Games, analysis and discussion by National Master Kevin Pacey
[Event "??"] [Site "San Nicolas"] [Date "1957.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Canoba"] [Black "Eliskases, E"] [Result "0-1"] {Discussion of French Winawer, Poisoned Pawn, Rossetto Variation game:} 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 Qc7 8.Qxg7 Rg8 9.Qxh7 cxd4 10.Ne2 dxc3 {The normal move order for the main line Winawer Poisoned Pawn proceeds ...
Updated 05-02-2020 at 12:06 AM by Kevin Pacey
[Event "Lloyds Bank"] [Site "London, UK"] [Date "1985.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "B. Stein"] [Black "A. Beliavsky"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] {Discussion of French Winawer, Poisoned Pawn, Euwe Variation game:} 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 Qc7 8.Qxg7 Rg8 9.Qxh7 cxd4 10.Kd1!? {The Euwe Variation, which nowadays is uncommon in over the ...
Updated 08-08-2022 at 04:26 PM by Kevin Pacey
Based on an old post of mine on the CFC Discussion Board: I'd recommend, for the viewer's own comparison purposes, doing a 2700+ vs. 2700+ player database search, for either a few recent years only, or for a longer period of time, to see what the most popular defences/openings are, and for the wins-draws-losses (or overall-percentage) percentage results achieved with each. Better yet might be to do a computer vs. computer games database search, assuming the programs involved were ...
Updated 09-12-2015 at 10:59 AM by Kevin Pacey
[Event "Gatineau Open"] [Site "Gatineau, CAN"] [Date "2013.03.01"] [Round "1"] [White "Adriaanse, A"] [Black "Pacey, K"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Nc3 0-0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Be2 a6!? {7...dxc4 8.Bxc4 c5 9.0-0 a6 10.a4 = can occur after 7.Bd3 too.} 8.0-0 dxc4 9.Bxc4 {9.a4 was possible, when 9...c5 10.Bxc4 transposes to 7...dxc4 etc.} b5 10.Be2 ...
Updated 01-25-2014 at 10:09 PM by Kevin Pacey
[Event "Ottawa Spring Open"] [Site "Ottawa CAN"] [Date "2013.02.17"] [Round "4"] [White "Zhang, Z"] [Black "Pacey, K"] [Result "0-1"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c3 d5 4.exd5 exd5 5.d4 Bd6 6.dxc5 Bxc5 7.Bb5+ Nc6 8.O-O Ne7 9.Nbd2 O-O 10.Nb3 Bd6 {Reaching a position from the 3...c5 4.exd5 exd5 Tarrasch French where White has in effect played the very quiet move c2-c3 too ...
Updated 01-25-2014 at 10:10 PM by Kevin Pacey