Wow, and Team French Draws first blood again:
https://www.chess.com/game/daily/311572572
@NoSignOfTheta - very nicely done, sir!
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It was like this in the last challenge, too. Two of the matches were over by the end of the second day.
I did advise folks to take their time. These are sharp openings both, a single mistake can easily lose the game.
Anyone who hasn't started their matches yet, please do so.
Looks like @NoSignOfTheta and @Moonwarrior_1 are playing on a 1 day/move time control. Still, no reason to move so fast.
In my experience thats how many daily games go on chess.com ...especially in the early rounds of daily tournaments.....me playing correspondence chess and my opponent playing blitz.
Feb 17, 2021
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little_guinea_pig wrote:
Hope that Moonwarrior can win the reverse...
I lost Sicilian 😑. But I think I can win the French game
Feb 17, 2021
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Dsmith42 wrote:
Looks like @NoSignOfTheta and @Moonwarrior_1 are playing on a 1 day/move time control. Still, no reason to move so fast.
Yea, we both happened to be on at the same times so every morning/night we make quite a bit of moves, although I learned my mistake from my one game and took more time on the second one.
Feb 17, 2021
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verylate wrote:
“When you see a good move, wait and look for a better one.” this is supposed to be the motto of the correspondence player. we might have that idea in mind when we choose to play CC (or daily as the onliners like to call it), but it's easily forgotten in the heat of battle. Moonwarrior isn't the first to get burned by moving too quickly, and won't be the last.
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Here's the French Game from that Board:
https://www.chess.com/game/daily/311968507
@NoSignOfTheta - This same setup came up in the last challenge - After 6. Qb3? Qxb3! 7. axb3 cxd4! and white is saddled with isolated doubled pawns on the b-file! Your move 6. ..c4? just shifts the base of white's pawn chain from d4, which is easily attacked, to c3, which is further away and well-defended.
It was @kingsindianattack7 's French game in the last challenge, move 9, almost identical situation. Check post #711 on that thread...
The pawn chain is the essence of the French Advanced! The engine is very poor at rating these sorts of positional moves and exchanges. Only Nimzowitsch offers clarity when it comes to such matters.
The main board has been updated, now that the Board 4 match is complete.
"Only Nimzowitsch offers clarity when it comes to such matters."
Nimzowitsch and every good played since him. These chains have been explained over and over again, many times by better writers than Nimzowitsch
The Bongscilian. White gets so confused.
The French Weed or the French Bongcloud. What is happening??!?!.
Laskersnephew wrote:
"Only Nimzowitsch offers clarity when it comes to such matters."
Nimzowitsch and every good played since him. These chains have been explained over and over again, many times by better writers than Nimzowitsch
Nimzowitsch's book My System is the greatest chess book ever written. It took Petrosian to make me understand just how great the book really is. Petrosian followed Nimzowitsch's book far more rigorously than its author did, and Petrosian's peak strength leaves no room for doubting the power of that book.
little_guinea_pig wrote:
kingsindianattack7 wrote:
https://www.chess.com/game/daily/311952732 Here is my Sicilian game
lol, 1 of the boards already finished and here we are on moves 2 and 4 respectively...
well, i dont think my opponents gonna flag like the board 6 games last time....
@Batman2508 - Accepted the Sicilian game, sent you a challenge for the French game.
Let the fun begin!