Chess: Live Blitz game 1

This is a live blitz game played by me on Yahoo Chess. As an homage to krakkaskak, I tried the Polar Bear system 1.f4. I was in unfamiliar territory, but I won on time in an easily won rook ending.

Sorry about the audio lag in this clip.

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Sports

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• chess
• pullin
• live
• blitz
• krakkaskak
• polar
• bear
• system
• yahoo

[jre92685]

how do you spell the name, crakashak???

[GreenCastleBlock]

krakkaskak

[DorothyFan1]

I've been playing the Polar Bear System on FICS. I've run into problems when opponents who've learned about this setup reply by playing the Hippo. GM Danielsen still hasn't released his ebook on this opening. I'm wondering why. BTW, the Polar Bear is merely the Dutch Leningrad with a tempo more as White. It's curious why GM's don't play this opening sytem as it's relatively new. I once asked GM Susan Polgar on her blog about this opening and she didn't reply. Strange.

[GreenCastleBlock]

The Hippo sounds like it would be an okay means of fighting the Polar Bear. I prefer a London setup for Black with ..Bc5 after White has committed to d3.

Don't hold your breath, I know several high profile chess players don't maintain their own web presences. In the case of Susan Polgar, her blog is probably run by her husband, FM Paul Truong.

I assure you though, everything you see on my YouTube channel is written by me :-)

[MinnnyWinnny]

"why does this game remind me of checkers"

i said, "lol"

LOL

[Karricus]

"Yay, passed pawn with rook behind it!"

Brilliant!

[naker115]

i think this is draw...

[70srocker4life]

"And I said 'lol'." You make chatspeak sound so official, it's hilarious XD

[AwesomeSeanable]

i played the polar bear system when in chicago had a team chess tournament where a low rated payer teamed up with a 1800 or so. And I played the polar bear system in two of my games(each game was like 2/3 wins, and there was a time limit of 5 minutes. I played a blunder that my partner showed me but my opponent didn't capitalize on it, and I ended up winning the game andtaking his king. It was about 6 rounds 4 wins and 1 loss. Anyway, it was a good game :) Just sharin' it with ya guys!

[ovonijemojeime]

YOU CONQUER

[Sozialneutralist]

Yei, past pawn with rook behind it!

[RoboPimp3000]

yahoo chess is so ugly

[TheChessvids]

"He said "Why does this game remind me of checkers?" and I said "lol". Rofl

[fastr1337]

yes

[WeAreBorg359]

Which means lol right?

[Tryggvessalladsbar]

"His plan seems sort of slow to me" :)

Thanks for the videos