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Jan-28-06
 | | Sneaky: WannaBe, here's the position Sigma Chess chewed on:
White to move. 19. ?
click for larger viewAfter about 20 minutes it reports that the game is about level (slightly in favor of Black at -0.30) and then gives this line which looks like BS: 19.f3 f5 20.Bb2 fxe4 21.fxe4 Rxh3?! In my opinion it's right, the game is about level after 19.f3, but there is no rook sac unless I can divert the queen so she can't get to g2 in time. |
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Jan-28-06
 | | WannaBe: <Sneaky> Here is what Shredder says after 20 minutes of infinite analysis... 19. f3 Kb8 20. Rd1 Qe6 21. e3 Rxh3 22. Bxh3 resulting in (  -1.36) |
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Jan-28-06
| | Sneaky: I don't understand that line at all. On one hand Shredder seems to think that the h3 exchange sacrifice is looming large, on the other hand it decides that both players should spend a few moves making meaningless piece shuffles? Seems like a contradiction. And what is Kb8 supposed to prevent? Crazy! Of course Shredder shreds me every time we play so it's probably very accurate in its variation while I'm just a woodpusher. Weird though... |
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Jan-28-06
| | WannaBe: I do not consider 1800  player(s) to be woodpusher, now, I on the other hand... |
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Jan-28-06
 | | tpstar: <Sneaky> Here are some games you might consider adding to your Game Collection: Underpromotions Larsen vs C Munoz, 1957
Mieses vs M Brody, 1908
Marshall vs W Napier, 1898
Wiede vs A Goetz, 1880
Aranov vs Karpov, 1962
Kholmov vs K Honfi, 1959
Tarjan vs Ljubojevic, 1969
Petursson vs Damljanovic, 1988
Tal vs Spassky, 1954
Shirov vs Z Almasi, 1996
Adams vs Miles, 1993
K Ruben vs Sultan Khan, 1930
Sajtar vs Benko, 1954
Ashley vs M Bezold, 1997
S Mannion vs K Ruxton, 2004
J Garcia-Padron vs J M Bellon Lopez, 1990
Also look here = http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/... |
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Jan-29-06
| | Sneaky: Thanks tpstar. |
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Feb-01-06
| | Sneaky: From Sajtar vs Benko, 1954, White to move:
click for larger viewI saw an absolutely identical position in a blitz game at the World Open last year. Like blitz players often do, White simply pushed his pawn to the 8th rank and hit his clock without getting the new piece on the table, or saying what the promotion was. The second player hit the clock again and said "Finish making your move before you hit the clock!" He pointed at the pawn and said "What is that?!" The first player, annoyed, snatched a queen from the side of the board and slammed it down with a huge bang, "It's a queen!" he bellowed!! A large smile grew on the second player's face as he stopped the clocks and said "Play again?" |
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Feb-02-06
| | Sneaky: Here's something to make everybody chuckle -- cartoons of chess players! http://www.notzai.com/notzai/galerie/ The Kasparov one is excellent -- http://www.notzai.com/notzai/galeri... Oooh! Scary!! Notice the authentic color of the teeth ;-) |
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| Feb-02-06 | | hitman84: <sneaky>good one buddy !! i was ROTFL viewing this
http://www.notzai.com/notzai/galeri... |
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Feb-02-06
 | | cu8sfan: <Sneaky> I posted an answer to your question about the ♘ endgame in the The Kibitzer's Café. |
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| Feb-02-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <Sneaky> Great link!! I think Topalov's and Polgar's cartoons are also scary..:) |
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Feb-02-06
| | Sneaky: Here's my Fixation tips-- This is for Fixation 2.1.1 for OSX. (Fixation is a chess client for the Macitosh.)
Go to Option > Board and Pieces ...
And pick "Chess Alpha" which is 5th from the top. "Linares" is good too. Most of the others look like crap when you make them bigger. Then go to "White Squares" and pick a very very light shade of grey. The fact that the squares aren't pure white will make the white pieces stand out. Now go to Black squares and pick a mottled light green. Very faded green--but not a bright green. You can turn up the darkness to make it looked faded and dull, but be sure that it is still very very light. This is about the color I have in mind http://www.circa-accountancy.co.uk/... but maybe even a shade or two lighter than that. That's pretty much it. Now when your board opens up on the server stretch it to be as big as you like it. Make the chat window very tiny somewhere off to the side. You're cookin with gas!
