OTB Amateur Games

Originally posted by Peter Henriksen
in another thread you started playing chess 4½ years ago - how come you're able to present a 10 year old game in this thread?

Originally posted by heinzkat
That was wormwood, silly.

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Originally posted by woodworm
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Originally posted by Peter Henriksen
sorry but wormwood and woodworm looked the same to me. nice game btw

hahahahah...

Originally posted by wormwood
hahahahah...

Originally posted by Peter Henriksen
Does your laughing indicate that your choice of nick was intending to create this kind of confusion? If yes then congratulations. Your mission was succesful.

Originally posted by wormwood
no. I found out there was a woodworm about 2 years after joining. and I had been using wormwood on CTS even before joining RHP. I don't think anyone ever confused us before until this week.

I played this short game last night. It was board one of the varsity between the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England and the first time I've played anyone on redhotpawn OTB. I was playing as white:

Why 1...d5

I don't understand it.

I would have preferred 15. Nf6+, but you correctly estimated that delaying that a few moves would be more effective 😛

Originally posted by JumpingKnight
Why 1...d5

I don't understand it.

To be honest there was a strong chance I was going to play 2. d4, but I decided against it at the last second. Either way I was going to lose a pawn...

In this position was 15.Nf6+ a good idea from heinzkat.