I just won a blitz game against a player rated 2029. The difference in ratings: 633 point. I played whites and the time control was 4 min and 2 secs:
Most probably my opponent was distracted by something (a phone call?) to loose his/her queen so easily. Any other examples? Did this happen to you?
In an OTB game once (when I was rated about 1750 USCF) I was playing a person rated 1230, and I was up a rook, and one move away from queening, and my opponent was desperately trying to perpetually checking me. My King had 5 squares; four would eventually lead me to getting out of the checks, one led to a mate in one. Guess which one I picked.
Just yesterday, I played a tournament where a USCF 2021 lost to a USCF 1178 in a rated game; a difference of 843 points!
I just cannot resist it.
I've given myself a chess forum ban 'cos I waste so much time
on here and other things suffered.
I come back for a quick look and you guys are leaving the door
open for instruction and gags and nobody is jumping in.
Pawn Rebellion: Instead of greedily going after the b4 Knight
on move 18 you have a forced mate in 5.
I don't care if it's a blitz game, you saw the winning of the Knight
quickly enough you should have seen and played the elementry
Queen and Rook mating pattern.
Korch please come back and show them how win at blitz.
And instead of making an excuse for him (a telephone call?)
you had the opportunity to slip this in;
Your opponent Photograbber was not focused did not
develop and played with a negative attitude.
😉
I had a quick peek at Photograbber's games.
He has taken Black in every one of his 79 games and has
been involved in some exciting chess.
He does not know his classics though.
You must know your classics.
How are you ever going to compose your own symphanys
if you don't even know the three chord trick?
Anyway, this game follows the Steinitz - Lasker 1896 W.C. match
and in the 3rd game Lasker gave back the piece with 11...Be6!
and played a beautiful game of chess.
Photograbber did not know of this game, tried to hang onto
the piece and got scudded.
It's Game Game 5882415
I suppose I should now give the Steinitz-Lasker game.
But I'm not. To give that game without Tartakowers notes would
be like giving you the cover of Sgt Pepper without the record inside.
And if you have not got Tartakower's 500 Master Games then
you are never ever going to learn the three chord trick!
(It's game No.8....Sorry, symphany No.8).
Don't be a geek and play out the Steinitz-Lasker game
from some bland database.
All you are doing there is looking at the words.
You must hear the music.
Originally posted by greenpawn34such a principle as it were. The economy of means you ask? How should
I just cannot resist it.
I've given myself a chess forum ban 'cos I waste so much time
on here and other things suffered.
I come back for a quick look and you guys are leaving the door
open for instruction and gags and nobody is jumping in.
[b]Pawn Rebellion: Instead of greedily going after the b4 Knight
on move 18 you have a forced mate ...[text shortened]... ing there is looking at the words.
You must hear the music.[/b]
I choose my own fate? Staving away material as treasure leaves his majesty
in despair, or taking the pawn, he controls the position....unhesitatingly
renounces spurious possessions.
Nothing is prettier than when the father of classic theory, falls to the theory's most illustrious proponent.
-GIN
Originally posted by greenpawn34That is certainly an emblematic < The King is Dead, Long Live the King > -game, Lasker's replacing Steinitz as the dominant champion of the world, championing positional chess.
I just cannot resist it.
I've given myself a chess forum ban 'cos I waste so much time
on here and other things suffered.
I come back for a quick look and you guys are leaving the door
open for instruction and gags and nobody is jumping in.
[b]Pawn Rebellion: Instead of greedily going after the b4 Knight
on move 18 you have a forced mate tabase.
All you are doing there is looking at the words.
You must hear the music.[/b]
For his opening statement, Tartakower writes (and Nowakowski quotes in part for us):
"Black, faced with the dilemma either of having an extra piece and submitting to an attack, or having an extra pawn only, with the superior position, unhesitatingly renounces spurious possessions."
When You say, "you must hear the music" I agree.
And for Pawn Rebellion's benefit, append this discussion by Gerald Abrahams.
Citing the "what if" of Black's unplayed 14... b4 in Reshevsky-Fine (Avro 1938),
or of Black's unplayed 24... fxNg6 in Pillsbury-Steinitz (Vienna 1898),
Abrahams writes:
"Not all the melodies of Chess are easy to appreciate.
"Often the moves that really matter are not actually played.
"They remain in potential being as factors that determine the play.
" ( That is why chess reporters are usually wrong in their selection of diagrams. They choose the position in which the spectacular move was made. The spectacular move usually possesses only an aesthetic merit which is irrelevant to chess. )
"If search be made in the scores of master chess, it will be found that many of the best melodies are unheard. "
* The unheard melody *
Originally posted by greenpawn34What about the mate in 2?
