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May-05-12
 | | WannaBe: Thought Bodemeister was going to do it wire-to-wire, maybe got tired? 20 horses.is just too much, I am always afraid somebody and horses is gonna get hurt, trying to go through the traffic. |
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| May-05-12 | | technical draw: "And They're Off" always gets the early lead but never seems to finish. |
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| May-05-12 | | Jim Bartle: And Activity is always getting warmed up in the bullpen but never gets in the game. |
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| May-06-12 | | technical draw: And Hopalong is always on the outside and never wins. You hear it in every race narration, "Hopalong the outside..." (this is a true fact joke as one guy I knew actually thought there was a horse named Hopalong) |
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May-06-12
| | WannaBe: "On the Rail" never wins either. =(
But I always bet on the ambulance to come in last, the people at the window never give me my ticket. |
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| May-06-12 | | technical draw: <(this is a true fact joke as one guy I knew actually thought there was a horse named Hopalong)> Now I remember correctly; he thought there was a horse named "Apolonia". |
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| May-07-12 | | Robin01: <WannaBe>You won! with I'll Have Another!! |
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May-07-12
| | WannaBe: Highly fascinating, as (Dr.) Spock would say.
http://gma.yahoo.com/female-breasts... |
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May-07-12
| | WannaBe: Let me translate this for you "YOU DON'T HAVE ANY.", next question. http://www.networkworld.com/news/20... |
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| May-07-12 | | Shams: Scott McNealy walks among us. |
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May-08-12
| | WannaBe: Detroit's tax dollars at work.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technol... |
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May-09-12
| | WannaBe: Time for an eye-exam, when you see Sofia Vergara and you thought it said "Soft Viagara". |
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| May-09-12 | | technical draw: That's pretty cool <Wannabe>. I'll work something out with it. |
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| May-10-12 | | BadKnight: [Event "Team match"]
[Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=172..."]
[Date "2012.05.09"]
[Round "-"]
[White "jivko"]
[Black "h8dgeh0g"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1706"]
[BlackElo "1728"]
[TimeControl "1/432000"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Termination "normal"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7
8. O-O O-O 9. a4 Be6 10. Be3 Nbd7 11. a5 Rc8 12. f3 Qc7 13. Qd2 Rfd8 14. Kh1 Qc6
15. Rfd1 Nc5 16. Nxc5 dxc5 17. Qe1 Rxd1 18. Rxd1 Rd8 19. Qf2 Rxd1+ 20. Bxd1 Qc7
21. Na4 Nd7 22. Qe1 Qc6 23. b3 f6 24. Qc3 Kf7 25. Be2 Bd6 26. Nb2 Bc7
27. Nc4 Ke7 28. Kg1 Kf7 29. Kf2 Ke7 30. Nb6 Bxb6 31. axb6 Qxb6 32. Bc4 Qb4
33. Qxb4 cxb4 34. Bxe6 Kxe6 35. Ke2 h5 36. Kd3 Nb8 37. Kc4 Nc6 38. Kc5 Kd7
39. g4 g6 40. h4 Kc7 41. Kd5 Kd7 42. Kc5 Kc7 43. Kd5 Kd7 44. Kc5 Kc7 1/2-1/2 One of the team games drawn. Hopefully will be able to convert the other one. I will write comments on the game later on. |
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May-10-12
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: 44...g5 would have kept the game going. |
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| May-10-12 | | technical draw: <That's pretty cool <Wannabe>. I'll work something out with it.> That's a nice way of saying I'm going to steal it. |
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| May-10-12 | | BadKnight: <SwitchingQuylthulg> Thanks for the comment. I did not even consider any move like this in the position. i was simply scared to create any outside passed pawn as then bishop might be faster than the knight creating trouble. it looked white can not allow the knight to d4 as then he is doomed, but i did not see how to force it. now i just had a quick engine check, and Massive complications arise after 44...g5 and Mr. Houdini says black is slightly better. Sliding through the engine lines, it feels like i had chances. But there was no way i could have calculated any of these, so i chickened out. I realized i had an easy draw without doing anything so i just waited and the result was a draw. |
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| May-11-12 | | chesstoplay: Hi < WannaBe >,
Do you know who Stan Lee was playing chess against at the end of the Avenger's movie? He looked familiar, but I couldn't place the face.
