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Thank you for this very nice video. I am very happy to have two videos now that feature the Chigorin's played by skilled chess players (Zibbit's video being the other one). I really wanted to know what sort of plan Black had in mind by playing 2...Nc6 and now I can watch/re-watch the videos until the concepts sink in. The fact that I happened to win my game against the Chigorin defense was in no way my attempt to say the defense is weak. In fact, I knew better than that and wanted to see a stronger player use the defense to show its finer points. These videos have helped me to better understand what is going on in this type of game and for that I must say thank you once more.

music in the background really hurt this video

What chess program did you use to you video presentation. sincerely Rook onD1

Bullrock -
Zibbit is a skilled player, i am just a hacker. My comments re: Chigorin are just tongue in cheek anyway. nothing too serious!!!!

TBone -
OK, i just had music playing in the background, i didn't realize the mic would pick it up. But i like to listen to music, so i dunno how to avoid this.

Rook -
The program is called SCID-pg, by Pascal Georges. It is FREE and i think it is a better option than either (1) paying $100-$300 for Chessbase or (2) illegally pirating Chessbase.

Thx for comments.

I will be posting my first video in ages tonight I hope, which is a Chigorins game.

I love the music, can't go wrong with U2 :)

Very interesting analysis!

ps. "Fear of a blank planet" by Porcupine Tree... good music taste man! :)