*** Chess Low Content Thread ***

[ohsnapzbrah]

Little kids are the worst. Thankfully, I've only played 2 in my 18 rated OTB tournaments this year (+1-0=1) but one of them was spewing out lines of the Sicilian Schvenigan that I just had no idea existed and I was like "Dude, I was trying to play the Najdorf! I don't even know the Schveningan!" He'll be at least 1800+ by the time the year is up.

And I just played at a tournament where the top rated 8-year old played in the open. How do little kids even get to be rated 1900 at 8 years old?!?! (Brag: I beat the kid in Bughouse).

[KyleJRM82]

Anyone with any thoughts on defending against the BDG? It doesn't seem all that scary to me, but I'm sure it's worse if I'm underestimating it.

[John_Douglas]

Originally Posted by KyleJRM82

Anyone with any thoughts on defending against the BDG? It doesn't seem all that scary to me, but I'm sure it's worse if I'm underestimating it.

I looked at it a while ago and 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 g6 seemed to be pretty solid.

I think a good way to prepare for such openings is to just take the White side and play a dozen or so games against your computer to see how it defends against the different attacking ideas.

Or if you don't mind chickening out, I'm sure 4...e3 can't be bad for Black.

[Vempele]

4...e3 is good for White.

4...Bf5 5. fxe4 Nxe4 6. Qf3 Nxc3 7. bxc3 e6 seems like the best way to chicken out. 5. g4 Bg6 6. g5 Nd5 7. Nxe4 is wacky but very good for Black.

If you want to play a novelty, 4...h6 is equal according to computers (I've played it in blitz).

[ganstaman]

I would consider transposing to the French with 2...e6, but that's probably not best since it doesn't try to take advantage of the BDG. Also, I just really like playing the French, which is something a 1. d4 player may not be as familiar with.

[Do it Right]

Originally Posted by KyleJRM82

Anyone with any thoughts on defending against the BDG? It doesn't seem all that scary to me, but I'm sure it's worse if I'm underestimating it.

1. d4 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. f3 Nbd7!?

Idea is simply 5. fxe4 e5!

It's the same position as reached from 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nbd7 4. f4 e5 5. f4xe5? dxe5. The nice thing about the BDG is that that line, which would normally rely on a blunder, is practically forced. White has no good way to retain the tension. Something like 5. Be3 can even be met with e5 again immediately relieving the tension. Normally it might not be such a good idea to keep trying to relieve the tension but I find basically every single BDG player's rating tend to drop about 300 points when the position isn't a standard throw everything at the kingside one so it's very effective even if on some sort of a metagame level.

[TexAg06]

Pretty wild game here, just saw this today for the first time. This game is between Jobava and Kamsky, played earlier this year. What an incredibly interesting middlegame and endgame.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1672600

[YouKnowWho]

One of my students kept putting her pieces on really terrible squares, so I decided to use a real life analogy to explain it to her:

Me: When you are hanging out with your friends, do you prefer them to be smiling and happy or sad and crying? (after an obvious response I intended to go "well, pieces are your friends so your job is to try to make them happy and make them smile etc."

Her: sad and crying.

[Gorgonian]

hahahaha

[Do it Right]

hahah awesome.

[wlrs]

another set of emo analogies needed

[KyleJRM82]

*wonders why YNW never used that kind of psychology with him. It might have improved results*

[wlrs]

Originally Posted by KyleJRM82

Anyone with any thoughts on defending against the BDG? It doesn't seem all that scary to me, but I'm sure it's worse if I'm underestimating it.

http://gameknot.com/annotation.pl/sh...n-com?gm=34823
http://gameknot.com/annotation.pl/sh...n-com?gm=34824
Silman's site has gone into suckmode but I managed to find this article elsewhere - I have posted it before and it has served me well for years against the BDG

[KyleJRM82]

I did find that article, and it helped greatly!

Too bad opponent didn't end up playing that

[TexAg06]

Originally Posted by wlrs

http://gameknot.com/annotation.pl/sh...n-com?gm=34823
http://gameknot.com/annotation.pl/sh...n-com?gm=34824
Silman's site has gone into suckmode but I managed to find this article elsewhere - I have posted it before and it has served me well for years against the BDG

I actually tried to go to Silman's site for the first time in a while yesterday and was shocked at how awful it looks. I actually thought it was one of those advertisement websites when you misspell the address. It's awful. He used to have all sorts of fantastic material on there, and now it's nothing. Garbage. But that article you linked is GREAT, that's all I play against the BDG. It works particularly well since I'm a Caro player and c6 is already played. Really shuts down nearly all of white's attacking ideas.