This game featured in GM Jonathan Rowson's Sunday Herald column last Saturday up here in Scotland. We both missed lots of opportunities apparently, but I guess that's not so surprising in such an unusual position!?
Anyway, there's a free copy of Streetfighting Chess up for grabs for whoever comes up with the best reason for WHY I SACCED MY QUEEN in this game?
It doesn't have to be the true/real reason (I'll give that later), just the one I find most interesting/humorous I'll decide on Monday night at 7pm so get writing!
You can enter too Greenpawn, even though you've got a copy already : )
Originally posted by streetfighter Just noticed this post - thanks guys : )
This game featured in GM Jonathan Rowson's Sunday Herald column last Saturday up here in Scotland. We both missed lots of opportunities apparently, but I guess that's not so surprising in such an unusual position!?
[b] Anyway, there's a free copy of Streetfighting Chess up for grabs for whoever comes up wi ...[text shortened]... o get writing!
You can enter too Greenpawn, even though you've got a copy already : )
Congrats.
I think you made the sac because the day before you made a drunk wager that you would sac your queen at move 18.
That,or you forgot about the g-pawn 😛
I was going to heroin...but after looking at the game a second time, I see how the King couldn't have gone anywhere else...otherwise you would have gotten his queen in return...from there it was clear that the h pawn would be all alone...not that I would have had the balls to play it
Wait a minute, I think I saw the queen sac on YouTube. It went something like this...
As you grabbed your queen to move her to safety, your opponent said "You better retreat you bl**d* bald w****r." At which point you took his bishop and bloodied his nose all in one motion.
It was really impressive for such an old man.
***I had a difficulty time getting this through the filter, hopefully my account doesn't get banned because of it****
Originally posted by streetfighter Just noticed this post - thanks guys : )
[b] Anyway, there's a free copy of Streetfighting Chess up for grabs for whoever comes up with the best reason for WHY I SACCED MY QUEEN in this game?
It doesn't have to be the true/real reason (I'll give that later), just the one I find most interesting/humorous I'll decide on Monday night at 7pm so ...[text shortened]... eady : )[/b]
I think you meant e6 and I looked at that for a while too, but I think no matter how you slice it, white ends up down in the exchange because the first take is a pawn. Every line I've looked at gives black the last take.
I think you meant e6 and I looked at that for a while too, but I think no matter how you slice it, white ends up down in the exchange because the first take is a pawn. Every line I've looked at gives black the last take.
Correct. Another example of why I will never be able to play blindfold chess.
I should have written, "Because you failed to see Nxe6!"
Being down a piece after the exchange is hardly the point. Being down a piece is better than being down a Q, ceteris paribus.
I guess I am now disqualified from winning the book and will have to buy it.
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