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Zibbit - Icelandic miniatures #2 [9:04]
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Video Manager
Joined: Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:17 pm Posts: 524 
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 Zibbit - Icelandic miniatures #2 [9:04]
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King  Joined: Sat May 12, 2007 12:19 pm Posts: 1890 Location: Los Angeles Rating Class: Expert (2000-2200)
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Re: Zibbit - Icelandic miniatures #2 [9:04] great game. i think that opening should not be underestimated.
 _________________ "Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929." -Botvinnik |
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| Sun Jun 01, 2008 12:42 am |
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King
Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:31 am Posts: 481 Rating Class: Class B (1600-1800)
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Re: Zibbit - Icelandic miniatures #2 [9:04] Never seen that opening before..I guess it can catch anyone. Nice video!
_________________ "They can only take them one at a time!" |
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| Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:14 am |
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Rook
Joined: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:59 am Posts: 197 Location: Irmo, SC
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Re: Zibbit - Icelandic miniatures #2 [9:04] Common sense would say that there must a simple refutation to the Halloween Gambit or everyone would be playing it and then nobody would be playing it since the game of chess would be ruined. But, it appears that in this game, black was completely unprepared for it and therefore, it worked out great! Really fun video to watch!
_________________ If one had a computer that could completely solve checkers in one nanosecond, it would take that same computer 3000 years to solve chess! |
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| Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:19 am |
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King
Joined: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:18 pm Posts: 412 Rating: 1601 Rating Class: Class B (1600-1800)
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Re: Zibbit - Icelandic miniatures #2 [9:04] great video! do u know wut the time control was for this match? black seemed to make some really weird moves
_________________ USCF - 1601 USCF Quick - 1667 |
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| Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:38 am |
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Premium Member   Joined: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:21 am Posts: 1200 Location: Iceland Rating: 2330 Rating Class: FIDE Master
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Re: Zibbit - Icelandic miniatures #2 [9:04] Time control was 1:30 for the game +30 seconds each move a standard time control these days in FIDE tournaments more or less. It's true black made some weird moves but this is a difficult opening to meet for the first time. Like I showed ...Ng6 with the ...d5 idea is one way to get an easy game vs the Halloween Attack. (called it gambit in the video but it's called "The Halloween Attack").
This way of trying to keep the piece with ...Nc6 is probably the worst way because white gets super compensation with the pawn on d6 and better developement. But surprisingly many black players allow exactly that. _________________ Visit me on zibbit64.blogspot.com |
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| Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:59 am |
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King
Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:28 pm Posts: 288 Location: scotland Rating: 1395
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Re: Zibbit - Icelandic miniatures #2 [9:04] Thx Ingvar. That sac is unsound but it must be difficult to meet over the board if you haven't met it before. Didn't Steinitz stomp out gambit play over a hundred years ago? Nice whatever tho and keepem comin._________________ bruciebaby |
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| Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:34 am |
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Premium Member Joined: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:17 am Posts: 173 Location: London, UK Rating: 1680 FIDE Rating Class: Class B (1600-1800)
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Re: Zibbit - Icelandic miniatures #2 [9:04] Wasn't the win for white just as much down to black's lack of development than the very unsound gambit. Black had plenty of opportunities to develop and didn't.
Apart from white's control of the centre and space with his pawns I can't see what white gains from this opening. _________________ "Chess holds its master, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer." Albert Einstein |
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| Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:45 am |
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Pawn
Joined: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:38 pm Posts: 28 Rating: 1190U
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Re: Zibbit - Icelandic miniatures #2 [9:04] This is one of my favorite blitz openings, but most people give the piece back.
One of the main points of this gambit is to impede black's development. The pawn on d6 prevents, or at least delays the development of both of black's bishops, the Knight on a6 was stuck preventing the fork and was as developed as it could be at that point, and the bishops prevented black from castling to either side, preventing the development of the rooks. _________________ My favorite players:1. Mikhail Tal 2. Leonid Stein 3. Spassky 4. Capablanca 5.Kasparov Chess.com/FICS username:gsn I'm usually willing to play a game, regardless of rating. |
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| Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:03 pm |
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