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Annie K.
Member since Apr-02-04

Annie Kappel
This profile needs an update badly, but I don't have the time... :)
My YouTube channel, featuring pronunciations of non-English chess player names: http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnieK1...
I'm 45 y/o, of Transylvanian origin, living in Israel since childhood. I speak English (no, really), Hungarian (great language!), and Hebrew (if I must, which is often, for some reason).
Afflicted with an uncontrollable sense of humor and other highly controversial characteristics.
I learned chess as a child, but had no further opportunities to practice the game. Returned to it seriously around 2004, and have been hanging out here since.
Note: if I am not home (i.e., here), you can probably find me at the Domdaniel chessforum, the SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum, the visayanbraindoctor chessforum, or the chessgames.com chessforum! :)
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<My City of Moscow skits:>
<<<<<<>>>>> Kramnik's Party -> City of Moscow (kibitz #752)
<<<<<<>>>>> Sochi 2008: An F-Files Production -> City of Moscow (kibitz #774)
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<Game Collection: My GotD Puns>
<My favorites:>
All Your Baze Are Belong To Us - L Baze vs T Palmer, 2004 - GotD Mar-21-10
Y Yu No Claim Repetition? - Yu Yangyi vs M R Venkatesh, 2012 - GotD Jun-30-12
He Who Has E Tate is Lost - E Tate vs Y Shulman, 2001 - GotD Sep-22-16
How Many Roads Must Aman Walk Down? - S Shankland vs A Hambleton, 2014 - GotD Dec-23-16 (besides the obvious reason for the pun - a long King walk - note also the terms 'shank' and 'amble' embedded in the player names)
So me the Wei - W So vs Wei Yi, 2013 - GotD Jan-29-17
This Won't Borya Ider - B Ider vs Wei Yi, 2014 - GotD Apr-01-17 (follow-up to previous day's GotD, 'This Won't Borya')
Injun vs Engin' - Anand vs REBEL, 1997 - GotD Jan-06-2018
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<My other (linkable) site contributions:>
* The Player Names Pronunciation Project: http://www.chessgames.com/audio (or look for names with a loudspeaker icon in the Player Directory)
* Created on my suggestion: Biographer Bistro
* The first (now retired) Carlsen Dancing Rook: https://web.archive.org/web/2013040...
* The Caruana Dancing Rook:
http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag...
* The Hou Dancing Rook:
http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag...
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<<<<<<< MAJOR CHESS SITES <<>>>>>>>>>
<< Correspondence chess <<<<<<>>>>>>>>
< ChessWorld -> http://www.chessworld.net
ChessWorld is my new main chess playing base. It's a rather restrictive site for non-paying members, but one of the best sites for paying members. The full features include excellent interface options and first class study and analysis resources. Nice community, likeable admin. Paid membership recommended.
< Update: while I will leave the original entry for ChessWorld as-is, I have by now been a member of the site for 2 years, and am now an admin there. I still think the site is one of the best, and the <other> admins are nice. :p >
My ChessWorld profile: http://www.letsplaychess.com/chessc...
< Queen Alice -> http://www.queenalice.com
Queen Alice is a charming site - well behaved players, decent admin, site design visually very pleasant. It is also completely free. Unfortunately, it lacks team play, the interface and resources are relatively simple, and it can be frustratingly slow (loading times). Nevertheless warmly recommended.
My QueenAlice profile: http://www.queenalice.com/player.ph...
< GameKnot -> http://gameknot.com
GameKnot is technically an excellent site, however I would not recommend it to the serious player who is looking for a site to settle in, due to an anti$ocial admin with ju$t one $ingle intere$t in hi$ $ite... oop$, $orry about the typo$.
My GameKnot profile: http://gameknot.com/stats.pl?annie-....
<< Other chess sites <<<<<<>>>>>>>>
< FICS - the Free Internet Chess Server -> http://www.freechess.org
FICS is a great site to play chess at various faster time controls. There are a few difficulties getting started with it - first, it can be hard to find an email they will accept for registration; and second, there's a lot of site code to learn. But it's worth the hassle. :)
< ChessCube -> http://www.chesscube.com
ChessCube is quite good for fast time control games - provided you have a strong computer with broadband, as the site is entirely Flash based, which means it takes considerable computer resources to load. The site is nominally free, but heavily commercialized with all sorts of frills that can be purchased on it.
< Emrald Chess Tactics Server -> http://chess.emrald.net
Emrald is not a playing site - it is an invaluable tactical training asset. The only problem with it is also the difficulty of finding an "acceptable" email address to register with; but once past that hurdle, the site deserves nothing but praise.
It's a completely free site. You can play (practice) there as a guest, but they recommend registering, so that their program can keep track of your progress, in order to assign you puzzles best suited to your current level. I strongly second that recommendation. Register and always play logged in! It will make a huge difference in the site's ability to help you improve. An issue that scares some people off Emrald is that your progress is tracked via a "rating system", and because of the high importance they assign to speed, if you are not used to finding tactics fast, your rating will be very low at first - and many people are simply embarrassed to play logged in for that reason. Don't let it bother you! If you let embarrassment hold you back from letting the site help you improve to the best of its ability, you are only shooting yourself in the foot, and nobody else really cares that much anyway. ;p
A few of the people I've recommended Emrald to, had dropped it after a brief trial with remarks along the lines of "Oh, it's a blitz training site. I don't play blitz, so I don't like their obsession with speed." That reaction is absolutely wrong - and it's also one that many people who try the site out for only a short time are likely to have, if only because players who are used to being rated, say, 2000 and above, at corr. chess sites, are going to be annoyed and put on the defensive about finding themselves rated as low as 1200-1300 at Emrald, and will wish to dismiss the "insulting" site.
Yes, the Emrald rating system is heavily influenced by speed. But thinking that the site's purpose is blitz training is a complete misunderstanding of the lesson taught. The real purpose of Emrald practice is not to improve your blitz skills, but to train you to recognize dozens of tactical themes and opportunities AT A GLANCE - which will not only save you time in games of any time control, but is often the only way you will catch them AT ALL. Those brilliant tactical shots that can be seen in anyone's collection of "most memorable games", are often moves that will either occur to you as soon as you glance at the position, or you will miss them altogether. That's what Emrald really teaches - tactical chess intuition.
<Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position. --- <Viswanathan Anand>>
<Personally, I am of the view that if a strong master does not see such a threat at once he will not notice it, even if he analyses the position for twenty or thirty minutes. --- <Tigran Petrosian >>
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^ TL;DR.

