The Danvers Opening is an unorthodox chess opening characterized by the moves:
39-657: It is also known as the Kentucky Opening , Queen's Attack , Queen's Excursion , Wayward Queen Attack , Patzer Opening , and Parham Attack . 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 has acquired several names over the years, none of which are universally used. The earliest known appearance in print was in the Dubuque Chess Journal in May 1875, where it was dubbed the Kentucky Opening , perhaps in reference to a game played in Danville, Kentucky , which
78-470: A humid subtropical climate ( Köppen Cfa ), with warm summers and moderately cold winters. Precipitation is abundant and well-spread, with an average of 47.85 inches (1,220 mm). As of the census of 2010, there were 16,218 people, 6,405 households, and 3,903 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,020.0/sq mi (393.8/km ). There were 7,180 housing units at an average density of 451.6/sq mi (174.4/km ). The racial makeup of
117-535: A Revolutionary War veteran. Craddock deeded a log house in Danville to Russell. He moved to the town after Craddock's death and started a school for children. The house on Walnut Street no longer stands, though what was once believed to be his house is now the Willis Russell Memorial Cabin. Russell's house stood across the street, opposite St. James African American Methodist Church. In 1842, Boyle County
156-644: A lending library, the Boyle County Public Library. On March 2, 2010, Danville voted to go "wet" (to permit sale of packaged alcohol and sale of alcohol by the drink without restriction by size of premises). Five venues for theatrical productions live in Danville. The Advocate-Messenger , a twice-weekly (Tuesday and Friday) newspaper, serves Danville and surrounding counties. Local radio stations include three AM stations: WDFB-AM (1170), WHBN (1420), WHIR (1230), and three FM stations: WDFB-FM (88.1), WLAI (107.1), and WRNZ (105.1). WDKY-TV
195-448: A more complete list, see List of people from Danville, Kentucky . Danville is hometown of Johnny Joestar , the protagonist from the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure : S teel Ball Run . Napoleon Opening The Napoleon Opening is an irregular chess opening starting with the moves: As with the similar Danvers Opening (2.Qh5), White hopes for the scholar's mate (2...Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 ?? 4.Qxf7 # ), but Black can easily avoid
234-448: A pawn for development, since the White queen will have to lose a tempo eventually; however, FIDE Master Dennis Monokroussos advocates the move as the "psychologically correct" response. Black defends the center pawn and simultaneously opens a diagonal for the queen's bishop, but blocks the king's bishop. Black defends the center pawn and simultaneously guards the f7-pawn, but blocks
273-500: A pawn) to first defend the e-pawn (usually with 2...Nc6), then 3.Bc4 forces Black to make some compromise to defend against the mate threat; 3...g6 commits Black to fianchettoing the king bishop , 3...Qe7 blocks the bishop, and 3...Qf6 occupies knight's best square. In 2005, the Dutch grandmaster Hans Ree called 2.Qh5 "a provocative but quite sensible move", and suspected it would have been effective because of its shock value. As with
312-422: Is also losing after 3.Qxe5+, winning a rook and pawn. The most frequently played move is 2...Nc6; 2...Nf6!?, 2...d6 and 2...Qe7 are also occasionally seen. Black defends the e-pawn and prepares to meet 3.Bc4 with 3...Qe7 or 3...g6. The latter move is more common and after 4.Qf3 Nf6 5.Ne2 the main position is reached (see diagram). White is not worse, but also has no advantage. Black can adopt different plans, one of
351-758: Is located in eastern Boyle County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 15.9 square miles (41.2 km ), of which 15.8 square miles (41.0 km ) is land and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km ), or 0.58%, is water. Blue Grass Community Action Partnership provides DanTran bus service inside Danville. BGCAP also connects Danville with Lexington , Stanford , Junction City , and Lancaster . Stuart Powell Field (DVK), 3 miles (5 km) from downtown, serves as Danville's general aviation airport. Blue Grass Airport (LEX) in Lexington, 35 miles (56 km) away, provides
390-488: Is one of the few master level players to advocate this line. Parham is known for his eccentric theories on the game of chess, which he has developed into what he calls the "Matrix System". Parham's Matrix System advocates early development of the queen in several positions, as in his favored line as White against the Sicilian Defence , 1.e4 c5 2.Qh5?! Parham argues that just as Richard Réti and Aron Nimzowitsch pioneered
429-548: The Civil War on October 8, 1862, it appropriated many Danville buildings, including the courthouse, for use as hospitals. On October 11, a Union force drove Confederate forces from the county fairgrounds through Danville. In May 1864, the group of 250 – mostly enslaved males but including some freedmen – marched from Danville to nearby Camp Nelson in Jessamine County , where Colonel Andrew Clark allowed them to enlist In
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#1732863191891468-499: The Danville Political Club was organized. It met each Saturday night at Grayson's Tavern to discuss the political, economic, and social concerns of the day. After a state constitution was adopted and separation was confirmed in 1792, the town ceased to be of statewide importance. Its leading citizens moved elsewhere. Transylvania University was founded in Danville in 1783. It moved to Lexington in 1789. Centre College
507-611: The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Sam voted in the 1870 election . Their daughter, Frances Harriet Williams , organized for the NAACP , the YMCA , and served as a presidential advisor. Danville has one sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International : Danville Sister Cities won the 2019 Innovation Award for Arts and Culture from Sister Cities International. The following are highly noted people from Danville. For
546-602: The Lewis and Clark Expedition , visited Danville while traveling the Wilderness Road to Washington, D.C. , to report on the expedition, which had returned from the Pacific Coast. In December 1806, William Clark visited his nephews in school in Danville before following Lewis to Washington. The first school in Danville for African-American children was founded around 1840 by Willis Russell, an emancipated slave of Robert Craddock,
585-516: The Napoleon Opening (2.Qf3?!), 2.Qh5 is frequently played with the hope of delivering the Scholar's Mate , e.g. 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6?? 4.Qxf7#. However, Black can easily avoid this, and unlike 2.Qh5, 2.Qf3 poses no impediments to Black's development. Black's worst possible response to 2.Qh5 is 2...Ke7?? 3.Qxe5#. (This line ties with a few others for the fastest possible checkmate by White.) 2...g6??
