19 Mar 09
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Originally posted by greenpawn34Surely the French defense version of this trap is better - White is playing sensible moves, and Black gets too eager to eat the d4 pawn, rather than this game, in which 16.g4? is a weakening move in a bad position.
But considering the gulf between the players and idea behind g4.
Can you not see the humour of it all?
You guys have been playing endings too long.
19 Mar 09
Originally posted by SwissGambit... in which 16.g4? is a weakening move in a bad position.
Surely the French defense version of this trap is better - White is playing sensible moves, and Black gets too eager to eat the d4 pawn, rather than this game, in which 16.g4? is a weakening move in a bad position.
But that's it - a roll of the dice - a gamble, why else was g4 played?
The joy it must have given the White player.
One thing you safely say about Palynka - he does not use a box 😉
19 Mar 09
Originally posted by greenpawn34Admittedly, if White does not unbalance the position in some fashion, he will lose thanks to the 2-pawn deficit. From that perspective, he might as well give g4 a try.
... in which 16.g4? is a weakening move in a bad position.
But that's it - a roll of the dice - a gamble, why else was g4 played?
The joy it must have given the White player.
One thing you safely say about Palynka - he does [b]not use a box 😉[/b]
19 Mar 09
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Originally posted by greenpawn34I know exactly what black was thinking -- I had a game against Dattu where a similar thing happened - except in my game it happened at the end of a series of exchanges that I thought would end up evenly - and suddenly there was this BxPch and I was thinking "what kind of weird sacrifice is this?" and soon after I realized that it was time to resign.
I stumbled across this.
I would loved to have seen Black's face when he saw 17.Bxh7+
It's a wonderful trap that White played for. A classic.
in short, beware situations where your opponent has a piece in between the queens, and where your queen doesn't have any backup -- this is probably a relatively common "trap"
19 Mar 09
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Game 5291608
Here's me loosing to a 13xx player (rated lower currently) in a rather uneventful game. I sucked, he deserves the win. It was one of those things where you immediately see your queen being attacked but you decide to consider other moves instead. By the end of it all you make a move and forget that originally your queen was under attack.
That'll show me
19 Mar 09
You are correct.
"this is probably a relatively common "trap"
But it just caught me at the right moment - I laughed.
You can almost feel the 'hope' that goes into g4 and then hear Black's
bottom jaw banging off the keyboard.
Sniggering at other player's mishaps is fun - there but for the
grace of God....etc....etc.