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| Posted by bucklehead uskidscompute.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 uskidscompute.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 ... ——— Kramnik triumphant in Moscow — Former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik won the flu-stricken Tal Memorial on Saturday. Playing more deliberately and sharply, the Russian grandmaster reinvented himself. He did not mind dwelling in complications and kept his cool in difficult situations. He withstood the last-round charge of Ukraine's Vassily Ivanchuk, last year's winner of the same chess event. Magnus Carlsen sneaked in a tie for second place by winning the last two games. The Norwegian grandmaster gained enough rating points to move into the world's top spot. The world chess champion Vishy Anand of India had a chance to tie for first with Kramnik, but lost in the last round with the white pieces to ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 3/05/2006 23:54:49 Play online chess bucklehead...Message: Cheers, Ion ——— French chess star wins world junior — Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France edged Sergei Zhigalko of Belarus to win the World Junior Chess Championship in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Each scored an undefeated 10 1/2 -2 1/2 in the 82-player tournament, the most prestigious age-limited chess event. Only players born in 1989 or later were eligible. Vachier-Lagrave, 19, earned the chess grandmaster title in 2005 and won the French championship in 2007. He entered the tournament as the top seed with a rating of 2718 (23rd in the world), but his triumph was hardly guaranteed in an upset-filled melee that included 16 other grandmasters, including six rated above 2600. Zhigalko, 20, was seeded third ... Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.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 **** ——— Flu virus keeps competitors in check at Tal Memorial — Ten of the world elite are competing at Moscow's Tal Memorial, which ends today and is one of the strongest tournaments in chess history. But the winner in the chess event's first half was a flu virus which affected several grandmasters and encouraged a minimalist, cautious approach. Ukraine's Vasily Ivanchuk wore a face mask, and a high 80 per cent of the first five round games were drawn. The sickest chess player was Magnus Carlsen, 19, who had trained beforehand with Garry Kasparov and was expected to unleash some opening bombs in his campaign to become world No 1. But Norway's golden teen was close to defeat against Vlad Kramnik in the opening round and then ... Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.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-) ——— Kramnik Wins Tal Memorial, Carlsen Claims No. 1 Ranking — In a wild and exciting final round, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the former world chess champion, drew his last game to claim the 2009 Tal Memorial tournament title. Kramnik led from Round 6 on and finished with three wins, six draws and no losses. Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, Kramnik’s last round opponent, missed several chances to win and settled for a tie for second with Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who beat Peter Leko of Hungary. With his victory, Carlsen overtook Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria to become the world’s top-ranked chess player. At 18, Carlsen is the youngest chess player to be No. 1. Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, was in second place before ... Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.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 ——— Norwegian, 18, Is Youngest to Be Ranked No. 1 at Chess — The chess world has a new No. 1 player, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, and he is only 18 years old — the youngest chess player ever to hold the rank. On Saturday, Mr. Carlsen beat Peter Leko, a Hungarian player now ranked No. 11, in the final round of a chess tournament in Moscow. Though Mr. Carlsen only tied for second in the tournament, his performance was good enough for him to edge out Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria for the top world ranking. Mr. Topalov, 34, did not compete in the tournament. Mr. Carlsen, who turns 19 on Nov. 30, is only the seventh No. 1-ranked chess player since the ranking system began in 1970. Garry Kasparov, the Russian former world chess champion ... Posted by ccmcacollister | uskidscompute.com 3/06/2006 15:46:16 Play online chess ionadowmanMessage: Posted by ionadowman | uskidscompute.com 3/08/2006 00:51:34 Play online chess The fact is...Message: Cheers, Ion |