{"id":597,"date":"2009-06-19T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T22:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2009-06-19T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T22:52:17","slug":"two-e-mails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Two e-mails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two e-mails that arrived the same day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Bughousemaster has made the following comment on<br \/>\nyour video: Nuke the Sicilian! How to Sac Your Queen on Move Six and Win.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">*********************<br \/>\nWhy is this lecture in the 2400+ section???  I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t see how a 2400 player would benefit from this<br \/>\nat all&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">*********************<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s ask this guy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Hello Dana Mackenzie,<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Some time ago  I found out about the opening, mentioned in the title and you invented it. I have played about 70 games  now using the variation, and have spent  many hours on it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">I played it in a high level tournament   called the crazy opening on Gameknot.com<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">I recently started a new  tournament  using this opening with players  with a average rating of 1500  this to let them learn how to play in a complicated tactical game,  and let them annotate the games. Perhaps you can have a look at it,  and add more playing data to the variation. (Very interesting comments and alternative solutions.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">I will give you the links  to the annotated games and the mini tournament  we are currently playing.underneath this email..<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">In my opinion  white has the most fun  but if played carefully i think black has the best chances to win..<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Gameknot Forum  with links to the annotations and the Mini Tournament:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gameknot.com\/room-fm.pl?home=3&amp;th=226\">http:\/\/gameknot.com\/room-fm.pl?home=3&amp;th=226<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Link to a high level mini tournament,   already played: <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gameknot.com\/mt.pl?id=28603\">http:\/\/gameknot.com\/mt.pl?id=28603<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">My name there is Easy19    and my club level  is around  2000  (not FIDE official).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">And I think your variation is gaining popularity&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Regards, Freddy<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was very interested to hear that someone had actually organized a theme tournament around the Bryntse Variation (aka Queen Sac Variation), <font color=\"#ff0000\">1. e4 c5 2. f4 d5 3. Nf3 de 4. Ng5 Nf6 5. Bc4 Bg4?! 6. Qxg4!?<\/font> Freddy&#8217;s first link takes you to several games with extensive annotations by the players. Some of the annotations are rather amusing. One guy doesn&#8217;t get the idea of the opening at all; I think he signed up for the tournament just for the heck of it. Another guy calls his king &#8220;Henry&#8221; and his queen &#8220;Glenda.&#8221; But I think there are some high-quality moves and games in there, too. My database of Bryntse Gambit games just got a lot bigger!<\/p>\n<p>Here is why Freddy says that he loves this opening. It is the perfect answer to the disgruntled guy, &#8220;Bughousemaster,&#8221; who wrote the first e-mail.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">The good thing about the opening is that it just has it all.<\/font><br \/>\n<font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> Extreme  Sacrifice<br \/>\nExtreme Binds<br \/>\nExtreme Traps<br \/>\nExtreme sharp play<br \/>\nAnd extreme  strategic play<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">And I just like all those extremes.. So i must be a Fan.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Freddy!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I should perhaps clarify one thing about Bughousemaster&#8217;s question. ChessLecture doesn&#8217;t really have a special section for 2400+ players. However, a couple years ago GM Jesse Kraai made up a training guide with lectures targeted for each playing level. Almost all of my lectures are suitable for players 1600 and below, but Jesse apparently felt that the ideas in &#8220;Nuke the Sicilian&#8221; were subtle enough to be more appropriate for players over 2400.<\/p>\n<p>I also highly recommend Jesse&#8217;s lecture, &#8220;Nez Nukes the Sicilian,&#8221; where he shows a game where Rashid Nezhmetdinov sacrificed his queen in similar fashion. He says that he never really understood that game until he saw mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two e-mails that arrived the same day: Bughousemaster has made the following comment on your video: Nuke the Sicilian! How to Sac Your Queen on Move Six and Win. ********************* Why is this lecture in the 2400+ section??? I don&#8217;t see how a 2400 player would benefit from this at all&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; ********************* Let&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11,9],"tags":[1044,1048,1046,307,633,1047,103,1045],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess-lecture","category-games","category-openings","tag-bryntse-variation","tag-extreme","tag-grand-prix","tag-jesse-kraai","tag-nuke","tag-online-chess","tag-queen-sacrifice","tag-sicilian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}