woodshover wrote:
[Erik,] You know a lot about chess players.
? And here I thought Erik was more of a businessman than a a psychologist 
What do you think, eric?
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orangehonda wrote:
woodshover wrote:
[Erik,] You know a lot about chess players.
? And here I thought Erik was more of a businessman than a a psychologist
He's also been playing chess for years.
woodshover wrote:
RDR75 wrote:
Which many of us have done. My point was, your second game was an improvement, even though you lost.
I knew that if I would have taken FM Kacparov's pawn with my queen, I I would have ended losing it after having to take his bishop. I guess I should have just moved the rook out the bishop's way and kept on for a bit, but what the hay.
Or perhaps Q to f4, instead of taking the bishop just to see the result.
Yeah, well if you were trying to make the best move then moving the rook would be a very wise choice. If you just wanted to try some stuff you would have nothing to lose since FM Kacparov already had a big enough advantage to win.
woodshover wrote:
orangehonda wrote:
woodshover wrote:
[Erik,] You know a lot about chess players.
? And here I thought Erik was more of a businessman than a a psychologist
He's also been playing chess for years.
He looks like he's in his 20s to me... and I would guess most of his time goes into his business and his family... not chess playing. Are you sure you weren't thinking chess.com owner = chess knowledge? 
orangehonda wrote:
woodshover wrote:
orangehonda wrote:
woodshover wrote:
[Erik,] You know a lot about chess players.
? And here I thought Erik was more of a businessman than a a psychologist
He's also been playing chess for years.
He looks like he's in his 20s to me... and I would guess most of his time goes into his business and his family... not chess playing. Are you sure you weren't thinking chess.com owner = chess knowledge?
Read his profile page. He said he learned chess at the age of eight, but only has been playing seriously for the last ten years. He would have to know something about it.
RDR75 wrote:
Yeah, well if you were trying to make the best move then moving the rook would be a very wise choice. If you just wanted to try some stuff you would have nothing to lose since FM Kacparov already had a big enough advantage to win.
I'm talking about seeing what would have happened if I would have taken the pawn with my queen, then went to f4 instead of taking the bishop that I figured he was going to send down. See, I was thinking that if I took the pawn with my queen, he would move his bishop to g4. If I took it, he would get the queen with his knight. Any way, perhaps I should have tried a few moves, just for the heck of it.
Well, 12.Qxf3 Bg4 13.Qf4 would be good for you, I think. I suspect Kacparov might have played something else other than 12. ...Bg4, though. Maybe 12. ...Bxf1 (Trading your bishop in exchange for a rook is usually a good trade.) or Ne5?
RDR75 wrote:
Well, 12.Qxf3 Bg4 13.Qf4 would be good for you, I think. I suspect Kacparov might have played something else other than 12. ...Bg4, though. Maybe 12. ...Bxf1 (Trading your bishop in exchange for a rook is usually a good trade.) or Ne5?
I'm sure you're right. I was too impulsive in resigning without looking further.
I gave a good sportmaniship trophy for resigning at a proper moment, many chess.com players are missing that :-)
Kacparov wrote:
I gave a good sportsmanship trophy for resigning at a proper moment, many chess.com players are missing that :-)
Didn't even see the pawn fork coming. I'm gifted at missing the obvious.
My point was never that woodshover should have kept playing. He said he resigned because he felt like an idiot and was scared of looking like an even bigger idiot. Essentially that is what I was disagreeing with. Whether he resigned immediately or played a few more moves was neither here nor there to me.
Which many of us have done. My point was, your second game was an improvement, even though you lost.
I knew that if I would have taken FM Kacparov's pawn with my queen, I I would have ended losing it after having to take his bishop. I guess I should have just moved the rook out the bishop's way and kept on for a bit, but what the hay.