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You're welcome, and thanks for the compliment, Charles.
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BTW, Erika has annotated another game, and I gave her advice that some of my other students have seen which is to slow down. gameknot.com
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Thanks Joe!
Thanks Joe, I am very busy right now, but I will try and have a look in due course.
Charles
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Thanks Charles. BTW, for those that are wondering, Erika has annotated another game. gameknot.com
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Nice win from last night
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I finally read through the annotation. As usual, I rated it with 5 stars and will be showing it to Erika once time allows me to do so.
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I noticed that ION commented on a recent game by Erika, the one that she won. But, this is her most recent annotation. gameknot.com
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Erika has annotated 2 more games with this being her first of two. gameknot.com
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And, this is her most recent annotation. gameknot.com
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Similar to ION's last annotation, Erika asked me to annotate this game. gameknot.com I coached her in the same manner that Charles coaches players in his annotations when he says something like, "Find the best move by white" And, then, "Did you find it?" So, asked those questions, and it's the first time that I have annotated a game that lasted over 60 moves in a single day.
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Thanks Joe!
Keep up the good work! I am currently teaching English as a 2nd language on a Butlins Holiday resort in Skegness, England. I have postponed all my games, for the first time in years!
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Recent game
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It took a while to read through your annotations, due to being away, followed by, my work schedule. But, I finally found the time to comment on all 3 of your recent annotations. And, when the time allows, which I think, will be tomorrow, I'll also comment on ION's annotation. Then, I'm going to work on some of OTB games because I thought that the tournament was over without Tom since he said that he wouldn't participate in anymore. But, he's back which brings the tournaments back, and what's more is that it's no longer just between the students. Jack and Master Nathan are both in this tourney which makes it even better.
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Many thanks!
Many thanks Joe, I look forward to reading your comments.
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You're welcome. I've also commented on ION's game and showed it to Erika, as well. And, I just annotated a game. gameknot.com Just when I thought it was over, the tournament is back and better then before. As it's not just between the student's any longer, as now, the coaches, Jack Stockel and Master Nathan Resika are in it, as well.
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@Jkarp
I noticed a couple of games where you would have been subject to a time penalty for some illegal moves you made or would have made. Just so everyone is familiar with the official rules on illegal moves, I leave this link here for instructional purposes: chess.stackexchange.com
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Game from an unrated charity event
I was an arbiter for this tournament, not a participant. My cousin played and won the whole thing
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Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing. Sorry I have no idea about the reason for b3, maybe someone else has? Maybe planning c4 was the idea?
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Ok, I'll comment on this, in time, probably tomorrow. I would've been penalized in a real life tournament, and it's really a question of how much time they'd take away. That's something I'll have to ask Nathan since he's in a lot of tournaments including this one. As the idea is that we try to follow the rules of a regular tournament because it's stimulated. And, with that being said, I have a new annotation. gameknot.com Despite not playing well, with an early and obvious blunder, it's the second or third time that I notated a game with positions reversed, where white starts off on the 7th and 8th ranks. And, black starts off on the 1st and 2nd ranks, as I learned how to do it from a different student who can't make that often because of school named Kavyah. Not only that, but it was the first time that I annotated it, as well.
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And, I just got around to commenting on Jeremy's annotation.
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It's also worth noting that Erika annotated 2 more games with this being her first of 2 annotations. gameknot.com
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And, this is her most recent annotation. gameknot.com It's also worth noting that I quoted what Jeremy posted about the c pawn being blocked in his annotation, when Erika played 2...Nc6 since the opening started with 1.d4 d5.
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Another game from my cousin
The ending is quite interesting
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teardrop34's cousin...
A few days ago teardrop34 asked me to have a look at another of his cousin's recent games. I thought I would annotate it.
From a symmetrical opening a tense balance develops on the K-side. Despite a few wobbles, the players preserve a precarious balance until at last a slip leads to a catastrophic finish.
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ION knows about his annotation that I commented. But, I just added comments to Jeremy's most recent annotation. I'll add that I would've overlooked a lot of things. In fact, some of what white did is how I also would've responded. And, I would've lost almost quickly and for the same reason that white lost, so there was much for me to learn. As I was trying to get into white's thought process by attempting to place myself in his shoes, just as I did with Ken's opponent where he played the Larsen Attack.
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I have a new annotation, and it was my most recent tournament game in Jack's club. gameknot.com
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Interesting tactical situations...
... cropped up in jkarp's latest annotated game that I think might be worth examining in this forum.
