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Quite the nice projection mister.  you post again and expect me not to resond?  Its fine.  Have fun with your psych

A good and Lively game Cerebral! I liked it! =)

Here are my notes to the game.

"CerebralAssassin19 (1880)-"AlekhineSpirit" (1863)
Live Chess
www.chess.com, July 18 2015
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nxd5 4.Bc4 {A good alternative to 4.d4. D. Siegrist (2000)-I. Traub (2000), FIDE Tournament, Mechanics Institute, San Francisco 2004 continued with 4.d4 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.Ne4 Bg4 7.c3 Nc6 8.Bc4 O-O 9.O-O Nb6 10.Bb3 a5 11.a3 h6 12.h3 Bxf3 13.Qxf3 e5 14.d5 Ne7 15.Rd1 Nf5 16.Be3 Nc8 17.c4 b6 18.Rd2 Nh4 19.Qe2 f5 20.Nc5 bxc5 21.g3 f4 22.Bxc5 Nd6 23.gxh4 f3 24.Qe3 Qxh4 25.Kh2 e4 26.Bxd6 cxd6 27.Rg1 Be5+ 28.Rg3 Bf4 29.Qd4 Rae8 30.c5 Qg5 31.cxd6 Bxd6 32.Rc2 e3 33.Rc6 exf2 34.Rxd6 f1=N+! 35.Kh1 (35.Kg1 Qxg3+ 36.Kxf1 Re1#) 35...Nxg3+ 36.Kh2 Nf1+ 0-1} e6 {4...Nxc3?! 5.Qf3!} 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.O-O Be7 7.Bb5 Nxc3 8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.dxc3 O-O {Black doesn't want to exchange Queens because as the pieces diminish, his weaker pawn structure will become more apparent, even if he has the bishop pair.} 10.Qe2 Bb7 11.Rd1 Qc8 12.Bf4 Bc5 13.Qc4 Bb6 {Black has lost the tempi war. He is behind in development and activity. White's attack will come first.} 14.Rd2 c5 15.Ne5 f6 16.Nd7 Rd8 17.Qxe6+ Kh8 18.Rad1 Re8 19.Qf7 Be4 20.Nxb6 {Interesting is 20.Nxf6 gxf6 (better is 20...Rf8 21.Qe7 Bb7 22.Nh5 Rg8 23.Be5 Qf8) 21.Qxf6+ Kg8 22.Rd7 +-} 20...cxb6 21.Rd7 Rg8 22.Bh6 gxh6 23.Qxf6+ 1-0

thank you BP,glad you enjoyed it!

yeah I didn't think the bishop pair was enough comp. for the structural damage.

I saw 20. Nxf6 but was afraid of 20..Rf8, but didn't see 21.Qe7

22..Qf8 was an interesting defense,maybe he could've weaseled out of that one.

Another game from the Archives ;)

“postman982002”-Escalante
Blitz Game
Yahoo, Nov. 12 2006
[The Postman may ring twice – or sometimes not at all]
1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 {This move is not necessarily a bad move, esp. in speed chess. It is however, not a good move either.}Qe7 {Adov-Borisov, St. Petersburg, 1889 went 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Qf3 Nf6 5.Qb3  Nd4 6.Qc3 d5 7.Bxd5? Nxd5 8.exd5 Bf5 9.d3 Bb4 0-1. In the present game Black delivers a similar knockout.}3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Qf3 d6 5.Bc4 c6 6.Nh3 Bg4 7.Qg3 Qd7 8.Ng5 Be6 9.Bxe6 fxe6 10.O-O h6 11.Nh3 g5 12.Qe3 Na6! 13.f3 O-O-O 14.d3 Kb8 15.Bd2 d5{!}  16.exd5 Bc5 17.d4 Bxd4 18.Qxd4 exd4 19.Ne4 Nxe4 20.fxe4 cxd5 21.exd5 Qxd5 22.Rae1 Rhf8 23.Ba5 Rxf1+ 24.Rxf1 Qxa5 0-1

interesting line erikido...I don't see the knock out punch after Rf8 though.

Now that I see it...5. Rb7 looks good,grabbing a pawn

good game Escalante...he didn't see that pin coming did he?

I am a terrible blitz player (and I mean really, really bad compared to my regular time controls play), but every now and then, something fun like this happens.

I have a hard time believing 7. Bxf7+ is a good move. What if Black had played 8... Rf8 followed by Kg8? In normal fork trick variations Bxf7 just leaves Black better. Here Black doesn't have the big center, but still the Bishop pair should count for something.

Hmm, perhaps. But after 8. Rf8 9.0-0 Kg8 10. c4 I still prefer white. He leads in development, his king is safer, and the two knights in the centre can't be dislodged without black making concessions. While black's bishops do look scary, Qh5 is also a possibility to force a trade with Ng5 or Bg5. I'm far from certain, though.

It's a moot point anyway because 7. Qh5 might be winning for White. Black's normal move there is Nd6 which in this version of the fork trick is (in the words of Ben Finegold) highly illegal. I guess Black has to try to d5, giving up the extra pawn, first, but a very brief look at it in a database lead me to the conclusion you were right about Nxe4 being bad and I didn't need to look at it any futher.

I only play blitz, so my games aren't very deep. Lately my undeep games have been shallower than usual. I try to play higher rated opponents and I've been shown why they're higher rated.  However, i played this mini game against an opponent rated pretty close to myself that made me happy for the moment:

How to stand on the wrong side of a miniature...

I posted some analysis of this game at http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2015/08/thinking-about-development.html