischuk of Russia, the defending champion, is in second place after beating Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan in Round 8 on Sunday. Levon Aronian of Armenia is in third, having managed, like Topalov, not to have lost a game in the chess tournament. Unlike Topalov, who has won three games, Aronian has not won a game either. So far, 25 percent of the games have been decisive, but that does not mean that the other 75 percent have been dull. Quite the contrary. The games have mostly been hard fought and exciting, even ...
Posted by tim_b blitzbrain.net
4/21/2008 08:17:02 Play online chess |
Message: marinvukusic, can I ask what the book says about 5. ... Bd6 ? (perhaps followed by 6. ... Qe7) It seems to take the sting right out of it. ——— Weekend of Fun and Friends Between Battles on the Chess Board — The highlight of the year for many chess players is Washington’s Birthday weekend, when four amateur team championships are held across the country. There are no cash prizes, but the chess tournaments are popular because of the camaraderie. Players walk back and forth chatting before, after and even during the games. Some renew friendships with competitors they see only once a year. The World Amateur Team East tournament in Parsippany, N.J., the biggest and oldest of the chess events, celebrated its 40th birthday this year. There were 1,150 players and 271 teams, down from 283 teams last year, said Steve Doyle, the tournament’s director, who ...
Posted by marinvukusic blitzbrain.net
4/22/2008 01:50:50 Play online chess | tim_b
Message: Sure, it is considered the best of "unusual" defences to Evans.
There are only 2 pages of analysis, since it is a rare move.
White should probably play "main" variation: 6.d4, Qe7; 7.0-0, Nf6; 8.Nbd2, 0-0; 9.Bd3 with some advantage. In any case the move is good enough for Black players that fear White's preparation (no need to learn a lot of theory and White's advantage is small).
I have never seen it played since obviously only White players buy books on the Evans and it does look too dangerous to improvise with 5...Bd6 :) ——— At Halfway Point, Topalov Leads at Linares — The annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain began earlier this week, and after five rounds — or halfway through — Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed and No. 2 chess player in the world, is leading with 3.5 points, a point ahead of the field. Linares has been among the world’s elite chess tournaments since the early 1990s, when Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov were regular competitors. This year’s tournament has only six players, though they are all among the world’s best. The format is a double round robin in which each chess competitor faces all the others twice, playing once with White and once with Black. Aside from Topalov ...
Posted by heinzkat blitzbrain.net
4/22/2008 02:28:05 Play online chess | After 5. ... Bd6
Message: get your Knight from b1 to f5. ——— The f-pawn, part 1: cheap, crude and obvious? — Is an f-pawn advance the chess game's equivalent of route-one football? RB For some time I've been nagging Dan to do a series of columns on the f-pawn advance. He's been resistant, partly, I suspect, because pushing the f-pawn is a bit like route-one football, the long ball punted down the park in hopes of a quick goal. The advance can sometimes be crude, obvious and speculative, but, like the infamous route-one game, it can also produce results, and, as we will see over the next few weeks, some very classy chess players have used it. We start with one of the classiest of all time, Botvinnik, in a chess game played in the decade before he became world chess champion. Having ...
Posted by tim_b blitzbrain.net
4/22/2008 05:34:42 Play online chess |
Message: Thanks, marinvukusic and heinzkat, I'll remember those tips.
Heinzkat, I'm a little unsure how to manoeuvre the b1 knight to f5? Have you got a game example, please?
| Posted by cairo blitzbrain.net
4/22/2008 13:44:02 Play online chess | Bent Larsen
Message: use to play 5.... Bd6 against the Evans Gambit, it should be possible to look up some games at the net.
Best wishes
Cairo
| Posted by davido_check blitzbrain.net
4/26/2008 23:42:47 Play online chess |
Message: Evans Gambit used to be my fav opening for White, if you care to look into my past games, there are several games on it in there.
That opening lost its popularity throughout the years due to effective counterplay until one day when Kasparov used it to beat Anand (I think, he discovered a new line?).
Look up Paul Morphy's games for the Evans!
| Posted by cairo blitzbrain.net
4/27/2008 03:31:01 Play online chess | Here is the famous game
Message: EVANS GAMBIT
DO YOU REMEMBER THIS FAMOUS GAME?
EVANS GAMBIT
Riga 1995
Kasparov Garry - Anand Viswanathan
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Be7 6.d4 Na5 7.Be2 exd4 8.Qxd4! Nf6 9.e5 Nc6 10.Qh4 Nd5 11.Qg3 g6 12.0-0 Nb6 13. c4 d6 14. Rd1 Nd7 15.Bh6 Nxce5 16. Nxe5 Nxe5 17. Nc3 f6 18. c5 Nf7? 19.cxd6 cxd6 20.Qe3 Nxh6 21.Qxh6 Bf8 22.Qe3+ Kf7 23.Nd5 Be6 24.Nf4 Qe7+ 25.Qe1 1-0
DID ANAND HAD TO PLAY 11...g6?
Best wishes
Cairo
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