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DeathDyingDoomKiller
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada91 Posts
September 01 2013 19:19 GMT
#141
Open Sicilian :D btw Nc3 is the best move,
oh yeah, #JOIN Team Orient :D
Join the League of Evil. We have Murder, Evil, Blood, Grim Reaping, Killing, Death, Dying, Doom, Black, Dark Red, John Boehner, Reaper, Slaughter, and Kill-Death.
Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France7929 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-01 19:45:49
September 01 2013 19:23 GMT
#142
On September 02 2013 04:19 DeathDyingDoomKiller wrote:
Open Sicilian :D btw Nc3 is the best move,
oh yeah, #JOIN Team Orient :D

It's not.

If it were people wouldn't bother with 4....Nf6 which is designed to force 5.Nc3 so that white cannot establish the dreaded Maroczy bind with 5.c4.

5.Nc3 just transposes to main line after 5...Nf6

So if you see 90% of the time the Najdorf move order being 4... Nf6 5.Nf3 a6 it's precisely because 4...a6 allows 5.c4 and that most black players want to avoid at any cost getting into a Maroczy.

As I said in our private thread, the only reason lots of white players go 5.Nc3 anyway is because they are not prepared to get out of theory in a ground that black might have prepared extensively, and black is the one that gets into the unorthodox move order. There is absolutely no reason to let white go c4 unless you have cooked something really special, and white players, being worried of stepping in a theoretical minefield prepared by their opponent, usually prefer transposing back into the main line than doing this otherwise much superior move.

Don't trust your database to call a move the best because it is played more often. That's not how chess works.

Welcome to Orient.
The fellow who is out to burn things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are. Transients, if we buck it; here to stay if we accept it. ~H.Miller
chesshaha
Profile Joined March 2010
United States1117 Posts
September 01 2013 20:21 GMT
#143
##Vote 5... g6
"Hopefully you're not the real TLO so it's not casted" - SpecialK
Dandel Ion
Profile Joined November 2010
Austria17960 Posts
September 01 2013 20:26 GMT
#144
##Like A... g6
A backwards poet writes inverse.
qrs
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3637 Posts
September 01 2013 20:31 GMT
#145
On September 02 2013 05:26 Dandel Ion wrote:
##Like A... g6
Obviously, this is not a vote.

##Vote 5... g7-g6
'As per the American Heart Association, the beat of the Bee Gees song "Stayin' Alive" provides an ideal rhythm in terms of beats per minute to use for hands-only CPR. One can also hum Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust".' —Wikipedia
[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
September 01 2013 21:06 GMT
#146
##Vote: 5...g7-g6
Нас зовет дух отцов, память старых бойцов, дух Москвы и твердыня Полтавы
iMrising
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States1099 Posts
September 01 2013 21:20 GMT
#147
On September 02 2013 05:26 Dandel Ion wrote:
##Like A... g6

that was cute
##Vote: 5...g7-g6
$O$ | soO
Dandel Ion
Profile Joined November 2010
Austria17960 Posts
September 01 2013 21:22 GMT
#148
On September 02 2013 05:31 qrs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 02 2013 05:26 Dandel Ion wrote:
##Like A... g6
Obviously, this is not a vote.

##Vote 5... g7-g6

it totally is

##Vote 5... g7-g6
A backwards poet writes inverse.
qrs
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3637 Posts
September 01 2013 21:23 GMT
#149
Well, it is now.

qrs,
killer of fun
'As per the American Heart Association, the beat of the Bee Gees song "Stayin' Alive" provides an ideal rhythm in terms of beats per minute to use for hands-only CPR. One can also hum Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust".' —Wikipedia
GenesisX
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada4267 Posts
September 01 2013 21:55 GMT
#150
##Vote 5. ... Ng8-f6
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Dandel Ion
Profile Joined November 2010
Austria17960 Posts
September 01 2013 22:16 GMT
#151
qrs pls
A backwards poet writes inverse.
Malongo
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Chile3472 Posts
September 01 2013 22:45 GMT
#152
On September 02 2013 06:22 Dandel Ion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 02 2013 05:31 qrs wrote:
On September 02 2013 05:26 Dandel Ion wrote:
##Like A... g6
Obviously, this is not a vote.

##Vote 5... g7-g6

it totally is

##Vote 5... g7-g6

Help me! im still improving my English. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. M. G.
qrs
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3637 Posts
September 02 2013 06:00 GMT
#153
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'As per the American Heart Association, the beat of the Bee Gees song "Stayin' Alive" provides an ideal rhythm in terms of beats per minute to use for hands-only CPR. One can also hum Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust".' —Wikipedia
wingpawn
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Poland1342 Posts
September 02 2013 06:15 GMT
#154
##VOTE 6. Nb1-c3
Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France7929 Posts
September 02 2013 07:16 GMT
#155
##vote 6.Nb1-c3
The fellow who is out to burn things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are. Transients, if we buck it; here to stay if we accept it. ~H.Miller
TheBB
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Switzerland5133 Posts
September 02 2013 09:47 GMT
#156
##VOTE Nb1-c3.
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Arevall
Profile Joined February 2010
Sweden1133 Posts
September 02 2013 09:51 GMT
#157
##VOTE 6. Nb1-c3
monomo
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany150 Posts
September 02 2013 10:07 GMT
#158
To be honest, as black I kinda like Maroczy better than any sort of Sicilian Dragon, Najdorf or really anything. Maroczy has a clear goal and is somewhat easy to plöay if you have the time to think (I don't like it in 20m or shorter games though)
Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France7929 Posts
September 02 2013 10:57 GMT
#159
On September 02 2013 19:07 monomo wrote:
To be honest, as black I kinda like Maroczy better than any sort of Sicilian Dragon, Najdorf or really anything. Maroczy has a clear goal and is somewhat easy to plöay if you have the time to think (I don't like it in 20m or shorter games though)

Well, in Maroczy you somewhat have to get free of your horrendously cramped position by liquidating everything without being obliterated or left with a lost position.

Personally, I find more exciting to play the regular Yugoslav or even any Najdorf where you play a very aggressive game and aim for a winning queenside attack.

Question of taste.
The fellow who is out to burn things up is the counterpart of the fool who thinks he can save the world. The world needs neither to be burned up nor to be saved. The world is, we are. Transients, if we buck it; here to stay if we accept it. ~H.Miller
garbanzo
Profile Joined October 2009
United States4046 Posts
September 02 2013 14:02 GMT
#160
##Vote 6. Nb1-c3
Even during difficult times, when I sat down to play the game, there were times where it felt like god has descended down and played [for me].
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