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Many thanks!
Many thanks to Ion and Joe for comments on my annotation. I have replied to some of their comments...
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You're welcome. I've added more, and Eric annotated another game, a few days ago. In fact, shortly after, about a day, after ION's last post. gameknot.com
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gameknot.com I annotated this game for the purposes of the WTWLTR club. And, when TA comes back and reopens his club, I'll also post this annotation in that club because of an important pattern to become familiar with.
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Interesting concept!
I've not seen 'King of the Hill' before.
I rather think my approach to this type of game would be to set up powerful barriers to the opponent's King's advance to the centre, and keep my King back for later on. Having said that, it looks as though the Centre-Counter (1...d5) is quite a good line for Black in this type of game. My reply as White would probably be the old-fashioned 2.e5.
I'm basing my remarks on the assumption that checkmating the opposing King (as the alternative to reaching the central squares) is still a win.
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That 'King of the Hill' game annotation
I've left some comments in there as well, if you want to check it out. It turns out there's a lot of queen sacrifices opportunities in that mode!
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I haven't seen you active in a long time, Etinne. That was, since I was reinstated in the WTWLTR club. But, I'm glad to see you back with a vengeance. And, I enjoyed reading through your comments. I also saw another comment in the recent annotation. With that being said, we have another King of the Hill annotation from Eric. gameknot.com
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King of the Hill...
... does require a certain amount of mental agility in adjusting to the quite different ways of winning the game.
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It does, and Eric's got talent there. As he won the third King of the Hill battle against Linus. gameknot.com
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For the time being, we're out of the King of the Hill battle, as this is Eric's new annotation. gameknot.com
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It took me several days to comment on this annotation by Eric because my time was more limited then usual this week. But, I finally found the time to add everything here. gameknot.com
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The third ...
... in my trilogy of games from Charles Higgie's Commonwealth games Mini-T. This one features a direct attack on the King being met by a counter-attack 'on the other wing'. The game also features queen 'sacrifices' - might-have-been and actual.
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A game from a non-rated charity event I played at before the holidays.
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@teardrop game...
Take a look. A very interesting end game!
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I'm going to comment on both games. We've got another annotation, but this one is from Erika. gameknot.com
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In addition, I just commented on your annotation, ION which I really enjoyed.
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In past annotations, Eric's mentioned about his, brother, Linus. And, the majority of his annotations are games against Linus. Well, this is the first annotation I've seen from Linus in a long while, and the first one that I started commenting on. This makes insulins, the youngest person that I started working with, in history. And, this is the annotation that I'm alluding to. gameknot.com
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After about 2 months, a new tournament has started in Coach Stockel's club. And, of course, I get attitude from Carl about notating the tournament, telling me that if I take notes, I'm gonna lose. And, the whole idea is to have the score reviewed with ION. Nathan stressed that reviewing the score is important. So, I responded with the truth because, for me, it's not about getting money by winning the tournament or becoming the champion which happened twice prior. It was learning, so my biggest prize, of all, was getting analysis from an expert whose style of teaching with my style of learning. Thus, I, of course, implied ION there as I told him that I turn such notations into annotations. And, Carl was shocked when I told him that. But, this was my first game, with which I lost against the note critic. gameknot.com
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Also, in answer to the question since ION asked what we meant about 50 minutes and increments or not. There aren't, so it's a 50-50 time control which I posted right there, as well.
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'Taking notes'
I infer, Joe, that you are talking about something more than writing down the game moves - the game score as it is called.
If that is so, I think it might be better during OTB games to reserve taking notes for after the game. Even brief notes will cut into your thinking time, and is simply impossible once you get into time trouble. In a post-game postmortem - especially going over the game with your opponent afterwards - might be a good time to take very brief notes that can be expanded upon afterwards when you go over the game on your own.
When I was at high school I played in a teams tournament with a 20-minute game session. This tournament went over one school day - 7 teams, 7 rounds, so you can see that the games had to be rapid-play speed. I tried for the first game writing down the moves. It did not go well. Losing that game, I abandoned the recording, and won the rest of my games.
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It was just writing down the game moves. It's just that Jack keeps score of who won what. I thought it was simple and if you just write down game moves, you're talking about the game score, right then and there. Like if it's only the first and you win that one, it's 1-0. But, that seems more complicated then just that, as you posted in the annotation. Just writing down moves is another thing which was the idea. It definitely does cut into time thinking, but the reason I'm fine with just the brief notes, and nothing more is that before that I was moving very quickly. I'd still lose a decent amount. However, if I lost, I'd still have 35 minutes left on the clock which means that I only used 15 minutes.
When this happens, Jack gets upset and says, "take your time" He emphasized that we should be down to just our very last minutes in the tournament games, and he emphasized that this is what usually happens in GM games. He's upset with the others for not taking their time. As noted, Carl had way too much time, and the other 2 being Tom also doesn't agree with Jack. That's why, when the tournament goes on, if I'm not there, he doesn't give the clock to Carl and Tom, when they play each other as they move at blitz speed. But, if I use up too much of my time, I'd rather lose on time then by making reckless mistakes due to moving way too quickly, which used to happen to me.
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Understood...
... If it is just a matter of writing down the moves, then in my view that is to be encouraged. A fifty-move time control is not too fast to do that comfortably. 30-40 years ago I used to play in 40-40 Tournaments played in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. That was a 40-minute time control (each player) for the whole game. We were given little game-score booklets to write our game scores in (I've lost all mine, unfortunately, over the years).
Incidentally, since they are personal, choose the notation you like best. I nearly always used Descriptive, since that was how I learned the game. I noticed that Bobby Fischer always preferred that notation, himself. Most people prefer Algebraic. So accustomed have I become to it, that my own exercise books with my game scores are mostly in Algebraic.
One of the reasons for recording the game moves is to allow for reconstruction if any dispute comes up, e.g. a claim for a draw by three-fold repetition.
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An interesting game lost by me in the UK National League today
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In addition, Erika also annotated another game. gameknot.com It's also to note that just after that, but before Charles annotation, Eric annotated an OTB game which makes me happy.
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I have commented on your annotation, as well, Charles. Sooner or later, I'll also comment on Jeremy's annotation.
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Many thanks!
Many thanks, and I have commented on some of the comments...
Charles
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Nice. Believe it or not, I played another tournament game on Friday. gameknot.com It was against Tom Walsh. Originally, I was not supposed to play this week because the others were ready to start, so it would've been Tom against Carl. But, I'm not going to have enough time to play in a tournament next week, so I had to do it then.
I put up a tough fight and was doing ok, but all it took was one mistake which lost. And, it happened when I allowed Tom to break through with a pawn which right after became passed with devastating results.
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