That sucks, the position still looks like at least an easy draw (probably even a white win) to me after sacing the rook for the b-pawn. But certainly hard to readjust there

Lmao wow, but as said, you sack the rook for his passed pawn and you can win the g+h pawns with a secure draw + winning chances.

i first planned on being a smartass about that too but didnt bother. e8n b2 re1 rxe8 rb1 rf8+ (or maybe kb3 and if kxg6 rg8+) or something like that looks like a dead draw to me

Except that after e8N b2 Re1 Rxe8 white plays Rxe8 and after b1Q Ra8+

well its a good thing i didnt bother

brag: just beat my highest rated opponent ever
beat: his rating was 1471

started into a reti, moved into a queens pawn game. I dont think its bad considering the rating difference (200+ points)

1. Nf3 d5
2. d4 Nc6
3. g3 Bg4
4. Bg2 Bxf3
5. Bxf3 e6
6. 0-0 f5
7. c4 Nf6
8. Bg5 Be7
9. Nc3 dxc4
10. Bxc6+ bxc6
11. Qa4 0-0
12. Qxc6 Ne4
13. Qxe6+ Rf7
14. Nxe4 fxe4
15. Bxe7 Qxe7
16. Qxe7 Rxe7
17. Rfc1 Rd7
18. Rxc4 Rad8
19. e3 Rf7
20. Rac1 Rdf8
21. R1c2 Re7
22. Rxc7 Rxc7
23. Rxc7 Rf7
24. Rc8+ Rf8
25. Rxf8+ Kf8
26. Kg2 Ke7
27. f3 exf3
28. Kxf3 a5
29. Ke4 Ke6
30. d5+ Kd6
31. Kd4 h5
32. e4 1-0

Yeah no doubt about it. Looking at it sober the plan for white is easy to spot, but at the time it wasn't happening. The horror of seeing your essentially forced win not happen due to an impossible underpromotion was just too much to take. My play rapidly degenerated, and I lost very quickly.

The good news is I have found the setting in babaschess and have set it back to auto-queen, so this tragedy will never happen again. How it was set to the wrong thing in the first place I will never know.

Next time try:

1. e4 1-0

I won 3/4 games against a guy who kept getting a pawn on me in an unorthodox opening - (A01) -

first game he's white and he plays 1. e3 and 2. b3 - he sets up those fianchettos and bishop cross lines and I think I dropped a pawn - I play something similar to a pirc/modern and barely squeeze out a win

2nd game starts 1. e4 and he playes e6 followed by 2 b6 and the same idea - I think I hung a pawn here and got ahead by a knight later but missed his counterplay

3rd game - same story - 1. e3 but this time I try to establish a solid pawn center with 1 e5 and 2 d5 - again, hung a pawn in the ensuing opening complications but managed to promote a pawn to have a Q + 2 passed pawn ending vs a N/R + 2 pawns ending and was able to tactically take it down

4th game - same damned 1...e6 and 2. b6 - I'm able to protect my central pawns better this time - he goes on a queen rampage and we're even material but I'm going to be forced to trade queens with an isolated e pawn in a crap position - I take his queen and am waiting for his reply - a couple times he's had 50 second disconnects and after 25 seconds, I try a win on disconnect and get it - that was my favorite game -

This is only good news until you need to underpromote to avoid stalemating your opponent and you post here cursing yourself for having the setting on auto-queen.

Well now I know where the setting is, so in time pressure I can find it and change it if I ever need to underpromote.

Anywho... Variance:



I'm black, and it continues:

... Be5 Re7+?? Kxe7 {White resigns}????

Hilarious! Blundering, yet still +- ( d4 ).

This was great

1. e4 d5
2. exd5 Qxd5
3. Nc3 Qc6
4. Bb5 1-0

scandinavian with 3.-qa5 or 3.-qd6 is pretty tough tho. even 3.-qe5+ and then c6 and qc7 is blitzworthy

whiskeytown, stop hanging pawns.

Ehhh they're just pawns man. ****' em.

pawns just get in the way. shove em up the board and let the opponent think you care what happens to them, it'll keep him distracted!

I won a tournament game with 41. e2-e4 mate. I think I also played Nd1 (same N) 3 times. I need to find that scoresheet.

Yes, but has anybody played e4 thrice in the same game as White ?

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=16380

i won 20 buy ins today. doesnt even compare to the excitment of losing 4 games by playing bad a in a row then playing bad a 5th game against a guy 300 pts higher and winning a 93 move donk fest. SHIP THAT **** BITCH arrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh

what rating are you toni? and what was the time control in that game? was like watching 10cent 20 cent limit omaha (no offence, good job )

ahha no offence taken... i'm like 950 or something on fics but i know i'm getting better... i'm pretty sure most of that u were watching was when i was down to last minute which was prob around 50% of my moves. and trust me... watching 10 cent 20 cent omaha is better. My prob is i get good positions, like i've analyzed my last 10 games and 9/10 i was up right around 2 pawns going into end game but i always **** it up because i play with strict time controls and i always take alot of time getting to that good position. Some how i play 24 tables but i'm really slow at chess. So i bought an end game book last night and have begun to read it. Srsly if the game ended at the middle i would be a decent player. HUcribbage4rollz!!!

big brag: called a cheater by a 2300 5-min (best 2400 5-min) player:

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 e5 4. Nf3 exd4 5. Bxc4 Bb4+ 6. Nbd2 Nc6 7. O-O Nf6 8.
e5 Nd5 9. Nb3 Nb6 10. Bb5 Bd7 11. Nbxd4 Nxd4 12. Nxd4 c5 13. e6 Bxb5 14. Nxb5
Qxd1 15. Rxd1 Ke7 16. Be3 a6 17. a3 Nc4 18. Nc7 Nxe3 19. fxe3 Ba5 20. Rd7+ Kf6
21. Rxf7+ Kg6 22. Nxa8 Rxa8 23. Raf1 b5 24. R1f3 h5 25. Rg3+ Kh6 26. Rfxg7 h4
27. R3g6+ Kh5 28. g4+ hxg3 29. Rxg3 Kh6 30. R7g4 Bd8 31. Rh3+ Bh4 32. Rhxh4#
1-0

Nikole says: you use a program
ChatBanned says: ship ship
Nikole says: I report you
ChatBanned says: lol
Nikole says: by cheating

Although I do have to admit, that was some pretty sweet play by me. Although Rybka's nasty 13. Nf5 Bxb5 14. Nd6+ Ke7 15. Qf3! would have been sick. 12. .. c5?? is just such a terrible move for such a decent player to make. I used to have so many problems with the queens gambit accepted playing the more traditional Nf3 stuff. I think 3. e4 fits my style much better.

my chess days are over since a while now so if all of you guys know this... well it's still a funny one. Just stumbled upon it on the net.


white to move

Well report him for publicly accusing you of cheating which is against the ICC rules.

and nice win.

big beat: aforementioned awesome game made me decided to go on a 12 hour chess marathon, rating sunk to incredible new low giving me the privledge of playng ith all the grand prix and london system idiots. yay.