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Jan-21-11
 | | Domdaniel: Somebody oughtta write a book called "Gotcha in the Ruy". What else did Salinger write? "Raze all the e-pawns, Kasparov" ...? |
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Jan-21-11
| | Domdaniel: As for 'Franny and Zooey', maybe this will do: F Teuton vs I Zugic, 1996 |
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Jan-21-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Cute. I reckon 4.Ng5 is a meta-neo-stumperzug ... a Stumper would play it for stumperish reasons, but a computer would prove its worth. That old bore Tarrasch probably just got excited by the realization that Black has better moves than 4...d5 5.exd5 Nxd5? I got Tarrasch's collected games from a library once - they, along with his notes, were profoundly dull. I hadda scribble "Nimzo was right" all over it before returning it. |
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Jan-21-11
 | | Annie K.: Heh x n ... ;) |
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Jan-21-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> good heavens I'm a terrible "lurker"- by that I mean I have failed to lurk here in FROGSPAWN for an insultingly long period of time. Sorry old cock! I missed out on your exciting news.
You scored four on six at the CORK HANDICAP eh? That's run at a mile and three eighths on the turf, if I'm not mistaken. Did mack play too? Bloody good show at any rate. You will get ratings point increase from this no? I came here to thank you for the recommendation- I hadn't heard of that series although Charushin wrote a much, and unfairly, maligned biography of <Charousek> which I did read. I'll have a look for these DVDs you speak of. |
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Jan-21-11
| | Domdaniel: That was all bluff while I looked up amphibrachs and amphisbaenas, of course. But you know that. I especially liked the reference to Nantucket, home of two famous limericks. I know, I know. "If you and ..." But these are clean. Ish. There was an old man in Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket
His daughter, named Nan
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
But he followed the pair to Pawtucket
The man, and the girl with the bucket
He said to the man
He was welcome to Nan
But as for the bucket, Pawtucket.
The real art is getting through that without using a certain other rhyme. |
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Jan-21-11
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> I may have meant that last one for Chez Eyal, but this is the place for amphibians. They're rather like homing pigeons that way, except they can't fly, and they hate carrying messages. Also, loft life is too cool for them. With their three feet, yunno? The tournament was good, thanks. Except for my first round, which was so calamitous I'd have needed to score eight points in the remaining 5 rounds to break even. Several of these events now have a David vs Goliath prize, for lowly types who down a big nob. I've been the Goliath three times now, and it's starting to bring out the Philistine in me. Where's bloody Michelangelo when you need him?
BTW, I followed a link on that Charushin CDRom ad, and it led to Chesscentral.com - who do loads of chess DVDs, such as Roman Dzhinandtonicsvili and his 985 opening diskettes. But I think they've dropped out of historical research. The punters wanted NEW gambits!! -- not old guys with facial hair. |
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Jan-21-11
| | Domdaniel: Hmmm. Maybe they could have a world championship for old guys with facial hair? With Fischer out of the running and Miles gone to the bull-ring in the sky ... Speelman, Timman and Dzhindzi all shaved their beards off ages ago ... it's just me and that guy with the two foot moustache, now, innit? |
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Jan-21-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> You are, as almost always, absolutely accurate. < blitz is very much a "use it or lose it" skill - > ... and I lost it, oh, a couple of years before you were born. Nice try, though. |
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Jan-22-11
| | Domdaniel: I found this game in a rival database, after I'd played a similar one - up to a point - and found nothing comparable on CG. The opening is partly to blame - the tabiya on move 12, which I reached, can be arrived at in countless ways. It's a Symmetrical English/ Nimzo-Larsen vs Queen's Indian/Hippo. My game was agreed drawn in 18 moves. As white, I missed two clear winning plans. One of them is executed here. It's the ultimate in *restraint*. White builds up until he can win the d6-pawn at will ... and spends the rest of the game not winning it, because to do so would free black's pieces and allow counterplay. Instead he just piles on pressure, knowing black can't risk a lost ending. White even goes for a king walk rather than take the pawn. Beautiful. I've uploaded it - and heavily annotated it with comments and variations - but here's a shortish version. Spirit of Saint Nimzo award for, um, 1998. [Event "Tenkes cup op"]
[Site "Harkany HUN"]
[Date "1998.??.??"]
