Ruy Lopez- the Marshall Attack

the marshall attack is a variation that arises out of the ruy lopez when the bishop backs off after a6.

it goes as follows.
1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0-0 Be7 6. Re1 b5 7Bb3

supposedly, Mark Orleans knows a nice pawn push that white can interject into this position that haults the attack. For the benefit of myself and everyone out there who reads this blog (all one of you) we would love to see it. So mark...this is your chance to add something to the repertoire of checkers is for tramps...

check!, uncheck-check

and so...after a nice long morning of interesting games, the first few being blunderful but the vast majority being complex endgames, I ended the day with this brilliant move, checking mark, and leaving myself open to the check, uncheck-check...

honestly, why do I only blog about the humiliating games?

where did everybody go???

This tuesday at matchless wasn't the bustle of chess activity that it normally is. Usually, there are grandmasters milling around in the shadows, plastered on singapor slings and other queer drinks...but not this tuesday.

This tuesday, rather than enjoying the company of signor wayne or GM Orleans, jeff and myself sat around playing with our pieces in the dark like a couple of homos...

seriously guys...there's chess night for a reason. it's tuesday....it's matchless at six p.m. two for one happy hour...be there or be down in material in a five minute game with thirty seconds left on the clock and a looming passed pawn hanging over your head....that is to say...gay.

KING'S INDIAN ATTACK!

A welcome visit from the international grandmaster Mark to eat records on a slow friday afternoon turned into an exploration of the King's Indian Attack. Jordan tried his hand at the opening and had a few sparkling games with it before retiring to the kitchen to bake cookies. I then settled in to a fierce match with mark bringing my anti-King's Indian Attack Counter-Attack that turned into some complex games with equal opportunities...

the showdown contines over the fianchettoed king's bishop..the lines are ripe for discovery and I'm not giving up on my anti-indian variation.

Alex pops her check cherry!

Only a few days after Valentines day Alex popped her Check Cherry in an instructive match with the highly respected international grandmaster Wayne-

A rising star falls

After his rousing debut just a few days ago, International GM Colon was the victim of several tactically effervescent king's gambit games.

While he chose the correct refutation for move three, no doubt gleaned from Bobby fischer's article on the opening (available on this very blog), from there the young master was the victim of an unforseeable foible, leading time and time again to an unavoidable mate.

As for Jeff...He was able to pull himself out of a slump (honestly, I thought he had forgotten how to play the game) with a few wins last night. Although, I had a sparkling victory in which I sacrificed a rook for an attack on the king side.

a-rousing debut!

Jordan Colon, the young master from pennsylvania has been on sebatical from the chess world for the last month and a half. Last night he crashed onto the chess scene with a sparkling victory against me in which I fell for a knight fork that I had avoided but eventually found myself entangled in once more. The young star also played some stalwart games against Ralph, the international GM, and at one point had him thinking for a long time as the clock ticked away.

-kudos Jordan- good luck in your upcomming interzonal battle at matchless next tuesday.