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Aug-23-12
 | | Patriot: <morf>, Thank you for all the encouragement! You are absolutely right. I had my lesson and Dan had me do something completely different--play the computer. He wanted to see first-hand how my time management is (especially on the first 15 moves). He goes by "Botvinnik's rule" which suggests spending no more than 20% of your total time on the first 15 moves. He said I had no problem with that. I played the game out and he commented on some of my moves afterward without giving me any clues as to what should be done. Anyway I beat the computer and proved some worth. :-) By the way, here's a VERY good blog by Dan which explains thought process very well. I analyzed it precisely the way he did and concluded the same thing--no more and no less. I only analyzed just enough to prove my move was best and looked at the strong replies. I've never seen any authors write anything this practical on analysis. Let me know what you think. http://www.chess.com/article/view/s... |
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Aug-23-12
| | Patriot: I forgot to comment on the game score. I never noticed it changing! You're right, it is weird. |
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| Aug-25-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> If you have time and are so inclined, check out this game that I just played against Computer 7 in <CG>'s new Playing Zone. (It was a 3 minute per side game). We should meet for some games there, dude: Chessgames Playing Zone LTJ
PS. You can copy and paste the full pgn below into http://chesstempo.com/pgn-viewer.html to view the game! [Event "play.chessgames.com"]
[Site "play.chessgames.com"]
[Date "2012.8.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "LoveThatJoker"]
[Black "Computer 7"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. f3 e6 2. f4 Nc6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Bd6 5. Bb5 O-O 6. O-O a6 7. Bxc6 dxc6 8. b3 Re8 9. Bb2 Bd7 10. Qe1 c5 11. Qg3 Bc6 12. d3 Nh5 13. Qg4 Nf6 14. Qg3 Qe7 15. Nbd2 h6 16. Ne5 Bxe5 17. fxe5 Nd5 18. Rf2 Nb4 19. Nf3 Bxf3 20. Qxf3 Rab8 21. Raf1 Rf8 22. a3 Nc6 23. g4 Rbd8 24. Qg3 Qg5 25. h4 Qe7 26. g5 hxg5 27. Rf6 gxf6 28. exf6 Rd5 29. fxe7 Nxe7 30. e4 Rd6 31. Qxg5+ Ng6 32. h5 c4 33. hxg6 f6 34. Qh6 Rd7 35. Rxf6 Rxf6 36. Bxf6 Rh7 37. Qxh7+ Kf8 38. Qf7# 1-0 |
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| Aug-25-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Thanks for your note. We should most definitely play sometime soon! Did you see that combination that I came up with against 'Computer 7'. That was pretty good!
LTJ |
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Aug-26-12
| | Patriot: Good morning <morf>! It sounds like you gave those 2000+ players a run for their money! Good job! I was nearly beaten recently by someone rated 800 points below me, only because of a risk I took. But usually that kind of difference is crazy. I do have a rating goal in mind (and paying for lessons) so I don't like getting paired against anyone that low. When you average that in with high rated players during a tournament, if you don't make a perfect score then you are losing rating points! Besides rating points, it doesn't help anyone. I don't learn anything from the game and they are only getting dehumanized. The same thing would occur if I played someone much higher than me. But when you are dealing with a small club, there's no choice but to deal with those kinds of pairings sometimes. |
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| Aug-26-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Thanks, man! Yeah I just felt the combination and went for it. 1) Yes. It worked out for the best!
2) That's an alternative for sure, morf. Knowing me, I would have gone in for 19. Qh3 Nb4 20. Nf1 3) Totally! 24...Qg5? is definitely deserving of a question mark. LTJ |
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Aug-26-12
| | Patriot: <morf> <BTW: Your postings at the POTD has been very consistent and accurate. I've been having some problems but I think its due to an approach change. Before, I would try to solve just by visualization, then test my line on a real board. Now, I try to solve, check, bust, re-check before using a real board. There is a big difference even though all I am doing is being more thorough and going deeper without the board.> Thanks! I'm not sure if I'm getting better or the problems are getting easier. Yes I think it's important to do everything you would otherwise have to do OTB. After you settled on a move, I see no problem testing it on a board to see if you missed anything. That may be better than immediately resorting to an engine afterward, which is what I usually do. Changing one's approach can mess with you until you become accustomed to that approach. Hopefully that means I'm due for some major improvements! :-) |
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Aug-26-12
| | Patriot: By the way, that link you sent me was bad...no it was good! Very funny stuff! |
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| Aug-26-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Do send me some games, man! I would certainly enjoy checking them out.