Factoid: one of Fixation's best features is a Sneaky suggestion. I told the guy who wrote it years ago that "If it would just flash red when my clock is down to 10 seconds or less, it would put 100 points on my blitz rating." He added the feature (and it did!). |
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| Feb-03-06 | | Joshka: <sneaky> Thanks for the tips about Fixation!! I'll have a look over the weekend!. Oh I also made my thinking process known about that game you were watching me play on the ICC the other night. If you have time, give me your thoughts and let me know if I'm on the right track for improvement?..thanks again for all your helpful comments! and welcome to the ICC!! |
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Feb-04-06
| | Sneaky: My first standard length game on FICS ended in shame and humiliation! OK, it ended in a blunder akin to scholastic matches, but once you see the flurry of wild moves I had to wade through I'm sure you can sympathize. Joshka vs Sneaky (ICC, 60 minutes + 30 sec/move)
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 <I hate this stuff.> Qb6 <I saw Korchnoi do it once, so now I'm hooked. Of course the difference is, Korchnoi know what he's doing...> 4. Nc3 <I used to play ...Nd4?? here in blitz games until somebody pointed out that 5.Nd5! is virtually winning for White. (...Qxb5?? Nc7+)> e6 5. O-O Nd4 6. a4 Ne7 7. Re1 g6 8.
d3 Bg7 9. Be3 Nec6 10. a5 Qc7
click for larger view11. Nd5!? <I could see his idea, so I thought, and I concluded he blundered. I figured that inserting Nxf3+ would spoil his otherwise clever notion.> Nxf3+ 12. Qxf3 exd5 13. Bxc6 <a surprise, but of course exd5 Ne5 and Black is a little precarious, but still up a piece.> dxc6 14.
exd5 O-O 15. Bxc5 cxd5? <I had planned ...Rd8 but saw too late than 16.Re7 would be my demise. The right move here may have been ...Bxb2 to maintain my material advantage.> 16. Bxf8 Kxf8 17. d4 <Another surprise. I almost played ...Be6?? (losing to Rxe6) instinctively here but then I remembered where my king was ;-) > Qxc2?? < I was afraid of ghost threats that didn't even exist, but missed the real threat. My mind was reeling with stupid variations like ...Bxd4 18.Qxd5 Qc5 19.Qd8#. Of course it's not mate, ...Kg7 and Black is better. In fact, Bxd4  according to my computer. > 18. Qa3+ <Black resigns, tricked my a tactic too easy for a Monday! I honestly didn't see that particular check.> 1-0 OK, time to make some coffee and go back for a rematch. Good play Joshka, you mixed things up enough to induce a string of blunders on my part, while your play was very solid. |
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| Feb-04-06 | | Joshka: <sneaky. wow it would have taken me an hour or so to write all that stuff...you rattle if off like a champ!!:-)...thanks...as you can see....lots of my moves were bluffs...thanks for the kind words though:-)....okay...back to ICC, and let's have another :-)..Handshake! |
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Feb-04-06
| | Sneaky: One last note: why didn't I take the pawn offer with 10...Nxa5? No reason in particular. I certainly wasn't afraid of playing that move, but I felt behind in development. Besides, after ...Qc7 the pawn is still hanging, and latent pressure on c2. I thought that I would develop first and win the game later on. In retrospect, if I want to play like Korchnoi, the next time somebody offers me a pawn "for free" I should gobble it up and say "I'm from Missouri. SHOW ME!" |
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Feb-05-06
| | Sneaky: Game #2 in the Joshka-Sneaky match. I prevailed with some flashy tactics to even the match score. 1. d4 f5 2. Bg5 c6 3. c4 Nf6 4. Nc3 d5 5. e3 g6 6. Nf3 Bg7 7. Qa4 O-O 8.
Bxf6 exf6 9. cxd5 cxd5
click for larger view10. Nxd5! Be6 11. Nf4 Bd7 12. Qb3+ Kh8 13. Qxb7 Bc6
click for larger view14. Qxg7+! Kxg7 15. Ne6+ 1-0 |
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Feb-05-06
| | Sneaky: Sneaky vs NN (2 min + 12 sec/mov)
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 Nc6 7. Qd2 Bd7 8.
