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Mar-26-10
 | | OhioChessFan: <dom: I somehow wriggled into an ending with four good pawns for a bad knight - but he *did* ask me nicely. > Chess? Digression! |
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Mar-26-10
| | OhioChessFan: Someone stop me. Do you ever think about some fictional event and wish it was true so bad it almost becomes true? |
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Mar-26-10
| | OhioChessFan: Philosophy lesson for today:
http://thechive.com/2010/03/25/dail... |
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Mar-27-10
 | | Domdaniel: <Ohio> - <some fictional event>
Hmm. There's the phenomenon of the self-fulfilling prophecy, I suppose. Or there's religious psychosis - as in Jonestown - where a paranoid prophet makes his apocalypse come true. If by 'fictional event' you mean 'event from a work of fiction', then there are certainly books I'd *like* to see come true. Benign, optimistic sci-fi with a post-scarcity society where everyone is free to express themselves through art or gardening. Which seems about as likely as the scenario outlined by Oscar Wilde in 'The Soul of Man under Socialism'. Wilde alert. Second mention in a row. Guess it's obvious who I'm writing a feature about this week. I find it hard to imagine people desperately wishing that, say, the death of Little Nell was literally 'true'. Yet it's metaphorically true, like much of Dickens. I dunno. Right, I'm off to my digression tournament. That's a counterfactual event I might even win... |
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Mar-27-10
| | Domdaniel: Yo, I think my next game might be broadcast live. Google 'cork chess' or something. Last year, I started this event with a disastrous 0/3. This year I'm on 2.5/3, having polished off a 1960 and a 2170 after my draw with a 2050. Maybe I look so weedy, seedy, reedy, and needy that they think I'm no longer a threat. Or else it's the beard. I probably get one of the 3 GMs next ... top 4 boards are webcast, 1900 GMT. It can't last, of course. But it's fun so far. |
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| Mar-27-10 | | achieve: Of course it can last!! If only for a <pair> of delightful few games. Relish it. Just for the fun of it. You'll be able to look back on this with a smile. Rating up, down, whatever. You're on a good run, don't enhance the expected(?) reversal by programming for failure. YOU ARE HAVING FUN!
Those opposing you are the ones that have to worry. Now shut up and continue to play chess. The "game." |
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Mar-27-10
 | | Annie K.: http://www.corkchess.com/index.php?... Seems to be the place - tomorrow?
Congrats! :) |
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Mar-27-10
| | Annie K.: Black against Gavin Wall.
According to a NICBase search for the last two years, he plays overwhelmingly 1.e4 (although his <last> game was 1.d4!), and has faced the Sicilian and the French. The Sicilian results are mixed; he mostly draws against the French(!). http://www.newinchess.com/NICBase/D... |
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Mar-27-10
| | Annie K.: Ah - today. ;) |
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Mar-27-10
| | Domdaniel: Gavin Wall and I have a sort of theoretical duel in the Advance French ... if you can call it a duel when I always end up lying in the dust. He beat me last year en route to winning the tournament, and he beat me again tonight. Still, all I need is a reasonable Sunday. 2.5/4 is still a good place to be, given the people I've played ... onwards. |
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Mar-27-10
| | Annie K.: A nemesis? Perhaps you could try something different and original against him next time... I suggest a Ruy. ;) Tomorrow is another day. |
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Mar-28-10
| | Domdaniel: <I suggest a Ruy> Might be a step too far: these guys have seen it before, and I haven't. But my rnd 3 win was my 3rd e4-e5 game in 30 years, more or less. It began 1.Nf3 f5 2.d3 Nc6 3.e4 e5 ... Sunday morning. On a performance rating of 2250 after four rounds. Onwards. Excelsior and all that. |
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Mar-28-10
 | | Open Defence: if you have Black then maybe a 3...g6 Smyslov Ruy in homage to the Maestro is fitting.. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 |
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Mar-29-10
