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I would suggest keep studying and playing the Nimzo-Indian, it's very stout against d4 when played with the main strategic concepts in mind, namely:Reginald Cornsilks said:
The best.
The greatest feature for me is you can stockfish analyze your matches right after they finish to see where you went wrong or went right.
Weird club experience indeed.
Adams almost took down Kramnik's Berlin @ the London Chess Classic if not for a small blunder right at the end.
hmmm, this makes me think I should start joining these tourneys and once I am down two minor pieces (maybe those are the short ones) I just start running away instead of trying to win. Wonder how long I could survive.On a serious note, my son is 5 and was thinking about him joining the chess club in his kindergarten in the fall...what is a good tool for him to learn? iPad app? Book I can read and teach?
Get him a local coach if you can.
Buy the book Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess and read it together. Do a couple of pages each night as a father-son type thing. It's generally one short quiz per page and is a very good instructive method. You'll both learn something from it. Chess club at the school will be good for his progress as well, if the teacher is competent. I wouldn't go all gung ho with private coaches until he shows genuine interest in the game.
I like him more than Nakamura. Having a really good tournament against a very competitive field.
Wei Yi is the kid to watch. He is about to become the 1st 2700 rated 15-year old in chess history. Magnus's best was 2698 or some such.Fabiano Caruano is done.
He'll be competitive but he lost the fear factor.
Looks like MAgnus is out of the woods.
turkish
chess24.com is the place to go for most live commentary of international tournaments. Yasser Seirawan is fantastic in that role. He doesn't use engine analysis, just goes with his experience as a former top 100 player. English IM Lawrence Trent is another of their frequent commentators, although I haven't seen him for this event.
You wouldn't happen to have a link to that third game, would you?
Not nearly strong enough. He'd be the lowest rated in the field and wouldn't have the benefit of being a young improver like Troff, Naroditsky or Sevian. He's 2500 when over half the field is 2660+.
Ben Finegold is one of the best players in the US and is a house.
Gotcha.
Alex Fishbein is big as well. Thinking about it though, most top chess players tend to be in pretty decent shape. Not surprising since most top chess players aren't American. Finegold has a pretty hot GF IIRC. It's like Jerry's wife on Parks and Rec.
Yep.
C'mon Var
Yep - stockfish does not like it already.
There's no reason to play an early e3 in the Queen's Gambit. Don't take engine advice in the early opening unless the eval is really high.Managed to run my ICC Blitz rating to near 1500 this month
Started by really hammering down knowledge of just 2 or 3 openings.
Switched from the Nimzo Indian to the Slav vs d4
And vs. e4, there's a good chance if you let me get into the Caro Kann advanced variation vs e4, you will lose.
The biggest thing was starting to understand which pieces are strong vs weak in the various openings/defenses.
Still vacillating on when I play white. I always play d4 and Queens Gambit. The computer seems to love e3 on move 4 without getting my dark squared bishop outside of the pawn chain. Guys like chessnetwork and Serawain seem to always strive to get their bishop outside of the pawn chain. Would love to see any database games with white playing pawn to e3 on move 4 to see how they worked their bishop.
The simple answer is b2 to b3 with your pawn, but this winds up bad for my bishop in most games.