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Originally posted by 64squaresofpainWell, there is a difference between playing ability and understanding what you do.
Thanks tv 🙂
Looking at your profile, you seem to be doing just fine lol,
a gradual increase over time is what i am aiming to achieve
I use opening database to avoid blunders in the opening and afterwards I try to calculate as accurately as possible. But to be honest, I have no clue about the plan one should follow in specific opening lines. And strategy is not my cup of tea. That's the kind of understanding I was congratulating you for.
Originally posted by VelvetEarsNice game! That was a cool finish. Too bad White didn't let you play Rxf2 and Rxg2 mate, which would've really rubbed in your first and second rank domination.
One more interesting game I finished fairly recently. The aim here was to see how many pieces I could put on white's first rank 😉 (also shows the danger of white taking my QNP with his queen)
[pgn]
[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.timeforchess.com"]
[Date "2012.07.22"]
[EndDate "2012.08.25"]
[Round "?"]
[White "boriskrol"]
[Black "VelvetEa first rank and a forced mate - white resigned} 0-1
[/pgn]
I'm trying to dig up on of my old tournament games from four years ago... my opponent and I played over 20 moves and not a single piece had been captured. Neither of us knew what was going on (we were both rated around USCF 1400 at the time) so we just agreed to a draw.
Originally posted by hunterknoxBrilliant.. as a nod towards vivify's thread, "If a win is on the cards, material loss is irrelevant"
There's something about a kingside vs queenside battle, especially when you're on the winning end. I like this one because it's the knight and pawns that are involved in the major threats, whilst the big guns only come in to tie it up...[pgn][Event "2009 Championship"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2009.01.02"] [EndDate "2009.02.02"] [Round "1 ...[text shortened]... wed by g7++.} 28. hxg6 fxg6 29. Rh1xh7 Kh8xh7 30. Qe1h4 1-0[/pgn]
Had a couple games like that myself, usually losing rooks whilst lining up mate in 2/3/4 🙂
Live standard game played on chess.com, i have black pieces. Not very high
standard as i haven't played live chess for ages, two games prior to this i hung my
queen in a superior position and i hung it again and my opponent didn't take it and
lost, justice?
Pinning the pinning piece!
May I violate the letter of the law of this thread by putting up a game that I was not involved in? I have been randomly selecting public games by others to look at. The ending of Game 9573569 is spiffy. Black’s king move at 55 is evidence he already had up his sleeve a way to avoid the loss even though he is down by a bishop and three pawns. At 58 black appears to be sacrificing his queen for the white bishop. In fact, black is almost checkmating white, in the sense that white has only a single move that will get him out of check: king takes queen. Surely white didn’t linger long over the board when his move 59 was absolutely forced. I imagine he got the shock of his chess life when he saw what the website reported back to him upon the submittal of his move 59!
Originally posted by Paul Dirac IIIt is common for the player that has a winning position to overlook the stalemate possibility due to his psychology of mind at the time.
May I violate the letter of the law of this thread by putting up a game that I was not involved in? I have been randomly selecting public games by others to look at. The ending of Game 9573569 is spiffy. Black’s king move at 55 is evidence he already had up his sleeve a way to avoid the loss even though he is down by a bishop and three pawns. At 7 56. c7 Qe4xe3 57. c8=Q g5 58. Qf6xg5 Qe3xh3 59. Kh4xh3 1/2-1/2[/pgn]
