Sorry about that- I can only play a couple of Correspondence games at the same time, and my dance card is full.

Plus I'm a member at <letsplaychess.com> and <chess.com>, so I'm not going to start playing at another game site.

You know I don't even like Correspondence, which makes me wonder why I've been playing it continuously for almost three years.

I suppose it gives me something to think about during the work week when I can't play "real chess."

I don't like <deep chess analysis>.

By that I mean calculating out a multi-ply move tree.

It makes me feel anxious. I don't want to know the answers.

That's why I never use my board or take any notes during a Correspondence game.

I use them to train in "visualizing" to help my OTB skills.

heh- Eddy Grant....

I don't have an <International Master> degree, I only have a <BA Honors English Lit> degree and TESL certification.

I may go to Graduate School, but if I do, I want you to shoot me first.

I spent six years in Undergraduate study. I took two years extra worth of worthless electives that didn't count towards my "compulsory" course count- probably to avoid graduating.

These worthless electives included history, psychology, philosophy, art history, film, sociology, kinesiology, biology, women's studies-ology, and get drunk and play chess in the student bar-ology.

Every single post in this thread is of the highest quality, I can assure you.

Well not this one.

But you have to remember that I have dozens of pages here filled up with "one word per post" posts.

<Quack> would be the "highest quality" one word post.

I just posted the FAWN PAWN game I played last week at <The Euwe Center>.

I spent almost five hours doing this post mortem with my pal and slave <Shredder Classic 3>.

I did this analysis the "slow way."

First, once through. Just looking.

Second, through again with my naked wooden board, pencil and paper

Third, through again with my trusty friend set to <12 ply>.

Please take a look and offer me any opinions/ideas, if you have time~~!!

I know I just imposed on you a few days ago but I promise not to post any more games this week.

<The Dr. Max Euwe Center for Chess Study>:

The History channel is starting another of its fine WWII 360 series. The first followed the Enterprise across the Pacific. This one is on Patton which is the movie you refuse to watch just because I keep nagging you about it. First stop, North Africa vs Rommel.

"Rommel! You magnificent bastard! I read your book!"

Well here's an unusual sight for Korea.

A man in his underwear with tatoos all over his back just finished beating the crap out of his girlfriend right in front of my apartment.

Luckily, I'm on the fourth floor.

This is the kind of thing that happens more in Canada, in my experience.

First time since I arrived here that such a thing happened at my home.

She was lying on the ground and he was kicking her in the stomach.

So I went down and walked towards him, and he grabbed her and walked off quickly, taking her up to an apartment a few houses down from mine.

Since I am a young white woman, I am interdict- if he had laid a hand on me they would have locked him in a dungeon for ten years and he knew it.

So then I started to walk to the local constabulary, since the police cannot speak English and I cannot speak Korean, the phone would have been useless. But I could have told them what happened by Miming and led them to the crime.

Luckily, as I walked out two police cars came in. Someone must have called them already.

Anyhoo four husky Korean lads stepped
out of the cars, went briskly up some stairs and returned with the guy in handcuffs, dragging him on the ground.

They shoved him in the back seat of one of the cars. He started to yell at the police so one of them clubbed him- hard- right on the head.

That shut him up real good.

Then they whisked him off into the night.

I hope they put him in a dungeon now for maybe six or seven years.

They don't mess around with such shenanigans here- the penalties for law breaking are quite severe by western standards.

I don't like this kind of thing. If I'd had a gun in the house I'd of felt like shooting him dead.

Luckily, guns are not allowed in Korea.

You can get 10 years in prison for possession of a gun here- first offence.

Mrs. Lives in Law and Order ville.

This was most upsetting.

In Canada, the police would have driven up, talked to the guy, then driven back home, and the guy would have started beating his girlfriend again.

I lived in an apartment in Montreal where a neighbor guy did that most every night.

I actually moved out of that apartment because the police wouldn't do anything.

I think that <11.Nd2> or <11.Nh4> was better. After <12.Nd2> he missed a chance to play <12….h5>, and after <13.Bb2> he had <13….f5> available. I bet you would have been nervous if he had started a pawn storm on the king-side.

<15.f3> was your best shot at that point in the game. (<17.f3> was actually ok. He doesn’t have much after <17….0-0 18.fxg4 Bxg4>. Of course, neither do you.)

Part Two: The middle game.
<19.Nh4!> Finally.

<21.exf5> I am with <Boomie>--I would have taken with the rook. First of all, the rook is hitting the pawn on <e5> and threatening <Bxe5> as in <21.Rxf5 0-0-0 22.Bxe5>

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This looks pretty brutal.

But after <21.exf5 0-0-0>

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you have a better game, but not much else.

<22.Qe2> was perfectly fine, but now was a chance to go for the <Fawn Pawn> with <22.f6 Nxf6 23.Bxe5 Qxe5 24.Rae1 Ng4 25. Rxe5+ Ne5>

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OR, <22…Bxf6 23.Bh3 Ne3 24.Qf2 Nxf1 25.Qxf6 Rh7 26.Bxe5 Qc6 27.Qf1>

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and you are way ahead in both cases.

For that matter, <22.f6 Bf8 23.Qe4 h5 24.h3 Nh6 25.Bxe5> isn’t too good for your opponent either.

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<27.Qxh5> Whew. Try this on for size: <27.Bd5!> and the game is over.

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He didn’t miss much when he missed <27…Ng4> <28.Qxh8 Nxe5 29.Qh5 Rd8 30.Rde1 Bd6 31.Bd5>

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Part Three: The endgame

<31.Qe2> Ok—so we already know how everyone feels about this. You are way ahead after <Qe2> and (with the exception of <32.Kf2>) you finished off strong and mated the no-good, won’t-resign-when-he-should stinker.

Nonetheless, <31.Bxb7> mates in all variations. As an example: <31.Bxb7 Rc8 32.Qd5 Rxg3+ 33.Bxg3 Nd4 >

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<34. Re1+ Ne6 35.Rxe6+ fxe6 36.Qxe6+ Be7 37.Qxe7#> with the help of the Fawn Pawn.

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I hate to bring up <32.Kf2> again so soon, but <32.Qe5> mates as well.

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For example, <32.Qe5 Rd8 33.Rxd8+ Kxd8 34. Qb8+ Kd7> etc. as in the actual game.

Now I know that someone will say <"what about <31.Bxb7>? Isn't that a pawn snatch too?"> No, it isn't--it is a mating attack!

I just looked over your game and some of the great analysis by yourself, <achieve> and <hms>, looks like I missed the party.

I don't think I can add anything to all this detailed work, but well done on another great game <JFQ>!

I think the players in your Canadian chess club are in for a surprise when you return...

That sounds really upsetting, I think you were very brave to go out and decide to do something.

I'm glad the police came to get the low-life.

Korean law and order may be different to the western variety, but prison showers are all the same.

Hope he enjoys being treated like somebody's property.