Recent content by Panzar75

This thread has been kind of dead lately. Here is my round one game in my club championship. It's agaist Jan-Olov Lind (who participated in the Gibraltar tournament recently and had an interesting game against Michael Adams there). He's rated slightly below 2250 and I'm just above 1700. Nedless...

Thanks for the links. I haven't managed to find anything like it in my hours of searching.

With the recent explosion of let's plays I find it strange that I cannot find a single let's play of chess that isn't someone who hardly knows the rules playing against Chess Titans. Isn't there a single person on the Internet that is willing to play a bit of chess somewhere and talk about what...

I don't think practicing a King and pawns endgame will help you that much if you are a beginner. If you are losing against the computer on the lowest level you should probably look to improve rather than look for an easier program. It's hard to tell you exactly what to do with no information. Do...

I don't have any games to share but I was away playing an informal 5 minute tournament today. We were 18 players and everyone had one white and one black game against everyone else. The reason I mention this is that it was the first time I got to play Ulf Andersson. I had two good games against...

As you can see from my games I'm very far from master level. I guess I can see the computer giving a more even performance at that level. I started playing chess at age 9 but unfortunately I have no talent at all.

I dislike playing the computer for that very reason. In my experience it plays the opening perfectly and then makes one or more major mistakes to compensate for it. In the end I came third in our club championship with a 5/7 score. I lost to the two highest rated players (2251 and 1902...

It's harder to realize when they publish the article on other dates than April 1.

So if you ever face the King's gambit as black you can now say "yeah, I had a clear win but I must have blundered there somewhere" as long as you played 3... d6

My results in the league so far has been pretty poor. I am however doing well in my club championship. After the loss I posted above against a 2250 player I have won three games so far. The last one in particular is one where I played pretty well I think. While his current rating is only 1738 he...

This weekend I had to play in our first team due to several of our other players not being able to make it. So this game is from the Swedish Division 2. I was white on board 7. They had an unusually weak team as well so I was actually a few points higher rated than my opponent. A little tired...

But I don't want to play this. As I said before I'm an e4 player. Only reason I played this now is because I couldn't win this game anyway and wanted to see what black plays in this line. That said, if a 2250 player finds it neccessary to sacriface the Queen maybe I should take another look at...

Guess it would have been good to know before the game that the King is supposed to go queenside. Given that I see why the bishop might not be in as much hurry to get out.

That looks like a pretty good idea. If I had only known at the time how hard it would be for me to open lines for trades later on. Still, if any strong players have an idea if the actual position before the blunder is likely to win it would be interesting to know.

Yes, I'm sure you are thinking of the same guy. He's still pretty good but more often coaching juniors then playing himself. I am an e4 player normally but I sometimes play the King's Indian as black against d4 and have had problems against this line with f3 so I figured I'd see what he plays...