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Everyone always shows their best games.I'm sick of all that good chess 🙂
One move blunders are welcome but even better is a series of poor decisions.
Here's 2 of mine.
kristjan-torten Game 8498317 Everything's fine 'till around move 15 where I show a failure to understand the position,defend poor and end with a powerful blunder.
Credit to kristjan who understood things far better.
1. e4 e5 2. Ng1f3 Nb8c6 3. Bf1b5 a6 4. Bb5a4 Ng8f6 5. Nb1c3 b5 6. Ba4b3 Bf8c5 7. O-O d6 {The database says that until here I played like a master. Ruy lopez was an opening I knew more than 2 moves.} 8. Nf3g5 Qd8e7 {Defending the pawn? Seems that I don't want to trade my rook. } 9. Bb3xf7 Ke8d8 10. Bf7b3 Nc6d4 {At that time I liked a lot to tackle directly problem pieces. In those cases I couldn't see anything else.} 11. d3 {My opponent is giving me another chance. Nf7?} Nd4xb3 12. axb3 Bc8g4 {Hunt the queen down. Development too.} 13. Ng5f3 Nf6h5 14. Nc3xb5 {Fooled me once.} Kd8d7 15. Nb5c3 Ra8f8 {Attack of course. Who cares about pawns or opening up my position.} 16. Nc3d5 Qe7d8 17. Nf3xe5 {Fooled me twice.} 1-0
I was playing at work, and had my screen shrunk down so I couldn't get caught; thus, I couldn't see the whole board at once. This mistake caused my ranking to go down severly. Well, serves me right for playing games at work.
Yeah, that was bad. To sum up my position at the end: King: exposed; rooks: going nowhere; minor pieces: unco-ordinated (the w-squared bishop should get particular mention here); pawns: useless.
Yeah, that was bad. To sum up my position at the end: King: exposed; rooks: going nowhere; minor pieces: unco-ordinated (the w-squared bishop should get particular mention here); pawns: useless.
I'd be more worried about being nearly a whole queen down...
Originally posted by vivify Never thought I'd actually see that one rare time where it's better to promote to a knight, in a real game.
http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/ChessTutor/curio.zip
contains seven knight promotions, each played by, presumably, professional players. I haven't checked whether each was necessary, but I presume so.
http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/ChessTutor/minor.zip
contains forty-something promotions to bishop or rook. Not nearly all of them are necessary. Trivial rook promotions are much easier to find than knight ones, for obvious reasons; I've even made one myself on this site.
That 3...Qe7 in the Latvian is now in the theorectical dustbin.
I knew that when I got scudded in 15 or 16 moves with it OTB last time I tried it.
I just had to try it.
3...Nc6?! (possibly even riskier than 3....Qe7 )3..Qf6 is the move.
Originally posted by greenpawn34 That 3...Qe7 in the Latvian is now in the theorectical dustbin.
I knew that when I got scudded in 15 or 16 moves with it OTB last time I tried it.
I just had to try it.
3...Nc6?! (possibly even riskier than 3....Qe7 )3..Qf6 is the move.
Two pints you owe me. 🙂
Can I send the pints in the post?
I kind of realised 3...Qe7 wasn't working when after 7.Qh3 I couldn't see anywhere to go. Ah well, guess it's back to 3...Qf6 for me now.
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16 Jul '11 15:371 edit
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