Oops! I did it again! :S

~~Exy~~

Damn fine Clan!

Only Chess

14 Apr 05 21:12

~~Exy~~

Damn fine Clan!

The Double R Diner

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14 Apr 05 21:12

4 edits

Remember this?
Game 822018

[fen]rnb1k1nr/ppp2ppp/8/8/8/2N3q1/PPPPP3/R1BQKBNR[/fen]

Well - guess what?!
Game 1078664

Why do I have a blind spot to this?! Do you think it's cos I'm left handed? 😲

Perfect Patzer

In Your Local Park

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14 Apr 05 21:43

I wanna play you! I get black!

buddy2

Hainesport, NJ, USA

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14 Apr 05 21:44

In my (ahem, humble) you're waiting too long to bring the g knight out to cover all queen attacks. If you're going to play the Bird, it's something you allways have tokeep in mind. Probably this is the last time it'll happen in your lifetime. You'll learn the lesson well.

wib

Stay outta my biznez

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14 Apr 05 21:51

Originally posted by Exy
Well - guess what?!
Game 1078664

[fen]rnb1kbnr/pppp1ppp/4p3/8/5PPq/8/PPPPP2P/RNBQKBNR[/fen]

Why do I have a blind spot to this?! Do you think it's cos I'm left handed? 😲

You could have done that in the final round of that tourney we were in and I would have been quite grateful. But OOOOHHHH NOOOOOO...

🙂

The Swine Down Hope

The 3rd Coming

London

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14 Apr 05 22:00

v. amusing - thanks for sharing

Bowmann

Non-Subscriber

RHP IQ

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14 Apr 05 22:26

Are you for real, Exy? Rated around 1900 and falling for variations on "Fool's Mate" over and over...??

Sicilian Sausage

In your face

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14 Apr 05 22:43

A rating of 1800 plus and playing like that!???? Call the mods!!!!!! Foul play afoot.😛

gumbie

The man himself

Totally lost

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14 Apr 05 22:50

Thanks, I had never seen it in a real game of chess.

What WERE you thinking?

~~Arrakis~~

D_U_N_E

Arrakis

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15 Apr 05 01:06

Originally posted by Exy
Well - guess what?!
Game 1078664

[fen]rnb1kbnr/pppp1ppp/4p3/8/5PPq/8/PPPPP2P/RNBQKBNR[/fen]

Why do I have a blind spot to this?! Do you think it's cos I'm left handed? 😲

Of course it's always recommended in these lines to bring out the K-knight ASAP! 😕

Nyxie

The eyes of truth

elsewhere

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Moves: 21784

15 Apr 05 07:19

Originally posted by Exy
Well - guess what?!
Game 1078664

[fen]rnb1kbnr/pppp1ppp/4p3/8/5PPq/8/PPPPP2P/RNBQKBNR[/fen]

Why do I have a blind spot to this?! Do you think it's cos I'm left handed? 😲

Thank you exy. I don't feel so shamed now when I make amazing blunders.

~~Exy~~

Damn fine Clan!

The Double R Diner

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15 Apr 05 07:47

Originally posted by Bowmann
Are you for real, Exy? Rated around 1900 and falling for variations on "Fool's Mate" over and over...??

It's only been twice in over 1500 games! I think I'll just steer clear of the Bird, it's obviously not for me! 😕

~~Exy~~

Damn fine Clan!

The Double R Diner

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15 Apr 05 08:02

5 edits

Originally posted by gumbie
Thanks, I had never seen it in a real game of chess.

What WERE you thinking?

I only ever seem to do it on the Bird (only twice to date) when I'm firing off opening moves in tournaments and trying to play quickly. I get thrown when they don't play King pawn to E5 and forget that my next move should be knight F3, I just seem to have a mental block about it!

I'm sure I would never make this mistake OTB, it must be a visualisation weakness when playing in 2D (I hope!) Does anybody else have any bogie opening blunders they wish to share with the group?

Svin1

*

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15 Apr 05 08:33

Originally posted by Exy
I only ever seem to do it on the Bird (only twice to date) when I'm firing off opening moves in tournaments and trying to play quickly.

I get thrown when they don't play King pawn to E5 and forget that my next move should be knight F3, I just seem to have a mental block about it!

I'm sure I would never make this mistake OTB, it must be a visualisation ...[text shortened]... ope!) 🙄

Does anybody else have any bogie opening blunders they wish to share with the group?

Not from this site, but also a Bird that became prey: 1.f4 e5 2.e4 Bc5 3.fxe5 Qh4+ --bye bye rook and game.

Thanks for sharing! Game number two is a classic; something I knew was possible but never expected to see in real play. Why would you ever want to push the g-pawn so early in Bird's?

flexmore

Quack Quack Quack !

Chesstralia

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15 Apr 05 08:41

Game 1069206

~~Exy~~

Damn fine Clan!

The Double R Diner

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15 Apr 05 13:08

2 edits

Originally posted by Svin1
Why would you ever want to push the g-pawn so early in Bird's?

Svin1, this is my whole point - why, oh why, did I play it?! I know I should have played the knight - I guess the days of blitzing through my openings, especially in tournament games, are over!