*** Chess Low Content Thread ***

[valenzuela]

Originally Posted by DON CASTI

who is the teacher?

Hernán Dominguez.

[Nikachu]

For the fun of it I pit my houdini engine on my laptop against shredder on my iphone. I tried to even the odds by playing the first 3 moves for houdini (f3, c3 and Kf2). There was a point at maybe move 70 where houdini was +20 and Shredder didn't think I played a good move and asked if I would like to take back. I didn't know computers try to bluff their opponents :P

[Event "lol1.f3"]
[Site ""]
[Date "2012.05.30"]
[Round "?"]
[White "i7, quadcore, Houdini 1.5"]
[Black "iphone4, Shredder"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "145"]
[TimeControl ""]

1. f3 e5 2. c3 Nc6 3. Kf2 d5 4. d4 Nf6 5. g3
Bd6 6. Na3 O-O 7. Nb5 Be7 8. dxe5 Bc5+ 9. Nd4 Nxe5 10. a4 Be7 11. Bh3 Bxh3 12.
Nxh3 Qd7 13. Kg2 c5 14. Nc2 Rfe8 15. Re1 Bd8 16. Nf2 Rc8 17. Nd3 Nc4 18. b3 Na5
19. b4 Nb3 20. Nxc5 Nxc5 21. bxc5 Rxc5 22. Qd3 Ba5 23. Bd2 Rec8 24. Ra3 Qc7 25.
Rb1 b6 26. Nd4 Rc4 27. Bg5 Qe5 28. Nf5 Bxc3 29. Bxf6 Qxf6 30. Ne3 R4c5 31. Nxd5
Qd6 32. Rxc3 Rxc3 33. Qe4 R3c7 34. Nxc7 Qxc7 35. Rd1 g6 36. Rd5 Rd8 37. Re5 Kg7
38. Qe3 Rd7 39. g4 Qd6 40. a5 Rc7 41. a6 h6 42. h4 f6 43. Re6 Qc5 44. Qf4 Rf7
45. Qe4 Rc7 46. Re8 Rd7 47. h5 gxh5 48. Rh8 Kxh8 49. Qe8+ Kh7 50. Qxd7+ Kg6 51.
Qxa7 hxg4 52. Qa8 gxf3+ 53. Qxf3 Qe7 54. Qg4+ Kf7 55. Qc4+ Kg7 56. Kf2 h5 57.
Qc6 Kg6 58. Qxb6 Qe4 59. Qe3 Qa8 60. a7 h4 61. Kf1 Kh7 62. Qd4 Qh1+ 63. Kf2
Qh2+ 64. Ke3 Qg1+ 65. Ke4 Qb1+ 66. Kd5 Qb7+ 67. Ke6 Qa6+ 68. Ke7 Qa3+ 69. Kf7
Qa2+ 70. Kxf6 Qa6+ 71. Ke5 Qa5+ 72. Ke4 Qa2 73. Kf4 1-0

[Nikachu]

This time I made houdini play "The CRAB!"

[Event "crabaments"]
[Site ""]
[Date "2012.05.30"]
[Round "?"]
[White "i7 quadcore, Houdini 1.5"]
[Black "iphone4, Shredder"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[TimeControl "300"]

1. h4 e5 2. a4 Nf6 3. Nh3 d5 4. Na3 Nc6 5. e3
Bf5 6. Be2 d4 7. d3 Bb4+ 8. Bd2 dxe3 9. fxe3 Nd5 10. Bf3 Nxe3 11. Bxc6+ bxc6
12. Qf3 Bxa3 13. Bxe3 Bxb2 14. Qxf5 Bxa1 15. O-O Qd7 16. Qxd7+ Kxd7 17. Rxa1 f6
18. Nf2 Rhb8 19. d4 Re8 20. Nd3 exd4 21. Bxd4 Re2 22. c3 a5 23. Kh2 Rb8 24. h5
Ke7 25. Kh3 Rd2 26. Re1+ Kf8 27. Nc5 Re8 28. Rb1 Ree2 29. Rb7 Rxg2 30. Rxc7
Rh2+ 31. Kg3 Kg8 32. Ne6 Rhg2+ 33. Kf3 Ra2 34. Bc5 Rac2 35. c4 g5 36. Rg7+ Kh8
37. Rf7 g4+ 38. Ke4 h6 39. Kf5 Rb2 40. Kg6 Rb8 41. Be7 Rg8+ 42. Kxh6 Rb8 43.
Bxf6+ Kg8 44. Rg7+ Kh8 45. Rg6# 1-0

[ohsnapzbrah]

Here is my round 3 pivotal game in my OTB tournament over the weekend. We were both 2-0 and the winner would have the fast track to prize money. I am black.

