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2012 Championship Report One

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As most of you are still plodding about in the openings I have the
first few wins and a couple of my games. (including me playing a Rook
ending which is always good for a laugh.)

Opening and closing each section and looking for games is right pain
so if anyone spots something then PM me.

I'm still on the lookout for any of you playing chess in strange places
or your own carving/sculpture of a chess piece.

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
As most of you are still plodding about in the openings I have the
first few wins and a couple of my games. (including me playing a Rook
ending which is always good for a laugh.)

Opening and closing each section and looking for games is right pain
so if anyone spots something then PM me.

I'm still on the lookout for any of you playing chess in strange places
or your own carving/sculpture of a chess piece.

Blog 4
And I thought I was the only one that still had Harding's old Philidor book!

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Catnip has inspired me to go for scholars mate on each and every game! That's awesome lol!

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Originally posted by TimmyBx
Catnip has inspired me to go for scholars mate on each and every game! That's awesome lol!
Ha - i know! I had the same thought. Its not the Qh5 that gets em its the retreat to f3 🙂


Catnap has undone 200 years of opening theory and it's principles.
He has made the The Scotch, The Lopez, The Vienna, The King's Gmabit,
The Bishop's Opening...etc all defunct.

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White best move in this position is 2.Qh5.

Players are panicing when they see 2.Qh5.

It is the catnap flap trap.

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Just out of interest, did Catnap do the flap trap in all their openings in the 2012 championship, and how is it faring against Nf6 instead of g7?

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Nakamura has played that:

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1.e4e5
2.Qh5Nc6
3.Bc4g6
4.Qf3Nf6
5.Ne2Bg7
6.Nbc3d6
7.d3Bg4
8.Qg3Qd7
9.f3Be6
10.Bg5Nh5
11.Qh4h6
12.Be3Na5
13.Bb3Nxb3
14.axb3a6
15.d4Qe7
16.Qf2exd4
17.Bxd4Nf6
18.O-O-OO-O-O
19.Nf4Rhg8
20.Rhe1Kb8
21.Kb1g5
22.Nfe2Rge8
23.g4Qf8
24.Ng3Nd7
25.Be3Qh8
26.Nge2Be5
27.h4Qg7
28.Rh1Nf6
29.Bd4Nd7
30.Qe3Qf6
31.hxg5hxg5
32.Bxe5Qxe5
33.Rh5Rg8
34.Nd5Rde8
35.Qc1Qg7
36.Ne3Nf6
37.Rh2Rh8
38.Rg2Nd7
39.Nd4Rh3
40.c4Qf6
41.Rf2Reh8
42.b4Qe5
43.c5dxc5
44.bxc5Nxc5
45.Qc3f6
46.Rc2Na4
47.Qb4Bd7
48.Nb3Rh1
49.Rxh1Rxh1
50.Ka2Nb6
51.Qf8Qe8
52.Qxe8Bxe8
53.Nc5Nd7
54.Nxd7Bxd7
55.Kb3Re1
56.Rc3Be6
57.Kc2Re2
58.Kc1a5
59.Nc2Rf2
60.Nd4Bd7
61.Rc5b6
62.Rd5Kc8
63.e5fxe5
64.Rxe5c5
65.Nb3Rf1
66.Kd2a4
67.Nxc5bxc5
68.Rxc5Kb7
69.Rxg5Rxf3
70.Rd5Be6
71.Rd3Rf1
72.Rg3Rf2
73.Kc3Kb6
74.Kb4Rf4
75.Ka3Kb5
76.Re3Bd5
77.Rd3Bc4
78.Re3Rd4
79.g5Rd1
80.b3axb3
81.Re8Ra1
82.Kb2Ra2
83.Kc3Rc2
84.Kd4b2
85.Rb8Ka4
86.g6Bb5
87.g7b1=Q

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      http://www.thechessdrum.net/palview2/nakamura-sasikiran.htm

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      "in the main variation after 1. e2-e4 e7-e5 2. Qd1-h5 Nb8-c6 3. Bf1-c4
      g7-g6 4. Qh5-f3 Ng8-f6 5. Ng1-e2 (instead of Jake's 5. Qb3?)
      White is not worse, according to Kramnik" http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hans48.txt

      Parham plays 2. Qh5 against everything http://www.thechessdrum.net/talkingdrum/TheMatrix/

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      Originally posted by Stamp
      "in the main variation after 1. e2-e4 e7-e5 2. Qd1-h5 Nb8-c6 3. Bf1-c4
      g7-g6 4. Qh5-f3 Ng8-f6 5. Ng1-e2 (instead of Jake's 5. Qb3?)
      White is not worse, according to Kramnik" http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hans48.txt

      Parham plays 2. Qh5 against everything http://www.thechessdrum.net/talkingdrum/TheMatrix/
      Very enlightening! GP's joking aside, openings that are out of favor are often not as bad as the club kibitzers like to claim.

