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"I recently read SamuraiPawn's blog and about his fascination with the Art of Attack in Chess by Vladmir Vukovic . He convinced me to spend some time on it. I am have sampled it various times during the past year but have not read it with any consistency. I now intend to read it straight through, take notes on this blog and slowly study the games. I invite anyone who wants to join me to follow along and add any notes you care to in the Comment Section. (feel free to do this even if it is weeks, months or years after this initial blog was posted)"
Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of American was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
The United States was at peace with that nation, and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our secretary of state a formal reply to a recent American message. While this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or armed attack.
It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Yesterday the Japanese government also launched as attack against Malaya.
Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.
Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam.
Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.
Last night Japanese forces attacked Wake Island.
And this morning the Japanese attacked Midway Island.
Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.
As commander in chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. . .
I've broken the "2000 barrier" at ICC correspondence. WooHoo!
This is another good London System setup. Black, when playing against the London, must always be on guard for tactics against his King side pawns, particularly the h7 pawn. Here, the protective g6 Knight is gone and the light Bishop has sighted in on h7. The Queen has free access to the light King side squares and can easily join an attack on h7 if Black ignores the weakness. Otherwise, Black has a good position and can defend, as long as he defends accurately. Black is well on his way to equalization and has possibilities of an attack after his King is secured. Some would say that Black even stands a bit better in this position. Black's pawns have more flexibility, his pieces are more central, and he has the promise of a center break at his time of choosing. Unfortunately, for Black, he chooses to try the break too soon. 
This is the result of the early ...e5. The Queen invades and there is no good way to prevent the Bishop's attack resulting in either a won pawn with a fractured King side, or a Bishop sac for a complete removal of the two protective King pawns.
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"A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality." — John F. Kennedy, American president (1917-1963)
| WS/O/109 | TD Millstone, Michael | |||||||||||||||
| Rated | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Score | SB | R | Place | |||||
| 1 | AUT | 10588 | Pötz, Florian | 1800P | ½ | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 | 9.5 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | CZE | 130711 | Kýhos, Alois | 1701 | ½ | ½ | . | 1 | 1 | 1D | 4 | 7.75 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 3 | USA | 514360 | Owens, Steve | 1800P | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1D | 4 | 7 | 0 | 3 | ||
| 4 | POL | 421419 | Deren, Marcin | 2019F | . | . | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1D | 3 | 4.25 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 5 | USA | 514348 | Thomas, Gerald K | 1800P | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 0 | 5 | ||
| 6 | GER | 85582 | Kaspschak, Mrs. Karola | 1800P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1D | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 7 | ITA | 241236 | Barzaghi, Andy | 1800P | 0 | 0D | 0D | 0D | 0 | 0D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||
| WS/O/120 | TD Marconi, Ralph P. | |||||||||||||||
| Rated | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Score | SB | R | Place | |||||
| 1 | SLO | 480238 | Gantar, Jan | 1800P | ½ | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 | 7.5 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | USA | 514360 | Owens, Steve | 1800P | ½ | ½ | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 3 | AUS | 30119 | Ramsden, Jim E. | 1852 | 0 | ½ | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 4 | ESP | 160980 | Sánchez Carmona, Gerardo | 1800P | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 5 | USA | 514396 | Lynn, Bret | 1800P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 6 | TUR | 490209 | Ciklabakkal, Metin | 1800P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 7 | NOR | 360548 | Stenseth, Bjørn Gunnar | 1800P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||
| WS/O/138 | TD Millstone, Michael | |||||||||||||||
| Rated | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Score | SB | R | Place | |||||
| 1 | ROM | 440627 | Dumitrescu, Florian | 1800P | ½ | ½ | ½ | . | 1 | 1 | 3.5 | 5.75 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | USA | 514360 | Owens, Steve | 1800P | ½ | ½ | ½ | . | 1 | 1 | 3.5 | 5.75 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 3 | ITA | 241242 | Pareschi, Remo | 1800P | ½ | ½ | . | . | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4.5 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 4 | GER | 84051 | Sarak, Michael | 1800P | ½ | ½ | . | . | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4.5 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 5 | BEL | 40214 | Van hentenryck, Alain | 1689 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | USA | 511398 | Peterson, Miss Janet | 1676 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||
| 7 | SUI | 100390 | Galanti, Sergio | 1628 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||
| USCF/WS/07WM41 | TD Dunne, Alex | ||||||||||||||||
| Unrated | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Score | SB | R | Place | |||||
| 1 | USA | 514322 | Hoffmann, Joe | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | USA | 514360 | Owens, Steve | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 3 | USA | 514306 | Evans, William | 1620 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | . | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 4 | USA | 514316 | Haggard, Thomas | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | ||||
Awesome addition. The Skins FINALLY went out and got a true possession/red zone WR. I saw this guy at Auburn and in high school at Baldwin County. Mix knows how to shield the defender away from the ball when covered, and corner backs have almost zero chance of jamming him at the line. Mix makes very good adjustments to the ball and anything thrown within reach has a great chance to be caught. At Auburn Mix ran very good routes with crisp breaks and good posture. Mix doesn't catch the ball with his body, he knows how to catch and squeeze it in with his hands. Mix also has a mean streak and will look to pound on defenders, especially when they try to knock him off routes or get physical. He is also an accomplished blocker at WR both in run support and down filed for other WRs. Mix is the type of player that intimidates defenders, and that is rare. Sort of like having a linebacker be productive on the offensive unit.
