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Knight_Tour Chess: March 2008
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Chess blog for amateur players. Saturday, March 15, 2008. Reykjavik Open round 9. Event "Reykjavik Open 2008"]. Site "Reykjavik, Iceland"]. Date "2008.03.11"]. White "Ingvason, Johann"]. Black "Cross, Ted"]. 1 e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6. I have never played this before, but there wasn't much in the databases to help against this opponent in my normal Nc6 lines, plus I found that he pretty consistently played the same way with this e6 variation. 9 a3 Be7 10. Be2 b5. Better is 11. O-O). 12Nxc6 Qxc6 13. a4. I played t...
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Knight_Tour Chess: May 2008
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Chess blog for amateur players. Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Budapest Spring Chess Festival 2003. Event "Budapest Spring Chess Festival"]. Site "Budapest, Hungary"]. Date "2003.03.14"]. White "Cross, Ted"]. Black "Gorgs, Alfred"]. 1 e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 Qb6. How often does that happen? 7 Ndb5 a6 8. Be3 Qa5 9. Nd4. This is the idea, to offer a poisoned pawn on e4. He went for it! First I threaten both the knight and the f7 square. Now I create a weakness on c6. Losing is 14...
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Knight_Tour Chess: Reykjavik Open 2009 Rd. 8
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Chess blog for amateur players. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Reykjavik Open 2009 Rd. 8. I finally managed to play a pretty good game from start to finish. I am happy with this one. I learned my lesson from two rounds ago and decided to play a brand-new opening line so I would avoid my opponent's preparation. It is strange playing something that you don't know, but I don't think I made too many mistakes. Event "Reykjavik Open 2009"]. Site "Reykjavik, Iceland"]. Date "2009.03.31"]. Black "Cross, Ted"]. This ha...
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Knight_Tour Chess: Will I Ever Get to Play Again?
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Chess blog for amateur players. Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Will I Ever Get to Play Again? I know I am writing just for myself now, and who could blame anyone? I can't post anything if I don't have any chess experiences. I thought I would get to play here in Baku, the birthplace of Garry Kasparov and the home of some of the strongest GM's in the world, but I haven't been able to play at all. Hi have you moved yet? We would like to see any games and thoughts you have to offer! July 7, 2011 at 12:40 AM.
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Knight_Tour Chess: Chess in Baku
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Chess blog for amateur players. Friday, August 21, 2009. I recently arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan. I want to be able to play chess here, but the chess calendars that I have found so far do not show any events in Baku for the next year. There is the Baku Open in September, but unfortunately I don't think I can play in that due to being too new at work here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. New lesson on CV.tv along with some blitz games.
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Knight_Tour Chess: July 2008
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Chess blog for amateur players. Saturday, July 26, 2008. I haven't bothered to blog for awhile, because I haven't had any chances to play chess. I keep writing to local organizers asking them about things, but no one has been responding. I don't know if they are simply not receiving my emails, or if I am not receiving their replies. Event "1999 Golden Knights"]. White "Cross, Ted"]. Black "Hanlon, Richard"]. No one had played this variation against me before; they had always sacked the bishop on b4.
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Knight_Tour Chess: Reykjavik Open 2009 Rd. 9
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Chess blog for amateur players. Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Reykjavik Open 2009 Rd. 9. Event "Reykjavik Open 2009"]. Site "Reykjavik, Iceland"]. Date "2009.04.01"]. White "Cross, Ted"]. Black "Karlsson, Mikael"]. 1 e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Bd3 Qb6 6. Nb5? The proper move here is 6. Nb3, but I was feeling particularly aggresive and I didn't care if he took the pawn. He would have been fine taking the pawn: 6.Nxe4 7. Bxe4 Qxb5 8. Nc3 Qb6 9. O-O d5 and black has a small edge. I couldn't back ...
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Knight_Tour Chess: I Met Pal Benko Today
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Chess blog for amateur players. Friday, July 13, 2012. I Met Pal Benko Today. I don't post much here anymore, because I haven't been doing much with chess lately. I did play in a First Saturday tournament here in Budapest last November, but since my chess viewer stopped working, I didn't post anything about it back then. Photo of Benko from Chessbase. Haha, u shud get his contact number. August 7, 2012 at 12:23 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. I Met Pal Benko Today.
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Knight_Tour Chess: March 2009
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Chess blog for amateur players. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Reykjavik Open 2009: Photos from Round 1. A friend took some photos in round 1, and I just received them. Oddly enough, after so many tournaments, this is the first time I have photos of me playing in a tournament (not a simul):. Here is top seeded Ukrainian grandmaster Alexander Areshchenko in round 1, playing against fellow Ukrainian Anastazia Karlovich. US champion GM Yuri Shulman is the second seed. Me playing against GM Thorhallsson. This is w...
