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Annotated by ethansiegel (1986): This is my favorite game from my ongoing mini-tournament on the Smith-Morra gambit. It features a lot of interesting themes -- gambiting pawns for a lead in development, turning the developmental edge into an attack, and using a speculative attack with lots of threats to culminate in a very rare end -- a mate with just two knights! Here's the description from my mini-tournament, which starts… |
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Annotated by tag1153 (1700): Sorry folks, I just couldn't resist the title (my apologies to Tim Blake Nelson, John Turturro, and George Clooney). Here is recent game vs. one of the newest members of my team, adui. Since it was our first contest I had no idea what to expect. Midway through, I pick up a pawn - then foolishly blunder away the small advantage I had. I don't think either side will win any FIDE titles for our… |
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Annotated by ethansiegel (1986): Flanders and I are on different teams that play each other often, and he's pretty good. But in this game, I get the better of him, to even my record with him (3-3-1). I went on a kick where I tried opening 1. c4 for awhile, and that was a disaster. Back to 1. e4 to me for awhile! The Sicilian. A lot of people here play the Sicilian or respond 1. ...e5. And a number of people who prefer… |
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Annotated by crossquill (1722): My usual response to e4 . . . I learned once the hard way that it's a good idea to take the pawn at d4. Allowing white's pawn to d5 leaves black all congested. Besides, if white's queen captures back at d4, it gives the initiative back to black. Which is exactly what happened here. Pretty common stuff so far. Maybe Nc3 would have been better for white here instead of capturing at… |
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Annotated by saral93 (1200): here in this, i was just new to chess. this was my first rated game. and that time i don't even introduce to chess openings. now only what can i say is just enjoy the game.
e4 as usual... my favourite oh god c5 !!!!! damn i didn't even know my next move at that time. so i just crossed my fingers and hope for best by d4 hopoe d4 is well
very normal.... black happy to develop i know.... that was… |
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Annotated by elyhim (1200): Lessons that can be learned from this game.
1. Don't develop your pieces to squares where they can be harassed
2. If your queen is in danger then think outside the box before you move her to safety. Often your opponent is singularly focused on attacking the queen. This might mean that he has left himself exposed in another area. So look for in between moves that force your opponent to make… |
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Annotated by blitzkov (1200): hello! this game is about greed! !? not sure... c3 goes to the smith morra gambit! ! better than e5? he refutes by c3! attacking e4 im up a pawn! ! so if he goes e5 i can take freely! wanting to get in an endgame if qxg7?? then rg8! with a big attack ??? resigns!! why: after rg8! the queen moves i go qxg2 mate he has to give up his queen!!
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Annotated by dimitriskar (1200): This is the first game that i started with my queen at front. Actually i only made only two moves with my Q. Great oppening for the dioagonal of the black Q. Not so clever What else? The smart Knight attack begins...!!! Pin of the black queen. Taking knight for bishop is my favorite. This was black's first mistake. He had his queenside open and he choose to defend with his queen. Now i… |
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Annotated by zephyravatar (1786): I realize neither this game nor I am particularly good. I just wanted to annotate something for my own benefit. The best response to e4 in my opinion. e5 tends to turn into an uninteresting game. A bit unexpected, but playable. Better would be to stick to theory and play Nf3. Natural move. Develops with tempo. Preparing to fianchetto the bishop, seems like a sound decision. ? Not completely… |
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Annotated by judgeman (1200): Ah, so here I am, playing a game I predicted that I'd lose against acrewboy02. At only -5.7 for a loss, I kinda decided "Ah what the hell! It'll be fun." And it was; We chatted the entire game and I'd like to think that I did reasonably well, but awesome knightplay on his part (And one hell of a pawn) cost me the game. I look forward to playing him again soon! Rawrs!!
Standard opening for me.
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Annotated by pretz (1200): I'm playing a very characteristic Sicilian Dragon opening. Knights are all in the right spot, the c pawn is gone, the d and g pawns are in position, and the black bishop fianchettoed nicely. I mostly got this from "How to Think Ahead in Chess". I was out of things to develop, and I wanted to open up the rook's file. In this situation, white can choose between letting his white … |
