Gilmoy Member since May-15-05 · Last seen Jul-06-21 Since 2001, I've play skittles chess (5 minutes + 3 seconds) on pogo.com. I always make my own table, and sit down as Black (so my opponent starts with White). My username starts with "Gilmoy", and the remaining 10 letters is whatever inane or topical joke strikes my fancy. I play from newbie (1500) to red dot (2001+), then retire the account and make a new one; I have over 70 (most of which have long since expired). My best performance was 71-4; my worst take well over 400 games. Pogo e-mails you a PGN of your game on conclusion (if you ask; I always do), so I have them all archived. I have no offical rating -- I've never played in a tournament (nor even seen one in person). My schedule never permitted it, and I suspect I lack the patience for tourney time controls. I learned the moves almost 30 years ago, from books. My favorite was Cozen's "The Kinghunt in Chess", which I haven't seen since. I was hooked on the beauty of chess -- I knew Immortal, Evergreen, Rubinstein's, Fischer's GotC, etc. I didn't know how to actually *play*, though. I played with friends in middle school, and had no clue. Later, I briefly (like, twice each :) attended the chess clubs at Caltech, U.Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), and U.Wisconsin-Milwaukee, but they both preferred flat 5 minutes, and I can't think that fast -- I need the 3 seconds. In late 2006, I started solving chessgames.com's Puzzle of the Day. After a few months of that, my play on pogo has gotten somewhat more vicious, and much more fun. I look for piece sacs that I never would have considered before. My opponents have declined about 80% of them -- even the unsound ones ^_^ I prefer Ruy/Spanish as White or Black. As Black, I trust my QGD against 1.d4, but I dabble in KID, QID, or Nimzo-Indian -- usually whichever one I saw most recently on chessgames.com at super-GM level :) I used to lose to King's Gambit more than any other opening by White, until I got mad, Googled it, printed out the first 3 hits, and did some homework. Since then, my KGA is about +350=10-20 as Black. I like watching soccer and volleyball. I prefer informative TV like Discovery, History, A&E, piano/violin concertos, Broadway musicals, animals of all kinds, and YouTube videos thereof. I found a male praying mantis (~3 cm long) in my dorm hallway once, brought it to my lab in a Tupperware, and took it hunting for mosquitoes every few hours for a week. Mantid poop looks like compressed mosquito shell fragments. In real life, I have feathers and a beak. Chirp chirp!

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Oct-16-19 Carlsen vs Ganguly, 2019    Gilmoy: <37 Rd8+ Rxd8 38.Qxc6+> Nxc6 :)      Oct-03-19 M Michailov vs D Carlo, 2009    Gilmoy: <stacase: I would have moved [23.Bh6] + and trade the Rooks on move [24] > But then 23..Kxf7 lets Black escape, since Bh6 blocks the Q from Qxh7+. [DIAGRAM] <23.Rxf7+> is correct, because now 23..Kxf7 24.Qxh7+ skewers the loose Qc7. [DIAGRAM]      Sep-04-19 Browne vs Hort, 1971    Gilmoy: The GotD pun is from the children's rhyme: 1.a pawn e 2.a pawn e hort cross browne Really :)      Aug-30-19 Egor Filipets vs A Aleksandrov, 2018    Gilmoy: 50.Qd1 Qxd1 and Rb7 hangs :) Bf3 can't save them both.      Jul-18-19 Grischuk vs Vitiugov, 2019    Gilmoy: Yes, same as the game line. Black can't defend h7, so the child's-play Qh5-Rh3 is quite unstoppable. In fact, after 20..gxf6, Black has <two> obstructions on f before he can play (Q,R)f7. So White has successfully played the Rf6 sac, without costing a slow Rook, nor waiting for      Jul-15-19 L Tristan vs E Moradiabadi, 2018    Gilmoy: I sargond this motion.      Jun-04-19 So vs Mamedyarov, 2019   Gilmoy: 22(not 21).Rd7 Qe3 <Philidor> looks annoying: White has no immediate mate, and must cover f2, and not with Ra1 because it's defending g1.      May-01-19 Y Kryvoruchko vs Jobava, 2018   Gilmoy: Jobava lost to <18.Ba2> :o      Mar-31-19 V Artemiev vs Hracek, 2019    Gilmoy: I watched that MatoJelic video, but ... he didn't <explain> anything after <20..Ne8>, he just recapped the game line only. White clearly has the <Morphy mate> on g: <discovered check controlling h8, with f8 self-blocked>. Since this mate requires only R+B, ...      Mar-23-19 Z Tsydypov vs K Piorun, 2019   Gilmoy: Well, I see Qg4-Qf3#, and meanwhile Nc3 is pinned and doubled. All of White's pieces have no good moves. 26.Rb1 <to protect Qd1 laterally> Qg4 27.Qd1 Re2 <interference>: [DIAGRAM] Taking the Rook doesn't stop mate: 28.Qxe2[] Bxe2 29.Rf1[] , etc. If 28.Qf1 Rf2 there's a ...      Mar-17-19 D Gutierrez Olivares vs P Pinho, 2019    Mar-13-19 L Mkrtchian vs S Wafa, 2019    Mar-11-19 R Praggnanandhaa vs Ju Wenjun, 2019     Jan-28-19 A Esipenko vs D Saduakassova, 2019     Jan-24-19 S Kuipers vs M Chigaev, 2019    Jan-24-19 Giri vs J van Foreest, 2019    Oct-27-18 Adams vs H Olafsson, 2018    Jul-28-18 N Georgiadis vs Mamedyarov, 2018     Jul-28-18 Svidler vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2018     Jul-05-18 Guanchu Liu vs Li Chao, 2011     Jun-29-18 Kulaots vs G Meier, 2017     Jun-28-18 J Rigo vs L Espig, 1977     May-25-18 M Antipov vs S Ivanov, 2017     May-10-18 V Yumakhuzhin vs S Khanin, 2018     May-08-18 G Palchun vs I Bocharov, 2018    Apr-30-18 A Wang vs N Paikidze, 2018     Apr-07-18 Naiditsch vs Carlsen, 2018     Apr-01-18 B Hare vs K Budge, 1958  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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-14-08    mistreaver: I'll give a shot at your puzzles. 1) I think that Bf5 is the solution as it stops the f pawn from advancing and thus keeps h6 square for rook. 2) I kept looking at this but couldn't find anything Apr-14-08    WannaBe: You're a programmer (too)?!?! Nice to meet ya, take some time, and meet <YouRang> and <RandomVisitor> also!! =) Apr-24-08    Gilmoy: "Solution" (such as it is) to [p.1, kibitz 2], GilmoyEatsASalad - Tenor89P, which see. <At 12.e5 I was already envisioning the sac. This pawn thrust has two points: (a) boots out the stalwart Nf6; (b) clears e4 for a K-side swarm, e.g. Ne4, Q sideways, and possibly the b1-h7 diagonal. Black usually must struggle to prevent this!> 13..Nc7 <threatens Nb5> click for larger view <I saw that the immediate 14.Ne4 momentarily impedes my Q, after which 14..Nb5 drives her off, winning the e-pawn. So I wanted to move my Q first, without losing the pawn. Including time for the sac itself, I spent almost a minute on:> 14.Qf4 b5 15.Ne4 Bb7 16.Nf6+ Kh8!? click for larger view <I calculated that gxf6 17.exf6 isn't winning -- Black has time for Kh8-Rg8. I vaguely planned c3-Bc2 and a rook lift for pressure against h7. But having spent almost half my game clock preparing the sac, I was determined to have some fun!> 17.Rd3 <Now my N is safe (proof thereof is roughly Tuesday level)> Nd5 18.Bxd5 Bxd5 19.b3 Rac8 20.Rh3 g6 <20..h6 21.Rxh6+ and Q mates> 21.Rxh7# 1-0 <Black surprised me by declining the sac. It led to a slow-motion Arab mate, but I think after 17.Rd3 White is winning anyways. It's a fringe benefit of looking for outrageous sacs -- sheer aggressiveness can rattle your foe.> Apr-24-08    Gilmoy: Solution to Puzzle #1 in my [p.1, reply 15]. [Site "pogo.com"] [Date "2002.12.24"] [White "GuaranteedGem" 1632] [Black "GilmoyFirewyrm" 1756] [Result "0-1"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 <I hate the Scotch -- so unimaginative> exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.Bc4 Qh4!? <Sometimes I do this on move 4 just to see 'em squirm> 7.Qf3 Nf6 8.Nc3 O-O 9.O-O d6 10.Qg3 Qxg3 11.hxg3 <opens h> Ng4 12.a3 Ne5 <a pretty mini-tour idea in some defenses> 13.Be2 a5 14.Kh1 <Aha! he unpins his f-pawn -- thin ice ahead --> f5 15.f4 <he gives himself King-in-the-corner syndrome -- can be fatal!> Ng4 16.Bxg4 fxg4 17.Bd2 click for larger view <Like most other chess enthusiasts, I've gawked at Rubinstein's Immortal. One nugget I mined from it was a deep appreciation for King-in-the-corner. The canonical form has a B covering g1, as here, which implies that White's f-pawn moved. It can arise from the outright check Bc5+ Kh1. Rarely, White plays Kh1 specifically to unpin his f-pawn -- dangerous because he's inviting this mate pattern. Here, I realized with compounding amazement that White has one fatal weakness -- he can't double anywhere along the a7-g1 diagonal in one move. That means he can't stop my B -- only spite-block to delay mate. But how to get a line-moving R to h?> 18..Bf5! <mistreaver [reply 16] is correct: the point is to blockade f4, so that White's B cannot control h6.> 19.exf5 <now f4 is blocked by his own pawn> Rf6 0-1 click for larger view <White has two spite-blocks on the diagonal before Rh6#. Later, I realized that 18..Rxf5 works just as well. So I had no reason to decline that pawn. Hence, 18..Rf6 was a bit theatrical.> Apr-24-08    Gilmoy: Solution to Puzzle #2 in my [p.1, reply 15]. [Site "Pogo"] [Date "2007.08.09"] [White "moodychess" 1699] [Black "GilmoySeesDedPpl" 1890] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 d5 <Before my KID jag> 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.e3 a6 6.Bd3 <yaay! the clockwork line> dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.a3 Nd7 10.O-O c5 11.Bc2 Rc8 12.e4? <Harrumph -- now I re-engage my brain> cxd4 13.Nxd4 O-O 14.Be3 Ne5 15.f4 <the f-pawn departs> Nc4 16.Bc1 Bc5 <the B arrives> 17.Nce2 Nxe4 18.b4 Bb6 <homage to Rubinstein> 19.Kh1 <syndrome!!> Qf6 20.Bb3 Rfd8 21.Bxc4 Rxc4 22.Be3 click for larger view <OK, he's down a pawn, and his hapless Nd4 is pinned and outnumbered 4-3, so it's toast. The only question is which piece I want to end on d4. Rote application of minimal cost suggests ending with Rxd4, which wins NN(+B) for R(+B) and boots his Q out -- but after that, it's blah. Much more exciting was to hammer the King-in-the-corner syndrome, and end with Bxd4 -- a subtle fork, Ra1 and g1. What I saw "in a flash" was the Greco sac -- which is matish if I own g1!> 22..Rcxd4 <Ob. joke: "Oh, but"> 23.Nxd4 Rxd4! <"I insist"> 24.Bxd4 Bxd4 <"on controlling g1"> click for larger view <So I got the NN for R portion, but I sacked an exchange with my other R. During the game, I thought my whole combo was "silly" because it relied on White reflexively saving his Ra1 -- perhaps he could have refuted it by elegantly returning an exchange, and doing something on the K-side? But on hindsight, I think he doesn't have any such move! My Bs are just too, ah, "rubenstian".> 25.Rc1 Ng3+ <h opens up> 26.hxg3 Qh6+ 0-1 click for larger view <I sacked an exchange to set up an N sac. 'Tis more blessed!