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Anyone who has read the last blog I put up (which contained several games from the Toronto Labour Day Open 2009) or who has access to the CFC bulletin will know of the game Whissell-Peng 2009. In that game I mentioned how the Dragon may not be dea... | Read More
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Hi everyone!
Its been awhile since I posted, but I've been busy with that real life thing.
Recently I had the opportunity to play in Toronto's Annual Labour Day Open, a big and well run tournament directed by NM Bryan Lamb. The tournament was f... | Read More
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Gormally, D. (2509) - Ciuksyte,D. (2426) [B43]
Liverpool Open, 2007
[Whissell,Mavros]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 b5
If I was allowed to name variations, I'd call this the Bully Variation. Black is pushing forward very early... | Read More
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CONTINUATION OF LAST BLOG:
Panjwani,Raja (2222) - Arencibia,Walter (2539) [B33]
Canadian Open, Kitchener 2006
35.Rh8 Ne3 36.h4
36.Kg1 doesn't help, White just begins dropping pawns. 36...Rb1+ 37.Kf2 Ng4+ 38.Kg2 Rb2+ 39.K... | Read More
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Panjwani,Raja (2222) - Arencibia,Walter (2539) [B33]
Canadian Open, Kitchener 2006
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 a6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4
Black has four major options at this point and any player of the White pieces must be prepared to face a... | Read More
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INSTRUCTIONS:
The following is a game designed to test some of your chess skills, including: opening knowledge, positional understanding, tactical sight, and endgame know-how. The idea is to play through the moves below belonging to an an... | Read More
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In the last installment of games from the Toronto Closed we had a chance to see two rather strong players on the losing end of the scale. Now those same two players who lost are up against new rivals and prove to be on the brighter side of the res... | Read More
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Hi Everyone,
Up here in the boonies known as Northern Ontario (yes, for those of you in Thunder Bay, we consider ourselves Northern) we have little competition compared to the South. Only recently has Sudbury really experienced an influx of yo... | Read More
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Hi everyone, this is the example of a game versus a time pressure addict. The annotations were too long to fit into chess.com's game presenter, so I have left the PGN file for any interested readers to grab. Also, I would like to thank my coach De... | Read More
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We've all seen it before.
We're sitting at the board, and have just made a move that seems reasonable.
Satisfied it should be alright, we begin to await our opponents reply with a bit of anxiousness, wondering which path they will try to push th... | Read More