Greg Keener

Ever since joining the Marshall, I've been trying to take my chess to the next level. After taking clear first in the the U1600 tournament last month, I went to philadelphia for the World Open and was crushed pretty quickly. In my games there i achieved good positions but simply wasn't playing up to my full ability. I was tired and bleary eyed from the trip. In any case, It's my goal to make 2000 USCF in three years. In terms of openings, I try to play it all. When I'm feeling conservative with black I will play the french. I like the rubinstein fort knox variation as it cuts out all the theory and makes for a nice boring game. I also love the dragon passionately. Though only when I feel like a fight. Against 1.d4 i've been playing the dutch, either classical or leningrad, and have been scoring well with it. I live in Brooklyn, nyc, the hometown of bobby fischer and the name of a minor variation in the Alekhine's Defense (1.e4 nf6 2.e5 ng8!?)

Posts by Greg Keener

• Scandinavian Defense: The Dynamic 3…Qd6 . September 2nd, 2010 . No Comments
• Winning with the London: a systematic chess opening for white . September 2nd, 2010 . No Comments
• Fred Wilson’s Chess Bookstore . September 2nd, 2010 . 1 Comment
• Basic Fortresses in Common Endings . August 31st, 2010 . No Comments
• Play the 4 f3 Nimzo-Indian by Yuri Yakovich . August 30th, 2010 . No Comments
• A Game of Chess with Howard Stern . August 30th, 2010 . 2 Comments
• Caro-Kann Advance, continuing the theme . August 29th, 2010 . 1 Comment
• Bishops Supporting Pawns, KID Bayonet attack . August 29th, 2010 . No Comments
• new chess spot in greenpoint . June 9th, 2010 . 2 Comments
• Fantastically instructive Nimzo Indian/Dutch game! . December 20th, 2009 . 1 Comment
• Brilliancy prize potential . December 13th, 2009 . 3 Comments
• Pursuit . December 12th, 2009 . 5 Comments
• Stejn v. Bilek — an interesting endgame study . December 10th, 2009 . 3 Comments
• Sicilian 4 knights counter attack! . November 30th, 2009 . 8 Comments
• The taliban hate chess…surprise surprise. . November 29th, 2009 . 5 Comments
• Three Cheers for Blagojevic . February 17th, 2009 . 1 Comment
• magician from riga/ steiner system . December 25th, 2008 . No Comments
• Not too Shabby: Shabalov’s 7.g4!? . August 24th, 2008 . 2 Comments
• Gambits . February 12th, 2008 . 5 Comments
• The Unsound Torre Attack . November 24th, 2007 . 6 Comments
• From's Gambit (part 1) . October 21st, 2007 . 3 Comments
• the Horizon effect—how to beat your computer . October 17th, 2007 . No Comments
• FIDE World Chess Championship 2007 . August 24th, 2007 . 2 Comments
• The Most Devastating Tactic in Chess . August 9th, 2007 . 3 Comments
• An interesting idea in the Reti advance variation . July 26th, 2007 . 2 Comments
• Two Kings . July 25th, 2007 . No Comments
• Red Hot Pawn . July 13th, 2007 . 4 Comments
• FRIED LIVER ATTACK . June 27th, 2007 . 5 Comments
• Scacchically Speaking . June 19th, 2007 . 2 Comments
• Benko’s Gambit . June 11th, 2007 . 2 Comments
• King’s gambito! . June 1st, 2007 . 1 Comment
• When pawn snatching goes wrong, Fischer v. Spassky ’72 . April 25th, 2007 . 1 Comment
• Scotch commentary . April 25th, 2007 . 3 Comments
• Barke bites back against Alekhine's Defense . April 24th, 2007 . No Comments
• Ruy Lopez—the Marshall Attack . March 12th, 2007 . 2 Comments
• check!, uncheck-check . March 11th, 2007 . No Comments
• where did everybody go??? . March 6th, 2007 . No Comments
• KING’S INDIAN ATTACK! . February 16th, 2007 . 1 Comment
• Alex pops her check cherry! . February 16th, 2007 . No Comments
• A rising star falls . January 21st, 2007 . No Comments
• a-rousing debut! . January 18th, 2007 . No Comments
• This should never happen . January 18th, 2007 . 1 Comment
• An illustrative queen sacrifice . January 14th, 2007 . No Comments
• chess by candlelight . January 14th, 2007 . No Comments
• While it may be true that few moves are valued m… . January 10th, 2007 . No Comments
• who’s attacking now? . January 9th, 2007 . 2 Comments
• God Save the Queen! . January 9th, 2007 . 3 Comments
• Sean’s immaculate Maroczy bind blunder . January 8th, 2007 . 2 Comments
• Fischer article on the death of the King’s Gambit . January 7th, 2007 . 1 Comment
• the most brilliant Kings Gambit game ever! . January 7th, 2007 . 2 Comments
• le geant . January 6th, 2007 . No Comments
• chess is art . January 6th, 2007 . 1 Comment