CHESS OPENINGS

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Annotated chess games with this chess opening:
chess opening #61810
(6)
The Quintessentially Mortal Game
Zarathustra vs. The Ubermenschen
Annotated by numenorean44 (1535): I have played thousands of games of chess, but every once in a while a game comes along that really teaches you about so much more than just this simplistically complex game we all love so much-- call it "life imitates chess", if you will, although the myriad wizardry & poetic musings lofted upon this, the "Quintessentially Mortal Game", do NOT do it justice...The unbridled enthusiasm with…
chess opening #12240
(9)
Annotated by bleddy71 (1200): Good move. Seizes central territory while opening d1-h5 diagonal for the queen and the f1-a6 diagonal for the bishop. Advanced strategy - for advanced players. The idea is to tempt white into harassing the knight by pushing his pawns far out into the center. These pawns, Black hopes, will later be weakened due to their advanced positions, and the squares around them will be weakened too. As…