Any other questions, feel free to ask. I might even answer. ;p

>> Click here to see Annie K.'s game collections.

   Current net-worth: 990 chessbucks
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   Annie K. has kibitzed 8212 times to chessgames [more...]

   Sep-15-20 S Mariotti vs A Geller, 1990

Annie K.: The Black player in this game has been corrected from Efim to Alexander Geller. Thanks. :)

   Sep-14-20 chessgames.com chessforum

Annie K.: <MissS> ah, yes, the key term "I challenged her" - that pretty much describes the previous post too, which was a blown out of all proportion tirade about the severity of the Player of the Day (not the entire homepage as claimed, which I check on almost every midnight, ...

   Sep-12-20 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX (2020)

Annie K.: Note: if you can't see the games, please set your game viewer to pgn4web (in the box under the game score) - but remember to set it back to our default viewer Olga in the end, as it is about to be upgraded soon, and will be the best of our viewers. :)

   Sep-04-20 Chessgames Bookie chessforum

Annie K.: The logs have been checked, and the top places are cleared. Congratulations to winner <moronovich>, the other 5 qualifiers, and the rest of the top 10! :) We have opened the Fall Leg, so if anything turns up, betting can start immediately, but we have no official schedule for

   Aug-01-20 Biographer Bistro

Annie K.: <Tab> The WCC pages are tied in with some special functions, and changing them can cause far-ranging problems at this time (remember when merely changing the WCC page titles caused stats to disappear from the pages of participating players?), so let's take this up again after

   Jul-29-20 Ding Liren vs Leko, 2020

Annie K.: Identical to K Stupak vs E Shtembuliak, 2020 .

   Jul-24-20 Annie K. chessforum

Annie K.: A fun conversation from 2016... :) <Daniel:> I’ve come to learn a lot about what sports broadcasting must be like. Actually I learned about it long before CG when I worked at a newspaper. If there is a sporting event you MUST be excited about it, from a business ...

