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My win against 1700s (fluke)

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Yeah! I won a game against 1700s player! (I'm high 1500s) I think it was a fluke though 🙂

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1.c4e5
2.Nb1c3Nb8c6
3.g3f5
4.d3Ng8f6
5.Bf1g2Bf8b4
6.Bc1d2O-O
7.e4f4
8.gxf4exf4
9.Ng1f3d6
10.Qd1e2Bc8g4
11.O-O-ONc6d4
12.Qe2f1Nd4xf3

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      It was no fluke. White messed about, and missed Nd4.

      White should develop his KN, and aim for O-O. As played, it's too slow; B has an easy game anyway.

      Take wins like this as you find them, and move on

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      People are people and they make mistakes. Here's a game where I beat a 1700. He's still a low 1700. I have the white pieces:

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      1.d4Ng8f6
      2.Ng1f3g6
      3.Bc1f4Bf8g7
      4.e3O-O
      5.Nb1c3d5
      6.Bf1e2Nb8d7
      7.h4c5
      8.Nf3e5cxd4
      9.exd4Nd7b6
      10.Be2f3Nb6c4
      11.Ne5xc4dxc4
      12.Qd1d2e6
      13.O-O-ONf6d5
      14.Nc3xd5exd5
      15.Bf4e5Bc8e6
      16.Be5xg7Kg8xg7
      17.h5a5
      18.hxg6f5
      19.Rh1xh7Kg7f6
      20.Qd2h6Rf8g8
      21.Qh6h4Kf6xg6
      22.Qh4h6

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          It's happened to me before too. In each case the higher rated player had a bigger game load and I was giving a lot of time and effort to each move. From where I sit the 1700+ player seems invincible - but they're not. I've also been on the other side where someone 200 points or so below me has taught me a chess lesson.

          Good game btw.

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          Originally posted by Mahout
          It's happened to me before too. In each case the higher rated player had a bigger game load and I was giving a lot of time and effort to each move. From where I sit the 1700+ player seems invincible - but they're not. I've also been on the other side where someone 200 points or so below me has taught me a chess lesson.

          Good game btw.
          yeah me too I've won from a 1900 but it was a total fluke anyway

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          1.e4e5
          2.d4Ng8f6
          3.dxe5Nf6xe4
          4.Qd1d5f5
          5.exf6Ne4xf6
          6.Qd5f3Nb8c6
          7.Bc1e3d5
          8.Bf1d3Bc8g4
          9.Qf3f4d4
          10.Be3d2Bf8b4
          11.Bd3c4Qd8e7
          12.Ng1e2O-O-O
          13.f3Bg4e6
          14.Bc4d3Nf6d5
          15.Qf4g3Nd5e3
          16.c3Ne3c2
          17.Bd3xc2d3
          18.cxb4dxe2
          19.Nb1a3Nc6xb4
          20.Bc2e4Qe7d7
          21.Bd2xb4Qd7d1
          22.Ra1xd1exd1=Q
          23.Ke1f2Qd1xh1
          24.Qg3xg7Rh8g8
          25.Qg7xh7Qh1xg2
          26.Kf2e3Qg2g1
          27.Ke3f4Qg1g5

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              I've also lost against 1200s so had a taste of each, somehow prefer winning though...

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              Originally posted by orion25
              yeah me too I've won from a 1900 but it was a total fluke anyway

              [pgn]
              [Event "February 2009 Quartets VI"]
              [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
              [Date "2009.03.02"]
              [EndDate "2009.04.09"]
              [Round "1"]
              [White "gundel"]
              [Black "orion25"]
              [WhiteRating "1972"]
              [BlackRating "1484"]
              [WhiteELO "1972"]
              [BlackELO "1484"]
              [Result "0-1"]
              [GameId "6064664"] ...[text shortened]... ainst 1200s so had a taste of each, somehow prefer winning though...
              24.Qe5 instead of 24.Qxg7 and if the obvious 24...Rhe8 then
              25.Bxb7+ is surely a perpetual.

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              Originally posted by Mahout
              It's happened to me before too. In each case the higher rated player had a bigger game load and I was giving a lot of time and effort to each move. From where I sit the 1700+ player seems invincible - but they're not. I've also been on the other side where someone 200 points or so below me has taught me a chess lesson.

              Good game btw.
              I almost dropped a game (well drew at least) against someone 400 points lower rated. won it just today, with a bit of luck, but it could've easily been at least drawn. so how did I screw up? dropping a pinned piece for a 1-mover!

              and to make the blunder worse, I missed an elementary way to save that piece right after it 'dropped'. two oversights worth a piece in a row.

              Game 6086705


              everybody drops the ball every now and then. be there to catch it.

