This is a response to MNb.

I never heard of such long time controls in ICCF. Does anyone know if ICCF  uses such long time controls? That is first.

Second, I am about to reply to your Danish Gambit. What was the move order, again? 1 e4 e5 2 d4 ed4 3 c3 dxc3 4 Nxc3 ? If I am not mistaken, that is the Goring Gambit, not the Danish Gambit. 
I thought I challenged you to the Danish Gambit proper, chicken?

Third, I disagree with using computers for assistance (other than store games). That is the fundamental difference between me and you. I do not think it is fair to let the computer do all the analytical work, and you just make the moves. Screw that! But you seem to think the opposite, depending on computers to help you.

Fourth, I am sorry to hear you do not earn more than $450  per month. Perhaps you could be a chess tutor and earn some more $$ ?
I have a friend, a chess master, who teaches kids chess. It is his job, one that he has been doing for years, with success.

Fifth, I recommend that you use, if possible, your college's computer lab. I happen to be an alumnus of Rutgers University, and therefore use the computer lab when playing chess. Costs me nothing, really.
Can you do the same with your school? 

Sixth, my brain is working just fine, thank you. I have invented more gambits -- just check the threads here! -- than you have. For example, 1 d4 e5 2 de5 Nc6 3 Nf3 Nge7 , the Zilbermints Gambit is played all over the world. The same applies to the Zilbermints Gambit in the Euwe Defense to the BDG, 1 d4 d5 2 e4 de4 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 f3 ef3 5 Nxf3 e6 6 Bg5 Be7 7 Bd3 Nc6 8 00 Nxd4 9 Kh1.  There is also the Zilbermints Grob, 1 g4 d5 2 e4 de4 3 Nc3 , which is played by Dutch players.  I trust I have made my point clear?

Finally, the way you write can be a bit confusing. This is why I have to ask for clarification in meaning. An example would be the ICCF  time controls, which I thought were strange  and drawn-out, to say the least. 10 moves/50 days? Like I said, pretty drawn-out and long. 

You say I lack courage? Hah! I would not be afraid to play Kramnik with the BDG! In fact, I saw a game played back in 1999.  Kramnik played Black in a simul, and chickened out with 4...e3 in the BDG. That game was drawn.

My objection is that my opponents would get assistance during the game. This is not possible in over-the-board tournament games, where I primarily play. I prefer man-to-man play, without any assistance, computer or human. This is Lev vs. MNb, not Lev vs. MNb
and the whole gamut of assistants. Mano-a-mano.

In OTB tournaments, openings get scrutinized, sure. But the point is that it is one opponent against another, without any outside help.
That is what I consider fair.

drkodos wrote on 03/17/08 at 16:41:17:


Oh, go suck on a grasshopper.

Wise grasshoppers must not argue with foolish grasshoppers.


Other grasshoppers will have trouble telling the difference.

DoubledPawns wrote on 03/16/08 at 23:01:07:


This is cheating, pure and simple.

MNb wrote on 03/16/08 at 20:26:06:


Firstly, I do not understand your first condition very well. Please elaborate in more detail regarding time controls. For a start, 60 days is okay, but 50 days /every 10 moves?? At this rate, it will take us months and months to play these games! Thus, if we reach move 20, it is going to be 100+  days for each player! Even the correspondence chess club Schemingmind.com does not use such time controls!

I think you need to refine the time controls some. While I do not see any Danish Gambit games going all the way to move 100, I do believe that the 50 days every 10 moves is too much and way too long.  Better, I think, would be 10 moves every 20 days.

Second, your telephone bill is none of my concern, as mine is none of yours. You are responsible for your own telephone bill. 

 Third, no problem, I will check all the Danish literature I have available.

So long, computer-using yellow gutless chicken!

Gambit wrote on 03/16/08 at 19:40:13:


All you need is to drop McFly name to complete your succesfull metamorphosis into the Bif Tannen of ChessPub.   

I like yellow:

Rice
Journalism
Curiousity
Babies

Gambit wrote on 03/15/08 at 17:59:11:

Maybe I have a problem counting, but I think after 4...exf3 5.Nxf3 c6 Black has accepted a pawn - and no returned. Of course is 5...d5 good against the Danish. So are 4...c6 and 5...c6 against the BDG. Chicken!