   Jul-22-20 Biel (2020)

Annie K.: It gets worse - the chess24 intro says "In case of a tie for first place chess960 rapid games will be played", but in fact the official site specifies that the chess960 tiebreaks in question are the ACCENTUS 960 games - which have already been played on the 18th, the event's first ...

   Jul-21-20 Csom vs A Yusupov, 1982

Annie K.: The only requirement for this excellent pun is to pronounce Csom correctly. Which means, as "Chom". :)

   Jul-17-20 K Pedersen vs G F Kane, 1972

Annie K.: <jith> thank you for the always helpful directions. :) So all 12 Pedersen games we have in Chess Olympiad Final-A (1972) games are about to be reassigned from Eigil to Karl.

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Feb-14-13		Annie K.: <Don't ask me which opening this was, I don't have a clue :)> OK, I won't ask... I'll just sit here in the dark. ;) Very nice pins and needles there! :D

Feb-15-13		dakgootje: Looks a bit like some Benoni I once played - with the main difference being that I generally lost. :) Played it mainly to get my opponent out of his openingknowledge - but mine wasn't much better :P

Feb-15-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: Well, I'm up 2400 or so today. :)> Nice! I lost a bit... really didn't like Naiditsch losing, even if I wasn't completely unprepared. Here's some sloppy play :-) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.02.15"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1929"] [BlackElo "1921"] [ECO "A40"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. d4 b6 2. Nf3 Bb7 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 f5 5. O-O Nf6 6. c4 Bb4 7. Nc3 Bxc3 8. bxc3 O-O 9. Nd2 Bxg2 10. Kxg2 d6 11. Re1 Nbd7 12. e4 fxe4 13. Nxe4 Qe7 14. a4 a5 15. Qb3 Qf7 16. Ng5 Qg6 17. Nxe6 Ng4 18. Nxf8 Rxf8 19. Be3 Qh5 20. h3 Nxf2 21. c5+ d5 22. h4 Qf3+ 23. Kh2 Ng4+ 24. Kh3 Nxe3 25. Rxe3 Qxe3 26. Qxd5+ Rf7 27. Rf1 Nf6 28. Qd8+ Qe8 29. Qxe8+ Nxe8 30. cxb6 cxb6 31. Rb1 Rf6 32. g4 Rc6 33. Rb3 Nc7 34. Kg3 Nd5 35. Kf2 Nxc3 36. Ke3 Nxa4 37. d5 Rc3+ 38. Rxc3 Nxc3 39. d6 Nd5+ 40. Kd4 Nf6 41. g5 Nd7 42. Kd5 Kf7 43. Kc6 Ke6 44. Kb5 Kxd6 45. h5 g6 46. hxg6 hxg6 {White resigns} 0-1

Feb-15-13		Annie K.: I only bet on Draw-Draw-Draw and Draw-Black-Draw in the p-3, hence most of the profit - plus, I bet on (just) the right outcomes in all 3 individual game bets. Would be nice if they fixed that wrong result sometime soon. ;s Yeah, 30...cxb6 may not have been the best response in particular. Fun game, anyhoo. :)

Feb-17-13		Annie K.: The funniest thing about this game is... that I'm actually playing White! Heh - but it so happens that I'm greatly amused by having to play against my own favorite Black opening setup. :p And so, Black played quite well ;) until about move 26, whereafter he cracked and fell apart. ;s [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.02.18"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1504"] [BlackElo "1488"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. d3 a6 6. a3 h6 7. Be3 Ba7 8. Ne2 d6 9. c3 O-O 10. Ng3 b6 11. Bb3 Ne7 12. h3 c5 13. Nh2 Ng6 14. Nh5 Bb7 15. Qf3 Nxh5 16. Qxh5 d5 17. O-O d4 18. Bd2 b5 19. Qxg6 c4 20. Qg3 cxb3 21. Bxh6 Qf6 22. Bg5 Qg6 23. Qxe5 f6 24. Qe6+ Rf7 25. Bf4 Bc8 26. Qd5 Rb8 27. Bxb8 Bxh3 28. Bg3 Bxg2 29. Kxg2 Bb8 30. Qxd4 Ba7 31. Qd5 Kh7 32. Nf3 f5 33. Rh1+ Kg8 34. Qd8+ Rf8 35. Rh8+ Kxh8 36. Qxf8+ Kh7 37. Rh1+ 1-0

