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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #95 - 01/25/10 at 22:09:26
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John Hall wrote on 01/25/10 at 20:24:07:
Question for someone that has this book.

I am interested in the theory of the Flohr-Mikenas 3...c5 from the black perspective. I understand the coverage in this book is from the white side- however is there enough coverage of the overall theory to help start developing a black repertoire?


The book alone isn't sufficient to develop a black repertoire against the Mikenas with 3...c5, but it's definitely an essential source, and White's alternatives are covered fairly briefly. My opinion is that 3...d5 offers better chances to equalise, but White should remain somewhat better. Finally, 3...Nc6!? is an interesting alternative that deserves attention, although after 4.Nf3 Black has little better than 4...d5 5.e5 d4 6.ef6 dc3 7.bc3 Qf6.
  
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Reply #94 - 01/25/10 at 20:24:07
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Question for someone that has this book.

I am interested in the theory of the Flohr-Mikenas 3...c5 from the black perspective. I understand the coverage in this book is from the white side- however is there enough coverage of the overall theory to help start developing a black repertoire?
  
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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #93 - 01/13/09 at 13:02:44
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I didn't see the point of having two threads on this one book (even though I wrote half of it!) so I spliced them together.
Incidentally, I have just received a copy of the eBook version and it looks pretty good - it should be available soon on the Everyman website. Wink.
  
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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings by Palliser
Reply #92 - 01/13/09 at 09:26:13
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The table of contents at least can be found here: http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1207136459/75
  
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Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings by Palliser
Reply #91 - 01/13/09 at 06:59:45
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Everyman Chess has published a new ebook titled "Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings: Dazzle your opponents". Has anyone purchased it, incidentally? What openings does this cover, by the way? Are English and Dutch considered in it? What is your overall impression of the book?
  
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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #90 - 01/13/09 at 09:36:36
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tracke wrote on 11/07/08 at 13:30:31:


131  7 The Kasparov Gambit (1 c4 c5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 e5 5 Nb5 d5 6 cxd5 Bc5)



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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #89 - 11/25/08 at 13:20:25
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lg wrote on 11/24/08 at 17:34:41:
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After 1.g3 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
what do you have against 3.d4

It seems to me that this is playable.

For instance, if 3 ... e5 4. Nfd2 (a move which I really dont like
when playing Black) and if 4.... e3 5 fxe (White is a tempo up 
compared to the Alehine line, since it has already played g3)

Playing 4.d5 also leads to a different line from a reversed Alekhine
since after 4... exf 5 dxc Black does not have the normal (in the
normal Alekhine) 5... fxg.

If this does not hold, we can try 3. d3 (as suggested in the previous post) leading to a reversed Pirc which doe snot seem to be bad.

Anyway, mychoice would have been 3. d4 (if the analysis holds)

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What good is that after 1.g3 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5? I dont like pushing that e-pawn too much.
  
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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #88 - 11/24/08 at 19:17:23
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lg wrote on 11/24/08 at 17:34:41:
Markovich

After 1.g3 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
what do you have against 3.d4

It seems to me that this is playable.

For instance, if 3 ... e5 4. Nfd2 (a move which I really dont like
when playing Black) and if 4.... e3 5 fxe (White is a tempo up 
compared to the Alehine line, since it has already played g3)

Playing 4.d5 also leads to a different line from a reversed Alekhine
since after 4... exf 5 dxc Black does not have the normal (in the
normal Alekhine) 5... fxg.

If this does not hold, we can try 3. d3 (as suggested in the previous post) leading to a reversed Pirc which doe snot seem to be bad.

Anyway, mychoice would have been 3. d4 (if the analysis holds)

lg



Hmm, I hadn't thought about 4.d5.  I agree that after 4.Nfd2 e3, White's g3 helps him very much.  I was thinking, though, that Black would play either 4...Nxd4, and after 5.Nxe4, does White have anything? or 4...d5 5.c4, when I would think Black would play 5...Nf6.  Maybe White's g3 is a help there, I'm not sure.  I'm not saying Black is O.K., just wondering.

Black also has 4...exd4, a move perhaps worth thinking about.  Black has nothing to prove, after all.
  
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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #87 - 11/24/08 at 17:34:41
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Markovich

After 1.g3 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
what do you have against 3.d4

It seems to me that this is playable.

