Chess

[MIKolbe]

chump is copywritten.

you owe me $5.00

[XIX]

So this almost-Expert taught me a new opening game, and I got back and I'm all like "ooooo I get to play with my new toys on chesshere.com!!!1 :) "

XIX = white
Some other chump = black

[quote]1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 c6 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e3 e6 6.a3 Nd7 7.Bd3 N7f6 8.O-O Be7 9.Nc3 O-O 10.Qc2 Bd7 11.h4 a6 12.Ng5[/quote]
Nargh. Meant to NOT castle or to castle on Queen's side, I think? Either way, this attack would have been more effective if I had my rook on the h file (which is part of why I moved my h-pawn forward.

Also meant to get my black bishop out and pin his knight against his queen, thereby getting rid of an important defensive piece. And hopefully he's capture with his bishop, thereby disorienting his bishop bigtime. A rather nasty attack would still ensue.

[quote]g6 13.Be2 Kg7 14.h5 Nxh5 15.Bxh5 Bxg5 16.e4 Nxc3 17.bxc3 gxh5[/quote]
Totally miscalculated the loss of material here. I really needed to retreat my bishop instead of moving h5.

[quote]18.Rb1 b5 19.Rd1 f5 20.exf5 Rxf5 21.Rd3 Qf6 22.Rg3 Kf7 23.Bxg5 Qh8[/quote]
Trap. GIVE ME BACK MY SON! I mean, bishop. Give me back my bishop. He's forced to retreat the queen and give up the bishop to avoid me taking b7 and just start gorging myself on his pawns.


[quote]24.Qd3 Rg8 25.Bh4 Rg4 26.Rxg4 hxg4 27.Re1 h5 28.c4 Qh6 29.d5 bxc4[/quote]
Down one pawn here...still like my position better.
[quote]30.Qxc4 cxd5 31.Qxa6 Qd2 32.Rf1 d4 33.Qd6 Kg6[/quote]
Trap. Maybe If he tried to defend with his king, it's Qe7 and checkmate. Not sure why he didn't move Bb5. But he ends up conceding his bishop.

[quote]34.Qxd7 Qe2 35.Qxd4 Rd5 36.Qf6+ Kh7 37.Bg5 Rf5 38.Qh6+ Kg8 39.Qxh5 1-0 ('some other chump' resigns)[/quote]
He seemed a bit hasty to resign IMO. With a rook and a queen on the board, being down a bishop and a pawn is not impossible.

Edited March 13, 2009 by XIX

[MIKolbe]

maybe you should think about a career in chess commentary???

you make it sound interesting...

maybe espn????

[XIX]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 d6 4.e4 Bg4 5.d5 Bxf3 6.Qxf3 Ne5 7.Qd1 h6 8.Bb5+ c6 9.dxc6 bxc6 10.Ba4 e6 11.Bf4 Be7 12.Bxe5 O-O 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.Bxc6 Rc8 15.Ba4 Bxc3+ 16.bxc3 Rxc3 17.O-O Qa5 18.Bb3 Rfc8 19.Qxd6 Rd8 20.Qf4 Rd4 21.Rfd1 Qb4 22.f3 Rxd1+ 23.Rxd1 Qc5+ 24.Kh1 Qf2 25.Qd2 Qc5 26.Qd6 Qb5 27.h3 Kh7 28.Qd7 Qe2 29.Qd2 Re3 30.Qxe2 Rxe2 31.Kh2 h5 32.Rd7 Kg6 33.c4 f5 34.exf5+ Kxf5 35.Rxg7 Kf6 36.Rxa7 h4 37.c5 Ke5 38.c6 Kd6 39.Bxe6 Kxc6 40.Bg8 Kb6 41.Rh7 Re8 42.Rh8 Kc7 43.g4 Re2+ 44.Kg1 Kd6 45.Rxh4 Ke5 46.g5 Kf5 47.Rg4 Kg6 48.h4 Rd2 49.Rg2 Rd4 50.Rh2 Rf4 51.Kg2 Rf5 52.a4 Ra5 53.Bb3 Ra7 54.Kg3 Kh5 55.f4 Ra5 56.Bd1+ Kg6 57.h5+ Kg7 58.h6+ Kh7 59.g6+ Kxg6 60.h7 Ra8 61.h8=Q Rxh8 62.Rxh8 Kg7 63.Rb8 Kf6 64.a5 Ke6 65.a6 Kf5 66.a7 Ke4 67.a8=Q+ Kd4 68.Rb7 Ke4 69.Qe8+ Kd5 70.Rd7+ Kc4 71.Qc8+ Kb4 72.Rb7+ Ka3 73.Qa8# 1-0


wooooooooooooo

[MIKolbe]

what about the commentary??????????

i liked that part the best!

