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It was a good game, even with 1000 games going though some of his mistakes he really shouldn't have made, as he is supposed to be a correspondance Master. Still, you showed good inginuity to punish his errors.
atomichicken wrote:
It was a good game, even with 1000 games going though some of his mistakes he really shouldn't have made, as he is supposed to be a correspondance Master. Still, you showed good inginuity to punish his errors.
I agree... I was surprised he missed the win. I'm sure he would have found better moves if he had more time to devote to the individual game. But I do think playing for complications is a good way to play awardchess, he just doesn't have the time to go deeply into a game and if you can create positions that require a deeper look, you'll get good chances.
JG27Pyth wrote:
atomichicken wrote:
It was a good game, even with 1000 games going though some of his mistakes he really shouldn't have made, as he is supposed to be a correspondance Master. Still, you showed good inginuity to punish his errors.
I agree... I was surprised he missed the win. I'm sure he would have found better moves if he had more time to devote to the individual game. But I do think playing for complications is a good way to play awardchess, he just doesn't have the time to go deeply into a game and if you can create positions that require a deeper look, you'll get good chances.
Yeah, it can be a good strategy against people who run into time trouble often also in OTB. I'm not sure though if many of those positions from which he made mistakes did require a much deeper look, just seemed to be obvious losing blunders. Maybe he should have just made himself take a slow 3 seconds instead of the normal 1 second at those crucial points lol 
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atomicchicken: I'm not sure though if many of those positions from which he made mistakes did require a much deeper look, just seemed to be obvious losing blunders. Maybe he should have just made himself take a slow 3 seconds instead of the normal 1 second at those crucial points lol .
I agree when it comes to overlooking the pawn I hung, and I agree at the end where he played the Kf2 toward the center of the board rather than to the h-file... nothing terribly deep about that stuff. But playing Ne2 rather than exd, I think that one required a little thought.
neato nice game
JG27Pyth wrote:
atomicchicken: I'm not sure though if many of those positions from which he made mistakes did require a much deeper look, just seemed to be obvious losing blunders. Maybe he should have just made himself take a slow 3 seconds instead of the normal 1 second at those crucial points lol .
I agree when it comes to overlooking the pawn I hung, and I agree at the end where he played the Kf2 toward the center of the board rather than to the h-file... nothing terribly deep about that stuff. But playing Ne2 rather than exd, I think that one required a little thought.
True.
This game is from the BirdBrain #2 tournament, a thematic tournament for Bird's opening. I call it Laskerade (a pun rhyming with Masquerade for the non-native english speakers) because there are some Lasker-like elements here -- I get myself into a jam, but find some attacking resources (including an interesting interference theme) to fight my way out to the win. Please realize though, I'm making fun of myself, the only thing truly Laskerlike about my play here is the result.)
It's not a masterpiece by any means, but it's sort of enjoyable IMO. LOTS of remarks in the annotations...