LTJ
PS. Thanks for the compliment on the Daily Puzzle. I'm particularly proud of having found a win on the line I chose for Thursday; as it was one of those technical grind lines. Thankfully with crafty on chessvideos.tv, I was able do so! PPS. Whenever we can, we'll play. No pressure. |
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| Aug-27-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Just want to add one thing in regards to the <PS.> note that I wrote you. Obviously when I said that "thankfully with crafty on chessvideos.tv, I was able to do so!", I was referring to the fact that I was able to do so <against> crafty. It was a really instructive exercise for me to duke it out with crafty, improve on my technical skills, and prove that through human calculation the position I labelled as winning to start off with, is indeed so! LTJ |
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Aug-27-12
| | Patriot: Good morning! I remember watching Hee-Haw sometimes as a kid. There was some really funny stuff on there. It sounds like you are on target with setting 20 minutes max. I know what you mean about taking the position in. I didn't even realize black was up a piece for a few pawns on yesterday's POTD. Ironically this didn't affect my decision to play ...Qxe3+. Many times material imbalances don't change the best move, but not always. <I think this will be a valuable approach. For example, have you ever gotten a little nervous in an OTB game when you've sat on a move for 15 or 20 minutes?> Oh yes! 8 minutes makes me nervous in G/30 but I'm certain I've taken 15 or 20 in G/60 before. After a while the cost-benefit goes way down. On a slightly different note, I'm positive one of the issues I've had with playing too slow comes from spending way too much time looking at my opponent's threats. I'm of the opinion one should be aware but not go into full analysis mode. That is a huge waste of time producing nothing. That time is much needed in finding a good move. |
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| Aug-27-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Thanks for the game that you sent me! You played really well in that game - inspired!
18...a4! is a stand-out move.
I also really found 6...c6 to be instructive. I would have just jumped right in with 6...c5, but then I realized that 7. Nb5 has not been prevented. 6...c6 is a great moment in the game also. Two miscellaneous notes:
1) 20...Nxc3 is precise, man! Good stuff!
2) 23...Qe5+ was better.
Thanks for sending me this. I really found your game to be instructive and I enjoyed going through it! LTJ
PS. Thanks for Morphy vs Maurian, 1855. Morphy gets "Morphyed" is a proper description for it! |
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| Aug-27-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Two notes regarding your game: 1) I was actually indeed referring to 20...Nxc3. It is the only move, but that is precisely my point - it is the only move and it requires precision; and you were precise in that instance. Good stuff! 2) 23...Qe5+ forces mate. So when I saw your 20...Qa5, I wondered why didn't you go for that or at least 20...Rf2+. But yeah now that I look more closely at the finish associated with 23...Qa5, I see where it is something in that you missed 24...Qc3#. LTJ |
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Aug-27-12
| | Patriot: <morf>, I haven't said anything about this to Dan. It could very well be one of my issues. I think he talks about this in an earlier Novice Nook though. Here's an observation: Compared to where my rating used to be (~1850), my tactical rating on CTS is no different and my blitz rating (2 min 5 sec inc) is no different, but my USCF rating is down close to 1700. Theoretically there shouldn't be anything different about my game, although it could still depend on a number of things like move by move choices, confidence, time management, etc. |
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Aug-28-12
| | Patriot: Good morning, <morf>. Thanks. I ran it by Dan and here's what he said: <There's a big difference between looking for threats and analyzing them. After my opponent moves, I spend a few seconds looking at all the new things he can do but I don't usually analyze any of them unless I am planning a candidate move that might allow them. Then it becomes very important whether the threat will beat my candidate move. So the total time before I start considering my candidate moves is very short.Listen to my "out-loud" videos on the ICC where I play against the computer to see how I do this in practice.> This gives me a confidence boost. Tonight I'll be playing 1 or 2 rounds of an ongoing tournament so we will see how it goes. |