[Paddington]

iawtc

[XIX]

Me = black.
White rated 1640 or something very very good like that.
[quote]1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 h6[/quote]
Went h6 to avoid putting my queen/rook combo in a prone position
[quote]4.Nc3 Bb4 5.O-O Bxc3 6.dxc3[/quote]
Didn't take me with his b-pawn. didn't expect that. I'd expect him to free up the b-rook file and to keep his pawns in the center. Especially when the b-file is on the opposite side that he castled.
[quote]...Nf6 7.Re1 d6 8.h3 Bxh3[/quote]
He moved h3 basically to take power away from my bishop. So I decided to get very aggressive and sacrifice my bishop to expose his king. (I was all indecisive about this move, almost like I was about to ask some grecian goddess out on a date. But I figured...meh...what the heck.)
[quote]9.gxh3 Qd7 10.Kh2 g5 11.Ng1 O-O-O[/quote]
He had to move his knight to prevent me forking his knight and his pawn with my pawn. Usually you don't mind giving up your pawn, but that pawn was the only thing that was keeping my rook out of the attack. I wanted that pawn badly. nyargh.
[quote]12.Qf3 Qe7 13.Be3 Rdg8 14.Qf5+ Kb8 15.Bd5 Nxd5 16.exd5[/quote]
Really shouldn't have made that trade. I felt that my knight was in a weaker position than his bishop, but it would have been nice later on to have a knight attacking the g4 square. Plus I had to retreat my other knight...
[quote]...Nd8 17.f3 h5 18.Bf2 g4 19.fxg4 hxg4 20.h4 Rg6 21.Bg3 Rgh6 22.Kg2 Rh5 23.Qxg4[/quote]
At which point I said "croutons. ahhhhhhhh.......croutons." *six seconds pass* "hey waitasecond...this might work out alright." But I totally overlooking him taking my pawn. So now I'm down a full bishop...but it look okay for awhile...

[quote]f5 24.Qe2 f4 25.Bf2 Qf7 26.Nf3 Qxd5 27.Qe4 Rg8+ 28.Kf1 Qb5+ 29.c4 Qxb2 30.Rab1 Qxa2[/quote]
And I'm all snapping up his pawns, his king is in an ugly spot, and I'm back even on power. Life is good. I think.
[quote]31.Ra1 Qb2 32.Reb1 Qc3 33.Rxa7 Kc8 34.Rbxb7 Nxb7 35.Qxb7+ Kd7 36.Qxc7+ Ke6 37.Qf7# 1-0[/quote]
The chump chases my queen into oblivion and uses a classic queen/rook/otherrook tandem to force a checkmate.

I feel like there should have been a better way for me to attack his king and possibly force him into either a checkmate or into losing an important piece. Right now I'm just glad I can hang with someone his calibre. But freaking heck. The choump beat me. Choump.

My rating is still like 1380 or something mediocre like that (accorging to chesshere ratings). Right now I'm hoping to be a 1200-level player when I actually start doing tournaments that matter. (that's on a rating scalre that marks 1000 as the average, not 1400)

I'm really starting to like the whole sacrifice your bishop and hope to wreak enough havoc on opponent's king strategy. especially against stronger opponents whom I'll have to gamble against.

Edited March 19, 2009 by XIX

[MIKolbe]

<insert espn theme song>

[XIX]

[img]http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/sports/photos/2008/06/05/penguins-ap-080604-392.jpg[/img]

black loses.

[MIKolbe]

go run some wind sprints.

[eagle_eye222001]

[quote name='XIX' post='1811003' date='Mar 18 2009, 09:14 PM']Me = black.
White rated 1640 or something very very good like that.

Went h6 to avoid putting my queen/rook combo in a prone position[/quote]

Waste of a move. Need to develop the bishop or knight. If your scared of combos, you should play as white and I'll show you how to defend against those.

