Beat: I am horrible vs the Reti move order. I play the Nimzo/Bogo vs 1. d4, e5 vs 1. c4 and a sicilian vs 1. e4 so I'm SOL vs Nf3. Even when I played the semi-slav I still had terrible results vs the reti. So I'm going to try something different. 1. Nf3 Nc6?! I have played the Chigorin before and the Spanish so I think this could be interesting. Any obvious downside I'm missing? Or anyone else have a pet line vs the Reti they like?

Youre absolutely right, made the diagram in a hurry, there is an lsb on c4

1. Nf3 Nc6 2. c4

You have to be prepared to play 2.. e5 and transpose into 1. c4 e5 vs. the English.

Not a downside, just a caveat.

That's actually my goal If I could somehow magically force 1. Nf3 e5 and not lose a pawn I'd always play that. **** those Reti/KIA bastards.

Lmao awesome

Have you investigated 1. c4 e5 and chosen a line/lines that you'll play?

BBV4L's fairly famous poaster Pawntificator formally challenged me to a game of chess.

We post our moves in a BBV4L thread and post diagrams. I post a proper diagram and he takes a photo of a chess board he has set up, sometimes with a funny pic.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/62...clovin-588539/

is the thread.

We got 10 moves in tonight and will play some more Sunday late afternoon-early evening.

Current position after move 10: (I'm Black and it's White to move)



Pawntificator vs. All-inMcLovin

Moves:

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. Bb5+ Nd7
4. c3 Nf6
5. e5 dxe5
6. Nxe5 a6
7. Nxd7 Qxd7
8. Bc2 Bb7
9. f3 Rd8
10. d3 e6


I'll probably annotate the game for the chess forum when we're done if I'm not too lazy.

Nd4 looks crushing on Kh2 there.

edit: re: the diagram on the last page.

Yes!

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Bg4!!

Rather than going on about the opening, I'd recommend just going and searching a database for games. You'll find some decent names on the black side: Kasparov, Kramnik, Shirov, etc. Black is also scoring very well from that position. Such an odd move that goes against all principles. I never even considered it (much less knew it's in the repertoire of a couple of world champions) until analyzing a random game of Kramnik's where he played it.

I was totally smoking this guy, up 2 pieces and a pawn, but got mated because of some stupid ass back rank mate when I forgot to clear a safety path for my king.

I am losing more than 7% of my games due to disconnection. Lol Thailand.

I wonder what randomly forfeiting 7% of your games would do to your rating.

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bg4 is an awesome line, but it doesn't fit too well with nimzo/bogo due to 2.d4

Some moves must be left out from that game above, the white B jumps from b5 to c2 (or maybe that's just how you roll at bbv4l)

Please don't quote me on this as I've done some research but I'm not 100% sure..

1. Nf3 c5!

This will usually result in the Symmetrical English or the Sicilian. The third option is the King's Indian Attack, but then you can play this set-up:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032365
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1106897

Don't get confused by the moveorder, it is just a transposition.

You can even get it a tempo up, there's no real reason to play e6 and then e5 if you don't arrive via the french or 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6.

Probably too easy due to lack of candidate moves for it's own thread, but I quite liked this combo all the same:



White to move and crush. Opponent was IM who played:

1. d4 d6 2. c4 e5 3. Nf3 e4 4. Ng5 f5 5. f3

These positions are supposed to be good for black, but I'm having good results with them as white. Plan is always the same. Give up dark bishop for f6 knight hopefully after a weakening move (such as h6?!), lock up center, make my knights own his bishops. My opponent let me put on a perfect display of that idea this game.


Rest of the game up til the combo was:

5. .. Be7 6. Nh3 Nf6 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Bg5
Re8 9. e3 h6 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. f4 c6 12. Be2 Nd7 13. Nf2 Nf8 14. g4 Bh4 15. Rf1
Rb8 16. gxf5 Bxf5 17. Bg4 Qd7 18. Bxf5 Qxf5 19. Qe2 d5 20. O-O-O a6 21. cxd5
cxd5 22. Kb1 b5 23. Ng4 Kh8 24. Rg1 Bd8 25. Ne5 Qe6 26. Qg2 Bf6 ...

Does 27. f5 work?

27. ...Qxf5 28. Nf7+ Kh7 29. Nd6 wins the exchange for a pawn (good enough?)
27. ... Q moves 28. Nf7+ Kh7 29. Nxh6

There's better. Maybe it is good enough for a thread then! Actually I probably should have anyhow since there's a very very thematic idea in it. Gonna go run it through rybka and make sure it's the only major winning idea.

