Mr Mike vs Mr Macintosh g3
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i thought white was getting very congested,but he came out of the box very well-good game well played.
nice play by white, not giving up on his mating combo he wanted
Sep 23, 2007
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It would have been nice to know who was white and who was black. Also, where's the annotation? There's no feeling or flow without knowing what the chess author was thinking. I would like to get a copy of the fully annotated version though. If you read this go ahead and email it to my chess.com email. Thx.
Ah...
And it comes full circle!! I read your post about this is the political forum. Nice plug. Great game, indeed. I enjoyed reading your comments on the final moves especially.
I've never been ranked and my score here fluctuates between 1250 and 1390. I've often found myself tempted to play Bh6 hoping to sacrefice to open the G file. Pulling things together has been my undoing, however.
I have some potentially stupid questions.
1) After move 12, you comment saying (c4 is okay). Can you elaborate? I had trouble understanding for whom it was okay. Okay to attack... Defended adequately...
2) Just a terminology question. You mention the d4 break and being prepared for the d4 break. Is a break just a gap? When you say you were preparing for the break, did you mean you had estimated the effect of a piece exchange on that square? I ask because I thought an attack on that square would have been a net loss of material for you.
Thanks for taking the time to post this.
Greersome, thanks for taking a look at my game, I hope you enjoyed it. Here are the answers to your questions.
1. The c4 reference was in regards to the square protection. The knight wasn't really needed to help out with it's defence. A common theme in the Ruy (for Black), is to secure a knight on c4, and punish the often weak queenside pawns, or to penetrate via e3 when the time is right.
2. A pawn break is a pawn push that opens up the position. Pushing the pawn to d4 is a common thematic break in many lines of the Ruy, else white can have a passive position, as in my game. Most of the time, the d4 push comes early, when white is properly secure in the centre.
I hope that clears some stuff up. Thank you again for checking out my game.
Here is an interesting game for you all to enjoy. My computer doesn't seem to agree with the game add utility when I try to add commentary, so I will add it here so that you can at least review it OTB. The game set up was me with white, rated about 1560 USCF at the time, and I was playing against the GnuChess engine on a Macintosh G3 tower computer which was at full strength, roughly 2250 USCF was the strength readout. This is the cleanest, and strongest game I have ever played, so I figured I'd share it. Thank you for looking at my game, and happy chess to you!