Author: James T. Walker
Date: 06:56:45 12/31/99
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On December 31, 1999 at 07:36:08, David Blackman wrote: >On December 31, 1999 at 01:24:40, James Robertson wrote: > >>I have to say, Russek sucks in the opening.... >> >>James > >Maybe it's not that great an opening objectively, but i think it has reasonable >chances against an opponent who doesn't know it very well (ie. anyone who hasn't >guessed you're going to play it). Especially if white is going to castle into >it. Black has some fairly obvious plans here, and white has a few chances to go >wrong. This may be a better practical approach than playing 25 moves of >Scheveningen Sicilian theory that the computer has memorised better than you >have, and then landing in a tactical mess. And in fact there have been GM games >won with similar variations (not sure about this exact move order though). > >>On December 30, 1999 at 23:41:30, Peter McKenzie wrote: >> >>>[White "*RebelCentury"] >>>[Black "*Russek"] > >>>1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Qd5 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. Nxf6+ gxf6 7. Nf3 >>>Rg8 8. Bf4 Bd6 9. Bg3 b6 10. Bxh7 Rh8 11. Bd3 Bxg3 12. fxg3 Bb7 13. c4 Qh5 >>>14. O-O Nd7 15. Nh4 Qh6 16. Qc1 Qg7 17. Qf4 f5 18. Nxf5 exf5 19. Rae1+ Kd8 > >BTW Desperado likes 14 Qe2 at ply 8 and 9 (deep as it got) and doesn't like 14 >O-O at any depth. But this version is very experimental and probably weak. Hello, I enjoyed watching the game but the Knight sac was completely out of character for Rebel which usually plays a more conservative game. This made the game interesting with up to 4 pawns vs a bishop but not exciting since it was almost devoid of tactics after the major pieces came off the board. I think both sides played very accurately to the end. When is the next game?? Jim Walker
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