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Still on vaca from chess.com (should get back on top of my games there Monday or Tuesday of next week).

In the meantime I played in a tourney today. Single-round-robin Quad. $10 to entry, $25 to the winner of each quad. There was a turnout of 24 people and I was the 4th highest rated which put me last in the top quad (I was 1677 vs. a 1730 and two 1800+'s.)

My first game was a mess. I castled longer into a elementary knight-fork (of the two rooks). I was playing way too fast, even for G-30 and was very annoyed with myself for that one but decided to play on & see if I could compensate with activity. Amazingly, I was able to do just that & in the end we reached a position where I had 5 pawns & a bishop vs. his 7 pawns & a bishop. However, he had two doubled pairs of pawns that weren't going anywhere. However, he still had a win that involved saccing one of his pawns but he didn't see it & agreed to a draw!

(will post this one later probably)

Second game started off much more active than my opponent & ended up getitng in a combination early that would have won a rook for a knight. However I tried to get fancy & when the smoke clearer I'd given up two knigths for a rook. Again, I was more active though & managed to cramp black up. As happens in game thrity we reached the endgame both in time trouble. I sacced a pawn for activity (probably unsound in a longer game) and won back a piece, doubled my rooks & left him helpless to resist. With my two minutes vs. his eight he tried though but I mated him without still two minutes left (5 second incrament).

The last game was my best & my shortest & the only one I got in full on paper (others I fell below 5 minutes on my clock 10-20 moves before the game ended) so I will post it here.

[Event "ATKM Quad"]
[Site "ATKM"]
[Date "2009.8.20"]
[White "Narz"]
[Black "Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "1677"]
[BlackELO "1730"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. f4 O-O 8.
Bd3 f6 9. Nf3 c5 10. Nb5 Na6 11. c3 cxd4 12. cxd4 fxe5 13. fxe5 Nb4 14. O-O
Nb6 15. Nd6 Nc6 16. Qc2 h6 17. Bh7+ Kh8 18. Nh4 Rxf1+ 19. Rxf1 Nxd4 20. Ng6+
Kxh7 21. Nf8+ 1-0

Notes : at move nine I took about six minutes to move, I was thinking of bringing my queen out but saw no definitive attack so went with Nf3 instead. 10. Nb5 may have been an inaccuracy. Move 13, 14 & 15 (black's three knight moves) really allowed me to develop initiative. You just can't get away with moves like that when your opponent has more space! After 16. Qc2 black doesn't have time to go back to b4 with his knight, he's got threats to worry about. Probably best is g6 for black after which I can play (maybe) a6 & I'll have a better game but the more "natural" looking h6 gave me a beautiful combination.

I made this cool animated GIF of the game with this site!

Convincing game, maybe you do belong in the 2300's on chess.com.

I never posted any games from my second week at the swedish championships so here is one of them. This one is from game 3. I had seen he played the Caro-Kann so I had prepared a little bit and we played the first 11 moves in less than a minute.

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nf3 Nd7 7. Bd3 Bxd3 8. Qxd3 Qc7 9. O-O Ngf6 10. Re1 e6 11. c4 Rd8 12. Bd2 Bd6 13. Nf5 O-O 14. Nxd6 Qxd6 15. Qc2 c5

I played Qc2 to aviod c5/e5 followed by taking on d4. Seemed like a reasonable square for the queen as it would take a few moves for one of the knights to harass her.

16. dxc5 Qxc5 17. Be3 Qc7 18. b3 b6 19. h3 h6

Preventing Ng4 looked like an idea at the time.

20. Rad1 Rfe8 21. Bd4 Kf8

Strange move, not sure what the idea could be.

22. Bb2 Nd5

Okay, I can't take the knight but what about Qh7? Why is he allowing this? I decided to go for it.

23. Qh7 N5f6 24. Qh8+ Ke7 25. Qxg7 Rg8 26. Qxh6 Rh8

I looked long and hard at Rxe6+ which turned out to work but I couldn't see everything so decided not to go with that. I did not see that Rxd7 was also a good possibility.

