Jun-19-07
 | | LIFE Master AJ: This was a nice win over a fairly strong player. Bill probably had beaten me more than I had him our last series, so it was nice to win one. I also experimented with the English many years ago, but had bad luck with it ... maybe I just was not ready for that type of chess. (The emphasis is generally on positional play, not tactics.) |
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| Jun-19-07 | | dbquintillion: This game looks fairly unremarkable to me. <test> |
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| Jun-19-07 | | Marmot PFL: Black went straight into a terrible ending, but after 17...Kf7 he didn't seem to have much choice. For better or worse he had to play for 0-0-0 at that point. |
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Jun-19-07
| | LIFE Master AJ: Its easy to criticize, not so easy to play. (Esp. with a clock running!) All I can say is that Bill is a good player, I am sure he could beat the average chess player quite handily. And I thought the ending was quite nice.
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Jun-19-07
 | | chancho: 41.Nxd6 with impunity. Very nice. |
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| Jun-20-07 | | MyriadChoices: It wasn't denied that he's good, just that in this game he had a worse position out of the opening. |
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| Jun-21-07 | | RandomVisitor: Nice game LMAJ. The endgame featuring moves on both sides of the board was nice. Black's troubles appear to have started with 9...Bxd5 - perhaps 9...Bg4 was better. |
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Jun-21-07
| | LIFE Master AJ: <RandomVisitor> Thanks so very much for the compliment!!! :) To be honest, Bill has played much better chess. I was just pleased with this effort because it was my first victory against him in a number of tries. (We both have not been real active the last ten or so years, either. So chances to get a game in were seldom ... or rare.) |
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Jun-21-07
| | LIFE Master AJ: A funny point was that Bill had just recently played a game where White played 8.0-0, and Black played 8...h5!? (Which is what he was planning to use against me.) He was quite shocked that I ... "beat him to the punch" ... so to speak. And according to my searches of the ChessBase on-line database, (http://www.chesslive.de/); my eighth move was actually a TN! |
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| Jun-21-07 | | micartouse: Wow, the final sequence of moves is very satisfying! Well done by White. |
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| Jul-11-07 | | CRD: I agree that black would have done better not to trade on d5. I believe he should have prepared to play ...b7-b5 with moves such as a7-a6, Ra8-b8, and Qd8-d7. Might be okay to go ahead and castle kingside with or without ...h7-h5. |
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| Jul-11-07 | | SniperOnG7: Hmm quite an instructive English (and game in general) spiced up with a bit of creativity - ie h4-h5. The early middle game was a battle of the minor pieces. Both sides had bad bishops but White's was better as redeployed along h3-c8 which is the thematic move in these type of pawn structures. Then White emerged victorious from this battle, ending up with a strong Knight vs a bad Bishop. Black was a goner already. With sensible play White won. Nice, I like it! |
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| Jul-11-07 | | Colonel Mortimer: The tactic may be nice at the end - but to overglorify it misses the wood for the trees. Knight versus bad bishop in this type of scenario is curtains - the tactics that follow in such positions have a similar relativity to a cigarette after sex. |
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Jul-11-07
 | | keypusher: nice game! |
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| Jul-11-07 | | RookFile: Black could have resigned after the 28th move. The position may be a win for white even if he wasn't already up a pawn. With the good knight vs. bad bishop AND and extra pawn, it's quite hopeless. |
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Jul-29-07
| | LIFE Master AJ: One other point ... Bill admitted after the game, (during the post-mortem analysis); that he originally intended to play 20...KxB/f6. But then he noticed that this lost horribly to 21.Ne4+. This just goes to show that even masters occasionally make mistakes in their analysis. |
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Jul-29-07
| | LIFE Master AJ: 9...Bxd5?! was a bad idea. (I believe.) Maybe it does not lose by force, but Black loses a couple of key tempi. |
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Jul-29-07
| | LIFE Master AJ: 12...f5!? may not have been such a great idea. (It allows White to open the position to his advantage.) |
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Jul-29-07
| | LIFE Master AJ: I think that once I got in 29.Ne4, it was pretty much over. (I don't see how Black could have saved the game after that.) |
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| May-18-11 | | JohnBoy: Nice game <LMAJ>. I agree that after 29.Ne4 you were pretty much guaranteed the point. But still, you had to finish the task. Winning a won game is not always easy. |
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May-18-11
 | | perfidious: The idea 8.h4 is interesting, but Black gives up the light squares with 9....Bxd5, and it's hard to get much play afterwards. The minor-piece ending is an easy technical win. |
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| May-18-11 | | TheFocus: <AJ>, h4 in this opening is hardly new. Capablanca was using h4 in his games with the English, oh, about 75 years ago. Plus, from the Petrosian influence on my style, <TheFocus> played this same move in the 80's, same position. I guess I beat you to it by about 20 years. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Capablanca vs Milner-Barry, 1936
Capablanca vs C H Alexander, 1936
CCapablanca vs R Grau, 1939 |
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| May-19-11 | | James Bowman: Not too shabby AJ |
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Jan-19-12
| | LIFE Master AJ: <<May-18-11 <JohnBoy>: Nice game <LMAJ>. I agree that after 29.Ne4 you were pretty much guaranteed the point. But still, you had to finish the task. Winning a won game is not always easy. May-19-11 <James Bowman>: Not too shabby AJ <<<>>> > >Thanks guys. (Sorry I missed this earlier.) |
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| Jan-19-12 | | Nemesistic: AJ, could you explain exactly how you were misquoted in that chessbase "blog" you commented on? The one you highlighted on your forum page,because you introduce yourself in your comment as a "Programmer myself"..?? You said this in the context you were involved in programming chess engines,did you not?? Is this true AJ? Are you a programmer? |
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