624-638: The National Trust for Historic Preservation . In 2011, Money magazine placed Danville as the fourth-best place to retire in the United States. Centre College in Danville was selected to host U.S. vice-presidential debates in 2000 and 2012. Within Kentucky, Danville is called the "City of Firsts": Danville was part of the Great Settlement Area around Fort Harrod (present-day Harrodsburg ), which
663-463: The Union Army after some initial hesitation. Arriving with wounds inflicted upon them in route, this group was the first to enlist at this site, where 10,000 United States Colored Troops trained. In 1775, Archibald McNeill planted Kentucky's first recorded hemp crop at Clark's Run Creek near Danville. By 1889 Boyle County was one of the ten Kentucky counties which together produced more than 90% of
702-457: The hypermodern style of chess, his own ideas which are considered strange today may well be considered viable in the future. Several internet-based sources refer to 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 as the Parham Attack or Parham Opening . The most notable use of 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 by a grandmaster occurred in 2005, when U.S. Champion Hikaru Nakamura played it in two tournament games. The better known of these
741-650: The April 2005 HB Global Chess Challenge in Minneapolis . The game ended in a draw after 55 moves. More often the opening is adopted by chess novices, as when actor Woody Harrelson played it against Garry Kasparov in a 1999 exhibition game in Prague . Harrelson achieved a draw after being assisted by several grandmasters who were in Prague attending the match between Alexei Shirov and Judit Polgár . The next year Kasparov again faced
780-641: The Deaf provides education to Kentucky's deaf and hard-of-hearing children from elementary through high school. A portion of Danville is in the Boyle County Schools district. Two private schools operate in Danville: Centre College , a nationally recognized liberal arts college, is located in Danville. Six other colleges and universities have (or had) campuses in Danville: Danville has
819-468: The US yield. It was the state's largest cash crop until 1915, when it lost its market to imported jute . From the turn of the 20th century through the 1960s, Danville was home to a thriving African-American business sector located on and around 2nd Street on the western edge of what is now Constitution Square Historic Site . The city demolished this business sector under urban renewal in the 1970s to provide for
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#1732863191891858-452: The attack. The Napoleon Opening is named after the French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte , who had a deep love of chess but was said to be a mediocre player. The name came into use after mid-nineteenth century publications reported that he played this opening in an 1809 game that he lost to The Turk , a fake chess automaton operated at the time by Johann Allgaier . The Napoleon
897-442: The city limits. It operates Mary G. Hogsett Primary School, Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School, John W. Bate Middle School, and Danville High School for the city of Danville. Boyle County Schools operates Woodlawn Elementary School, Junction City Elementary School, Perryville Elementary School, Boyle County Middle School, and Boyle County High School for portions of Danville and the remainder of Boyle County. Kentucky School for
936-520: The city was 83.2% White , 10.9% African American , 0.2% Native American , 1.0% Asian , 1.8% from other races , and 2.8% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 3.9% of the population. Of the 6,405 households, 25.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.1% were married couples living together, 14.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.8% were non-families. 33.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.8% had someone living alone who
975-438: The closest commercial service. More extensive commercial service is available from Louisville International Airport (SDF), 82 miles (132 km) away, and Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), 127 miles (204 km) away. Norfolk Southern Railway operates a freight rail yard in Danville. Its Louisville-Chattanooga line intersects with its Cincinnati-Chattanooga line just north of Danville. Danville has
1014-452: The construction.) Despite the railroad not being completed to Danville, the county still owed the company $ 150,000. It completed payment on time in 1884. In 1860, a fire devastated the city, destroying 64 buildings and causing more than $ 300,000 in damages. Boyle County's courthouse was destroyed; its replacement was completed in 1862. After the Union Army won the Battle of Perryville in
1053-537: The expansion of Constitution Square Park. On October 5, 2000, Dick Cheney and Senator Joe Lieberman , candidates for Vice President of the United States , debated at Centre College during the 2000 presidential election . On October 11, 2012, Centre College again hosted the Vice-Presidential debate, this time between Vice President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan . Danville