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| Aug-29-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> It does, man! I have yet to look at the game from the Atlantic Open precisely because I have to "improv" a pgn for it. I'll probably be able to do so by tomorrow at the latest, so I will get back to you on that. LTJ
PS. Check this cool game out, Z Almasi vs Bareev, 1997. |
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Aug-29-12
| | Patriot: Good morning <morf>! Well I won my game last night. He's rated ~1650 and I found myself being extremely cautious after he lost a piece. Because you have a lot to lose when winning, Dan suggests thinking defense first (not thinking defensively)--avoiding counterplay. Of course you don't want to beat yourself on time either and I did find that time was becoming a factor. For a long time I avoided snapping off a knight because it would open things up for his other bishop. As we both approached 1 minute remaining, I made the decision to do so even without being completely sure. We blitzed out the rest and he dropped a piece and resigned. |
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| Aug-30-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Thanks for the tip on the pgn viewer. I thought I had to build a normal pgn for the USCF game (with the brackets and quotation marks at the top) but thankfully, as per your correct advice, I was able to input solely the text you posted on my forum and it worked perfectly! That game possesses some really neat and powerful tactical ideas. The ending is simply exquisite and instructive - Thanks for having sent that one over! As it relates to the game that you played on ChessCube, all I have to say is wow! Something right out of WC Kasparov! Everything you played from 24...Rxe3+!! onwards is just awesome, morf! Congratulations on that performance! LTJ
PS. I had Stockfish analyze some key ideas from Z Almasi vs Bareev, 1997. I'm going to post them on the game kibitz and send you the pgn soon! |
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| Aug-30-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Here is the pgn to Z Almasi vs Bareev, 1997. LTJ
[Event "Ubeda"]
[Site "Ubeda"]
[Date "1997.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Zoltan Almasi"]
[Black "Evgeny Bareev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2595"]
[BlackElo "2665"]
[Annotator "Owner"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "1997.??.??"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 Ne7 6. O-O Nd7 7. Nh4 Bg6 8. Nd2
c5 9. c3 Qb6 10. Nxg6 hxg6 11. Nf3 Nf5 12. c4 dxc4 (12... Nxd4 13. cxd5 exd5
14. Nxd4 cxd4 15. Bg4 $14) 13. d5 O-O-O 14. Bxc4 Nd4 $6 (14... f6 $1
Stockfish 2.2.2 JA: 1) 15. Re1 (Stockfish 2.2.2 JA: 2) 15. b3 exd5 16. Qxd5
Nxe5 17. Qe6+ Qxe6 18. Bxe6+ Kc7 19. Nxe5 fxe5 20. Bg5 Be7 21. Bxf5 Bxg5 22.
Bxg6 Rd6 23. Bc2 Rd2 24. Be4 Rhd8 -0.56/22) 15... exd5 16. Bxd5 Nxe5 17. Nxe5
fxe5 18. Bg5 Be7 19. Bxe7 Nxe7 20. Qg4+ Kb8 21. Bb3 Rd4 22. Qg3 Nc6 23. Qxg6 c4
24. Ba4 Rd2 25. Qg3 Rf8 26. Bxc6 bxc6 27. Qxe5+ Ka8 28. Re2 Rxf2 29. Qe8+ Kb7
30. Qe7+ Ka6 31. Qa3+ Kb5 32. Re5+ c5 33. Qg3 -0.36/22) 15. Nxd4 Nxe5 16. Bb3
cxd4 17. dxe6 Bd6 18. f4 d3+ 19. Kh1 Qd4 20. Bd2 (20. fxe5 $4 Rxh2+ 21. Kxh2
Qh4+ 22. Kg1 Bc5+ 23. Rf2 Qxf2+ 24. Kh1 Qh4#) 20... Kb8 21. exf7 Nxf7 22. h3 (
22. Bxf7 Qf6 23. Bb3 $4 Rxh2+ 24. Kxh2 Qh4+ 25. Kg1 Bc5+ 26. Rf2 Qxf2+ 27. Kh1
Qh4# (27... Rh8+ 28. Qh5 Rxh5#)) 22... Qf6 23. Qf3 Rh4 24. Bd5 Rdh8 25. Qxd3
Ng5 (25... Nd8 was better 26. Bc3 Qf5 27. Qxf5 gxf5 28. Bxg7 $18) 26. Bc3 (
26. Qb5 was much better for White. Rxh3+ (26... Qe7 27. Rfe1 Qc7 28. Rac1 $18
) 27. gxh3 (27. Kg1 $4 Qd4+ 28. Rf2 Rh1#) 27... Rxh3+ 28. Kg2 Qe7 29. Rae1 $18)
26... Nxh3 27. Bxf6 Nxf4+ 28. Bxh4 Nxd3 29. g3 Bxg3 (Stockfish 2.2.2 JA: 1)
29... g5 30. Rad1 Ne5 (30... Nxb2 Stockfish 2.2.2 JA: 1) 31. Rb1 (Stockfish
2.2.2 JA: 2) 31. Rd2 gxh4 32. g4 Na4 33. Bb3 Nc5 34. Rxd6 Ne4 35. Rd3 Ng3+ 36.
Rxg3 hxg3+ 37. Kg2 Rc8 38. Rf7 Rc7 39. Rf8+ Rc8 40. Rxc8+ Kxc8 41. Kxg3 Kc7 42.
Kf4 Kd6 43. g5 Ke7 44. Kf5 b5 45. Kg6 Kf8 46. Bd5 a6 47. Bb3 4.88/29) 31...
gxh4 32. g4 Nd3 33. Rxb7+ Kc8 34. Rxg7 Re8 35. g5 5.23/29) 31. Bxb7 Rh6 32.
