1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 h6!? by Ashot Nadanian

IM Ashot Nadanian is quite an interesting guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashot_Nadanian
Nadanian's Fide Chess Profile 
An Oct 2012 interview to Ashot Nadanian 
http://nadanian.blogspot.com/ 

 

Here, as we have an UCO perspective, we want to mention his opening contribution 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 h6!?

 

And for your pleasure, here you can see him in action in a blitz game againts GM Pinter  :
Jozsef Pinter (parduc) - Ashot Nadanian (April24-1915)
Internet Chess Club 3m + 0s, 2006
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 h6 3.c4 g5 4.Nc3 g4 5.Nd2 Bg7 6.e4 d6 7.Be2 h5 8.Nb3 a5 9.Bg5 a4 10.Nd2 a3 11.b3 Nc6 12.Be3 e5 13.d5 Nd4 14.Nb5 Nd7 15.Rc1 f5 16.exf5 Nc5 17.0-0 Bxf5 18.Bxd4 exd4 19.Re1 0-0 20.b4 Na4 21.Nb3 d3 22.Bf1 Bh6 23.N5d4 Nb2 24.Nxf5 Rxf5 25.Bxd3 Nxd1 26.Bxf5 Bxc1 27.Rxd1 0-1
If you are interested in this strange opening system (it remimds me an improved macho Grob), you may be interested to know that there is an article on it in SOS Secrets of Opening Surprises n° 5   By the way that book contains another article of interest for the UCO player based on 1.d4 c6 2.c4 b5!?!
 At last, we wish to mention that the series SOS Secrets of Opening Surprises contains so many gambit and UCO chess ideas and there is a Clearance Sale  at the NEW in Chess site.... Hurry up!
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March 17th 2013 update:
In their book "Genius in the background" (2009), Tibor
Karolyi  and Nick Aplin spent a whole chapter on Ashot
Nadanian.

du Chattel's complete blitz games

http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2012/05/gift-for-philip-du-chattels-fans.html
At last, here is the complete collection of Philip du Chattel's 496 blitz games & analysis in zipped pgn format:
https://hotfile.com/dl/193569990/bc5a4ca/du_Chattel_Complete_Blitz_Games.zip.html
As the preceding file has been made in pgn, I cannot remove 11 double.
But I was able to clean the same file as a chessbase database:
https://hotfile.com/dl/193571788/5ecd6f1/du_Chattel_games.zip.html
Enjoy and hopefully give 1...Nh6 a try!

The 2010 Italian Correspondence Chess Players Yearbook

Now that Italy has to be taken very seriously in correspondence chess competitions: WC25/final, World Championship 25 Final   here attached you can freely download the The 2010 Italian Correspondence Chess Players Yearbook It is composed of 320 pag. - PDF 44,5MB 

There are tons of games and material. Here are a few examples:

•  starting from page 129 you can read an article on 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Qf6!?
• from page 163: the game B. Toth -  Oosterom J. (1.d4 e6 2.c4 b6 3.e4 Bb4 4.Bd3 Nc6...)
• Stefano Rosselli del Turco as a Correspondence Player, from page 231

At last a link to the Italian Correspondence Chess Association

Rudolf Spielmann's quote

"A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused."
Rudolf Spielmann

Santasiere Folly: 1.Nf3 d5 2.b4 e5!?

  The Santasiere's folly is a chess opening where White plays 1.Nf3 and after 1..d5 or 1..Nf6 it follows 2.b4. We suppose that 1.Nf3 prevents Black from playing e5, but this is not always the case.
The following move order 1.Nf3 d5 2.b4 e5!? (see diagram)

  is absolutely a rare choice in master play, and it is not contained in Santasiere's own work about his opening. But it is a possible choice. Here you can fine three master level games (both players elo > 2.000). Does 1.Nf3 d5 2.b4 e5!? deserve  a try? You choose!
 

Vincenzo Montilli's games played in Robecchetto Dec 2012

Following the previous post http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.it/2013/01/chess-miracles.html I have been able to get in touch with Vincenzo Montilli through his club's help.
Here below, you can find three of the games he played in the Robecchetto 2012 Master Tournament. These games have been  annotated by Vincenzo Montilli. I want to thank him for sharing them and for the notes and his club for helping me to get in touch with him too. 
My favourite is the one against  Santeramo where at first Vincenzo offers a pawn sacrifice and then a whole rook.... !

Chess Miracles

Recently a Fide rated event with players > elo 1.900 has been played in Robecchetto con Induno, near of Milan, North of Italy. There were 22 players. One International Master, three Fide Masters, two players rated > 2.100 plus various Candidate Masters. And a chess miracle happened. The lowest rated player, the 15th year old  Vincenzo Montilli (class A Player - Fide Rated 1909 at the time) tied for 1st/2nd (although he was eventually 2nd because of the Bucholz) with a performance rating of 2324!         BRAVO Vincenzo!! 
http://www.cavalliesegugi.com/ 
I hope to able to publish soon some of his games from this event.

Final Standings

Pos  Pts  ID  NAME                    | Rtg  PRtg Fed |   Buc1    
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  1  5.0   1  IM Dambrauskas Virginij | 2315 2366 LTU |    18.5 
  2  5.0  22  1N Montilli Vincenzo    | 1909 2324  NO |    16.0 
  3  4.5   3  FM Damia Angelo         | 2281 2311  MI |    17.5 
  4  4.0   6  FM Barlocco Carlo       | 2077 2173  MI |    16.5 
  5  3.5  10  CM Bargeri Ludovico     | 2010 2135  NO |    21.0 
  6  3.5   4  -- Boschetti Claudio    | 2138 2132 SUI |    20.0 
  7  3.5   9  CM Guidi Maurizio       | 2031 2111  MI |    15.0 
  8  3.0   7  CM Santeramo Domenico   | 2069 2111  BA |    20.0 
  9  3.0  12  1N Razzano Lorenzo      | 1982 2117  TO |    17.5 
 10  3.0   2  FM Ranieri Fabrizio     | 2304 2064  TO |    17.0 
 11  3.0  11  CM Siclari Giovanni     | 2007 1993  BI |    16.5 
 12  3.0   5  CM Temi Walter          | 2105 1969  NO |    15.5 
 13  3.0  21  1N Bardone Lorenzo      | 1924 1985  BI |    13.0 
 14  2.5  16  1N Petrone Gianmario    | 1963 2017  MI |    17.0 
 15  2.5  15  CM Marinone Lucio       | 1977 1925  VC |    15.0 
 16  2.5  13  CM Corti Corrado        | 1979 2021  CO |    14.0 
 17  2.5  19  1N Coppola Federico     | 1940 1915  NO |    12.5 
 18  2.0  17  CM Di Chiara Mauro      | 1962 1915  TO |    15.5 
 19  2.0   8  CM Ranfagni Stefano     | 2040 1896  BG |    14.5 
 20  2.0  18  CM Lucchese Paolo       | 1958 1870  AL |    13.5 
 21  1.5  20  1N Morandi Daniele      | 1929 1660  MI |    15.5    
 22  1.5  14  CM Bianchi Alberto      | 1977 1822  MI |    15.5