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              Originally posted by Guych
              Yeah! I won a game against 1700s player! (I'm high 1500s) I think it was a fluke though 🙂

              [pgn][Event "June 2009 Octet XIV"]
              [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
              [Date "2009.06.14"]
              [EndDate "2009.06.15"]
              [Round "1"]
              [White "bob58"]
              [Black "Guych"]
              [WhiteRating "1704"]
              [BlackRating "1599"]
              [WhiteELO "1704"]
              [BlackELO "1599"]
              [Result "0-1"]
              [GameI ...[text shortened]... Ng1f3 d6 10. Qd1e2 Bc8g4 11. O-O-O Nc6d4 12. Qe2f1 Nd4xf3 0-1
              [/pgn]
              I believe there are no flukes in chess, every win should be considered a well deserved victory. after that, you may try to work on your mistakes (if there are any). this of course goes both ways. one should never describe a loss as "bad luck".

              in short, well done 🙂

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              King David is one of the nicest guys on here...
              next to dhdenbow (whose name is also David 🙂 )

              I got lucky on this one...pure fluke.

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              1.d4d5
              2.e4dxe4
              3.Bc1e3h6
              4.Bf1c4Ng8f6
              5.Nb1c3c6
              6.Ng1e2e6
              7.Ne2g3Bf8b4
              8.O-OBb4xc3
              9.bxc3Nb8d7
              10.f4exf3
              11.Qd1xf3Nd7b6
              12.Bc4b3Nb6d5
              13.Bb3xd5Nf6xd5

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                  Thanks to everyone! I thought it was a fluke because I only saw it at the very last moment. Almost placing my piece on the correct square by luck 🙂

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                  Originally posted by wormwood
                  I almost dropped a game (well drew at least) against someone 400 points lower rated. won it just today, with a bit of luck, but it could've easily been at least drawn. so how did I screw up? dropping a pinned piece for a 1-mover!

                  and to make the blunder worse, I missed an elementary way to save that piece right after it 'dropped'. two oversights worth a ...[text shortened]...

                  Game 6086705


                  everybody drops the ball every now and then. be there to catch it.
                  "Everybody drops the ball every now and then. be there to catch it." - I like this one.
                  I guess it was the knight that was pinned to mate threat. How could you save that knight?

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                  Originally posted by wormwood
                  I almost dropped a game (well drew at least) against someone 400 points lower rated. won it just today, with a bit of luck, but it could've easily been at least drawn. so how did I screw up? dropping a pinned piece for a 1-mover!

                  and to make the blunder worse, I missed an elementary way to save that piece right after it 'dropped'. two oversights worth a ...[text shortened]...

                  Game 6086705


                  everybody drops the ball every now and then. be there to catch it.
                  Didn't look through the game yet but noticed the ending was Q+N and 5 pawns vs Q+B and 5 pawns. Not much work has been devoted to endings with the queens on for whatever reason but in my studies I have come to believe that Q+N is better than Q+B. This is because the bishop is stuck on one color and the queen can do any function that the bishop can so the bishop often gets in the way whereas the knight has that odd move and can serve many functions that the queen can't. In conclusion I believe that the queen works much better with the knight than it does with the bishop. Whether this is enough to force wins I don't know. I wonder if anybody has looked into Q+B vs Q+N with no pawns? That would be interesting to see those results.

                  These are the same reasons why I think that the bishop pair isn't so superior when the queens are still on. Of course, it always depends on the position though.

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                  Originally posted by tomtom232
                  Didn't look through the game yet but noticed the ending was Q+N and 5 pawns vs Q+B and 5 pawns. Not much work has been devoted to endings with the queens on for whatever reason but in my studies I have come to believe that Q+N is better than Q+B. This is because the bishop is stuck on one color and the queen can do any function that the bishop can so the b ...[text shortened]... superior when the queens are still on. Of course, it always depends on the position though.
                  for the middlegame I think it was Capablanca who first mentioned K+Q would be favorable against B+Q in most positions. that probably should work for endings too.

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                  Originally posted by Guych
                  "Everybody drops the ball every now and then. be there to catch it." - I like this one.
                  I guess it was the knight that was pinned to mate threat. How could you save that knight?
                  ...f5 g4 and the bishop on h3 is gone. it seems so obvious now. missing pawn moves is quite typical problem for me.

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                  Originally posted by tomtom232
                  Didn't look through the game yet but noticed the ending was Q+N and 5 pawns vs Q+B and 5 pawns. Not much work has been devoted to endings with the queens on for whatever reason but in my studies I have come to believe that Q+N is better than Q+B. This is because the bishop is stuck on one color and the queen can do any function that the bishop can so the b superior when the queens are still on. Of course, it always depends on the position though.
                  could be. but I tend to look at everything in a very concrete way, and ignore most generalizations like that. here I simply looked at slipping my king up the board, and somehow hopping the horsey to c8, which seemed winning for me. rybka disagreed, and claimed 0.00 for some moves with the black queen on 1st rank. maybe it saw a perpetual, I don't know. but it seemed to me I could've just forced a queen swap by interposing my queen between black queen and my escaping king (because black queen not returning on black's side would likely mean a quick mate). so when black didn't take the knight, I thought I was likely winning, as with queens off and my king infiltrated, black queenside would've been beyond saving (didn't see a mate yet then).

                  my main concern was not to get mated (or dropping the bishop with a check) when allowing the black queen to infiltrate (needed the tempi for the attack). it was a bit risky, and I used a lot of time making sure it worked. still didn't see everything, and almost moved my knight and got mated in the centre. now that would've been painful. 🙂

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