From D.Regis@exeter.ac.uk Mon Dec 2 13:33:20 1996
Subject: Re: Guioco Piano notes
To: lorda@boat.bt.com (Andrew Lord)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:33:18 +0000 (GMT)
Hi Andrew
> I've just got addicted to chess
Sympathy: there is no cure...
> I'm stuck on a problem with a Guiuco Piano line. I got as far
> as:
>
> 1. e4 e5
> 2. Nf3 Nc6
> 3. Bc4 Bc5
> 4. c3 Nf6
> 5. d4 exd4
> 6. cxd4 Bb4+
> 7. Nc3 Nxe4
> 8. 0-0 BxN
> 9. d5
>
The Senior American Master Ken Smith, who died last month
(February 1999), was an advocate of gambits. He was a noted
practitioner of the Morra Gambit against the
Sicilian , viz.: 1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3.
c3 ), which some American players still refer to as the
Smith-Morra Gambit.
I don't like doing so many sessions on Openings, because we all
play different ones, but while Rex was asking me about the English
it occurred to me that I have played more English Opening games
than any other over the last 15-20 years, but I have never tried to
teach anybody about it. So I sat down and tried to put together
this session.
I immediately realised why it wasn't such a natural thing
to do, because the damn thing is so diffuse and complex. [I
wouldn't dream of doing a session which I had narrowed down to
"1.d4", even less so if there were vast transpositional
"THE KING The King himself is haughtie care, Which ouerlooketh all his men, And when he seeth how they fare, He steps among them now and then, Whom when his foe presumes to checke, His seruants stand, to giue the necke. THE QUEENE The Queene is queint, and quicke conceit, Which makes her walke which way she list, Ans rootes them up, that lie in wait, To worke hir treason ere she wist: Hir force is such against her foes, That whom she meets, she ouerthrowes...
![[Giuoco Pianissimo]](/chessx/nomoregp.gif)
