Markovich wrote on 10/05/09 at 14:10:21:

It should be the thread just below or above: http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1253926483

GMTonyKosten wrote on 09/26/09 at 01:04:16:


So pardon my confusion, where are the original terms of the competition?

gewgaw wrote on 09/30/09 at 18:44:15:


gewgaw,
I don't want to be the spoil sport but my impression is that strictly speaking this is a novelty but possibly there is not much of an improvement over the Nielsen game.

• Nielsen-Georgiev was 10.h4 Bb7 11.g5 hxg5
• and you proposed 10.g5 hxg5 11.h4 when Bb7 (not mentioned in your analysis) reaches the same position of their game.

So on the one hand your new move only gives some extra opportunities at move 11 to Black. On the other hand you might argue that these alternatives are new traps for Black to fall into. I'm not yet decided which view to take here.

AlanG wrote on 09/30/09 at 19:59:27:


damn u r right; I´ve to check it again; would be a pity, if it didnt work.

Nomination #1 - 10.g5!, which obviously leads to an advantage for white
I hope we see more nominations in the next days and not at the end of october, after all this is a forum to discuss about ideas.

gewgaw wrote on 09/26/09 at 13:33:09:


Interesting, maybe they intended these to be the other way around and I mistakenly swapped them, or maybe having a choice with the SOS book is worth more than 5 Euros?!

TN wrote on 09/26/09 at 01:12:15:

In the first (French) competition TN had put a similar question; my reply was:

Stefan Buecker wrote on 04/01/09 at 09:13:28:

The situation now is slightly different, with the NIC staff deciding instead of the poll. But shouldn't we trust on the NIC staff's ability to tell a good idea from a bad? Start worrying about their qualification only when you've actually found two promising ideas!

I like the new topic very much, and what I like even more is that they apparently forgot to exclude me from participation.

Firstly, thank you to New In Chess for setting up the competition and choosing what is in my opinion a very interesting subject for the competition!

Secondly, I have a question: If you make a nomination and then withdraw it, can another person submit your old nomination with more detailed analysis? Alternatively, can you submit a nomination which refutes a new idea (either suggested in the survey or in this thread)?

PS: Thanks!