View the game here http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=47165 (note: clicking on the link will take you to the logon page first. Enter "guest" for both username and password. Or better yet, register for an account and start playing! It's free anyway, and it's a nice community).
Played black and lost in 13 moves.
I have asked several of my friends to annotate this game, for a change :)
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Monday, April 24, 2006
My First ICCF Tournament
Just found out today, accidentally, that someone new to ICCF can have their first open tournament for free and get an ICCF ID and rating afterwards. I had just been accepted as a participant to the 2nd ICCF Webchess Open Tournament, due to start this coming June.
Will keep you posted! And if you are not yet an ICCF member and want to join the tournament for free also, here are the instructions:
http://www.iccf-webchess.com/Message.aspx?message=105
In particular, follow the instructions in option c under the "How and when to enter?" section. The email address to send to is vdemian@shaw.ca
Joining also entitles you to a free non-rated introduction game. Just be sure to enter first the tournament before you avail the non-rated game, or you will not be considered a new member in the tournament and will have to pay the fees accordingly. However, I plan to avail of that after the tournament has started, just to make sure I don't get billed unexpectedly :-)
That's it for now. Good game to all! Read More......
Will keep you posted! And if you are not yet an ICCF member and want to join the tournament for free also, here are the instructions:
http://www.iccf-webchess.com/Message.aspx?message=105
In particular, follow the instructions in option c under the "How and when to enter?" section. The email address to send to is vdemian@shaw.ca
Joining also entitles you to a free non-rated introduction game. Just be sure to enter first the tournament before you avail the non-rated game, or you will not be considered a new member in the tournament and will have to pay the fees accordingly. However, I plan to avail of that after the tournament has started, just to make sure I don't get billed unexpectedly :-)
That's it for now. Good game to all! Read More......
Friday, April 21, 2006
Private Game Note feature
It's kinda funny, but after almost a year of playing correspondence chess, only now was I recognizing the value of the "private game note" feature that I suppose is available in almost all cc sites (it's available in both sites I play in, mentioned elsewhere in this blog). With the feature, one can add game comments, series of expected moves, reasons you have for making a move, etc. And all this for your eyes only. It's a handy way of keeping track of your games even if your opponent isn't making any moves for several days, which is what one can expect in turn-based chess. It's also a good way of analyzing one's game, to see whether expected moves are reealized, and if not, where did you made a wrong conclusion. And for me it's a good way of keeping track of my thoughts which I will later use in analyzing a game here on my blog. So if you happen to be as "normal" as I am, you may want to put the feature into good use on your next game.
Good game to all! Read More......
Good game to all! Read More......
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Game versus Palinurus
View the game here http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=43852 (note: clicking on the link will take you to the logon page first. Enter "guest" for both username and password. Or better yet, register for an account and start playing! It's free anyway, and it's a nice community)
Played white and lost. Resigned after 37 moves. Game ended last 19 April 2006.
Right at 3. Nd5 I disregarded one of the rules in the opening stages of a game: do not move a piece twice unless it will free up more pieces or to capture an opponent’s piece.
4. Bc4 – what was I thinking? Maybe hoping for a late Fool’s Mate? I should have considered it unlikely from the quality of the moves he had been making.
5. Qf3 – indeed! How foolhardy! With 5…Be7, Fool’s Mate is a goner, and I haven’t developed my pieces yet, and my queen is exposed prematurely.
6…O-O early development allowed black to castle well ahead of time, while I still need to move two pieces to do so. At 8, blood is drawn – mine!
At 11, Queen is right back where it started.
The rest of the game is a series of moves that were done haphazardly and in haste, without really giving much attention to the repercussions of each move towards the total development of the pieces. The worst error perhaps would have to be at 29.
The main problem would have to be the lack of a plan, or perhaps lack of depth if ever there was a plan. I may be thinking of capturing a piece or getting into a position, but I had not sufficiently considered the situation. In most cases, I made a move with the intention of gaining a piece advantage only to recognize that the pieces are defended by one more defense than I thought. Too many of that proved to be disastrous, especially with regards to the more important pieces. Read More......
Played white and lost. Resigned after 37 moves. Game ended last 19 April 2006.
Right at 3. Nd5 I disregarded one of the rules in the opening stages of a game: do not move a piece twice unless it will free up more pieces or to capture an opponent’s piece.
4. Bc4 – what was I thinking? Maybe hoping for a late Fool’s Mate? I should have considered it unlikely from the quality of the moves he had been making.
5. Qf3 – indeed! How foolhardy! With 5…Be7, Fool’s Mate is a goner, and I haven’t developed my pieces yet, and my queen is exposed prematurely.
6…O-O early development allowed black to castle well ahead of time, while I still need to move two pieces to do so. At 8, blood is drawn – mine!
At 11, Queen is right back where it started.
The rest of the game is a series of moves that were done haphazardly and in haste, without really giving much attention to the repercussions of each move towards the total development of the pieces. The worst error perhaps would have to be at 29.
The main problem would have to be the lack of a plan, or perhaps lack of depth if ever there was a plan. I may be thinking of capturing a piece or getting into a position, but I had not sufficiently considered the situation. In most cases, I made a move with the intention of gaining a piece advantage only to recognize that the pieces are defended by one more defense than I thought. Too many of that proved to be disastrous, especially with regards to the more important pieces. Read More......
Learning from Mistakes
After a string of losses in my games at www.schemingmind.com, I decided that I will analyze each game where I lost in order to understand what went wrong. Somehow, the mere knowledge of what went wrong helps you from repeating the same. This is also one of the tips to improve one's game by no less than International Grandmaster Maurice Ashley (read the article here http://www.angelfire.com/fl/chessninja/ashley.html for more tips). If this becomes a really good exercise, maybe I could also move on to analyzing the outcome of each and every game, won or lost. This is also one way to fill up this blog :-)
You can find my game analyses on the succeeding posts. If you have the time and inclination, you may want to add your comments. Hopefully, some of you may also be helped by the insights that I will try to glean from this analysis. By the way, you may even find your game here :-) Read More......
You can find my game analyses on the succeeding posts. If you have the time and inclination, you may want to add your comments. Hopefully, some of you may also be helped by the insights that I will try to glean from this analysis. By the way, you may even find your game here :-) Read More......
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