Ugly mate
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LAexpress12
Oct 16, 2010
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#1
There is a famous former football (soccer) player who says: "there are no ugly goals, ugly is to not score".
I guess it is like that in chess too.
25. Ne6+ wins the black queen.
What's so ugly about it?
i know right? not very ugly at all, and btw, have you been playing left hand vs right hand chess l8ly? Cos a lot of mistakes happen this way-i have tried it!
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#6
mrkint wrote:
25. Ne6+ wins the black queen.
I know i totally cant believe i missed that
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#7
RealityMate wrote:
There were a number of mistakes in the game, but overall it was pretty well attacked by white. The only thing I really object to is the proportion of exclamation marks to question marks. Marshall's 23... Qg3!! is deserving of a double exclamation mark. Apparently in the same category is the logical 4. e4!! and the capture of an unprotected pawn with the correct knight 23. Nexg5!!. Basically what I'm saying is, although the game was good, be more quick to think about what you can improve on in your play rather than how many exclamation marks you can put on your moves.
I like exclamation marks
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#8
woodshover wrote:
What's so ugly about it?
i dont like that pawn there, it makes me think i could have done something to mate quicker with it, which i obviously couldnt have, but...
That game is the most weirdest game I ever seen.
Okay, as I looked, I wasn't particularly impressed with 19. g4!, and so I checked with an engine. It turns out to be actually 19.g4?!, giving up a pawn just to develop Black's rook. So I get it - you want to play like Tal, but a bad move is still a bad - definitely not a (!). Also, 23. Nexg5!! is just a pawn grab - nothing to write home.
You also missed a mate with 26. Qh8#, and missed it for the next few moves. Okay, let me now put in my full thoughts:
26. Qh8#
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#12
whisperwalk wrote:
Okay, as I looked, I wasn't particularly impressed with 19. g4!, and so I checked with an engine. It turns out to be actually 19.g4?!, giving up a pawn just to develop Black's rook. So I get it - you want to play like Tal, but a bad move is still a bad - definitely not a (!). Also, 23. Nexg5!! is just a pawn grab - nothing to write home.
You also missed a mate with 26. Qh8#, and missed it for the next few moves. Okay, let me now put in my full thoughts:
h6 is theory
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#13
and whisper my rybka 3... i want four...your right it doesnt give g4 a exclamation mark , and i was an idiot for missing Qh8 #, so the machine put dubious marks on everymove that i missed the mate, but it does give Nexg5 double exvclaim marks, because it grabs like 4 pawns worth.
Do you think you'll get a title someday?
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#16
and this WAS a friendly game, so it wasnt like we were all out trying to kill each other
FullmetalAlchemist wrote:
me? im 17 and my uscf is like 1850...i hope so
How long have you played?
There were many mistakes. I don't know...
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