chess

i've got a couple of ideas...one is playing 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 * 3.f4 v. the Sicilian. there's only two main ideas for black...either play ...e6 and ...d5 or play a dragon basically. it looks interesting. the idea v. the dragon is basically Bb5, Bxc6 and slowly make your way towards the king. haven't looked into the ...e6, ...d5 move order yet.

i did get an interesting idea from "http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=14587">Kotronias' book "Winning with the Caro-Kann"

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3 e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 c5 7.h4 Nc6?!



8.h5 Bxc2?!

it's interesting....it's been played in two games by Djuric in the early 1990s and forgotten, but i'm gonna revive it in blitz and potentially v. kirk

here's the games

[Event "Corfu op"]
[Site "Corfu"]
[Date "1993.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Kotronias, Vasilios"]
[Black "Djuric, Stefan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2590"]
[BlackElo "2495"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[EventDate "1993.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.01.01"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nc3 e6 5. g4 Bg6 6. Nge2 c5 7. h4 Nc6 8. h5 Bxc2
9. Qxc2 cxd4 10. Nb1 Rc8 11. Qa4 Qb6 12. Nf4 Qb4+ 13. Qxb4 Bxb4+ 14. Kd1 Nxe5
15. Nd3 Nxd3 16. Bxd3 Nf6 17. f3 h6 18. Bf4 Nd7 19. Nd2 Ke7 20. Nb3 e5 21. a3
Bd6 22. Re1 Kd8 23. Bg3 Rc6 24. Na5 Rc7 25. Kd2 Re8 26. Rac1 Nf6 27. Bf5 Ree7
28. Nxb7+ 1-0

[Event "Saint Afrique op"]
[Site "Saint Afrique"]
[Date "1993.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sax, Gyula"]
[Black "Djuric, Stefan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2570"]
[BlackElo "2485"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "1993.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.01.01"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nc3 e6 5. g4 Bg6 6. Nge2 c5 7. h4 Nc6 8. h5 Bxc2
9. Qxc2 cxd4 10. Nb1 Rc8 11. Qa4 Qd7 12. Na3 Nxe5 13. Qxd7+ Kxd7 14. Nxd4 Bc5
15. Nac2 Nxg4 16. Rg1 N8f6 17. Be2 Nxf2 18. Kxf2 e5 19. Rxg7 exd4 20. Rxf7+ Ke6
21. Rxf6+ Kxf6 22. Bd3 Rhg8 23. Bh6 Bb6 24. Nb4 Rc5 25. Rf1 a5 26. Bxh7 Rh8 27.
Kg3+ Ke7 28. Bg5+ Kd6 29. Rf6+ Kc7 30. Bf4+ Kd8 31. Rd6+ 1-0




i also had an idea in the sicilian...can you play a QID? 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 (let's say) 5.Nc3 b6 i don't see why you can't. or even 4. ...b6 and then ...Nge7 if you want to stop the threat of e5 after Ngf6. threw it into fritz and Ndb5 looked strong...it may be a 3 minute thing ;)