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Diagram 132 on page 61 of Fine's BASIC CHESS ENDINGS revised by Pal
Benko  and diagram 68 in the original is captioned "Whoever moves wins"
Conventional wisdom holds that White on move will los. However, doesn't

1. e4  e5   2. Nf3  f6  3. Nxe5  fxe5  4. Qh5+ g7  5. Qxe5+   then th
rook goes dead..
--
e4thenNc3

In "My System" Nimzowitsch talks about tempi in terms of points. For
example, after:
e4 e5
d4 exd4

some days ago there was some discussion between Ray and the rest of the
world about the importance of openings in a game of chess.
Here Kramnik opinion (In Spanish):
http://www.ajedrez21.com/noticias/ver_noticia.asp?iCode=1877

 I feel this game best reflects my current chess understanding -
control the centre then attack the king.  I am hoping someone could
point out the tactical and strategic mistakes I made.  And whether this
style of play could get me to master strength (an ambition of mine).

Here are some puzzles from all the contenders' games:
Polgar: http://www.wtharvey.com/polg.html
Svidler: http://www.wtharvey.com/svid.html
Topalov: http://www.wtharvey.com/topa.html

The Kietzeritsky 5...d6 line of the kingsgambit have given me problems
lately. People copy Shirov and get good positions. Even Fedorov have
give it up, if I am not mistaken. Here is my suggestion for white.
Other suggestions is very much valued!

I spent a lot of money...time...working on chess theory
but I still confused about which is the best chess training and
database program
as professionals say: there is just two options [chessbase and chess

My friend and I played these games against CSTal 2 (aka Chess Tal
Classic) with the "reduce strength" option set to 1 (out of 50).
Although that's the weakest setting, the engine still plays a pretty
strong game.  I ran a few games against Chess Tiger on my Palm set

 CAN THE TEXT PORTIONS OF ANNOTATED GAMES IN CHESSBASE EVER VANISH  ??
I had some annotated games of my mine in some old computer, in
chessbase light. I wanted to transfer those to chessbase 9.0, in
another comp. So I did that, and the to my surprise I have found that

This game I lost yesterday for the club competition. Both my opponent and me
are rated around 1850. I didn't have time to analyse it with a program yet,
but I'm looking for some general comments. On move 26 I refused a draw
because I thought I had good attacking chances. Thanks ...

Does anyone know of a good line against
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5!?
for the White side.
And what ideas in the set up and attack?

[Site "kurnik"]
[Date "2005.09.10"]
[White "mrowka682"]
[Black "zimnakrew"]

In this age of computers you can stuff in your sock that are very
powerful, do they still adjourn rated games in tournaments/marches?
Just curious.
John

I played this sequence of moves with black. I recognize 4. ... e5 is a
bit weird, but it was a shock when I checked it with Chessbase online
database and didn't find, in more than 4 million games, any one with
this move order.