29 Jul 08
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Originally posted by Fat LadyIt seems he is not quite the same player without his databases & books 🙁
29 Davis, Lee.............. 2071 (0) 0 - 1 Barrett, Stephen J...... 2251 (0) 59 33
Come on Lee, buck your ideas up - the honour of Red Hot Pawn is at stake!
...we're in danger of becoming the laughing stock of the online chess community.
Maybe he should take more time with his moves. A few refreshment breaks perhaps?
Come on Lee, chop-chop!
29 Jul 08
Originally posted by greenpawn34Dave draws with young Mr. Rocks in the second round. If you have the time Dave please post the PGN; I for one found the first game quite interesting - watching you play a Najdorf against an English attack type set up is very instructive for me.
I know Danny Rocks - he's quite a handful OTB.
(I think he's an RHP member)
30 Jul 08
Here is a game from round 1 of the British Championships. White is Oliver Jackson, Black is Lee Davis.
Black's opening play was strange, he moved his queen's knight five times in the first eleven moves!
White carried out a nice attack. He broke down Black's defences with fairly simple play - I liked 13. f5 - Black probably thought he had prevented that by 12. ... e6, but White played it anyway.
30 Jul 08
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Originally posted by SmiffyAll the Ledger brothers are good players. If I was Lee Davis I would try to steer the game into an ending where each side has two queens as I believe Davis has a proven track record there.
thats another tough game i saw him play in an earlier round(ledger) so hes up against it again....He has had a tough 3 rounds.Lets hope he can get a result today.
Did you see that Richard Pert also has 0/2? This makes it very eay to tell Richard and Nick Pert apart - Richard is the one with the bruise on his forehead caused by banging his head against a brick wall after each game.
30 Jul 08
Yes cant believe pert is down 0/2 but im sure after today he will get a result 🙂.....There are a few shocks even hasslinger has only 1/2 a point and i think the people are favouring him in the draw because hes playing someone a full point ahead of him when he should be playing someone on 1/2.
30 Jul 08
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Here is Lee Davis' second round effort. He is White against Steve Barrett.
Astonishingly, it's all theory up to at least move 16.
As far as I can tell with the limited databases I have available (I only use the freely available ones online) Black's 19. ... Ra5 was a new move. It looks much better than 19. ... Kf7, which was what was played previously in this position, as it put incredible pressure on White's queenside pawns.
I don't like White's position after 22 moves, it's difficult to come up with a sensible plan for him. His 23. e3? was a disaster, allowing the Black knight to jump to d3. One thing I've learnt from Silman's books is to try and spot the places where your opponents' knights can infiltrate and to prevent this, if possible, by defending the key squares (usually with a pawn).
30 Jul 08
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Haslinger vs Briscoe is very interesting.
Black (Briscoe) has just played 22. ... Na4!
Invalid FEN inserted - r4rk1/5ppp/p7/2q1p3/np4P1/3B1P2/PPPQ3P/2KRR3/
Briscoe has used 90 minutes for his first 22 moves. Compare this with the notoriously speedy Jack Rudd, who used only 15 minutes for the whole game in his 28 move losing effort versus Gormally.
Haslinger has gone into a long think. Surely 23.Qe3 is forced?