Feb-18-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: The funniest thing about this game is... that I'm actually playing White! Heh - but it so happens that I'm greatly amused by having to play against my own favorite Black opening setup. :p> I've always found it rather unsettling to beat someone who plays more like me than I do :-) It doesn't do to vary for no good reason. If your bishop had been on a2 instead of b3 then Qxg6 would have won outright :)

Feb-18-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Just because it looks like a French doesn't mean it has to be unsound. It is, however, quite likely :-) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.02.18"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2050"] [BlackElo "2004"] [ECO "A40"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. Qe2 e6 5. Nf3 d5 6. e5 Ne4 7. O-O c5 8. c3 a5 9. Nbd2 Nxd2 10. Bxd2 Qc8 11. Ng5 Ba6 12. Qf3 Ra7 13. Bxh7 Bxf1 14. Rxf1 g6 15. Qf6 Rxh7 16. Nxh7 Be7 17. Qg7 Nc6 18. Qg8+ Kd7 19. Qxf7 cxd4 20. cxd4 Kc7 21. Rc1 Kb8 22. Qxg6 Rc7 23. h3 Nxd4 24. Rxc7 Qxc7 25. Qe8+ Kb7 26. Nf6 Ne2+ 27. Kh2 Qxe5+ 28. f4 Qxf6 29. Qd7+ Kb8 30. Qc6 Bc5 31. g3 Nd4 32. Qe8+ Kc7 33. Bc3 Qf5 34. h4 Nf3+ 35. Kg2 Ng1 36. Qb5 Qh3# {White checkmated} 0-1 [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.02.18"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2030"] [BlackElo "2009"] [ECO "A40"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. Qe2 e6 5. Nf3 d5 6. e5 Ne4 7. O-O c5 8. c3 a5 9. Nbd2 Nxd2 10. Bxd2 Ba6 11. Bxa6 Nxa6 12. Qb5+ Qd7 13. Qxb6 Be7 14. a4 O-O 15. Qb5 Qc7 16. Bg5 Bxg5 17. Nxg5 c4 18. b4 axb4 19. cxb4 Rfb8 20. Qa5 Qe7 21. b5 Nb4 22. Qxa8 Rxa8 23. Nf3 f6 24. a5 Qb7 25. b6 Nc6 26. a6 Rxa6 27. Rxa6 Qxa6 28. exf6 Qxb6 29. fxg7 Nxd4 30. Ne5 Kxg7 31. h4 c3 32. g4 c2 33. h5 c1=Q {White resigns} 0-1

Feb-18-13		Annie K.: Uh, they do look suspiciously like Frenchies, don't they? Tsk tsk... ;) Well, yeah, I suppose we have concluded that the French family can be ok provided that the White player doesn't really have a clue how to play against it. :p Nice games! :) <It doesn't do to vary for no good reason. If your bishop had been on a2 instead of b3 then Qxg6 would have won outright :)> Well, I have varied - as I sometimes do, mostly because I'm so tired I play the opening totally on automatic and don't really start paying attention until move 8 or so - with stuff like Nc3 (I normally put a pawn on c3, and play Nd2 ), and a3 (I play that in the French set, usually not in the Italian, but here I had to prepare a refuge for the B "just in case") ... But keeping the B on b3 was <not> varying my usual White game. :) The B belongs on a7 if you're Black, this is The Truth indeed, ;) but preferably not on a2 if you're White; I like to keep it on b3 as long as possible, since I often choose to switch it to c2, or sometimes even d1, later. Anyhoo, I think in this case Black was in fact aware that his N was en prise (unlike many other vict... um, opponents ;p), so he wouldn't have just let it drop if he couldn't get the B for it. But it suited me to allow that exchange, because - theoretical advantage of B over N or not - that N was the only defending piece left in his King's vicinity, and I figured getting rid of it was worth the Bishop. Plus, that bonus h6 pawn was tasty too. ;)

