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| Posted by aixrad intochess.com 8/23/2008 12:35:02 Play online chess |  Subject: Ruy LopezMessage: What are the right moves for both? 1. e4 e5 2. Sf3 Sc6 3. Lb5 Lb4 4. O-O Sf6 5. c3 Lc5 6. d4 Lb6 7. Te1 d5 |
| Posted by gamlet intochess.com 8/23/2008 18:19:05 Play online chess | ruy lopez Message: |
Chess news: The Catalan chess opening part 1: how does White avert this crisis? -- The classic chess opening served Anand well in his chess world championship matches. But how best to exploit its strengths? The Catalan opening gave Anand two wins in the world chess championship, and has long been popular among the world's elite. It is basically a Queen's Gambit in which White fianchettos. It can be reached via several different move orders, for example: 1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 g3, or 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 g3 d5 4 Bg2. The bishop is tricky on the long diagonal, and the fianchetto provides a safe king position after castling. RB I've always tended to get the Catalan confused with the Bogo-Indian, various Benoni systems, and even ... Gata Kamsky wins U.S. Chess Championship -- Gata Kamsky of New York won the U.S. Chess Championship on Tuesday in St. Louis. In an odd finish to the 24-player event, Kamsky drew to break a tie with Yury Shulman of Chicago. The chess tournament began with seven conventional rounds. Then top scorers Kamsky, Shulman, Alexander Onischuk (Baltimore) and 2009 chess champion Hikaru Nakamura (St. Louis) qualified for a round robin to determine the top four places. Kamsky and Shulman scored 2-1, while Nakamura and Onischuk tied for third at 1-2. In the game that decided the title of chess champion and the $30,000 first prize, Kamsky chose to play Black with draw odds and 25 minutes against Shulman's 60 minutes. Shulman gained ... Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to battle Karpov and Kasparov for Fide presidency -- Fide, the International Chess Federation, holds its five-yearly presidential election in September and it is turning nasty. The incumbent since 1995 is Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, controversial ruler of Russia's semi-autonomous Caucasian state Kalmykia. In his early years as Fide president Ilyumzhinov built a 'chess city', made the game mandatory in Kalmyk schools, and financed grandmaster chess so generously that his dubious human rights record and eccentric claim to have met "humanoid aliens" were shrugged off. But recently Fide's excessive reliance on ex-Soviet tournament venues and an autocratic rule change where a chess player loses if not seated at the board at the start have ... | |