In this game I played black in the scandinavian defence and was lucky to escape by the skin of my teeth!!

 

enjoy 

Well done and (I believe) your opening play was quite excellent. White missed a glaring  31 pinned f4 rook  and (I think, I am always amazed at what I can miss)

31 hRf1 e5

32 dxe Rxf1

33 e6+ and I think he does well

Meant to thank you for your poetry on my forum.  More later. busy

I should have looked at it more closely as I really was rushed. I got my ChessMaster10 and let it run against itself from 30...Qa6 on, and it did indeed choose 31 hRf1 and

put black in the awkward position of having to simplify to a lost game.  But it was so complex that I should not have said "glaring".  A more thorough and sensible player may well have ducked the complications.

I also looked at CM10 playing from my 31...e5 assumption and it led to a similar materal swap to white's advantage.

chess has a great number of possabillities for each move, he just made the wrong one :)

Escapest_Pawn wrote:

I should have looked at it more closely as I really was rushed. I got my ChessMaster10 and let it run against itself from 30...Qa6 on, and it did indeed choose 31 hRf1 and put black in the awkward position of having to simplify to a lost game.  But it was so complex that I should not have said "glaring".  A more thorough and sensible player may well have ducked the complications.

I also looked at CM10 playing from my 31...e5 assumption and it led to a similar materal swap to white's advantage.

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 hmmnnnnnnnn  food for thought...... Will run thorough analysis on CM10 and see what it throws up!!

thx 

PS: history is written by the victor.. 

Hello Escapest_Pawn,

I think in second example, you have turned a white pawn on g5, to black one or something.  I think your idea works better with 30.Rf1 which I think wins the exchange

Bye John S 

wow this is work of pro's amazing display of chess playing!

Quite right twomove, I omitted a g5 white pawn when I set up the position in my CM10 permitting black's g5.  Totally invalidating my PGN analysis above.  I will take another look and maybe reset it up more correctly in CM10.  I find, like most engines, it is a bit strange sometimes, but really quite excellent for tactics and endgames.

Thank you all for feedback.

OK and I should be embarrassed.  10 billion hours on tactics trainer and I failed to see

31 Nxd5! and the rest is fairly clear. Note that black's queen or pawns cannot defend his pinned rook if ...exNd5 then 32 hRf1 leaving white a rook up, so (note, as previously stated, my board above is wrong, lacks white g5 pawn)

31,,,e5

32 dxe  and black is lucky to have ...Qc4 which merely loses the exchange.

 

I have been meaning to say, that the way you wiggled out of difficulties in the late opening/early mid-game was instructive.  Well done and too bad about getting you knight trapped.  When I was an overly-fond-of-myself teenager, I used to let my oponent's knights into my territory for the purpose of trapping them. For whatever reason, I lost the ability, and I started "out clevering myself" as I call it.  Your oponent seems scary.

 

Escapest_Pawn wrote:

OK and I should be embarrassed.  10 billion hours on tactics trainer and I failed to see

31 Nxd5! and the rest is fairly clear. Note that black's queen or pawns cannot defend his pinned rook if ...exNd5 then 32 hRf1 leaving white a rook up, so (note, as previously stated, my board above is wrong, lacks white g5 pawn)

31,,,e5

32 dxe  and black is lucky to have ...Qc4 which merely loses the exchange.

 

I have been meaning to say, that the way you wiggled out of difficulties in the late opening/early mid-game was instructive.  Well done and too bad about getting you knight trapped.  When I was an overly-fond-of-myself teenager, I used to let my oponent's knights into my territory for the purpose of trapping them. For whatever reason, I lost the ability, and I started "out clevering myself" as I call it.  Your oponent seems scary.

 

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 thx for the input....

I felt the queens pin on the rook and my king ought to have been decisive but hey white didnt take it ; and I took my only chance of the game.