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| Posted by bucklehead nsa-hitachi.com 3/04/2006 14:13:59 Play online chess |  Subject: Your most disappointing gameMessage: ===================================== An example from a game I played just today. The early moves are hardly worth mentioning, but as white I wound up in the following position: White: Kf3, Be5, Ng5, Pf4 Black: Kd5, Rg6 [FEN "8/8/6r1/3kB1N1/5P2/5K2/8/8 b - - 0 1"] I had a material edge and a surviving pawn, but despite the numbers my heart was thumping as I thought of the tough job I had ahead of me. I took a sip from my drink and tried to marshal my mental energies for the promotion task. And then, inexplicably, my opponent played 1...Rxg5, which I realized immediately leads to a forced win for white. The game continued 2 fxg5 Kxe5 3 Kg4 Ke6 4 Kh5 Kf7 5 Kh6 Kg8 6 Kg6 {in my distress, I very nearly played 6 g6, which only stalemates} 6...Kh8 7 Kf7 Kh7 8 g6+ 1-0 All that emotional energy wasted. I hate those. I think I'd rather lose in a gallant fight than win because my opponent doesn't bother to see where his simplification will leave him. | ||||||||||||
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| Posted by misato nsa-hitachi.com 3/05/2006 06:14:24 Play online chess | Currently my most disappointing game Message: xxx - Misato (OTB, Jan 2nd, 2006): 1. c4 e6 2. Nc3 f5 3. d3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Be7 5. g3 b6 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. a3 c5 8. Bf4 Nc6 9. Nb5 d6? Now 10. Ng5 would have caused trouble for Black because 10. - e5 11. Ne6 was the only answer; 10. - Qd7 is even worse because the Pe6 isn´t really covered: 11. Nxe6 Qxe6 12. Nc7+. But I was lucky: 10. 0-0 a6 11. Nc3 0-0 12. Ng5 (too late, my friend) Qd7 13. Na4 Bd8 14. Be3 h6 15. Nh3 b5 I was already feeling confident because of the poor position of the white knight. 16. cxb5 axb5 17. Nc3 b4 18. axb4 Rxa1 19. Qxa1 Nxb4 20. Qa7 Nc6 21. Qa4 g5 Now White´s problems become obvious, but there still exist better moves than 22. d4? cxd4 23. Bxd4 e5 24. Be3 g4 25. Bxh6 gxh3 26. Bxh3 Qh7 White is already lost: 27. Qb3+ Rf7 or 27. Qh4 Ng4. 27. Bxf8 Qxh3 28. Qb3+ Kxf8 29. f3 (covering 29. - Nd4 which attacks the Queen and threatens mate on g2) I was so focused on this g2-mate that I wanted to force a spectacular finish for the crowd. My plan was to put black c6-knight to a5 (attacking his Queen), but first I wanted to turn away the white Bf3. Of course, I should have moved the c6-knight first: 29. - Na5 30. Qe6 Bb6+ 31. Rf2 (31. Kh1 Qxf1) Bxf2+ 32. Kxf2 Qxh2+ 33. Kf1 Kg7 and Black is two pieces up. But the finish was for the crowd as well: 29. - Ng4 ??? 30. fxg4 (I still didn´t see it, pure chess-blindness!) Na5 (too late, my friend) 31. Rxf5+ Kg7 32. Qf7+ Kh6 33. Rh5+ 1 - 0 I lost the next game, too - a comfortable endgame with a pawn up, but a plan far too optimistic. I can remember better starts ... ——— Young Leads U.S. Junior Chess Championship — The 2011 U.S. Junior Chess Closed Championship is being held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from June 15-26. As we hit the halfway mark of the chess tournament, appropriately enough, the leader is Young. That would be Gregory Young, a 16 year old from San Francisco who has started at a blistering pace, winning his first four rounds (4/4). His accomplishments thus far are especially noteworthy because he entered the tournament ranked seventh out of the 10 players by rating. Three competitors are on his heels with three points out of four games (3/4), including pre-tournament favorite and 2011 U.S. Chess Championship participant Daniel Naroditsky, as well as ... Posted by ionadowman | nsa-hitachi.com 3/05/2006 23:54:49 