The CHESS Thread

[LA Guy]

I've seen you play enough scotch games - as white - against bot to know that you are not averse to launching attacks before developing lol .

here i'm playing as black and taking in the game as it's presented . my light bishop is a pawn move behind development it's true . but the game is happening on the kingside . i'm taking the win b/c they are giving it to me .

More recently, I've been playing the accelerated London system for precisely that reason. The plans for the knights playing behind the bishops, and particular the London dark squared bishop, are fairly clear. I like the Scotch, but man, you are (or at least I am) sweating bullets with that under-protected king with the underdeveloped queenside. I'm always happy to get that knight and bishop off their starting blocks, sometimes even if it results in losing a tempo, but it is often later in the game than I'm fully comfortable with. There are not that many mistakes to give. It leads to a very sharp, tactical game, and though against live players I am still quite winning with it (2-1 ish, with some notable "d'oh" losses, as I suspect is common at my (poggy) level), I wanted to expand my limited repertoire to have at least one positional, systems based opening.

 

[double00]

anyways in this game I played the pirc as black . they overextended their pawns and I took the center in pretty short order for the price for a knight . once I saw things lining up on the f file I sprang the trap figuring i'd win the exchange for a checkmate . boo ya ! fun .

so far as playing opening takes sometimes I find trading even queens early can be a decent idea . I usually don't like to do it but if I see it happening I embrace it lol , developing on autopilot is not a great idea .

hopefully if you are exposing something you are at the least taking something away and can develop / cover , I guess I consider early trades more of a strategic idea , sort of like ignoring queen side development for the sake of a checkmate attack

 

[LA Guy]

anyways in this game I played the pirc as black . they overextended their pawns and I took the center in pretty short order for the price for a knight . once I saw things lining up on the f file I sprang the trap figuring i'd win the exchange for a checkmate . boo ya ! fun .

so far as playing opening takes sometimes I find trading even queens early can be a decent idea . I usually don't like to do it but if I see it happening I embrace it lol , developing on autopilot is not a great idea .

hopefully if you are exposing something you are at the least taking something away and can develop / cover , I guess I consider early trades more of a strategic idea , sort of like ignoring queen side development for the sake of a checkmate attack

What was the game play rated on both sides?

It seems that when the F3 knight left, there were plenty of chances for white to play the bishop out to protect the F2 square, and the knight to protect F1. It just seemed like white instead spent to much time on unnecessary pawn and knight moves without much in the way of a plan, either that eating everything. I always use the review to determine what I did right and wrong. Anyway, you seemed to have enjoyed the game. So I guess that that's good.

 

[double00]

What was the game play rated on both sides?

It seems that when the F3 knight left, there were plenty of chances for white to play the bishop out to protect the F2 square, and the knight to protect F1. It just seemed like white instead spent to much time on unnecessary pawn and knight moves without much in the way of a plan, either that eating everything. I always use the review to determine what I did right and wrong. Anyway, you seemed to have enjoyed the game. So I guess that that's good.

I have no idea how the computer would rate game play lol . i just play for fun . I closed my acct awhile back I just play through the guest portal from time to time .

If I were going to develop myself as a player I wouldn't use chess.com , i've mentioned this before but I regard tactics as downstream of visualization ( I wouldn't even bother to review games without that skill ) . there are better developmental resources elsewhere and i'd be playing otb as well , if I poast here it is def for funzies .

 

[LA Guy]

anyways in this game I played the pirc as black . they overextended their pawns and I took the center in pretty short order for the price for a knight . once I saw things lining up on the f file I sprang the trap figuring i'd win the exchange for a checkmate . boo ya ! fun .

so far as playing opening takes sometimes I find trading even queens early can be a decent idea . I usually don't like to do it but if I see it happening I embrace it lol , developing on autopilot is not a great idea .

hopefully if you are exposing something you are at the least taking something away and can develop / cover , I guess I consider early trades more of a strategic idea , sort of like ignoring queen side development for the sake of a checkmate attack

The most common queen exchange that I do typically very early, and takes away my opponents castling rights. As I understand it, it allows me to connect the rooks together faster as we play the end game. I'm proving a mediocre student right now though, and there may be at least one coach on here to set my ratchet chess straight.

 

[LA Guy]

I have no idea how the computer would rate game play lol . i just play for fun . I closed my acct awhile back I just play through the guest portal from time to time .

If I were going to develop myself as a player I wouldn't use chess.com , i've mentioned this before but I regard tactics as downstream of visualization ( I wouldn't even bother to review games without that skill ) . there are better developmental resources elsewhere and i'd be playing otb as well , if I poast here it is def for funzies .

Games are rated by FIDE for say, getting norms. So I imagine that chess.com does so in similar ways.

You do whatever you like, but I don't think that either of us as at a level at which we can determine what are good didactic methods. I just listen to people who have learned to play at a much higher level.

 

[double00]

Games are rated by FIDE for say, getting norms. So I imagine that chess.com does so in similar ways.

You do whatever you like, but I don't think that either of us as at a level at which we can determine what are good didactic methods. I just listen to people who have learned to play at a much higher level.

well i'm no expert but i'm pretty sure that studying in annotation is a reasonable method to learn chess lol .

as you say do what you like . see you otb !

 

[double00]

The most common queen exchange that I do typically very early, and takes away my opponents castling rights. As I understand it, it allows me to connect the rooks together faster as we play the end game. I'm proving a mediocre student right now though, and there may be at least one coach on here to set my ratchet chess straight.

yeah exactly . I agree a prospective end game is a good way to think about exchanges too .

i'll edit : i'm more of a middlegame player haha so I do look at position as a reason to exchange .

 

[double00]

white has a strategic advantage insofar as you can burn a move up front to force black to play as-white :

 

[double00]

 

[mhip]

Still wood…

 

[double00]

reco with headphones

 

[SchachMundialECapital]

Starting in 2 days, I will be covering the Chess Olympiad in Budapest as an accredited journalist! If you guys wanna follow the action, I will probably be posting frequent updates on a bunch of social media platforms. You can read a preview here: https://lichess.org/@/Vlad_G92/blog/fide-chess-olympiad-a-detailed-preview/YzAyw2sC

 

[LA Guy]

Starting in 2 days, I will be covering the Chess Olympiad in Budapest as an accredited journalist! If you guys wanna follow the action, I will probably be posting frequent updates on a bunch of social media platforms. You can read a preview here: https://lichess.org/@/Vlad_G92/blog/fide-chess-olympiad-a-detailed-preview/YzAyw2sC

So awesome. In other news, Magnus is on fire right now. And Hans needs professional help. And Kramnik is not it.

 

[LA Guy]

Relatively happy with this attack: