You Have Just Got To Laugh

Bliitz game last night. I'm White.
Yes your hero is ahead a Rook and a Bishop. Time to wrap it up.



If I get the King onto b7 then I have a Knight fork on d6.
1.Rxb7+ and he can take back with the Queen.

So 1. Bxa7+ Kxa7 2.Qa4+ ties down the Queen to holding the e8 Rook.
THEN I can play Rxb7+ and fork on d6.
It's all with check so it's forced. End of analysis. I am a genius.

Look at diagram. The e-file is cluttered with pieces and I have
two pieces on my back rank. He has no threat on the e-file.

lol, you take the queen, while you could take the rook on check.....

Tell me this is a joke. come on, you can't do this.

Hopefully one day I can laugh when something like that happens to me. I'd just get angry and think "how could I blow this won game".

I think I need to re-assess my definition of a 'won game'. There's no such thing as a 'won game' until it is actually won.

Thanks for the thread. I have high hopes that this will help.

i almost didn't see it, though i was a goner for sure. thanks for the game.😉😛

Brilliant, in the initial position White has fifteen ways to win - Nd6, Qa4, Kh1, a3?? - and you manage to choose the most chandleresque one... 🙂

Hi

It is good. It looks like a helpmate.
There is a pawn or two dotted about in the actual game but nothing
that interfers with how the game went.

I was too wrapped up in my own plans and that Rook on g2 must have
been a Bishop in my mind.

I'm reminded of an Allegro game with Elaine Rutherford.

This is not the exact position but the idea is there.
It is the rear eand of a 5/6 move combo - the last few moves went like this.



I played 1.Rxa7 Kxa7 2.Qa5+ Kb8 3.....
then realised the the f1 Rook was a Bishop - OOPs.

I know I'm alone here. I recall seeing a Tal note to a game he lost.
He had in his mind sacced two Rooks on h1 to give a Rook check on h1.
He had run out of Rooks.

Blitz slips happen all the time - you play 8 or 9 games v opponents
who make silly moves. Then you yourself go into clumsy mode.

Also sometimes you just let it happen.
One lad kept trying the Shilling Gambit on me - 3...Nd4.
And I kept winning with 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+



I sent a message on his 4th attempt saying 'OK OK OK - I'll fall for it."
and let it happen.

He was over joyed - he said he had never actually caught anyone
with it before and thanked me.

Sometimes winning is not everything. Especially at blitz.

How about this? A thing of beauty:

Hey mate, I think your line can be stunted. After checking with "teh BoX" I'm pretty sure... 🙁
Sorry mate.

i'm not laughing...

What you have done? I'm sorry for you. Anyway I have lost that way once but not here. I was exactly a rook up (Bishop +Rook vs Bishop with equal number of pawns).

As far as I'm concern, there is nothing to regret but a lot to learn. After all I'm human. Furthermore I play to enjoy the game. Winning to me is an additional factor to enjoy the game.

Win or lose, let's us appreciate our game. Always try for the best.

Don't feel sorry for me. I love it.

I swindle and cheapo that many players in OTB games
I know I have to give one back every now and then.

Glad it was in a blitz game - that means Caissa owes me 10 swindles.

If I was hurt by it, I would not have posted it.

Originally posted by Big Orange Country
[pgn][Event "RHP Blitz rated"]
[Site "www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2009.6.7"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Big Orange Country"]
[Black "colpro"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. d2-d4 d7-d5 2. Ng1-f3 Ng8-f6 3. Bc1-f4 h7-h6 4. e2-e3 Bc8-g4 5. Nb1-d2 Nb8-c6 6. h2-h3 Bg4xf3 7. Nd2xf3 Nf6-e4 8. Nf3-e5 Nc6xe5 9. Bf4xe5 f7-f6 10. Qd1-h5 Ke8-d7 11. Be5-h2 c7-c6 12. c2-c ...[text shortened]... just an odd place for the white king to end up. I thought it was funny. haha HAHA

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Speaking of ...e6 - why not play it even earlier, like on move 15?

Black should trying to win white's KING - not some useless Rook in a corner. 🙂

[fen]r4b1r/pp1kp1p1/2p2p1p/3p3Q/2PPn1K1/4P2P/PP3qPB/R4B1R b - - 0 15[/fen]

How will white get out of this alive?

Originally posted by Big Orange Country
actually, from that position cant black play g6 and win either a queen or a very quick forced mate or (likely) the queen and a subsequent forced mate.