Bd3 e5 9. d5 Nb4 10. Bb1 Re8 11. a3 Na6 12. Nge2 b6 13. Bd3 c5 14. g4 Kh8
15. O-O-O Nc7 16. h4 a6 17. h5 Rb8 18. Bh6 Rg8 19. hxg6 fxg6 20. Bg5 b5 
click for larger view21...Rxh7+! Kxh7 22. Rh1+ Bh6 23. Bxh6 Kh8 24. Bf8+ Nh7 25. Rxh7+ Kxh7 26. Qh6# |
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Feb-06-06
 | | ketchuplover: Hi sneaky :) If you played a game of chess with God what would you open with as white? |
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Feb-06-06
| | Sneaky: I'd open with 1.d4 and give Him my best game. The problem is that every move I make, He would say "I knew you were going to play that." |
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| Feb-06-06 | | hitman84: <Sneaky>hi nice game against NN
i'd like to play a game sometime when u r free online. |
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Feb-06-06
| | Sneaky: Game #3 in the Joshka-Sneaky match.
Joshka-Sneaky G/60+30sec/move
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 a6 <The O'Kelly Sicilian. My way of avoiding the Bb5 Sicilians that I feel unprepared for.> 3. a4?! Nc6 <Imagine that the game started 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6. Who in their right mind would play 3.a4 there? Yet, this is what we now have, by tranposition.> 4. c3! <I like this move for White. It *almost* makes up for that a4 push. Here's my thinking: the flaw in the O'Kelly Sicilian, if it has a flaw at all, is that the pawn is pushed to a6 before it's established that it really needs to be there. So White would do best bringing the game into a position where a6 is not such an important move for Black. In 90% of all Sicilians, a6 is a fine move, but in the Alapin (the c3-Sicilian) it's not so important. So Touche!> d5! <I had in mind the normal Alapin moves: 1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5! After exd5 Qxd5 Black's queen is not so poorly placed, as no knight can just hop to c3 and embarass her.> 5. Qe2?! <Still, if Black is willing to toss his queen in the center of the board like that, you ought to make him do it. So I think exd5 must be better> dxe4 6. Qxe4 Nf6 7. Qc2 e5 8. d3 Bf5 9. Nbd2 Be7 10. Ne4 Nd5 11. g3 Qa5 12. Bd2 O-O-O?! <risky risky, castling right into a pawn storm, with an enemy bishop about to be fianchettoed against my position> 13. Bg2 c4!? <I make a bid for counterplay, right or wrong, because if things progress normally, my attack is much slower than his> 14. O-O cxd3 15. Qxd3 Nf4 
click for larger view<I think White missed a winning shot here with 16.Nd6! Kc7! (...Rxd6? 17.Qxf5+ Kb8 18.gxf4 wins a piece) 17.Qxf5 Nxg2 18.Ne4!> But instead...
16. Qc2? Nxg2 17. Nd6+ <still not a bad idea, but too late to win a piece> Rxd6 18. Qxf5+ Kb8 19. b4? <this is what a I call a 'fair wind'...White spends a tempo to force me to play the move I wanted to play anyhow> Qd5 20.Kxg2 Rf6 
click for larger view<there is no defense> 21. Qg4 h5 22. Qxg7 Qxf3+ 23. Kg1 Rd8 24. Be3 h4 25. b5 h3 0-1 |
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Feb-06-06
| | Sneaky: NN-Sneaky (2 min + 12/sec)
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 a6 6. Nd6+ Bxd6 7. Qxd6 Qf6 
click for larger view<A critical position in the Lowenthal-Sicilian. I've seen that White queen now make 9 different moves here.> 8. Qc5?!
<Make that 10.>
d6 9. Qc3 Qg6 10. Nd2 Nf6 11. Qd3 O-O 12. g3 d5! <Black is more developed and is opening lines before White gets to safety. How did this guys game just crumble like this??> 13. Bg2 dxe4 14. Nxe4 Bf5 15. Nxf6+ Qxf6 16. Qe2? <My computer finds 16.Be4 as an only move albeit still uncomfortable.> Nd4 
click for larger view<No defense.> 0-1 |
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Feb-06-06
| | Sneaky: <hitman84> I'd love to. I have to run right now but the evenings are usually good for me. Do you use FICS, ICC, or something else? |
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| Feb-06-06 | | hitman84: <Do you use FICS, ICC, or something else>i use playchess maybe we can play on yahoo. |
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