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Bishop's Gambit
The Bishop's Gambit is a variation of the King's Gambit, a chess opening that begins with the moves: :1. e4 e5 :2. f4 exf4 (The King's Gambit Accepted) :3. Bc4 Compared to the main line, the king's knight gambit (3. Nf3), there is very little theory on the Bishop's gambit and most lines are nameless. The bishop's gambit is the most important alternative to 3. Nf3. White allows 3...Qh4+ 4. Kf1. White lost the possibility to castle, but the king is safe on f1 and white can gain several tempi on the black queen, for example with Nf3. The famous Immortal Game started with this line. White's plan is usually to develop quickly and start an attack on the kingside using the half-open f-file and the bishop on c4. Many of black's defenses include the move ...d5 attacking the bishop on c4. Plans, ideas and Transpositions In some lines, White can transpose to the king's knight gambit by an early Nf3. The general plans are mostly the same as in the king's knight gambit, especial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop's Gambit
The Bishop's Gambit is a variation of the King's Gambit, a chess opening that begins with the moves: :1. e4 e5 :2. f4 exf4 (The King's Gambit Accepted) :3. Bc4 Compared to the main line, the king's knight gambit (3. Nf3), there is very little theory on the Bishop's gambit and most lines are nameless. The bishop's gambit is the most important alternative to 3. Nf3. White allows 3...Qh4+ 4. Kf1. White lost the possibility to castle, but the king is safe on f1 and white can gain several tempi on the black queen, for example with Nf3. The famous Immortal Game started with this line. White's plan is usually to develop quickly and start an attack on the kingside using the half-open f-file and the bishop on c4. Many of black's defenses include the move ...d5 attacking the bishop on c4. Plans, ideas and Transpositions In some lines, White can transpose to the king's knight gambit by an early Nf3. The general plans are mostly the same as in the king's knight gambit, especial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop's Gambit
The Bishop's Gambit is a variation of the King's Gambit, a chess opening that begins with the moves: :1. e4 e5 :2. f4 exf4 (The King's Gambit Accepted) :3. Bc4 Compared to the main line, the king's knight gambit (3. Nf3), there is very little theory on the Bishop's gambit and most lines are nameless. The bishop's gambit is the most important alternative to 3. Nf3. White allows 3...Qh4+ 4. Kf1. White lost the possibility to castle, but the king is safe on f1 and white can gain several tempi on the black queen, for example with Nf3. The famous Immortal Game started with this line. White's plan is usually to develop quickly and start an attack on the kingside using the half-open f-file and the bishop on c4. Many of black's defenses include the move ...d5 attacking the bishop on c4. Plans, ideas and Transpositions In some lines, White can transpose to the king's knight gambit by an early Nf3. The general plans are mostly the same as in the king's knight gambit, especial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cunningham Gambit
Alexander Cunningham of Block (1655–1730) was a Scottish jurist, and chess player. As a classical critic, he was known as an opponent of Richard Bentley. Life The son of the Rev. John Cunningham, minister of Cumnock in Ayrshire, and proprietor of the small estate Block, was born there between 1655 and 1660. He was probably educated both in the Netherlands and at Edinburgh, and was selected by William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry to be tutor to his son, Lord George Douglas. Through the Queensberry influence he was appointed by the Crown to be professor of civil law in the university of Edinburgh about 1698. In 1710, when the Duke of Queensberry was out of favour with the other Whig leaders, the magistrates of Edinburgh asserted their ancient right and ousted Cunningham from the professorship to make way for their own nominee. He then left Scotland, and established himself at The Hague, where he lived on a pension granted him by the Duke of Queensberry, devoting himself to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexei Suetin
Alexey Stepanovich Suetin (russian: Алексе́й Степа́нович Суэ́тин; November 16, 1926 – September 10, 2001) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and author. He was the World Senior Chess Champion from 1996 to 1997. Biography A resident of Minsk (in 1953-1968), a mechanical engineer by profession, he became an International Master in 1961 and a Grandmaster in 1965. His philosophy was always that "mastery is not enough; you must dare, take risks". It was an axiom that fashioned him into a tough and fiercely competitive player and appeared to bring him his fair share of success. His first major success came in 1955, when as a member of the Soviet team at the World Student Team Championships, he scored 80% and took individual and team gold medals. As an active tournament player in the 1960s and 1970s, he achieved many fine results, including sharing or winning outright first place at Sarajevo 1965, Copenhagen 1965, Titovo Užice 1966, Hastings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Kieseritzky
