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sun child



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So I mighta said, start with the shortest ones, that can be a good way to go 
so maybe
Petrosian,Tigran V - Taimanov,Mark E [D46] URS-ch22 Moscow, 1955
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Bb4 7.0-0 0-0 8.Qc2 Bd6 9.b3 dc4 10.bc4 e5 11.Bb2 Re8 12.Ne4 Ne4 13.Be4 h6 14.Rad1 ed4 15.Bh7 Kh8 16.Rd4 Bc5 17.Rf4 Qe7 18.Re4 Qf8 19.Rh4 f6 20.Bg6 Re7 21.Rh5 Bd6 22.Rd1 Be5 23.Ba3 c5 24.Nh4 1-0
see if that one's any good. .
Taimanov was a good player, got his career kind of crushed when he lost 0-6 to Fischer in the Candidates Quarterfinal. . Fischer, who alsob eat Larsen 6-0 and Petrosian, 6.5-2.5, giving him a 2800 rating, or thereabouts..
Anyway the Soviet government didn't believe Taimanov could have possibly lost all 6 games without throwing it intentionally, and set back his career greatly, I forget the details, although he did manage to come back some.
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or here, i annotated it:
(89) Petrosian,Tigran - Taimanov,Mark (1955)
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nf3 d5 4 Nc3 c6
4 ..Nc6 5 e3 Bd7 6 a3 Bd6 7 cd5 ed5 8 Bd3 0–0 9 Bd2 is an interesting way of play that maintains equality 
5 e3 Nbd7 6 Bd3 Bb4
[6 ..Bd6 7 0–0 0–0 8 Bd2]
7 0–0 0–0 8 Qc2 Bd6 9 b3 dc4 10 bc4

10. . . e5
10 ..h6 11 c5 Bc7 12 Ba3 Re8 13 Nd2 
11 Bb2 Re8 12 Ne4
[12 Ng5]
12 ..Ne4 13 Be4 h6
black should play 13 ..g6 14 c5 Bc7 15 Qc4 ed4 16 Qd4 Nf6 17 Bc6 Qd4 18 Bd4 bc6 19 Bf6 Be6 20 Be5 Be5 21 Ne5 Bd5 with a solid, if defending position.
22 Nd3 Rab8
14 Rad1

now the advantage is considerable; white plays quite flawlessly from here out, and slackens not an inch in increasing it.
14 ..ed4 15 Bh7 Kh8 16 Rd4 Bc5 17 Rf4 Qe7 18 Re4 Qf8 19 Rh4 f6 20 Bg6 Re7 21 Rh5 Bd6
21 ..b6 22 Rd1 Bb7 23 Nh4
22 Rd1 Be5 23 Ba3 c5 24 Nh4
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Kurt
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How do you go about studying games, practically speaking? I mean, how do you find an interest, and insight. Etc. Not a player.
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Re: Free Chess Lesson [Re: Kurt]
#21789355 - 06/10/15 05:20 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well, maybe the opening gets you interested in a specific player, or maybe you hear about it from someone. .
chess like all things is influenced by how interested we are in it, and that is largely influenced by the culture we're in. .
Russia has so many great players because interest is high, which is the result over the centuries of a cultural love for the game..
In other words, I guess what I'm saying is the players allure us a little bit - Alekhine with his total brilliance and genius, yet a little bit tortured, etc., in fact most of the world champions had something to that effect (the former, not necessarily the latter); Capablanca was one of the most charismatic, and also played up on this a little;
Carlsen, the current World Champ, is more like Capablanca in many ways than any other W.C., although I suspect Carlsen's staying power will be quite a bit more than the Cuban's, if he tries for it. Not only is he a selection from a greater pool of players, as well as appearing to have all the personality traits of a long-term champ, also he comes from a later age when certain info about how not to burn out at sports, etc., etc., is better explored and available.
Also today, chess players are paid more than ever before (historically a startlingly low amount), for which, we cannot fail to mention Fischer, who, for all his antics, also did more than any player previously to improve players' monetary wins.
This relates as in Capablanca's and Alekhine's day, and gradually less so up to the present day, funds and prizes for players were so low that merely making a living from the game was quite difficult, even for the top players; and Alekhine among others suffered several times. For this reason most grandmasters up through the 60's and 70's would generally have another job, often as a doctor or lawyer or musician/mathematician.
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Obviously 9 queens means getting all of your 8 pawns over to the other side and keeping your original queen.
Lose one pawn and your aspirations are destroyed
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Thanks for the help man, your post on notations cleared up everything for me.
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No problem
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So here's an interesting problem. . .
This one was from Leko - Radjabov, late April in 2003.

