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| Posted by bananaman1 ability-tw.com 1/25/2005 16:01:24 Play online chess |  Subject: Look at a past gameMessage: This is a game I lost and I would like some input board #2588800 36. Bd5 was a mistake but I want to know if it was possible to win after this? | ||||||
| Posted by fabio75 ability-tw.com 1/25/2005 16:45:35 Play online chess | Message: I think black pawn had already gone to promote before your mistake, so you did' nt lose this game with 36. Bd5. | ||||||
| Posted by bucklehead ability-tw.com 1/25/2005 16:51:28 Play online chess | Certainly not the best move... Message: ...but it's not a definitively losing one, either. After 36. ...c3, the best continuation is probably 37. Bxf7 cxd2 38. Bh5--note that, since the pawn has switched to the d-file, your remaining bishop now covers the queening square, while his does not. This is still not an enviable endgame--your opponent will be able to force a passed pawn on the queenside while you're tied up guarding the threat on d2, but you never know. Note also that your opponent's followup to your bishop move, 36. ...Bg6, lets you off the hook for the moment, as 37. e4 allows you to set up a little stronghold in the center and block his bishop threat. His correct move would have been 36. ...Bxd5, after which the two black bishops will be able to guide the c-pawn to promotion. Play might go something like: 38. Rf2 Bg7 39. h4 Be4 40. hxg5 c2 41. Rf1 Bb2 and black queens. ——— Lasker's tenacious defence — This game from the legendary 1914 St. Petersburg tournament shows a chess great at his best. RB: I like text as well as chess in my chess books, and The Joys of Chess by Christian Hesse (New in Chess) has plenty of both. It's a compendium, in the mould of earlier works like Fox and James's The Complete Chess Addict or Hooper and Whyld's Oxford Companion to Chess; it's the sixth and last nomination for our book of the year award. Hesse, a professor of mathematics, may not be a top-flight chess player, but he roves over his subject with the sharp eye of an avid collector. If it reads pedantically at times (Dan was aghast at the title, which he thought sounded like a bad translation from ... Posted by bogg | ability-tw.com 1/25/2005 17:08:56 Play online chess I mostly agree with bucklehead, but Message: I would suggest that, on GPs 38. Bb3 might be slightly better as White's King is going to need to approach the passed pawn via e2 and he may want the bishop on the queen side at that point. Either way the draw should not be to difficult. White is the one sledding uphill, so no win after 36. Bd5. CTCampbell (Bogg) ——— Aggressive Strategy Pays Off at Women’s Grand Prix Event — Here’s a striking fact about the game of chess: There is only one woman ranked among the world’s top 100 players. There is no obvious reason for such a disparity in a purely intellectual game. One dubious explanation put forward over the years is that women are not as naturally aggressive as men and that successful chess requires frequent attacks. Yet in women-only chess events, a higher proportion of the games end in decisive finishes than they do at chess tournaments in which men participate. That has held true in the current Women’s Grand Prix series. The third tournament, which ended earlier this month in Nalchik, Russia, was dominated by Zhao Xue of China, who won 9 of her first 10 games before ... Posted by bananaman1 | ability-tw.com 1/26/2005 13:28:28 Play online chess clarifyingMessage: I pushed submit instead of reset so my friend let me go back to the original position that is why the game looks slightly funny. ——— On Chess: Fischer figured he could draw with God — Bobby Fischer was renowned for his objectivity in regard to matters of chess. When confronted with the question of whether he could defeat God at chess, he immediately rejected the notion. Nevertheless, he insisted, “With White, I should be able to draw against him. I play e4 and, if we have a Ruy (Lopez opening), the position would be balanced, and I would never lose.” It might be relevant that religion was a lifelong passion for Fischer. His biographer, Frank Brady, noted that Fischer carried a Bible with him during his early years. It is, therefore, likely that he was familiar with the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with God before his fearful reunion with his brother Esau — whose birthright he had stolen — at ... Posted by thecatcool120 | ability-tw.com 3/27/2005 21:43:40 Play online chess Message: You really messed up the opening but interesting endgame...but nope, I think 36. Bd5 was a blunder therefore 36. Bd5????. ——— Vlad Kramnik holds his hoodoo over Judit Polgar — The phenomenon of the difficult opponent against whom you have poor results which create a psychological mountain is well known to many chess players. At top level, it can change careers and decide world-class chess events. Bobby Fischer often did badly against Ewfim Geller, which helped spark the American's failure in the 1962 candidates. Garry Kasparov found Vlad Kramnik tough, and eventually lost his world title to the younger Russian. The all-time best woman Judit Polgar has proved herself the equal or superior of dozens of the top men. But she struggled against Kasparov, including in an infamous game where he retracted a knight move, and she also has a large minus total against ... |