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Hahaha Thanks for comment, Satorri. But in this case I will stay blood I do enjoy blood a lot more than frost and normally I tank most number of encounters in blood.
Honestly? I wouldn't spec for specific circumstances. I think your first priority is to figure out which spec you enjoy most then learn how to use it in every situation you need. With dual specs if you are a chronic tank, you can even take your top two.
Ultimately you can make any of them work for anything you need, the defining issue is experience and practice. From the sound of it you really enjoy Frost. If you want the most reliable form, personally I'd recommend a dual wield spec with a collection of options. If you collect fast tank weapons, slow dps weapons, and stock up on glyphs you can adjust your method slightly as needed. If you want peak single target killing you can do slow/slow with glyphed OB, FS, and RS, and a double disease method. If you want versatile AoE tanking you can do slow/fast or fast/fast with glyphed OB/RS, FS, and HB and a single disease design to abuse AoE spam.
That's all terribly personal though, I value personal enjoyment over min/max output on a class-wide scale.
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Hahaha Thanks for comment, Satorri. But in this case I will stay blood I do enjoy blood a lot more than frost and normally I tank most number of encounters in blood.
Alright, keep rereading and am think I am close to starting to tank again in the heroics this time. Was wondering if I could have someone with some Frost DW experience take a look at my profile and give me some pointers. http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...th&cn=Faerosia
Now I have the T9 tank pants in my bags, working on the T9 chest and the 245 vendor tank helm right now. As for the other pieces that need upgrades I have the Amulet and Ring from the chest in H HoR, Trinket and Wrist from H PoS and the Boots and another Nighttime from H FoS planned out. Belt I might go for the crafter Belt of the Titans if it aint too much or might just end up with the 219 from the normal PoS. Spec is a little out of whack as well gotta redo it to match http://www.wowarmory.com/talent-calc...00000000000000
Question I have is once I get all that on, how do I hit the expertise soft cap of 26? I know some gems will help but trying to get it right.
Apologizing for the wall o' text ahead of time.
When you're gearing up there is only so much you can do Salmonman. You kind of have to take what you can get and adjust with gems here and there to what you feel is important.
Once you have a proper set of gear to tank with whether it is ideally balanced or not it will at least have the necessary components for you to be tanking. You can then headhunt raids and instances to patch and swap pieces while tanking.
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I'm sorry, I know this is a newbie question. However, at the start of a pull (as Frost spec), would I activate Unbreakable Armor/Icebound Fortitude? Or would I use it throughout and during the trash pulls and repeat after CDs, or are they simply intended as "Oh crap!" skills?
Thank you.
UA is an awful "oh crap" skill. I would use it every time it is up, save IBF for the oh crap moments.
Thanks Satorri, been focusing on that part too much I lost sight of my other stats. But am up to 29k health unbuffed in frost with still needing a belt, helm and trinkets. Loving frost DW just having trouble picking weapons lol.
Oh, and who else is excited for the 3.3.3 stuff? IT with very high threat, off hand dmg talent increased, just looks to be nice to be a DW Frost lately.
A stunning read.... I have been tanking my Death knight for 8 or so months with degrees of success. I have read other very good informative guides , some on this very site...
This guide on my first read through has been both assuring to know I'm on the right lines and also a wealth of information as to where I could improve.
The urban myth sometimes appears to be "OMG DK TANK IN GROUP.. WE'RE DOOMED......" and that's why I want to be the best I can. I think there may have been a trend for a lot of DK's to all have a go at tanking but many have given up as it needs time/thought and a considered approach.
On a personal note I have tried to retain hit and expertise as I read from previous guides these are important..
I suppose no hittie NO threatie !!!!! and you can have bags on stam, truck loads of armour but if the targets are running around everywhere because you haven't or can't hit them....
I do suffer from a tendancy to loose track of cooldowns/runes and start hitting whatever is off CD.. but again.. a read of this guide.. and a re-read at some point will improve this no end..
Without wanting to sound too nooby I am a tiny bit confused about when to use procs and exactly what they are still..... but this has helped.
It seems to be working ok. I do about 1800-2k dps which I'm sure can be improved and generally hold threat . I always ask dps (especially aoe) to hold the carnage back a few secs so I can get it (threat) on.. so to speak..
I tank on a paladin also and have always found (again on a personal note) that the pala has been MUCH easier to tank with even with worse gear and worse stats..... the value of threat and hit was learned on the pala when I read up, geared up and tanked Violet Hold heroic with a new sword when I had a 1h sword skill of 227...... and wiped the group...... to the sound of boo's and jeering........ lol.... Thanks again for the informative read..
Of course I hit him first .. He's Bigger than me !
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But really, the reason I logged in is... OMFG.. Threat multiplier on Icy Touch in 3.3.3.... and a cascade of Frost Buffs.. hooray Beer!!!
This is just unbelievable cool DK Tank guide, thank you very much S. Maybe I just skimmed through it and missed it, but where are the rotations for each spec you recommend ? I am looking to try out both the Blood and Frost spec, but Blood seems more my liking with the self healing abilities and stuff like that. What spell rotation is best for a Blood Tank ? Thank you.
Ok after reading it closer it looks like for Blood Tank spec the rotation goes like this ? IT,PS, DS, then the runes which are HS, BB, PeS, but what about these (Runetap, Mark of Blood, Vamp Blood ) ?
Was just talking to my Guild about this great article and said I might try out Blood spec for my DK Tank, he said WTF, ever since 3.3 the Blood Tank's are the worst he said only allowing like 2 targets at most. He told me go Frost and nothing else. Opinions/
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[i think maybe when u start off tanking then you should probably go with a frost build, simply because when you are running heroics for gear it will give u an easier time gaining threat on the packs of mobs. Once you gear up a little bit more and learn how to use all of your abilities effectively, there shouldnt be any difficulty tanking many many many more mobs then just 2 targets in a blood spec x.x]
Thanks for the info. I am Frost spec Tank right now while I gather badges to gear up. So far just have 2 pcs of the Tier 9 gear, working to get all 5...and also some misc item level 200 Def gear. So I am still a fresh 80 newb/Tank. Can I switch to Blood spec Tank now this early ?
