{"id":1225,"date":"2010-09-30T21:47:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2011-07-10T19:35:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T18:35:50","slug":"selected-openings-2010-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/1225\/selected-openings-2010-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Openings 2010-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Selected Openings tournaments feature a variety of opportunities to play from a set position. The tournament is now managed by Dave Grobler who has kindly sent me details of the latest tournaments. These feature an excellent range of starting positions including a main theme plus some gambits and counter-gambits.  The main theme is a Modern Queens Gambit Main Line with first moves being 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb7 6.Bg2 Bb4+ 7.Bd2 c5.<\/p>\n<p>Other tournaments feature the Sicilian &#8211; Portsmouth Gambit, the Max Lange, the Urusov Gambit and the Chatard-Alekhine Attack.  The Counter Gambit tournaments feature the Winawer Counter Gambit, the Henning Schara, the Adelaide Counter &#8211; Gambit and the Bellon Gambit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOT Main Theme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Queens Indian &#8211; Modern Main Line:\u00a01.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb7 6.Bg2 Bb4+ 7.Bd2 c5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gambit Tournaments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sicilian &#8211; Portsmouth Gambit:\u00a01.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.b4<\/li>\n<li>Max Lange:\u00a01.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.0-0 Bc5 6.e5<\/li>\n<li>Urusov Gambit:\u00a01.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nf3 Bb4 +<\/li>\n<li>Chatard -Alekhine Attack:\u00a01.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.h4 !?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Counter-Gambits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winawer Counter &#8211; Gambit:\u00a01.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e5<\/li>\n<li>Henning &#8211; Schara:\u00a01.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd4 cxd4<\/li>\n<li>Adelaide Counter &#8211; Gambit:\u00a01.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.Nf3 f5<\/li>\n<li>Bellon Gambit:\u00a01.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 e4 4.Ng5 b5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Selected Openings tournaments feature a variety of opportunities to play from a set position. The tournament is now managed by Dave Grobler who has kindly sent me details of the latest tournaments. These feature an excellent range of starting positions including a main theme plus some gambits and counter-gambits. The main theme is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/1225\/selected-openings-2010-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Selected Openings 2010-11<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bccachess.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}