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky (russian: Лионель Адальберт Багратион Феликс Кизерицкий; – ) was a Baltic Germans, Baltic German chess master and Chess theoretician, theoretician, famous for his contributions to chess theory, as well for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, which because of its brilliance was named "Immortal Game, The Immortal Game". Kieseritzky is the namesake of several openings and opening variations, such as the Kieseritzky Gambit, Two Knights Defense#4.Ng5, Kieseritzky attack, and the Boden–Kieseritzky Gambit. Early life Kieseritzky was born in Tartu, Dorpat (now Tartu), Governorate of Livonia, Livonia, Russian Empire into a Baltic Germans, Baltic German family. From 1825 to 1829 he studied at the University of Tartu, University of Dorpat, and then worked as a mathematics teacher, like Anderssen. From 1838 to 1839, he played a correspondence chess, correspondence match against Carl Jaenisch – unfi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evans Gambit
The Evans Gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves: :1. e4 e5 :2. Nf3 Nc6 :3. Bc4 Bc5 :4. b4 The Evans Gambit is an aggressive line of the Giuoco Piano. White offers a pawn to divert the black bishop on c5. If Black accepts, White can follow up with c3 and d4, ripping open the , while also opening diagonals to play Ba3 or Qb3 at some point, preventing Black from castling and threatening the f7-pawn, respectively. If Black declines, the b4-pawn stakes out on the queenside, and White can follow up with a4 later in the game, potentially gaining a tempo by threatening to trap Black's . According to Reuben Fine, the Evans Gambit poses a challenge for Black since the usual defences (playing ...d6 and/or returning the gambit pawn) are more difficult to achieve than with other gambits. (Fine was once beaten by this gambit in a against Bobby Fischer, in just 17 moves.) The ''Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings'' has two codes for the Evans Gambit, C51 and C52. *C51: 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Steinitz
William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was an Austrian and, later, American chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first official World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician. When discussing chess history from the 1850s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz could be effectively considered the champion from an earlier time, perhaps as early as 1866. Steinitz lost his title to Emanuel Lasker in 1894, and lost a rematch in 1896–97. Statistical rating systems give Steinitz a rather low ranking among world champions, mainly because he took several long breaks from competitive play. However, an analysis based on one of these rating systems shows that he was one of the most dominant players in the history of the game. Steinitz was unbeaten in match play for 32 years, from 1862 to 1894. Although Steinitz became "world number one" by winning in the all-out attacking style that was comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Sokolov (chess Player)
Ivan Sokolov ( Cyrillic: Иван Соколов; born 13 June 1968) is a Dutch- Bosnian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 1987. Sokolov won the 1988 Yugoslav Championship and in 1995 and 1998 the Dutch Championship. Before earning the GM title, he became a FIDE Master in 1985 and an International Master in 1986. In 1987 and 1993, he won the Vidmar Memorial. In 2000, he won the 1st European Rapid Chess Championship in Neum edging out on tiebreak Alexey Dreev and Zurab Azmaiparashvili. Following his playing career, Sokolov has become a successful chess trainer. From 2013 - 2016, he worked as a coach and second for Salem Saleh and served as the trainer of the United Arab Emirates national team. In 2016, he left his job in the UAE to coach Iran's national team, a position that included extensive work with Alireza Firouzja Alireza Firouzja ( fa, علیرضا فیروزجا, ; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French chess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fischer Defense
The Fischer Defense to the King's Gambit is a chess opening variation that begins with the moves: :1. e4 e5 :2. f4 exf4 :3. Nf3 d6 Although 3...d6 was previously known, it did not become a major variation until Fischer advocated it in a famous 1961 article in the first issue of the ''American Chess Quarterly''. In the ''Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings'', the Fischer Defense is given the code C34. History After Bobby Fischer lost a 1960 game at Mar del Plata to Boris Spassky, in which Spassky played the Kieseritzky Gambit, Fischer left in tears and promptly went to work at devising a new defense to the King's Gambit. In Fischer's 1961 article, "A Bust to the King's Gambit", he claimed, "In my opinion the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force." Fischer concluded the article with the famous line, "Of course White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently. (Thank you, Weaver Adams!)" The article became famous. Fischer never tested this p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |