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Apr-29-13
 | | morfishine: Hi <DcGentle>! Thanks for the articles, especially the interview with Teruaki Takahashi. My wife is Japanese and having spent 4 years in Japan, I can appreciate what he's elaborating on. An interesting aspect of visualization involves Television and the effect on the viewer. Since the graphics shut down the viewers imagination capacity, this segment of the brain becomes idle. Thats why I've divorced myself from TV, but I love Radio. For example, when listening to a Basketball game, I can visualize what the announcers are saying. Of course, I still watch a little TV, (like the Super Bowl), but for the most part, I don't bother to watch. Also, chess players visualize differently. For example, the Great players can actually see the pieces move, like in space, as each move is sequenced. Somebody like myself is more of a calculator relying on pattern recognition so I can see positions 3-4 moves ahead, but I really don't see the pieces moving. A big difference and something I may try to improve on: Actually seeing the pieces move from square to square |
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Apr-30-13
 | | DcGentle: <morfishine>: You have a point with TV usage, I guess it even has a bad influence on the children, if they watch it all day long. BTW, whether it's actually useful to see the pieces move, I don't know, but it's important to be able to envision the position after some exchanges, for example. |
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Apr-30-13
| | morfishine: Good Evening <DcGentle>! Always a pleasure. This comment is what separates one with great vision and one like myself: <BTW, whether it's actually useful to see the pieces move, I don't know, but it's important to be able to envision the position after some exchanges, for example> A great player will always know where the pieces are. Seeing the pieces move facilitates this. Someone like myself can do ok with recognizable patterns. However, with unfamiliar structures, and trying to follow the exchanges "visually", a common problem arises where pieces that moved are "thought" or seen to be in their original place. We are looking at a set position and so the mind can "play tricks" on us as we try to visualize future positions. Great players with great vision don't have this problem since they've "seen" the pieces move. I need to try this. |
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May-01-13
 | | technical draw: <DC Gentle> You posted on my forum: <*hmmmmmmmm* To be honest, I am skeptical about this record of postings award. Anyways. You can tell me, whether it really happened or it was all imagination. :-)
I see, one posting is missing. >
I'm sorry to say I don;t understand what you are talking about. Please rephrase. |
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May-02-13
| | morfishine: Hello <DcGentle>! Do you know what happened to <truefruends> 2B vs 2B game? I inquired but he hasn't responded. |
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May-02-13
| | DcGentle: <morfishine>: Good morning, I guess that he is waiting for the next move of Black, which may last up to 4 days. And I personally doubt that the opponent knows as much as we do about this ending, so he will run his engine to a very deep search level, which requires a lot of time, and so he won't answer much earlier before the 4 days of permitted thinking time have passed... If Black knew what we know, then he would have noticed, that all White tries after move 40 are wasted time so far and would have answered much earlier last time. |
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May-02-13
| | morfishine: Hello <DcGentle>! Thanks, I was thinking the game was finished since <truefriends> took the diagram down from his profile page. Good news the game is still going on :) ...but I'd like to see it :( |
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May-03-13
| | morfishine: Hello <DcGentle>! Very nice Smith-Morra gambit game! Interesting write--up too <Be2> is quite useful in a number of systems and positions. I especially like the move when Black plays the Queen to g5 and if the Bishop moves, then Qxg2 (this is in the opening before castling). But after Bf3, the Black Queen is attacked, the rook is protected and now Bishop rakes the center. I've seen idea in a number of Kasparov games
I'm going to try to Smith-Morra Gambit in speed chess. I need an alternative and this looks real juicy. Thanks for the idea! |
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May-03-13
| | DcGentle: <morfishine>: Thanks. Well, I played <Be2> for a reason, namely to avoid a possible kick by the black b-pawn, if this bishop was on c4, where current theory wants to put it. If you scroll up the page over the game listing, you'll find some interesting theory lines. <PawnSac> and I are discussing the Morra and I want to present some new ideas in order to see what he says. :-) |
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May-03-13
 | | sevenseaman: Hi <DcGentle>! I found your game against "Schimerak" (is it a computer?) very interesting. Liked 10. exf6. The way you pushed up your 'e' pawn and then expended it usefully to 'clear up your field of fire' sort of has to do with d6 being left unattended. 26. h3 is another timely move I liked.
P.S.
The PGN Viewer loads the text but does not show the new header? |
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May-04-13
| | DcGentle: <sevenseaman>: Thanks. Most of the moves before move 24 are a fight about Black trying to enforce d6 in order to get the LSB into the game and White preventing this move. Schimerak is not a computer, there are some moves (21... Bb6) which only a human would make, and besides I talked to him on the news group. He believed that he had an easy game against me playing the Morra and I showed him the outcome. Also against <7... d6> I have an answer, a new move, just look on <PawnSac>'s forum. I would play the Morra against Carlsen even, believe it or not. ;-) BTW, it may be a viewer issue why the new header is not displayed. I tried this viewer (http://chesstempo.com/pgn-viewer-be...) and it worked fine. |
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May-04-13
| | DcGentle: Here there is a core line of my Morra Gambit analysis in PGN format: [Event "Morra gambit analysis"]
[Site "Home town"]
[Date "2007.06.24"]
[Round "?"]
