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| Sep-01-11 | | crawfb5: <RTFM> -- The modern equivalent of that is <STFW> -- Search The Farflung Web. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grg5... |
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Sep-02-11
 | | Domdaniel: 'Farflung' would make a good German word ... "Scheisse, mein farflung Springer gerloren ist". With a sprinkling of umlauts, natürlich. The irony -- is it an irony or just another miserable fact of life? -- is that many of these people who lack initiative think of themselves as chess players. |
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Sep-02-11
 | | Annie K.: Speakina chess (off topic as that may be), did you, by any chance, take a look at the three blitz games I posted at my place recently? I thought they were kinda cute. ;) |
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| Sep-02-11 | | crawfb5: The unwillingness of others to dig can, on occasion, be turned to advantage. I recently posted a long-winded writeup in my forum of a CC game I played last year. I mention it because even when my opponent resigned on move 40 I was still in my games database! |
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Sep-02-11
| | Domdaniel: <crawf> While I, er, dig your unearned victory against a non-excavator (or possibly just a member of the information-deprived underclass), part of me sees the whole exercise as futile. You, presumably, wanted a game of chess. A battle of wits, assuming your opponent had any. Instead you got a victory, and a rather tedious exercise in clerical accuracy. Though I suppose deciding which game to follow might have been mildly diverting. |
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Sep-02-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> No, haven't looked yet. Tomorrow? There's an inverse relationship between the duration of a game and the time it takes me to get around to checking it out. That's my current excuse, which will seem pretty thin if you suddenly produce a postal masterpiece which took six years to reach the middlegame. |
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Sep-02-11
| | Annie K.: <craw> yeah, that's CC... I've had a similar case with a very highly rated opponent playing White in a knockout tournament game (so he absolutely needed a win to continue to the next round), and yet he went into a variation where I only had to follow a database game to reach a dead drawn position. WT...? :s <Dom> yeah, these things are frustrating, but when it's a tournament game, having an interesting game is not the only consideration, as you know. <A battle of wits, assuming your opponent had any.> Heh!
<That's my current excuse, which will seem pretty thin if you suddenly produce a postal masterpiece which took six years to reach the middlegame.> Heh. I do have a number of fairly good CC games that took the better part of a year... but don't worry, I'm not going to dig them up now. :) But here's a repost of blitz games in question, to save you time looking them up. ;) [Event "FICS rated blitz game"]
[Date "2011.08.22"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "AnnieK"]
[WhiteElo "1081"]
[BlackElo "1540"]
[TimeControl "600+0"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 a6 4. Be2 Bc5 5. b4 Ba7 6. O-O Nf6 7. d3 h6 8. Nbd2 d6 9. Bb2 Be6 10. d4 exd4 11. cxd4 Bg4 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Bxf3 Nxd4 14. Re1 Nxf3+ 15. Nxf3 O-O 16. e5 dxe5 17. Bxe5 Qxd1 18. Raxd1 c6 19. Bxf6 gxf6 20. Nd4 Rfe8 21. Nf5 Rxe1+ 22. Rxe1 Kh7 23. Nd6 Kg6 24. a4 b5 25. axb5 axb5 26. Re7 Bd4 27. Rxf7 Be5 28. Rd7 Ra1# 0-1 [Event "FICS rated blitz game"]
[Date "2011.08.25"]
[White "AnnieK"]
[Black "NN"]
[WhiteElo "1553"]
[BlackElo "1360"]
[TimeControl "600+0"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 h6 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 Bc5 6. Bb3 O-O 7. h3 d6 8. O-O Ne7 9. Nbd2 Ng6 10. Nc4 Ng4 11. hxg4 Bxg4 12. Ne3 Bh5 13. Nf5 Ne7 14. Ng3 Bg4 15. Qd2 Ng6 16. Nh2 Qh4 17. Nxg4 Qxg4 18. d4 exd4 19. cxd4 Bb6 20. Nf5 Qxe4 21. Bc2 Qg4 22. Qd3 (threat of 23.Bd1 traps the Q) Nf4 23. Nxh6+ gxh6 24. Qh7# 1-0 [Event "FICS rated blitz game"]
[Date "2011.08.25"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "AnnieK"]
[WhiteElo "1405"]
[BlackElo "1557"]
[TimeControl "600+0"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. d3 e5 2. e4 Nc6 3. Nf3 h6 4. g3 a6 5. a4 Bc5 6. Bg2 d6 7. h3 Qf6 8. O-O Nge7 9. Nbd2 Ba7 10. Nc4 O-O 11. Be3 Nd4 12. c3 Nxf3+ 13. Bxf3 Bxh3 14. Re1 Bb8 15. d4 Ng6 16. Kh2 Be6 17. d5 Bd7 18. Bg2 Ne7 19. b4 Qg6 20. Rh1 Bg4 21. f3 Bd7 22. Kg1 Qxg3 23. Bf2 Qg6 24. Bh4 Re8 25. Kf2 f5 26. Bh3 Bc8 27. Qg1 Ba7+ 0-1 |
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Sep-03-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Got as far as game #1, move #3. I have a soft spot for the Ponziani - as e4-e5 openings go - but I can't recall seeing 3...a6 before. Is it one of your own? Of course, I tend to think that ...a6 is almost always a good idea. There's 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 a6 in the Sicilian, and 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 a6 in the French, and 1.e4 a6 in everything else. |
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Sep-03-11
| | Domdaniel: There's Marjanovic vs K Mokry, 1986, the lone example of 3.c3 a6 in the database, mysteriously classified as a Spanish. But White has an extra tempo due to playing Bc4-b3 rather than Bb5-a4-b3 ... maybe playing d4 in two moves (8.d3 first) negates it, but I don't think so. Odd. Maybe the machine recognizes positions without noting whose move it is? |
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Sep-03-11
