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| Jul-20-04 |
| macphearsome: <Chesspatch: crazy sacs make a good player if he can think it through real quick> I have to admit that I've started looking for sacrifices a lot lately against my friends. But, to tell you the truth, my friends don't play often, so I usually get the upper hand just because they don't notice things I consider to be obvious... even the person I play against most often is prone to walk into silly traps and checkmates. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| Eggman: Crazy sacs? There's nothing crazy about a stalemate sacrifice, and it's good to get the idea into your head for two reasons: it comes up a fair bit in play, and a lot of people will not be thinking of it, thus increasing your chance for a swindle. |
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| suenteus po 147: What I find most interesting in this game is the rather unpredictable turn of events toward the end. With the rook blocking white's passed pawn, it looks as though black has the advantage with king-supported doubled pawns. Yet black ends up fighting for the draw at the end. I was fooled, btw. I thought the draw involved snagging white's rook, leading to an open board queen/pawn drawn ending. I almost never have the opportunity to play queen sacs in real games, so I'm often not looking for them in puzzles. Funny, no? |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| azaris: <macphearsome> Actually, I've read many times in chess literature that to improve one's abilities to see combinations and tactics one must always consider all forceful moves (checks, captures, sacrifices), even if they seem completely silly, since that's how most combinations come about. On stalemates; the fact that one side has all his pawns locked in the end game should be a tell-tale sign for both players to be aware of the stalemate threat. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| nikolaas: Again such an easy stalemate problem! I would like to get problems that are more difficult. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| puzzled: I agree with nikolaas: The last few puzzles have been far too easy. It would have been much better here to have got us to find black's excellent 47 ... Rf8! |
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| kevin86: This is another case of stalemate caused by a trap;it's nice to see that material wealth doesn't win by itself. |
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| Sneaky: < I would like to get problems that are more difficult.> For those who are new here, or simply haven't figured it out, the problems are very easy on Monday and get progressively harder throughout the week, finally on Sunday there is a very difficult problem. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| capanegra: <Chessgames>, if you are interested in stalemates this week, I have a modest, though interesting stalemate collection. Some of them are easy, but some are quite difficult to solve. Also, they are all very pretty. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| Whitehat1963: Was this a blitz game? |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| Calchexas: <Chesspatch: crazy sacs make a good player if he can think it through real quick> Well, duh. Look at Tal. Uh, it took me longer than it should have to get this, but I got it. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| Chesspatch: <macphearsome> Say, would you like to play correspondence chess? I'm sure as hell sick of getting into those online games sites and finding people who aren't interested to play. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| uponthehill: Once again in such puzzle, I didn't realized, that black pawns march to the south... |
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| beenthere240: Note that white didn't blunder with Kg1, other moves led to a perpetual check situation. moving to g1 or f1 needed the stalemate solution. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| bob725: Have you noticed the big increase in the number of posts here! Shows there are a lot more members which is great.
And of course I have been telling people to come here since it is one of the best chess sites around. |
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| beenthere240: sorry, i think that 53 Kf1 also permits a perpetual check (if black doesn't want to go for the forced stalemate. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| macphearsome: <Chesspatch> Yeah, I'd be glad to play. Though, I have to warn you that I'm a fairly low-level player. e-mail me at dmckerricher@hotmail.com and we'll figure something out. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| jmcd2002: <uponthehill> I made the same mistake. Probably because it's "black to play and draw" my mind's eye automatically assumes I'm on the "bottom" of the board. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| Chizoad: Since several people have asked on here, I'd like to recommend two places to play chess: The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) at www.freechess.org and ItsYourTurn at www.itsyourturn.com. FICS requires you to download a client (Nemisis is a good one) which allows you to play and gain a rating from 1 minute games to standard time controls, and also chess variants. ItsYourTurn offers correspondence play in both Ladders and tournaments, and regular games too, all via email and their website. I haven't found the quality of the chess played on IYT to be that high, but I'm sure if you seek it out it's there. |
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| Jul-20-04 |
| ghostwriter: Wonder what you guys think an average, not so strong player like myself should use for openings as black. I have been fiddling with the modern and pircs defense. I think I do all right with the white pieces but I need to strengthen my game with the black. what do you guys suggest oh wise kibitzers? |
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| Jul-21-04 |
| jmcd2002: <ghostwriter> It all depends on what kind of game you like. I play the Caro about half the time against e4 (also the French and an occasional Sicilian - Kan or Najdorf preferably). Against d4, I like the Nimzo-/Queen's Indians (prefer the Nimzo, but the Queen's is hard to avoid if Nf3 comes before Nc3). But it's really all about style - i.e. what kind of positions you're most comfortable with. |
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| Aug-28-05 |
| Autoreparaturwerkbau: White playing move 54.Qxc1 surely thought something himself like "Hehe, he finally gave up :)" ... and then looking in disbelief the very next moment ... |
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| Jan-21-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 53. Qxc1.... and then the guy announces stalemate! And white can't even believe it... |
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| Jan-24-09 |
| WhiteRook48: nice stalemate swindle |
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| Jul-16-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 53 Kg3  |
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