Originally posted by Fat LadyLOL, what a thoroughly wonderful read, which of us has not gone through some love affair with an opening only to realise later, that love was not all that it purported to be!
An Open Letter to the Stonewall:
http://www.chessvibes.com/davidsmerdon/an-open-letter-to-the-stonewall
The post that was quoted here has been removedA song of unrequited love, ouch, straight for the heart. In Pakistan they have a name
for girls that one is never destined to love despite deep affections, they call them,
Kalashnikovs, after the Russian AK-47 rifle, because they will kill you inside, just the
same 🙂
I don't know anything about the lad Smerdon.
But did his Stonewall not contribute to his GM title.
Seems a shame to ditch it now if it served him so well.
Maybe it's a bluff to stop his opponents prepping against him.
Wrote a similiar article around 5.Qe2 in the Pirc many years ago.
'The End of a Variation' think it's in an old Scottish Chess.
An opening at one time I had six or seven - nil with. Then too many where
being shown or published, other poeple started playing it and some fool
came up with 5...c6. The wins dried up, the losses piled up.
Still play it in blitz but very rarely get 5...Nc6.
G. Chandler - A. White, Edinburgh Summer Cup, 1980.
32 years ago. Gosh. I still got the wee adrenalin rush just playing over it
and adding the notes.
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Originally posted by greenpawn34Hi GP. Nice game!
I don't know anything about the lad Smerdon.
But did his Stonewall not contribute to his GM title.
Seems a shame to ditch it now if it served him so well.
Maybe it's a bluff to stop his opponents prepping against him.
Wrote a similiar article around 5.Qe2 in the Pirc many years ago.
'The End of a Variation' think it's in an old Scottish Chess.
...[text shortened]... Alastair White was something like 4-0 against at the time so this was a good win.)}[/pgn]
You note after 13 Nf4 that if black plays 13 ... dxc4, then there is 14 Ne4 followed by Nd6+. Could you elaborate on this a little, showing one or two lines? For example, what if black plays 14 ... Bd7?
Thanks!
The post that was quoted here has been removedThat was one of my very first books. I played the Stonewall in my very first tournament, and won all three games where I had white (as Black I lost a QGD Lasker and a Dragon, staying true to the book!). I tied for 3rd in the section, won $50, and bought my first chess clock.
I abandoned it after that one tournament to play the KIA due to the influence of a local Master (and Fischer), but I have very fond memories.
I think that book was ahead of it's time as a repertoire book. Opening suggestions aside, the very idea of preparing for tournaments in that manner was incredibly eye-opening for me.
Originally posted by Paul LeggettI myself am a little bemused why the great fatlady chose me, perhaps because he
That was one of my very first books. I played the Stonewall in my very first tournament, and won all three games where I had white (as Black I lost a QGD Lasker and a Dragon, staying true to the book!). I tied for 3rd in the section, won $50, and bought my first chess clock.
I abandoned it after that one tournament to play the KIA due to the influe e, the very idea of preparing for tournaments in that manner was incredibly eye-opening for me.
knows I like a good chess read, rather than on the state of my play. I am only ever
likely to enter into a stonewall using the Botvinnic system of my English, although
rather interestingly, hardly any of my games have gone that way and I use the English
exclusively. Mostly i find people try to play either as a Kings Indian, or classically with
...e5, ...Nf6 and ...d5 and we enter a kind of reversed dragon. I have lost count of
the number of times i have faced this, which i think is just good for white,
Hi Linden.
The article in CHESS says the player of the Black pieces had played 12.....Qe7
a few weeks previously in the Tyne & Weir congress and won.
I knew nothing about this game, I found all the sacs OTB.
14...Bd7 after taking the c4 Bishop.
There is another note from actual game after 14.Bxd5 saying Black can try to give
up his Queen in the most expensive way possible.
It was given as possible line to show the trouble Black is in.
Nice stinger in the tail when Black thinks he got down to a Rook and oppo Bishop ending.