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Posted by houseofcook cyclonechess.com 6/16/2008 10:29:18 Play online chess	Subject: French Defence, What do you play as White. Message: Hi there, A question for players who play the French defence as their main opening. What openings would you play as white ? I know this is dependant on the response by black. Is it a similar setup to the French, or totally unrelated? What was your thinking in choosing these setups ?
Posted by ionadowman cyclonechess.com 6/16/2008 13:38:35 Play online chess	My own favorite... Message: ... for White is 3.Nc3, hoping for the Winawer (an opening I like as Black as well, which says something about this line): 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5. 3.Nc3 and if Black plays 3...Bb4 we have the Winawer line, leading to a good fighting game. Black can try instead the exchange on e4 (I have a consultation game going on Gameknot at the moment in which the opponents have played this). Or he can try 3...Nf6, an OK line, but one I dislike as Black. Playing the French OTB almost exclusively for several years, I found four opponents out of five favoured the Tarrasch, 3.Nd2, keeping the c-pawn free to advance. Not particularly committal, it's not easy for Black to get a hold on the ensuing game. I favoured the Guimard (3...Nc6) with considerable success, but blocking Black's c-pawn isn't everyone's cup o' java. Finally, there's the more committal Advance Variation: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 (3...c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 are often played. White can then continue with the "standard" 6.Be2, or try the more ambitious 6.Bd3, possibly heading for the violent Milner-Barry Gambit: 6...cxd4 7.cxd4 Bd7 8.0-0 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4 10.Nc3 Qxe5 11.Re1 ... An example is the game kikoursus vs ionadowman played in 2005. There may be other lines (I gather 1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 is sometimes played), but these are the main ones. Cheers, Ion
Posted by kansaspatzer cyclonechess.com 6/16/2008 14:48:14 Play online chess	Message: I think he's asking what openings French players play when they're White. But FWIW, I play 2.Qe2 when faced with the French. ——— Senate Designates ‘Chess Day’ Before Heading Home — Passing a hard-fought deal to increase the country’s borrowing limit and reduce the budget deficit wasn’t all that the Senate did before recessing on Tuesday — at least for chess players. Overshadowed by the resolution of the fierce congressional debt-ceiling showdown was the Senate’s adoption of a resolution Tuesday designating Oct. 8, 2011 as “National Chess Day.” Introduced by Sen. John Rockefeller (D., W.Va.), the resolution recognizes the game as a “powerful cognitive learning tool” and “encourages the people of the U.S. to observe “National Chess Day” with appropriate programs and activities.” It noted that “many studies have linked chess programs to the improvement of ...
Posted by chessisvanity cyclonechess.com 6/16/2008 22:34:55 Play online chess	pffft... Message: Throw them off....I play the exchange. Why would I sit there and let a guy play his favorite opening? If i play 1.e4 and he plays 1...e6 I know he knows the French. So i play 2.d4...d5 3.exd5! Yes some say this might be drawish....but unless he is 2200 or better then i have the advantage. The same goes with the caro-kann. The exchange variation!! ——— Chess: Knight moves — The finely tuned positional antennae of Ulf Andersson sense a problem requiring a harmonious solution. More from the master of positional play, Ulf Andersson. How did he manage to improve his position? RB: Last week I went for an exchange sacrifice in the game Andersson-Tempone. It wasn't the continuation that Andersson chose, which should perhaps be enough to warn me against the move I am thinking of here – 1…Rd4. If White accepts the offer, 2 Bxd4 then 2…exd4 and the knight, which is pinned to the queen, is lost. But, of course, it's not going to be that simple. White can refuse to play ball and instead go ...
Posted by houseofcook cyclonechess.com 6/16/2008 23:27:35 Play online chess	French Defence,what do you play as white. Message: Thanks for the replies. It was interesting to find out what French players would play against the French. I appreciate the in depth reply from ionadowman, but I did mean what does a French player play as white, what would be your initial moves, would you start with 1.d4 or 1. e4 or something else ? ——— Rise of computers has lifted game — Bobby Fischer was rarely wrong about chess matters. But in one critical issue, he erred grievously: Late in life, he concluded that chess was played out. Most of the important possibilities in the opening phase had been explored and understood, he thought, and grandmasters’ reliance on computers had taken the creativity out of the game. But it seems that the opposite is true. A complete database of chess games now would be in the millions, not in the tens or hundreds of thousands as in Fischer’s time. And that volume continues to grow as an increasing number of strong chess players, playing an ever larger number of games, dominates chess. Not surprisingly, chess players’ repertoires have ...
