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titled player post here

He wasn't titled at the time.

And a defeated one at that

I BEAT MIKE CHESSER

We've had a lot of people strong players that used to be Untitled Tuesday regulars earn a title.

link it

We had a tactical sequence in the opening that I handled very poorly allowing you to win two pieces for two pawns.  The passed pawn let me win one of the pieces back, and then I traded down to an endgame where I thought the extra knight might not be enough for you to win, and so it proved.  An engine would have won it, but we're not engines.

Maybe another time!

the #1 Seed of the saturday event failed against me

he's only 50 points higher than you, but you still played really well, and I would not have found 26. Rxd6 in a blitz game (i might find it in rapid or classical)

Rxd6 was so obvious though

Here's the best game I have played in a while. It is from round 9 of today's Untitled Tuesday event:

Nice game!

It turns out that my Bxh2 is probably not best. It’s a novelty, but strong players generally play Qc7 and get a fairly good game. The problem with Bxh2 was if White didn’t take.

It may not be best, but in blitz it would be a scary move to see.

I posted this on Facebook. My friends rated around 2100-2300 loved it! A couple said they would have played Bxh2 instantly. I burned nearly half a minute on it, and more time when Black played Bxh7!

But my IM and GM friends weren’t impressed. Cyrus Lakdawala and a couple others said they preferred Qc7! To keep all of the advantages of the position without burning bridges.

I love analyzing with strong players!

Wait, you have IMs and GMs commenting on your posts?

My big claim to almost fame is I once analyzed with Peter Svidler one-on-one. I almost got Alexei Shirov to come to Colorado for a simul but he declined after deciding the country’s politics weren’t to his liking.