Or not until I have the full 5 pc Tier 9 set, only then switch to Blood Tank ? I always did enjoy Blood when I first created my DK in DPS role over a year ago, interested in how that tree Tanks, in 5man Heroics and the lower 80 Raids ? Can Blood still attract and hold aggro for a mid level geared 80 compared to Frost ? My guild mate said that Blood spec is a great Tank, but not to be used until I have Tier 10 and 264 item level gear.
What is the best rotation for Blood spec ? I am mainly going against groups, like 5man Heroics, and then single target for the bosses, so will use two sets of rotations right ?
What is your opinion of this Blood Tank spec;
Last edited by Darthdingo; 02-21-2010 at 11:35 PM.
As for gear and new tanks, you can really tank with any of them at any point in your gearing. Blood can actually be quite nice for new tanks, *but* here's the general breakdown:
Blood = scales *very* nicely with gear, particularly health from your gear. Larger your health the stronger many of your Blood tools become.
Unholy = scales nicely with gear, particularly avoidance. As your avoidance improves you can see a decent margin of increase in value from Bone Shield (though not directly, the avoidance is the actual source of improved damage reduction, but longer uptimes on Bone Shield will result in your healers seeing you take much less damage overall when it absorbs most of the hits that do get through).
Frost = scales the weakest with gear. The passive mitigation means that regardless of your gear you are getting roughly the same value from the talent spec from top to bottom of your gear progression. It is not exactly static but it does mean that as your gear does more and more work your talents don't scale nearly as much as Blood's. This means that the static mitigation/avoidance can be *very* nice for a new tank who is light on gear contributions. This is anything but game-changing though.
At the end of the day, your best bet is to figure out which spec you enjoy the most and stick with it. The more practice and experience you get with your spec of choice will be a much bigger value than where you put a talent point or two.
For the spec you linked (<3 Grav), it is a survival-oriented build that sacrifices baseline threat from Subversion and Morbidity for the sake of WotN. Currently WotN is a nice value, but generally will only see the most use in progression raiding. With your gear you might find value in it if you do much in the ICC 5-mans or ToC (Gormok and Anub, generally), but it is not a major survival value overall. It's a nice clinche, when you see it proc you'll probably be happy it did.
I wouldn't recommend that spec for you though unless you're diving into the deep end of tanking.
*if* the WotN change goes through 3.3.3 (figure 1-2 months from now), it will shift its value up a bit as an overall survival tool, but as it stands I wouldn't put too much weight on that talent over the fairly formidable value of Subversion and Morbidity for threat.
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Thanks Sat
So for a newb DK Tank can I switch to Blood spec now, or still better until I have my full Tier 9 set later this week ? I will use your talent tree listed on page 1 of this thread for the Blood Tank, now what is the best rotation to use ? For now I am main tanking 5man heroics, no raids yet with this guy until he is in 100% 232 and higher gear.
So when I see a mob in front of me in a 5amn dungeon to do I always start off with DnD, then bring then IT, PS, HS, HS, DS, BT ? I am confused on how to do the Blood rotation. Also which spells are the big AoE ones to use with mobs ?
Or use this for mobs; DnD - IT - PS - PEST - DC - BB - DC - DS - DS - PEST, and this for single targets IT - PS - HS - HS - OB - Dump(DC/RS) ??
If Blood is what you want to do, better to start now and train with it as you improve your gear, that way when you feel comfortable stepping into raid tanking you won't be doing it with an unfamiliar spec.
For Blood, try not to think in terms of rotation, think in terms of priority.
Keep diseases up (Pest them to targets who don't have it)
DS on FU pairs that aren't needed for IT/PS
HS on free Blood/Death runes, unless you could really use the heal in which case DS is still a fine tool
RS on every availability. Only DC if your runes are on CD and you have more than 60 RP.
DnD is very nice for AoE groups, don't be shy about when you use it in 5-mans, though I would recommend not using it on bosses, instead set your diseases and hammer him with DS/HS.
BB is a worthwhile swap for HS if you are trying to support threat against 4+ targets against stuff like Volley, Hurricane, and Blizzard (i.e. where everything is taking uniform damage). On 3-4 or fewer targets you can do just as well by swapping targets with your HS cleaves to spread the love around where it's needed most. I highly recommend doing this just to practice sometimes as it is a valuable skill as a tank.
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The New Testament on Death Knight Tanking
I have started using a blood tank spec. I find myself with full rune power and the only way to dump it is death coil. Is this right, or should I be dumping it another way. Thanks...
edit: Ok I just realized I havent tried this on a raid boss yet, and the runic power will be consumed by rune strike, excuse my nubness.
Last edited by Nemo; 02-22-2010 at 02:24 PM.
In fact, in my post, I specifically describe the scenario that spec is designed for.
In Satorri's OP, he also talks specifically about designing your spec to your situation.
The classic analogy here is threat -vs- survival. You have to design a spec which sits somewhere on the continuum between those two, or finds a happy balance.
So, usually, asking "how do you rate this spec" without any context about the situation you will be tanking in, shows some premise that there is a 'one spec to rule them all', which is false.
All that said, I also maintain a view that for some people, you're better off picking a spec you enjoy (Satorri mentioned that on this page too). I've written about how Unholy isn't appropriate for most bosses in ICC, but that if you love it and you're happy, and your raid doesn't kick you, then go for it.
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I have been playing as Frost tank while I gear up. So far just have 2 pcs of Tier 9 gear, and misc item level 200 +Def gear. I asked my #1 Guild Death Tanker, and he said Frost or Unholy only for a DK Tank, he said Blood sucks so bad, unless your uber geared full Tier 10, 277 highest items from ICC 25man, then Blood is great, but no gear below 277 is good for Blood he said.
I was very interested in trying out Blood Tanking too once I had the full 5pcs Tier 9 gear...oh well


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The NASIG Core Competencies Task Force (CCTF) is seeking comment on a draft of the Core Competencies for Print Serials Librarians. This document adds to the NASIG Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians by describing the skills that librarians need to manage physical format serials in today's libraries.
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Too many people ask, "What is the future of libraries?" and not, "What should the future be?" A book that we must read is: Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries For Today's Complex World. If we don't expect more of libraries, we're not going to see libraries change. We have to change the frame of mind that libraries belong the directors—they actually belong to the people and they should be serving the people.