| | Annie K.: Ah, it's all just transpositions to me. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6, my favorite setup is to have the dark squared B on a7 eventually. So the general idea will be to play a6 and Bc5 in some order, to prepare Ba7. Since 3.e3 may be preparation for either b4 or d4, I don't really want to play Bc5 and then lose a tempo with Bb6 before I can vacate the a7 square for it, so I'd rather put off the B move. If now White wants to play 4.b4 or 4.d4, it's without attack, and he's welcome to try - I think I might go for exchanging the pawns on d4, then Bb4+, exchange Bs too if White responds with Bd2, otherwise leave there... after that methinks White would be somewhat overextended and underdeveloped. But mainly it's just that I see these development plans as transposable, and tend to play fast and loose in the opening against low rated opponents. |
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Sep-03-11
| | Annie K.: Also, I normally don't try to simplify at first chance like that, but when I play against low rated opponents, I find that's often best, because (1) many of them are lost without their Queens; and (2) I think I play simple endgames better than they do. ;) |
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Sep-03-11
| | Annie K.: <Why Ba7, you may ask?> Well, you may. ;) First, it's a perfectly sound place for the B to be. But second, it's psychology. Put a B on a7, and it's like you turned it invisible. It becomes another pawn... it's not attacking anything (in the opening), it's not in the way, it's not a target... it just sits there, quiet, unchallenged, <forgotten>. Until everything else changes all around, and the time comes to remind the opponent of it. As basically shown in both game 1 and 3. ;) |
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Sep-03-11
| | Domdaniel: I think a7 is a good spot for a Bish m'self. I once even tried to develop a Queen there, in a French where my opponent seemed to have run out of ideas, and had offered three draws already. So I played Qd8-b8-a7. Sadly, this just gave him something to attack. I accepted the next draw offer. |
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Sep-03-11
| | Annie K.: That's becuz you can't turn a Queen invisible, no matter what you do... ;) So, erm, how did you like the games? =)
PS - <Since 3.e3 may be preparation for either b4 or d4> I meant 3.c3 of course... :s |
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Sep-03-11
| | Annie K.: PPS - oh, yeah, I just remembered that saying something like <you can't turn a Queen invisible, no matter what you do> to you, would just cause you to immediately try to think of ways and contexts in which it's possible to turn queens invisible... sorry, that only means your opponent isn't going to forget where you put your Queen - even the mystical power of the a7 square can't overcome that. It's a Bishopy thing. ;p |
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Sep-03-11
| | Domdaniel: <would just cause you to immediately try to think of ways and contexts in which it's possible to turn queens invisible... > Yep. |
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Sep-03-11
| | Annie K.: Enjoy... :) |
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Sep-03-11
| | Annie K.: Oh, wait... sorry! ;p |
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Sep-03-11
| | Domdaniel: Ouch. |
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Sep-06-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Phew. If you were in Khanty-Mansiysk, you'd have knocked yourself out. Wholly great piece trajectories, Batman ... |
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Sep-07-11
| | Annie K.: Hmmm... splain plz? :) I dinnae get them wefewences. Must be too hot here, or something. :p |
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Sep-07-11
| | Domdaniel: I'm supposed to know what I meant yesterday? Ahhhh ... you have a vigorous style. That do? |
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Sep-07-11
| | Annie K.: I suppose it will have to! ;) |
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Sep-07-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Must admit, I was initially confused by your 14...Bb8 vs NN 1405. Sure, anyone who opens 1.d3 and transposes into a weak cross between the King's Indian Attack and the Reversed Philidor (or is it the Hungarian Attack 1.g3 vs the Hungarian Defence, in disguise?) ... deserves punishment. But I thought I was getting the hang of your modus operandi. Useful little moves like ...a6 and ...h6 when nothing else is going on. Dark square Bish to c5 and a7, yep ... it's in the plan, though there wasn't any pressing need to leave c5. And then b8? With three pawns in the way, the diagonal to b8/h2 is unlikely to open up. So he'll have to return to a7 sometime, and meanwhile you've immobilized your Rook. Why do this? Needless to say, your Bish-preservation strategy paid off with 27...Ba7+, winning a Queen. That's me told. I only wish that more of the 1400 types I play were as generous with material. Some are, but most are dogged little creatures - strategically weak, but they cling to every pawn like it's their last. I usually have to sac something to unbalance things. "When something is happening, play tactics; when nothing is happening, play strategy; and when you're not sure, play ...a6." |
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Sep-08-11
| | Annie K.: <Dom> heh, you got it - those *are* pretty much the principles applying to my play. :) Pawns drop easier in blitz than in slower time controls, to be sure. But a FICS blitz 1400 rating should translate to about 1600-1700 OTB rating, the blitz pool is underrated there. I'm quite pleased with the fact that these days I spend more time above 1500 than under it. ;) Retreating the B to a7 ASAP, even though there was no immediate threat - and hiding it on b8 - work on the same principle: make it look inoffensive, "not worth going after"... and you find that even opponents initially aware of the danger, as this one was, will eventually simply forget about it, as they move on to concentrate on other plans in "more interesting" parts of the board. :D |
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