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Mar-31-10
 | | Annie K.: Cho c-h-l-o-w.
Why does this guy have to take FOREVER to say that... errr, what's he saying, anyway? Oh, that he doesn't like quick things. ...oh. :p
<Dom: <<Ohio> Great stuff>> I'll second that. :) |
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Mar-31-10
 | | Domdaniel: <mack> In 2008 you posted a typically paranoid chemically-saturated request for info re Johnny Joyce. As a fellow dabbler, I took my time in responding. You might even like the opening. [Event "Cork masters op"]
[Site "Cork"]
[Date "2010.03.27"]
[Round "3"]
[White "McCarthy, Gerry"]
[Black "Joyce, John"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "1717"]
[BlackElo "2172"]
1.Nf3 f5 2.d3 Nc6 3.e4 e5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Be2 Bb4 6.Bd2 d6 7.O-O Bxc3 8.bxc3 fxe4 9.Ng5 exd3 10.cxd3 Qe7 11.Qb3 Nd8 12.Bf3 h6 13.Ne4 Be6 14.Qa4+ c6 15.d4 exd4 16.Qxd4 Nxe4 17.Bxe4 O-O 18.Rae1 d5 19.Bc2 Qd7 20.Re3 Nf7 21.Rg3 Ng5 22.Bxg5 hxg5 23.Rxg5
b6 24.Qd3
1-0
I like a man who knows when to resign. I *would* have won this anyway, even if the engines say I was 'only' +1.75 or so at the end --- 24...Rf6 clings on for black, though white wins a pawn and the exchange. Funny, those evals. In another game I was +3.5 and accepted a draw offer. Some folk seem to think there's a little LCD beside the board that tells you how you stand. |
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Mar-31-10
| | Domdaniel: Coincidentally, the first of John Joyce's games in the CG database is a draw with Tony Miles. So would mine be if I hadn't mislaid the score. |
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Mar-31-10
| | Domdaniel: <whiteshark> Yes. You're right. I think it's safe to say that b6 is not an ideal square for black's DSB in the French (though I could show you some worse ones). In this case, though, I *won* a game with a Bb6 in the Advance French in Round 2, and had actually discussed it with G. Wall before we knew we were playing one another. Our previous Advance game began 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Qb6 5.Nf3 Bd7 ... the Wade variation, where the LSB goes to b5 to exchange itself for its dangerous opposite number. Wall played the sharp line with an early c4, and won. This time I deviated with 4...Bd7, but I'd probably have transposed back with ...Qb6 next move. His 5.dxc5 made sure I didn't get the chance. And when the bishop has to retreat after b4, *every* square has disadvantages. At least on b6 there are targets on d4 and f2, if you ever get the chance to hit them. Admittedly it makes the thematic ...f6 harder to achieve. Swings and roundabouts. Chess. |
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| Mar-31-10 | | Red October: sacre bleu! but thee Queen shee beelongs on bee seex no? |
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| Mar-31-10 | | dakgootje: I wonder, I just played through your game vs John Joyce and I could not help but wonder whether 23. ...Bf5 would have been much better? Truth be told, I am tired enough to initially read the name as James instead of John and I had to double-check some moves so maybe the suggestions I make in the current state of mind should not be taken too seriously.. especially since the wooden board seems to lack the option of telling me which move wins and give an eval.. In any case, as I was saying, it seemed to me like 23. ...Bf5 does a terrific job of blocking virtually your whole attack. Heh, off to bed now :/ |
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Mar-31-10
| | Domdaniel: <Reddi> Ouais, c'est vrai. But La Dame she 'as La Versatilite, she adapt. Ze Fou Bishop never adapt, nesspah? |
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Mar-31-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> We got two kinds of slow, glacial and geological. You mayfly biologicals just don't get deep time, but time's my business. I'd have made a great bureaucracy if I had any services to provide. |
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Mar-31-10
| | Domdaniel: <dak> Yeah, his 23rd move was a blunder -- I'm not pretending to have played a brilliant attack, or anything. I sac'd a pawn, got it back, he blundered and resigned. |
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Mar-31-10
| | Annie K.: Wheeee! Hear This O Frog's Pawn - you gotta check this blitz game out! =) It was insane, it was unsound, it was tactical... it was FUN! :D Event: FICS rated blitz game
White: NN (1541)
Black: AnnieK (1459)
Result: 0-1
Time Control: 600+0
Date: 2010-03-31
White Clock: 1:0.
