I challenge thee.

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

A new game. Please go easy one me. I might screw up on some moves because I'm new to writing the moves down.

 

[stellar converter]

ill play. im probably the least experienced here anyway.

1. e4

thats ok if you screw up the moves. ill figure it out

 

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

1. e4 e5

 

[stellar converter]

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3

so far so good

.

 

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6

 

[stellar converter]

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4

 

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Be7

 

[stellar converter]

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Be7
4. d4

your last move is too passive. haakan's Bc5 is a good defense. or Nf6. if you were protecting against Ng5, you dont need to, and the other 2 do anyway. ie:
3. ... Nf6
4. Ng5 d5
5. pxp Nxp

and the bishop is blocked from attack, and the knight is attacked. but then you have to deal with Nxf7, and bring your queen out.

and, if Bc5

Ng5 QxN

that move is still ok, but there are others that keep my advantage smaller.

 

[stormerne]

Originally posted by stellar converter:
your last move is too passive
...
that move is still ok, but there are others that keep my advantage smaller.

Don't worry Vlad. It may be a little passive but it still has a name: "Hungarian Defence" and has been played by some famous people. It's OK in the hands of experienced players like Reshevsky, though it doesn't quite equalise.

However, it's good advice to be as active as possible while you're learning. You may play more riskily and lose games quicker as a result, but you'll learn much faster than if you play passively.

On the other hand you may have a quiet style, so it might the very best move you could play in circumstances.

Nf6 or Bc5 would have been more active.
d6 would have been even more passive.
So your move is kind of in between.
All of them are perfectly playable!

 

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

Thanks. sorry for not replying for so long.

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Be7
4. d4 Nf6

 

[stellar converter]

that is quite all right.

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Be7
4. d4 Nf6
5. pxp

i have more than 800 posts now. due largely in part to chess.

a word of warning: i have cunningly

laid a brilliant

trap for you. look closely before you move.

[This message has been edited by stellar converter (edited March 17, 2001).]