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rychessmaster1 wrote:
Pretty nice game
Not perfect, but I'm not at the level where I ever expect to play a truly perfect game. It's as good as I've got, at no point did I give up my lead and I executed a long-term plan with a high degree of accuracy. So yeah, a highly satisfying game, especially since it ended a run of some pretty disappointing defeats.
No, tugger is a nickname I had when I was younger. It means exactly what you might think. It's a polite way of saying wanker. I had cruel friends, if they can be called friends! That said, I chose to use the name as an internet username, so I obviously found it funny rather than mean.
Captain Tugwash is a play on that nickname... Pugwash + Tugger. It was briefly a DJ name I used, along with my friend Jackson Bollock.
Matt.
I'm exactly 6'
Cheers guys.
An interesting note...
23... Rdc5 followed by 24... Ra5... that's two moves it took the rook to get to a4 when it can get there in one. But did we lose a tempo? No, because we're making progress. This "lost" tempo means the c3 pawn no longer protects the knight, as it is now pinned.
Because I don't want to talk to the norms.
That's what I thought.
If he reads this, no offence.
This is a classic chess thread, but I'm posting here since I talk a lot about tempo with you guys. But what does "tempo" actually mean?
A tempo is a turn in chess, strictly speaking. We can lose a tempo by moving the queen twice when it could have reached the end square in one moves. We can gain a tempo by forcing our opponent to use two moves to get a piece somewhere it could've reached in one. But this isn't the whole story.
We can effectively gain a tempo by forcing our opponent into making defensive moves that he otherwise wouldn't want to make, and this is where tempo really is a beast. This is how we use tempo to control the position.
I have recently completed what could be my best game of chess in years, and tempo is the central theme. It's a Nimzo-Indian, which is an defence I'm really enjoying at the moment.