[quote]Didn't take me with his b-pawn. didn't expect that. I'd expect him to free up the b-rook file and to keep his pawns in the center. Especially when the b-file is on the opposite side that he castled.[/quote]

taking with d-pawn opens for the dark-squared bishop to be developed. Plus the queen has an open file. Although technically taking with b-pawn is probably a bit stronger because then you prepare d4.

[quote]He moved h3 basically to take power away from my bishop. So I decided to get very aggressive and sacrifice my bishop to expose his king. (I was all indecisive about this move, almost like I was about to ask some grecian goddess out on a date. But I figured...meh...what the heck.)[/quote]

Unsound. I'll play as white here. White in the game played rather not good.

[quote]He had to move his knight to prevent me forking his knight and his pawn with my pawn. Usually you don't mind giving up your pawn, but that pawn was the only thing that was keeping my rook out of the attack. I wanted that pawn badly. nyargh.[quote]

Really shouldn't have made that trade. I felt that my knight was in a weaker position than his bishop, but it would have been nice later on to have a knight attacking the g4 square. Plus I had to retreat my other knight...

At which point I said "croutons. ahhhhhhhh.......croutons." *six seconds pass* "hey waitasecond...this might work out alright." But I totally overlooking him taking my pawn. So now I'm down a full bishop...but it look okay for awhile...


And I'm all snapping up his pawns, his king is in an ugly spot, and I'm back even on power. Life is good. I think.

The chump chases my queen into oblivion and uses a classic queen/rook/otherrook tandem to force a checkmate.

I feel like there should have been a better way for me to attack his king and possibly force him into either a checkmate or into losing an important piece. Right now I'm just glad I can hang with someone his calibre. But freaking heck. The choump beat me. Choump.

My rating is still like 1380 or something mediocre like that (accorging to chesshere ratings). Right now I'm hoping to be a 1200-level player when I actually start doing tournaments that matter. (that's on a rating scalre that marks 1000 as the average, not 1400)

I'm really starting to like the whole sacrifice your bishop and hope to wreak enough havoc on opponent's king strategy. especially against stronger opponents whom I'll have to gamble against.


Keep annotating your games. Even though you will misjudge moves, and make incorrect statements, it is very good to annotate one's own game and then find a stronger player to review your annotations.

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[XIX]

nyergh

I won.

1.d4 d6 2.e4 e6 3.Nc3 Bd7 4.Nf3 Be7 5.Bc4 Nc6 6.Bf4 Nf6 7.d5 Nb4 8.a3 Na6 9.Nb5 Nc5 10.dxe6 fxe6 11.Nbd4 Nfxe4 12.b4 d5 13.Nb5 Bd6 14.Bg5 Nxg5 15.Bd3 Nxd3+ 16.Qxd3 a6 17.Nbd4 O-O 18.Nxg5 Qxg5 19.O-O e5 20.Nf3 Qg4 21.Rfd1 Rae8 22.Qxd5+ Rf7 23.Qxb7 e4 24.Ne1 e3 25.fxe3 Qf5 26.Nf3 Rxe3 27.Rf1 Re2 28.c4 Qc2 29.Nd4 Rxg2+ 30.Qxg2 Rxf1+ 31.Rxf1 Qxc4 32.Qa8+ Bc8 33.Qxc8+ 1-0

Mistakes on both sides. Black's mistakes cost him a rook and got him in checkmate like 4 moves later.

[XIX]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.cxd5 exd5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bg5 c6 6.Nf3 h6 7.Bxf6 Qxf6 8.e3 Bg4 9.Be2 Bb4 10.Rc1 Nd7 11.a3 Bd6 12.Qd3 O-O 13.h3 Bf5 14.e4 dxe4 15.Nxe4 Qe6 16.Nfd2 Rae8 17.f3 Bh7 18.Bd1 Bg3+ 19.Kf1 f5 20.Qe2 fxe4 21.Kg1 Kh8 22.fxe4 Bxe4 23.Bb3 Bd5 24.Qxe6 Bxe6 25.Bc2 Rf2 26.Ne4 Bf4 27.Nxf2 Bxc1 28.Nd3 Be3+ 29.Kh2 Bf5 30.Nb4 Bf4+ 31.g3 Re2+ 32.Kg1 Be3+ 33.Kf1 Rf2+ 34.Kg1 Rxc2+ 35.Kf1

Man.

I could have trapped his queen but I didn't see it until it was too late. Same with another piece later in the game.

Chesshere rating = 1423

[MIKolbe]

I would like to request commentary only, please.

thanks.

[XIX]

The Chump requested commentary:

I'm black.

1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6
I guess he sort of traps my bishop early, but otherwise I don't really see why you'd bring out your queen on move 2.

3.Bc4 Qe7 4.d3 Nf6
And so I start chasing the other guy's queen and he's wasting moves.

5.Qf3 Nd4 6.Qd1 d6
Um. Why did I block my bishop there? Oh wait that's right, to free up my white bishop. And avoid extra moves. Still. Better move might have been to move my queen back since I no longer have to defend that square.

7.c3 Nc6 8.h3 Be6 9.Bb5 Qd7 10.f3 a6 11.Ba4 b5 12.Bb3 Be7
Super wary of doubling up white's pawn alignment--I'm still not sure how bad it is to double up one's pawns. Obviously it makes your pawns weaker but it can also open up a rook file. Hence I wanted to leave his bishop alone and get him to take me first instead. Thereby developing my queen in the process.

But nothing of the sort would happen for either side...

13.d4 a5 14.d5 a4
Can. Not. Believe I stared right at that pawnfork without even seeing it coming at all. I tried to weasel my way out of losing material...

15.Bc2 Bxd5 16.exd5 Nd8 17.Bd3?? Nxd5
...but no dice. I'm down 2 points. Until he moves his bishop and gives away his pawn. Now I'm down 1 point in power...

18.Qe2 c6 19.c4 Nf4 20.Qf1 Nxd3+ 21.Qxd3 Bh4+ 22.Kd1 O-O
...and force him to move his king. His king safety is doomed for the rest of the match. Things are looking up for XIX, although white is targeting a pawn. And things start getting even more interesting.

23.Nc3 b4 24.Ne4 Ra7 25.Nxd6 Nb7
I thought he made a mistake and that I pinned his knight against his queen. Ha. How cute of me.

26.Be3 Nxd6
I don't think this was the best move. I figure I take his knight, he gets my rook and I get his bishop. I come out even on power. Totally missed the fact that I had to move my queen away from my knight to take his bishop. So I change things up a bit.

27.Bxa7 Rd8 28.Kc2? Qxa7
I was expecting him to retreat the bishop to save his power advantage, but he seemed more interested in defending his king. Interesting to think like that at these later stages.

29.Re1??!? Bxe1
White gives a rook away and gives black the lead.

30.Qe2 Qf2 31.Kd3 Qxe2+ 32.Nxe2
And we trade queens, game is mostly over at this point despite the fact that it took me 44 more moves to get there.

Bh4 33.g3 Nf5+ 34.Kc2 Nxg3 35.Nxg3 Bxg3 36.Rg1 Bf4 37.Rg2 Rd4 38.b3 axb3+ 39.Kxb3 c5 40.Rf2 e4 41.fxe4 Rxe4 42.h4 Bg3 43.Rd2 h6 44.h5 Re5 45.Rd3 Rg5 46.Ka4 g6 47.hxg6 fxg6 48.Kb5 h5 49.Rd8+ Kh7 50.Rc8 h4 51.Rxc5 Rxc5+ 52.Kxc5 h3 53.Kxb4 Bf2 54.a4 h2 55.c5 Bxc5+ 56.Kxc5 h1=Q 57.a5 Qa1 58.Kb6 g5 59.a6 Qxa6+ 60.Kxa6 g4 61.Kb5 g3 62.Kc4 g2 63.Kd3 g1=Q 64.Kc4 Qg5 65.Kd3 Qf4 66.Kc3 Kg6 67.Kd3 Kf5 68.Ke2 Qg3 69.Kd2 Qf3 70.Kc2 Qe3 71.Kb2 Qd3 72.Kc1 Qe2 73.Kb1 Ke4 74.Kc1 Kd3 75.Kb1 Kc3 76.Ka1 Qb2#

Meh. I'm not going to insult you by pretending anything really happened these last 40 moves other than him offering me a draw because he doesn't think it's possible to checkmate with only a queen and a king. I declined and then beat him with a king and a queen, who then had the whole board all to themselves.

He owes me $20