One Brow vs. babe
1. d4 d5
2. c4 dc
3. Nc3
No sweat, we'll work it out, regardless. See you Monday.
1. d4 d5
2. c4 dc
3. Nc3
No sweat, we'll work it out, regardless. See you Monday.
Chess Match Thread
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Jonah
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We have a competitive World Championship! Anand is giving Carlsen a real battle. The match is now tied 2.5 to 2.5. Today's fifth game was drawn with Anand again having the winning chances. Tomorrow begins a critical mid-point of the match. Anand appears to be in better form but he now faces his most difficult portion of the match.
The match is twelve games. By chance of the draw Anand was white in the first game and then alternates colors each game until the sixth and seventh when he must play black both games. I think the match is scheduled in this way to ameliorate the advantage of being white in the first game, however, Carlsen now has a real chance to take control with two games in a row as white.
Tomorrow's game starts at 3 PM Moscow time or 5 AM MST. It's not exactly Breakfast at Wimbledon, but GM Peter Svidler, a top ten player, does live stream commentary and analysis for NDTV Sports.
The match is twelve games. By chance of the draw Anand was white in the first game and then alternates colors each game until the sixth and seventh when he must play black both games. I think the match is scheduled in this way to ameliorate the advantage of being white in the first game, however, Carlsen now has a real chance to take control with two games in a row as white.
Tomorrow's game starts at 3 PM Moscow time or 5 AM MST. It's not exactly Breakfast at Wimbledon, but GM Peter Svidler, a top ten player, does live stream commentary and analysis for NDTV Sports.
Come on Carlsen, you can do it!
Jonah
Well-Known Member
A very surprising game so far. Magnus had pressure and all the winning chances, Anand's position was cramped and defensive, when Magnus makes an incredible blunder (26.Kd2), possibly the worst of his World Championship career. In one move Anand can go from a draw at best to winning, a crushing move 26. . .Nxe5 that wins pawns and probably the game, but Anand misses the move and blunders back. Now the game is up in the air again, who knows what will happen, possibly a draw. Two blunders in a row at this level of this magnitude is hard to believe. Anand fans must be shaken. This was his chance to take control of the match.
Jonah
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Anand loses the game. Missing the winning move was psychologically crushing for Anand. He realized his blunder almost immediately, you could see it on his face, and now he is a game down instead of a game up. I'm afraid the match might be over. I don't see how Anand can recover. One of the best players in history. This was his chance to take back his title.
One Brow vs. babe
1. d4 d5
2. c4 dc
3. Nc3
No sweat, we'll work it out, regardless. See you Monday.
Nf6
1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.d4 exd4
4.Nxd4 Bc5
5.Be3 Nf6
6.Nc3 Nxd4
7.Bxd4 d6
8.h3 Qe7
9.Bxc5 dxc5
10.Qf3 Bd7
11.0-0-0 0-0-0
12.Bd3 Bc6
13.R(h1)e1 R(h8)e8
14.Qe3 Rd4
15.f3 R(e8)d8
16.Nb5 Bxb5
17.Bxb5 Qe6
18.Qa3 Qd6
Rxd4
Edit(Sunday night 9:30 PM MST)
So down two pawns, it looks to me like even a forced trade scenario leaves me unable to progress my pawns, and Enes' victory is inevitable. If Enes wants to play it out, I will see what I can do, but otherwise, this game just goes down in the books in Enes' favor.
One Brow vs. babe
1. d4 d5
2. c4 dc
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3
I just check in on game 7 of the WCC. Carlsen with a rook, knigh and 2 connected queenside pawns versus Anand with rook and four queenside pawns (connected, but doubled). Carlsen has an advantage, but I don't think it was enough for the win when I saw it.
1. d4 d5
2. c4 dc
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3
I just check in on game 7 of the WCC. Carlsen with a rook, knigh and 2 connected queenside pawns versus Anand with rook and four queenside pawns (connected, but doubled). Carlsen has an advantage, but I don't think it was enough for the win when I saw it.
One Brow vs. babe
1. d4 d5
2. c4 dc
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3
I just check in on game 7 of the WCC. Carlsen with a rook, knigh and 2 connected queenside pawns versus Anand with rook and four queenside pawns (connected, but doubled). Carlsen has an advantage, but I don't think it was enough for the win when I saw it.
Interesting. Against some opponents I could "go extremely mobile" and overcome a deficit like that, but I think Enes is solid. I want him to be free to play some of you other folks if he's bored with my long long tedious and nit-picking game. . . .
I'll try to just play the games more quickly.
e3
One Brow vs. babe
1. d4 d5
2. c4 dc
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3 e6
5. Bg5
I'm guessing you meant e6. Let me know if I messed that up.
1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.d4 exd4
4.Nxd4 Bc5
5.Be3 Nf6
6.Nc3 Nxd4
7.Bxd4 d6
8.h3 Qe7
9.Bxc5 dxc5
10.Qf3 Bd7
11.0-0-0 0-0-0
12.Bd3 Bc6
13.R(h1)e1 R(h8)e8
14.Qe3 Rd4
15.f3 R(e8)d8
16.Nb5 Bxb5
17.Bxb5 Qe6
18.Qa3 Qd6
19.Rxd4 Qxd4
Qxa7
One Brow vs. babe
1. d4 d5
2. c4 dc
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3 e6
5. Bg5
I'm guessing you meant e6. Let me know if I messed that up.
yes indeed.
thanks for the heads up. I will try to always use the white base at the bottom of the pic with a the leftmost column and the white back row as the one row.
I respond to your Bg5 move with Be7
hmmm. . . . let's see what I'm not seeing. . . ..
If you move your queen to d2 it is mate the next move when I back my king away and you take my rook with your queen. What I did look at was a d1 move. If I was using the board I'm used to I'd see a few of these things. . . .
In my family, it's touch/move and no second chances, so you win. But I'm still interested in this game if you want to pursue it. Of course, I can easily prevent this particular demise if I resist the urge to attack just enough to cover my arse.
I could intercept your attack with an invited Q trade, but the better move is Bd3
The way I score position and power, I have a thin lead because the bishop is sometimes more useful than a knight, and you have a doubled pawn in one column. At this stage in the game, it's all about mobility and development of pawn positions. In the pawn position consideration, I have advanced mine which in the end game counts very seriously as an advantage, which I think some cheap computer program overlook. That is why I can beat my "computer" at the game.
uhhhhmmmm. . . .. and well, of course I've got to remember to take care of my king. lol.
I am sorry to see Log have to take time for real life. I am sure I have as much on my plate, unless perhaps it's a medical emergency or well, something else very serious. I hope he's OK, and I hope he can come back sometime.
I have sometimes made my move when I pulled off the road to do a potty break, or to make a phone call, with only a minute's look at the board. With me, it's a quest to do my best, but except for a few times in the game with Enes I have not done a lengthy study of the possibilities, just flying by my habits when I used to play quick games for the fun of it. I have had to neglect stacking my hay to do the business end of selling, but I am fortunate to be able to do so. There has been a huge crisis in my wife's family in the past few weeks which has sobered us up a lot, and given my wife the motive to help me sell, and sell she has.
As for the hay, I had lots of water this year, and have enough grass on fields to feed my cows through the spring anyway, and they are on the BLM until then, and it's been dry so little damage to the bales. . . but yes, I will be stacking hay after thanksgiving, digging it out of the snow if I have to. It was a struggle with my old equipment to get it cut and baled, and good it was dry in October so I could still do it.
It makes a positive difference to me to have something like these games going on, just for a little break from other pressures. At least that's the way my constitution lines it up.
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