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The futility of thinking...

The futility of thinking...

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c

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I feel the need to share...
In a game I have in progress (so no commenting the game) I found
by move nine a very nice knight move delivering two threats on the next move (KQ fork and attacking a boxed in rook)
(White to move)

After a delaying bishop trade (10. Bxf6 Qxf6) my opponent played a move (11. Nc3) that seemed to take care of both threats. And I started thinking....
I realised I could take the knight (Nxc3) pretty safely because the fork was still there and began analysing ways get away with a piece up. I Analysed a LOONG time. Much effort went into it.

Then it turns out my opponent hadn't even seen the fork threat! Now his queen is toast and I wasted a lot of time... I can only hope I learned some thing from all that analysing. :-)

PGN:
[Event "mini-tournament"]
[Site "gameknot"]
[Date "2005.09.12"]
[White ""]
[Black "chasparos"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1451"]
[BlackElo "1368"]
[TimeControl "259200+86400"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Termination "unterminated"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 d5 4. exd5 Nxd5 5. Qf3 Be6
6. Nh3 Be7 7. Qg3 Bf6 8. O-O Nc6 9. Bg5 Nd4 10. Bxf6 Qxf6
11. Nc3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Ne2+ *

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Originally posted by chasparos
I feel the need to share...
In a game I have in progress (so no commenting the game) I found
by move nine a very nice knight move delivering two threats on the next move (KQ fork and attacking a boxed in rook)
[fen]r2qk2r/ppp2ppp/4bb2/3np1B1/2Bn4/3P2QN/PPP2PPP/RN3RK1[/fen] (White to move)

After a delaying bishop trade (10. Bxf6 Qxf6) my opponent pl ...[text shortened]... Be6
6. Nh3 Be7 7. Qg3 Bf6 8. O-O Nc6 9. Bg5 Nd4 10. Bxf6 Qxf6
11. Nc3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Ne2+ *
Mind you, you could have directly moved 10. ...Ne2+! winning the queen, because his king is still in check when you take the queen.

I think his best option would have been 11. Kh1 Nxc2 12. Bxd5! Bxd5 13. Nc3.

c

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You see!?! Even when I'm really trying.... *sulk*

C

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Originally posted by chasparos
You see!?! Even when I'm really trying.... *sulk*
me too. Wanna be emo?

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All Bark, No Bite

Playing percussion

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thursdays are the best emo days

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