Play online chess bucklehead...Message: Cheers, Ion ——— Chess: Empty threat of a pawn storm — It might look menacing, but this pawn attack is comfortably repelled. RB: Sheer terror at the impending rush of kingside pawns would make me think about getting my king to safety pretty fast. But with the queen and queen's bishop still on their starting squares, castling long will take some time and 1…0-0 looks like playing into White's hands by castling into the attack. I don't think I should let the advance of White's pawns go unchallenged. I should strike back and try to undermine him. I can see two possibilities: 1…h5 and 1…f5. The first looks safer. White won't take as 1…h5 2 gxh5 Rxh5 is obviously very bad. Instead 2 g5 is more likely, when Black can castle in ... Posted by ccmcacollister | nsa-hitachi.com 3/06/2006 12:45:48 Play online chess THIS ONE... ! Message: I paste it here, as originally presented in the FAV games thread by ionadowman *** White: Ed Lasker Black: G. Thomas London, 1911 1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Bxf6 Bxf6 6.e4 fxe4 7.Nxe4 b6 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.Ne5 O-O 10.Qh5 Qe7 11.Qxh7+ Kxh7 12.Nxf6+ Kh6 13.Neg4 Kg5 14.h4+ Kf4 15.g3+ Kf3 16.Be2+ Kg2 17.Rh2+ Kg1 18.Kd2# A couple of points about this. Black's responses from move 11 on were all forced, and I wonder why Lasker didn't play 18.O-O-O#. Cheers, Ion **** ——— On Chess: Game's best can skip some preparation — Which demands more thinking or planning: football or chess? The answer doesn't seem obvious after discussing the matter with a young football coach who spends many hours watching and analyzing video. Even Sunday morning - when defensive coordinator Casey Goff is in his office at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., studying the previous day's play - offers no respite from a grueling schedule. He rarely gets home before 8 on a weeknight. Team sports require substantial strategizing before each game. On the other hand, grandmasters of chess can afford to wing it. Former world chess champion Boris Spassky used to speak of the importance of a clear mind. He often chose a leisurely session of tennis over chess analysis. Chess phenom ... Posted by ccmcacollister | nsa-hitachi.com 3/06/2006 13:12:12 Play online chess For Me, I'd like Two Please!Message: board #3687743 Such a beautiful strategic idea I had. Too bad it drops a piece right under my nose! I've come to the conclusion that my opponent there is simply blessed by Caissa , for amongst all the things that I do-do wrong in my Chess play, dropping a piece is not one of them. And YET... *** The second is a game I am glad to have participated in since my opponents play is delightful. But I'm just on the wrong side of things! The dissappointment is twofold. First that I timed-out in the game, which could have been Resigned nicely here, with a slight air of enigma, where it may take a few minutes to see the procedure for losing it. But tho BL may try to squirm around a bit and try some trappy stuff, I have no doubt he is lost after WT's nicely Capa-like play to that point. The second dissappointment of the game is Why I'm lost by position, besides the good play by coyotefan. I was simply Not Seeing B-N5 moves at the time and got hurt by them in 4 or 5 games ... something about changing from a real board to GK boards. I simply overlooked that he could play B-N5 when he did and thereby removed a piece that I would need (in numbers and quality) in order to pursue the intended attacking attempt with sufficient success to avert losing. board #1370685 ********* }8-) ——— In Vegas, Dutchman Stumbles to Victory — The top chess players who compete in the big European tournaments are