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Old November 30, 2001, 13:25   #1
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Stinging like a bee and dancing like a butterfly...
"And now, the moment you have all been waiting for..."

The challenger, Carolus Rex, throwing the gauntlet at the feet of the champ! What an insult, what a nerve! The challenger actually picks black!?

Inspector Dirty Rex: "So you have to ask yourself, 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, champ? Go ahead, champ! Make your move (and my day)!"

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Old November 30, 2001, 17:20   #2
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Old November 30, 2001, 17:23   #3
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What an insult
Black is beautiful and black can win
I even happen to have won some games with black
Most seriously, I think playing black is as good as playing white except that the 1st player can choose more easily an opening to his liking
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Old November 30, 2001, 17:25   #4
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And of course good luck
In the last encounter you were pretty close with your kingside attack
I'm looking forward to see your opening choice
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Old November 30, 2001, 19:07   #6
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I even happen to have won some games with black
LOL!

True, that's why I chose black. Figured it was time for a white win...

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Old November 30, 2001, 19:10   #7
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BTW, I'm in Geneva for the moment (and have been since September), so I don't have my chess board with me. I will have to buy one really soon, but the first couple of moves should be fine.

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Old December 3, 2001, 14:52   #10
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Old December 5, 2001, 05:01   #12
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for the record its "FLOAT like a butterfly,sting like a bee"

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for the record its "FLOAT like a butterfly,sting like a bee"

rumble young man, rumble
Smash, ours butterflies float, but having lived over in that area for a few years I can assure you that those in Northern Europe and Scandinavia Dance. They're closer to the Pole so gravity is a bit stronger.

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I was thinking of Cassius Clay's own description of his boxing. The Swedish translation is "dance like a butterfly", I thought "float" was something boats did?

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No more moves for me until Monday.

Have a good week-end, everybody!

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Old December 8, 2001, 17:22   #20
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Good week-end to you too, Carolus
I hope not playing chess is not meaning you got to work or something terrible like that
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Old December 10, 2001, 06:56   #23
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I hope not playing chess is not meaning you got to work or something terrible like that
Heh, heh, heh! No I didn't work.

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I have played the Scotch game quite often as white, but I always favoured:

5. Nc3 ... Bb4
6. Nxc6 ... bxc6
7. Bd3 ...

This gives black some seemingly aggressive counterplay (starting with the pin in the 5th move), but I never liked the route now chosen by Julius. Why? Because after 6. e5... White has moved the e-pawn twice (although with a threath the second time) and has no pieces developed, whereas Black has a knight out (and is a move down!).

That being said, 6. e5 ... certainly looks aggressive and I'm sure I'll be succumbing to a heavy attack in the next 5-10 moves...

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Well, I’ve mostly played the 2 knights, the italian and the Evans in my “career”. But I wanted to try something else. The Scotch is very interesting. The 5Nc3 variation is less ambitious, in my opinion black has a much easier game and fears nothing if he remains cool in defence. His central pawns (d5/c6) should even guarantee him a small advantage. I recall a Lautier victory in this variation with a proper Na4 as white, but that’s all (I think) as far as top chess is concerned. We’re definitely not on the same level as the top GMs but I was more convinced by some Kasparov game in the Nxc6 variation. True enough that everything has a price and the spatial and central advantage of white comes not for free : he is behind in developpement. But I hope it is managable.
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Against me, anything is managable.
In what move did Lautier play Na4?

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How's this for an understatement?
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We’re definitely not on the same level as the top GMs...
Are you sure?

I'm most definitely not at the same level as the top Apolytoner!

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