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Posted by kansaspatzer chesspeak.com 6/12/2008 13:48:07 play online chess	Subject: The X-Rated Albin Counter-Gambit Message: This article by Andrew Martin, which Martin admits himself is propaganda in favor of the opening, inspired me to buy Martin's DVD on the opening. I know it's probably not sound, but it really is a fun opening. And it was used successfully by no lesser of a player than Lasker. www.jeremysilman.com
Posted by lapsekili chesspeak.com 6/14/2008 07:46:05 play online chess	thanks Message: really interesting opening even though some moves look funny but then you understand they have a purpose.
Posted by sf115 chesspeak.com 6/14/2008 14:48:56 play online chess	Message: After 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 what does black do if white doesn't play dxe5.?
Posted by ccmcacollister chesspeak.com 6/14/2008 15:29:15 play online chess	sf115 Message: Probably equalize on move 3, since bl has been permitted to play a move he should not have been able to get in without penalty... I love the Albin on both sides. It just feels like one of those openings one could spend a lifetime playing and studying and never lose interest :)
Posted by ionadowman chesspeak.com 6/14/2008 16:38:05 play online chess	A very pawnographic debut... Message: ... I can think of worse ways of getting your jollies! I never knew the line was so replete with possibilities. Must try it some time... Cheers, Ion
Posted by lapsekili chesspeak.com 6/16/2008 03:09:34 play online chess	to stf115 Message: you said what happenes if white doesnt play dxe5? black controls the center and have an advantage i think.because he will have both pawns on e5 and d5
Posted by ccmcacollister chesspeak.com 10/14/2008 13:01:12 play online chess	albin ... Message: Take it for granted that a bad word has been said which does not show up on the screen.... for I saw a real interesting Albin annotation and been awhile, Ive forgotten exactly where. I think it was on Silman's site. Anyone been to it?
Posted by bogg chesspeak.com 10/15/2008 02:20:50 play online chess	It can't be all that bad. Message: Morozevich has been winning with the Albin. CTC (Bogg)
Posted by ccmcacollister chesspeak.com 10/15/2008 04:20:45 play online chess	and .... Message: Morozevich IS my Hero~! I think probably the highest rated player I have seen be as adventurously innovative & into new ideas that can be really far out ...but they generally work out, tho maybe walking a fine line. Perhaps its just that on one else understands or expects them~? For eg getting hit with an Albin Counter-gambit. But really looking back, even Max Euwe, despite his win against it, can't say it didnt give him a thinking game. Thanks bogg, I'll have to look at some of those Moro's!
Posted by schnarre chesspeak.com 10/28/2008 01:43:11 play online chess	if not dxe5 Message: then Black has a number of options: if 3. Nc3 then ...exd4, 4. Qxd4 Nc6, 5. Qxd5 Be6! leaves Black in good stead. Another option for Black is ...Nc6, clamping down on the central squares.
Posted by jstevens1 chesspeak.com 10/28/2008 14:16:41 play online chess	I have an Albin Game for you all! Message: Hi everyone, just to let you know that I have publicly annotated a draw game between me and a buddy called rjacobs. That one started as an Albin. Cheers. Joanne
Chess news: Mark Hebden and Simon Williams unlucky in British Chess Championship -- It is unusual in the British chess championship to score 8.5/11 and not at least tie for first place, but it occurred last week to both players in this week's game. They finished half a point behind David Howell, after Simon Williams used the dashing King's Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 f4) to give the new 18-year-old chess champion a rocky passage while Mark Hebden missed a forced win (see this week's puzzle). It was still a fine performance by both. Hebden is now aged 51 and has been a chess championship regular for 30 years, yet this was his best result. Though losing to Howell and Williams, he trounced the rest of his opponents with eight wins and a draw. Williams followed ... Chess Cheats, Spies, Crooks and Commies -- Nikolai Krylenko, the Soviet Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General, used to sentence innocent people to death in show trials in the 1930s, until he himself perished in 1938 in Stalin's Great Purge. He neglected his work by spending too much time on chess and mountain climbing, his accusers claimed. In chess, Krylenko had a vision: He wanted to export the game as part of Soviet culture and to establish Soviet domination in the chess world. He began a ruthless game, playing with human pawns -- the Soviet chess masters and champions. In 1948, Mikhail Botvinnik won the world title. The aim was achieved. Since 1931, Botvinnik was regarded as the best Soviet chess player and ... Six tie for first in U.S. Open -- The 110th U.S. Open ended in a six-way tie for first place last Sunday in Indianapolis. Chess Grandmasters Dmitry Gurevich (Illinois), Jesse Kraai (El Cerrito, Calif.), Sergey Kudrin (Connecticut) and Alex Yermolinsky (South Dakota) and International Masters Alex Lenderman (New York) and Jacek Stopa (Poland) each scored 7 1/2 -1 1/2 in the 455-player chess event. The first five earned invitations to the 2010 U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis. Gurevich defeated Kudrin in a speed-chess playoff for the title of 2009 U.S. Open champion. Eugene Yanayt of Santa Monica was the best-scoring Southern Californian, finishing in a tie for 18th place ...