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| Jun-10-11 | | SickedChess: omg AJ your moves match up to a version of Crafty almost 100%. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | TheFocus: Ah ha! So <AJ> was using a pocket computer to win with. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | rilkefan: Could we stick to analyzing the game? Like, where does book end in this line? |
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| Jun-10-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: according to my major book source (Pirc in Black and White by James Vigus), 13...Qb4 is new; black otherwise playing 13...0-0-0. (G.Moore-Vigus, Cambridge 2000) 13...dxe5?! 14. fxe5 0-0 was tried but Black was congested on the K-side, says Vigus. Neither side played the opening particularly well, it seems, as they missed transpositions. |
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Jun-10-11
 | | Check It Out: 23.Bh6 is a nice little trap. Take the bishop, get mated. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | SickedChess: AJ Chess pocket set in 1997 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eGMFDmOd9... |
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Jun-10-11
 | | FSR: Very interesting game. Seems to have been well played by White. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | SickedChess: <<FSR>: Very interesting game. Seems to have been well played by White. >
Who stolen your account? |
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| Jun-10-11 | | solskytz: 23. Bh6!!! What a star move!!
And a game against an expert, not a lower classed opponent. Good good. However, and notwithstanding Once's efforts - It doesn't really feel right to me to compliment the winner here. I just had a look at his Forum (or was it the player page?) yesterday, and seeing the way he treats other users I get a severe case of the shivers. So there. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | rilkefan: <Neither side played the opening particularly well, it seems, as they missed transpositions.> I want to play 5...c5, but find it leads to positions where I step off the right path and into the abyss very easily. And then as you say there are tricky transpositions. There was a line where - well, this:
Opening Explorer
which was getting hashed out back in my active days.
<However, and notwithstanding Once's efforts - It doesn't really feel right to me to compliment the winner here.> It would be helpful if we all could just stick to commenting on his games not his character for the next month and see how Once's Peace works out. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | Colonel Mortimer: 19...Rd8 was the decisive mistake. Black should have castled instead to exert pressure down the central files on white's exposed king. 8.h3 not the best move for white. Black's best replay was 8..Bxb5 8.e6 and white can play for a small advantage.
A decent game but well short of meritorious. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @rilkefan
the trouble was black played ...Nh6 too early. He can leave the Kt at g4 a little longer. I was alluding to a possibility of AJ taking on d7 instead of 9.g4. The book I mention by Vigus is superb. It can also be considered in conjunction with Chernin and Alburt's Pirc Alert! Although messy, Chernin's discussion of typical strategy and tactics in the Pirc is a tour du force |
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| Jun-11-11 | | solskytz: (to Rilkefan) Agreed. |
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| Jun-11-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: confound it, Batman! I must have been composing my reply to rilkefan when Col. Mortimer posted. The 8. h3 move was, according to Vigus, popular in the 1970s. A slight twist is 8. Bxd7 then h3. Black, going back straight away to h6 allowed AJ the possibility to go for that newer wrinkle. The 8. e6 lines are just plain chaos! lol |
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| Jun-11-11 | | gonefishn: Hey, AJ used to be a good player. |
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| Jun-11-11 | | Colonel Mortimer: <gonefishn:> <Hey, AJ used to be a good player.> He's still a decent player - currently rated about 2185 USCF if you take away the Life Master rating floor. That's roughly the equivalent of a Fide Candidate Master. |
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Jul-13-11
 | | perfidious: <Colonel Mortimer: ....That's roughly the equivalent of a Fide Candidate Master.> What, O readers, is a FIDE Candidate Master? I've seen occasional references to this title, but it's meaningless to me, and didn't exist when I was active. |
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| Jul-13-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @perfidious
the CM title can be obtained upon reaching 2200+ ELO but less than 2300 (when the FM title is awarded). I believe it is available upon request once the rating and officially recognised FIDE tournament requirements are met. I only know one 2200 rated Dane with the CM title; the majority of 2200+ Danes don't have CM because they think it is a joke title and a means for FIDE to earn some fast cash. |
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Jul-13-11
| | perfidious: <Simon> If I resumed active play, I probably wouldn't bother with it either if I climbed back over 2200 FIDE. Even FM is nothing special in my mind, really, though that standard is somewhat higher. Either one can or can't play at that level, and I played a number of people who didn't have those titles but were more than competent despite that handicap. Thanks! |
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| Jul-13-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: <perfidious>
I think an FM title isn't too bad to have if only because international tournaments often give a concession on the entry fee. For example Politiken Cup has always had free entry for male and female titled GMs and IMs, 500 (Danish) kroner entry fee for FMs and WFMs and about 900 kroner for everybody else. If nothing else, FMs save money to buy one day's lunch and dinner at the 4-5 star playing venue restaurant! :o) |
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Jul-15-11
| | perfidious: <Simon> Most interesting; last I knew, here in good old USA, being an FM would be lucky to see you through the front door, much less get any sort of breaks. At the big events run by Continental Chess Association, even GMs who get free entry have it deducted from any $$$ they win. Bill Goichberg has never been one to give away anything. |
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| Jan-11-12 | | master of defence: What happens after 23...Bxh6? |
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| Jan-11-12 | | Colonel Mortimer: <master of defence: What happens after 23...Bxh6?> 24.Rd1 and checkmate next move. |
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| Jan-12-12 | | TiburcioTinio: What a manly play by The LIFE Master AJ! |
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Oct-25-22
 | | LIFE Master AJ: I consider this to be one of the finest games that I have ever played. |
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