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chk God Member Offline a pawn is a pawn Posts: 1063 Location: Athens Joined: 10/26/06 Gender:	Re: d3 therapy Reply #13 - 07/09/12 at 08:00:54	Post Tools	Print Post
	ditto

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Girkassa Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 433 Joined: 04/07/07	Re: d3 therapy Reply #12 - 07/06/12 at 19:47:47	Post Tools	Print Post
	Great post JEH!


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TN God Member Offline Posts: 3420 Joined: 11/07/08 Gender:	Re: d3 therapy Reply #11 - 07/06/12 at 14:33:43	Post Tools	Print Post
	Meanwhile some club players at my local chess club need a3/h3/a6/h6 therapy. I've managed to stop them playing 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.h3 but they still insist on playing 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6.

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Seth_Xoma God Member Offline FM with 2 IM Norms - (2381) Posts: 558 Location: Lansing Joined: 11/05/04 Gender:	Re: d3 therapy Reply #10 - 07/06/12 at 14:15:29	Post Tools	Print Post
	LOL! By the way...her "previous patient" wouldn't be a certain ChessPub poster, would he?


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JEH God Member Offline "Football is like Chess, only without the dice." Posts: 1456 Location: Reading Joined: 09/22/05 Gender:	Re: d3 therapy Reply #9 - 07/05/12 at 17:45:03	Post Tools	Print Post
	Thanks for the feedback. Glad you enjoyed it

	Those who want to go by my perverse footsteps play such pawn structure with fuzzy atypical still strategic orientations Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, stuck in the middlegame with you
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Jay Full Member Offline Posts: 212 Location: USA Joined: 04/18/09 Gender:	Re: d3 therapy Reply #8 - 07/05/12 at 03:44:33	Post Tools	Print Post
	"Your move" was definitely my favorite part.


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Stigma God Member Offline There is a crack in everything. Posts: 3277 Joined: 11/07/06 Gender:	Re: d3 therapy Reply #7 - 07/05/12 at 02:21:42	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hey, I've opened 1.d3 in several tournament games. And that's not a joke! Have a good score with it too. Usually leads to reversed Pirc, Modern, Leningrad, King's Indian or Dragon positions. I play it rarely enough that few of my opponents are expecting it. One opponent actually exclaimed: "Were you too weak to get the pawn all the way to d4?!" It's funny that I've tried both 1.g3 and 1.f4 with similar intentions, but much worse results. Seems they're just too normal, and don't have the same psychological impact as 1.d3! I haven't sought therapy for this yet, since I play a fair bit of aggressive main line chess too...

	Improvement begins at the edge of your comfort zone. -Jonathan Rowson
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zoo Ex Member	Re: d3 therapy Reply #6 - 07/04/12 at 23:36:59	Post Tools	Print Post
	Great post! A compulsion is a friend forever, but you can play with the symptoms by opening 1.g3 once a while. You decide "later" what to do with the d-pawn... I remember Dave Norwood played the Pirc with Black, and always d3-g3 with White. A related syndrom ? It's nice to see him listed as one of "24 executives who are exceptional at chess", according to a Business Insider paper relayed on Ch***base. Pity they forgot to mention Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Anatoly Karpov and Our Supreme Leader Admiral General Kirsan ! Thanks agains for the great story!


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BPaulsen God Member Offline I Love Light Squares! Posts: 1702 Location: Anaheim, CA, USA Joined: 11/02/08 Gender:	Re: d3 therapy Reply #5 - 07/04/12 at 18:21:21	Post Tools	Print Post
	I enjoyed it.

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WSS Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 273 Joined: 04/22/11	Re: d3 therapy Reply #4 - 07/04/12 at 16:16:32	Post Tools	Print Post
	That was a terrific, creative post! Thanks for sharing it. Bill


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JEH God Member Offline "Football is like Chess, only without the dice." Posts: 1456 Location: Reading Joined: 09/22/05 Gender:	Re: d3 therapy Reply #3 - 07/04/12 at 13:22:27	Post Tools	Print Post
	gwnn wrote on 07/04/12 at 11:58:40: d3 is not a bad way into getting a KIA actually. but funny post The sad truth, having played the KIA a lot, is that I have actually opened 1. d3 in a tournament game, against a player I was expecting to otherwise go 1. Nf3 f5

	Those who want to go by my perverse footsteps play such pawn structure with fuzzy atypical still strategic orientations Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, stuck in the middlegame with you
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gwnn Senior Member Offline Posts: 472 Joined: 03/21/11	Re: d3 therapy Reply #2 - 07/04/12 at 11:58:40	Post Tools	Print Post
	d3 is not a bad way into getting a KIA actually. but funny post


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TN God Member Offline Posts: 3420 Joined: 11/07/08 Gender:	Re: d3 therapy Reply #1 - 07/04/12 at 10:24:29	Post Tools	Print Post
	Nice post.