White has just taken the rook - and it's a check, so black has to respond.
The question is - what's the win after Black takes the White queen?
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sun child



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trapping the queen - this one could be over at move 14, a fairly interesting line of play which traps the black queen
http://ficsgames.org/cgi-bin/show.cgi?ID=381527713
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same opponent - this time the kings caught in the net; some interesting tactics here, too.
http://ficsgames.org/cgi-bin/show.cgi?ID=381528870
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oh - to go through the games quickly, if you click the > button, then you can SPACE-bar to move. . .
this one i like because - i finally beat that computer Junior Lurking! i actually like playing computers a lot of the time more, because they don't have any ego, and it's just a pure chess competition.
lovely for me anyway - one fond memory i have, when my friend andrei had given me tons of great music - most all of tull, zeppelin, deep purple, elo, alan parsons, les rockets, and quite a few others. . . learned about space, dschinghis khan, and boney m, etc. .
well, i would create computer tournaments. . . have different engines playing against each other.
sometimes i would do 2 minute 0 -- or, 3 or 5 made for slightly better games. . . and watch them play -
or also, frequently I'd give them serious tournament time controls, (up to 7 hours per side). . .
or simply 30 minutes or an hour - because then the strong computers start to play great.
and this was back with Fritz 6 - who, was almost grandmaster strength, I'd say.
Now-a-days- the basic level of Fritz that you get free with the 'Chessbase Reader' - Fritz 11 ( or was )
- is certainly grandmaster strength. . . very good level and solid analysis. . . good training partner if you learn how to use him right - and not be frustrated with any losses - nor how long the road to mastery might seem !

http://ficsgames.org/cgi-bin/show.cgi?ID=381546557
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this one - I'm not sure how great it was, but I won, heh. It's alright - he resigned pretty early.
http://ficsgames.org/cgi-bin/show.cgi?ID=381576823
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it was cool, watchin' em play out their short tournies while going to sleep - or racing home from school in order to check out their brand new, more serious time-control games. . . what a beauty - and game - and free!
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Love your thread! 
no offense, would you care to play me?
just click: http://lichess.org/4HMf8RJr and our game will start. It stays open as long as I'm here
...I need to know whether I can learn anything from you
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Re: 4 games.. [Re: Masked] 1
#22359720 - 10/10/15 03:39 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks! 
i much prefer fics, for many reasons. . ficsgames.org is one of them, very simple to search through all of your played games, are saved and accessible there; there is no gaudy advertising, no excess of any kind on the interface, so it runs much more smoothely ( for slower computers, which i perfectly am fine admitting mine is )
anyway several other reasons too, but that's where i play; am happy to play there, if you wish.
or please feel free to post a game or two or some problems! mates in 2 or 3 are especially ideal at simply improving tactical prowess. . which, as petrosian said, 'in chess, everything rests on tactics.'
i wrote a little bit out about myself but deleted it.. i've been playing without ego since i was 12... or 11, but certainly by 12.
i lost every game because i was playing strong players. . . so the best thing anyone can do really, besides studying of course, which is key - is play strong players.
anyway i got to meet a lot of grandmasters, or at least several, for the first few years when i studied chess... and got to train with several, who were really wonderful. Gufeld's teachings are pretty central and key. . . very wonderful actually! Very good and direct, basic teachings to train with and remember always. . . they can be found in "Chess Stratgegy" (I think it's called) by him;
other than that, many mentors like a genius from ____, and a calculus math teacher who taught me guitar also-- that was more the guitar part, another master named Funh, from Malaysia, and various other players and people. . .
i pursued other things then - but there's one thing, that i really like to stress, is anyone can do it. it isn't genetics, talent, intelligence, or anything else - it's simply the desire to learn, and the faith in oneself that one can learn - those are not genetic or hereditary.
And most especially it does not take money. . . or privilege, or anything to succeed at this life, except the wish to do so... i just say this because, i dunno - what the heck.
The books are always open - the knowledge is always free - so why do people pay money for free things?
anyway i ramble, but playing without ego is a big thing. . . or playing with ego sublimated. . .
one can love the opponent as easily as one's heart, or family. . . and in fact, if you totally understand, and love your opponent, you'll be in that much more of an advantageous position against him / her. . .
anyway this is probably pretty convoluted and you should forgive me if you feel kindly towards me for my incoherent ramblings. . .
in fact i do know a great dael - and, one thing, a very strong personality is good for hcess - but!!!! it can get in your way!!
so that's the thing to learn - to sublimate - that's the valuable thing i can tell you .
sublimate your ego until it's pure love, and you're one with your best self, always. . .
always look for love in everything - be the love, awareness, etc., that is transcending itself. . .
as i say, that is the best way to ensure you don't get in your own way. . . ! :-)
Self-faith, peace, confidence, ( peace without having to attain anything further )
etc. .. and the rest. study alekhine. world champs. . have a blast. 