1092-587: The king's bishop. Danville, Kentucky Danville is a home rule-class city and county seat of Boyle County, Kentucky , United States. The population was 17,236 at the 2020 Census. Danville is the principal city of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area , which includes all of the Boyle and Lincoln counties. In 2001, Danville received a Great American Main Street Award from
1131-441: The median income for a family was $ 40,528. Males had a median income of $ 35,327 versus $ 24,542 for females. The per capita income was $ 18,906. About 9.4% of families and 12.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 17.6% of those under age 18 and 10.5% of those age 65 or over. FBI crime statistics for 2009 list the crime rate (per 100,000 population) for Danville as follows: Danville Schools includes most of
1170-486: The most popular being 5...Bg7, where 6.0-0 is White's best try for dynamic play, as 6.d3 d5 will lead to an even position with few attacking chances, and 6.Nbc3 Nb4 is interesting but promises little for White. Grandmasters Krishnan Sasikiran and Nikola Mitkov played this move against Hikaru Nakamura in 2005. This is a speculative gambit sometimes called the Kiddie Countergambit . It is unnecessary to sacrifice
1209-582: The opening as Black when tennis star Boris Becker played it against him in an exhibition game in New York. This time Kasparov won in 17 moves. The Danvers Opening violates a conventional opening principle by developing the queen too early, subjecting it to attack and loss of tempo . Nonetheless, the opening causes Black some problems. Left to their own devices, Black can develop naturally with moves like ...Nf6, ...Bc5, and ...Nc6. The Danvers Opening hinders this by forcing Black (unless they want to sacrifice
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1248-403: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.83. 20.8% of the population was under the age of 18, 61.8% from 18 to 64, and 18.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39.4 years. Females made up 54.4% and males made up 45.6% of the population aged 18 or older. As of 2000, the median income for a household was US $ 32,938, and
1287-589: Was against Indian GM Krishnan Sasikiran at the May 2005 Sigeman Tournament in Copenhagen / Malmö , Denmark. Nakamura got a reasonable position out of the opening but lost the game due to a mistake made in the middlegame . He later wrote on the Internet, "I do believe that 2.Qh5 is a playable move, in fact I had a very good position in the game, and was close to winning if I had in fact played 23.e5." The previous month, Nakamura had played 2.Qh5 against GM Nikola Mitkov at
1326-526: Was born enslaved in 1808. Nancy's daughter, Susan Davis, organized the Danville Domestic Economy Club for black women which encouraged voter participation and education. Susan and her husband, Sam, were both born enslaved. Fighting in the Civil War for the Union , Sam became emancipated upon his 1864 enlistment in the 114th United States Colored Troops at nearby Camp Nelson . After the passage of
1365-598: Was first settled in 1774. The site was originally known as Crow's Station for settler John Crow, but the town was surveyed and platted by Walker Daniel, Kentucky's first district attorney, who bought 76 acres (31 ha) near the Wilderness Road from Crow in 1783. The city was named for Daniel. The Virginia legislature officially established Danville on December 4, 1787. Between 1784 and 1792, ten conventions were held in Danville to petition for better governance and ultimately to secure independence from Virginia. In 1786
1404-509: Was formed from southern Mercer County and northern Lincoln County . Danville became its county seat. In 1850, Danville and Boyle County backed construction of the Lexington and Danville Railroad . Money ran out when the railroad reached Nicholasville . John A. Roebling had already built towers for a railroad suspension bridge over the Kentucky River . (Roebling lived in Danville during
1443-505: Was founded in 1819. Danville Theological Seminary was founded in 1853; in 1901 it became part of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary . The Caldwell Institute for Young Ladies was founded in 1860. It became Caldwell Female College in 1876, Caldwell College in 1904, Kentucky College for Women in 1913, and merged into Centre College in 1926. In November 1806, Meriwether Lewis , co-leader of
1482-553: Was licensed to Danville but its facilities are located in Lexington. Danville and Boyle County Black history is the subject of a 2022 book published by Arcadia Press, as "African Americans in Boyle County." Martha S. Jones opens her book Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, with her family story of three generations who resided in Danville. Great-great-great-grandmother Nancy Belle Graves
1521-570: Was published in the August issue of the same magazine. (This name was also applied by J. H. Blackburne to the unsound Jerome Gambit .) In the American Chess Bulletin in 1905, the opening was referred to as the Danvers Opening , so named by E. E. Southard , a well-known psychiatrist and a strong amateur chess player, after the hospital where he worked. Bernard Parham of Indianapolis
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