Chess Anyone?

What move was it? Your games are a bit slow, you know , and I didn’t see your comment until now. Anyway, all your moves look perfectly all right to me, like 14. … Nxe5 and 18. … d5.

He would never have allowed you to get three queens. Jay is too good a chess player for that. Besides, polygamy is illegal in Canada too, isn’t it?

But I like the way you sacrificed quality for position. Your pawns became extremely strong, and at a crucial point you put your bishops to play.

Now you’re giving redcat a hard time. His pawn at d3 is probably singing, "You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancient myths are solemnly directed straight at you..."

When I was in University there was this guy who would play up to 10 guys at one time  looking in the opposite direction of the board. He'd have another guy calling out his opponent's moves. Then he would tell his guy what his move was and his guy would move the pieces for him. I played him several times and the b*****d  kicked my ass all the time. I only saw one guy almost beat him. A girl almost beat him as well. We called the guy Mr. Spock. he was from Eastern Europe somewhere. I have a friend from Hungary who I refused to play because it was a waste of time because I knew I,d get the crap knocked out of me. He learned the game at the age of 5 or something ridiculous like that.

Edited by Vibrationbaby - April 30 2012 at 14:02

Very interesting game. I have to log out now, but may the best one win.

I always try to predict my opponent with the conditional moves, but this is about the longest streak I've had going 

Ok this is going to get interesting. Up an exchange but you get a massively advanced pawn.

Edited by Negoba - April 26 2012 at 08:31

What's sandbagging?

Originally posted by Negoba I thought I was developing an even game with Colin and then already made an oversight that loses me a move.   Grrrr....   Friggin English Opening.

It's still pretty close to even, but you've got a couple important decisions to make pretty soon I think.

Better you than me


Edited by Triceratopsoil - April 25 2012 at 19:31

It's kind of annoying when some of the tournament games never seem to end. 

I've had like 3 games in a row where people have let me get away with king/queen forks. Lucky me 

It always feels ugly when a game gets really one-sided. The fun of the game is the struggle where it could go either way at any second. This game still had a lot of uncertainty up until the mating sequence, and would have still been up for grabs if he'd made the Qd6+ move.