Phil asks how we get some communities to participate in managing libraries. Start looking at your library's collection and see if there is at least 1% of the collection in the STEM arena. Should that percent be more? Maybe 5% or 10% more? There is no set answer here, but maybe we need to make a suggestion to our libraries. Maybe instead of just books our funds should go to empower the community more in the technology arena. Maybe we should have co-working space in our library—this can be fee based even—and could be something as low as $30.00/month. That would be a way for libraries to help the unemployed and the community as a whole."
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Dayton library seeks to change perception with new programming
"The Dayton Metro Library is debuting a new type of programming as it seeks to update its image as part of its $187 million system-wide renovation.
The library is hosting a free after-work networking event called "ShakesBeer: A Downtown Mix and Mingle" on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 4:30 p.m.
The library is partnering with The Human Race Theatre Company and Warped Wing Brewing Company to offer a modernized, 40-minute version of Shakespeare's Othello, with a craft beer networking session at Warped Wing afterward.
As the library is in the midst of planning its $64 million update to the main facility on Third Street, some residents have expressed concern that building a new library doesn't make sense since physical books are becoming less important in a digital-based society."
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By Phil Spirito, Monroe Library Managing Librarian
"Stop by the Monroe Library branch of the Sno-Isle Library System any day of the week and you will often see a staff person working in a one-on one session with a customer. Although everyone in the library is strongly encouraged to approach staff and ask for help, these customers have scheduled an appointment to meet with a staff person to get individual help on a wide range of topics.
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What's New in Digital and Social Media Research: The realities of citizen journalism, and new possibilities for transparency
How "bridging elites" help on Twitter, perceptions of news by a skeptical public, and Wikipedia pages as newsmaking destinations: all that and more in this month's roundup of the academic literature.
Editor's note: There's a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers?
Our friends at Journalist's Resource, that's who. JR is a project of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and they spend their time examining the new academic literature in media, social science, and other fields, summarizing the high points and giving you a point of entry. Here, John Wihbey sums up the top papers in digital media and journalism this month.
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Twitter stats packages are sort of fascinating but also not. I look at a fair few because I need to be able to talk about them in social media workshops: what tends to happen is I put my username in, go 'ooooh that's interesting!' a few times, but then never actually go back and check the analysis on a second occasion.
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Journalist's Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don't have to. Here are 12 of the studies about social and digital media they found most interesting in 2014.
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Libraries should be re-branded as vibrant community hubs offering free wifi, comfy sofas and coffee, according to government-commissioned report The recommendations are made in the Independent Library Report for England, commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport earlier this year.
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Librarians have been acting in a limited way as publishers since well before the internet, but over the last 5 years or so, a revitalized librarian-publisher movement has emerged.
the second edition of the Library Publishing Directory (2015), edited by Sarah Lippincott, tells a very different story. The directory is a non-exhaustive collection of 124 case studies of library publishing programs (111 based inside the US and Canada). According to Lippincott's analysis, around 90% of library publishers work in collaboration with academic departments and faculty on campus, drawing on in-house expertise to form editorial and review boards. In return, the library supports research from their own institutions by providing an avenue for publication, particularly in niche research areas. While many library publishers (68%) also work with student journals such as university law reviews, the perception that library publishers 'mostly publish student research' isn't backed up by the numbers."
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Libraries are experimenting with some exciting ways to inspire and engage the community by creating meeting and maker spaces with old technology and new
a report just released by the Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries asks us again to reconsider how the library can serve communities in the 21st century. "Rising to the Challenge: Re-Envisioning Public Libraries" aims to "capture the momentum and excitement of the innovations taking place in public libraries across the country, and the impact these are having on communities," said the group's director, Amy Garmer. The report asks: With all the new technology and layered networks, what can be done beyond current advancements?
"We are a place for the curious, for creativity, a place for learning, a place to experiment. It's always been the mission of the library. We're just using different tools."
The Dialogue on Public Libraries group is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries Program and is made up of 34 library field leaders, business executives, government officials, education experts and community development visionaries. The group aims for more than just holding up great examples of libraries working well in the digital age.
"We want to provide a catalyst for new thinking about libraries as platforms for learning, creativity and innovation in their communities, and the creation of new networked forms of libraries," Garmer said. If the report could spark engagement at the local, state and national levels to rethink how to use libraries and then constructively act on it, Garmer said, then the group's goal will have been achieved."
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Chigorin's queen move
Everybody has a favourite chess move. Many just love 23...Qg3. Tim Krabb?©'s favourite is 16...Nc6. According to British Chess Magazine, it's 47...Bh3. And a member of my local chess club is obsessed by the move 7.Ke3! in the Traxler Counter-Attack. These are all highly spectacular moves. My own favourite is the¬†very modest queen-shuffle 2.Qe2.
I'm talking about the little-known Chigorin Variation of the French Defence, which arises after 1.e4 e6 2.Qe2.
I still remember the moment when I first encountered this move. I stumbled upon it in an old volume on chess strategy by Euwe and Kramer and, incomprehensibly, the authors didn't comment on the move at all! I couldn't understand what was going on, and was very frustrated about it. The quoted game was Chigorin-Tarrasch, 1893 and this frustrated me even more: how could such an outstanding player like Mikhail Chigorin play this absurd move?
Baffled at first, I started hypothesizing that White must have some idea with it, and I supposed (correctly, as it turned out) that it was to prevent d7-d5. But this didn't make much sense either. First of all, Black could still play 2...d5 and after 3.exd5 Qxd5 he would have a position from the Scandinavian Defence with a rather strange Queen on e2, would he not? Secondly, even if Black couldn't play d7-d5, it hardly seemed worth misplacing the queen just for that.
As always, things turned out to be not so easy. I started stuyding the line and discovered many things; mostly that, of course, the white king's bishop could simply go to g2 and wasn't so blocked after all. The game would then look much like a reversed King's Indian. Also, if Black played Nc6-d4 at some point, chasing the queen even further over the board, the knight could be forced to retreat with tempo by c2-c3, making a nice 'hole' for the Queen on c2 in the process. It seemed there was actually some positional basis for Qe2 and this showed me in a profound way what a deep and rich game chess is.