| | Domdaniel: Well. Ehhh. That was ... tiring. I finished loss-loss-draw. Very nearly three losses, as I was an exchange down in the last one, but I got it back. It's one way of breaking my run of dispiriting last-round losses, I suppose. And 5 of my opponents were rated over 2000, one was an IM, and I beat a 2170-ish guy for the first time in ages. So it's OK. I think I gain about 50 rating points. Now all I have to do is repeat about five times and I'll be back where I think I belong. This particular tournament - Cork in March - hosted the European championship in 2005. I wasn't even sufficiently interested to go and watch, let alone play. Then something changed: I played in 2006, my first tournament since 1989. And I had the same result as this weekend: won 2, drew 2, lost 2. In the intervening 4 years I lost 300 rating points. It's good to finally get some back. |
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Mar-29-10
| | Annie K.: "Repeat as needed" :) |
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Mar-29-10
| | OhioChessFan: You should have played a Ruy. |
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Mar-30-10
| | Open Defence: another chapter in my bio,
<Rue the Ruy> |
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| Mar-30-10 | | whiteshark: Some lumoresque pictures and more from the Cork Chess Congress can be found here: http://chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp... I dare say it's only a matter of (bad) habit but your Swiss-Armenian Bishop was heavily missed on the kingside in your game vs. G.Wall. :) |
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Mar-30-10
| | Annie K.: An all-around demo on <How NOT To Play Chess> or <Don't You Wish YOUR Opponents Played Like That>: Event: FICS rated blitz game
White: NN (805)
Black: AnnieK (1477)
Result: 0-1
Time Control: 600+0
Date: 2010-03-30
White Clock: 7:13
Black Clock: 7:41
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. Bc4 h6 5. a3 a6 6. b4 Ba7 7. h3 d6 8. d3 Be6 9. g4 Bxc4 10. dxc4 Qf6 11. Nd5 Qd8 12. h4 Nge7 13. g5 hxg5 14. Bxg5 f6 15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. Nxf6 Kf7 17. Nd5 Nxd5 18. Ng5 Qxg5 19. hxg5 Rxh1 20. Kd2 Rxd1 21. Rxd1 Nf4 22. b5 axb5 23. cxb5 Nd4 24. c3 Nxb5 25. Rg1 Nxa3 26. g6 Nxg6 27. Rxg6 Kxg6 28. Kd3 Bxf2 29. c4 Ra4 0-1 White resigns Note: of course my play was pretty bad too. First game of the day - I usually lose the first two blitz games; apparently that's how long it takes for whatever brain functions I use for chess to kick in - but this.... words fail. :p |
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Mar-30-10
| | Domdaniel: Breyer was right. After 1.e4 White's game is in the last throes. And after 1...e5 so is Black's. Seriously, folks, those are important pawns. To be used later in the game -- pawn breaks that prise the enemy apart. Wasting 'em on move one for some illusory development is not good. |
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| Mar-30-10 | | Travis Bickle: Hey Dom didn't Reti say that? |
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Mar-30-10
| | OhioChessFan: I am just the doyen
Of the commentariat
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocket full of mumbles such as Frenches
And Caro-Kanns
Still a man plays what he wants to play
And disregards the best.
Rue the Ruy, rue the Ruy, oh rue the Ruy.
Rue the Ruy, rue the Ruy, oh me oh my, oh rue the Ruy. |
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Mar-31-10
| | Open Defence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHXu... |
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Mar-31-10
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> Great stuff. I've never *actually* played a Caro, but I sometimes think about it for a minute or two. And the ones I *have* played - Pirc, Modern, Owen's/English, Nimzowitsch Def - don't scan so well. The danger of getting pawns on e4 and e5 is ever-present. It can happen in the King's Indian, Attack or Defense versions. Move orders like 1.Nf3 f5 2.e4 e5 have been sprung on me as white in the Lisitsyn gambit. Even in the Pirc, after 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Bd3 - instead of the usual Nc3 - Black doesn't have much alternative to 3...e5, transposing to a kind of Philidor. Hey, I'm not a *total* dogmatist. But the only thing 'best by test' is cricket.
<Travis> I'm pretty sure it was Breyer, Reti's contemporary, who died young. But Reti probably agreed with him. Nimzo, curiously, did not. He liked Philidor's Defence and the Latvian and had lines like Qg4 for White in the French Advance. Speaking of Latvians, just what do they put in the water there? For one small country to produce Nimzowitsch, Tal and Shirov ...? |
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Mar-31-10
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> Cho chweet. |
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