Terms and Conditions
-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Blast from the Past
- Book Reviews
- Games
- Miscellaneous
- Opening Analysis
- 1 Nf3 Repertoire
- Alekhine's Defence
- Bird's Opening
- Miscellaneous King's Pawn
- Miscellaneous Queen's Gambit
- Miscellaneous Queen's Pawn
- Philidor's Defence
- Playing the Semi-Slav
- Reversed Philidor
- The Albin Counter Gambit
- The Anti-Gruenfeld System
- The Anti-Nimzo-Indian System
- The Anti-Queen's Indian System
- The Benko Opening
- The Bishop's Opening
- The Black Knights' Tango
- The Blackmar–Diemer Gambit
- The Blumenfeld Gambit
- The Bogo-Indian Defence
- The Budapest Gambit
- The Caro-Kann Defence
- The Catalan Opening
- The Chigorin Defence
- The Czech Benoni
- The Dutch Defence
- The English with …e5
- The French Defence
- The Giuoco Piano
- The Gruenfeld Defence
- The King's Gambit
- The King's Indian Defence
- The Larsen Opening
- The London System
- The Modern Benoni
- The Modern Defence
- The Nimzo-Indian Defence
- The Nimzowitsch Defence
- The Old Indian Defence
- The Petroff Defence
- The Pirc Defence
- The Pribyl Variation
- The Queen's Indian Defence
- The Queen’s Gambit Accepted
- The Queen’s Gambit Declined
- The Reti Opening
- The Reversed Sicilian
- The Romanishin System
- The Ruy Lopez
- The Scandinavian
- The Scotch Game
- The Semi-Slav Defence
- The Semi-Tarrasch Defence
- The Sicilian Defence
- The Slav Defence
- The Sokolsky Opening
- The Symmetrical English
- The Tarrasch Defence
- The Torre Attack
- The Trompowsky Attack
- The Two Knights' Defence
- The Vienna Game
- Reports
- Uncategorized
Links
Category Archives: Opening Analysis
Horsham Club Championship 2010-11: Mansson – Higgs
As mentioned in my previous post, I played my club championship game against Anthony Higgs on Tuesday, after first playing off our match in the Quickplay Knockout. As was usual for our games, it was a complicated affair. This time … Continue reading
Horsham Club Quickplay Knockout 2010-11: Mansson – Higgs
Last night I played a double header against Anthony Higgs, combining our Quickplay Knockout match and Horsham Club Championship game.
Mid-Sussex League Knockout 2010-11: Horsham 1 – St Francis & Haywards Heath
Horsham have won the Mid-Sussex League Knockout once again! The two teams turned out to be pretty evenly matched on grading, so 3.5 was the winning margin for both sides. After Horsham went 2-0 up, the match always looked to … Continue reading
Horsham Club Championship 2010-11: Kington – Mansson
I’m gradually playing off my outstanding games in the Horsham Club Championship, and last night I played another, against Paul Kington. He chose the unambitious Exchange Variation against my Slav Defence, and, reacting passively to my “Russian Counterattack”, ended up … Continue reading
Posted in Club Championship, Games, Opening Analysis, Reports, The Slav Defence
Leave a comment
4NCL Division 3 2010-11: e2e4.org.uk 2 – Spirit of Atticus
Round 11 saw the e2e4.org.uk second team fell agonisingly short of promotion, as we were only able to draw with Spirit of Atticus. There were only two decisive games in the match; James Jackson won for e2e4.org.uk, but I lost … Continue reading
Posted in 4NCL, Games, Opening Analysis, Reports, The Sicilian Defence
1 Comment
4NCL Division 3 2010-11: e2e4.org.uk 2 – Oxford 2
Round 10 saw e2e4.org.uk 2 stay in the hunt for promotion with a comfortable win over Oxford 2. Alan Byron, Andy Talbot and I all scored wins, while the rest of the team drew.
Posted in 4NCL, Games, Opening Analysis, Reports, The Reversed Sicilian
Leave a comment
1 Nf3 repertoire: The Symmetrical English Overview
For the purposes of our repertoire, the Symmetrical English encompasses those lines where Black plays …c5 before White has played d4, allowing him to answer that move with …cxd4. White will generally have played c4 already, or will play it … Continue reading
4NCL Division 1 2010-11: e2e4.org.uk 1 – Cheddleton 1
I was promoted to the first team just for round 9, as part of Sean’s policy of playing all 2100+ players in the squad in the top division at least once during the season. The team was soundly beaten 6-2 … Continue reading
Posted in 4NCL, Games, Opening Analysis, Reports, The King's Indian Defence
Leave a comment
Mid-Sussex League Division 1 2010-11: Horsham 1 – Brighton 2
Horsham 1 played its last match in the Mid-Sussex League of the season yesterday, against Brighton 2 away. There were still a couple of games to resolve, but in the games that have finished, Gavin Lock drew with Nadya Somova, … Continue reading
1 Nf3 repertoire: The Black Knights’ Tango
While 2…g6, 2…d6, 2…e6 and 2…b6 are all quite orthodox choices for Black after 1 Nf3 Nf6 2 c4, there are of course other possibilities. I shall be looking at the positions after 2…c5 in my series of posts on … Continue reading