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| Mar-14-06 | | Robin01: Still no move. They must be considering our offer. I see they are losing another player. |
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Mar-14-06
 | | WannaBe: <Robin01> They're dropping like flies. =) <Hitman84> <mandar> got your challenge for the tournament, will respond this evening (my time). <RonB52734> weird playing my teammate in another tournament, but I see that you have accepted my challenge. Good luck to both of us!! |
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| Mar-14-06 | | RonB52734: Good luck to you! |
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| Mar-14-06 | | Cogano: Hello again <Ron> & I sincerely hope this finds you well. Thank you for pointing that out & sorry for fretting
-- my anxiety keeps getting the better of me. As for their Kingside thrust, from the time I first joined this team until now, in most lines I posted we were more than able to deal with it, as
long as we're able to get some of our forces there: e.g. King & bishop or bishop & rook. So I fully agree with you. They can do whatever they please, they're just wasting time & prolonging their misery. One way or another we'll either get that draw or they'll make a mistake & hand us a win on a silver platter! :) Take very good care & have a great day. Cheers mate! :) |
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Mar-14-06
| | WannaBe: White has played 53.g4
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| Mar-14-06 | | RonB52734: I think it is sound to not move our pawns here. Our pieces are set up to defend this pawn chain just as it is. Generally, in a 2-on-2 pawn clash, the person who initiates the clash comes out worse for it. I am looking at Kc5 or Bb6 here. |
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| Mar-14-06 | | Cogano: Hello again <Ron> & I sincerely hope this finds you well. First, thank you kindly for putting up the latest position. It sure makes things much easier for me. As for the position itself, I'm a bit surprised, because I fully expected them to check us some more a bit, before proceeding with the pawn thrust. I'll have to analyze the position. But I stand by what I said before. They're just prolonging their misery. They can't do much & they know it. We can more than handle it. I'll get back to you with a line ASAP. As always, thank you, & the others, for your anticipated & continued patience, tolerance, understanding, consideration
& assistance. Take very good care & have yourselves a great day. Cheers mates! :) |
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Mar-14-06
| | WannaBe: <RonB52734> I agree with the pawns not moving. What do you have in mind with Bb6? |
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| Mar-14-06 | | RonB52734: The threat is to follow with Ra7, but since they have several Queen moves that would make this inconvenient, it's likely we'd just go back to Ba7. So, the more I think about it, I think making a credible threat to take the pawn with the King is better. |
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| Mar-14-06 | | Robin01: We do not want to move our pawns. I do not think moving the bishop will help us. Maybe just a waiting move like Ke6 and then see what white does next. I will have to analyze this tonight when I get home. |
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| Mar-14-06 | | Robin01: Or maybe we can start checking again on c2, etc., and then return the rook back to c7 later. Again, we need to analyze this. |
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| Mar-14-06 | | Cogano: I should probably analyze this some more. But right now I'm leaning towards
Bd4. I think our King is close enough to a7 that it wouldn't take us too many
tempos getting him say to b6 to assist the rook. & if they move the Queen to e4 to threaten the bishop, it'd be an empty threat as we can move it to f6. My plan is that if they play h4, we play Ra7: 53.g4 Bd4, 54.h4 Ra7, 55.Qe4 Bf6
The a-pawn's advance is stemmed & the Kingfile advance is stemmed & neither our King nor our rook is aligned with the bishop for them to fork it. As things stand now, they'd need to advance their King to either f4 or f5 as these are the only squares, save for
g6, from which their King can assist their pawn advance there! Do get back to me on what you think of this ASAP, even though we have until 3pm tomorrow.