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JEH God Member Offline "Football is like Chess, only without the dice." Posts: 1456 Location: Reading Joined: 09/22/05 Gender:	d3 therapy 07/04/12 at 09:19:10	Post Tools	Print Post
	I was an e4 player. A good move. A noble move. A move leading to interesting tactical positions. Best by test. But then I'd go and spoil it all by an uncontrollable desire to play d3 at some point. I was starting to think this wasn't good for my chess, so I sought some therapy. I booked an appointment with a therapist who was a specialist in such problems. As I arrived at her office for my first appointment, I saw that the door was open. "Come in" she said, "sorry about the mess." I noticed on a table in the middle of the room was a chess set with a random chaotic position on it, and scattered all around were a lot of pawns that she was in the process of picking up, so I helped her collect them. "Thanks for that. My previous patient has a gambit psychosis. I let him throw the pawns around. It seems to help. Now, what can I do for you?" I sat down on her couch and began to explain my d3 problem. "Oh, that's not a problem. It's very common. Lots of Grandmasters play d3 like that. So how did this begin?" "Well I wanted to play the Ruy Lopez. An opening with a fine tradition, played by the great players throughout history for centuries. But then I was worried about this Marshall gambit. All that theory. But then I found I could avoid it. Just play 8. h3 and follow it up with d3. "OK, that's perfectly fine. Go on" "Well then I thought, there's still lots of theory. I can avoid this playing d3 earlier. Just go 6. d3. But then there's the Open Lopez. But I can avoid that too with 5. d3." "I can see a regression pattern here, but still, this is perfectly normal." "Next I thought I can just play the Guico Piano, but with d3, and avoid even more theory..." "Hmmm" "...and then just skip Bc4 and play 3. d3, or no, just play 2. d3, or, why not 1. d3, 1. d3. Play 1. d3 and then immediately resign, play again, d3, resign, d3, resign, more d3, more d3" "OK, I'll have to stop you there as I think I can see the problem. I will try some hypnotherapy." She got out a pocket watch, and began to swing it back and forth in front of my eyes. "Concentate on the watch..." Tick tick tick. The watch swung back and forth in front of me. Tick tick tick. I reached forward, pressed the button on the side of the watch and stopped it. "This isn't going to work if you do that." "Sorry, your move". She began swinging the watch again. Tick tick tick. Back and forth. Tick tick tick. "I want you to go deeper now. deeper now..." tick tick tick ... Back and forth... "I want you to go deeper now. deeper now..." tick tick tick ... Back and forth... "I want you to go deeper now. deefer now..." tick tick tick ... Back and forth... "I want you to go deeper now. deefer now..." tick tick tick ... Back and forth... "I want you to go deeper now. dee four now..." tick tick tick ... Back and forth... "I want you to go deeper now. dee four now..." tick tick tick ... Back and forth... "I want you to go deeper now. dee four now..." tick tick tick ... Back and forth... "I want you to go deeper now. 1. d4 now..." tick tick tick ... Back and forth... "I want you to go deeper now. 1. d4 now..." tick tick tick ... Back and forth... "When I snap my fingers, you will open every game with 1. d4" Snap Well the therapy seems to have worked. There was a slight kerfuffle in my first tournament game. It went 1. d4 d5 2. d3. My oppenent complained, and the Arbiter was called. Apparently my move was illegal and I had to move it back to d4. Wow. This works! I played chess online. Every game. 1. d4. The computer wouldn't even let move my pawn back to d3. I followed it up with sound logical chess and won game after game. I was joyous. Manic. I leapt around my house after every victory. "Aha. I have you now. You'll never escape!" After the police left, I settled down. I now was into my new future as a 1. d4 player. Unfortunately, I've now found there is all this d4 theory, and I've developed a new problem. I googled it. What was it? Colic system? Collec system? Something like that. I've now got an uncontrollable desire to play e3 at some point. Oh dear, looks like I need more therapy
	« Last Edit: 07/04/12 at 15:57:21 by JEH »
	Those who want to go by my perverse footsteps play such pawn structure with fuzzy atypical still strategic orientations Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, stuck in the middlegame with you
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