      Items like this make me rethink my opinions about things- staleness hampers growth.


      I still think 2.Nf6 is a good try in this postion.

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      The gambit needs a name.

      Here is the game I posted last time this opening was discussed.


      faffie (1701) - Ziguratti (1369) RHP 2009

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      1.e4e5
      2.Qh5Nf6
      3.Qxe5Be7
      4.Bc4O-O
      5.Nc3Nc6
      6.Qg3Nb4
      7.Bb3d5
      8.a3d4
      9.d3dxc3
      10.axb4Bxb4
      11.Rb1cxb2
      12.Bd2Bxd2
      13.Kxd2Nxe4

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          Originally posted by greenpawn34
          I still think 2.Nf6 is a good try in this postion.

          [fen]rnbqkb1r/pppp1ppp/5n2/4p2Q/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNB1KBNR w KQkq - 0 3[/fen]
          The gambit needs a name.

          Here is the game I posted last time this opening was discussed.


          [b]faffie (1701) - Ziguratti (1369) RHP 2009


          [pgn]
          1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nf6 3. Qxe5+ Be7 4. Bc4 {White knows he is lagging in ...[text shortened]... 2 Nxe4+ {Gotcha! The White Queen leaves the board in tears. Good game. A perfect example.}[/pgn][/b]
          At move 6 you stated "Though the threat is easily spotted White has to defend against it."

          This is a very powerful point, akin to the Tartakower quote about a threat being stronger than it's execution" (side note- excellent article about this quote from Edward Winter at this link: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/nimzowitsch.html )

          Very often the obvious goal of the threat is prevented, but the attacker gets compensation based on the way the defender has to compromise something else.

          When one leak is plugged, another one appears elsewhere.

          I know there are times where I have dismissed a move because the threat seemed too superficial and easily defended, but later learned that it was only my analysis that was superficial, and that there would have been more to the move if I had looked a little deeper.

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          24 Kd2?? - appalling move! Even blitzing, one shouldn't play like that.

          I quite like the endgame. Not that I claim to be any good at it.

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          Originally posted by chessicle
          24 Kd2?? - appalling move! Even blitzing, one shouldn't play like that.
          Ha! A Classic. What an asshead. I really am a class act.

          I know it was an awful move and I'm meant to be a good player.
          I cannot believe that I would play such a move. Even double blitzing.
          I know I don't give endings the study they deserve (because I rarely see them).
          But am I really that bad at endings?

          So I go back to the game and look at it again to let the awfulness of my move sink in.
          I go into my game archive file to play out the game.

          Guess What?

          I never played it!!

          I write my moves down in a note book, of course blitzing over a couple games
          I never bothered. After the game I wrote down the moves from memory
          (memory that's a laugh.) and I used my note book to score up the game in the blog.
          So after the mini-blitz had finished.

          We started round about here about here.

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          And I know we finished here.

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          I had looked at other game and worked out the win.
          I then set up this game on the board and I filled in the moves.
          Infact if you look at the game in the blog from moves 23-29 you can see
          I am heading for that 2nd diagram. I sat here looking at it long enough
          waiting for him to move that's when I realised I should never have let him
          get an active Rook.

          Here is what really happened in the game.

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          1.g5Rxc6
          2.h4Kd2
          3.Rd8Ke2
          4.Rb8Ra6
          5.Rb2Kd3
          6.Rb1Rxa7
          7.Rh1

          +2


          Now what do I do?
          Do I correct the blog or let it stand as a testiment to me being an idiot?
          And what about the Cricket lad. He must have seen the blog as well and realised
          (or not) some of the moves were 'funny'.

          What a clown. What you get is me warts and all.
          Check everything. Chandlerism's (a word banded about with great frequency
          amongst my friends.) are everywhere.

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          Originally posted by greenpawn34
          Catnap has undone 200 years of opening theory and it's principles.
          He has made the The Scotch, The Lopez, The Vienna, The King's Gmabit,
          The Bishop's Opening...etc all defunct.

          [fen]rnbqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq e6 0 2[/fen]
          White best move in this position is 2.Qh5.

          Players are panicing when they see 2.Qh5.

          It is the catnap flap trap.
          ...and they just keep on doing it, though this time with an added twist lol

          Game 9058056

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          First h7 bishop sacrifice.

          Game 9040997

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