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Nov 28, 2021
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#343
Anonymous_Chess_Warrior wrote:
[Site "Chess.com iPhone"]
[Date "11/22/2021 12:54PM"]
[FEN rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1]
[White "realizes20"]
[Black "Anonymous_Chess_Warrior"]
[Result "Anonymous_Chess_Warrior won by checkmate"]
[WhiteElo "1677"]
[BlackElo "1603"]
[Termination "Anonymous_Chess_Warrior won by checkmate"]
1.e4 {2:59} e6 {2:59} 2.Nf3 {2:59} d5 {2:59} 3.e5 {2:57} c5 {2:58} 4.d4 {2:57} Nc6 {2:57} 5.c3 {2:56} Qb6 {2:57} 6.dxc5 {2:55} Bxc5 {2:57} 7.Be3 {2:54} Bxe3 {2:56} 8.fxe3 {2:54} Qxe3+ {2:55} 9.Be2 {2:54} Nxe5 {2:53} 10.Nbd2 {2:54} Nd3+ {2:46} 11.Kf1 {2:46} Qf2# {2:46} {Anonymous_Chess_Warrior won by checkmate}
[Date "11/22/2021 12:54PM"]
[FEN rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1]
[White "realizes20"]
[Black "Anonymous_Chess_Warrior"]
[Result "Anonymous_Chess_Warrior won by checkmate"]
[WhiteElo "1677"]
[BlackElo "1603"]
[Termination "Anonymous_Chess_Warrior won by checkmate"]
1.e4 {2:59} e6 {2:59} 2.Nf3 {2:59} d5 {2:59} 3.e5 {2:57} c5 {2:58} 4.d4 {2:57} Nc6 {2:57} 5.c3 {2:56} Qb6 {2:57} 6.dxc5 {2:55} Bxc5 {2:57} 7.Be3 {2:54} Bxe3 {2:56} 8.fxe3 {2:54} Qxe3+ {2:55} 9.Be2 {2:54} Nxe5 {2:53} 10.Nbd2 {2:54} Nd3+ {2:46} 11.Kf1 {2:46} Qf2# {2:46} {Anonymous_Chess_Warrior won by checkmate}
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Jan 3, 2022
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#347
That looks just like the checkmating pattern from my first posted miniature.
Jan 3, 2022
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#348
melvinbluestone wrote:
alphaous wrote:
How to play the Tal:
Nice game. I think 7...Nf6 is also somewhat playable in this line.
True, although it's not very common. I think the best thing to do is to try to transpose into the game line with 8.Bd3 as white. If you take on f7, then the knight is a good shield.
Jan 4, 2022
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#349
melvinbluestone wrote:
alphaous wrote:
melvinbluestone wrote:
alphaous wrote:
How to play the Tal:
Nice game. I think 7...Nf6 is also somewhat playable in this line.
True, although it's not very common. I think the best thing to do is to try to transpose into the game line with 8.Bd3 as white. If you take on f7, then the knight is a good shield.
That makes sense. Interesting is the line 7...Nf6 8.exf7+ Kxf7 9.g5 hxg5 10.hxg5 Bxc2! 11.Qxc2 Rxh1 12.Qg2, followed by 13.gxf6, and it's probably about equal. Wish I could find stuff like this when I'm actually playing OTB!
Maybe it's hard because we have to consider multiple lines in OTB, plus you have to accept that if you are wrong then you've wasted 5-10 precious minutes. There are a few alternative lines that deserve consideration and evaluation, such as 9. Nh5 10. gxh6 Ng3 11. Rh3 Nxf1 12.fxg7 Bxg7 13. Kxf1. White is up a pawn but Black has a safer king, the bishop pair, and better development. I don't know if I would go into that OTB as white.
Jan 4, 2022
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#350
The engine evaluates 12. Rh4!? in your line as slightly better for Black, and 12.Rh8 as equal, and it evaluates the end of my line as -2! Yikes, that's even more compensation than I evaluated!
Jan 5, 2022
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#352
I kind of like the concept of g4, sacrificing a pawn and an exposed kingside for a whole lot of space, but I've been playing a lot of e4 recently. Maybe I'll try it out as a surprise weapon. Fun game!
Jan 5, 2022
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#353
Funnily enough, I've never played against 5.Bd7 before, and I quite enjoy playing the pawn sac lines, so I hope no one plays it against me anytime soon.
Jan 6, 2022
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#354
melvinbluestone wrote:
alphaous wrote:
I kind of like the concept of g4, sacrificing a pawn and an exposed kingside for a whole lot of space, but I've been playing a lot of e4 recently. Maybe I'll try it out as a surprise weapon. Fun game!
Apparently, this thing has a name, the Devin gambit. I don't know who or what Devin was. Maybe some kind of a nut. Game Explorer has one game with the line, ends in a draw.
Probably a player from the 19th century, where everything went and you could get almost any opening named after you.
Jan 18, 2022
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#355
alphaous wrote:
melvinbluestone wrote:
alphaous wrote:
I kind of like the concept of g4, sacrificing a pawn and an exposed kingside for a whole lot of space, but I've been playing a lot of e4 recently. Maybe I'll try it out as a surprise weapon. Fun game!
Apparently, this thing has a name, the Devin gambit. I don't know who or what Devin was. Maybe some kind of a nut. Game Explorer has one game with the line, ends in a draw.
Probably a player from the 19th century, where everything went and you could get almost any opening named after you.
And Mamedyarov just played it at the TATA STEEL against Esipenko. I love that guy. I guess it can't be that bad.
some interesting ideas in this game.
And thank you Wikipedia for the Balestra mate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate_pattern#Balestra_mate
A funny move here would have been Qxc2+