I just cannot resist it.
I've given myself a chess forum ban 'cos I waste so much time
on here and other things suffered.
I come back for a quick look and you guys are leaving the door
open for instruction and gags and nobody is jumping in.
[b]Pawn Rebellion: Instead of greedily going after the b4 Knight
on move 18 you have a forced mate ...[text shortened]... tabase.
All you are doing there is looking at the words.
You must hear the music.[/b]
Originally posted by greenpawn34Oh Greenpawn? What music do you hear when you breathe life
I just cannot resist it.
I've given myself a chess forum ban 'cos I waste so much time
on here and other things suffered.
I come back for a quick look and you guys are leaving the door
open for instruction and gags and nobody is jumping in.
[b]Pawn Rebellion: Instead of greedily going after the b4 Knight
on move 18 you have a forced mate ...[text shortened]... tabase.
All you are doing there is looking at the words.
You must hear the music.[/b]
into the lungs of this ?
[Event "St Petersburg"]
[Site "St Petersburg"]
[Date "1909.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Akiba Rubinstein"]
[Black "Jacques Mieses"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "88"]
1.d4 {Notes by Dr. Emanuel Lasker.} d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.c4 Nf6
4.cxd5 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nxd5 6.e4 Nf6 {Here interesting is
6...Nc7!? The continuation 7.Bf4 Nd7 8.Bc4 e5 9.Qb3 Qf6 10.Bg3
leads to a complicated game.} 7.Nc3 e5 {?! If 7...a6 8.e5 Nd5
9.e6 and Black stands worse. The right move here is 7...e6.}
8.Bb5+ {!} Bd7 9.Nf5 Nc6 {?!} 10.Nd6+ Bxd6 11.Qxd6 Qe7
12.Qxe7+ Nxe7 13.Be3 a6 14.Bxd7+ Nxd7 15.Ke2 Rc8 16.Rhd1 Nc5
17.Bxc5 {Better was to keep the bishop; e.g., 17.Rac1 Ne6
18.Nd5, etc.} Rxc5 18.Rac1 Nc6 {A mistake. Black should play
18...Rc7 followed by ...O-O.} 19.Rd5 {!} Rxd5 {If 19...Rc4
20.b3 Rd4 21.Ke3 f6 22.Na4 Ke7 23.Nc5 Rxd5 (23...Rb8 24.Nxb7)
24.exd5 Nb4 25.d6+ with advantage for White.} 20.exd5 Nd4+
21.Kd3 Ke7 22.f4 {!} f6 23.fxe5 fxe5 24.Ke4 Kd6 25.Rf1 Rc8
26.Rf7 Rc4 27.Kd3 Rb4 28.Rxg7 {Also strong was 28.b3 and White
will win at least a pawn; for example, 28...Nb5 29.Nxb5! Rxb5
30.Rxg7 h5 31.Rh7 Rxd5+ 32.Ke3.} Rxb2 29.Rxh7 Rxg2 30.Rh6+ Kd7
31.Rh7+ Kd6 32.Rh6+ Kd7 33.Ne4 {!} Rxa2 34.Rh7+ Kd8 35.d6 Nb5
{The threat was Nf6 and Rh8+ mate.} 36.Kc4 Ra5 37.Rxb7 Na3+
38.Kb4 {!} Rb5+ 39.Rxb5 Nxb5 40.Kc5 Kd7 41.Kd5 a5 42.Nc5+ Ke8
43.Kxe5 Kf7 44.Nb7 {Rubinstein conducted the endgame of this
game with monumental mastery.} 1-0
Originally posted by Pawn RebellionYou missed mate on move 22. Although I agree it was blitz and I probably would have missed it as well. 🙂
I just won a blitz game against a player rated 2029. The difference in ratings: 633 point. I played whites and the time control was 4 min and 2 secs:
[pgn][Event "RHP Blitz rated"] [Site "www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2009.4.13"] [Round "?"] [White "Pawn Rebellion"] [Black "Photograper"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e2-e4 e7-e5 2. Ng1-f3 Nb8-c6 3. Bf1-c4 Ng8-f ...[text shortened]... ll?) to loose his/her queen so easily. Any other examples? Did this happen to you?
I just won a blitz game with a player rated 2061. The difference in ratings: 667 points!! The time control was 4-2. I played whites:
My opponent fell into an old trap and lost his/her queen. Any other examples of high difference in ratings, with lower-rated player winning?