Black Clock: 4:11
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 h6 4. O-O a6 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Bc5 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. Nc3 Ne7 9. Kh1 O-O 10. Bd3 Bb7 11. Qg4 Bc8 12. Bxh6 Ng6 13. Bg5 Qe8 14. f4 d5 15. Qh5 Bd7 16. Rae1 d4 17. Na4 Bb4 18. c3 dxc3 19. bxc3 Be7 20. e5 c5 21. Nb2 Bb5 22. c4 Bc6 23. f5 Bxg5 24. fxg6 Bh6 25. gxf7 Rxf7 26. Rxf7 Qxf7 27. Bg6 Qf2 28. Rg1 Qxb2 29. Bf7 Kh8 30. Qf5 Rd8 31. Qg6 Bb7 32. Qe6 Qxg2 33. Rxg2 Rd1 0-1 White checkmated |
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Apr-01-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> I have to applaud your come-and-get-me strategy with ...h6 and ...a6, even though it's lunacy in an open position. F'rinstance, 8.Bxf7+ is nasty. I don't even have to feed it to a machine to see wins for white early on. *But*. Once you'd survived being dead - white made too many 'obvious' developing moves, a typical bad habit of 1.e4 players - you polished him/her/yt off rather nicely. The middlegame reminds me of positions arising out of Anti-Dutch lines where white plays Bxf6. Black seems to be in trouble, but the bishop pair are defensively strong. And then they switch to attack mode ... Nice mate. |
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Apr-01-10
| | Domdaniel: Of course I can't play blitz. At all. I can still play blindfold, however. Must try a blindfold simul again sometime -- in the 80s I scored 2/3 against weaker but competent players. I think it's a function of extreme shortsightedness -- you learn early on to do things without looking. |
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Apr-01-10
| | Domdaniel: ... there is *eye* ... there are the *others* ... |
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Apr-01-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> I'm trying to think of quick things I like. Photons aren't bad. |
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Apr-01-10
| | Annie K.: Thanks for the game comments! Yeah, 8.Bxf7+ would have been ouchy, and yeah the opening was slightly nuts... ;) but I play dozens of blitz games a night when I settle in for a session, and for variety, some of them are going to be less sane than others. I also have fun trying to defend lost positions. :) I can't do blindfold - no memory for it.
<Dom: <Photons aren't bad.>> etc. Hee hee... ackshully, I was only referring to Deffi's link - Chet Baker's rendition is, I think, the slowest version I've ever heard of that song... I didn't have anything else in mind, honest! :p |
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Apr-01-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> In that case, you should lurv John Cale's magisterial interpretation of 'Heartbreak Hotel': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L8q... Hmm. YouTchoob has ... changed. |
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Apr-01-10
| | Domdaniel: The straight piano version is good too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Bn... I first saw him do it like this in 1982. |
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Apr-01-10
 | | Open Defence: I like the Piano version... the guitar riff version sounded too bourgeois |
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Apr-01-10
| | Annie K.: Ah. He's not in a hurry either, is he? :p
I liked the piano version too. But in a pinch, I think I'd still prefer Elvis. ;) |
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Apr-01-10
| | Open Defence: <Ohio> should be thrilled ;p |
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Apr-01-10
| | Domdaniel: I'm off on a Cale kick again ... two more of his best songs from his best period: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RjO... |
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Apr-02-10
 | | OhioChessFan: <dom> I played your game over but misread 8. bxc3 as Bxc3 and 11 fairly reasonable moves later, (20..Nf7 was the blunder) you missed a mate in one. <Annie> you have great taste. |
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Apr-02-10
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> - < you missed a mate in one>
That alternative universe could be true: I was that soldier. In round 5 last week, one of the last games to finish, I've got 7 mins and my opponent has 2, I've been a pawn down and got it back ... just the point where a normal person turns the tables and goes for a win. I got panicky and put my queen en prise. One of the spectators reeled away saying "I could beat you with a damp towel" ... or something. I was frozen rigid with shock. |
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Apr-02-10
| | Domdaniel: An unusual Queen sac. I had to *murder* something, so I set Fritz to play like a drunken idiot and proceeded to rip it apart. I took about 20 moves: a more aggressive type could have done it in ten. Note how White, in the following diagram, has played wimp moves like c3 and Bg2. Old habits die hard. This was actually a sideline I saw afterwards. In practice, the immediate discovered check is just too big a temptation ... I'd probably play 1.Nxf6+ or 1.Ng5+. 
click for larger viewBut the killer move, forcing mate, is 1.Qe6+! -- then the knight move is a double check and mate follows. 1.Qe6+ Kxe6
2.Neg5+ Kd5
3.Ne5#. |
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Apr-02-10
| | Annie K.: <a normal person>
Just another urban legend. :p
OW. Stress moves in - well, painful rather than mysterious - ways. :\ <Ohio> thanks. ;) Elvis is an old favorite. Random music poll, folks: who likes Elvis, the Beatles, Queen, Cliff Richard, Elton John, Belinda Carlisle, Dean Martin, Lynn Anderson, Modern Talking, Baccara, A-Ha, Gary Puckett, Simon & Garfunkel and Aqua? Yes, I use the word "random" advisedly. ;) |
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