Posted by chessisvanity cyclonechess.com 6/16/2008 23:31:54 Play online chess	... Message: well duh... A french player will have an advantage playing against the French so I imagine they play 1.e4 as white. ——— Armenia Takes Team Title; Chinese Player Is Top Scorer — The Chess Olympiad, which was first held in 1924, is the most elite national team event in the chess world. But the World Team Chess Championship is in some ways more competitive because it includes only 10 squads, so there are no easy matches. This year, Armenia, the No. 4 seed, was the runaway winner at the chess event, which ended on Tuesday in Ningbo, China. It was hardly an upset; the Armenians, behind Levon Aronian, have won two of the last three Chess Olympiads, which are held every two years. China, the No. 6 seed, finished second, and Ukraine lived up to its seeding by winning the bronze medal. Russia, which was the top seed and had won the last two Team Chess Championships, finished ...
Posted by ionadowman cyclonechess.com 6/17/2008 00:44:42 Play online chess	Sorry - Message: - Misunderstood you to mean what would I play if faced with the French. But you can infer that I was not afraid to face the French myself, so would open 1.e4 at least sometimes. But my stock opening as White, for even longer than the French was when I was Black, was the English Opening: 1.c4. 1.e4 was more of a "change" opening, just for the sake of variety. Some "English" players tend to stick with "pure" English positions, but I was more than happy to transpose into King's Indian Defences (from White's perspective), Sicilians Reversed or (surprisingly frequently) Maroczy Binds. Quite a few French defence player like the King's Indian Attack as White, but I never had much luck with it... Cheers, Ion ——— Armenia replaces England as nation that punches above its weight — In the 1980s and 1990s England punched above their weight in world chess events. Silver medals in the Chess Olympiads of 1984, 1986 and 1988 and bronze at the 1985 and 1989 world teams were followed by gold at the 1997 Euroteams. After that the England chess team aged or retired, while competition increased with the break-up of the Soviet Union. There have been hopes in the past two years that a new England chess group could become international contenders, as Luke McShane, David Howell and Gawain Jones became strong chess grandmasters to support the established stars Michael Adams and Nigel Short. But recently McShane has reverted to a full-time job and is not competing in ...
Posted by lighttotheright cyclonechess.com 6/18/2008 12:53:52 Play online chess	Message: Ion, You and I apparently like the same openings with the same variations! That's spooky. Maybe we know some things others don't.:-O
Posted by ionadowman cyclonechess.com 6/18/2008 13:43:38 Play online chess	... Message: Ken - I wonder what they can be?? :-/ Maybe we just like lines with a bit of fight in them? (I have to admit, though, my record with the English on GK hasn't been all that wonderful...) Cheers, Ion
Posted by premium_steve cyclonechess.com 7/07/2008 12:25:10 Play online chess	Message: i'm a french player now (i used to play the alekhine and scandinavian), and i most often prefer 1.e4. it's true that as black i like to play fairly solidly with 1.e6 because i have found that most lines give me a position i am comfortable with - without much risk of being a lot worse out of the opening. as white i feel i can take more liberties in an open style game and look for some kind of attack. (that being said, i still fear open sicilians as white!) sometimes i'll give 1.d4 or 1.f4 a try, or maybe 1.g3.
Posted by markb56 cyclonechess.com 7/13/2008 15:44:40 Play online chess	Maginot Line / Hitler Gambit Message: If I were playing white against the French I would try to try to get black to play the Maginot Line after which it's an easy matter to maneuver your pieces around the flank. However, white must be careful and avoid the now refuted Hitler Gambit, because if white gets too bold he will find himself fighting on two different fronts.
Posted by kansaspatzer cyclonechess.com 7/13/2008 17:19:33 Play online chess	Message: I just recently switched to the French and I normally play e4, although there are certain opponents I'll play d4 against. I must admit I'm not all that booked up against the Sicilian but playing lots of Gameknot games using the opening DB helps when you get OTB, IMO.
Posted by wulebgr cyclonechess.com 7/25/2008 12:03:17 Play online chess	As I French player, Message: I understand the futility of 1.e4. I play 1.g3, 1.d4, 1.c4, and 1.Nf3, reserving 1.e4 for weaker opponents and blitz.
Posted by kansaspatzer cyclonechess.com 7/26/2008 22:27:47 Play online chess	Message: So what is the Hitler gambit? The only Google hit for it is this page...
Posted by jstevens1 cyclonechess.com 7/26/2008 23:49:54 Play online chess	Expert Draw! Message: Hi everyone! Just to let you know that there is a game on the Public Annotations where I had the black pieces and played against The Tarrasch. The game is called Expert Draw because at the time my opponent was 832 points north of my rating. Despite a 2 pawn deficit I managed to draw it. This was a big result because it is still the only time I have managed to draw against an Expert. Ionadowman has already commented on the game but if any of you have anything to add please feel free to do so. Hope you have all enjoyed your weekend. Cheers and bye for now. Joanne
Posted by savage4731 cyclonechess.com 7/29/2008 01:22:30 Play online chess	Kansaspatzer Message: That's because the correct way for black to play is just to resign as soon as possible.