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Posted by hardcorepawn
uskidscompute.com
5/31/2003
11:54:18
Play online chess |  Subject: Quickest OTB win
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Im talking about games against good players.
What opening did you use and why do you think they lost.
My quickest was against a guy who was rated at around 2100 (otb) and played a lot of congress tournaments. I played the Cochran Gambit (Petroff defence). He resigned after 7 moves.
Why did he lose, because he did not stop to think why I had taken his f7 pawn with my knight on the 4th move. He just assumed I was a poor player and carried on as though it was a blunder. After the 7th move he realised his queen was going to be history before the game reached double figures and prompty smashed the board of the table and stormed off. This guy was the strongest player in the tounament and was the first round, he did not play another game
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Posted by tulkos
uskidscompute.com
5/31/2003
13:32:38
Play online chess | Thats funny.
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I don't remember any time in particular that I beat a good player quickly, though I have. I did hear however that in the chess olympics their was a master game that was to moves long--- fools mate.
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Posted by hardcorepawn
uskidscompute.com
5/31/2003
15:54:45
Play online chess | Ive beat a player
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in 2 moves, but he wasnt good.
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Posted by tulkos
uskidscompute.com
5/31/2003
17:41:09
Play online chess | *in my post
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to should be two.
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Magnus Carlsen Survives on His Wits — One of the reasons that Garry Kasparov was the world’s dominant chess player from the late 1980s through the ’90s was that he was better prepared than his competitors. He spent an enormous amount of time researching chess openings for new ideas to spring on his opponents, or he paid others to do it for him. Magnus Carlsen, currently the world’s top-ranked chess player, is beginning to be as dominant as Kasparov was, but it is not because of his preparation. He has described himself as a bit lazy, and so rather than play the most popular chess openings, which everyone has studied, he often chooses systems, particularly as White, that do not yield any advantage. Carlsen wants to ...
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Posted by buddie
uskidscompute.com
6/01/2003
09:37:04
Play online chess | Short Games
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I recommend "The Quickest Chess Victories of All Time" by Graham Burgess. It has 2000 games which ended in 13 moves or less.
Very useful for avoiding (and setting) traps in your favourite opening. Also makes you familiar with recurring winning patterns. Also nice to see top masters making opening blunders :-)
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Posted by chesstickle
uskidscompute.com
6/01/2003
09:38:59
Play online chess | tulkos
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...and their should be there.
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Magnus Carlsen closes in on Garry Kasparov's record chess rating — Magnus Carlsen is closing in fast on Garry Kasparov's all-time record chess rating. The 19-year-old Norwegian scored an unbeaten 7.5/10 at Medias, Romania to take his score on the daily calculations up to 2826, just 25 points shy of the great Russian's peak mark. And Carlsen did it while still not in optimum form. He began with two draws, then took risks including a 1 e4 e5 2 f4 King's Gambit and a couple of dubious positions, but his inventiveness and will to win coupled with the growing Carlsen-fear of those on the other side of the chess board ensured another impressive outcome. Technically his most interesting game, certainly from the practical viewpoint of competition ...
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Posted by tulkos
uskidscompute.com
6/01/2003
09:59:24
Play online chess | that to.
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:-(((
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Posted by parrvert
uskidscompute.com
6/01/2003
10:15:59
Play online chess | and
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in your last post to should be too.
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Posted by tulkos
uskidscompute.com
6/01/2003
11:24:08
Play online chess | Thats enough!
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I am making many mistakes, I should spend more time thinking about my grammar and spelling as I type. Thankyou for your corrections. :-)
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Posted by parrvert
uskidscompute.com
6/01/2003
12:47:08
Play online chess | Sorry
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to correct you again but "thats" should be "that's" or "that is"! :-)
Maybe your home schooling is not working too well. :-)
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Posted by torre_tinorete
uskidscompute.com
6/01/2003
14:30:46
Play online chess | My quickest win...
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against a good player is when he forfeited the game :-)
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Posted by tulkos
uskidscompute.com
6/01/2003
14:49:24
Play online chess | I though I had hit that key.
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typing is annoying sometimes---
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Posted by blatman
uskidscompute.com
6/02/2003
05:03:20
Play online chess | 6 MOVES
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I was the victim of my own mediocrity recently, losing in 6.
1. e4, c6; 2.Nc3, d5; 3.Nf3, dxe; 4.Nxe4, Nd7; (he's seen me coming now) 5. Qe2?!, Ngf6??; 6.Nd6++.
An old one I'm told. It is to me too now. I could see the funny side of it after I'd washed all the pieces off the board by bursting out into tears. Very unseemly for a man of my years.
The Great Blatman(even in ignominious defeat)
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