Ba6 Kc7 33. Rd4 Nc6 34. Rg4 gxh4 35. gxh4 Kb6 36. Be2 Be7 37. Rxg7 Bxh4 38. Kg2
Bf6 39. Rg3 Be5 40. Rh3 Rxh3 41. Kxh3 Nd4 42. Bf3 Kc5 3.19/28) (Stockfish 2.
2.2 JA: 2) 29... Bxg3 30. Rf8+ Rxf8 31. Bxg3+ Kc8 32. Kg1 g5 33. Rd1 Nf4 34.
Bf3 Nh3+ 35. Kg2 Nf4+ 36. Kf2 Rf7 37. Rd4 Nd5 38. Rc4+ Kd8 39. Bb8 a6 40. Kg3
Nf6 41. Rd4+ Kc8 42. Bd6 Rd7 43. Bg4 Nxg4 44. Kxg4 Rf7 45. Bg3 Re7 46. Rd2 Re3
47. Bd6 Re6 4.16/27) 30. Kg2 Bxh4 31. Rf7 Be7 32. Rd1 Nxb2 33. Rb1 1-0 |
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| Aug-30-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Once again, this game of yours is truly great!! If 29. Qc2 Rxc2+ 30. Kxc2 Qc4+ is the fastest way to pick up the stray R. LTJ
PS. Don't forget to tell me what you thought about the annotations to the GM Almasi game. If you want, you can either paste the pgn into the ChessTempo Viewer or you can follow the instructions I gave here, so as to see Stockfish's annotations right here on <CG>: Z Almasi vs Bareev, 1997. |
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| Aug-30-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Cool, man! I look forward to your note! LTJ |
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| Aug-31-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Hi, man! Hey look, I just realized that the reason why the pgn that I posted on your forum is not working for you on the ChessTempo viewer is because <CG> "eats" the {} brackets whenever you post something on here. Send me your e-mail and I will send you the pgn via e-mail, so that way you can actually view it on the ChessTempo PGN viewer. I look forward to your e-mail: lovethatjokerchess@yahoo.com LTJ
PS. As it relates to 12...Nxd4 13. cxd5 Nxe2+ 14. Qxe2 0-0-0, Stockfish gives 15. Ng5 when White has a <  > advantage. PPS. Kindly delete the long post here on your forum with the pgn I sent you, man, as it is useless - once again, due to the fact that CG "eats" the {} brackets! |
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| Aug-31-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> I sent you the pgn and I guarantee it is working fine. I recommned that you go through the game via the pgn viewer, so that way you can actually see what the '$14' stuff is all about and so that going through the game will be a pleasant and fast experience for you. If you go through it by hand (i.e., without the pgn viewer), it will take you too much time, man! LTJ |
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Aug-31-12
| | Patriot: Hello <morf>! It was G/45, but apparently I played "afraid" even though I was up a piece. I tried too hard to prevent counter-play, probably caused from paranoia of bad play. <You always get me squirming in my chair when you mention "Well, we were down to about a minute..."> LOL...Well I was starting to squirm a bit but thankfully kept my cool pretty good because of playing blitz. I do think the "find" recently about not analyzing my opponent's threats (just recognizing them) is starting to be beneficial--it seems to be helping my blitz play. I think it should be easier to find aggressive/good moves, as long as I avoid the problem mentioned above. It will at least give me a longer candidate search time which translates to stronger play. I'll definitely take a look at your game (probably tomorrow) and let you know what I think. Here's a 2 minute game (+5 sec increment) (I was white): 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 dxc4 4. a4 Nf6 5. e3 Bg4 6. Bxc4 e6 7. h3 Bh5 8.
O-O Nbd7 9. Nc3 Nd5 10. Nxd5 exd5 11. Be2 Bd6 12. b3 Bxf3 13. Bxf3 O-O 14.
Ba3 Bxa3 15. Rxa3 Nf6 16. Ra1 h6 17. b4 Nh7 18. b5 Ng5 19. bxc6 bxc6 20. Qe2
Qf6 21. Rfc1 Rfc8 22. Rc5 Qe6 23. Bg4 f5 24. Bf3 Qg6 25. Bh5 Nxh3+ 26. Kh2
Nf4 27. exf4 Qf6 28. g3 Qxd4 29. Rac1 Qf6 30. Qa6 Qd4 31. Kg2 Qf6 32. Bf3 g5
33. Bxd5+ Kh8 34. Rxc6 Rxc6 35. Rxc6 Qd4 36. Rxh6+ Kg7 37. Qg6+ Kf8 38. Qf7# |
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| Sep-01-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <morf> Sounds good! LTJ |
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