Because I want us to have maximum time during which to consider our move/plan of play. Furthermore, I'm not sure how available I'll be tomorrow, as I have guests coming over & it'll be a most hectic day. I'll play it as it goes. As
always, thanks much for your anticipated & continued patience, tolerance, understanding, consideration
& assistance. Take very good care & have a great day. Cheers mates! :) |
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| Mar-14-06 | | Robin01: Both 53...Bd4 or 53...Ke6 seem to be okay. Both are sort of waiting moves to see what white will do next. |
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| Mar-14-06 | | Robin01: Actually, as I keep looking at this, I seem to like 53...Bd4 better. Of course, there is not much we can do except react to what white does. |
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| Mar-14-06 | | RonB52734: Ok, I like Bd4 |
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| Mar-14-06 | | Cogano: Hello again <Robin01> & I sincerely hope this finds you well. First, thank you kindly for your vote of support. I totally agree with you. But, reacting to White may not be that bad. In my humble opinion, their position can easily lead them to make an error or be greedy. Thus far, they've proceeded on the assumption that their Queen tips the game in their favour. But having such a
powerful piece can also blind them & can get in the way too. The only thing that I can think of that might be wee tricky is if they keep the pawn at a6 &
try to put both their Q & K near g5 to push through their pawns. The problem as I see it is f4. We can easily cut off the 5th rank to their King, while also aiming at g5 to aid in the capture
there.
But it's quite another story coalescing our forces such that they are "communicating" with g5 while also denying their King f4 & f5. That can only happen if our own rook was itself on f5. But it can only do that with our
King's aid, who's needed to capture the a-pawn. It's too early for that yet, because it'll take them a couple of moves to get their King anywhere near that square. Hopefully, as I mused when I first joined the team, we may be able to capture the a-pawn then head Kingside in time for their pawn push. It may appear as a downside for us to keep guessing at what they'll play next. But I think that's good because we end up covering all conceivable lines & possibilities thus being ready for whatever they care to throw our way! Thank you again for your vote of support. In the event that I'm unavailable tomorrow to vote for myself, you can just go ahead & assume that my vote is the same as yours, since we are clearly thinking along similar, if not the same, lines. Take very good care & enjoy the rest of your
evening. Fare thee well melady! :) |
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Mar-14-06
| | WannaBe: Our current situation may not be the best desirable, but we do have our defence(se?) firmly entrenched. As long as we have a support for the g7 pawn, I believe we are cool. Personally I was thinking of shuffling the rook around, Rf7, Re7, etc. We have to let white do the lead and react. Not the best position, but what the hey! Moving our pawn(s) definitely loses. |
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Mar-14-06
| | WannaBe: <Robin01> I know you asked this on <RonB52734>'s forum, but I did the same thing on my profile (but no FEN) on the games that I'm playing via corrsp. =) Very weird playing one of your own teammates. |
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| Mar-15-06 | | Cogano: Hi again gang. I hope this finds you well. I just wanted to share with you my latest musings -- I sure hope they don't turn out to be delusions! ;) LOL!
But seriously, I foresee problems. Because our bishop must stay on the a1-
h8 diagonal to prevent their Queen from playing Qd4+, forking King, the rook on
a7 & the g7-pawn. So maybe Ke6 is a better move after all. I'm not sure. As
you can see from my line below, our best hope is when WE put a pawn at g5, because then we can play hxg5, as opposed to Bxg5. Here goes:
53.g4 Bd4, 54.h4 Ra7, 55.Qe4 Bf6, 56.g5 hxg5, 57.hxg5 Bxg5, 58.Qd4+. Or 56.Kg3 g5, 57.hxg5 hxg5, 58.Kf3/Qg6+ Kc5.
Or 56.Kg3 g5, 57.h5 Bg7, 58.Kf3/Kf4/ Qg6+ Kc5.
I'm going to assume that they're neither that naive nor will they make such an error. But who knows, we may get lucky. If they push to g5 first, then we're in trouble. If they move their King to get him close to the action to try to tip the exchange in their favour, then we'd definitely win.
Your feedback on this is/would be, as always, most appreciated. Take very good care all & have a great day. Cheers mates! :) |
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| Mar-15-06 | | RonB52734: I'm going to stick with Bd4. Votes, please. |
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| Mar-15-06 | | Robin01: I vote for 53...Bd4. |
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| Mar-15-06 | | AlexanderMorphy: <cogano> hey sorry for the late reply...well we could just post the moves here if you want...or we could use redhotpawn or something...you decide. |
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Mar-15-06
| | WannaBe: Bd4 goes for me as well. |
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| Mar-15-06 | | RonB52734: Bd4 it is. I'm about to go into a meeting that might run past 3, so I'm going to post the move. |
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Mar-15-06
| | WannaBe: Still all quiet... |
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