16 Dec 12
Originally posted by RagwortI did not know that having endgame with pawn down is called "drawing easily".
See it's very easy to look in an opening book or database and translate a question mark you see there into a disparaging remark on a forum without proving that you understand why a move is worthy of a question mark to someone who genuinely does not know.
After 1. d4 d5, 2. c4 attacks Blacks d pawn. Black decides not to waste tempo or give up the centre by ...[text shortened]... g4 Bf8 28.b3 Bh6+ 29.Kd3 Bf4 30.h3 Bxd2 31.Kxd2 g5 1/2-1/2
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Everybody calm down... RJ, please remove your hand from that bishop. Pacifique, put down the rook!
This is all just a big misunderstanding.
There is no such thing as crap chess. There is chess and then there is chess. There are moves that lose and moves that win, without these two possibilities chess would not be the game it is today!
So, get down off your towering (in your own minds at least) knights and get your hands dirty with some real analysis complete with diagrams and pgn moving contraptions.
Oh, I almost forgot. There is one exception to there being no crap chess... The Colle is crap chess. Right Robbie? Now move along everybody... There's nothing more to see here....... unless you want to see GP do a jig with a pint of beer atop his head (he'd probably manage to do that, somehow drink the pint without removing it from his head and write a smashing blog all while playing a few skittles games)
White to move
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16 Dec 12
Originally posted by tomtom232My first thought is "a free pawn for grabbing" but I am sure a patzer, like yourself, has something more exciting for our new member than that. 😏
Everybody calm down... RJ, please remove your hand from that bishop. Pacifique, put down the rook!
This is all just a big misunderstanding.
There is no such thing as crap chess. There is chess and then there is chess. There are moves that lose and moves that win, without these two possibilities chess would not be the game it is today!
So, get do ...[text shortened]... ittles games)
[fen]6q1/6p1/2k4p/R6B/p7/8/2P3P1/2K5 w - - 0 1[/fen]
White to move
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16 Dec 12
Originally posted by tomtom232Thats a good one !
Everybody calm down... RJ, please remove your hand from that bishop. Pacifique, put down the rook!
This is all just a big misunderstanding.
There is no such thing as crap chess. There is chess and then there is chess. There are moves that lose and moves that win, without these two possibilities chess would not be the game it is today!
So, get do ...[text shortened]... ittles games)
[fen]6q1/6p1/2k4p/R6B/p7/8/2P3P1/2K5 w - - 0 1[/fen]
White to move
🙂
16 Dec 12
Originally posted by tomtom232
Everybody calm down... RJ, please remove your hand from that bishop. Pacifique, put down the rook!
This is all just a big misunderstanding.
There is no such thing as crap chess. There is chess and then there is chess. There are moves that lose and moves that win, without these two possibilities chess would not be the game it is today!
So, get do ...[text shortened]... ittles games)
[fen]6q1/6p1/2k4p/R6B/p7/8/2P3P1/2K5 w - - 0 1[/fen]
White to move
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1.Ra8! and now all moves lose the queen e.g. 1....Qh7 2.Bg6, 1...Qxa8 2.Bf3+ 1...Qxa2 2.Rxa4! Qg8 3.Ra8!
19 Dec 12
Originally posted by tomtom232Thanks for that Tom. IMO one of the coolest problems I've ever seen.
Everybody calm down... RJ, please remove your hand from that bishop. Pacifique, put down the rook!
This is all just a big misunderstanding.
There is no such thing as crap chess. There is chess and then there is chess. There are moves that lose and moves that win, without these two possibilities chess would not be the game it is today!
So, get do ...[text shortened]... ittles games)
[fen]6q1/6p1/2k4p/R6B/p7/8/2P3P1/2K5 w - - 0 1[/fen]
White to move
🙂
06 Feb 13
Originally posted by vivifyWhoa!
Just when I thought the Queen's Gambit was unstoppable (because I haven't found a counter for it), here comes this opponent, with a great answer for it. The Queen's Gambit is typically the ultimate opening for taking control of the center, but black has an unexpected counter.
[pgn][Date "????.??.??"]
[Result "*"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP ...[text shortened]... most likely would've lost, if not for his mistake on move #20. }
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stop at:
"1.d4 d5 2.c4 { I find that my opponents have the most difficult time against the Queen's Gambit, whether they decline or accept it. Not this guy. } 2...Nf6 3.c5 ..."
THAT is not the Queen's Gambit.
That is the London System, a strategically-flawed variation stemming From the Queen's Gambit, which may work in blitz chess, but not in correspondence chess.
In fact, it should not even work in blitz chess, giving up as it does tension in the center.
Tension should always be built and maintained in blitz, and it's not a bad idea to utilize it in classical chess as well.
In general, whatever the opening, at every state of the game, as Dearing writes,
"the way to beat your opponent is to set him as many problems as possible, . . .
and so many problems that the intensity of the problems reaches a level that exceeds his problem-solving ability."
An approach to winning in the Queen's Gambit, or any opening is to give your opponent as much to think about as possible, making every effort to burden him with decisions, so as to induce his looking for the best move at each turn by presenting him with an array of choices, especially, as one of the players here puts it, in "tight, strategic battles with many strong candidate moves."
You want to win the QG, you build & maintain the board tension, rather than simplifying the position.