Craig's Chess Page

Hello this is my chess page. On it you will find information on Correspondence Chess, Canadian Chess Olympiad Team and all of the openings I love. I have created some reference pages for some of these openings, based on some of my games and Grandmaster games and great games over history. They are to be used as a reference or for annotating so that you can see what other people have played in the same position. The reference pages are *not* annotated or ordered from "good to bad" or something like this, so you cannot use it blindly as an aid to mastering the openings ;) They are *not* evaluated either. The "1-0", "0-1" or "½-½" is merely the final result of the game. A good way to use the reference pages is to play out the 20 moves in an opening you play then set up the board against your computer and try to salvage a draw in a game that ended up a loss, or try to force a win in a game that ended up in a draw. It's good middlegame practice AFAIC. If you would like to contribute some of your games to the reference files, please email me and send them in PGN form.

*** UPDATE ***

OCTOBER 1, 2000 - Updated all reference sections. OCTOBER 9, 2000 - Added new games for Ron Livshits and Yan Teplitsky OCTOBER 30, 2000 - Since Livshits and Teplitsky are not playing I will have to update the Olympic section...the games that Spraggett, Charbonneau, Zugic and Lesiege have played so far *are* on their respective pages

Giucio Piano

Giucio Piano for Beginners The "Modern" Italian Game Giucio Piano ECO listing

Giucio Piano Reference

Italian Game Unorthodox Gambits Understanding The Openings : Giucio Piano

Caro-Kann

Caro Kann Advance Reference

Caro Kann Two Knights Reference

Caro Kann 4. ... Bf5 Variation Reference

Caro Kann 4. ... Nd7 Variation Reference

Caro Kann 4. ... Nf6 Variation Reference

Caro Kann Panov-Botvinnik Variation Reference

Panov Attack : Fianchetto Variation (g6)

Other Caro Kann Openings (Gurgenidze, 2.d3, etc.) Reference

Unorthodox Chess Openings - Unusual Caro Kann lines Caro Kann ECO Listing Caro Kann Opening Traps Chess City Caro Kann Pawn Structures Caro-Kann Strategy

Nimzo Indian

Nimzo Indian ECO Listing

Nimzo Indian Main Line (4.Qc2) Reference

Nimzo Indian Rubinstein Variation (4.e3) Reference

Article on the Rubinstein Variation v. the Nimzo-Indian Playing the Rubinstein against the Nimzo-Indian

Nimzo Indian Samisch Variation (4.a3) Reference

Nimzo Indian Leningrad Variation (4.Bg5) Reference

Nimzo Indian Other Lines Reference

Benoni

Other lines I play against 1.d4 Nf6 Reference

Benoni Tutorial

2.b3 Sicilian

2.b3 Sicilian Reference

Unorthodox Chess Openings 2.b3 Sicilian Kasparov Chess did an article on the 2.b3 Sicilian

French Tarrasch

French Tarrasch Reference

French Tarrasch Page

Trompowsky

Trompowsky Reference

Unorthodox Chess Openings Unusual Trompowsky Lines

Two Knights

Two Knights ECO listing

Two Knights Defense Reference

Understanding The Openings : Fried Liver Attack Understanding The Openings : Two Knights Defense Two Knights - win with 4. ... Nxe4 Max Lange Attack - Part One Max Lange Attack - Part Two

Other Openings

Other Defenses against 1.e4 Reference

Halasz Gambit Reference

Halasz Gambit Another Halasz Gambit article Huge Game Collections sorted by ECO code Muzio Gambit page

Correspondence Chess

Net-Chess.com Playchess.de Its Your Turn Canadian Correpondence Chess Association IECG WECF IECC FCV

Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad Alexandre Lesiege Igor Zugic Kevin Spraggett Pascal Charbonneau Ron Livshits Yan Teplitsky

Other Links

Ottawa Chess Club Chess Federation of Canada World Cup of Chess Chess Talk Chess Lab The Tacky Patzer Chess Page The Chess Kamikaze Page (Gambits) Sam Sloan's Chess Page USCF Practice Your Chess Endings Google Search Engine FIDE Chess And Math Chess World Kasparov Chess

A big thank-you to John Coleman for giving me pictures of the Olympiad team members

Game jobs.com Jobs.gc.ca Human Resources Canada Chess Archeology NBA.COM UBA 2 - Fantasy Basketball Rise Up Your Kilt.com Open GL Tutorial Kasparov thinks it's the year 936? My Resume WWF.COM Ottawa Citizen KevinSpraggett.com Judith Polgar Page Dutton Chess Mitel DEI Sales CTS Nextel DeLunatic King's Website Canadian FM Danny Goldenberg's Web Site

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