Post your best miniatures here

Rb8 instead of Rc8

I play the Chinese Dragon too!

I personally love playing the Four Knights (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Nf6!?). Not well-known, avoids most of the Anti-Sicilians and can get extremely messy if White takes on c6 and follows with e5. The only potential downside is being forced into a Sveshnikov with 6.Ndb5, but I don't mind playing these positions as the plans are quite clear. You don't get many miniatures, but a lot of players seem to think it's a regular Taimanov and play 6.Be3 or 6.Be2 and are then surprised by 6...Bb4, where they get a bad position if they don't want to gambit a pawn.

Wow. Their is a lot of educational material here..

lord,

Your game is lousy; your opponent kept dropping pieces (including a enemy queen that you DIDN'T take), and it is not a miniature. I am surprised you consider this game, ;"a best game". You've got low standards!

A game from my archives.

A nice game I played OTB today:

Here is one that i found from my archive. Pretty cool.

I played an almost exact game once!

Almost same, isn't it?

And hey, it's the same opponent!

And the same White player too!

Wait, what is this sorcery? How can you edit a game like this and keep the same names?! LOL.

And also, wait a minute, the knight on d5 was hanging? I believe i didn't even see that. I was too focused on what i was doing. But i see it now, luckily i didn't take it!

aravinds, i think my opponent was afraid that if instead of f6 he played Nf6, that i would play e5. But then i believe Qe7 solves the problem right? Anyhow, thanks for commenting on the game (or your variation! )

One of my prettiest combination

Oh sorry. The thing is, I was lazy to add the game all over again, so I just took the PGN of your game and posted it with the moves different.

So you actually played such a game? I'm confused.

Recently played, double Knight sacrifice. White pieces looks cramped and the center is closed until move 15 when White crashes a piece on it, five moves later Black gives up.

White's Queen will checkmate on f7 or g8 on next move and Black cannot prevent both threats.

Nice game Merovwig! I wonder if 20...Ne7 holds for a while though. After 21.hxg5 Ne5 (interfering with the attack on e7) Black might struggle on?

@-waller- Thank you. Indeed 20...Ne7 21.hxg5 Ne5 seems more resilient.

However after 22.Qxe5, it looks like the e7 piece will fall anyway (unless Black is desesperate enough to play ...Rxd6). So White gets back the two pieces invested and ends up probably at least slightly better with a pawn up (though doubled).

Haven't seen you here in a while Waller.