FC Chess Tournament 4

[minionofmidas]

http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=20176247&rnd=23617

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Come on in!

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I didn't even see Re8 until I actually played it (that is to say, the fact that I could just play it with no heavy pieces exchanged before. I was quite relying on the rook's control of the file before that move of course.) Hence the need for all those little queenie steps.

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and bore beats the clock!

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But Black returns the favor.  He had the chance to extend his material lead to two whole pieces with the simple 8...Bxd2+ 9. Qxd2 Nb4 10. O-O (either Knight is immune from capture because both advanced horses threaten ...Nxc2+ and a royal fork!) Nbc6.

Beautifully simple and simply beautiful, but I did not see it.

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Only if white castles as well, no?
10. ... 0-0
11. Bxb4 Qxe2+ (or Nxe2)
12. Qxe2 Nxe2 (or Qxe2+)
13. Kxe2

And all I got is my king's castled and his is exposed, the material's even. I believe - I felt even as it played out - that there must have been a better way to play the situation but I don't think this is it.

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He just completely overlooked that I'd freed my bishop the move before, somehow. (I know this because I asked him.)

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I know, but figured I had reason to hope that

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and thought there was in this case nothing lost with testing the hypothesis - I could still switch to a long drawn out advance-pawns-and-trade-the-queens-at-some-point endgame if he freed his King (or moved the Queen to the baseline, yet another way to escape.)

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That's better!

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What about the other two games, though?

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http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=20416126 is homely vs oakvale; a person vs bore seems not to be up yet.

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here

Since I'm leaving, can someone notify me of later rounds by PM?

Correct link

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World Championship has begun.

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Lg7 4.d4 c6 5.O-O Nf6 6.b3 O-O 7.Bb2 Bf5 8.c4 Nd7 9.Nc3 dxc4 10.bxc4 Nb6 11.c5 Nc4 12.Bc1 Nd5 13.Qb3 Na5 14.Qa3


and is already over.

15.Qb3 Na5 16.Qa3 Nc4, draw.

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That's a good result for Anand in game 1 of the FIDE World Chess Championship.  He transposed into a Grünfeld and then equalized easily.

And then Carlson thought for twenty minutes and found and decided on a queen move that basically forced a draw (well, gave Anand the choice of taking an instant draw or losing materiel.) 

In other news, I've given up vs anvi.

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Carlsen wins again, again in a complicated one-rook-and-many-pawns endgame. Guess it's the end of an era coming up.

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I feel for Anand. I lose these endgames too.

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Now that the Rook has been tempted off the back rank by the wayward Black Bishop, a variation of the mating motif above still works. But Black doesn't quite spot it.

I did, at that point in the match's progress.

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Me vs Oakvale to appear here shortly.

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Me vs Oakvale to appear here shortly.

Accepted! I'll try not to time out in this one.

Damn, there goes my best hope of victory.

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And he'll just time out again if the time control remains set to two days?

I'm all for restarting the game off the record with a different time control; I still have embarassing mistakes in my first game vs Oakvale back in june to atone for. How's that Oak?

EDIT after reading the other thread: Or we could restart the game after you get your internet connection fixed, of course.

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Sorry about all that, guys. I'd be more than happy to restart the game if that's okay with you, Lewis.

http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=20622273&rnd=46060

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Do!

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It's not an FC game, so unfortunately I don't feel obligated.  But the capsule version would be that there were some exciting tactics from both sides, and a number of errors on both sides, and of the errors, Black made the last ones. 

Yes, I kinda got that much from a brief lookover and the vibe of the preceding posts.

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Svidler was, actually, a wildcard selection. Only the other seven people actually qualified for this.

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What does "dynamic" mean in chess terms?

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Yeah, the terms "tactician", "strategist" and "positional" I was aware of.

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http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/honor.htm

Old, but I came across it today. I laughed.

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http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=20622273&rnd=10412

The game between me and Oakvale has ended. (I had this post reply window open for the past hour!)