That my friend, is called extreme rust.I had a reasonably strong opening I thought, purely by accident for the most part. I had no plan after that, and the opening left me reasonably restricted with my bigger pieces. I tried for some traps, but often didn't see a third piece that could defeat me. That's what happened with both knights I think.Once you moved your second knight into play it pretty much locked down the board and crippled the majority of my plans (most of which I'd made then ignored anyway, leading to the capture of my second knight). I didn't have my pieces in the right places and not enough moves left before your looming checkmate for me to salvage any useful play.But it was fun to play again. We should do this more often. But for now I'll break I think, plus it's nearly 2am in NZ, do you not have work in the morning?
Na5? I will punish this
It sure was interesting indeed. As you said I didn't develop pieces early enough, I was busy defending against your agressive opening. Then in the end I did a bit of a hari kari, hehe. I wasn't getting out of that But looking at improvements, I managed to capture a similar number of pieces this time
Keen to play a few games, and be horrible, but learn some shit. Where do I sign up!?
I'm not so gullible to fall for the 4 move mate!Three games at once was more from curiosity. I wanted to play three games at the same time and see how they developed. Maybe I could identify some kind of weakness in myself, or maybe you'd think less and make some mistakes :P I varied from that a little as I moved to different tactics in each, slowly coming together and falling apart as I got more tired...Interesting though in some success in the plan. All three games picked up as I took on board that you identified that I play very defencivly and got more aggressive (at least for a bit in the case of the more sacrifical strategy - wasn't going for a draw, more just hoping to come out on top after a game of attrition ;) )
Here are all three games with Annotations and a picture from a Critical moment in the game:http://www.redhotpawn.com/annotation/annotationinteractive.php?annotationid=3912
Quote from Tiwaking!: January 22, 2014, 04:20:35 pmHere are all three games with Annotations and a picture from a Critical moment in the game:http://www.redhotpawn.com/annotation/annotationinteractive.php?annotationid=3912This one I had grand designs for. Unfortunately for me, I didn't see knight guarding d7; I was too focussed on the queen being safe in that position. The idea was to cd7, then maybe leverage the Queens safety for the bishop to move in and pin the king, or something. Dunno, but it didn't work in any case, was basically a waste of a move in the end, although it looked impressive at first
urgh d7, I meant c7. I'd have got a pawn, you'd have got my queen. Didn't seem like a good move, but castling probably would have been!
As I let you do too often :/
Quote from Pyromanik: January 23, 2014, 06:07:19 amAs I let you do too often :/You should give Fischers Random Chess aka Chess960 a go!
27 Jan '14 11:42Originally posted by Linden Lyons I'd also like to see Fischer Random Chess on RHP.Go to New game / set up your won board / Fischer Random Start The games are unrated though.
There's also a brand new World Chess Champion.Magnusson or similar. He looked young in the picture I saw.I went to London and there's this shop on Baker St. (other than the Sherlock Holmes Museum), completely dedicated to Chess, card games & a few other classics (like backgammon). I think you would have really liked it Tiwa.I got a book by Kasparov. It's for kids, so I should be able to understand it
Carlsen’s greatest chess strength is his remarkable intuitive grasp of simplified positions and his tremendous accuracy in them. I coached Carlsen for a year, in 2009, and I was amazed at how quickly he could correctly evaluate a position “cold,” seemingly without any calculation at all. My own style required tremendous energy and labor at the board, working through deep variations looking for the truth in each position. Carlsen comes from a different world champion lineage, that of Jose Capablanca and Anatoly Karpov, players who sense harmony on the board like virtuoso musicians with perfect pitch.
Quote from Pyromanik: January 23, 2014, 06:07:19 amAs I let you do too often :/You should give Fischers Random Chess aka Chess960 a go!http://www.chesshotel.com/play-random-chess.phpIt's crazy complicated, but really fun. This one game I accidentally lost my Queen and a Knight yet still somehow won, all due to our starting position and my opponent castling into my rooks