Nowadays, it's of course well-known that Qe2 and the idea to develop the bishop to g2 is a kind of prelude to later King's Indian positions. Being a French player myself, I too sometimes face the move 2.Qe2 and in my experience, white players indeed usually strive for a quiet KID-like setup, apparently in an attempt to deviate from better known lines such as after 2.d3. Alexei Suetin, in his classic 1982 mongraph on the French, writes of the move:
It may be looked upon as the forerunner of the modern openings strategy which in semi-open systems aims at achieving a King's Indian position with opposite colours, e.g. in the variation 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 etc.
Similarly, Gligoric, Uhlmann and Botvinnik (The French Defence, 1975) note:
Tchigorin's [sic] move, 2.Qe2, can transpose to the King's Indian Attack (in which White's queen usually plays to e2) but by playing his moves in a different order Black can bypass the K.I.A. setup and take a more aggresive stance.
And the great Kasparov, in the first part of My Great Predecessors, says the following of the line (as played in the game Chigorin-Teichmann, Hastings 1895):
Chigorin demonstrated all the basic ideas of the set-up with the X-ray bishop at g2 and symmetrical pawns on e4 and e5: restriction of the knight at c6 by c2-c3, manoeuvre of the knight to c4 (...) This was the style of the future! Many decades later the King's Indian Attack became fashionable.
Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934)
Now, I must make a personal¬†confession. Although I really love the move Qe2 for all its initial weirdness, I don't like the stereotyped moves that usually follow¬†after it! White¬†often automatically plays g3, Bg2, Nf3 and 0-0, then goes¬†for d3 and/or c3 and he reaches 'normal'¬†King's Indian structures.¬†Played this way, the system loses all its charm, at least for me.¬†It's just another boring KID with¬†reversed colours! Therefore, in this article¬†I¬†will take a¬†different point of view than the (however highly esteemed)¬†opinions quoted above.¬†In an attempt to stop this¬†clich?© treatment of the move Qe2, I will show¬†that Mikhail Chigorin played¬†it with many different ideas in mind as well, and that it's not such a boring¬†setup at all.¬†In fact,¬†Chigorin played the move to deviate from stereotyped chess to force the opponent and himself to think right from the start of the game.
In 1893, the Russian Mikhail Chigorin and the German Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch, two of the strongest players of those days, played a 22-game match in St. Petersburg (Chigorin's home town) against each other. It was not an official title match, but the stakes were high. It was a clash not just of chess giants, but of chess schools. As Raymond Keene describes the situation in The Evolution of Chess Opening Theory:
Steinitz's games had taught the chess world much but certain eccentricities persisted in the old master's conception of opening play, which could not satisfy an idealogue and purist such as Tarrasch. For the first time, we now see the multiplicity of Steinitzian options narrowed down and pruned. Variations and moves are 'incorrect' for general and logical reasons and Chigorin's objections (in his games with Tarrasch) that his incorrect or ugly moves are actually quite viable were more or less ignored. That was until Nimzowitsch came along to renew the challenge to Tarrasch, and until (much later) Soviet writers rediscovered Chigorin as the ideological father of Russian chess, finding that his 'ugly' moves, too, had a scientific basis.
The final score of the match was +9 -9 =4. The games were famously analysed by Tarrasch in his masterpiece Dreihundert Schachpartien (300 chess games). In all-but-one of Chigorin's white games, the 'ugly' Qe2 line was played, making this historic match the 'creation story' of this particular variation. But according to Tarrasch himself, Chigorin wasn't the first to have played the move. In his comments to the first game, Tarrasch writes:
This move was no surprise for me, I had seen it already in a game by Pollock, but given it no attention. It has no other value than to prevent the usual methods of play, and to lead to a difficult, closed game for both. Such experiments are usually allowed to white without huge risks.
Tarrasch's first comment on Qe2 in his book 'Dreihundert Schachpartien'
So far, I have not been able to dig up this game by Pollock, but it must exist, as it is also mentioned in the official match book by Albert Heyde (Der Schachwettkampf zwischen Dr. S. Tarrasch und M. Tschigorin, Ende 1893).  Can a reader locate it?
It turns out Chigorin himself had something to say about his move. In the magazine Shakhmaty (1894) he writes:
I must say that the origin of this move has to be attributed, to a considerable extent, to chance. I pointed it out half in jest during a private conversation with a group of players. Analysing the move later, however, I saw that it did not at all deserve a jesting attitude. I was struck by a remote resemblance with the position in one of my games with Steinitz: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 d6 5.c3 g6 6.Nbd2 Bg7 7.Nf1 0-0 8.Ba4 d5 9.Qe2. With this queen move, Steinitz avoided the need to take Black's d-pawn with his e-pawn, which is defended by his own d-pawn. This gave me the idea of the moves g3, Bg2, d3, a plan which I later elaborated. I think that, generally speaking, chance will time and again play a significant role in the development of an opening.
An evaluation of the move 2.Qe2 can only be made in conjunction with the whole plan arising from it and not in isolation as did the chess critics. The narrowness and short-sightedness of these critics is astonishing. One, for example, gave the variation 3 d4, after 1.e4 e6 2.Qe2 Be7, which leaves White's game weak everywhere: but in my calculations, as mentioned above, I never had any intention of playing the pawn to d4. Another critic commented that "the move 2.Qe2 leads to a "peculiar" game which is a mixture of Sicilian, Fianchetto and French Games, and in which "the defence is easier after this move than on the usual continuations". The result of the match games seems to sufficiently demonstrate that the defence is not as easy as appears to the critic. The third, fourth, fifth etc. insisted that "stronger was 2.d4". But it is difficult to catch the meaning of this "stronger"! There was a time when, everywhere I read and heard that here this or that is "stronger", it was as if I understood what this meant; but the blissful times of belief passed and the meaning of this "stronger" became for me "more obscure".
(Quoted from Jimmy Adams, Mikhail Chigorin : The Creative Chess Genius, 1987)
Heyde, too, makes a very noteworthy observation about these games, which is also important for our pursuit:
The games with this opening which were played in this match are the most interesting. In these, Chigorin tries a move tried in America - by Pollock if I'm not mistaken - 2.Qe2, which is well underestimated by most players.  Admittedly, Chigorin himself did not immediately find the right continuation, since in the defence with 2...Be7, the queen move gains in strength only by means of 3.b3 and 4.Bb2.
