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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

If an opponent moves out the queen that early, make it a hunting object. You can develop your own pieces while attacking the queen, which means the opponent has to move the queen from one place to another, thus losing time while you develop your pieces. Of course you should avoid the fool's mate though.


Thankfully not even I am that bad.
I just really need practice, I know what I'm doing (enough) and this one person complimented me for really improving my development, but what you said there...I viewed it as needing to be defensive when I guess I should go after it, safely.
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Good ol' fool's mate.  Only ever used that in game once before LOL

Brian, the biggest problem this game is that you are letting my threats go unanswered.  When I move into a position to take one of your pieces (for example, 3. ... Bxb4 followed by 4. ...Bxc3+) you need to in some way respond to it.  Either make sure I can't take that piece without losing my own, or threaten a different one of my pieces.  If you play it right, you can get your pieces into an effective position while forcing me to choose between trading pieces or just abandoning that particular attack
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See like right now, your bishop is screwed but you have the choice between taking a pawn with it, taking a knight with it, or taking nothing.
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Yeah I really gave up on this one :(  you robbed me Coolin. You robbed me of my spirit and fight
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Im a pretty avid chess player, I go to two different chess clubs weekly. Attend the occasional tournament when my friends convince me to do so.
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

... and then again in 14


Last game was 35 and the one before that 24. Wink

I'm improving now.
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Win #1 for James, in 40 moves (though half of that must've been in end game!)
You took foreverTongue my only joy was I managed to nab some pieces while running around.
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Yeah, I was teasing you a bit and I wanted to checkmate you in a different way.

I just beat Vompatti in 39 moves with my favourite type of checkmate with the Queen and Rook.

Oh and Brian, I'm laughing hard here at your current game with Vomps.  Seriously dude, how did you get into a position where you're in check by a bishop and your queen and knight are pinned by a pawn so you'll have to lose one next go?

Not only that but Vomps will be able to Queen that pawn too.

Edit: well it seems you managed to avoid him getting that extra queen (not that it's viable anyhow, as it'd have been taken next go) but lost your own queen in the process in exchange for a bishop.

LOL




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And it's Checkmate:



Wow.
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Well like I said on FB the checkmate was a gimme. Your slow agonizing death was too muchLOL I didn't care for another one. While it wasn't over then, I realized a bit ago without a Queen so early on I was in trouble, when he got the general upper hand I was f**ked alreadyCry

I did stop him from getting another Queen (Which I would've just taken) but either way I already shot myself.
Mid game is brutal for me, I do pretty well with openings but I either make one mistake, or a series of small poor choices and get slaughtered in the middle to end.

Stuff to work on.


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I haven’t played chess for many years. I really like the aesthetic value of the game, though, like in this match between Levon Aronian (2737) and Magnus Carlsen (2775) in 2008. Aronain manages to stop Carlsen’s pawn, but then Carlsen starts a deadly attack leading to check mate (Aronian will be mate in a few moves):

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1504213&kpage=1
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Amazing how bad you can play when you've not played for a few years

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I made mistakes in my game with you and Vomps.  In fact, Vomps had me on the run around for a bit.  I feared he'd checkmate me but I somehow managed to avoid it and ended up winning.

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Yes, you did. I ran a computer analysis on ours...points out "inefficiencies" "mistakes" and "blunders"
Saying something like: OOPS! THAT WAS QUITE A BLUNDER. You had a few, as did I but I made one that according to it brought us from "even" to "big disadvantage"

I think that's why I'm kinda fascinated. Real intricate and subtle. Cool stuff. Even in defeat, after I get over the rage I am kind of impressed how things look even but really it fell into a plot.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2012 at 06:46
Can you forward that onto me so I can see it?

Oh and I just checked over my game with Vomps.  I didn't make that many mistakes. Yes he had me worried briefly but I made up for it with some not too bad moves and ended up using my favourite checkmate.


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Dammit - I soooo need to practice...

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Originally posted by James James wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

... and then again in 14


Last game was 35 and the one before that 24. Wink

I'm improving now.

The biggest difference is you didn't make massive errors as early in the games Tongue

The funny thing is the chess.com game analysis calls a quarter of my moves questionable too, I thought they were pretty good.  I think it just doesn't like my playstyle.

It called my "mate in 4" move a mistake, suggesting instead I do something that would take 10 moves to checkmate you

I'll send it to you when I get home this evening


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Hip-hip-hippity hop!
I just built my finest win yet against Vomps. We're 5-1 head-to-head, with FICS and all (and even that first game we played in form of comments on Facebook LOL).
Of course, since even James beat Vomps, I guess there's not much in me showing off...


Edited by Ricochet - March 05 2012 at 08:30
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Most games are decided by blunders. They usually get a little more subtle as time goes on, but most games are not won by brilliant moves, just capitalizing on mistakes.
 
I made one against Ricochet. Classic Pawn fork. I'll get two pawns out of my bishop but I have to play wounded now.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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I didn't find it a blunder, we're still going for same-piece exchanges. But I'll say no more of the outcome, because I'm involved in and working on it. Tongue

Oh, and call me Rico.


Edited by Ricochet - March 05 2012 at 08:48
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