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[All-inMcLovin]

All the best with your quest for 200 wins Distajo!

[JQPublic777]

Thanks guys, i just have to get a steady internet connection on my laptop (it's the only one with camtasia, DL from back in the days of online poker LOLimsosad). I have to warn i'm pretty bad and pretty much have a depth of thought that compares to a preschooler learning the shapes and how they fit into objects.

[amplify]

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=50017

In the spirit of favoring tactical, open positions I have started playing 1. e4 and responding to e4 with e5. I am preferring to play the Evans Gambit but when they bring the knight out to f6 I go for the Fried Liver Attack.

I am more familiar with the positions resulting from 5...Nxd5 but I know the theory resulting from 5...Nxa5 up to this 8...Qb6 move. Rybka says I have nothing better than bringing my bishop back to e2 and after some development and short castling it looks like my attack is over for the time being. Is there anything better here?

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[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2011.09.10"]
[White "amplify"]
[Black "Nwjerry1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1599"]
[BlackElo "1558"]
[ECO "C57"]
[Opening "two knights defense"]
[Variation "Fegatello attack"]
[TimeControl "900+0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5
6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qf3+ Ke8 8. Bxd5 Qe7 9. Bxc6+ Kd8 10. Bxb7 Bxb7
11. Qxb7 Rc8 12. Qd5+ Ke8 13. O-O Rd8 14. Qb5+ Rd7 15. Re1 c6
16. Qxc6 Kf7 17. Nc3 Rd6 18. Qf3+ Ke8 19. d3 h6 20. Bf4 Re6
21. Nd5 Qd7 22. Rxe5 Bd6 23. Rxe6+ Qxe6 24. Bxd6 Qxd6 25. Re1+ Kd7
26. Qf7+ Kd8 27. c4 Rf8 28. Qxa7 Re8 29. Qa8+ Kd7
1-0

Replayer

Woot! Fried Liver Attack in yo face son!

7...Ke6 is forced and he played a losing move. I was able to keep my advantage and press on for the win. Looks as though I should have played my knight to d5 on move 19 but my thinking was that in some lines I'd need my rooks connected so I wanted to deploy the bishop asap.

[RoundTower]

Originally Posted by amplify

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=50017

In the spirit of favoring tactical, open positions I have started playing 1. e4 and responding to e4 with e5. I am preferring to play the Evans Gambit but when they bring the knight out to f6 I go for the Fried Liver Attack.

I am more familiar with the positions resulting from 5...Nxd5 but I know the theory resulting from 5...Nxa5 up to this 8...Qb6 move. Rybka says I have nothing better than bringing my bishop back to e2 and after some development and short castling it looks like my attack is over for the time being. Is there anything better here?

Rybka's usually right! Your attack is over and Black has a little more play, but you did manage to grab a pawn.

[KyleJRM82]

If black plays the Na5 line (which virtually everyone will start to do as you climb up the ratings), it's a gambit for him and he's the one with the attack. You get a pawn, but you have to defend for awhile.

But playing a successful Fried Liver is just so much fun. Good job!

[amplify]

Originally Posted by KyleJRM82

If black plays the Na5 line (which virtually everyone will start to do as you climb up the ratings), it's a gambit for him and he's the one with the attack.

Aha, thanks!

[valenzuela]

How good do I have to be before reading reasseses your chess?

[mephisto]

Hey guys,

I'm going to get back into the chess scene after 5-6 years. I want to take the game seriously again yet treat it as a hobby. I got the chess bug again after playing some chess in Washington Square in NYC.

I already have a chess tempo membership and plan on going back into ICC.

What I'm asking you all is what kind of software should I get? Should I load up on chessbase products like the chessbase 11 mega package and a chessbase chess engine junior/shredder/hiarcs?

For those that own the chessbase 11 product: does chessbase automatically loads up all of the latest professional games into your database and updates it automatically or do I need to get them every week and load up myself from this week in chess?

Any advice is appreciated.

[RoundTower]

Originally Posted by valenzuela

How good do I have to be before reading reasseses your chess?

I think you're clearly good enough, it's aimed at a fairly broad range (1400-2000+?)

[KyleJRM82]

Originally Posted by valenzuela

How good do I have to be before reading reasseses your chess?

I found it incredibly useful in the 1300-1400 ability level. But I felt like I was still missing enough of it that I can go back again later and get even more out if it.

Be prepared: This is a long, dense book that will take up several months of your life if you do it right.

[KyleJRM82]

I think I posted this link last week when I discovered it, but this part kind of stuck out to me:

http://canchess.tripod.com/reflecti.htm#refl8

I've never really done much "board visualization" before, and it seemed intriguing. So this weekend, when I was otherwise unoccupied but unable to play chess, I started trying it out. I'd try to pick a random square and picture it on a board, identifying if it was light or dark and naming the squares it shared a diagonal with. Then I started picturing a knight and trying to move from one random square to another, naming all the squares it touched on the way.

[NiSash1337]

lol didnt play for a long time and today I found some games from my heydays(When I was 16). I had about 1800 rating but lol I easily could have gone to 2100. I was pretty good midgame/endgame but I basically did not know any openings(basically because I was lazy as ****). Every loss came from a disadvantage from the opening. With white I did beat 2100 ratingplayers but lol my winrate with black was ridic.

[amplify]

Took me 7 minutes to find it.

[TuttiDaFrutti]

Spoiler:

1.f6 gf6 2.Qh7 took me 15 seconds.