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| Aug-04-08 | | achieve: From Stellwagen vs M Vachier Lagrave, 2008 we see Stellwagen play absolutely marvelous- very accurate in timetrouble BUT .... then blundering AFTER he made the 1st TC -- he must have been disgusted... POS after 40...Kg7 White to play and win
click for larger viewIt's by no means "easy" - but Stellwagen must have had a drop in concentration, when he played 41 Qxh4?? |
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| Aug-04-08 | | hms123: <jess> brief emu on its way--hms |
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| Aug-05-08 | | achieve: Hi <Jess> Interesting position from GOTD, firstly because a 2400+ player completely flunks the opening and is already lost after 9 moves... And secondly because I played it out against my strong engine, playing powerful positional moves to further restrain Black and end up with a crushing position within 10 moves... BUT
NONE of my moves were first choice by the engine, yet my play was definitely the best ploy IMO -- at least from my point of view, against a computer, although I would have played exactly the same against a human opponent. 
click for larger view 1. Bc4xf7+ Ke8-e7(?)
2. g5-g6 <seems logical, no? And I want a Knight at F-5 ASAP, in order to shut down Black's King-side and have a lasting positional edge, mainly because Black can NON DEVELOP his forces...> 2...Nf6
3. O-O Qa5
4. Nh4 <there we go!> 4 ... Kd8
5. Nf5 <bingo> 5...Kc7 
click for larger viewMy engine gives White LESS THAN A PAWN advantage (12 PLY depth)-- while I already feel Black is <IN RUINS>, as I will show quickly enough. Here we go:
Opening the h2-b8 DSB diagonal in order to further assault the Black king 6. f4! b6
7. Be3 <also a good diagonal, and further development> 7....h5
8. h3 <preventing the pesting <Ng4> 8 ... Ba6
9. Rf2 Rd8
click for larger view<Now planning simply a3 & b4 --- and Black should collapse soon...> 10. a3 c5
11. Rd2 c4
12. b2-b4! c4xb3 <There is nothing else, really...> 13. c2xb3
click for larger viewJust take a look at the immense power in the White pieces--- all the lines and points of attack! YET - the engine's eval has gone from (-0.90) to (-2.20) during this onslaught. 13 ... Qxc3
14. Rc1 Qxc1
15. Qc1+ Bc5?
16. b4 e5xf4
17. b4xc5 Kc7-b7
18. c5-c6+ Kb7-a8
click for larger viewAnd Black has been DESTROYED in fine fashion.
AMAZING how the stupid engine didn't have my moves as first choice --- it obviously was behid its horizon, PLUS it lacks the positional understanding/programming. WHOOPA - I whupped it real good!
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Aug-05-08
 | | Domdaniel: <madlydeeply> -- <never learned about the highlight stuff and guess what I NEVER WILL i PREFER capiTALZ.> If you're going to insist on hanging out here I feel obliged to make some attempt to civilize you. Never mind who else isn't civilized. Exceptions are made for genius and you haven't actually demonstrated any yet. And don't worry about highlighting. (Highlights? Is that why your avatar has a finger pointing to its head? Hairdressing issues rather than brain issues - always a good sign.) Let's just start with "guess what". When you stick "guess what" into the middle of a sentence you *Have* to use punctuation. For example: "I never learned about anything - and guess what? - I never will." Now go practice on your own for a while. |
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Aug-05-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Bon Voyage, ma reine. I'm still hoping that an electronic letter might be emitted, but I've got roadsweeper's block. Like writer's block only roadsweepers get it.
Get it? Aaargh. |
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| Aug-06-08 | | achieve: <Jess> Belle trippe! How was the flight? <NO COUNTRY FOR OLD FENs> So here's a fresh one - I will be posting one once or twice a week. Why exactly? Not sure. I just feel it to be appropriate to do so. Doh. ---
This is a from a game not in the CG database, yet VERY instructional. Sicilian/Maroczy Bind (B38)
POS after: 15 QxQb6 Ndb6 (theoretical argument was on move 12 - I'll give the PGN if you want me to) 
click for larger viewAnd here White has obtained serious spatial advantage, and has a chance to cash in on that advantage, and establish a lasting advantage, probably winning from move 12 already. WHY??
With the proper insight and technique to further develop the advantage, you will find the correct approach. (<VERY> instructive - I learned a lot from just looking profoundly at that position after move 15.) |
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| Aug-07-08 | | achieve: The above fragment of the game I posted, is from a publication called: 'Tactical Chess Exchanges' (1991), by <Gennady Nesis>, a former CC World Champion. From the foreword: "Do you realize, Fischer almost never has <any> 'bad' pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents." --Yuri Balashov (Karpov's second) I am studying from that e-book (PDF) at the moment.
Isn't that something? |
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| Aug-07-08 | | hms123: <jessicafischerking> I was already well aware of the cows, but wasn't sure that was public knowledge. As for crediting you with all other ideas, that document is on file with my lawyer and is ready to be sent to the Vancouver Sun should anything <mysterious> happen to me. Welcome back,
Stephen |
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Aug-07-08
| | Domdaniel: <should anything <mysterious> happen to me.> Me, I'll start to worry when mysterious things *stop* happening to me. Clever move, btw, Jess -- flying out of East Asia just as all the people on steroids fly in. Some type of running'n'jumping contest, I believe. |
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| Aug-07-08 | | hms123: <Dom> I find everything mysterious in one way or another--especially the things that I don't understand. Ah... the tales I could tell... Poetically yours,
Edgar |
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Aug-07-08
| | Domdaniel: <Edgar> Yes ... weren't you sucked into some kind of vortex once? Kitchen appliances can be lethal. A useful rule of thumb is <only wounded fridges eat you/ pop-up toasters won't defeat you>. |
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| Aug-07-08 | | mckmac: <Domdaniel><should anything <mysterious> happen to me.>"...But the desk clerk said, "It happens every day,"
As the stars fell down and the fields burned away.. |
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| Aug-07-08 | | hms123: <mckmck> My thoughts exactly.
