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Cunningham variation

Posted By: svilo
Date: Friday, 13 August 2010, at 7:24 p.m.

In Response To: Crowd-Funding Backgammon Filming – The London Open (Zoe Cunningham)

I consider backgammon a sport and the gambling only attached to it.

For the sporting cause, I can contribute one of my leather King Size boards - see www.golden-anchor.com.

A sensible way to make use of it would be to make an online tournament with an entry of say GB 10 and no prizes except a board. gridgammon is a good venue. On registration each player can vote for the board he likes best and the Model collecting most votes will be the prize. If there are enough participants, I will contibute a Jumbo leather board that cost USD 800. I will take no payment and I will cover economy air mail to the winner. The money should go to Zoe's company as contribution. I propose to make (after some time) the short movie available to any national TV for a small fee and the proceeds go to national federations.

Cunningham variation of the King's Gambit accepted is here http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=c35

I happened to play a memorable game as Black with the now renowned international master Kosta Angelov 48 years ago:) which I unfortunately lost. Both of us had to compute deep variations. What Kosta taught me (in the post mortem) then was that King's gambit had a lot of positional elements too.

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