Here's the thing. I've played the logical move 2...Be7 (preparing d7-d5) myself a number of times against 2.Qe2, and on none of those occasions did my opponent go for b3 and Bb2. In all cases, White automatically went g3, Bg2 and d3, without even thinking. I find this very strange. If you play such an interesting move as Qe2, why follow up with such boring schemes?
But let's not overhaste things. After all, Tarrasch himself didn't play 2...Be7 until the 10th match game. In the first four games, he played 2...c5. And as already briefly mentioned, Chigorin didn't play the g3, Bg2 and d3 setup until the second time he got the line on the board. Chigorin's first attempt went as follows (comments are by Tarrasch):
Chigorin - Tarrasch
St. Petersburg (m/2), 1893
1.e4 e6 2.Qe2 c5 'With this, Black switches to a Sicilian game, in which the position of the white queen on e2 in any case can't help the attack.'
3.Nc3 'This is, on account of the however insignificant threat Nb8-c6-d4, not good and lays the foundation of later problems. White should play g2-g3, as in the 4th and 6th games of the match, and not rob himself of the possibility to chase away the enemy knight with c2-c3.'
3...Nc6 4.Nf3 a6 5.g3 'The wing development of this bishop was of course already intended with Qe2.'
5...Nd4 6.Qd3
At this point, we get a marvellous example of Tarrasch's famous sarcasm: 'One sees, Chigorin has learned a lot from Steinitz, perhaps too much. In any case it was more natural to withdraw the queen to d1 and continue the game with d3, Be3, Bg2 etc.' In the end, Tarrasch got a beautiful position indeed, but unfortunately, he got mated.
Well, never mind that Black got a good position out of the opening - what's important for us is to note is that White wasn't playing the typical KIA moves here. It shows that the move can also be used to achieve interesting, different kind of positions. Tarrasch himself understood this point well when he wrote, in that other famous book of his, Die Moderne Schachpartie (1916): 'The one idea of this unusual move is that it complicates the game and makes it more difficult.'
Although Tarrasch obviously was no fan of Qe2, I think it does show that Tarrasch values the move not as a way for White to reach a certain kind of standard setup, but to make play interesting. And this can be done in many more ways than just one! In a way, Tarrasch acknowledged this also by varying his own setup as Black during the match. For instance, even though he reached a perfectly fine position (and a classic victory) in game 6 after 2...c5 3.g3 Nc6 4.Bg2 Nd4 5.Qd3 Be7, he played differently with 4...Be7 in the 8th game, 'to take a new course as soon as possible'.
Let's now turn our attention to the line described above by Albert Heyde.
St. Petersburg (m/12), 1893
1. e4 e6 2.Qe2 Be7
While searching for contemporary sources in the Max Euwe Centre in Amsterdam, I discovered that at the time, opinions about how to play this line varied considerably. In the november 1893 issue of the Deutsches Wochenschach magazine, the text move is regarded as the 'simplest and securest' reply to White's concept. On the other hand, in the same issue of the Deutsche Schachzeitung, 2...c5 is considered 'clearly the best answer to this untheoretical move'.
In the end, it seems history has proven the Schachzeitung right. For instance, The Handbuch des Schachspiels by P.R. von Bilguer (1922) mentions that Steinitz considered best a setup with ...c5, Nc6, d6, Nf6, Be7 and 0-0, later followed by d6-d5. Euwe (Theorie der Schaakopeningen, 1953) does likewise. Suetin (1982) and Psakhis (The Complete French, 1992) also prefer 2..c5, and so does Uhlmann (Franz??sisch - richtig gespielt, 2004). It has also been the choice of players such as Morozevich, Bareev, Jussupow and Kortchnoi., but I wonder if it was just an 'autoreply' or if they actually considered 2...Be7, which I personally find more esthetic.
In the end, it seems history has proven the Schachzeitung right
3.b3 'A creative reply, directed against d7-d5' - Tarrasch.
3...d5 4.Bb2 Bf6 Tarrasch's notes are worth quoting in full:
The normal development would have been 4...Nf6, after which Black must ruin his king's side by means of 5.exd5 exd5 (5...Qxd5 is not good for Black) 6.Bxf6 gxf6. Because of this, I chose the bishop's move in all games with this opening. This further provokes the advance of the e-pawn, which is almost always more unpleasant for Black on e4 than on e5. In general, central pawns are best advanced only two squares, and because of this 4...d4 isn't good; White would attack the pawn several times with c2-c3, Nf3 etc, and the end force the exchange.
An interesting discourse, but it's interesting that Chigorin appears not to have intended 5.exd5 at all! In three later games, he chose 5.Nc3 or 5.e5. The latter move, by the way, was also played against Grandmaster Rafael Vaganian in 1998. It seems these positions have not lost all relevance after all...
5.e5 Later in the match, Chigorin deviated with 5.Bxf6. But according to Kasparov, who analyses some of these games in his already mentioned My Great Predecessors vol. 1, taking the bishop is inferior to the text.
5...Be7 This position also occurred in the 14th match game. On both occasions, Chigorin played
6.Qg4 after which Tarrasch played the amazing 6...Bf8
A unique position: on move 6, Black has 'completed' his bishop manoeuvre with Bf8-e7-f6-e7-f8! According to Tarrasch,  this is better than weakening the king's side with g7-g6. He writes: 'One can't blame the bishop now for making four moves; of course, taken together these are wasted. But because of the move e4-e5 Black has the opportunity to develop play on the queen's side well, and start an attack there, while not much can happen to him on the king's side.'
In my opinion, this manoeuvre also shows that Siegbert Tarrasch wasn't only the dogmatist he has often been called , but also, like Chigorin, an empiricist who liked to experiment. Recall the Keene quote, or what Robert Wade (in his well-known book Soviet Chess) had to say about it:
Dogmatic as benefits a teacher and a methodist, Tarrasch tried to explain chess in an uncomplicated mechanical fashion rather similar to the way in the same period that the universe was explained. Just as small exceptions upset the rules to which the universe supposedly conformed, small exceptions required the rules propounded by Tarrasch to be modified. Chigorin was a non-confirmist, just as Nimzowitsch became in the days of the twentieth century preceding World War I.