27. Qe3 Rdg8 28. Ne5 Qb7 29. Qf3 Qxf3 30. Nxf3 Rxh3

So I had to give one pawn back, that still leaves me with an extra pawn. I felt I had a good position here.

31. Bxf6+ Nxf6 32. Kf1 Rh1+ 33. Ke2 Rh5 34. g3 Ne4 35. Rd3 Rf5 36. Red1 Nc5 37. Re3 a5 38. Re5 Rf6

Here he offered a draw, I saw no reason to accept at this point.

39. Nd4 Rc8 40. Rc1 Rxf2+

I was a little low on time towards the end of the first time control, I had about 6 seconds left on the clock for the 40:th move. I just tried to make a move that didn't lose anything. Sadly I played the move that did just that. After Rxf2+ I realized my easy win might now be an uphill struggle for a draw.

41. Kxf2 Nd3+ 42. Ke3 Nxe5 43. Ne2 Rd8 44. Rc3 Rg8 45. c5 Ng4+ 46. Kf3 Ne5+ 47. Ke4 Rg4+

I missed this tricky move where I have to retreat again. Still, while being cute he's not making any particular improvements.

48. Ke3 bxc5 49. Rxc5 f6

Rg5 was a way to keep the pawn. I did not see that in the game and apparently neither did he. So, I have now clawed myself back into the driver's seat once again a pawn up.

50. Rxa5 Nc6 51. Rh5 f5 52. Rh4 Rg8 53. Rc4 Kd6

I couldn't quite see how to proceed. In the end I decided to let the King guard my pawn so I could use both my pieces.

54. Kf2 Ra8 55. a4 Rb8 56. Nd4 Ne5 57. Nb5+ Kd5 58. Rd4+ Kc5

A more elegant way to play is b4 here immediately.

59. Rh4 Nd3+ 60. Ke3 Ne5 61. b4+ Kb6 62. Rd4 Ng4+ 63. Ke2 e5

Lets me win another pawn. Now I was sure I wouln't lose but not completely sure I had enough to win.

64. Rd6+ Kb7 65. Rd7+ Kc6 66. Rf7 f4 67. gxf4 exf4 68. Rxf4 Re8+ 69. Kd2 Ne3 70. Rf6+ Kd7 71. Rd6+ Kc8 72. Rd3 Nc4+ 73. Kc3 Re4

So, I can choose to get the ending with rooks 2 pawns up (Nd6+) or knights 2 pawns up (Rd4). I took the knight ending.

74. Rd4 Rxd4 75. Kxd4 Nb6 76. a5 Nd7 77. Nc3 Kb7 78. b5 Nb8 79. Na4 Ka7 80. Nc5 Ka8

I guess I was winning no matter what but getting a position where his knight can't even move made it very easy.

81. Kd5 Ka7 82. Kd6 Ka8 83. b6 Na6 84. Nxa6 Kb7 85. Nb4 Kb8 86. a6 Ka8

Hoping for Nc6 I presume.

87. b7+ Ka7 88. Nd5 Kb8 89. Nf6 Ka7 90. Kc7 {black resigns} 1-0

Winning this after blundering at the time control was one of the two key events that allowed me to win the group in the end.

Panzar75 said:

Convincing game, maybe you do belong in the 2300's on chess.com.

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You won't say so when you see my first two games of the quad. (which I will post now that I know you're still here ).

Nice win BTW, I played it out! He sure made you work for it!

My first two quad games :

Game 1 (I am black) :

1. d4 d5 2. e3

shoot, already out of the book

... Bf5 3. Bd3 Bxd3 4. cxd3

I thought Qx was better.

... Nf6 5. Nf3 e6 6. Nc3 Bd6

already a very bad move by yours truly, now white can play e4 which a much better game

7. O-O c6

but white doesn't play e4, so I play c6 to at least aviod a forced exchange if white now plays e4, still I think I am already worse.

8. Ne5 Nbd7

and yet still white doesn't play e4! I feel lucky.

