That was alot of fun. The only annoying part is scheduling games but even that wasn't too bad. So when's the next season?

Nice playing with everyone. Next one signs up in January and starts in February. Hopefully we can get an all 2+2 team next time!

T44: Jan. 12, 2010, T44 entries start
Jan. 26, entries end
Feb. 2, games start
Apr. 13, playoff 3 ends

Looks like we do get to play one more round... against a team we played before, but the match-ups are different this time.

oh crap! I could have sworn we didn't have any more rounds. Damagor - I'm really sorry. I would have put you on board 4 if I had realized we had another round

I don't know what a Lipnitzky attack is, but it seemed to work well:

http://team4545league.org/pgnplayer/...r.php?id=34814

I saw that you won and the game was a najdorf and I was really hoping for more fantastic Nf5 sacrifices. Still, very well played!

I had an interesting game. I had my opponent on the ropes throughout the game, sacrificed a piece, had him crushed. He defended well, I attacked poorly, we drew the game. I missed a simple win move 40 as I was low on time/got arrogant and simply 'saw' he was busted, missing his elegant but simple defense with Rxd3 and Rd2.

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Qb6 5. Nc3 Bc5 6. Na4 Qa5+ 7. c3 Bxd4 8.
Qxd4 Nf6 9. Nc5 Qc7 10. f3 b6 11. Nb3 Nc6 12. Qf2 d5 13. Bg5 dxe4 14. O-O-O Qe5
15. f4 Qc7 16. Bb5 O-O 17. Rhe1 e3 18. Qf3 Nd5 19. Nd4 Nxd4 20. Rxd4 Bb7 21.
Qg3 f6 22. Bh4 Qc5 23. Bd3 Rac8 24. Kb1 Rf7 25. Be4 Qa5 26. c4 Nb4 27. a3 Bxe4+
28. Rxe4 Nd3 29. R1xe3 Nxb2 30. Kxb2 Qd2+ 31. Kb3 b5 32. Rc3 f5 33. Rc2 Qd1 34.
Re1 bxc4+ 35. Kc3 Qd6 36. Kb2 Rb8+ 37. Kc1 Rb3 38. Re3 Qxa3+ 39. Kd2 Rd7+ 40.
Ke2 Rdd3 41. Rf3 Rb2 42. Rxd3 Rxc2+ 43. Rd2 Rxd2+ 44. Kxd2 Qb2+ 45. Ke1 Qc1+
46. Ke2 Qc2+ 47. Ke1 Qc1+ 48. Ke2 Qc2+ 49. Ke1 Qe4+ 50. Kd2 Kf7 51. Qf3 Qd4+
52. Kc2 a5 53. Qd1 Qe4+ 54. Kc3 Qe3+ 55. Kc2 Qb3+ 56. Kc1 Qa3+ 57. Kb1 Qb4+ 58.
Kc1 Qa3+ 59. Kb1 Qb4+ 60. Kc1 1/2-1/2

Going to look through it now and see how many wins one can miss in a single game.

I had one two weeks ago OTB, I'll post it in Chess BBV.

Oh boy, that middle game is embarrassing.

Black to play and miss 50 wins. Really need to work on my performance in time trouble. I saw most of them fairly quickly just going back through the game without the pressure of zee clock.

Another very nice one TimM.

Excellent job realizing that your play had fizzled and taking the draw. It's so easy to try to keep pressing.

Weird game. I killed the opening. ( opponent self-pins) Then I drifted a bit and my opponent basically builds a fortress. I turn down a draw offer and play on for a little bit to see if I can find a way to improve but my opponent quickly blunders badly and the game is over.

http://team4545league.org/pgnplayer/...r.php?id=34815

BTW, this is a really simple and effective defense to the Colle. At least I've managed a pretty huge score with it.