Originally posted by Data FlyExactly! Why not Bg3? It would cost black two moves to get his h pawn in position that would require Bh2. This would mean two moves for black to force one move for white! An easy way to tempt black into giving up tempo and over extending his pawns.
Not bad, but a better player (such as myself) would have played 10.Bg3 rather than 10.Bh2 as it was pretty obvious that Black would be threatening a back rank mate twenty moves later.
Originally posted by Data FlyYet you've never made a chess game move since joining on 17 Feb '10.... What am I missing?
Not bad, but a better player (such as myself) would have played 10.Bg3 rather than 10.Bh2 as it was pretty obvious that Black would be threatening a back rank mate twenty moves later.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThat way, he can continue to make people think he is a GM. Typical windbag, all talk, no action. Back seat driver. But what about 18 Qxf5? Isn't a case now he was forced to take the rook or lose the knight? Did he do that deliberately? Or was it an oversight and he had to come up with something fast?
Yet you've never made a chess game move since joining on 17 Feb '10.... What am I missing?
Originally posted by sonhouse"But what about 18 Qxf5?" -sonhouse Though we'll probably never know, I'm inclined to conclude he planned the move.
That way, he can continue to make people think he is a GM. Typical windbag, all talk, no action. Back seat driver. But what about 18 Qxf5? Isn't a case now he was forced to take the rook or lose the knight? Did he do that deliberately? Or was it an oversight and he had to come up with something fast?
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyGB, he was just being funny. It made me laugh because I have thought like that before, and I could see myself doing it in that position. When I laughed, I laughed at myself as much as anything.
Yet you've never made a chess game move since joining on 17 Feb '10.... What am I missing?
While the chess gods conceive of grand conceptions, we lesser lights dwell upon such banal threats as back-rank mates, because they are simple demons we understand.
Occasionally, as though looking through a glass, darkly, we play the right move for the most simplistic and pedestrian reasons.
Edit: Sorry, my brother in law is in town, which means the quality of the brew consumed increases dramatically!
Originally posted by Eladar...Nh5 only takes one move
Exactly! Why not Bg3? It would cost black two moves to get his h pawn in position that would require Bh2. This would mean two moves for black to force one move for white! An easy way to tempt black into giving up tempo and over extending his pawns.
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Originally posted by Paul Leggett"Sorry, my brother in law is in town, which means the quality of the brew consumed increases dramatically!" ~Paul Leggett
GB, he was just being funny. It made me laugh because I have thought like that before, and I could see myself doing it in that position. When I laughed, I laughed at myself as much as anything.
While the chess gods conceive of grand conceptions, we lesser lights dwell upon such banal threats as back-rank mates, because they are simple demons we und ...[text shortened]... brother in law is in town, which means the quality of the brew consumed increases dramatically!
"... the quality of the brew consumed" or the quantity [or both] "increases dramatically!"?
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Ha,
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI plead the fifth. Or plead for the fifth. Or something like that.
"Sorry, my brother in law is in town, which means the quality of the brew consumed increases dramatically!" ~Paul Leggett"... the quality of the brew consumed" or the quantity [or both] "increases dramatically!"?
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Ha,