Feb-19-13		hms123: <Switch> They not only look like French Defenses, but they look like my version against the advanced (with an early ..b6>. I particularly liked this checkmate: click for larger view

Feb-19-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Not sure if I'd purposely allow <18. Qxg6 dxe3 19. fxe3 Qe7 20. Ng4>... click for larger view ...but of course, I didn't have Black here :s <hms123> Any chance we could see some FICS games from you in that variation? ;-)) I thought that mate was much like a life-size plush octopus: cute, strange and not really practical :)

Feb-19-13		Annie K.: <Switch> I did think I heard the first little cracking sound at 17...d4, if only for the momentary memory lapse about the importance of blocking my WSB's diagonal. Heh. Nice line. :) I'm not going to post a few of the most amusing games I've had recently, against some opponents who have this endearing habit of falling into every single trap I set (I like that in an opponent...!!), as they weren't even remotely as good, as they were fun. ;p <Switch: <<hms123> Any chance we could see some FICS games from you in that variation? ;-))>> What <Switch> said! ;) <a life-size plush octopus> Oooh, my kitties would love one of those! Sounds very good for cuddling up between all those comfy tentacles in winter. ;)

Feb-20-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: I'm not going to post a few of the most amusing games I've had recently, against some opponents who have this endearing habit of falling into every single trap I set (I like that in an opponent...!!)> And sometimes even traps you didn't set? :-)

Feb-20-13		hms123: <Switch> <Annie> Subtlety always goes over my head. ;-) It's a process...a slow one at that.

Feb-20-13		hms123: Unrated game (sorry) at FICS. [Event "FICS unrated"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "hms123"] [Result ""] [PlyCount "70"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. g3 b6 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. O-O Bd6 8. Re1 Nge7 9. c3 O-O 10. e5 Bc7 11. d4 Ng6 12. Nf1 f6 13. exf6 Qxf6 14. Bg5 Qf7 15. Qd2 Rae8 16. h4 h6 17. Be3 c4 18. N1h2 e5 19. dxe5 Ncxe5 20. Nxe5 Nxe5 21. Bd4 Nd3 22. Rxe8 Rxe8 23. b3 Bb8 24. Ng4 Rf8 25. Qxh6 Nxf2 (25... gxh6 26. Nxh6+ Kh7 27. Nxf7 Rxf7) 26. Bxf2 Qxf2+ 27. Nxf2 gxh6 28. Nh1 Rf5 29. bxc4 Bd6 30. g4 Bc5+ 31. Kh2 Rf4 32. cxd5 Rxg4 33. Re1 Rxg2+ 34. Kxg2 Bxd5+ 35. Kh2 Bd6+ 1-0 By move 30, NN was under 30 seconds and I still had 3 minutes. I knew he was going to time out which explains my last few moves. I am a little unhappy that I missed his 25th move <25.Qxh6> click for larger view and that I may have misjudged the position after the alternative line starting with <25....gxh6> click for larger view The pawns and the two bishops looked scary. At that point, though, I was way up on time and decided to play the line that was more clear to me. I completely missed <28...b5> instead of <...Rf5>.

Feb-20-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <hms123> Interesting game. My first thought when you played 7...Bd6 was "ouch, Black just allowed Bxg7!" It took me a split second to remember there was no bishop on b2 :) click for larger view Then I referred the position to my silicon friend - and this was the line it spat out... <8. b4!? Nxb4 9. a3 Nc6 10. exd5 exd5 11. Bb2> Problem solved. I guess pattern over-recognition isn't all bad :-)

Feb-20-13		hms123: <Switch>. Thanks. <b4> is a nice little trick. Worth remembering.

Feb-22-13		Annie K.: <Switch: <And sometimes even traps you didn't set? :-)>> Indeed, sometimes they will even set up their very own traps for themselves, bless'em. ;D Btw, your finger note #2 isn't necessary anymore, and you can take the noescape requirement out of your formula too - nowadays it's enough that you have it set in your own vars. :) <hms: <Subtlety always goes over my head>> Well yes, so far you've managed to duck in time. :p Interesting game, although I think White played it all wrong... ;)

Feb-22-13		hms123: <Annie> How do you think White should have played it? It looked like a lot of book moves on his part at the beginning, followed by some decent moves along the way. I was not booked up on that line with <2.d3> although I have looked at a little. There were points where I was glad to be up on time to think through the position. That was especially true after he played <25.Qxh6>. It took me a while to decide on <25...Nxf2>. Luckily, he didn't have the time to come up with <26.Rf1>.

