Chessmatch V: scandium vs Skybird 0-1
 

1. e2-e4

It'll be interesting to see what defence you play. I know you're not a Sicilian player and can rule that out but I have a hunch... ;)

Had to correct the title after I mixed up your username with a similar one (the joys of multitasking). :oops:

I do not play Sicilian...? :-? I do not like the massive bunch of theory it comes with, that is true. Beside Spanish, probably no other opening has so many pages written about it.

Your last: 1. e2-e4
My move: 1. .../d7-d6

A clear invitation, isn't it. Is it? :hmm:

Your last: 1... d7-d6
My move: 2. d2-d4

I actually find the sicilian not that bad theory wise. Roughly half the e4 players play the Open Sicilian and here its black who gets to choose the variation. There are many variations in the Open, which is why the Sicilian has its reputation for being so theory intensive, but black needs to only know whatever system he plays. The other 50% of the time its anti-sicilians but there are only so many of those as well.

Your last: 2. d2-d4
My move: 2. ... / Ng8-f6

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/7743/pos21qh.jpg

Added:

if your move 3. Nb1-c3, then my move 3.../g7-g6

Heheh I don't even have the slightest idea which way I'm going to go from here, even though I had you pegged for either a Pirc or Modern Defence player ;) Weighing other options that might allow more flexibility as both the Pirc and Modern are areas of study I haven't spent much time on (being good openings both but relatively uncommon).

You moved: 2...Ng8-f6
I moved: 3. Nb1-c3
Your last: 3... g7-g6
my move: 4. f2-f4

Look look, the marching up of the dwarfs! Do they want to hand over a petition, or what? :lol:

3. Nb1-c3/g7-g6
You last: 4. f2-f4
My move 4. .../Bf8-g7

if your move 5. Bg1-f3
then my move 5. .../c7-c5


After 4. .../Bg7

http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/6163/pos17ti.jpg

I don't know what you arm your infantry with but I prefer pike to paper... ;)

By the way I assume the conditional is 5.Ng1-f3 ... otherwise your way of maneouvering the clergy is more curious than your choice of armaments :lol:

5. Ng1-f3 is in fact my fifth move though I haven't decided on the response to c7-c5.

Then it is like this, while I am to bed for the rest of the night:

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7340/pos10uh.jpg

What was it with "I know you are not a Sicilian player"...? ;) If you play Pirc with Black, you need to know Sicilian and Kingsindian motives, too.

This is true, though rather more KID theory than Sicilian I'd imagine since that transposition would have come much sooner. This instead resembles only one Sicilian line: the Grand Prix Attack which actual Sicilian players rarely see as its not at all fashionable. ;)

We also see KID type closed Sicilians too. Since both the closed Sicilian and the GPA are considered as "anti-Sicilians" then no, this still doesn't make you a Sicilian player :P The Sicilian player plays c7-c5 on his first move rather than his 5th preparing to meet the open Sicilian head on (which is the goal of 1... c5) but prepared also to face the Rossolimo, the Alapin, the closed, the Smith Mora Gambit, the Wing Gambit, the GPA, and the King's Indian Attack. Though black can at least avoid the Rossolimo if he doesn't play 2... Nc6. :up: At the same time he can also end up playing the Advance line of the French Defence in some variations of the Alapin, which can make for a rather unpleasant transposition. :nope:

Impressive list of openings you mention. Now impress me with a move! :lol: Is that molten brain mass I smell from your direction...? :-j

Yeah I'm dazed and confused already ;) Actually I was debating the merits of the various different ways to proceed before settling on one I initially discarded :D

your last: 5... c7-c5
my move 6. d4xc5

Your last: 6. d4xc5
My move: 6. .../Qd8-a5

Keep on smoking, dude. "I love the smell of your burning brain in the morning..." :lol:

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/2002/pos18ni.jpg