I've put the question out there in several places and can't come up with an answer. Hope you can help.
TY in advance!
:) |
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May-11-12
| | WannaBe: This is just too funny, can't make this stuff up!
http://news.yahoo.com/not-joke-gove... |
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| May-11-12 | | BadKnight: Time to get new games on gameknot, captain! |
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| May-11-12 | | BadKnight: Here goes an open question to anyone experienced in correspondence games. I have found openings to be huge problems. Its not easy to get a reasonably fighting game. I am not very well versed in opening theory, and i don't want to come out of the opening with a clearly inferior/lost position, so i would have to find reasonably good moves. and that leads us to follow databases very deep into late into the late middlegame, and clearly we are not thinking on our own until very late. Surprise/trick moves are not likely to work because opponent has enough time to work them out. So the main idea is either deviate early from the mainline and enter completely new type of positions, or find novelty in well trodden lines, or enter uncharted territories. In any case, its easier said than done. So the obvisous question is, how to get a game? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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May-12-12
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <BadKnight: So the main idea is either deviate early from the mainline and enter completely new type of positions, or find novelty in well trodden lines, or enter uncharted territories.> Or just outplay the other guy in the endgame and late middlegame! Maybe you can't always get a tactical struggle, but there's no need to let that stop you from winning :) Even in drawish-looking endgames there are still plenty of opportunities left. 44...g5!? in your game against jivko's a case in point... or take the game below, which for the first 21 moves looks like a textbook example of failing to get a reasonably fighting game: goodchessactor - quylthulg, GameKnot 2011
<1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 e6 4. Nf3 c5 5. c3 Nf6 6. Nbd2 cxd4 7. cxd4 Be7 8. O-O Ba6 9. Bxa6 Nxa6 10. Qe2 Nc7 11. b3 d5 12. e5 Nd7 13. Bb2 Qc8 14. Rfc1 Qa6 15. Kf1 Qxe2+ 16. Kxe2 O-O-O 17. a4 Kb7 18. Rc2 Rc8 19. Rac1 Na6 20. Rxc8 Rxc8 21. Rxc8 Kxc8> 
click for larger viewWhite offered a draw hereabouts. Black decided to play on... <22. Ne1 Kb7 23. Nd3 b5 24. axb5 Nc7 25. Nb1 Nxb5>
click for larger view<26. b4?> (likely the decisive mistake) <26...Nb8 27. Nc5+ Kc6 28. Na3 Nxa3 29. Bxa3 Kb5 30. Kd3 Nc6 31. Kc3 g6 32. f4 Bh4 33. g3 Be7 34. h3 h6 35. g4 h5 36. g5 h4> 
click for larger viewWhite is in zugzwang.
<37. Kb3 Nxd4+ 38. 0-1> |
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| May-12-12 | | technical draw: That's good advice Switchy but did you have to use one of my losing games as an example? aaarrrggghh! |
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| May-13-12 | | BadKnight: yeah good advice. I never liked to play endgames much. To begin with, its Alekhine's combinative games that brought my interest to the game. I keep losing interest in the board as more and more pieces come off, and my brain tend to switch off in the endgames. I often assume things are too simple, so horrible things are not likely to happen. But they do. Chess is never simple, and its cruel. In the middlegame a bit of inaccuracy and you often get a chance to make a comeback, but in the endgame a small slip and you are spot dead. sad, but what can you do! |
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| May-13-12 | | BadKnight: Captain <WannaBe>, this is for you.
I am playing two team games now. And in one of them my opponent is throwing the game away. I know the game is currently ongoing so i am forbidden to speak about it until its over, but i just could not resist. i am white, and the game is going on now. My opponent has played a lot of games on gameknot and currently 1750+ rated, so he is not an idiot for sure. 1.e4 f5? 2. exf5 Nc6?? 3.Qh5+ is the current position. As i understand the position is closest possible to fool's mate. I activated two series of conditional moves. 3...g6(only legal move) 4. fxg6 and
a) 4...hxg6 5. Qxg6#
b) 4...Nf6 5.g7+ Nxh5 (only legal move) 6. gxh8Q.
you could/should keep quiet and not correct me now, and let the game go on in case i am hallucinating something, but i believe its highly unlikely. i don't know what else to say. |
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