Sure, Suisham had hit from beyond fifty yards which this kick called for, but not without question. Sure, during the first part of the season the defense had seemed unbreakable against the top offenses in the league, but in recent games they had lost their top two secondary defenders, and the best players on both the line backing and defensive line units were playing injured. Add to this a young offense just starting to pick up their stride after absorbing an unheard of amount of injuries to the line and receivers, but regaining their stride nonetheless especially behind the running of Clinton Portis and the revamped line...
Redskin Fans have plenty to worry about after the Skins' 23-20 win against the stumbling Jets in New Jersey. 
I initially wanted Willis after seeing him play against Auburn, but I was VERY pleased with Landry when the Skins grabbed him. Of the other "can't miss" defensive draft prospects, Adams got his first start for the Bucs last week, Anderson has been starting all year for the Falcons but has disappointed, and Okoye started strong but has fallen behind Willis and Landry of late.
It wasn't particularly shocking that the Redskins were blown out; the stunner was that they just sat there and took it, that the Redskins were content to be bullied and humiliated. Those of us who've been waiting through the Gibbs II era for the Redskins to develop an identity didn't see them moving in any definitive direction Sunday in Foxborough.
With all due respect to professional hockey, pro football is the most violent team sport in this culture. It's based on mayhem and retribution, an eye for an eye, on sheer pride, even if that pride is occasionally misplaced.If Belichick is so bold as to have Brady in the game, sneaking on fourth down and throwing from spread formations when leading 38-0, he also runs the risk of getting his golden boy quarterback mangled. If Belichick has so little regard for the opponent, why should the Redskins have any regard for him and his?
If the Golden Boy stays in the game when the competition is long over, fair enough. But at that point he forfeits any professional benefit of the doubt, and is fair game for whatever comes. This is one place where the NHL gets it right. Half the players in the league would like to hit Belichick right now, but can't.
And maybe it's not the way the Redskins want to play. Maybe they're above that sort of brawling. Perhaps Gibbs wants no part of that philosophy and it's his bust, not mine, that sits in Canton in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But what was highlighted in Foxborough on Sunday is that the Redskins, still a pretty good team with a chance to make the playoffs, don't seem to have the charismatic leaders who can push the team beyond this pedestrian 4-3 start with narrow home field victories over the Dolphins and Cardinals.
This was bad. The score, 52-7, doesn't reflect just how bad it was. The four turnovers don't touch the gritty truth of what happened. That the offensive players on the field did not perform as they should have doesn't matter. There will be blowouts. There will be times that the other team has an unbelievable day no matter how good you play on defense. These things happen.
Behind the trio of Smoot, Rogers, and Springs there are no CBs to handle receivers like Moss, Welker, and Stallworth. Before the Pats scored a single point, Rogers career was put in jeopardy with abuse to his ACL and MCL requiring season ending surgery. Yeah, once again, hinky things were going on early in the game with the visiting team's communications in New England. 
(the extra G is for Genius) Williams refused to respond to the play on the field, the fluid nature of his personnel, the outright insults by the Pats to the Redskins manhood... Please! At what point does a team rise up and decide to go after their nemesis, namely Hoody Bill, vicariously through their antagonist on the gridiron, one #12?Here is another one of my correspondence chess games played at ICC. I just resigned today because the only way to avoid checkmate was to sacrifice my Queen for a Rook. I am now 0-2 in this section. My new correspondence chess rating is 1551 and my opponent's is 1959. I ended up in an opening that I don't know against a much higher rated player. I used MCO 14 as my guide to the opening but my opponent got me out of book early when he prevented my Knight from going to b5. My opponent's first name is Steve. I don't know his last name. He lives in TN. I am not posting this game to my chess site because I don't normally play either side of the Caro-Kann.
This position is like candy for a Caro Kann player. The aim of the opening when playing the CK as Black is to develop the light square Bishop outside the pawn chain and grab a stake of the center. White has allowed Black to achieve his basic goals and equalize very early with this variation of the CK Two Knights.
White's 11th is ill considered. He wants to invade with the Knight via b5. A better plan would be developing the Knight to d2 or short castling. After 11...a6 the Knight is badly misplaced.
I'll take this as Black every time. White has allowed me a comfortable, equal position. Here come the fireworks...
White has his passed pawn, but it is isolated and his King is in a tough spot. 25...Qb6 will pin and win it.
27 Bxf5 would have held with a slight edge for Black. White's move loses material and the game in short order.