For instance, if 3 ... e5 4. Nfd2 (a move which I really dont like
when playing Black) and if 4.... e3 5 fxe (White is a tempo up 
compared to the Alehine line, since it has already played g3)

Playing 4.d5 also leads to a different line from a reversed Alekhine
since after 4... exf 5 dxc Black does not have the normal (in the
normal Alekhine) 5... fxg.

If this does not hold, we can try 3. d3 (as suggested in the previous post) leading to a reversed Pirc which doe snot seem to be bad.

Anyway, mychoice would have been 3. d4 (if the analysis holds)

lg

  
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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #86 - 11/24/08 at 13:39:42
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d3 looks natural, but d4 is maybe interesting.
  
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Reply #85 - 11/24/08 at 13:22:26
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lg wrote on 11/23/08 at 11:59:00:
About the reversed Alekhine (previous posts by TalJechin and Trandism)

1. g3 e5 2. Nf3 

the main idea is that White might gain by the extra g3 move since it os
usefull in many lines of the Alekhine (Modern, 4PA, exchange).

However, books say that one line where Black (in the Alekhine)
does not gain much by using that move is in the chase variation
I dont agree, see below).
That is why the main recommended line is the reversed chase variation that is obtained after 2.... e4 3. Nd4:
3... c5 4. Nb3 c4 5. Nd4 Bc5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Nxc6 dxc6 and since there
is plenty of activity by Black's pieces the lines eems to be Ok for
Black - see "winning unorthodox opening" by A. Dunnington

However, I feel that 7. d3! is an improvement. This is simply playing
with reversed colors the Alekhine game Thorhallson-Burgess.
Here, the extra move g3 seems to be advantageous since in the normal Alekhine line, the balck bishop gets closed in f8 (f1 in the reversed Alekhine and this would allow White to develop in a different
way.

By the way, as an extra information, Larsen used to play this. But he did it with the sequence

1. g3 e5 2. Bg2 d5 3. Nf3 e4 4. Nd4
and if Black follows as above

4... c5 5. Nb3 c4 6. Nd4 Bc5 7. c3 Nc6 7. Nxc6 

Black has to take with the b pawn closing Black's center.

Any way, going back to the first line, I still think 7. d3 is an improvement.

Lg



Lg,

How do you think White should play after 1.g3 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6?
  
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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #84 - 11/23/08 at 11:59:00
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About the reversed Alekhine (previous posts by TalJechin and Trandism)

1. g3 e5 2. Nf3 

the main idea is that White might gain by the extra g3 move since it os
usefull in many lines of the Alekhine (Modern, 4PA, exchange).

However, books say that one line where Black (in the Alekhine)
does not gain much by using that move is in the chase variation
I dont agree, see below).
That is why the main recommended line is the reversed chase variation that is obtained after 2.... e4 3. Nd4:
3... c5 4. Nb3 c4 5. Nd4 Bc5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Nxc6 dxc6 and since there
is plenty of activity by Black's pieces the lines eems to be Ok for
Black - see "winning unorthodox opening" by A. Dunnington

However, I feel that 7. d3! is an improvement. This is simply playing
with reversed colors the Alekhine game Thorhallson-Burgess.
Here, the extra move g3 seems to be advantageous since in the normal Alekhine line, the balck bishop gets closed in f8 (f1 in the reversed Alekhine and this would allow White to develop in a different
way.

By the way, as an extra information, Larsen used to play this. But he did it with the sequence

1. g3 e5 2. Bg2 d5 3. Nf3 e4 4. Nd4
and if Black follows as above

4... c5 5. Nb3 c4 6. Nd4 Bc5 7. c3 Nc6 7. Nxc6 

Black has to take with the b pawn closing Black's center.

Any way, going back to the first line, I still think 7. d3 is an improvement.

Lg

  
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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #83 - 11/13/08 at 10:26:27
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Well I've always found that it was fairly easy - at least for some authors - to work out who wrote each chapter from the writing style. This might well say more about the number of chess books I've got than anything else though Smiley
  
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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #82 - 11/13/08 at 08:52:58
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Yes i bought it in Paris yesterday.
  
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Re: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings
Reply #81 - 11/12/08 at 14:31:40
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Has it already been published? Undecided
  
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