[White "White"]
[Black "Black"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B21"]
[Annotator "DcGentle"]
1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 {< Even with Black declining the gambit, White will get the better game. >} 4. Nxc3 e6 {< Black must already act carefully. >} 5. Nf3 Nc6 {< With Black declining to confine the dark squared bishop, the question 'What to do?' remains, because a pawn kick on the bishop on c4 would just lose a tempo and make it rather hard to exploit the gambit in a useful way against best play. It took me much analysis time, before I tried the following move: >} 6. Be2 {< Apparently the bishop is passively and uselessly lingering here, but the rule prevails: 'After a gambit development must be smooth in order to keep the initiative.' >} d6 7. O-O Nf6 8. Qb3 {< The queen partly undertakes the functions of bishop c4 in the old system, but it also views to b7 already. >} a6 {< in order to prevent a possible knight sortie. >} 9. Rd1 Qc7 10. Bf4 Be7 {<Black's position is a bit squeezed, but nevertheless intact and castling to the kingside is prepared. My first try was the natural 11. Rac1, but Black can hide their queen on b8. >} 11. Qa3 {< threatening 12. Bxd6. >} e5 12. Bg5 {< threatens 13. Bxf6 and Black cannot prevent a double pawn on the f-file due to the ensuing knight fork. >} d5 {< 
click for larger view The white queen is under attack. And good advice seems hard to find. Engines want to move 13. Qa4 and White cannot achieve more than a draw according to my analysis, because Black can finish development, but... >} 13. Bxf6 {! <Now the board is on fire, because Black cannot decline the offer to take the queen! Here it's about a positional queen sacrifice, that is extremely rare in chess. But computer assisted home analysis permits research that breaks new ground. >} Bxa3 14. Nxd5 Qa5 15. Bxg7 Bxb2 16. Rab1 Bd4 17. Bxh8 Qxa2 {< White has got only rook and knight for the queen and a pawn. But there are other factors providing compensation, just look at the underdeveloped black queenside. >} 18. Nxd4 exd4 19. Bf3 {< The cooperation of the bishop pair with the two towers permits White to exploit their space advantage in its entirety. 20. Bc7+ is the main threat. >} Kf8 20. Nb4 Nxb4 21. Rxb4 {< Now the black d-pawn cannot be kept. >} Bd7 22. Bxd4 Bc6 23. Bf6 {<clamps the black king in order to prepare a possible doubling of rooks in the d-file. >} a5 24. Rbd4 Ba4 {< attacking rook d1.>} 25. Rf1 {< White is not absolutely dependent on doubling rooks. >} Re8 26. e5 b5 {< White has valid objections against the advance of the black queenside passers. >} 27. Bc6 Rb8 28. Be4 h6 {< Black must not simply abandon the h-pawn without a fight, but cannot keep it in the long run as it is. >} 29. Bh7 {<threatens devastatingly 30. Rg4.>} Qe2 30. Rh4 Ke8 31. Rxh6 Kd7 {< Also the escape to the queenside is to no avail for the black king. >} 32. Rc1 Bb3 33. Rh4 Bc4 {<Black tries desperately to shut down files, but the position is already too open. >} 34. Re4 Qa2 35. Rd4+ Kc7 36. h4 {< Out of the blue White presents additional reserves, because now Black must also worry about the white passer on the h-file. >} Qe2 37. Bg5 {< with the fatal threat 37. Bf4 >} Qb2 38. Rcd1 Rh8 39. Rd7+ Kc8 40. Bf5 Be6 41. Rxf7 {< Of course the rook is immune due the pin. >} Bxf5 42. Rxf5 Re8 43. e6 Rxe6 44. Rf7 Qh8 45. Rdd7 Re4 46. Rc7+ {< Black cannot prevent the loss of their queen anymore. >} Kb8 47. Rb7+ Ka8 48. Ra7+ Kb8 49. Rfb7+ Kc8 50. Ra8+ Kxb7 51. Rxh8 {<and Black can resign, because even the connected black passers cannot avert the imminent defeat. >} 1-0 |
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May-06-13
 | | OhioChessFan: Norway Moves Prediction Contest, sponsored by the legendary <chessmoron> and hosted in my forum, is now open. First round begins May 8th. Click on Elvis for details. |
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May-10-13
| | DcGentle: Today I started a games collection "Unorthodox Games". If any reader knows one, please tell me. :-) |
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May-12-13
 | | truefriends: Just posted the current position of the game on my forum if you are still interested. Think i found another way to bring the K to g3 and avoid Bc2. |
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May-13-13
 | | AylerKupp: <DcGentle> How come you have up to now declined to participate in the Battle of the Brains-4 game? I would have thought that it would interest you. |
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May-14-13
| | DcGentle: <AylerKupp>: Thanks for the visit, you are welcome. Anyways, I have got a special relationship to the Sicilian, (who has not?), in a sense that I spent some years analyzing a certain anti-Sicilian opening, the Morra Gambit. This opening has a bad reputation, but I guess I solved its inherent problem, that is losing the tempo of the gambit in special lines.
