Greenpawn's Free Advice

You will like this. It appeared on an old Corner years ago.

True story.

This lad came into the Edinburgh Chess Club in 1980/81 a few weeks
before an Edinburgh Congress and I played him a couple of games.
He was pretty raw and lost quite quickly.

He said he had entered the Congress and could I give him any advice.
I advised he was bringing his Queen out too early, which he was,
and I was developing on it, or simply trapping it.

I then, to show him his error, replayed our first game where I had won
his Queen around about move 10. He was duly impressed, we talked for a bit
and I showed him some well known traps where the Queen gets caught by coming out too early.

I did see him at the Congress but he withdrew after two games. (two losses).
I found the score of one of his games. His was Black.

You must remember my advice to him about bringing the Queen out too early.

“A lone Queen cannot the win game on her own.” I recall saying.

He is Black, I have to emphasise that.
This is what happened with my advice ringing in his ears.
He is Black.

LOL.

I seriously laughed out loud.

But what you said was good advice and of course its not going to work 100% of the time.

That is a PURE CLASSIC! I can't believe that actually happened, how ironic.

It is very ironic.

I was reminded about that game today by a friend of mine.

"He was doing OK till he met you."

When I originally put it on the The Corner I had his other loss
as well where he was White and that too featured a Black Queen
coming out and tanking him though it was not as dramatic as
the game I've shown here.

The lad was foreign, Blugarian/Romanian/Hungarian I think.
He was OK, just a bad chess player, nothing wrong in that.
I wonder what became of him. I never saw him again.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
"He was doing OK till he met you."

Originally posted by Renars
..hence I'm always overly cautious about Greenpawn's comments and advice left in these forums, like, for instance, the infamous [b]"don't touch your pawns" 😉 you always have to question Greenpawn until you're proven wrong...[/b]

No wonder he left the tourney.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Today's free advice:

"Castling is for wimps - don't do it." 🙂

Originally posted by passedpawn22
That is a PURE CLASSIC! I can't believe that actually happened, how ironic.

That's made my day!

This too: "He was OK, just a bad chess player..."

poor lad...

LOL, what a game!

yes v. funny - although "don't play rubbish moves" trumps "don't move your queen around too much" as far as advice goes.

I was thinking of something along the same lines Jonathan. My thoughts were "if you aren't very good, you are going to lose" When you are out classed, you are out classed and no amount of advice is going to change the outcome.