[White "Kovacevic, Blazimir"]
[Black "Csoke, Krisztian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2395"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
1.c4 c5 2.b3 b6 3.Bb2 e6 4.Nf3 Bb7 5.e3
Nf6 6.Be2 Be7 7.O-O O-O 8.d4 d6 9.Nc3 Ne4 10.Qc2 Nxc3 11.Bxc3 Bf6 12.Rfd1 12... Qe7 13.Rd2
doubling on the d-file where black has a weak pawn and
would like to play ...d5 - better than my convoluted Nd2 and Bf3, which led to immediate equality. 13... Nc6
The Knight has fewer options on c6 than on d7 and reduces the scope of the Bishop on b7, but it keeps the d-file clear for heavy pieces. 14.Rad1 Rfd8 15.Qb2
inviting exchanges, but white will keep a positional plus. 15... cxd4 16.Nxd4 Nxd4
17.Bxd4 Bxd4 18.Rxd4 e5 19.R4d2 Qg5
Black's counterplay currently compensates for the weakness at d6 - but can it last? 20.g3 Qf5
The black Queen must defend e5 in case Qxe5 becomes possible, while White has to take care on the a8/h1 diagonal. 21.Qc3 Qe6 (21... h6 would make the back rank safer.) 22.Qb4! Qh3?!
What else? Yet when the LSBs are exchanged White holds all the trumps. 23.Bf1 Qg4 24.Bg2 Bxg2 25.Kxg2 Qe4+ 26.Kg1 Qf3
Now the d6-pawn must fall - if and when White is ready to take it. 27.Qb5
(27. Rxd6!? Qxd1+ 28.Rxd1 Rxd1+ 29.Kg2 would make winning difficult: White is in no rush.) 27... Kf8 28.Qb4
Now Rxd6 is a real threat}
28...Kg8
Repeating the position but renewing the
back rank danger - yet alternatives are worse. (28... Ke8 29.Rd5 f6 30.R1d2 Kf7 31.a4 Qe4 32.Rxd6 Rxd6 33.Qxd6 wins) 29.Rd5!
click for larger view'Lavieren' - tacking - at its Nimzoesque best. White refuses the d6 pawn and keeps his iron grip. Black can do nothing... or can he? 29... h5!?
Luft for the King, and perhaps a chance of an attack. 30.h4 g5
The only chance, desperately seeking counterplay.
31.hxg5 h4 32.gxh4 Qg4+
33.Kf1 Qxh4 34.R1d3!?
White seems determined to ignore d6.
34... Qh1+ 35.Ke2 Qh5+ 36.Ke1 Qh1+
Another offer to repeat 37.Kd2 Qf3 38.Kc2 Qxf2+ 39.Qd2 Qf5 The (double) rook ending is hopeless for black
40.Qg2! White is fully in
control again, has evacuated his king, and can still pick up a pawn at will. 40...Rac8 41.e4 Qg6 42.Rh3!
Finally, we can see d6 not as a pawn to be snapped off - though that possibility prevented Black from reaching a safe ending - but as a blockage, a constriction in Black's game which prevents his
pieces from communicating. Now the Black King is a target. 42...Rc6
Defending d6, but it's too late.
43.Rh6 (43.Rd1 also wins - if black tries to exploit the pinned c- and e-pawns with ...d5, he meets a tactical
refutation: 43... d5 44.Rh6)
43... Qg7 44.Qg4 Kf8 45.Qf5 a6 46.a4
Methodical to the end, but this was unnecessary. Very Nimzo, though.
(46. Rd3 b5 47. Rdh3 bxc4 48.
Rh7 cxb3+ 49. Kb2 Rc2+ 50. Kxb3 wins)
46... Kg8 47.Rf6 Qh7 48.g6
The breakthrough!
48...Qh2+ 49.Rd2 Qg1 50.gxf7+
click for larger view
1-0
50...Kf8 51.Rg6 wins everything
- except the pawn on d6. A masterpiece of Restraint, in both senses. Alternatively, 50. Qh5 mates quickly |
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Jan-22-11
| | Domdaniel: I really, really like that game.
