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18 Mar '08 20:14
Originally posted by kbaumen
With white, if you play 1/0, 1. f3 e5 2. Kf3 is quite good. Later you can play e3, attack the center with c4 and do other, similar stuff.
Hi-Lar-I-Ous

Anyhow, the Dutch Leningrad is an excellent recommendation from Wormwood - it's become a new favorite of mine. Be careful, though, there are some very, very tricky tactics because there is no longer a pawn on that f7 square. Here's a game where white had a chance to gain a nice advantage through tactics, but missed it. (I missed it too, Crafty showed me the devastation that could have occurred in my post-mortem.)

[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2008.03.18"]
[White "SILOM925"]
[Black "CMSSacrifice"]
[Result "*"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]

1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. e3 O-O
6. Be2 d6 7. O-O Qe8 8. h3 e5 9. d5 e4 10. Nd2 c6
11. Nb3 cxd5 12. cxd5 b6 13. Bb5 Qe5 14. Bd2 Bb7 15. Rb1 Nxd5
16. Bc4 Kh8 17. Bxd5 Bxd5 18. Nxd5 Qxd5 19. Qe2 Qe6 20. Rfd1 d5
21. Bb4 Rd8 22. Qb5 Qc6 23. Qe2 Nd7 24. Nd4 Bxd4 25. Rxd4 Rac8
26. Bc3 Nc5 27. Rxd5+ Kg8 28. Rxd8+ Rxd8 29. Qc4+ Qd5 30. Qb5 Qxa2
31. Rd1 Rxd1+ 32. Kh2 Qf7
*

16...Kh8? is a bad blunder, see if you can spot how white gains the advantage. 16...Rc8 gives black a very comfortable position.
Korch
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18 Mar '08 20:171 edit
Originally posted by cmsMaster
Hi-Lar-I-Ous

Anyhow, the Dutch Leningrad is an excellent recommendation from Wormwood - it's become a new favorite of mine. Be careful, though, there are some very, very tricky tactics because there is no longer a pawn on that f7 square. Here's a game where white had a chance to gain a nice advantage through tactics, but missed it. (I missed it too, ow white gains the advantage. 16...Rc8 gives black a very comfortable position.
Dutch Leningrad is not bad choice for agressive player. I use it sometines in blitz (with not bad results) and also in some RHP games (all of them are in progress).

BUT - It`s not for everyone.
kbaumen
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18 Mar '08 20:24
Originally posted by cmsMaster
Hi-Lar-I-Ous

Anyhow, the Dutch Leningrad is an excellent recommendation from Wormwood - it's become a new favorite of mine. Be careful, though, there are some very, very tricky tactics because there is no longer a pawn on that f7 square. Here's a game where white had a chance to gain a nice advantage through tactics, but missed it. (I missed it too, ...[text shortened]... ow white gains the advantage. 16...Rc8 gives black a very comfortable position.
Why hilarious? That can confuse your opponent, which should be the main goal of an opening in bullet.
gaychessplayer
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18 Mar '08 22:59
Originally posted by JonathanB of London
It's not often you see "Ray Keene" and "nice book" together in the same sentence.
That's true. I suspect that Byron Jacobs did 100% of the research and about 90% of the writing.

Some of Keene's early books were excellent, I've been told. His "Nimzovich: A Appraisal", is considered a classic by many lovers of chess literature.
wormwood
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18 Mar '08 23:45
Originally posted by cmsMaster
Hi-Lar-I-Ous

Anyhow, the Dutch Leningrad is an excellent recommendation from Wormwood - it's become a new favorite of mine. Be careful, though, there are some very, very tricky tactics because there is no longer a pawn on that f7 square. Here's a game where white had a chance to gain a nice advantage through tactics, but missed it. (I missed it too, ...[text shortened]... ow white gains the advantage. 16...Rc8 gives black a very comfortable position.
ha! 17. Nxd5 Bxd5 18. Bc3 and the piece drops I think, nice! wouldn't have seen it either...

but why take that d5 and open up? it was a nice plug frustrating white's invasion. 🙂 you had the center nicely blocked, and should've just stormed his king. that's what it's all about! 🙂
tomtom232
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18 Mar '08 23:47
Originally posted by kbaumen
With white, if you play 1/0, 1. f3 e5 2. Kf3 is quite good. Later you can play e3, attack the center with c4 and do other, similar stuff.
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