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It's always fun playing the Traxler.

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Had a look at some OTB games from a weekly match I used to have with a friend at the pub (not always our best on display, and in this case, at least it was his "oops" not mine happy.png ). Anyway, he was going to resign very early, but because this was our first game of the night, and I thought I would get the mate as I did, I convinced him to "play it out" by just saying "oh, well, yah, but it's only a few moves, let's play it out and then reset the board" or something like that. Once he saw how it could end, he wanted to see if he could deny me. The funniest thing is, the very next game, I blundered badly too, and he got a similar mate. I can't find that one in my files, though, so I think I must not have recorded it, but such is chess, and life. happy.png

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Fake

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What's fake?

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PennsylvanianDude wrote:

What's fake?

I suspect they are referring to my game above. It does look fake, and you might imagine my buddy was going to resign very early on, but these were just friendly games we would play at the pub. We would often play dubious stuff, and he tried the Blackburn Shilling, and I figured I would get at least two pawns for the Bishop. Given how awful it was we just played it out for laughs. I can't find the score for the game we played after this one, but he ended up castle mating me in that one. Ha ha!

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Ok not fake bur cooperative game. I would like to hear Kramnik opinion about it.

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AngusByers wrote:
PennsylvanianDude wrote:

What's fake?

I suspect they are referring to my game above. It does look fake, and you might imagine my buddy was going to resign very early on, but these were just friendly games we would play at the pub. We would often play dubious stuff, and he tried the Blackburn Shilling, and I figured I would get at least two pawns for the Bishop. Given how awful it was we just played it out for laughs. I can't find the score for the game we played after this one, but he ended up castle mating me in that one. Ha ha!

Well that doesn't mean it's fake so his comment is still wrong.

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Have reported BakingSabThik

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borovicka75 wrote:

Ok not fake bur cooperative game. I would like to hear Kramnik opinion about it.

Only in the sense we continued to play it out rather than him resigning, but we didn't agree to moves, if that's what you mean. Most of Black's moves are forced once it gets going, and where it is not only moves, other options are no better. As for Kramnik, while I think he would have been disgusted with having to watch us play, he would have had no concerns of the sort you're suggesting had he done so.

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lukeluke00 wrote:
AngusByers wrote:
PennsylvanianDude wrote:

What's fake?

I suspect they are referring to my game above. It does look fake, and you might imagine my buddy was going to resign very early on, but these were just friendly games we would play at the pub. We would often play dubious stuff, and he tried the Blackburn Shilling, and I figured I would get at least two pawns for the Bishop. Given how awful it was we just played it out for laughs. I can't find the score for the game we played after this one, but he ended up castle mating me in that one. Ha ha!

Well that doesn't mean it's fake so his comment is still wrong.

Oh, it is a genuine game in every way, but I admit it looks like something one would make up. It was a weekly friendly match, so we tried all sorts of things. After Ke8 Black is busted, but Ke7 isn't a comfortable looking move.

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Ah, I tracked down the game that followed, where I'm now on the receiving end of a similar embarrassing outcome! happy.png After my Ne4 blunder, and the hunting of my king into the open (Kb8 rather than Kb6 was better, but I didn't like Nd7+ and completely overlooked the resulting KQ fork; in my defence, we were playing at the pub so not all choices are going to be good ones! where it's clear I'm lost, he wanted to play on for revenge, and really my only goal was to try and not get castle-mated, but sadly did not find a way to prevent it. Generally, though, we had some pretty good games and were evenly matched for quite a while. Near the end, he went on a winning streak as he would play the London against me, which he was very familiar with and I still don't feel comfortable playing the Black side.)

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Barefoot_Player wrote:

Have reported BakingSabThik

same, and id ask everyone else to do it as well

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@playchessordie19:

After a game, you can copy it from 'analysis' and post it by clicking on the little chessboard icon (upper left) and pasting it in the field shown. Then just load it and post.wink

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Another game with the Ng5 attack in the Italian game. Black tries the weird move 5...Bg4!? It's a dubious idea, but on the basement level where I am, stuff like this can be a bit challenging. I actually lost a blitz game to this goofy movie a few weeks ago. However, in this case I get a pretty easy game.

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Nice one! Yah, sometimes opponents play a move you just know is not great, but it can take a few losses to work out why as they are usually not completely without some idea backing them.

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lukeluke00 wrote:
 

Wow! An English with g4 and Rg1, what else is new? Ha Ha, just kidding. Very nice game. 16.Bxh5! What a find!

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I thought this was headed for an Italian game, but it turned into a Ponziani. I found out after the game 4.c3 is the Neumann gambit. Maybe it's named after that mailman on Seinfeld. Anyway, I almost blew the game with my stupid move 13...Re8, but got lucky thanks to some blunders by my opponent.

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theRonster456 wrote:
lukeluke00 wrote:
 

Wow! An English with g4 and Rg1, what else is new? Ha Ha, just kidding. Very nice game. 16.Bxh5! What a find!

Don't fix what isn't broken. Or something like that.

Yes, Bxh5! followed by Nf6+! was a nice trick I have used before. If they keep falling for it why stop using it?

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Nice checkmate.