Chess Match Thread

[babe]

https://www.chessvideos.tv/genboard.php

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1. e4, c5
2. Nf3,d6
3. h3, a6
4. b3

It's sorta looking like you might just do a phalanx pawn attack on that side. . . You denied me the spot where I could park a bishop, checking you and forcing you to interpose a bishop or knight, usually a fair trade particularly if it could force a King move out of castling position.

I really don't like all this work on that side of the board. It gets to be a problem just stopping the pawn advances and it makes a queenside castling defense difficult for me. Then when I do set up my defense on the other side, it makes it difficult for me to do my own phalanx pawn march down that side, which I'd love to do.

This game really is all about offense, imo.

 

[LogGrad98]

Black has to force the initiative at some point or he always remains a move behind. The sicilian is my favorite approach to that against king pawn openings.

 

[LogGrad98]

1. e4, c5
2. Nf3,d6
3. h3, a6
4. b3

4...Nc6

 

[babe]

Black has to force the initiative at some point or he always remains a move behind. The sicilian is my favorite approach to that against king pawn openings.

I can see why you like it. I don't like to let the game go that way.

 

[babe]

1. e4, c5
2. Nf3,d6
3. h3, a6
4. b3, Nc6
5. d4

I put d6 at first, by mistake. Couldn't be my move, really. Fixed.

Here's the pic:
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[LogGrad98]

1. e4, c5
2. Nf3,d6
3. h3, a6
4. b3, Nc6
5. d4

5...cxd4

 

[babe]

1. e4, c5
2. Nf3,d6
3. h3, a6
4. b3, Nc6
5. d4, cxd4

6. Nxd4

 

[LogGrad98]

1. e4, c5
2. Nf3,d6
3. h3, a6
4. b3, Nc6
5. d4, cxd4
6. Nxd4


6...Qa5+

 

[babe]

1. e4, c5
2. Nf3,d6
3. h3, a6
4. b3, Nc6
5. d4, cxd4
6. Nxd4, Qa5+
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7. c3

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[LogGrad98]

1. e4, c5
2. Nf3,d6
3. h3, a6
4. b3, Nc6
5. d4, cxd4
6. Nxd4, Qa5+
7. c3

7...Bd7


Just playing this one willy-nilly. Haven't seen any diagrams except the ones you are posting.

 

[babe]

https://www.chessvideos.tv/genboard.php


I've been building the game de novo each time I do the pic. Wish I could just figure out how to activate the diagram as it was before the last move. . . .

 

[babe]

1. e4, c5
2. Nf3,d6
3. h3, a6
4. b3, Nc6
5. d4, cxd4
6. Nxd4, Qa5+
7. c3

7...Bd7


Just playing this one willy-nilly. Haven't seen any diagrams except the ones you are posting.

I've been editing your post when I quote it to keep the moves together. I sorta get the sense you're not exactly a vicious computer program pouncing on me in the most invincible unanswerable way. But I expect you will reveal your scheme soon enough, and that it will be just as uncomfortable.

After playing Siro, and ECTYA, and OB in what was to me a very difficult platform, I am finding that life is more comfortable now. It's the way I always learn new stuff, particularly detailed or ritualistic trivia that forms the context of all the larger issues we deal with. I stumble, flounder, and do a lot of very stupid stuff before I begin to cope. Maybe I can be a challenge here.