King's Gambit. Generally a fast acting, tactical game.


Here I make a bid for a quick conclusion - a sacrifice of a piece, with a quick recovery of it, but also a hidden trap. .

The queen is on the knight and bishop, and giving the bishop two attackers. Black can defend, with Nd6, after which gives the possibility of a long struggle and protracted defense - unless more blunders happen.

http://ficsgames.org/cgi-bin/show.cgi?ID=381730523
well i thought - to save you the reading; they are here:
ah! i wasn't able to find them, hehe. . . let's see if i can recall. . .
1. develop minor pieces first - knights first -
2. develop the kingside first and castle
3. push one or two pawns only
( pawn moves do not count as developing moves )
4. push central pawns mainly - etc.
( another I would simply add - increidble rule - just, don't, push pawns in front of your king. . . learn to follow this rule before you learn to break it, and you'll win, and avoid, many, many games you would have otherwise not won, or had lost. )
5. develop the rest of the minor pieces, develop the queen ( often to only a square adjacent ), and ' connect the rooks.'
<< connecting the rooks is very important because it basically means you have finished developing. >>
6. start a pawn roller attack, or find some weakness and attack! ! :-)
well, i came up one short LoL! but i may have covered it. . . although i bet i missed one.
a couple other things - you rarely want a piece of higher value defending pawns. . . So a queen or bishop guarding a pawn - this is generally a mistake. Why? You have relegated a higher officer - a higher piece - to the status of a guardsman. . . time to open up the position and allow your generals some room to breathe! 
also - 'Winning Chess' by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld ( the former is the more valuable generally, in terms of authorship, sorry Fred! )
is incredible, a brilliantly well arranged book for learning tactics. . it's in English ( descrp. ) but oh vell! learn that language too, - i did from the beginning, and now have an equal grasp of both it and algebraeic ( which is more common, almost universal today )
.. good for beginning tactics, then Chess, 5,333 + 1 Combinations, Games and Puzzles (sth) by Lazlo Polgar, is mostly mate problems. . . it is transformational to any players' game who'se under 2000 I'd say, if they haven't gone through it. . .
wonderful book.
Alright I'm out - peace!
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TRAP: Scandinavian, Caro-Kann theme de Firmian - Owen Las Vegas 1995
1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Knc3 Qa5 4 d4 Knf6 5 Knf3 Bf5 6 Bd2 c6 7 Kne4 Qc7 8 Knxf6+ gxf6 9 g3 e6 10 Bg2 Knd7 11 0-0 Be4 12 Re1 f5
Black decides to maintain his bishop on e4, but there is a tactical flaw. The idea seen in this game is also relevant to the 3 Knc3 dxe4 4 Knxe4 Knf6 5 Knxf6+ gxf6 line of the Caro-Kann.
13 Kng5! Bxg2? 14 Rxe6+! Be7
14 ... fxe6 15 Qh5+ Kd8 16 Knxe6+ wins the queen.
15 Qh5 Rf8 16 Kxg2
16 Rae1 is also very strong.
16 ... Knf6 17 Rxf6 Bxf6 18 Knxh7 0-0-0 19 Knxf8 1-0
19 Knxf8 Rxf8 20 Qxf5+ picks up the bishop.
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Re: Free Chess Lesson [Re: overlord]
#23335014 - 06/12/16 04:02 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice thread, im playing on chess.com and lichess. not a strong player at all.
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