9. f4 h5

most accurate? I don't know, I'm feeling uncomfortable & wanting to make him feel the same on his kingside.

10. Bd2 Qb6

again, dunno if this was most accurate but just trying to annoy him & place my pieces somewhat well.

11. Rb1 h4

looks strange but I'd like to ideally be able to place my knight on h5 & then g3 if he plays h6.

12. h3 ...

he plays it! my position seems to be shaping up at least somewhat the way I wanted. however if I play Nh5 right away he can bring his queen to g4 which frightens me so I decide the best way to continue is to...

...first castle to safety

... 0-0-0

13. Nxf7 Bc7 14. Nxd8 Bxd8 15. Na4 Qc7 16. Nc5 Nxc5 17. dxc5 e5

now down an exchange & a pawn (though a mistake even 1200's rarely make). not sure how objectively good e5 was here (probably not very) but I want to open up my queen a bit more.

18. Bc3 d4

I liked this move, trying to give him a bad bishop (though if he sacs a pawn with d5 I'm probably just losing).

19. exd4 exf4 20. Qf3 Nd5 21. Rbe1 Bf6 22. Re4 g5 23. Rfe1

certainly doesn't look good for me

23. ... Qd7

protecting the e8 square & letting white trade queens if he wants to.

24. a3 Rg8 25. Qg4 Qxg4 26. hxg4 Ne3 27. R1xe3 fxe3 28. Rxe3 Rd8

after initial hesitation he goes in for it & then, surprises me by giving back the exchange. I now think I have drawing chances!

29. Re4 Rd5 30. Kf2 Kd7

Kd7 probably not the most accurate. here I am very short on time though.

31. Ke3 b6 32. b4 b5 33. Be1 Kd8 34. Bf2 Rd7

The game went on for twenty or so more moves but my opponent couldn't find a win. I traded rooks & probably shouldn't have. The endgame featured the two roving bishops & my king on e6 with his on e4. Pushing d5 with check would've led to a won game for him but he was afraid to do it for some reason, wrongly calculating it as not good). After exercising our bishops for a dozen moves or so he accepted a draw. I was amazed to have survived!



Will post the next game in a new thread just in case I lose all this typing somehow!

Game two. A blunderful swindle.

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. cxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Nge2 Qc7

His opening play is not exactly striking terror in my heart.

7. f4 g6 8. d5 Nd8 9. Be3 Bg7 10. Rc1 Bd7 11. Nd4 a6

I scoff at a6!

12. Ncb5 Qa5+ 13. Bd2 Qb6

so far so good but now I go astray...

14. Nc7+ Kf8 15. Be3 Qb4+ 16. Bd2 Qxd4 17. Rc4 Qa7 18. Nxa8 Qxa8

Ugly! What was I thinking, you ask? I guess I was giving him a chance to overlook my coffeehouse threat & lose right then and there. But instead I lose time & also two pieces for a rook. I'd probably still play 17. Rc4 again though because allowing him to demolish my center (and probably lose the 2nd knight anyway) would be no good.

19. Qc2

another less than exceptional move I think, making a battery of queen & dark squared bishop with Qc1 probably better.

... Qa7 20. Bd3 Ng4

feeling pretty hopeless now

22. Qe2

dunno how good or bad this was, just trying to survive & didn't want to spend too much time on this move, time I wouldn't have later.

... Nf2

excepted Ne3 but then I saw his plan, to skewer with the bishop on b5. however that would be no good due to Qxd4

23. Rf1 Nxd3+ 24. Qxd3 Bf6

the threat renewed but I aim not to give him time to carry it out.

25. Be3 b6

an ugly looking move, probably moving the queen would've been better

26. Qc2 Bb5
27. Rc7 Nb7

another ugly move, now the queen is pinned all over the place

28. Rf2 a5 29. a4 Be8 30. e5

These moves made with just a bit over five on the clock. I barely calculated e5 at all, I figured if I wanted to have any chance at a win I had to open the position so without having much time to think I just acted, figured damned if I don't, maybe if I do but what the hell!

