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Sep-15-16
 | | Richard Taylor: <Hi Octavia> I still play it. I played it first as it was in an old book my father had by Golombek. I since got a more recent book on it. I haven't uploaded some of my best combinative games using it yet! But I grovelled on here as I drew with some IMs (I beat at least one IM otb and beat another in Correspondence Chess) and beat some and some FMs and ex (and I think current) NZ Champions etc and I also have some more or less "historical" games played in NZ and the NZ Correspondence Championships and so on. Of course mostly I have lost to those players but we will forget that detail! I used to play the KI and the Benoni (I still do some times) as well as the mainline d5 leading to either the Slav or the QGD. The Nimzo is worth studying though. It has a mix of plans and can be relatively quiet but suddenly explode into complications! Best of luck with it. Don't abandon it if you lose. If I do, I try to find where I went wrong. I also have a book on the QI but for some reason I get fewer of those. That is the problem...I think that if they play 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3. Nf3 .... there is nothing wrong with the Bogo or QI but most GMs etc seem to go for 3. .... d5 when the play is fairly straightfoward if you have played GM games against the QG....but no openings are easy!! Cheers. |
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Mar-17-17
| | Richard Taylor: Good to see Paul and my game played at my new Club Howick-Pakuranga (Auckland) a week or so ago. The last time these two giants clashed Paul prevailed and overwhelmed your truly. |
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Dec-21-17
| | Richard Taylor: On here for NZ players and others I have just learnt that Peter Stuart a long time A Grade player (who came close to winning the NZ Champs I think more than once) and sometimes President of NZ Chess and who I played on an off from the 60s has died. Some of my games on here were against Peter with varied results. Over time more recently we had more or less equal results but Peter wasn't playing at his former level. He had some I suspect age-related health issues. When he was younger he was quite fit and I believe one interest was swimming. But he was also a tireless worker for chess in NZ. |
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| Feb-04-18 | | Benzol: <Richard> Belated birthday wishes. Sorry that I missed it. Cheers matey. |
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Feb-05-18
| | Richard Taylor: Thanks Paul. I put it on FB (I didn't have my birth date on before) and a lot of people wished me well from chess, my family, and the "poetry" and lit worlds as well as friends I have who are not "intellectual" (not that I am really that much) such as a friend who is a mechanic and so on... I'll be there on Wednesday. |
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Feb-05-18
| | Richard Taylor: I still have some of my crazy combinative games etc not up here. Even some of my losses were quite interesting...Even more positional games if we can define things so simply... |
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Jul-28-18
 | | Jonathan Sarfati: Wow, lots of interesting games here! |
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Sep-08-18
| | Richard Taylor: <Jonathan Sarfati> Thanks. I must load up more with my combinations or ridiculous fight backs. I was doing best this century in 2008 -- 2010. But last year I drew with Ben Hague and at the club I had him lost but stuffed it but that game I lost is still interesting. Now I mainly study chess strategy books with games or problems and so on. |
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Nov-02-19
| | Richard Taylor: I'll put some interesting games I played earlier (Jan 2019) in the year and some of the NZ Senior games on here [I mean in the comments] (also 2019) as it seems I am now considered non persona grata or something is wrong... |
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| Feb-21-20 | | Benzol: Hi Richard. Sorry to have missed your birthday ( again ! ). Hope all is well matey. Cheers. 😊 |
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Mar-09-20
| | Richard Taylor: Hi Benzol! Thanks. All went well. Just a quiet day. Hope all is well your end. |
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May-11-20
| | Richard Taylor: I'll post some of my games (one or a few as I find them not necessarily all wins, there were also some interesting draws and losses by me!) not on my games listed. This was a Benoni. I had been playing it since I was 30 when I took up chess again. I mean I had played from about 1959 when I learnt chess to about 1966. Then stopped until 1978 until about 1990. Although I played since then I didn't play very seriously. I started again after getting a computer as I started in online games about 2000 on ICS. In 1978 I had studied a. The Benoni b. The English c. The Alekhine and around then I played the Dragon or other Sicilian lines. I didn't really do that much study of openings but I knew the line in the next game quite well by the date of this game and more so in about 2010. Here is my game against Andrew Michaels, a nice fellow who is or was Rarotongan born player (but he is or was - haven't seen him for some time - thus a New Zealander as Rarotongans as far as I know have automatic NZ Citizenship), one of the few. He was actually much better than he himself thought he was and he beat me twice. In fact I struggled against Andrew. Classical Benoni
[Event "NZ Major Open 2010"]
[Site "Alexander Park, Auckland"]
[Date "2010.01.06"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Andrew Michael"]
[Black "Richard Taylor"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. h3 Bg7 8.
