Jun-28-23
 | | PeterLalic: You and Me, Dupre
Black to move. Last: 15.Bh3
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Jun-30-23
 | | HeMateMe: A very steely pun, I must say... |
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| Jun-30-23 | | Brenin: 7 e3 looks horrible, inviting 7 ... Nb4, whereas 7 ... O-O gives White time to castle (not that it did him much good). A nice attack by Black, and a pretty finish. |
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| Jun-30-23 | | goodevans: <Brenin: 7 e3 looks horrible, inviting 7 ... Nb4> Agreed. I'm guessing it was played to support a later d4 push which never came. Nevertheless, White played okay over the next few moves and the manoeuver Na4-b2-c4 was effective in first budging Black's B from its annoying outpost on d3 then slashing its scope. I'd say White was fine at that point. Then came two badly misjudged moves where White first threatened Black's R (15.Bh3?) then accepted the exchange sac. Without that LSB White's light square weaknesses became legion and 18.f4?? was the point of no return allowing Black to conduct a very nice attack with a neat finish. White's resignation one move before mate was an act of bah humbug. Resign earlier or don't resign at all. |
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| Jun-30-23 | | goodevans: <HeMateMe: A very steely pun, I must say...> From the IMDb page on the 2006 film 'You, Me and Dupree':
<Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, of the popular 70's band "Steely Dan", addressed a humorous letter to Owen Wilson's brother, Luke, on their blog with claims that the idea of "You, Me and Dupree" was stolen from their song, "Cousin Dupree".> We'll, I'd never made that link before. |
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Jun-30-23
 | | offramp: Paul Donald Dupre rhymes with <super>. And this is a super game from the super Surrey League with its epicentre at super Dorking. |
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| Jun-30-23 | | Saniyat24: the patron saints dabbing with the English...! |
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Nov-26-23
 | | kingscrusher: Very nice game indeed by Peter Lalic :) |
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Nov-26-23
| | kingscrusher: I think this is called the "Vector Gambit". |
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Nov-26-23
 | | fredthebear: Yes, it is the Vector Gambit. |
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Nov-26-23
| | kingscrusher: <fredthebear> BTW I like to think about it conceptually as a reverse Smith-Morra Gambit. Esserman I believe plays it a lot too online. |
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Nov-26-23
| | fredthebear: Our Peter Lalic apparently likes such structures giving up the d-pawn for rapid piece activity in more than one opening. Similarly, I taught an elderly woman novice at the retirement home the Geschev Gambit out of the Scandinavian so that she'd have something easy and active to play with a chance for checkmate without grasping at straws. Youth is best served with 1...e5 but let's cut to the chase with Granny and play a gambit from the start for open lines instead of coddling pawns. * NN vs G Geshev, 1935 * NN vs P Krueger, 1920 * Pillsbury vs W A Hall, 1903 * G P Alcock vs P Lalic, 2023 * K Hanache vs P Lalic, 2023 Plenty of action at the cost of a center pawn. No Symmetrical English, no Spanish torture for the old folks!! What's a pawn good for?? It only attacks two measly squares. Get outta the way! When some Jolly Roger turns up with two dark-squared bishops in the middle game, we play right on as if the winds of fortune meant for it to be so. |
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Nov-27-23
| | kingscrusher: <fredthebear> You may be interested to know that even in top level engine chess, it seems black is not entirely busted with this particular pawn sacrifice concept: [Event "TCEC Season 25 (17) Superfinal"]
[Site "https://tcec-chess.com/#seaso"]
[Date "2023.10.15"]
[Round "22.1"]
[White "Stockfish dev-20231010-002636"]
[Black "LCZero 0.31-dag-e429eeb-BT3-2"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "3673"]
[BlackElo "3642"]
[Annotator "Gavriel,Tryfon"]
[PlyCount "142"]
[EventDate "2023.??.??"]
[TimeControl "7200+12"]
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 c6 3. dxc6 Nxc6 ♗ook exit 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. O-O e5 7.
h3 Bh5 8. Be2 Qc7 9. c3 Bc5 10. d4 exd4 11. Nxd4 Bg6 12. Be3 O-O 13. Nd2 Bxd4
14. cxd4 Rad8 15. Nb3 Nd5 16. Rc1 Nxe3 17. fxe3 Qe7 extra pawn but is it easy
to exploit 18. Qd2 Rfe8 19. Rf3 Ne5 20. Rf4 Nd7 21. Bb5 a6 22. Bxd7 Qxd7 23.
Rc3 h6 24. Nc5 Qd5 25. a3 Re7 26. Nd3 Rde8 27. Rf3 Qd6 28. Nf4 Be4 29. Rf1 g5
30. Nd3 Kg7 31. Qf2 f6 32. Nc1 Rf7 33. Ne2 Bg6 34. Nc1 Be4 35. b4 Bd5 36. Nd3
b6 37. Qd2 Rc7 38. Rxc7+ Qxc7 39. Nf2 Qg3 40. Ng4 Re6 41. e4 Bxe4 42. d5 Qd6
43. Ne3 b5 44. Qf2 Re5 45. Rc1 Qe7 46. Rd1 Qd6 47. Rc1 Qe7 48. Rd1 Qd6 49. h4
Bg6 50. h5 Bxh5 51. Rc1 ♘f5 threat now Kg8 52. Rc8+ Re8 53. Nf5 Qe5 54. Rc6
Qa1+ 55. Kh2 Re4 56. Qg3 Re1 57. Qb8+ Be8 58. Re6 Rxe6 59. dxe6 Qe5+ 60. Qxe5
fxe5 61. Nxh6+ Kf8 62. Kg3 Ke7 adjudication - draw - end of game 63. Kg4 Kxe6
64. Kxg5 Kd5 65. Nf5 Bd7 66. g4 e4 67. Kf4 Bxf5 68. gxf5 Kd4 69. f6 e3 70. f7
e2 71. f8=Q e1=Q $11 1/2-1/2 |
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Nov-29-23
| | fredthebear: Yes, interesting. Some mighty hefty Elos up there! |
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Kibitzing
sac: 15...b5