The immortal human bondage game.
This may explain a few things ...
G♘ |
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Jan-22-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Annie's> use it or lose it dictum applies to all the time controls. (hurls chair off the balcony) |
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Jan-22-11
 | | Open Defence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOyC... |
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Jan-22-11
 | | Honza Cervenka: Call for Aneta’s voters! Vote early, vote often!
Dear chess friends! Great final poll of regional daily KLADENSKY DENIK for the most sympathetic baby of year 2010 has started and my little girl needs your support again. The poll is running since January 22, 12.00 CET, till February 5, 12.00 CET. The rules are the same as the last time, i.e. it is possible to send one vote after every 60 minutes from one IP address. If you want to support Aneta, just click on http://kladensky.denik.cz/miminka/m..., flag the name <Aneta Èervenková> in the grey box on the right side of the screen and hit the <hlasovat> button below. If you see a notification “Dìkujeme za váš hlas” (Thank you for your vote) after that, then you have voted successfully. And if you see a notification “Došlo k opakovanému hlasování” (Repeated voting has occurred), then you should try to vote a bit later again....:-D See my chessforum for more informations and thanks for your support! |
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Jan-22-11
| | Domdaniel: Hlasovat have begun.
Aneta should be ready for TaTa 2015. |
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Jan-22-11
| | Domdaniel: Hlasovat znovu, already?
Well, as long as the babe isn't narodili znovu ...
Hlasovat! Aneta! |
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Jan-22-11
 | | OhioChessFan: Vote! Vote! Vote!
I just voted to close the gap to 115-99 |
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Jan-22-11
| | Annie K.: <Dom> great game, that. I love it too. :D <<Annie> You are, as almost always, absolutely accurate.> Pardon, but whaddayamean "almost"? :p
<< blitz is very much a "use it or lose it" skill - >... and I lost it, oh, a couple of years before you were born. Nice try, though.> Ditto dear, ditto. ;)
But you're so busy being contrary and trying to remind me of things I haven't forgotten anyway... ;p that you miss my point: the bad news is that you lose your blitz skills easily. The good news is that this isn't because you're now "too old" for blitz; so you can always regain them. You don't have to, of course. :)
<Jess> well, maybe you could come back to FICS nao? =) Also, that reminds me... as I was saying recently, nao would probably be a good time to ask <Honza> about Czech pronunciations... ;) |
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| Jan-22-11 | | chesstoplay: < Hlasovat round the clock. > Proves you are still one of the best!!! |
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Jan-22-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> - < whaddayamean "almost"?>
I wanted to see how many words beginning with 'A' I could use, as a *hommage* to Accurate Annie. Who is *absolutely accurate* some of the time and *approximately accurate* the rest of the time. Alpha+, anyhoo. |
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Jan-22-11
| | Domdaniel: An Artful Allegation
AndieMold
Autarch
Antipodean Anarchy of Anhedonia
Antarctica. |
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Jan-22-11
| | Annie K.: Hmmm... oh well, ok then. ;) |
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Jan-22-11
| | Domdaniel: Anyhoo, I don't recall saying that I was *ever* any good at blitz. I said that I'd played a lot of it, against strong opponents, while in the process of 'getting good' (relatively speaking) at the longer form. But even then I was (relatively speaking) crap. And I've never, at any point, gone in for blitz tourneys and the like. So it's not rilly a matter of getting old, though I *may* be doing that as well. We shall see. I could do a Yeats and brew up some monkey glands, I guess -- but he famously wrote "This is no country for old men/ The young in one another's arms..." Don't see a problem there m'self, if that's what the young wanna do. Poets are notoriously jealous of everyone else. I can do blitz doggerel, mind you. |
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Jan-22-11
| | Annie K.: <Anyhoo, I don't recall saying that I was *ever* any good at blitz.> Absolutely correct - I noticed that. ;)
Oh, btw, yanno, I currently owe 3 emails to other friends... so if you were to write me, strictly theoretically speaking, of course, you'd be guaranteed <not to get an answer> for several days! Might be worth trying, for the novelty value, d'yathink? :p |
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Jan-22-11
| | Domdaniel: That's a novel idea ... reverse psychology, innit?
One never knows, do one? |
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