Feb-22-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <hms> <Annie> Personally, I think White went wrong on move 1 :-) Good luck for round 5 of Reykjavik Open!

Feb-22-13		Annie K.: Totally unlike <Switch>, I don't really think White went wrong until move 2! Heh. Just looks like very passive opening play, that hands all the initial choices to Black, who could then get into just the sort of positions he likes. It's move 10 by the time White actually stakes a claim to determining the course of the game. I like a bit more pressure than that, and subscribe to the "develop with attack" school of opening theory. I learned this from my cat, who firmly believes that it is just about always best to bite first. =)

Feb-22-13		hms123: <Switch> Yes, White should have started with <1.b6>. What was he or she thinking? ;-) <Annie> I agree. All I had to do was make French-like moves. There was no pressure at all. I got to play all the breaks (f6, c5).

Feb-23-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> <hms> Good luck! The King's Indian Attack may look passive and innocent, but there's plenty of hidden venom... at least if games like these are anything to go by :) Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967 J M Hodgson vs Seirawan, 1986

Feb-23-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Another game that definitely wasn't a French. I don't play that opening :s [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.02.23"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2027E"] [BlackElo "1945"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. Nd2 e6 5. Ne2 d5 6. e5 Nfd7 7. O-O c5 8. c3 Nc6 9. f4 g6 10. Nf3 a5 11. Kh1 Qc8 12. Ng5 Ba6 13. Be3 Bxd3 14. Qxd3 Qa6 15. Qd2 Be7 16. a3 h6 17. Nf3 a4 18. h3 b5 19. Rac1 c4 20. Rf2 O-O-O 21. Rcf1 h5 22. Ne1 Rdg8 23. Nc2 Kc7 24. Nb4 Nxb4 25. axb4 Rg7 26. Ng1 Bh4 27. Re2 Ra8 28. Nf3 Be7 29. Ra1 Qc8 30. Ree1 Qh8 31. Ng5 Nf8 32. Rf1 Nh7 33. h4 Kd7 34. Rf2 Rf8 35. Rff1 f5 36. Qe2 Bxg5 37. fxg5 Ra8 38. Ra2 Kc6 39. Rfa1 Rga7 40. Ra3 Ra6 41. Bf4 R8a7 42. g3 Nf8 43. Qd2 Nd7 44. Qe2 Nb6 45. Re1 Nd7 46. Raa1 Qa8 47. Bd2 a3 48. bxa3 Rxa3 49. Rxa3 Rxa3 50. Rc1 Ra2 51. Qd1 Nb6 52. Rc2 Qa4 53. Rc1 Qxd1+ 54. Rxd1 Na4 55. Rc1 Rxd2 56. Kg1 Rd3 57. Rb1 Rxg3+ 58. Kf2 Rxc3 59. Kg2 Rb3 60. Rc1 Rxb4 61. Rd1 Rb2+ 62. Kf3 Ra2 63. Rc1 b4 64. Rb1 b3 65. Rc1 Kb5 66. Rb1 Kb4 67. Ke3 Rc2 68. Ra1 Ra2 69. Rb1 Nc3 70. Re1 b2 71. Kf3 b1=Q 72. Rxb1+ Nxb1 73. Ke3 c3 74. Kf3 c2 75. Ke2 c1=Q+ 76. Kf3 Qc3+ 77. Kf4 Qxd4+ 78. Kf3 Ra3+ 79. Kg2 Qg4+ 80. Kh1 Rh3# {White checkmated} 0-1

Feb-23-13		hms123: <Switch> Nice <not a French> game. It's good that your opponent didn't play <47.Ra3> click for larger view Btw, in similar openings that are definitely not <not a French>, the King's knight goes to e7 and c6 while the Queen's knight goes to d7.

Feb-23-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <hms123: Btw, in similar openings that are definitely not <not a French>, the King's knight goes to e7 and c6 while the Queen's knight goes to d7.> Shows just how large the practical difference is :-)

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