Chess match(es)

Says the guy who isn't playing....

 

off course
isn't that they way it always is

I used to say things like this all the time at the coffee shops in boulder and then proceed to have someone from the university chess team eventually come along and humiliate me

works great if your trying to get a game going

cheers
B

 

Yeah, Bos is pretty cocksure there. I think he's trying to work that psych 30 to 40% I talked about!




I'm heading across the bay for the day, maybe spend the night and I don't now have service on the boat. Have a good one.

 

ya I gotta admit I'm practicing up a bit before I join the fray

I set the computer at 86% and its been a slaughter

huge difference from 80%

I have an sphinx legend electronic board from my old college days and holly chess **** Batman it still works

miracle I have it still

thing must be 25 years old

cheers

 

I am not a middle-aged white man. I am old.

 

We were being kind, Hoyt.

 

We are in the same "yacht" even if we are jibing in opposite directions.

 

Don't get rooked.

 

This pair of games so far:



[White "mark775"]
[Black "troy2000"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. fxe5 Nxe5 5. Qe2 Bc5
6. Nf3 d6 7. d4 Nxf3+ 8. Qxf3 Bxd4 9. Rf1 Qe7 10. c3
Be5 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bxf6 Bxf6 13. Nd2 Be6 14. Bxe6 Qxe6
15. Qh5 Bg5 16. h4 Bxd2+ 17. Kxd2 Rf8 18. Qb5+ Ke7
19. b3 Rfb8 *



[White "troy2000"]
[Black "mark775"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 Bf5 4. Bd3 Bg4 5. Nbd2 Nc6
6. c3 e5 7. dxe5 Nxe5 8. Be2 Bxf3 9. Nxf3 Qd6 10. Nxe5
Qxe5 11. O-O Bd6 12. g3 h5 13. f4 Qe6 14. Bf3 h4 15. Rf2
hxg3 16. Rg2 O-O-O 17. Rxg3 Kb8 18. Qd4 Ne4 19. Bxe4
dxe4 20. Qxg7 Qd5 21. Qd4 Qh5 22. Rg2 Be7 23. Qxe4

 

This one went away, of course. I was able to keep Troy from developing the C1 bishop and D1 rook and that got me the win, even though I was horribly inefficient at closing it. With open files, Troy gets points for scaring me to death with the queen or rook latency in the 8 row. I couldn't dare take a move to allow K escape valve as I felt Troy had potential - if not tempo. An exciting game could have gone either way and I would have likely been crushed if he re-attained tempo. GG, Troy


Then there is this. I have no plan other than survival. If I can trade him down to a rook each, I have a shot.


Sorry I don't show every move, but your mind's eye can connect the dots...Well, Troy's giving notation, too. I don't read it well and need to visualize. Does that make me "left brained"? I hope not - sick.

 

I've made my last moves for the night; I lined up a rook behind my queen.

23. Raf1 Qxe4 24. Rxf7+ Kc6 25. Qc1 Re8 26. Qd1 Re5 *

Happy thanksgiving, folks. We had ours a day early, because I have to be back at work Thanksgiving evening.

 

I hope they give you double time for that - Get the money, Troy.

As I was saying...Manna from Heaven!

 

As one would anticipate.

Troy would have had me attempt to skewer his queen with my f1 rook to e file. Then, a simple slide of his rook to d5 to check and cover his king and my other rook was history! A lessor coup was to have me try for his queen with my other rook but that would have left the 2 row open for destruction.

 

Mark is being his usual hardheaded self, and refusing to cooperate.

Nope. No double time for working on a holiday, because it's a regularly-scheduled work day for me. But I do get eight 'holiday credit' hours, that I can either use as vacation hours or save up to sell back to the company.

 

Where it's at...