Nf3 O-O 9. Bd3 b5 10. Bxb5 Nxe4 11. Nxe4 Qa5+ 12. Nfd2 Qxb5 13. Nxd6 Qa6
14. N2c4 Nd7 15. O-O Ne5 16. Qc2 Nxc4 17. Nxc4 Bf5 18. Qe2 Rfe8 19. Be3 Re4
20. Rac1 Rae8 21. g4 Bd7 22. Qc2 Qf6 23. Qd1 Qh4 24. Qf3 Bxg4 25. Qg3 Qxg3+ 26. fxg3 Be2 27. Nd6 Rxe3 28. Nxe8 Bxf1 29. Nxg7 Bxh3 30. Nh5 gxh5 31. Kf2 Rd3 32. Rxc5 Rd2+ 33. Ke3 Rxb2 34. Ra5 Rb7 35. Kd4 Kf8 36. d6 Bg4 37. Rc5 Rd7 38. Ke5 f6+ 39. Kxf6 Rxd6+ 40. Kg5 h6+ 41. Kf4 Ra6 42. Rc2 Be6 43. Rc5 Bf7 0-1 I had made an effort to study this variation (or the general ideas of it) and it looks as though he knew it also! He weakened his King side which was a cause of his loss here I think. |
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Apr-12-21
 | | juan31: < Congratulations , candidate Master> |
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Apr-12-21
| | juan31: < Game : Leyton H. Vs Richard Taylor 2017> Parkinson Cup, excelent performance. |
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Apr-15-21
| | Richard Taylor: Thank you Juan. I had some interesting games in the last few years. Not playing this year over the board. I will wait until I get all my vaccines (including the usual flu one)...although my son like myself has taken to writing poetry ... he is 48 and had awful trouble at school with bullying etc but he has done well lately. He has been asked to give a reading already. He is trying to get into university. He has spent years depressed and or playing computer games and so on so it is hard. But he is trying. Leyton is a Scotsman who is younger than I but he loves gambits and we had some crazy games. Not sure who one the most! But enjoyable. He's a nice fellow, having some marital issues, lost his job but life goes on! |
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Apr-15-21
| | Richard Taylor: I should put some of my good games on here. My rating went up -- NZ rating in any case. |
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Apr-15-21
| | Richard Taylor: I think my FIDE rating is higher now. But I am not a "proper" master. Still in the tourney I got that CM I nearly beat a FM who is the highest rated active player in NZ. I came close to beating him in 2017 as well. I also beat some other stronger players and some FMs. Over the years have....but I was never consistent. I always had trouble concentrating. I am quite a quick player though....I like tactical and mostly open games. I am fearless on the chess board!! |
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Apr-15-21
 | | harrylime: I would kill you over the board. And you know it. |
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Apr-15-21
 | | MissScarlett: <Richard Taylor>, are you prepared to challenge <Hazz> for his <cg.com> title? I'm not sure of the exact dates but I think it's been five years since the last title defence. The chess world is practically groaning for another. Every American here that's been approached in the meantime has turned tail and skedaddled. Frankly, I'm embarrassed for them. What say you? |
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| Apr-22-21 | | macer75: <harrylime: I would kill you over the board. And you know it.> Shiiiiit... that escalated quickly. |
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Apr-25-21
| | Richard Taylor: <Miss Scarlet> <'Hazz' is 'harrylime'?> The claim he would "kill me over the board" is strange as how could we play? Actually I think you need say, Jonathan Safarti. He is an ex-NZ Champion and at one stage had a big Blindfold record....He might well take the Cup.... But tell us more, the FIDE challenge is interesting at the moment. To what age has the Hazz reached? Or is that attained -- is he about 2000 years old? Harry Lime is a rather sad being obsessed with music. I never listen to music or very rarely these days, and when I did it was mostly Bach or say Varese.....but more because of the ideas. I quickly get bored with what is called 'popular' music. In fact I find it almost impossible to listen to music without drifting off so I simply dont listen to it these days. So we have little in common. I am an uncommon person. |
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Aug-23-21
| | Richard Taylor: NZ is in total lockdown. I myself have both Pfizer shots. Hope all is well with people on Chessgames.com |
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Sep-03-21
 | | fredthebear: Please tell us what total lockdown is like. Where CAN you go? Can you go to work, school, church, the store, the pub, the park, the beach? What freedoms have you been deprived of? Are dissenters allowed to speak out without being punished? Is the propaganda entirely one-sided? Is it like house arrest? |
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Sep-03-21
| | Richard Taylor: <fredthebear: Please tell us what total lockdown is like. Where CAN you go? Can you go to work, school, church, the store, the pub, the park, the beach? What freedoms have you been deprived of? Are dissenters allowed to speak out without being punished? Is the propaganda entirely one-sided? Is it like house arrest?> Not like house arrest. For myself and my son it is pretty much the same. In Auckland and part of Northland we are on what is called level 4. Dissenters are allowed but if it gets too bad they are fined or jailed mainly to prevent spread of the virus. The lockdown happened as soon as there was one case which is good. Meanwhile they are trying to get sufficient vaccinated. People are asked to stay in their "bubbles" and can go for exercise locally. Pubs, churches and much else is shut. Many supply and other businesses re open. I walk around the local streets and one good thing is the fewer cars. People can go to the beach but shouldn't surf or sail etc or do anything that might divert emergency services. People can go to supermarkets, local dairies, but not much else. We can buy online. We are not really deprived of any freedoms as in exchange we are able to get on with vaccinating and reducing the risks of illness and death. My son who is 49 and lives with me doesn't believe in vaccines, and thinks it is a plot by the Illuminati. It's not like house arrest. I have never much liked social events or even pubs -- although we were both going to poetry readings at a pub once a week before lockdown. I was also, last year, between lockdowns, going to the chess club. But there is stress on families with children.
There is no propaganda. I study virology lectures and in fact I was interested in Biology as a teenager. I also read on cell biology, retro viruses and so on as well as reading other on various books. I rarely travel much and my local area is good enough. We are all lucky to be alive. I have both the Pfizer injections but I still wear a mask outside. My warrant of fitness has run out on my car....but nothing I can do. Will use taxis if need be. It's not like house arrest. I actually like being in lock down as I dont have to go to things. I prefer doing almost the same thing every day but we go for a walk and have lunch, study a chess problem and or talk about poetry which my son last year started to get interested in. I write myself also. |
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| Sep-03-21 | | okiesooner: We in the U.S. are doing a miserable job dealing with the pandemic. People here are incredibly selfish. We Americans could learn much from New Zealand's experience. |
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