accustomed to certain comforts, like not having to bring their own chess set and clock — the organizers supply them. But when Europeans play in American chess tournaments for the first time, they are often surprised that they have to bring their own equipment and that the conditions are relatively austere with few perks. It would not be surprising if they did not make the effort, given the travel involved to compete in the United States. Yet quite a few do, and there are European regulars on the American circuit, like the Dutch grandmaster Loek Van Wely. He has been among the world’s best chess players for more than a decade, and ... Posted by ionadowman | nsa-hitachi.com 3/06/2006 14:35:55 Play online chess The final position looks fightable...Message: White: ionadowman (1882) Black: chrusage (1859) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 Nxe4 4.Bd3 d5 5.Nxe5 Nd7 6.Bxe4 dxe4 7.Qe2 Qe7 8.Bf4 Nxe5 9.Bxe5 Bf5 10.Nc3 O-O-O 11.O-O-O Qe6 12.Qe3 f6 13.Bg3 h5 14.d5!? Qb6 15.Qxb6 axb6 16.Nb5 (based on a miscalculation, completely overlooking Black's reply...) Bd7! 17.Nc3 h4 18.Bf4 g5 (White's in serious strife now!) 19.Be3 Re8 20.Bd4 Rh6 21.Rde1 f5 22.f3 h3 23.fxe4 (My first thought here was g4, and I very nearly played it. But it doesn't slow down Black's attack much at all, and White can't localise it. As played, White can prolong the agony a bit...) 23...hxg2 24.Rhg1 Rxh2 25.Re2 b5!? 26.a3 fxe4 27.Rgxg2 Rxg2 28.Rxg2 g4 (Torpedo two...) 29.Kd1 b4 30.axb4 Bxb4 (White has to make some hard decisions hereabouts...) 31.Re2 Bf5 32.Rf2 Bg6 33.Rf6 Rg8 34.Ke2 g3 35.Kf1 e3 (I was fairly happy about this exchange - one passer the less!) 36.Bxe3 Bxc2 37.Kg1 Bd6 38.Bf4 Be7 39.Rf7 Bd8 (This surprised me for some reason...) 40.Be5 Bb3 41.Kg2 b5 42.Rf4 Rg5 43.Re4 Kd7 44.Bxg3 Bxd5 45.Nxd5 Rxd5 46.b4 Bf6 47.Be1 Rd3 48.Kf2 Kd6 (For the last few moves I had begun to fancy my chances of holding this game...) 49.Ke2 Ra3 (after this I was sure I could hold it) 50.Re3! Rxe3+ 51.Kxe3 Kd5 52.Kd3 c6 (White has what amounts to a fortress here (here's a word for your chess terminology, Craig!). Black probes for a chink in the stonework...) 53.Bd2 Bh4 54.Bc3 Bg5 55.Be1 Bf4 56.Bc3 Be5 57.Be1 Bc7(!) (This shouldn't win, and if I'd stuck to moving the B on the e1-c3 diagonal, it wouldn't have done. But long ago I had planned to place my K on b3 when the opportunity arose. It seemed to have done here...) 58.Kc3?? c5 59.bxc5?? 0-1 (59...Ba5+). I'd fought so damned hard for that game, but it was I who threw it away, with a little help from my opponent. The bad part (you mean, there's a bad part??) was that I had thrown away a pretty good winning chance against this same opponent a few days before... Hey, ho... Ion ——— Muammar Gaddafi finds he has a chess mate in Kirsan Ilyumzhinov — Muammar Gaddafi v Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Tripoli June 2011. The Libyan dictator and the president of Fide, the global chess body, met in a bizarre gamelet which sparked condemnation and mystery. It was viewed as a disaster for chess but a public relations coup for Gaddafi – think Drake, bowls, and Plymouth Hoe. Technically it was a mismatch. Gaddafi had to be prompted on how to move the pieces, and Kirsan, an expert chess player, made a theatrical long queen move then hastily shook hands on a draw. It's all on YouTube. He also played with Gaddafi's son Mohammad – he of Olympics 2012 ticket fame – who is the real man in Libyan chess. Fide called the visit part of "Africa year 2011" and ... Posted by ccmcacollister | nsa-hitachi.com 3/06/2006 15:46:16 Play online chess ionadowmanMessage: Posted by ionadowman | nsa-hitachi.com 3/08/2006 00:51:34 Play online chess The fact is...Message: Cheers, Ion |