... dxe5 31. fxe5 Bxe5 32. Bh6+ Bg7 33. Qc3 Rg8 34. Bxg7+ Rxg7 35. Qe5

and now, amazingly (I think, haven't run this thru a comp), I am now winning in all lines. I had just a precious few minutes left here (I copied to here from my opponent's scoresheet after the games were all over) and, OTB, I did not see the immediate win after f6 but had he played it I think I would've been able to get it in three minutes. Instead he played something else (which I don't recall) and I mated him about 15-20 moves later. A wild game & a very imprecise one on my part.

Even though I won this quad I'm going to have to step up my game manyfold to be able to compete against experts. Then again I have the excuse of G-30 which is not my strong suit. Needless to say the only game I'm particularly proud of is my third (posted first).

Narz's Game 1



Narz's Game 2



And here is the other key game for me in the Swedish championships week 2. The very next round I managed to salvage a draw from a completely lost position. I got nothing but problems out of the King's Indian Attack as usual. I don't know why I keep playing that. I'm white.

1. e4 e6 2. d3 Nc6 3. Nf3 d6 4. g3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O Nge7 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. Rb1 a5 9. a4 Nb4 10. Nc4 b6 11. Re1 Bd7 12. c3 Na6

My plan was obviously to play Bb2 from the start but his odd play effectively prevented that.

13. d4 f6 14. b3 e5 15. dxe5 dxe5 16. Ba3 Re8 17. Ne3 c6 18. Re2 Qc7 19. Rd2 Rad8 20. Qe2 Nb8 21. Rbd1 Be6

I missed a tactic here beginning with Qc4+ but tactics isn't my strong suit it seems.

22. Rxd8 Rxd8 23. Rxd8+ Qxd8 24. Qd2 Qe8 25. Qd6 Kf7

I figured I had something going here seeing as instead of exchanging queens he allowed me to penetrate with mine.

26. Nd2 Bf8 27. Qc7 Nd7

Still, I could find nothing decisive. So I figured I would try to grab the pawn.

28. Bxe7 Qxe7 29. Qxc6 Qa3

Truth be told I did not calculate very deeply before going into this position. Now I started to look more closely and was horrified how there seemed to be nothing I could do to avoid losing. It is true that the computer seems to manage a defense but if you look closely at the position I'm sure you will appreciate how difficult it can turn out to be. If I defend one way my position falls apart in another. I did underestimate my counterplay with Qxd7+ preventing some of his bishop moves. In the end I saw nothing better than trying to give a pawn back to be able to retreat the queen back to stop some of his threats.

30. b4 axb4 31. cxb4 Qxb4 32. Qc2 Nc5

No way to save my remaining pawn on the queenside. From here I am simply losing.

33. Bf1 Qxa4 34. Qb2 Nd7 35. Bc4 Bc5 36. Nd5 Bd4 37. Qb1 h5 38. Kg2 h4 39. Qc1 h3+ 40. Kf3 Qa1 41. Qxa1 Bxa1 42. Bb5 Bd4 43. Nb3 Bc5 44. Nxc5 bxc5

Getting his outside passed pawn to be slightly less outside. could make a difference in the end with lots of luck. I trade his knight off as well as my plan is to control c3 with my knight to stop his pawn while using the king to stop his king from advancing too far. Probably not possible but I have to try something.

45. Bxd7 Bxd7 46. Ke3 Bc6 47. Nc3 Ke6 48. f4 exf4+ 49. gxf4 Kd6 50. Kf2 g5 51. Kg3 Bd7 52. Nd5 f5

Luckily for me he is not playing optimal moves and now I sense a glimmer of hope. After fxg5 he is not the only one with a passed pawn. I have something to play with. Besides, I am already planning a drawing line if he is not careful.

53. fxg5 fxe4 54. Nf6 Bf5 55. Kf4 Ke6

Bingo! His inaccuracies have now added up to a draw for me. If you don't see it, finding it could be a good exercise.