Best,
Bob
<Dom> I believe it was a vorpal blade. <snicker snack> <snicker snack> |
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Aug-07-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Hey!
You guys better be studying chess...
Heh first place I went to was the used book store where I got some moldy yellow old books with <BP x KN3> notation. One by <Renfield>.
I believe he was Dracula's assistant, if I'm not mistaken. YOU LAZY BUMS better look at the games <Niels> posted in here. Leave the three puzzles for me though.
If you need to, it's probably better to quit your jobs and analyze <Niels> sparring against computers (two games of them in here). I just think it's the "smart move."
Tessio was always smarter. |
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Aug-07-08
| | Domdaniel: <You guys better be studying chess... > No, we're <watching old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news>. Which is strange as he 'passed away' in 1821. It seems there was an eathquake there... |
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Aug-07-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Wasn't <Reinfeld> a TV comedy about a guy who kept annotating chess games even though he didn't understand them? And nobody minded because his heart was in the right place? Funny, that. |
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Aug-07-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom>
No he wasn't!!!
heh- the book I have is a collection of games that won <brilliancy prizes> and the winning combinations are unbelievable. I've only looked at two so far, and <Seinfeld's> annotations are AT LEAST as good as the "ideas" my stupid 3500 rated Chess Engine comes up with. Actually, since almost all the <brilliancies> involve forcing lines, <Heisenberg> does an excellent job printing them out in that weird notation. Don't forget!! You don't have to be a GM or a supercomputer to see WHY <Stellwagon's> "Qxh4?" loses on the spot in the puzzle <Niels> made for me. And as I reported in his forum, when me and my niece found the <winning forcing combination> that <Stellwagon> overlooked, we felt elated that my chess engine confirmed our findings. And we are not GMs.
You know, it's a really great example that <Niels> found there-- scroll up and have a look yourself.
The position is ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING and occurs at move 42 in this game: Stellwagen vs M Vachier Lagrave, 2008
White's win is an "only move" situation, and the continuation is far from simple-- although it involves forcing moves step by step. I was stuck on it for a long time till my niece gave me the first move and the logic behind it (After Bishop takes pawn here, the Black king has no where to go- so you just have to put it in check after that)-- The forcing line then exploded into my head and my fingers flew feverishily over the board showing her how her idea wins some 10 moves later, in all variations.. Then we spent an hour checking our work against SHREDDER. So you better not say anything bad about <Gruefeld's> annotations again!! |
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| Aug-07-08 | | achieve: <Jess> Don't waste your energy on the old nags. We'll keep studying and discovering all that needs, um, discovering. The last Puzzle is actually quite hard to really pull through til the end... David Letterman's Late Show is being aired here again, with only a week or so delay. I remember watching those shows over 10 years back, and I digged him much more as a talkshow host than Jay Leno--- Leno always came across as 'nervous'. Letterman is cool, though. |
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Aug-07-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Heh. I'm still working on passing myself off as a supercomputer, but I *have* been a kind of GM, practically since birth, as you know. Sadly, not the kind of GM who plays chess very well. I'm still trying to get used to your sudden shift in timezones. It's pretty late by now back in Korea - or do I mean early? I have a Seinfeld book too, btw - Hypermodern Chess, as seen in the games of its greatest exponent, Aron Nimzovich. Or something like that. I quite like it, actually. |
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| Aug-07-08 | | notyetagm: If you do not know anything about <LI CHAO>, the leader after 6 rounds at the World Junior Championship (2008), check out his stupendous mating combination 49 ♖d3-d8+! ♔h8-h7 50 ♖g2-g7+!! against Wang Hao in Chao B Li vs Wang Hao, 2006 from the World Junior Championship (2006). White to play: 49 ?
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| Aug-07-08 | | hms123: <Br'erRabbitQueen> A tasty member of the aviary escaped and is headed your way. Thanks,
Uncle Remus |
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| Aug-07-08 | | hms123: <jessicafabulousqueen> Got it, loved, it, will respond to it. But not yet. thanks--h(aiku)ms |
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| Aug-07-08 | | hms123: <jfq> emu part 1 is on its way--hms |
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| Aug-08-08 | | hoodrobin: (reposted) Hi <jfq>! How's it with Alekhine? Great play great analyses great genius! |
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| Aug-08-08 | | achieve: <Jess> Risking a FEN Flooding Violation, check out this game M Acher vs Chao B Li, 2008 Another amazing win by <young Chao> at the <Junior WCh>, brought to our attention by coach <nyagm> in that stunning mating net a few posts up-- this time with a gutsy endgame; going all out for the central passer from this position after <35 Rxf7 Rxf5> 
click for larger viewJudging correctly the power of the passed center pawn, as well as the power of the resulting Rook vs PPP+P |
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