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=65739

Standard Najdorf. On move 9, I considered 9....d5 because usually once black gets d5 in, it's game over for white. Qc7 instead just keeps the queens on the board, because I wasn't looking to get into a queen-less middle game.

I was really puzzled by his 13. Rac1 move. I understand that it puts his rook on the same file as my queen, but that file is not threatened to be opened anytime soon. Better there would have probably been 13. Rfd1.

My first big blunder of the game was 14....Nc5. It's an advanced post, but it doesn't really help me there. And I'm kind of shocked I played it instead of 14...Nb6. I actually had tried the Nbd7-b6-c4 idea earlier in the day to block white's light-squared bishop in order to advance my pawn to d5. Plus, if I was looking to push that d-pawn, b6 makes a whole lot more sense.

After 18. Rfd1, Fritz 13 says I am (black) +3.00. Here is where I miss the win. I debated playing 18...Na4, attacking the b-pawn and opening the c-file on his undefended c-pawn. I thought 19. Rb1 Qxc2 20. Rdc1 trapped my queen -.-. Missing, of course, that I had c1 guarded by my bishop.

I'm told 20...a5 is a blunder that makes the game equal. I don't see it though. At this moment, I can't push d5 and I'm beating myself up over that and I'm actually tempted to offer a draw before playing a5. I played a5 obviously intending for a break with an eventual b4 and exploding on the queenside. Can anyone tell me why 20...a5 is such a bad move?

It's around move 20 that I start feeling fatigued. This was my 3rd "long" match of the day and it was getting close to 3 hours into this game. I have no idea why I didn't play b4 sooner. Thoughts on the game?

[Ajezz]

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All hail to our wise President Kirsan!



For all those who can't believe it either, here is the link to the official news: Link

[NajdorfDefense]

I'm all for chess in Syria thriving and prospering.

[Cadaz]

Kids could be doing worse things than playing chess

[Mayo]

I'm in the military, and I'm about to deploy to "an undisclosed location in southwest Asia" for quite a long time. I've been improving at chess lately by playing a lot on chess.com, where my rating has steadily improved from 800something to 1200something on there (top 50%, lol @ me). Unfortunately, I probably won't have much internet access downrange. But I will have my laptop (and my iPod with the Shredder app), and probably a ton of time to kill. So do you fine folks have any recommendations for how to use engines and books (specifically e-books) and stuff to get better? I never mess with engines usually, and don't even have an engine installed on my laptop.

So which one should I get, or does it matter? And once I get it, what should I do with it? Just play it at a fairly high difficulty (relative to my level) and get trounced 80% of the time by a machine that I know isn't playing anywhere near its peak capacity? Because I know that's how you get better, but it doesn't seem as fun as beating the other dorks at my level on chess.com. Or should I use it to try to analyze games from a database, or play out endgame positions, or what?

Any advice you guys might have would be much appreciated.

[wlrs]

CT-ART might be a good investment

[KyleJRM82]

Nifty position from a 15-minute ICC game tonight:



Hint:

Spoiler:

There is a tactically forced win of material there. It's a really nifty multi-motif move. Kudos to anyone who would have seen it without knowing there was a tactic there.

Brag about the game itself:

Spoiler:

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=66798

Beat a higher-rated pretty handily with black. Only really missed two moves, the tactic above and I'm not sure 16. ... b3 was completely accurate. Otherwise, the game just played itself. All the key moves and lines just felt easy and effortless. I wish every game could be the Ruy Lopez.

[TexAg06]

Spoiler:

...Bg5! right? Great move, but I highly doubt I'd have seen it OTB, particularly in a 15-min game.

Very nice game btw. I particularly liked how long he played it out. Hilarious.

[DaMaGor]

Spoiler:

I don't think Bg5 works -- after, say, Re1, gxf5 allows Qxh5 and Nf6 allows Qxg5.

[KyleJRM82]

Spoiler:

Bg5 works. There's another move you follow Re1 (or any other rook move) with.

[KyleJRM82]

Any suggestions for learning the Benoni? A couple of people have suggested it to me now as a solution to my never-ending finding a d4 defense I'm comfortable with. I'm not giving up on the Slav by any means, but I'm willing to give this a shot.

[YouKnowWho]

Kinda wrong opening if you think that chess is only played on the kingside