56. Nxe4 Bxe4 57. Kxe4 Kf7 58. Kd5 Kg6 59. Kxc5 Kxg5 60. Kd4 Kf4 61. Kd3 Kf3 62. Kd2 Kg2 63. Ke2

And since it's a dead draw we agreed to the draw here. ( I will shuffle my king between f1 and f2. His king can not escape from the side of the board letting his pawn through and even if somehow he did then I could shuffle the king between h1 and g1 also a dead draw.)

Having the extra half point then allowed me to play for a draw with the other leader of the group rather than forcing me to win that game with black.

Thank you, as always, Panzar. After the fact I found 29. e5! fairly easily!

And here is the other key game for me in the Swedish championships week 2. The very next round I managed to salvage a draw from a completely lost position. I got nothing but problems out of the King's Indian Attack as usual. I don't know why I keep playing that. I'm white.

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I dunno either. Every since I switched from the exchange to 3. Nc3 I've had very good results. However, the quality of my opponents hasn't been that high. People under 1800 don't seem to have good results playing the French.

Col seems to do well with the KID though.

Good work once again going the distance! I don't know whether it's a FIDE vs. USCF thing but your opponents seem much stronger for their ratings than mine. Could also be an age thing. An 11 or 12 year old 1600 strikes fear in me much more so than a 60 year old 1600.

Lower to medium rated people almost always play strongly against me. This, I am convinced, is not perception but something I have come to accept as fact. This same guy (who was probably at least 45) simply lost a rook in his next game against the player who I ended up beating on tie break for the win of the group.

There is one guy in our club that every now and then loses to 1200-players but still manages to play almost flawlessly against me every time. It's just the way it is. I don't complain, keeps me on my toes. I do face some 1800-1900 players playing worse than you would expect so it all probably evens out anyway.

Here's one more; game 1.

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. O-O Nf6 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 Bg4

A small inaccuracy. Black should not play this move before white has played d4.

8. c3 Be7 9. d3 O-O 10. Nbd2 Nb8 11. h3 Bh5 12. Nf1 c5 13. Ng3 Bg6 14. Nh4 Kh8 15. Ngf5 Nc6 16. Nxe7 Nxe7 17. Nxg6+ Nxg6

An odd position where I have the bishop pair for two knights.

18. d4 c4 19. Bc2 Re8 20. Be3 h6 21. Qd2 Ng8 22. Rad1 Qh4 23. f3 Rad8 24. Qf2 Qf6 25. dxe5 dxe5 26. Rd5 Nf4

Rd5 wasn't very good. I had too many draws in week 1 though and wanted desperately to mix it up somehow.

27. Bxf4 Qxf4 28. Red1 Qg5 29. Qd2 Qxd2 30. R5xd2 Rxd2 31. Rxd2 Nf6 32. g3 Nh5 33. Kf2 Re6

Threatning Rg6 where I would be forced to weaken my position with g4. Fortunately I have a good remedy for that.

34. Rd5 Nf6 35. Rd8+ Kh7 36. f4 Re7 37. Rd6 a5

Rb6 might seem obvious but I was worried about giving him the h-file in combination with Nh5.

38. g4 Rd7

I have no explanation for why I didn't play fxe5 here. It does seem obvious but then again I am tactically incompetent. Also, I had calculated a long line that I thought was winning.

39. Rxd7 Nxd7 40. fxe5 Nxe5 41. Ke3 Kg6 42. Kd4 f6 43. Kc5 Kg5

I had thought Nd3+ here was one of his better moves. Interestingly the computer thinks black played the best line starting after the rook exchange and at one point even think it's slightly better for black. But for every move after that it turns out to be a little better for me than the previous move would lead you to believe and soon white is comfortably ahead.

44. Kxb5 Kh4 45. b4 cxb3 46. Bxb3 Kxh3 47. Be6 Kg3 48. c4 Nxg4

The game-ending mistake but I don't think black can hold on for long with any other move.

49. Bxg4 Kxg4 50. c5 h5 51. c6

And black resigned.

Nice work Panz!

Narz said:

Still on vaca from chess.com (should get back on top of my games there Monday or Tuesday of next week).