Well, that may be so, but I fail to see what's so 'conformist' about making four bishop moves in your first six moves, ending up on f8 anyway! (By the way, in an internet game from 2004, Alexander Repritsev played 6.h4!? against the well-known grandmaster Sergey Shipov, so we'll never know if the grandmaster analyst also intended Tarrasch's non-comformist move Bf8...)
But this wasn't the end of it. The idea of attacking g7 by means of Qg4 inspired Chigorin in 1899 to play (against Showalter) the even more radical 3.Qg4!?! after 2...Be7. The game continued in 'Winawer style': 3...Nf6!? 4.Qxg7 Rg8 5.Qh6 and White won - all of which goes, I hope, to show the potential versatility of the move Qe2.
And even if Black doesn't play 2...Be7 but the more¬†popular 2...c5,¬†White can still play differently than¬†a standard¬†King's Indian Attack setup with Nf3 and g3. This time, it was G?©za Mar??czy who found out how.¬†In early 1904,¬†after 2...c5 he played the move 3.f4 against Swiderski, postponing the development¬†of the white squared bishop to a more suitable moment.
Two months later, during the famous Cambridge Springs 1904 tournament, Chigorin himself caught Mar??czy's idea and tried it two times (against Showalter and Marco). He lost both games, though, and generally was in poor shape in those days. (He did win $67,50 for his final result, according to the tournament site.)
Still, despite this bad experience with 3.f4, the move was regularly seen in tournament pratice. It was employed by Paul Keres in the 1930s, and after that occasionally used by strong players. Admittedly, most white players later went for a KIA setup anyway (but now with the standard move f4 included already), but not always. Canadian IM Lawrence Day, for instance, has played the position with considerably more gusto, trying, after 3.f4 Nc6 4.Nf3 g6 the move 5.Na3!? and after 4...Nge7 our good old plan 5.b3!? And as a perfect example of how the system can be played in a creative fashion, consider the beginning of the following game:
Day - Stonkus
Toronto open 1995
1.e4 e6 2.Qe2 c5 3.f4 Nc6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.c3 b5 6.g4!? Nxg4 7.Qxb5 Be7 8.Rg1 Bh4+ 9.Ke2
and White won.
Now, according to my database, 3.f4 is still only White's third most popular move behind 3.Nf3 and 3.g3, but not too long ago, it has also caught the attention of the creative British top grandmasters Nigel Short and Luke McShane. Short employed the move twice in his 1997 FIDE knockout match against Viktor Kortchnoi, while McShane, too, has played it against Kortchnoi. (Short told me that he had played the move mainly because he 'must have been desperate'. Well, even better, for apparently he hoped that  Chigorin's move would somehow bring back his usual creativity!)
Nigel Short, who admitted playing 2.Qe2 only because he was desperate...
The strong Belarus grandmaster Alexei Fedorov has also played 3.f4, and guess what - he played b2-b3 two moves later. I consider all of this sufficient proof that Chigorin's Qe2 is not just 'some move' to enter a King's Indian Attack in a less theoretical way, but has independent value as a system. However, to my knowledge, no monograph or theoretical survey has ever been written about the variation in over 100 years! Why is this?
Is it because White's move still just looks too silly to take seriously, as Tarrasch used to think? Or is it because people think it's just another boring (when you're playing black) or easy (as white) way to arrange your pieces without actually having to think the first few moves? I hope I have convinced you that this was not the fate Chigorin intended his variation. He played it as a way to start a chess game in an interesting, creative way. When I first saw the move Qe2, I thought it was a great big mystery.
Now I know it still is.
Arne Moll regularly writes columns for ChessVibes. Here you can find previous columns all listed together.
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Oh no, again a " good " article..
My favorite move is 2 Qh5 mate.
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5 years 8 months ago
You don´t mention the move I like best in reply to 2.Qe2: It´s 2...e5, when the queen looks more silly on e2 than in a semi-open set-up. 3.f4 may well be White´s best try and, admittedly, it leads to a slightly improved version of the King´s Gambit, but that´s not exactly an opening players fancy these days.
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I am slightly set back by the phrase
"It's just another boring KID with reversed colours!"
If I understand this correctly, not only the King's Indian Attack is considered boring, but also the entire King's Indian Defence. One wonders which chess openings are not boring nowadays...
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5 years 8 months ago
probably your best work yet. I enjoyed this thoroughly thank you.
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5 years 8 months ago
I played against this 3. f4 line a few times and found that Black's d-pawn could be very active in some lines without the opposing White d-pawn on d4 or d3...
1. e4 e6 2. Qe2 c5 3. f4 Be7 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. g3 d5 6. e5 Nh6 7. Bg2 Nf5 8. c3 d4
9. O-O d3!?
... and I actually won this game with Black.
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1. Even if I don't play it myself (neither colour!), the KID is everything but boring!!
2. My personal take on the French defense ;-) : It is very good one, but only : a) To draw (and you must play very well); b) To win, but against a weaker oponent. (In this case you could play almost everything). c) To also aspire to the whole point, but against someone who wants the white iniciative and theoretical "white advantage" at all cost, trying to punish or grab the most, from the very begining and, in this case I think you also must simply play that game much better than him, because I like white's positions more almost always.
That's why I respect and believe in the most extent posible aproaches like Chigorin's 2.Qe2, although I play other (even stranger) things.
In my modest opinion and in absolute terms (imagine "perfect play"), after 1.e4 e6 White can't be anything but better! The questions are: i) Better but maybe not enough to win. and ii) Better, but no one forces White to seak a decisive advantage from the next few moves which, in my view, is the main reason for some White losses (among level oponents). Never mind!, this is a patzer talking! :-)
3. I find the comment from Tarrach (about the move) very good and lucid!
4. No, Scandinavian Defence is not an option after 2. ... d5 3.exd5 Qxd5, unless you want to play a (for me) very unpleasant variation (pawn e6 with B still in c8).
5. It is know decades ago that many of Mikhail Chigorin's opening ideas are many (sometimes MANY) decades ahead of his time. He's maybe even the one chess player and thinker more visionaire ever (quantity and quality). This is by no means Kasparov's discovery.
6. If you "really love(d) the move Qe2 for all its initial weirdness" only, it wouldn't be your favorite, would it? :-) It's a chalenge that 2.Qe2 can't win! There is weirdness beyond that...