If you want to know how I did this, just look at the above line, this is the tip of the iceberg of my analysis of several years. Since that time I don't like playing the Sicilian as Black and as White I prefer the Morra as answer to 1... c5. But in the current team game some other variant is being played... not the instant appeal for me. Oh well, and then there is another reason. I need more time for my forthcoming engine, I made some progress this month on the level of inherent chess notions, I got aware of the very important role of factual constraints in chess, on all levels. So this is my work, besides ongoing analysis of the Alekhine opening, that is doing just fine. Would be something for the World Team playing Black, although the chance to get this voted in is small, I know.... |
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| May-15-13 | | The Last Straw: <Einstein> Well, you might as well put Kupreichik vs A Sokolov, 2001 in the unorthodox game collection. That's a crazy one. |
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May-16-13
| | DcGentle: <The Last Straw>: Thanks for your suggestion, I appreciate it. *hmmm* The game is for sure unorthodox, but has one disadvantage, Black, who started the craziness, gets punished. I like to collect these games, where unorthodoxy wins without big blunders of the opponent. I have updated the collection's description in this regard. Chess is rich, and there are exceptions of textbook rules. |
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| May-18-13 | | The Last Straw: Take a quick look at IsiChess vs Oll, 1997. Maybe you'll like it. |
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May-18-13
 | | Tiggler: <DcGentle: Today I started a games collection "Unorthodox Games". If any reader knows one, please tell me. :-)> I came across this collection, which may interest you: Game Collection: tpstar Variants |
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May-18-13
| | DcGentle: <The Last Straw>, <Tiggler> Thank you for your good suggestions! One example is already a new member of my collection!
You see me pleased! :-) |
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May-19-13
| | DcGentle: Repost:
This is a first time that I encountered a <necessary> underpromotion in a regular game, although this is only a variant that didn't get played. As I already noticed, <56... Be8> was not the strongest answer of Black, because his bishops were already perfectly placed, he should have waited and wondered what White had in mind, shuffling his king to and fro. A wondereous line, although I am not sure, whether I always hit the nail on the head, but take a look: 
click for larger viewBlack to move chooses 56... Kd6 in this variant.
[Event "Endgame"]
[Site "MyTown"]
[Date "2013.04.14"]
[Round "?"]
[White "truefriends"]
[Black "N.N."]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "DcGentle"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "8/3bk3/5pp1/3Pp2p/1b2P1PP/4BP2/4BK2/8 w - - 0 56"] 56. Kg2 {The game continued with 56... Be8.} Kd6 57. Bc1 Ke7 58. Kf2 Kd6 59. Bd1 Ke7 60. Bb2 Be8 61. Be2 Ba4 62. gxh5 gxh5 63. f4 Bc2 64. fxe5 fxe5 65. Bf3 Bc5+ 66. Ke2 Kd6 67. Bc1 Bb4 68. Bd2 Ba3 69. Bh6 Ke7 70. Kd2 Bb1 71. Kc3 Bc5 72. Bg7 Bd6 73. Bg2 Kf7 74. Bh6 Ke7 75. Kc4 Kd7 76. Bd2 Be7 77. Bc3 Bd6 78. Ba5 Be7 79. Bh3+ Ke8 80. Bf5 Bc2 81. Kb5 Bxh4 82. d6 Bd8 83. d7+ Ke7 84. Be1 Kf7 85. Kc6 Bb3 86. Kb7 Bc4 87. Kc8 Bb6 { 
click for larger view White to move and win.} 88. d8=N+ {!! Only this underpromotion does the trick to avoid the loss of the just otherwise created queen.} Ke8 89. Bg6+ Kf8 90. Kd7 Bb5+ 91. Nc6 Be2 92. Nxe5 Bd1 93. Bh4 Be3 94. Ke6 Bg1 95. Bf6 Bb3+ 96. Kf5 Bd1 97. Kf4 h4 98. Bxh4 Bc2 99. Bf6 Bf2 100. Nf3 Bb1 101. Bh5 Bd3 102. e5 Bc4 103. Bg6 Ba7 104. Ng5 Bd4 105. Nh7+ Kg8 106. e6 Bxf6 107. Nxf6+ #26 1-0 
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May-20-13
| | Tiggler: <DcG> That is very clever. Took me a while to realize that the Q promotion leads to repetition or loss of the Q. The N can be taken too, of course, but only by giving up the black DSB. I have seen underpromotion in a real game before, but not like this one. |
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May-20-13
| | DcGentle: <Tiggler>: Discovering such "jewels" as a necessary underpromotion move is one reason I like to analyze. It was my Sunday highlight. Of course the engines help here, but your first task is it to steer the engine into the right direction. In this case, after <56... Be8> an earlier found plan based on the advance of pawn g4 could be realized, but if Black refused to move the LSB and the DSB, White had to become really creative... Engines alone fail here, as so often in chess. |
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