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    15 Mar '20 14:38
    I assume you saw the mate which is why you sac'd your queen to get his queen off the diagonal.

    Thanks for that game, I will look at that game a few more times. Multiple ideas to get from that game. Hopefully I can work a portion of it into my play.
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    30 Mar '20 05:001 edit
    Just got another one. I like the look of the board at the end. I also like the power of the dark bishop after a destroyed pawn defense. After greenpawn pointed it out to me earlier today!

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    30 Mar '20 05:04
    @greenpawn34 said
    Hi Guys,

    If we are showing blitz games then please forgive me for re-posing (sic);

    *** Thread 134311***

    "Next time you are going to play a blitz session, open up this thread
    and rub your finger against my avatar and some of the greenpawn
    luck I had in this game might just rub off onto you."

    If you cannot be bothered to go to the linked thread a ...[text shortened]... Queen away from defending the g4 square.} 18. Bb5 Qxb5+ 19. Qxb5 g6+ 20. Kh6 Ng4 {Checkmate.} [/pgn]
    Wow Greenpawn, just wow.

    Look at it again after a bit and it blows me away even more than before.
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    30 Mar '20 10:07
    HI Eladar,

    It's really a selfish way of playing in a blitz session. I sac-sac-sac then just resign.
    Once every 10 games I may get a hit and that is the game that is remembered.
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    @greenpawn34

    So you play aggressively hoping for the stars to align.
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    Had this 15 min game over the weekend after 45 ... Be7. Finished 46. f6 Bf8 47. Rxh5+ and opponent resigned instead of 47... Bh6 48 Rxh6#.
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    30 Mar '20 21:181 edit
    Very nice. When my computer program was teaching me mating patterns I called that a tube mate. I gave mates all sorts of stupid names.

    A queen next to a king I called Mickey Mouse Ears because those were the other squares needing to be covered.
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    30 Apr '20 04:534 edits
    Ok this game is a split personality. Up until move 30, I thought I played poorly but from 30 on I thought pretty cool. Rook sac, to set up a sweet little pawn push, then a backside bishop all while about down.

    I am white

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    30 Apr '20 17:232 edits
    @Eladar

    nice, looks like he has to take the rook since after 32... Rf6 33. Rh8 is crushing.
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    30 Apr '20 17:302 edits
    He had my queen trapped. He could have simply traded.
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    01 May '20 03:00
    Ok, this is a well known one, but playing queen' s gambit I get to play it every so often. Just got it 5 minutes ago.


    I think people assume you blunder trying to attack the bishop square twice.
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    04 Jun '20 18:44
    Played blitz for the first time in a few weeks and came up with this
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    @KingMe

    Awesome
  14. Subscribermoonbus
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    06 Jun '20 09:29
    Reti - Tartakower, Vienna 1910. This must have been a huge embarrassment to Tartakower.


  15. SubscriberChris Guffogg
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    @BigDoggProblem

    Hilarious - Like a drunk tramp staggering off into the distance🚬
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