demagogue on 1/7/2013 at 21:59
Quote Posted by faetal
I've already picked up a couple of things about castling (king can't pass through check, can't move out of check) which I'd forgotten
In my last game with you I did notice you were leaving your king open to castle for a long time, and I consciously thought about getting an attack through the castle line or a check you had to move to kill the castle chance, and I wondered if you remembered that rule -- since you weren't moving your king to cover & leaving him a little exposed; I thought the castle possibility was the reason why. But yes as you get to the end game it's harder to castle because of that, so that's an argument for doing it earlier.
Quote Posted by Nuth
Check out this blitz game by LittleFlower. Wow!
I'm a paranoid player generally, but it's for reasons like this that I get ultra-paranoid when a pawn gets to 6th row.
Gryzemuis on 1/7/2013 at 22:17
Quote Posted by faetal
I couldn't play that well if I had 1 hour for each move!
Thanks, but neither could I. It turns out that the idea of Bc5 (pinning my queen) was possible earlier in the game. If this had been a long game, I would never have played Qxd4. When black played Bc5, I was completely surprised. I thought I was gonna lose my queen, and lose the game. Only after playing f6xg7 I realized g7xh8Q was mate.
I played that game this morning. I haven't played another game since. Because I didn't want to ruin the good mood I was in all day. :)
I looked into the King's Gambit over 20 years ago. But nobody would answer my e4 with e5 at the time. Everybody played something else (e6, d5, d6, c5, c6 or even Nf6). So I hardly ever played a game with the King's gambit. Now on chess.com it's completely different. In all my games with white, the black-player has answered my e4 with e5. I finally get to try out the King's gambit.
Nobody of TTLG has challenged me for a long (3-day) game yet. Feel free to do so.
Or maybe I'll challenge someone tomorrow myself.
I prefer 2x10minute games. I fear a long game would be frustrating for me, because I'll have to resist the urge to check the game with a chess-engine. 5-Minute Blitz is too quick for me. Therefor 2x10min seems ideal. If any of you catch me online, and wants to play a quick game, poke me. (As far as I can see, the only means of communication is a Private Message ?)
Gryzemuis on 1/7/2013 at 22:34
BTW, Nuth, have you read "The King" by Hein Donner ?
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/9056911716/ref=wp_dp_4)
Donner was the 2nd Dutch Grand Master (after Max Eeuwe). He wasn't a very good grandmaster. But he was a decent writer. He wrote columns in chess magazines. But also in other (non-chess) magazines, like a women's magazine. This book is a collection of his best chess articles. Very entertaining. There is some Dutch specific stuff in there (he was dissing the 3rd best player in The Netherlands). And some stuff is about the sixties and seventies. But the book is full of love for chess. And very funny. I loved it. You might wanna try it out.
Oh, and as you said you prefer blitz, maybe we should play some 2x10min games some times. I believe we are on different continents. But as I am a night person, that should not be an insurmountable problem.
hopper on 2/7/2013 at 00:06
I signed up for an account at chess.com. Like most people here, I haven't played for a long time, so we'll see how it goes. I'm not sure how it works, though - do you guys complete one game in a single session, or do you play something like 3 moves a night? In other words, would I piss people off if I entered a game, left, and came back a day later?
My moniker there is Taffer_Hopper, btw (no avatar yet).
faetal on 2/7/2013 at 00:17
If you challenge someone to a game with a 3 day time limit, it should be implicit that it'll be a slow game, so they have the option to reject.
I have a slow burner on the go with Yakoob at the moment which has lasted around a week so far.
It's good that more people are joining in though - we're at very mixed skill levels.
Nuth on 2/7/2013 at 01:56
LF,
Late night is usually when I play blitz chess(though I think it's been several weeks since I've played any.) I'm too likely to be interrupted at other times of the day, and with time controls that short, distractions or interruptions often mean "Game Over". About what time(your time) is convenient for you? I may be able to find some occasions during the day here when we can play. I'll watch for you on chess.com and challenge you to blitz when the circumstances are good. Straight 5 minute games are too quick for me, too. I usually play 5 minutes with 10 second increments added per move, but straight 10 minute games are fine, too.
Haven't read the Donner book. I'll see if I can get it through the library system here. If I can't, I'll keep it in mind to buy. I think I may have seen him play in an old BBC series called The Master Game that was posted on youtube before the videos got taken down. They were videos of Grandmasters playing with voiceovers of them giving their thoughts move by move--Tony Miles, a very young Nigel Short, Karpov, Gligoric and lots of others. It was very interesting to watch. There would never be a chess television series here in the U.S., at least not on any major network.
SubJeff on 2/7/2013 at 07:05
Had a good game with Al the other day, but he resigned when it was getting really interesting :(
Al_B on 2/7/2013 at 11:24
I actually thought that you were getting bored with the game - most of my pieces were pinned down and my only real option (queening a pawn) was very unlikely given the mobility of your pieces and your defence. It was a fun game, though - kept me on my toes and punished every mistake I made.
SubJeff on 2/7/2013 at 11:51
No man, it was really good. You were only really pinned on my final move and even then - I was lucky that my knight covers the last rook I moved. Things would have been very different otherwise and it is not good strategy, it was pure luck. And your bishop was a major pain in the ass! Once it was freed from being trapped in your Indian Defence nonsense anyway.
Game on for the new game! I think you'll enjoy my opening :)
Gryzemuis on 2/7/2013 at 16:13
Quote Posted by Nuth
Late night is usually when I play blitz chess ....distractions or interruptions often mean "Game Over".
I understand that.
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About what time(your time) is convenient for you? I may be able to find some occasions during the day here when we can play.
I would play somewhere between 21:00 MET and 3:00 MET. (15:00 EST - 21:00 EST). If you are on the East Coast (EST), maybe we can meet. If you are on the West Coast (PST), then probably we are out of luck. If it happens, that's nice. If not, no sweat.
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I think I may have seen him play in an old BBC series called The Master Game that was posted on youtube before the videos got taken down. They were videos of Grandmasters playing with voiceovers of them giving their thoughts move by move--Tony Miles, a very young Nigel Short, Karpov, Gligoric and lots of others. It was very interesting to watch.
Never heard of that. But there are still traces of it on YouTube.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIt7McTLy4Y)
Anyway, if you enjoy that historic look back in time, I am sure you will enjoy "The King".
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There would never be a chess television series here in the U.S., at least not on any major network.
Not anymore in Europe either. We did get chess on tv sometimes, but always late (after 23:30). And only when there WC-matches (Karpov - Korchnoi, etc). Nowadays, even newspapers have stopped their weekly chess columns. I guess the Internet is now chess news's largest medium.
