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gambits
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[ QUOTE ] Englund-Gambit by Stefan Bücker, 1988. [/ QUOTE ] I was competetive player and I still play some chess. This book is not for competetive players... (cause 1..e5 ? is very weak move at that level) [/ QUOTE ] well, I won't say that any of the gambits I play are sound. But there are some high rated players who use these funky openings regularly. You gain alot by taking your opponent out of their book-lines; here is an example; Me vs. David Smerdon (2327) IM Simultaneous Match, Brisbane 2001 1.e4 e6 2.b3!? d5 3.Bb2 de 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Qe2 Qd4 6.0-0-0 Nc6 7.f3 ef 8.Nxf3 Qb4 9.Nb5 Bd6 10.Ba3 Qa5 11.Bxd6 cd 12.Nxd6+ Kf8 13.Kb2 Bd7 14.Nxb7 +/- I have been in contact with people on the net, who have made sickening long analysis of 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5? You don't want to face these guys in a live game. My personal rep, consisted of the following; 1.e4 c5 2.b4 (Sicilian Wing Gambit) 1.e4 e6 2.b3 (Reti Variation/Papa Gambit) 1.e4 d6 2.d4 d5 3.f3 (Fantasy Variation) 1.e4 e5 2.d4 ed 3.c3 dc 4.Bc4 (Danish Gambit) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 (Elephant Gambit) 1.d4 e5 (Englund) Not sound, but practical. put some preassure on your opponent, and he will make mistakes. |
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Re: Your favourite books (not only poker)
reading Rise and Fall of the Third Reich right now along w/ Inside the 3rd Reich Memoirs by Albert Speer. Great stuff.
Downloaded the movie Downfall about the last days of WWII from the Nazi/Hitlers pov. Great movie, so I thought Id read some history. |
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Re: Your favourite books (not only poker)
Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
Faust by Goethe Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels Are You My Mother? by Eastman Animal Farm by George Orwell Mother Courage by Bertholt Brecht Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky The Social Contract by Rousseau The Republic by Plato The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner None of my favorite books are poker books. |
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Re: Your favourite books (not only poker)
"Hymns and Fragments" Friedrich Holderlin
"Book of Hours" Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Re: Your favourite books (not only poker)
Rilke is great. Did you like Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge?
Reading his works with the knowledge that his parents wanted a girl and his mom made him wear dresses is an eye opener. |
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Re: Your favourite books (not only poker)
Chess: The King by Jan Donner (a great collection of Donners best essays...for about a year I refused to read the last 20 or so pages because...it would then be over and I could not bear the thought)
Poker: Gambling Theory and Other Topics by someone named Malmuth. And overall: The Importance and Consumption of Bread and Wheat Based Products by Angus P. Littleworth; 1849 ---Leavenfish |
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