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Posted: March 22 2012 at 16:57

probably

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Posted: March 22 2012 at 17:04

or I could just trick you

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Posted: March 22 2012 at 17:04

;(

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Posted: March 23 2012 at 15:55

I’m not into chess theory, but it seems to me that most of you (actually all of you except Colin) are too careless with your pawns. Remember it’s the only piece you can’t move back. I’ve been looking at your last game, Vomps and Colin, and I can’t say excatly where you lost, Vomps, but I think that 4. …h6 looks bad (Bc5 is surely better?), and 6 …exd4 must be a mistake, and 8. … c5 looks terrible since it makes d6 a very vulnerable spot. 9. …h5 doesn’t make it any better, and when I look at it now, I think you had already lost at that point.

Only my thoughts. Peace and love and good chess!

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Posted: March 23 2012 at 16:17

I'm not into chess theory, because it does nothing but reveal two slight variables: when I suck and when I suck less.

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Posted: March 23 2012 at 17:46

The more I've been looking at games between very good players the more I realize that the way I play my openings is pretty terrible. Cry

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Posted: March 23 2012 at 18:49

Basically 90% of my opening moves focus on control of the center

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Posted: March 23 2012 at 20:06

Ah, that was a really awful blunder Alec...

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Posted: March 23 2012 at 21:11

Aaron, I ran a chess.com analysis on our game. According to their engine, the big game-changing moves were 27. ...Rb5?? and 33. ... Ka7??. Beyond that it was mostly pretty solid play.

Says 4 inaccuracies for me, 2 blunders and a mistake for you.

Edited by Triceratopsoil - March 23 2012 at 21:13

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Posted: March 23 2012 at 23:05

Triceratopsoil wrote:

Ah, that was a really awful blunder Alec...

I'm afraid I'm still rusty enough that I make a lot of those Confused

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Posted: March 23 2012 at 23:24

A mate was pretty inevitable, but if you had killed my bishop you would have at least held it off for a while

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Posted: March 24 2012 at 05:21

I’ve been looking through your game, and it seems to me that 5. … d6 was a weak move, leading to Alec getting a doubled pawn.

http://www.101chesstips.com/doubled-pawns.jsp#

I think 5. … Qe7 looks better, but I’m not sure what would have happened later. The double pawn weakness was revealed when Colin played 15. Qxc5. Then 17. d5 was more or less decisive since Alec lost a knight.

It’s sooo much easier to see these things after the game is over, of course.

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Posted: March 24 2012 at 13:28

indeed

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Posted: March 24 2012 at 21:54

VanVanVan wrote:

dennismoore wrote:

VanVanVan wrote:

Hey guys, just found this thread. I've been getting really into chess lately and I'd love to play with some PA folk. My handle on chess.com is VanVanVan99 if anyone's interested. Smile

I don't see you on chess.com by the name VanVanVan99 ?

Hm.

It looks like some people have been having trouble with the search function, and I'd guess that's the case since that's the correct spelling and whatnot. What's your handle? I can see if I can find you instead.

My handle is dennismoore

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Posted: March 26 2012 at 19:25

It seems I continue to wantonly through pieces away... perhaps one of these days I'll learn to look at the board before I move.

Good thing it's just a game, eh? LOL

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Posted: March 27 2012 at 01:56

^ tip - write the move down first before playing it

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Posted: March 27 2012 at 09:08

Nah, it's just he didn't notice my bishop across the board before taking one of my pieces with his queen

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Posted: March 27 2012 at 09:20

This is kind of annoying because there's way I can lose now but I don't know how to do this with as few moves as possible.

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Posted: March 27 2012 at 10:36

I suppose you mean there’s no way you can lose.

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Posted: March 27 2012 at 10:38

Indeed I do . Even draw is highly unlikely (and was about 20 moves ago too), the only trouble is that I'm not very good at mating (if you know what I mean). Wink

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