| General Chess Discussion - Rated versus unrated#8 I always play rated; see no point in playing unrated. The ratings just show your actual strength and it‘s not their job to boost your ego or drag you down. If you play weak it gets down. Otherwise it … | FM Idvan |
| General Chess Discussion - People who insist on playing in dead draw positions#29 @Rookitiki said in #20: > this can actually be a big problem of playing WITH add. some people want to keep you hostage in opposite bishop endgame forever. luckily thats very rare. Yes, that is quite a… | FM Idvan |
| General Chess Discussion - RIP Michael Basman: you cannot be serious!#4 Wasn‘t he regularly using the Opening 1.a3 2.h3 3.g4 or something like that? With black I only know the Basman-Sale Variation of the Sicilian carrying his name: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5!?… | FM Idvan |
| General Chess Discussion - People who insist on playing in dead draw positions#15 @Akarsh_2010 said in #8: > I suppose you are talking about this position in this game, I couldn't find any other game within the past 16 hours where you offered a draw- If this is the position the thr… | FM Idvan |
| General Chess Discussion - Why are you guys choosing to play chess instead of Fischer Random Chess/Chess960?#59 @Prophiscient said in #53: > I’m not saying that all chess should be exactly 0.0 with no advantage whatsoever for either side. But I don’t think anyone should have a winning position in virtue of the … | FM Idvan |
| General Chess Discussion - Why are you guys choosing to play chess instead of Fischer Random Chess/Chess960?#58 @Sarg0n said in #56: > I mean the purpose of chess960 is tidying up the messy postion and then play regular chess? So look many games indeed. And I think some people just want to skip this process and… | FM Idvan |
| General Chess Discussion - Why are you guys choosing to play chess instead of Fischer Random Chess/Chess960?#36 I also like chess960 but the quality of the games is usually quite low. Even strong masters blunder early often, for example Aronian-Bacrot (don't remember the tournaments name). Usually somehow a pos… | FM Idvan |
| General Chess Discussion - Stockfish doesn't like the Philidor?#14 You can also play the Philidor via the Pirc move order, i.e. 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3. This is considered more exact if you are going for the Hanham (closed) setup with 4...Nbd7. The classical … | FM Idvan |
| General Chess Discussion - How to destroy or put off Caro-Kann players#21 If the variation should be designed especially for 1700 rated players my recommendation would be the Panov. You get good attacking chances in the resulting IQP positions. They use to play 5...e6 all t… | FM Idvan |
| General Chess Discussion - How to destroy or put off Caro-Kann players#18 @ohcomeon_1 said in #10: > I know that many French players absolutely despise the exchange variation. I suspect the Carro-Kann players are not very fond of the exchange variation either. Crush their s… | FM Idvan |
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