1. The first of these came up as early as the fourth move:
White had just played 4.Qb3, and Black had to decide whether he could allow 5.Qxb7. Could he trap the Queen? Deciding that he couldn't (fair enough) he chose to protect the pawn by 4....Bc6.
Now, over the years, I've lost count of the number of times I've had opponents grab the b-pawn and be forced to give up queen for rook or for knight. Usually I have had the White pieces, with that possibly vital extra move. All the same, it is always worth examining, as indeed Black did, the consequences of the pawn grab.
Let's try...
4...Nc6
5.Qxb7 Nb5!!
Check it out! Suddenly White is in very serious trouble. The knight threatens a King-rook fork - and that is bad enough on its own. But the bad part (Looks directly at the camera: 'Th-the BAD part?!) is that the White queen has no moves! White could defend the fork threat...
6.Na3 ...
But then comes...
6...Bc6
The trapped queen can take as many enemies with her as she can:
7.Qxa8 Qxa8
...and Black would have had a winning game.
Incidentally a kibitzer mentioned 5...Rb8, immediately attacking the queen, as a method of rounding up the intrusive queen. He's right: it works, but is not quite as accurate as the knight move. I suspect Joe examined this line but thought that the Queen would escape. It doesn't.
5... Rb8
6.Qa6 Nb4
Attacks the Queen, which has but one square available. No use is 7.Qa3, when ...Nc2 is a 'family check'.
7.Qxa7 Ra8!
The kibitzer suggested 7...Nc2ch, winning the rook, but why win a rook, when you can pick up the queen? Now White should probably take the rook, for.....
8.Qb7 Bc6
9.Qxb4 cxb4
White has only a minor piece and two pawns for the queen.
Before leaving this, suppose that with the Black pieces, still at move 4, I hadn't been able to find a way to pick up the queen after the possible 5.Qxb7. I rather think it would have been worth it for Black anyway, to offer the pawn as a gambit. Consider this:
4...Nc6
5.Qxb7 Rb8
6.Qa6 Nf6
7.d3 g6
Black's development, so well advanced compared with White's, would have conferred some advantage.
2. The next interesting incident occurred at move 18:
Quite a complicated game had developed slightly in White's favour, but Black was choosing to take the fight to his opponent. At this point White had just taken the Black bishop at g7.
18.Bb2xg7 ...
Now, Black could have recaptured the bishop (18...Kxg7) with only a slight overall disadvantage. But he thinking he might have a mate, he went for 18...Bh3. Whether he overlooked it or just miscalculated the consequences, back came 19.Nf4! Suddenly Black has two pieces 'en prise'. Having nothing better than 19...Kxg7 20.Nxh3, Black went a piece down. Black developed an all-in King-side attack, but, though it looked good at first sight, it was never going to be enough.
Could Black have done better than the immediate 18...Kxg7, then? It seems he could, for Black has a cunningly hidden resource!
18... e5!!
So 'obvious' - to deny the f4-square to the White knight. Black now really does threaten ...Bh3.
But... what about...?
19.dxe6 e.p.! ...
The f4-square am back! And the bishop is momentarily cut off from h3! No good playing 19...Bxe6, that's much too slow. That is why 18...e5 is so hard to find.
19...Bc6!!
Now do you see what I mean by 'hidden resource'? A move back, this move looks impossible, and is very easy to overlook. Now Black threatens TWO checkmates (...Qg2, and ...Qh1). The knight can defend only one of them. Time for the White King to make a run for it!
20.Kf1 Kxg7
...after which Black has the initiative and the edge, even though material is level.
21.e7 Rfe8
22.Ng1 Qg2ch
23.Ke2 Rxe7ch
24.Kd2 Qxf2ch
25.Kc1 Qf6 ...
Ain't chess fun?!
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That's true. I didn't look at all but some these lines thinking that none would work. But, one of the lines that I was thinking of would've in a more complicated variation. Actually, Jeremy mentioned that as a general concept taking on b7 is mistake and is the poisoned pawn. And, little did I realize how much timing would've made a difference. Had I held off on swarming in by a move and not gone right with ...Bh6, I might have won.
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It was that close...
... one move. But that move, I think, would not have been easy to find, as it involves switching the bishop from what seems to be the decisive diagonal, to one that, at the time of conceiving the idea, is as completely blocked as a diagonal can be.
I think I have mentioned somewhere before, a lot of a tactician's thinking runs along the 'what if' line of thought.
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