(January 16th, 2014, 19:18)Cyneheard Wrote: Sorry for the slow pace - I don't really have a good window in the morning, and don't want to try to play over lunch at work. That breaks Gustaran's rules about phone-moves.
Oh, that was just a basic guideline you shouldn't pay too much attention to... Feel free to play moves on your phone any time in our 2nd match!
And frankly, I am glad it is the way it is: You move the piece and then you even have an extra button to submit the move. So even if you click the wrong piece you can still go back. If you you fail at doing that, well I guess it's your own fault.
Just imagine checking your game in the morning, start thinking about your reply and when you finally want to make your move some time later, you discover that your opponent has retracted his earlier move and made another one in the meantime.
If you want to play a game which is not decided by simple blunders, there is always the option of starting a single "takeback" game on chess.com, which has a button for each player to take back moves at one's leisure.
Yeah, i agree with Gustaran. I didn't post to try and appeal my moves, i just was publicly venting my frustration. And i don't think i'll be automatically hitting submit after this for a long while
Not playing 23 ... e3 turned into my undoing. I knew I could get the knight out of the corner if I played a5; what I didn't think to check until it was too late was how fast he could develop his pieces if I didn't play e3. Probably going to lose now, too. Shame, this was a fun game and I was looking hard at the move that may have saved it. Gustaran, would love your thoughts on e3 later on.
Not playing 23 ... e3 turned into my undoing. I knew I could get the knight out of the corner if I played a5; what I didn't think to check until it was too late was how fast he could develop his pieces if I didn't play e3. Probably going to lose now, too. Shame, this was a fun game and I was looking hard at the move that may have saved it. Gustaran, would love your thoughts on e3 later on.
I don't think you want my opinion, but I will ask Houdini.
Turns out the good news is that you considered 23...e3. The bad news is that you didn't play e3.
Now I don't like blindly following engine evaluation but in this case it supports your assumption:
I must have missed something here. Because it's starting to look like I have an attack against Gustaran's king that I can't find a counter to. Next turn I'm going to play Bxf3 which will threaten Bxg2+ and Re1+, and I've been looking for a move Gustaran has to counter it. I think his best idea is to actually queen the pawn, which will give us a forcing sequence ending with me having a queen to his 2 rooks and a bishop -- normally winning for white, but his pieces will have no coordination and will be undefended, so I should be able to harass his king into a draw at the very least.
Here's the line I looked at:
31. a7, Bxf3 32. a8=Q, Bxg2+ 33. Kg1, Bd4+ 34. Qxd4 (Rf2, Bxf2+ 35. Qxf2 I just spotted -- see, there's trouble)
Like I said, I'm sure I missed something. No doubt he'll show me what that is next turn
Oh, he just played Qf2. Yay, I caused him to retreat. Minor victory
I'm having trouble seeing the downside of 26. Nxe6, which forks his queen and rook. Is it possible he just missed that, or is he about to drop the on me
Or maybe I was the other game that he mentioned misplaying?
http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=82625994
Set a conditional move that should get me out of book turn 13 in not too much of a mess, hopefully I get then get some counter play
. Especially as I guess it was our game you meant.
on me 