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jotheblackqueen
04-Dec-12, 03:15
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 It Can Be Done
It is time to open up the thread that I promised you which is It Can Be Done. This is when a walker manages to win or draw a game against a runner.
I have just accepted a draw offer from Expert Standa whose rating was just 3 points south of 2100 at the start of our game and requested Gameknot Analysis on the game. You can see this game in my immediate past games history and I may annotate it very soon.
Kind regards
Joanne
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nice game Joanne and well played.
here is my only GM draw against the best Women player on gameknot. It was an excruciatingly hard game.; game
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stalhandske
04-Dec-12, 03:33
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my name is not Standa
It is Stalhandske, Torsten Stalhandske, gentleman and warrior, shaken but not stirred
Congratulations to Joanne for a very well played game!
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jotheblackqueen
04-Dec-12, 05:26
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Hi Torsten!
"Standa" was meant as a nickname but henceforth I will call you Torsten!
Kind regards and apologies
Joanne
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jotheblackqueen
04-Dec-12, 05:30
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Hi Janet!
Many thanks for your congratulations on my latest Expert Draw. Congratulations on your Grandmaster draw on WGM Renniemay. As a strange coincidence, Maria is also the highest rated player that I have drawn against - her rating was 2292 at the time! That was annotated as "My first ever Master Draw" and that was a Q and P ending!
Kind regards
Joanne
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elyhim
04-Dec-12, 06:06
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great draw Stalhandske!
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stalhandske
04-Dec-12, 07:40
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@elyhim
Thanks elyhim for the comment! Club members might like to look at the recent elyhim versus stalhandske game which was initiated by yours truly as a challenge to elyhim, who had said something to the effect that the Alekhine defense is no good anymore (or something to that effect). So I boldly challenged him with the proviso that we'd play Alekhine with me as black (to prove him wrong, of course). Well, compared to Lützen in 1632, yours truly was badly beaten by elyhim's great positional excellence! All I can say to my defense is that I don't think my defeat can be attributed to Alekhine - actually, I think my Alekhine defense worked quite well in the beginning. Since I am the older member of the Club (I am about 2x the age of elyhim), I expect elyhim to do the annotation of this game (if he so likes).
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Congratulations Joanne!
Well Done Joanne,
you will soon be north of 2k!
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Draw against the Master Mater
I have a master draw to show. Although he is not a master, at the moment, he was and might regain that master status. Who is he? The master mater known as easy19. It involved a special Walking the Walk game, where I was able to trick Fred into a draw by repetition. That annotation is shown below. gameknot.com
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elyhim
04-Dec-12, 11:43
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Ressurecting the Alekine
here is the game in all it's glory. Stalhandske played extremely well. gameknot.com
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stalhandske
05-Dec-12, 00:23
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Alekhine defense
I thank elyhim for his truly eloquent annotation of our game! I'd claim that this is really valuable stuff for Club members and actually far beyond the details of the Alekhine defense as such! It shows a very close fight a long way, until elyhim's positional excellence and long-term planning pay dividends in a way that can be appreciated move by move due to the excellent narrative. For once, it was a pleasure to lose!
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2nd GM draw
this time against the #3(2633) player on gameknot. I have the advantage but not enough to risk it against such a formidable player.game
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jotheblackqueen
06-Dec-12, 03:13
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Congratulations Janet on your Grandmaster Draw!
Hi Janet!
I think if I were black I would accept a draw offer here. You look as if you are really bearing down on him and you have a lot of pressure on the h7 square. Just one thought, Janet, if you played B x N then he would have to respond with P x B and then that would allow you to play B x P next move without the worry of having your bishop trapped. If Rodog was to play QxB?? then he will cop Old Matey on e8 (RxR#)!!! The result of that combo is that he is a pawn light.
Do you see a refutation to the BxN followed by B x P combo?
You did put the frighteners on him and it would be nice if we could have him in our Club!
Anyhow, well played!
Joanne
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please clarify Joanne.
I'm a little confused. At what move number could i have played BxN?.
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oh, i see what you mean.
i did't see that in the game because i assumed he would do what he did. Yes that is clever.
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jotheblackqueen
12-Dec-12, 15:16
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Freddy's epic game!
Hi everyone!
Freddy achieved a Grandmaster Draw against a guy called Dana Mackenzie. Freddy played the white side of an opening which involved him sacrificing his Q for 2 pieces. Freddy's king was in Old Matey's shadow no less than a dozen times in that game but miraculously escaped his clutches.