7. It doesn't seem to me that Tarrasch though that 2.Qe2 was "too silly to take seriously". At all!!
8. I didn' go very deeply in the article's more analysing part (maybe other day), but anyway: Congratulations! Great article!!
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Ah! And a little provocation:
9. My favorite move: 1.e4 (hoping for 1....e6) ;-)
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@Stefan Loeffler: 2...e5 is an interesting move indeed (although Psakhis actually condemns it). The transposition to an improved King's Gambit with 3.f4 is certainly an option for enterprising players, but Chigorin himself used to play a g3/Bg2 setup against it, which I think makes a lot of sense in the circumstances. However, I hope you'll agree with me after reading the article that White players who try Qe2 in fact should fancy such positions more!
@Maarten Solleveld: Perhaps I should have used the word 'common' instead of 'boring', which was meant as a slight provocation, of course. The KID is certainly not boring, nor does the KIA have to be, but in my opinion in practice it tends to become a rather 'one-sided' setup, not because of its nature but because White players often refuse to adapt to any Black setup and stubbornly place their pieces on the well-known squares in an almost automatic fashion, without even looking at the opponent's plans. Chigorin himself never did this, by the way, but when it does happen, it often gets a bit tedious, don't you think?
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If you want to be sure your posts will be visible immediately, they need to be shorter. ;-)
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5 years 8 months ago
Another patzer's opinion: I have, of course, not thoroughly analysed 2. Qe2 and I have only encountered it a few times but 2... e5 (suggested by Lasker, if my memory serves) feels principally correct to me, aiming to prove that the silly-looking queen on e2 actually is silly. Then g3, Bg2 looks like the only reasonable plan for white but it is hard to believe that such a modest development can pose major problems to black, and even then, why is the queen on e2?
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Indeed Arne, you are right. In fact my post was also meant as a slight provocation ;-) Moreover I tend to think that the KIA really is less interesting than the KID. The point is that against the King's Indian white usually plays aggressively with d4,c4,e4. Systems with c2-c3 or e2-e3 are respectable, but from my experience I can say they are often connected with the same stereotyped play (from white) that you condemn above.
On the other hand, in the KIA a setup with c5,d5,e5 is rarely seen, for various reasons. More often black plays with a c6-d5 or e6-d5(-c5) center, which by nature leads to less sharp play.
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5 years 8 months ago
After 1 e4 e6 2 Qe2 e5, there is always 3 Qh5 ?† la Nakamura (but with an extra move in if you tend to get into time trouble :). Against a non-e4 player I would consider 3 Qd1 as well!
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At least it showed "Awayting moderation"! Lots of times that doesn't happen, and posts are literaly lost.
Anyway, this time I didn't complain...
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@Maarten, I think the reason that KIA play usually leads to duller games than your average KID, is that Black often cannot afford to face the KIA with the agressive setup c5,d5,e5 simply because he has a tempo less! It's also the reason why English with 1.c4 e5 usually leads to much more quiet play than a normal Sicilian. In general, you can't just automatically copy moves with reversed colours, and it seems to me that both Chigorin and Tarrasch understood this very well - unlike many of their contemporaries.
@jussu: 2...e5 was first employed by Marco, in a game against Chigorin himself during the famous Hastings 1895 tournament. (Lasker played there too, so it's possible he suggested it to Marco.) Perhaps it was first mentioned in the Deutsche Schachzeitung issue of november 1893 (see the reproduction image in the article), where they suggest 3.g3 to answer it.
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5 years 8 months ago
"5.e5 Later in the match, Chigorin deviated with 5.Bxf6. But according to Kasparov, who analyses some of these games in his already mentioned My Great Predecessors vol. 1, taking the knight is inferior to the text."
In this case white takes a bishop, not a knight.
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Thx Meppie, corrected.
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5 years 8 months ago
But what happens if Black meets 2.Qe2 with the even more paradoxical 2...Qe7?
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Believe it or not, F3MDR, but according to my database 2...Qe7 has been played no less than 12 times! I would suggest 3.Qe3 and Black can't follow anymore, so he must resign :-)
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Thx, also corrected now.
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5 years 8 months ago
Nice column celebrating creativity!
A minor typo:
Chigorin - Tarrasch
St. Petersburg (m/2), 1893
3…Nc6 (...)
(Should be 5...Nd4)
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5 years 8 months ago
Two thumbs up for that article! Even though this move is awful, I liked your thorough research and investigative spirit. That's basically how people should write about chess: not analysis of variations, but of ideas.
By the way: I'd love to read an opening book that would not give me the latest, most fashionable, state-of-the art lines, but rather trace the way that people played a given opening. I don't want to be given a 10 move variation with annotation "white is better", because I am a casual player and I don't need a cookbook of winning moves:) So much more interesting is to see the chronology of ideas, mistakes and corrections. Do you know any good book like that (possibly for 1.d4)? Thanks!
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5 years 8 months ago
Very interesting article indeed ! Keep up the good work !
emde, I'm looking as well for such books, explaining ideas. But I'm not that interested in openings.
The books I found that come closest to what I'm looking for are the two volumes of Korchno?Ø's best games (one of the most outstanding chess books I've ever read). He succeeds in explaining the various possible plans in the course of a complicated struggle, giving variations only when needed. These are of course mainly "middlegame" books but one can find many ideas and insights in the variety of openings that the great Viktor played as White and Black.
Generally speaking, I also appreciate Karpov's annotations very much : not too many confusing variations (not forcing you to read them with three chessboards on your table ;-)) and quite clear explanations of the ideas.
I always preferred to learn from the middle game. I used to play Benoni or KI as Black (or against them as White) and learned more about those positions by reading Kmoch's masterpiece than any specific opening book.
Maybe there are a lot of more recent books too...
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5 years 8 months ago
1. e4 e6. Qe2 e5 and white may play the Glek with extra tempo.
I believe Shirov did it in middle 90's.
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It's funny you mention this, Wlad. When I was writing the article, I suddenly remembered a game Shirov-Short from the Olympiad in Yerevan where Shirov indeed faced a black setup with e6-e5 and then played the Glek system with a tempo up. For a second I was excited that he might have actually played 2.Qe2, but it turned out the game went 2.d3 Nc6 3.Nf3 e5...
