Chess Vibes | Russ | Activity https://chessvibes.net/members/3360b22d/activity/ Activity feed for Russ. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:56:59 -0600 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.21.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9e617f487a5764ef355087657f5cc2ba Russ posted a new activity comment https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/2667/#acomment-2716 Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:44:48 -0600 Been there too, several times with lower rated players. Good thing about it is you’re usually ahead enough in development that you can snipe that e5 pawn eventually, and a lot of times it opens the d file up for attacking, especially because bad players tend to send their queen out too early.

I played this game…

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In reply to - Richard H posted an update

Does anyone know where the PGN’s for the openings are?


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]]> 2e54d6d21a49f7186f5ea592d5cab79b Russ posted a new activity comment https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/2667/#acomment-2680 Sat, 10 Aug 2024 21:19:07 -0600 Click on lesson 3.2 and 3.3, up top there’s a tab that says “materials.”

In reply to - Richard H posted an update

Does anyone know where the PGN’s for the openings are?


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]]> 4759b8abba560bdde4dc88fcda570abc Russ posted a new activity comment https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/933/#acomment-940 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:55:51 -0600 Haha. I’ve never resigned a game because I didn’t like the opening move(s), but I have erroneously assigned my opponent the “not good” tag in my head seeing an opening move that wasn’t c5/d5…and I was quickly disabused of that notion as the game progressed.

In reply to - David posted an update Won my very first game in the Owen’s Defence. Opponent took one look at b6 and instantly resigned 😁 ]]>