Alekseev did...and has now shared that knowledge with Krush :-)

ow I read the colors wrong, assumed it was a tribute to a fellow woman player. maybe the motivation was the polar opposite of that alekseev steamrolling krush is not exactly surprising

Perhaps the motivations for sharing one of the most tactically pyrotechnic games in recent memory--and I know the following might sound far-fetched--had nothing to do with gender relations.

hah you ended up on pogonina's site by accident, no doubt

OK, so this month's theme is "Kyle finally admits that there are sometimes games in which raw kingside aggression is a suboptimal plan and tries to play better."

Before the ending where black threw it away tactically, white had clearly lost the opening advantage and stood worse. I had to settle for hoping that the queenside majority would make up for a the trio of horrible weak pawns on the kingside, but it wasn't a strong hope.

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=84155

[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2013.09.27"]
[White "KyleJRM"]
[Black "ViperFish"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1744"]
[BlackElo "1699"]
[ECO "B43"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Kan, 5.Nc3"]
[TimeControl "2700+5"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 b5
6. a3 Qc7

That's gotta be too passive, right? b4 isn't a real threat, I may want to play a4 later, and Bd3 is just fine.

7. Bd3 Nf6 8. O-O g6

I think the computer *always* suggests Bg5 right around here. Is there a reason this is better than castling straight away?

9. Bg5 Bg7 10. Nf3 d6

I think this is where it really started to go wrong. Ordinarily, I'd be trying to find a way to play f4, but that seems terrible here. You aren't going to break down that kingside with a pawnstorm, and he's not castled over there yet anyway, so all you are doing is weakening an important diagonal.

Re1 seemed tempting here, but I talked myself out of it for dubious reasons.

After d6, I can get three pawns, the bishop pair and keep his king from castling in exchange for a bishop. That sacrifice is almost always a sucker's bet in the Sicilian so I didn't even look at it, but it worked here :/


11. Re1 Nc6 12. h3 O-O

I'm running out of useful things to do, at least that I can see.

13. Bf4 Bb7

The idea of Bf4 is to either provoke e5 (which gives white the d5 square and a target on d6 to work against, while blocking off the fianchettoed DSB) or support a space-gaining e5 push, but I can't honestly say that either of those things are all *that* great for white at this point. It's definitely slipped away from me.

14. e5 dxe5 15. Nxe5 Nxe5

15. Nxe5 Nh4 wins for black. Ick, I'm awful at chess right now.


16. Bxe5 Qd7

After Qd7 is where I just couldn't come up with a good plan.

17. Be2 Rfd8 18. Bf3 Qxd1 19. Raxd1 Bxf3 20. gxf3 Kf8
21. Ne4 Nd7 22. Bc7 Rdc8 23. Rxd7 Ra7 24. Bd6+
1-0

dislike mixing a3+bd3, you are protecting the e-pawn twice. 7.f4 ftw (and then g4 )

playing f4/e5 isn't always just about breaking down the kingside, but also about pushing e5 and getting a wedge in the center that also diverts the N on f6 and gives white more space for kingside piece play

*sigh* It's like it's not even English. All chess is about breaking down the kingside, right? How else would you play?

well then fmp

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032741

The last move in this game and the resulting position is so sick. So, so sick.

Wow, that's fantastic. It took me a while of playing through the variations to make sure I saw everything associated with the last move.

Fantastic game overall, too. It takes some stones to play 18...f5.

The game Fishbein-Vigorito, 0-1 was played in the US Chess League last night. I thought it was an interesting game and definitely worth posting. What I liked most is that black's position after 14...Kf7 is actually quite safe, despite looking fairly open around the king. White's bishop on g3 will have a tough time getting active, and white won't really be able to take advantage of the black king's position without a light squared bishop. Black covers all the light squares and is never really under any pressure. I also really liked Vigorito's attack.

Does anyone else here regularly use chess.com's tactics trainer? Either I'm getting worse at tactics, or the problems are getting more difficult, because I'm routinely having much more trouble maintaining a rating I used to keep fairly easily. It feels like the problems are getting tougher. On many, I don't even have the faintest clue what the solution will be.

White to play and win.

I got that one pretty quickly. Why is chess so easy when it doesn't count?

Chess would be a lot easier with a time-traveller from the future whispering in our ears whenever a brilliancy is possible.

Crap, I just gave Ivanov another idea.

Yeah, but this one was made harder by the fact that Tex ignored the rule that all brilliancy puzzles should involve a queen sac.

I used to look out for a scantily-clad woman dancing around with a big sign "combination!!!", just like the number-girls in a boxing ring between rounds.

because that will ever happen at a chess tournament.

I think an upcoming tournament organizer such as BJJ should implement this idea ASAP. Popularity of your club will sky-rocket!

i'd travel far and wide for a tournament like that

This is one of my favorite chess problems. Such a cool idea.

http://chessbase.com/Home/TabId/211/...me-091013.aspx

I'm like 99% sure now that I'm going down to St. Louis for the 2 vs. 2 team tournament on Oct. 19. They say they'll pair up singles at registration, but anyone near there want to form a 2+2 team?

right now I am so wanting to play weekend tourneys, but I am holding back till I get somewhere w/ my career. Unfortunately, having spent an inordinate amount of time playing blitz and letting my career idle has forced me to compensate by giving up chess completely! (i don't even play blitz on the internet anymore lol!)
playing chess is fun, but don't expect to make alot of money