Also: brag. Just outplayed GM ASR (2500ish 5-min), as black. He was clowning in the opening (d4 Nf6 c4 e6 f3?!) and let me get a great position followed be a dangerous attack. But no excuses for the ending. I just had a complete brain fart in time trouble and screwed up the forced mate. Somehow I simply missed 31. Kb1 and was expecting 31. Qd2 Nxd3+ 32. Kd1 Ra1+ 33. Qc1 Rxc1#. Of course the simple move order change 30. .. Ra1+ forces the mate.

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. f3 Nh5 4. Be3 Bb4+ 5. Nc3 f5 6. Bf2 O-O 7. e3 d6 8. Qb3
Bxc3+ 9. Qxc3 b6 10. O-O-O a5 11. Bd3 Qe7 12. Ne2 Na6 13. Rdf1 Nb4 14. Bb1 Bd7
15. a3 Na6 16. g4 Nf6 17. Bh4 b5 18. e4 b4 19. axb4 axb4 20. Qd3 e5 21. exf5
exd4 22. Nxd4 Nc5 23. Qe2 Qf7 24. g5 Rfe8 25. Qc2 b3 26. Qc3 Nh5 27. Re1 Nf4
28. g6 hxg6 29. fxg6 Nfd3+ 30. Bxd3 Qf4+ 31. Kb1 Qxh4 32. Rxe8+ Bxe8 33. Nxb3
Nxd3 34. Qxd3 Qg5 35. Qd5+ 1-0

Still better in the final position. Ah well. Next time I'll get him.

[ ] outplayed GM
[x] got hustled

QFT +1

Beat: The flu is hell on my chess. I had to drop out of my state's championship tournament because I was too tired and muddled to play even remotely well.

Guess where I got the flu!

Having a bad cold/the flu is almost equivalent to being drunk.

Really hurts your chess man.

Get Well Soon !

BRAG

I was playing black against a higher rated opponent and ended up in this position with white to move:



My opponent moved his rook off the f-file allowing me to launch a perpetual check attack from f4 with my queen:

Black to move:



Now at this point, after Qf4+ he could have easily claimed a draw if he wanted to with Kh2 and Kh1. But he tried to get out of the perpetual check by playing g3 and running around the board. I thought at the time that there might be some way he could get out it (though according to Rybka, he can't). After about 20 moves or so it seemed to me that there was no way out of the perpetual check and that he was just trying to wait for me to make a mistake (12 second increment btw), so I offered him a draw, but he declined. After another 10 moves of dancing around, I offered him a draw again, but he declined again.

You can probably see where this is going. After a marching him around the board and him trying to block with his rook, block with his queen, etc., I mated him with:



Owned

Sick Brag:

You shoulda said...

"I offer you a... Qb8"

FM JoeJan (simul) vs Dire round 2, a comedy of errors:

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Bg5 Qa5+ 5. c3 Ne4 6. Bh4 g6 7. Qc2 f5 8. Nbd2
Bg7 9. Rd1 Nf6 10. e3 Bb7 11. e4 O-O
12. exf5 gxf5 13. Bd3 e6 14. dxe6 dxe6 15. O-O c4 16. Be2 Ne4 17. Nxe4 Bxe4 18.
Qd2 Nc6 19. Ng5 Rad8 20. Qe3 Bh6 21. Qg3 f4 22. Qg4 Bf5 23. Qh5 Bg7 24. Bg4 Bg6
25. Bxe6+ Kh8 26. Qf3 Ne5 27. Qh3 Rd3 28. Rxd3 Bxd3 29. Re1 Qxa2 30. Nf3 Nxf3+
31. Qxf3 Qxb2 32. Bd5 Qxc3 33. Be7 Qxe1# 0-1

He just seemed to be defeated from move 1 against me, and played strangely. I was the only person he played 1. d4 against. I really liked 8. .. Bg7 even though Rybka hates it. I think 11. .. o-o was a mistake and I should have gone for Nxe4 with an even better version of the gambit ideas I had with 8. .. Bg7. I had seen the position up til 16. .. Ne4 but just misevaluated it and didn't really appreciate how serious a weakness e6 would be. I got lucky that he was very sloppy with his attack as I gave him plenty of chances to finish me.