Your last: 6. .../Qd8-a5
My move: 7. Bf1-d3

We'll see who's laughing when the smoke clears, Chuckles :D

Your last: 7. Bf1-d3
My move: 7. .../Qa5xdc5

I laugh, you listen! :)

Ever say the movie "Local Hero"? The two laughing old men in the hut down the beach...? One of my favourite movies!

Your last: 7. .../Qa5xdc5
My move: 8. Qd1-e2

I haven't seen it, but it looks like it got good reviews on IMDB.

Okay, I understand you have red some books on it. Could be a
double-edged fight after the transition into middlegame.

Your last: 8. Qd1-e2
My move: 8. .../Bc8-g4

Please understand that I refuse to cooperate by choosing variations that are to my disadvantage :smug:

Get that movie on DVD, if you can. It's one of the best (and most unobstrusive) comedies I know. And very atmospheric. ;)

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Heda...! AUF-WA-CHEN...!!! :D Clock is ticking, life is fading, soon it all will be over! :lol:

Your last: 8... Bc8-g4
My move: 9. Bc1-e3

I'm familiar with it yes. At least enough to decide that dxc5 would be an acceptable alternative to the mainline Austrian Attack I'd previously intended ;)

I'll see if I can find that movie around.

Yours: 9. Bc1-e3
Mine: 9. .../Qc5-a5

Felt lonely all alone here. :(

Your last: 9. .../Qc5-a5
My move 10. O-O


This should get interesting soon. The sicilian is generally fairly sharp anyway, and this line seems particularly double-edged.

"Wer zuerst zuckt, hat verloren!" :lol:

Yours: 10. O-O
Mine:: 10. .../O-O

I am confused. Didn't you say I play no Sicilian? :-j

Compare:
"This should get interesting soon. The sicilian is generally fairly sharp anyway, and this line seems particularly double-edged. "

to:
"Could be a double-edged fight after the transition into middlegame."

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No I still don't consider you a sicilian player :D Though I have to say this one line is particularly theoretical and complex. There are already puzzles arising and the 'book' seems to run particularly deep here. One puzzle I've noted already was Qa5 instead of the more agressive looking Qb4; Qa5 is book but that only makes me wonder why Qb4 must be "bad". I could probably puzzle it out in a correspondence type game like this but I'd be hard pressed to solve it "over the board" with the clock ticking. In any case its worth coming back to later.

Your last: 10... O-O
Mine: 11. h3

yours: 11. h3
mine: 11. .../Bg4xf3

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Yours: 11. .../Bg4xf3
Mine 12. Qe2xf3

Yours: 12. Qe2xf3
Mine: 12. .../Nf8-c6

Slowly but surely we approach the point of the match where we will close the books and open our internal neural networks... Excitement starts top set in. The crowd holds it's breath. The earth stops moving. Here and there some armchair general wets his pants. Who will it be? Black or White? The light or the dark? Sunset or dawning? Obi-Wan or Annakin?
Espresso for me, I say.

Yours: 12. .../Nf8-c6
Mine: 13. a2-a3

Coffee for me :up:

Yours: 13. a2-a3
Mine: 13. .../ Nf6-d7

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