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On this second rest day in Nalchik I finally found to the time to actually read this article and I'd also like to congratulate you with a fine piece of work - it must have taken some hours of labour, but clearly a labour of love! Perhaps you should try to get a publisher interested and write that monograph yourself - a monograph about ideas...
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Rob Brown
5 years 8 months ago
Excellent article, Arne. Thanks very much. Qe2 has a strong appeal to the iconoclasts amongst us. Your observation about Tarrasch's undgmatic bishop was astute.
I suspect that Edgar Winter may have something to say about the Pollack game.
A small thing: the word "overhaste" is new to me. Something a guy might come up with after translating a lot of annotations from German. So, "But let's not overhaste things..." should read, "But, let's not rush things.'
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@Rob, thanks for the compliment. I did find some examples of the word 'overhaste' as a verb (indeed taken from the Dutch verb 'overhaasten') on Google, but you're right it's much more common as a noun. Still, I don't see any principled reason why it shouldn't be used as a verb too!
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For those interested in the history of the move Qe2: thanks to Evert Straat of the Max Euwe Centre, I've finally obtained Chigorin's own comments to his idea. I've updated the article with a lengthy quote from Chigorin himself.
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Hi Gerard, thanks for the kind words and the Pollock game! I checked all Kaissiber magazines I own, but I don't have the issue in which your article was published. It's good to know that at least one other article has been written about this line after all :-)
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Gerard Welling
5 years 8 months ago
Hi Arne,
It is nice to see a good article on this interesting topic.
I happen to have written an article on 2.Qe2 myself in Kaissiber nr.26, january 2007 , page 24-37, "Die Rolle des Zufalls in der Theorie" ( The role of chance in theory ). It is not about modern opening theory, but the historical development of an idea.
The origins of this 2.Qe2 move as you present it, can be found in Kotov and Yudovich, "The Soviet school of chess" but there is more of interest in Chigorin's original article in Shakhmaty in 1894.
Statements like :
"In reality possibilities can be found in nearly every opening, that are not worse than the moves recommended by theory – and not al all when a strong player can take them as the startingpoint of a purposeful strategy. In general the game of chess is considerably richer than we can imagine on the basis of exising theorie , that is trying to mould the game in narrow forms. "
"White does not take irresponsible risks when he answers 1..e6 with moves like 2.a3 or 2.Ne2. After these moves black can not count on an advantage in any way"
And finally he comes to the move 2.Qe2 as you describe it, a move found by chance ..
By the way Chigorin really played 2.a3 in a game versus Zybin, Otto and Lisel in consultation, but I have not been able to find that game.
In your article you mention a game by Pollock, which – to be honest – I overlooked in my own research – concentrating on Chigorin and Chigorin alone. When reading your lines I wondered, because Pollock made Steinitz' 2.e5 something of a personal specialty but it soon turned out to be true. Here is the game :
Pollock (Albany CC) – Halpern (City CC)
Staten Island Congress 1893
1. e4 e6 2. Qe2 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. Nc3 Qd8 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. d4 Nc6 7. Qc4 Bb4 8.Bd2 Bxc3 9. bxc3 Bd7 10. Bd3 Qe7 11. O-O Nd5 12. Qb3 Nb6 13. a4 Na5 14. Qa2 O-O 15. c4 Nc6 16. a5 Nc8 17. Rab1 b6 18. Rfe1 bxa5 19. Rb5 Nb4 20. Rxb4 axb4 21.Qa5 [ Adjourned, and scored by White by default, Halpern being unable to attend the following morning. ] 1-0
I am looking forward to future articles in the style of this one. Good luck !
Gerard Welling
P.S. The last word on this line might well be Stefan B?ºcker's old idea 1.e4 e6 2.Qe2 Nc6(!) 3.Qe3!? e5 4.Bc4
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Purchase Mulligans and Raffle Tickets as part of a "Contest Package"
Thornfield Disc Golf Course is the only course of its kind in Kansas City, this location is only open for non-profit organizations to host charity tournaments. Come check out this awesome course in stilwell, Kansas!
Seton Center is a 44-year-old nonprofit social services organization located in
Kansas City's urban core. Center staff and volunteers provide a food pantry, clothing, rent and utility assistance, socialization programs for older adults, and dental services. Over 850 families each month receive food pantry assistance; nearly 7,000 dental visits are provided to those in need. We encourage all disc golfers to sign up and support another worthy Kansas City cause.
Flyer with sponsorship info and registration info:
More about Thornfield Disc Golf Course
2014 Tree Love Classic
When: Saturday, September 13th, 2014
Where: Cliff Drive Disc Golf Course at Kessler Park
What: PDGA C-Tier Tournament, KC Mini Series Event
Why: Raise money to plant trees at the course
Fees: All Open Divisions- $45
All Amateur Divisions – $35
Ace Fund – $2
Non-PDGA Members – Additional $10
*Amateur Divisions Will Play for Trophy Discs*
Check-In by 8:30 am – Players Meeting at 9:00
72 Players Maximum – Pre-Registration is Required by 6pm Sept. 12th.
*Ams Must be Pre-Registered by Friday September 5th at 6pm to receive a Players Pack*
More information posted on DISCussion forum.
The Discraft Ace Race will once again happen in Kansas City at Swope Park on September 14th, 2014. You will play two rounds of this Ace Race friendly course and it is a flex start from 9 until 4 (your second round has to be started no later than 4pm). The cost is $25 (optional $5 Ace Pool) and you get two prototype discs and some cool swag. There will be some other side games taking place, including a chance to win a Discraft Chainstar basket!
The Ace Race is coming up quickly and we want to break the 300 mark this year. Last year we had the largest ace race in the country and this year we want to set a new record! This year the KCFDC is going to step it up and we are going to make this event even bigger, more fun and more prizes. Help us out by pre-registering so you dont miss out and we can make sure we order enough players packs for all to play.
You can register in person or call Dynamic Discs Kansas (913-403-0710) or Disc Golf World (888-237-6884).


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I graduated from college last summer with a degree in Diesel technology. I've always have had something to do with cars or trucks. There's nothing like starting that first engine you rebuilt and driving away and having everyone look at your pride and joy. If you want to add me on facebook here it is: facebook.com/jake.schweitzer1
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