In the meantime I played in a tourney today. Single-round-robin Quad. $10 to entry, $25 to the winner of each quad. There was a turnout of 24 people and I was the 4th highest rated which put me last in the top quad (I was 1677 vs. a 1730 and two 1800+'s.)

My first game was a mess. I castled longer into a elementary knight-fork (of the two rooks). I was playing way too fast, even for G-30 and was very annoyed with myself for that one but decided to play on & see if I could compensate with activity. Amazingly, I was able to do just that & in the end we reached a position where I had 5 pawns & a bishop vs. his 7 pawns & a bishop. However, he had two doubled pairs of pawns that weren't going anywhere. However, he still had a win that involved saccing one of his pawns but he didn't see it & agreed to a draw!

(will post this one later probably)

Second game started off much more active than my opponent & ended up getitng in a combination early that would have won a rook for a knight. However I tried to get fancy & when the smoke clearer I'd given up two knigths for a rook. Again, I was more active though & managed to cramp black up. As happens in game thrity we reached the endgame both in time trouble. I sacced a pawn for activity (probably unsound in a longer game) and won back a piece, doubled my rooks & left him helpless to resist. With my two minutes vs. his eight he tried though but I mated him without still two minutes left (5 second incrament).

The last game was my best & my shortest & the only one I got in full on paper (others I fell below 5 minutes on my clock 10-20 moves before the game ended) so I will post it here.

[Event "ATKM Quad"]
[Site "ATKM"]
[Date "2009.8.20"]
[White "Narz"]
[Black "Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "1677"]
[BlackELO "1730"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. f4 O-O 8.
Bd3 f6 9. Nf3 c5 10. Nb5 Na6 11. c3 cxd4 12. cxd4 fxe5 13. fxe5 Nb4 14. O-O
Nb6 15. Nd6 Nc6 16. Qc2 h6 17. Bh7+ Kh8 18. Nh4 Rxf1+ 19. Rxf1 Nxd4 20. Ng6+
Kxh7 21. Nf8+ 1-0

Notes : at move nine I took about six minutes to move, I was thinking of bringing my queen out but saw no definitive attack so went with Nf3 instead. 10. Nb5 may have been an inaccuracy. Move 13, 14 & 15 (black's three knight moves) really allowed me to develop initiative. You just can't get away with moves like that when your opponent has more space! After 16. Qc2 black doesn't have time to go back to b4 with his knight, he's got threats to worry about. Probably best is g6 for black after which I can play (maybe) a6 & I'll have a better game but the more "natural" looking h6 gave me a beautiful combination.

I made this cool animated GIF of the game with this site!

Spoiler :

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Congratulations! very solid game Narz! ... I have one question ... 13. fxe5 ... why not dxe5 ? ... I think ... I'm missing something...

thx... cheers.

Thanks Harvin. Re : 13. fxe5 - Just taking towards the center, opening lines for my pieces (rook in this case). It's worth noting that 18. Nh4 wouldn't have worked without the backrank threat made possible by 13. fxe5 (if not for that threat black could have simply snapped off the knight with his queen).

Also, after dxe5 black would have a protected passed pawn. The computer rates fxe5 as about 1.5 pawns better than dxe5 so the difference is massive.


Here is another game from week 2 in the Swedish Championships.

I was black and decided to try the dragon.

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6

Okay, no dragon... back to the drawing board.

3. f4 d6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bc4 e6 6. O-O a6 7. a4

This move seemed wrong somehow. In fact, his entire setup allows me to play d5 which is what black almost always want to play in the sicilian.

7...d5 8. exd5 exd5 9. Ba2 Be7 10. d3

I was expecting d4 which puts pressure on my center but d3 is also interesting.

10...O-O 11. Ne5 Re8 12. Re1 Nb4 13. Bb3 b6 14. Bd2 Bb7 15. Ne2 Nc6 16. Kh1

Sometimes this type of king-move is good but here I don't see much point in it. It moves off a diagonal I can't use to one where I already have a bishop on indirectly.

