Author: Ramón Martínez
Date: 07:04:48 12/31/99
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On December 31, 1999 at 09:56:45, James T. Walker wrote: >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 We didn't set an exact date because Russek had to leave almost immediatly to give a private lesson, but we talked about January 3 or 4. I will confirm.
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