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Posted by jstevens1 ability-tw.com 3/07/2008 14:29:58 Play online chess	Subject: A narrow squeak against a lower rated player! Message: Just to say that I had a very narrow squeak against a player 300 points south of my rating. I played the game called "In The Dentist's Chair" in the public gallery pretty badly and I was sooo lucky to come away with a win in that match. Has anybody else on this forum had a bad experience like this. If so, and you do not wish to post it on the forum you could always send me a PM! Oh well, Friday today - have a nice weekend everyone! Bye for now. Joanne
Posted by ravster ability-tw.com 3/07/2008 14:33:36 Play online chess	Yes... Message: I have had such a game also 300 points under my rating. I was soo lucky to win it i annotated it: gameknot.com It is called 'the win in your hands. Ravi
Posted by tugger ability-tw.com 3/08/2008 11:23:06 Play online chess	Message: game ratings at the time were as follows... eldude (943) tugger (1709) a very lucky escape for me, i was beaten, but he timed out... i felt very guilty, but relieved at the same time! it was an odd game, i made a mistake and dropped a rook, then made a couple of excellent moves to pull back to within a pawn... then i messed up again, he seized upon my mistake and then timed out... a big shame for him really, it would've been his best win... to be fair to him, he's far better than his rating suggests, he has a 40% time out ratio, and as such his rating is much lower than it should be... i'd guess it should be around the 1400-1500 area. ——— Vlad Kramnik sweeps past Englishmen en route to winning London Chess Classic — Beating up the Brits was the key for Russia's Vlad Kramnik, who won this week's London Chess Classic narrowly from the US No1 Hikaru Nakamura and the world No1 Magnus Carlsen. Kramnik made a clean sweep of the four Englishmen. His key game was in the penultimate round against Luke McShane who till then was a contender for the €50,000 first prize and still finished a strong €15,000 richer fourth. Carlsen was only third, yet the combined elite chess events at Moscow last month and London boosted the 21-year-old Norwegian's status as top dog, second only to the retired Garry Kasparov on the all-time ratings. Carlsen was unbeaten in both chess tournaments, whereas Kramnik and ...
Posted by chessnovice ability-tw.com 3/09/2008 06:03:41 Play online chess	... Message: I've had similar experiences OTB, particularly in tournament play. I remember there were two years in a row where I was part of a team that wound up pitted against a group of middle schoolers. I never underestimate players by their age, but they were significantly lower rated. Somehow, in both years, I dropped a rook very early in the game and had to fight back to win against very bad odds. To make matters worse, when I hung my rook, the opponent was literally dancing in his chair! My teammates who looked over at me said I was literally turning red with anger. Those kinds of games just wear at my soul. :p ——— Second place finish for Nakamura in London — St. Louis resident Hikaru Nakamura captured second place in the recently finished London Chess Classic. This stellar result catapults Hikaru back in the top 10 after his less-than stellar performance in the Tal Memorial in Moscow, where he finished in last place. Another chess player, Vladimir Kramnik, had a similar turnaround. Kramnik finished next to last in Moscow, but he came back to win the London Chess Classic. Hikaru Nakamura secured second place with a sharp tactical victory over Michael Adams in the final round of the London Chess Classic. Adams is England's highest-rated chess player. The tournament in London had a fantastic format, and it featured a little twist in scoring as well. Typically, a win is ...
Posted by tugger ability-tw.com 3/09/2008 08:44:36 Play online chess	Message: there's a lesson there... don't dance in your chair until your opponent resigns! i play a lot of poker, and see some similar things happening there... there's always a bit of banter between us all, but sometimes it goes a bit far, and on one occasion the loudest one amongst us lost a big hand, he was down to just a few chips. the lad who won that hand said something rather rude to the loser, and you could see he was not happy. but, it was too early to be giving that kind of stick... he recovered and ended up knocking him out. the moral of the story... you only dish out the stick when it can't come back to haunt you! chessnovice, i'd have been delighted to win from a rook down, especially after my opponent was dancing in his chair, and i'd have made sure he knew how happy i was. ——— Chess: The lessons of Botvinnik — How Vladimir Kramnik employed the classical style learned at the famed school of Botvinnik to take the lead in London. The former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik powered into the lead at the London Chess Classic with two late victories. How did he gain a big advantage in this game? RB: White's position looks solid, but with his last move, Howell threatens the a-pawn. Defending it with 1. b3 looks horrible – Black will sooner or later make the push …c5-c4 and White will have to be careful if he's to keep his queenside together. But do I have to defend the a-pawn? Whenever one of your rooks is standing on the same file as the enemy queen, even a semi-open file, you should always look for ...
Posted by chessnovice ability-tw.com 3/09/2008 10:17:08 Play online chess	tugger Message: I've had some pretty miraculous comebacks after nasty blunders in tournament play. Believe me, something deep down inside of me wanted to brag something fierce in front of the kid. But like I said, they were young and pretty low-rated. I can understand how they'd feel uncontrollably happy to be on the winning side of the board. And honestly, I think they beat themselves up emotionally more than I ever would. The kid was certainly not dancing in his chair after the game ended. I've made kids cry OTB by fighting back from blunders, and it's not a pretty sight. ——— World Champion in Slump as He Readies Title Defense — Is there something wrong with Viswanathan Anand? Anand, the world chess champion, has played listlessly in his last few chess tournaments, and his world ranking is close to slipping to No. 4. His slump began in October at the Bilbao Chess Masters tournament, where he won two games, lost two and finished in a tie for third. At the Tal Memorial chess event in Moscow last month, he drew all his games and ended in a tie for sixth. In the London Chess Classic, which began a week ago, Anand started with two draws. In his third game, against Hikaru Nakamura, he was winning easily until a couple of subpar moves and a blunder allowed Nakamura to win. There may be several possible explanations for ...
Posted by ionadowman ability-tw.com 3/09/2008 12:51:39 Play online chess	Round 1... Message: ... Easter tournament, Wellington, 1977. My opponent was one J. Blaikie, rating somewhere between 600 and 700 below mine. Here's the plot: White: Mr Blaikie; Black: Yr Obdt Servant 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 d6 7.c3 d3!? 8.Qxd3 0-0 9.Nbd2 Ng4 10.Nb3 Nge5 11.Nxe4 Nxe4 12.Qf1 Nxc4 13.Qxc4 Kh8 14.Be3 f5 15.f3 f4 16.Bf2 Rf6 17.Nd4 c5? 18.Nf5 g3? 19.Bh4! ... Now I began to realize I had a fight on my hands... 19...gxf5 20.Bxf6+ Bxf6 21.exf5 Be5 22.Qf7 Qg1 23.Qh5 Bd7 24.Rxe5! ... Bold and courageous! The amazing thing about this was that White had just 6 minutes left on his clock to reach move 36 (Time control 36 moves in 90 minutes)! I still had 40 minutes... 24...dxe4 25.f6 Qe6 26.f7 Rf8 27.Re1 Qxf7? 28.Qxe4+ Qg7 29.Qxc5 Rg8 30.Re2 Bc6 31.Qf2 Qd7 32.Rd2 Qg7 33.Rd4 Qe5 34.h3 Re8 35.Qf1 Bb5 36.Qd1 Qe1+ Both sides make the time control with flags trembling... 37.Qxe1 Rxe1+ Now that the queens have come off, Black has a long and technically difficult ending with very problematical winning chances... 38.Kf2?? Rf1# OK, I was never in much danger of losing, but even a draw would have been sufficiently embarrassing. Good on my opponent, though, and he came very close to sharing the point! Cheers, Ion ——— On Chess: Adventurous drawn to online games — There is more than a bit of the avatar in most of us. If only we could jump out of our skins and, for a moment, be someone else. Chess players are fortunate: The Internet readily offers them such an opportunity. A random list of IDs plucked from a roster of Internet chess players includes Chico, Chrischat, Rubbercheck, Snow and Stixi. What if these anonymous online monikers concealed a single human who has chosen to assume five disparate chess identities: a no-holds-barred gambit player; a would-be genius on defense; an endgame specialist; an opening obsessive; and a universal chess player of unlimited versatility? Each chess identity would subsume a different set of emotional, cognitive and ...
Posted by lturner ability-tw.com 3/11/2008 05:33:02 Play online chess	Nothing personal Message: But....why do people post really bad played games as a badge of honor?
Posted by chessnovice ability-tw.com 3/11/2008 06:08:44 Play online chess	... Message: I would say it's because being able to identify and explain mistakes is as much of a component of learning as being able to identify and explain good moves.
Posted by ionadowman ability-tw.com 3/12/2008 23:52:27 Play online chess	But there can be other reasons... Message: ... Now, me, I'm into stories. My main hobby is miniatures wargaming - campaigns if I can get 'em - because the game tells a story. So does a game of chess. And, if we experience a story that interests us, we tell it to others. In chess, quite often an imprecisely played game (i.e. "badly" played) leads to a good story. Further, not only do 1500-level players play at 2000-level every now and then, but 2000-level player occasionally will play a 1500-level game. That's when interesting "human interest" things happen. Cheers, Ion
Posted by g_one ability-tw.com 3/20/2008 03:01:16 Play online chess	If only everyone ....... Message: Chess coaches should teach their students a bit more etiquette (if I spelt that wrong I hope you know what I mean). For me Susan Polgar sums it up, "win with grace, lose with dignity."