Comments on: The Fabulous 00s: Chess Opening Blog, Meet the Soviet Logical Aesthetic

By: USCL Strange Double Blunder: Enkhbat Doesn’t Know It…Again! « IM Mark Ginsburg Presents A Personal Chess History

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:56:29 +0000

[...] huge lemon! Too soon! Before we go on, read this article from 2009. 4. g4? – Known to be bad from 2009 USCL Action – [...]

By: USCL Caro Weirdness | Arizona Scorpions

USCL Caro Weirdness | Arizona Scorpions — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:28:22 +0000

[...] A huge lemon! Too soon! I’ve seen this move a lot from players who thought they were playing main line Advance, but it turns out that the preparatory move Nb1-c3 is not just cosmetic! [...]

By: 2009 USCL Week 9: Opening of the Week | Arizona Scorpions

2009 USCL Week 9: Opening of the Week | Arizona Scorpions — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:30:23 +0000

[...] e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. g4? LOL! This move is not good! White ‘forgets’ to play the mainline 4. Nc3 first covering e4. An ideal risky line in USCL [...]

By: The Fabulous 00s: 2009 USCL Week 9 Opening of the Week « IM Mark Ginsburg Presents A Personal Chess History

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:49:12 +0000

[...] e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. g4? LOL! This move is weak! It’s hard to find a GM game where white plays a bad move on move 4! White [...]

By: PiterKokoniz

PiterKokoniz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:32:05 +0000

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By: WGM Hou Yifan’s 8th Move Offends me to the very core of My Chess Being « IM Mark Ginsburg Presents A Personal Chess History

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:24:51 +0000

[...] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 g6 5. e5 Ng4 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. h3 Nh6 8. g4?? OMFG. What a horrible move. She gives up her light square bishop then opens up the d5-h1 diagonal to create a “fake bind” against the black knight on h6. I wasn’t there, but Pons may have glanced at her with a pitying “you’re a beginner” look. Pawns-don’t-move-backward. The last time I saw a hideous lunge like this was the “fugly” Caro varation discussed in a prior post. [...]

By: Dana Mackenzie

Dana Mackenzie — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:51:16 +0000

I’m delighted that you took a look at my Caro-Kann analysis, and I hope that your readers will, too! This is the Internet at its best.

It’s very helpful to me to see what an IM sees as the critical line here, and why. I noticed that you picked precisely on a subvariation where I was relying on Fritz’s “judgement” rather than on my tournament experience. So I will have to take a more skeptical look at those Fritz lines. This doesn’t mean I agree with you yet.

If you were horrified by this line, I’m sure you will be horrified by some of my other pet lines. Should be a lot of fun.

The original poster takes all the risks! That’s what starts the ball rolling. I myself have lost many times to Soviet-style players (we used to call them “robots”) playing USA-style craziness – like this variation

By the way, I really like your blog and I’ve referred to it a few times in my own. Your readers might want to check out my posts “Chess, Baseball, Nixon, 1974″ (April 19) and “Chess Memories, 1980s Edition” (May 10) and “Richard Delaune, Chess Gentleman” (July 1), for example.

I have more excellent Delaune stories that I need to organize as well as a pivotal game from the 1982 Md. State Championship. Richard was always one of the last players in the playing hall in every round, working very hard to overcome his opponents in impenetrable endings.