MAY 23 2008

Yesterday, I was at the Chess and Checkers' House to try a new strategy or to improve my strategy which has consisted at attacking my opponent's king with the maximum of pieces I can mobilize on the board for this attack and to neglect the other side or the other parts of the board. The day before yesterday this new variant has worked against Gayo, a player against I lost three days ago.The new variant was to make the pawns move as along an oblique or diagonal path toward the opposite king - the march of the pawns - and with my cautious opening moving the king and the queen pawns moved of only one case at the start of the game, it was pretty easy.
   I played, yesterday, four games against three opponents of different strenght. Agaisnt the first a player from Mexico who is less strong than me, I almost lost due to my short attention span this day, but finally my strategy has worked and after losing inadvertently some pieces ( 2 or 3) I cornered his king and he was check-mated. I did not know the strength of the second opponent but I thought that he might be a better player than the first one who is one the worse at the Chess and Checkers' House, being new at the game, but I was more clever and more attentive at the game, exchanging inequal pieces to gain advantage and/or accepting sacrifice - they are what they called "intutitive sacrifices" - as I did the day before against Amaury (Gayo2630) from the Dominican Republic.
   The last player was David who has probably played competitive chess and I lost against him the game we played. He told me that it was my opening which was faulty and that I have to learn the classic chess' openings, like the Queen Gambit, the Ruy Lopez, etc. (reserve a l'auteur). However, I told him that I am playing chess just for fun. He told me that nevertheless I have to proceed so and to buy an opening book which name, I do not remember much, is probably MCO (Masters' Chess Openings) and the place where to find it. He told me also that it will take me three tof six months to learn the openings, their variations and the answers to them, but I doubt that I can do so, because I will not hhave probably the time available. After that I have asked him which opening he proposed me to learn as a "beginner" ( I am not truly one but I become one if I want to play competitive chess), he answered me the Queens' gambit (reserve a l'auteur).So when I got home I try this bold and aggressive opening against mine which is a more cautious one, like the the ones played by the Russian champion, Anatol Karpov, in my computer playing with an easy chess software, Dr. Schiller's Chess Game. To my surprise the Blacks playing with my opening were winning or had a sizable advantage after the 15th move or even before. Howevwer, I do not think that David was wrong. Nevertheless I will not probably do exactly what he told me to do and I will continue to build and improve my own opening. Today with the help of their computers many new players build their own intelligent openings and find new variations to the old and classic ones. Below are the two openings tried with my desktop computer.

1.e4 d6 2.c4 e6 3.d4 Nd7 4.Nc3 Ngf6 5.Bg5 Be7 6.Be2 O-O 7.Be3 Ne8 8.Qc2 f5 9.exf5 exf5 10.O-O-O c6 11.d5 f4 12.dxc6 bxc6 13.Bd2 Nc5 14.b3 d5 15.b4 Bf5 16.Qb2 *
After the 15th move; the result was: "Depth:5 Score:-190 Qc2-b2 Nc5-d3 Be2xd3 Bf5xd3 Bd2xf4 Bd3xc4
You have a sizable advantage."