16...Bd6

Finally getting rid of that annoying knight.

17. Nxc6 Bxc6 18. Ng1 Qc7

I had a hard time deciding between Qc7 and Qd7.

19. Rxe8+ Rxe8 20. Qf1 Nh5

I knew I had the better position but couldn't find a good plan. Since he can hardly play g3 I decided to try to win the f4 pawn.

21. Ne2 Re6

I realized this plan of bringing the rook from the first rank was taking a bit of a risk but I did not want a draw.

22. Re1 Rf6

I'm now relying on my bishops to prevent the back rank mate. The prize for this risk is a sweet pawn. Yummie!

23. Nc3 Nxf4 24. Bxf4 Rxf4 25. Qe2

Story of the game is c4 being good almost every move. Never saw that.

25...Rf5 26. h3 Re5 27. Qf1 Qe7 28. Rxe5 Qxe5

So far so good, pawn up and got some exchages going as well as a central queen.

29. Qg1 h6 30. Nd1 d4 31. c3 dxc3 32. bxc3 Bd5 33. c4

Okay, they don't ALWAYS play that well against me. I'm not sure how anyone could think this was a good move.

33...Bc6 34. Ne3 Qd4

Qg3 threatning the h3 pawn was good of course but I was focused on getting a winning endgame. I enjoy endgames so sometimes when I can get a good one I miss properly looking for tactics.

35. Bc2 Bf4 36. Nf1 Qxg1+ 37. Kxg1 f5 38. Kf2 Kf7 39. g3 Be5 40. Ne3 Bd4

And I have my pleasant endgame that I won without any trouble.

41. Ke2 Bxe3 42. Kxe3 g5 43. Bd1 Kf6 44. Bc2 Ke5 45. Bd1 f4+ 46. gxf4+ gxf4+ 47. Kf2 Kd4 48. Bc2 Kc3

And white resigned.

Well, I've started a 960 game against Tomoyo, and I am a few moves away from checkmate in my other two. I love it when I have got good things to report!

I won my game vs. Flying_Pig. Game is here.

Any comments will be welcome!

Your opening development has improved very much, WE. I just gave the game a cursory once-over but your piece sacrifice on move 15 was unnecessary. Had black not given you the queen a few moves later he would've had a large advantage.

Overall this game looks much better than some of the earlier ones of yours I looked at though. Just got to continue your vigilance in being careful not to leave hanging pieces! If you can get to the point where you almost never drop pieces & get a firm grasp of basic tactics & mates you can bring up your rating 500-600 points or more.

Thanks Narz...I'm working on it!

Playing against a RL friend

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=26597230

Riffraff said:

Playing against a RL friend

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=26597230

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Please don't remind me...
Last time I played an OTB game or two, I lost 2 in a row in under 20 moves!

Just joined chess.com, as "HenryIX" (they wouldn't let me pick Nanocyborgasm). I hadn't played a game in ages and just picked up the game again in the last 2 months, even buying the book "Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess" just so you know how weak I am.

I'm soon to be finished with the book but my no means would that make me a strong player. Be that as it may, I have won games against the computer on "Chess Titans", a chess game that comes with Vista, up to level 4/10.

Nanocyborgasm said:

Just joined chess.com, as "HenryIX" (they wouldn't let me pick Nanocyborgasm). I hadn't played a game in ages and just picked up the game again in the last 2 months, even buying the book "Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess" just so you know how weak I am.

I'm soon to be finished with the book but my no means would that make me a strong player. Be that as it may, I have won games against the computer on "Chess Titans", a chess game that comes with Vista, up to level 4/10.

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Could it be they would not let you register as your nickname because it contains the word "orgasm"? Just saying...

Anyway, if you want a match, I'll play you. I'm WhiteEagle on chess.com, and SA of the Chess Chefs. (link to group is in sig )

Hmm not many people in a sharing mood these past weeks

Anyways, may bad streak continues. Here I win a pawn to lose the match...

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I often fail to realize that I can't always draw reinforcements to critical positions in a single turn.