am a new member in chess.com, this my good chance i wold like to perform this tournament.i hope with you challenge this tournament.

I just clicked on the link above to see exactly what you were participating in and I was surprised. Dang! You won 5 of 9 out of that?! Go, lady, go!

Hope you did well in Athens.  If you ever want to play a game I would love to play you.

Congratulations.

Sweet!!

Congratulations!

So the event is over, I finished on 4.5 out of 9 which was fine as I got the 1st Greek women's prize money!:-)

So I am ready to play you all now:-)) And will start the 4th book soon!

Well, I'm finally back from my little vacations... I've seen you and your husband have had good games. Let's see what today has to offer.

By the way I've lost to erik :-D. I made a premature attack and he did a great defense. 

As i said...Bulgarian Armada is in command

 

Nice! I'll get them into my virtual fancy glass staunton style chessmaster chess set when I get a chance!

Thanks! Congratulations, Happy Birthday and best wishes to her!! What a nice Sunday!:-)

I play GM Romanishin and Sotiris plays WIM Papadopoulou. Should be interesting:-))

Well, a draw and a loss today. I haven't seen them live because I had some friends come over to my house today. And tomorrow we celebrate my mother's birthday so I won't be around. Good luck to both!! See you monday!

Oh, that's nice!:-) Indeed, lets see the outcome:-))

It this very moment, erik is playing king's indian against me... Let's see the outcome!

Talking about lack of theory, this game was hilaious... 

Yes, I'd love to see the theory... I won't argue with you in that, I know what theory is in programming and in music (essential!).

But don't challenge me too much or I'll study 25 moves of each variation...

Theory at least a little is always important. Because when you play a decent opponent, 1600-1900 and more, it is better not to get a worse position from the start as it will be difficult to equalize. It is possible to just study some theory of main lines and general plans and ideas in other variations. Of course, it is not necessary to study that much theory as 20 moves on this level:-)

well..., I always drop the openings book after move 4... (I like to throw it at my opponent's teeth, thus my aggressive style of play)

Either it will be extremely easy or extremely exciting, heheh.

Now, being serious for a second: Don't worry, next month there will be time and money to take those lessons. I haven't forgotten...

:-)) Study the theory first please:-) At least the first 20 moves in most lines:-))

Sweet! So I'll be playing the King's indian vs Chessmaster this weekend, hehe

I like playing vs 1.d4 very much because I usually play the King's Indian against it:-) I am well prepared and get good positions but there is really a lot of work behind it:-)

Well, today Yelena just won a pretty amazing game against 2354 rated Zawadzka Jolanta, while Sotirios Drew quite easily against the much better ranked Morchiashvili Bachana (2415). Congratulations to both!

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