Markovich wrote on 02/15/08 at 16:45:22:

Oh, and please note: 1.d4 e5 2.f4 exd4 3.g4 is mine! Oh, and 1.d4 e5 2.b4 Bxb4+ 3.c3, which secures the d4 pawn with the gain of a tempo!

After 1...e5, White can consider 2.Nf3 ed4 3.e4!? and now who's playing a gambit?

2...e4 is also possible, but then 3.Nfd2! with the idea of encouraging 3...e3 looks very promising. For example, 3...d5 (3...f5 looks a bit Levish, pun intended) 4.c4 c6 5.Nc3 and White is better, at least according to my database of 1-minute games

Uberdecker wrote on 12/20/07 at 10:58:47:


Hey Uberdeker,

Funny to hear you say "Zilbermints Attack against the Zilbermints Defense to the Zilbermints Variation of the Zilbermints Opening".
How convoluted... Perhaps what you mean is something like the Zilbermints Benoni (aka Zilbermints Variation of the Benoni Defense), 1 d4 c5 2 Nf3 cxd4 3 b4? Or the Zilbermints Gambit against the Euwe Defense in the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit?

That's just 'cause they're too chicken to face you Lev. They hide in their comfortable , familiar little settings instead of coming out into the open where they will have to face the Zibermints Attack against the Zilbermints Defence to the Zilbermints Gambit in the Zilbermints Variation of the Zilbermints  Opening. And without their precious software to tell them what to do, they're completly naked, these cowards! Forget pratically, the game would be in the bag...

Gambit wrote on 12/19/07 at 20:23:25:

Of course, just so long as you play the Zilbermints Benoni against them, the game will practically be in the bag already.

Gambit wrote on 12/18/07 at 05:14:15:


Ridiculous.  You live in New Jersey.  There's no place in the world where it's easier to get a FIDE rating than the NY/NJ area.

I see you just missed the Edward Lasker Memorial at the Marshall Chess Club in NY (though you would have had to play a qualifying tournament). Here's the crosstable: http://marshallchessclub.org/mccch07.htm.  Note that only three players lacked FIDE ratings.  All three are little kids.

Anyway.  Most of the big Open tournaments have FIDE-rated Open sections.  You'd have to play at least 3 games with FIDE-rated players, but these are 6 to 9 round tournaments, and rated players are thick on the ground.  Do you really not know this already?

Coming up:  The Eastern Open in Washington DC, December 27-30;   or the Empire State  Open in Sratoga NY the same weekend (I'd think DC is easier to get to);  the Liberty Bell Open in Philadelphia, January 18-21; the Foxwoods Open in Massachussetts in March.  In June/July, you have the Philadelphia International, followed immediately by the World Open.   Later in the year, the Fall Futurity at the Marshall should be on in 2008 unless the roof falls in again, and there's the National Congress in Philadelphia over Thanksgiving.  Play two of those--three at most--and you should have 9 games for an initial FIDE rating.

Oh, and there's a FIDE-rated weekend tournament at the Marshall almost every month, though it's slightly hard to get 3 rated opponents in a 4-round tournament unless you're playing pretty well.

Seriously, in the NY/NJ area, it's hard to avoid getting a FIDE rating these days, unless you only play in quickplays.

Sheesh.

Gambit wrote on 12/18/07 at 05:14:15:

So I conclude that contrary to your claims above you in fact do not have the CM title?