> May-26-08    Gilmoy: After Koltanowski vs NN, 1945, Puzzle of the Day for Monday (Very Easy), May 26, 2008. I did the same Q sac for Arab mate once, so I recognized it "instantly". [Site "Pogo"] [Date "2003.02.10"] [White "GilmoyDragsAWing"] (my 27th Gilmoy) [Black "gggessas"] [Result "1-0"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nc6? <Oops -- now he's down a gambit pawn!> 5.d3 Be7 6.Be2 O-O 7.O-O Re8 8.Nc3 d5 9.e5 Ng4 <Inevitably this will shatter his K-side pawns> 10.d4 f6 11.h3 Nh6 12.Bxh6 gxh6 13.exf6 Bxf6 14.Qd2 Nb4? <A free tempo> 15.a3 Nc6 16.Rad1 Bg5 17.Nxg5 hxg5 18.b3 <Hidden attack on d5> g4 19.Nxd5 gxh3 <Here I calculated that half-open h is more useful to me than g, and my K could hide from Black's Rg8+> 20.Bc4 hxg2? 21.Kxg2 <Elegantly clears 1 -- Black should have declined the pawn trade just to prevent this> Kh8 22.Rh1! Rg8+ 23.Kf1 Bg4 <Now I see mate, so material doesn't matter -- a tempo is worth more than a rook!> 24.Qh6 Rg7 click for larger view 25.Nf6 Bxd1? 26.Qxh7+ Rxh7 27.Rxh7# 1-0 <25..Qxf6 26.Qxf6 Bxd1 27.Bd3> and White still overpowers h7, e.g. <27..Kg8 28.Bxh7+ Rxh7 29.Rg1+ > May-28-08    Gilmoy: The Game of the Day for May 27, 2008, Gurgenidze vs A Lein, 1966, ends with 21.Re5 1-0 to Gurgenidze, with the following position: click for larger view <<Position after 21.Re5 1-0>> By sheer coincidence, just 3 days earlier, I had an isomorphic configuration of pieces, and I found the same combo OTB (before I ever saw the Gurgenidze game). That's pretty encouraging! [Site "Pogo"] [Date "2008.05.24"] [White "GilmoyLoses512MB" 1894] (my 88th Gilmoy -- still active :) [Black "RogDuaneChess" 1686] [Result "1-0"] 1.e4 b6 <bleah> 2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 <Looks like a Dragon, so I steer toward Yugoslav> 5.Be3 a6 6.Nc3 h6 7.Qd2 e6 8.O-O-O Ne7 <I start freelancing> 9.g4 b5 10.Rg1 b4 11.Na4 Bc6 12.Qxb4 <It's risky to give him half-open b, but pawn is pawn> Bxa4 13.Qxa4 Nc6 14.c3 <To transfer her to K-side> d5 15.Ne5 Bxe5 16.dxe5 O-O 17.f4 d4 18.cxd4 Rb8 19.f5 exf5 20.Bxh6 Rb4 21.Qc2 Re8 22.gxf5 Nxd4 23.Qg2 Qd7 24.Bd2 Qc6+ 25.Bc3 Rbb8 <Now it's a race -- his Q-side pressure is quite serious> 26.f6 Nc8 <I see the double-deflection, winning by a nose> 27.Qg5 Ne6 28.Qh6 Nb6 29.Rg5! <Nxg5?? 30.Qg7#> Na4 click for larger view <<Position after 29.Rg5 Na4 -- compare to above>> 30.Rh5! <threatens 31.Qh8#> gxh5[] 31.Rg1+ Ng7[] 32.Qxg7# 1-0 Transpose this finish back to Gurgenidze's position, and it works exactly the same. Lein was convinced. May-30-08    Gilmoy: <newzild> wrote in Gurgenidze vs A Lein, 1966, kibitz #22: <Gilmoy: In your skittles game, instead of 29.Rg5, why not just play 29.Rg3 and 30.Rh3?> You're right, both lines win -- in fact, 29.Rg3 mates 1 move sooner. I saw 29.Rg3, but I preferred 29.Rg5 for five reasons: 1) Sets a trap -- Black could lose instantly. 2) Burns some clock -- Black must think a bit to avoid #1. 3) Complacency -- Black might think he's safe, and miss the second threat. 4) Practice -- In future games, I probably won't have the luxury of two ways to win, and I'll need to be able to (see and) calculate a sac line. I had already invested the ~20 seconds to work out the sac to mate, so I decided to have some fun. (Also, I enlisted his help to double-check my work!) 5) Prettier :) Mar-04-09    johnlspouge: Hi, <Gilmoy>. I find your posts very useful sometimes. The latest example was the post "... Replace costly computation with fast pattern recognition. ..." My 8 year-old daughter <eatitorbeatit> is learning multiplication right now, and she did not see the point of all the memorization ;>) Apr-02-09    johnlspouge: Alright, <Gilmoy>. Even if nobody else comments, I am in awe of your ability to fool the scripts here and post a correctly spaced list on consecutive lines. How did you do it?!! Apr-02-09    Gilmoy: <johnlspouge: ... correctly spaced list on consecutive lines> I don't. It automatically line-wraps some of them, and not others. I don't know how it decides. I just keep previewing and editing to manually insert newlines wherever needed. Very annoying. Apr-02-09    johnlspouge: Thanks, <Gilmoy>. I had a good try at slipping in HTML and still could not figure your "trick". Jun-11-09    mistreaver: Hey gilmoy may i ask you to post all "immortal games" ( except rubinstein's immortal) because i forgot them (shame on me ) and i ocne had them on your profile. Thanks in advance Regards, mistreaver Jan-09-10    ILikeFruits: hello... kind sir... May-02-10    Bdellovibrio: Go Huskies ;-) Jul-22-10    Topista: black to move White:KG1, QE1, RR:A1 AND F2, BB:F1 AND C1, ND2, PP:A2,B2,C2, G3, H2 BLACK: KG8, QH5, RR:D8 AND F8, BB:B7AND C5, P:A7, F7,G7,H7 Aug-03-11    alexrawlings: Hi <Gilmoy>, I just wandered on to your user profile after seeing you comment on one of my recent Kibitzs. I also play on pogo.com but prefer 15+3 as it gives me more time to think about my moves and (hopefully) avoid blunders. I've never got to achieve a red dot though, well done! Sep-13-11    Shams: <Gilmoy> What do you play against the 3.Bc4 King's Gambit, may I ask? Nov-14-11    Gilmoy: <Shams:> 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 <3.Bc4> Nc6 and then try to transpose to the following. The usual line is 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 Nc6 5.d4 d6 6.O-O Bg7 7.c3 h6, and Black plans Ne7, O-O, "with a Swedish Defense" (except that I've never heard of a Swedish Defense in any other context). If White deviates, I freelance. Fish in my waters are generally confuddled by a non-Muzio positional grind, and sometimes trade away all the tension, esp. with an early e5 without support. I used to feel that KGA should produce a KID-like pawn storm, but that never works. The 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5 Be7 line is the biggest test of my limited study -- it goes to about 12, with a Bxh4-Bg3 for Black, and White's Nc3-Nd1 covering the pinned Nf2. After that, I dunno: insufficient data! Jan-30-12    Shams: <Gilmoy> Loved your M:tG reference. Unrepentant geekdom is celebrated where I call home. <KGA> I would imagine 3.Bc4 Nc6 you see 4.d4 a lot. I would play it instantly. Dec-25-12    OhioChessFan: Merry Christmas to you. Keep posting on the POTD Jun-24-13    hms123: <Gilmoy> The King Hunt in Chess http://www.shop.chesscafe.com/The-K... http://www.shop.chesscafe.com/Speci... Sep-21-13    waustad: Nice avatar. Is this you dancing? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea... Mar-31-14    waustad: < My schedule never permitted it, and I suspect I lack the patience for tourney time controls.> This really is an issue. Many years ago I played tournaments after some years of playing blitz in the bar and found it difficult at first to spend enough time to analyse the position. After about a year I got it together and my rating jumped. I was already way too old to get very good, since I was well over 30 then and hadn't taken chess at all seriously until Fischer vs Spassky when I was 22, but tournaments are a very different game. They are fun and I'm thinking about doing them again some time. It would be a good excuse to do some travelling again. Dec-25-14    wordfunph: <Gilmoy> Merry Christmas! search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·  Later Kibitzing>		from the Chessgames Store

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