Here is that game!
www.danamackenzie.com.
I hope you all have a good read!
Kind regards
Joanne
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jotheblackqueen
12-Dec-12, 15:30
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Here is part 2 of Freddy's Epic Struggle!
www.danamackenzie.com
More detailed annotation follows .....
Kind regards
Joanne
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elyhim
15-Dec-12, 09:46
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Draw against Gameknot's current number 2
You feedback would be wonderful. I thought I share this because I was happy with the result. It is not annotated yet
gameknot.com
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great draw elyhim!!!
i had to go over it about 5-times before realising how intricate it was. Well played.
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jotheblackqueen
22-Dec-12, 08:31
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Hi everyone!
Another Expert Draw for Yours Truly!
gameknot.com
Hope you all have a good read.
Kind regards
Joanne
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elyhim
25-Dec-12, 20:33
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Elyhim vs Battlefleet 3 game match series
I have not annotated these games so read what you want out of them. All I can say is that all 3 games are chalk of goodies.
game 1- game
game 2- game
game 3 is still in progress
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elyhim
25-Dec-12, 21:13
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Deleted by elyhim on 25-Dec-12, 21:53.
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battlefleet
25-Dec-12, 21:29
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And a Battle it was.
i am lucky to have survived. And very enjoyable. For the Openings alone these games should be looked at. Thank you elyhim!!!!
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elyhim
25-Dec-12, 21:54
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game 3- game
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elyhim
25-Dec-12, 21:54
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Deleted by elyhim on 25-Dec-12, 21:55.
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GM draw #3
I am rather proud of this game. Because it represents my first attempt (with a GM) to test the drawing capability of the Berlin Defense to the Lopez, and the huge effort i made in preparation and study. Before the game started i went over all the GM games i could find using this Opening. And their were many (at least 50-games). Topoluv,Kasparov,Anand,Carlsen,Aronian,Kramnik,Polgar etc. This was the first time i intensively prepared for a game,taking 3-days to study all the material available to me from multiple sources. I searched for a common theme in the variations. Why do GM's use it to draw? What in this Opening lends itself to such Defensive applicability? When i knew i had a good grasp of this Openings tactical and strategic concepts, i moved 4...Nxe4. From that point on i knew i had a great 'drawing' weapon.Useful in my OTB play and here on gameknot, when faced with super players. It is truly the 'Berlin Wall'.
gameknot.com
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stalhandske
02-Jan-13, 02:13
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Berlin Wall
This is a truly beautiful game to "watch", I highly recommend it! Black's positional sense or intuition, or whatever it is, truly makes a perfect "wall" against any attempt from white to gain an upper hand. The only criticism I'd have is that black also does not really attempt to win in this variation of the Spanish opening (which is how I was taught to call the Ruy Lopez). However, when playing against a GrandMaster, as in this case, it is an excellent strategy! I assume that if black plays the conventional (and good) 3....a6 instead of Nf6, he/she can avoid the Wall. That is less relevant, however, because the real question is whether white can avoid it, i.e. in a reasonable way. I admit not being very well versed in the opening details of the Ruy Lopez, but I would think that if white played 4. d3 or 4. Nc3 instead of 4. 0-0, it would be avoided. Personally, I don't like 4. Bxd6 because I think losing the bishop pair is worse than black's "double pawn".
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thank you stalhandske
It is true my intention from the beginning was to draw. I was testing this Openings theory and practice. If he had made a truly bad error I would have played differently. I play a lot of OTB at UVM and needed something that could get me that half point instead of a zero. My usual Defense in a Lopez is the Zaitev or the Breyer system. Both are exceedingly hard to play against very strong players. In fact i feel like I'm on defense the whole game. But this Defense (Berlin) was rather comfortable. I never felt under dire threat.
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myevilluck
09-Jan-13, 19:23
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My first win against a 2200. Okay so he was technically exactly 2200, but it still counts. Who said the KGA isn't a good option?
gameknot.com
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jotheblackqueen
13-Jan-13, 13:03
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Hi Myevilluck!
Your win against your 2200 was an excellent result and now I hear you DREW against IM Klauno! That is an excellent result:-
Here is the draw game in un-annotated form.
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I may comment further.......
Kind regards
Joanne
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