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morslilleole
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17 May 2014, 1:43 pm

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I saw a few rounds live. The commentary by Svidler was excellent, as usual.
Do you play competitively?


Nah. I play very rarely. I do want to learn to play better, I believe I could become decent at it. But I make so many stupid mistakes.

I do find it interesting to see what I would do in the same situation as on the board. But if I choose the "correct" move, it's usually just luck.


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24 May 2014, 7:15 am

I can think of two sites to test/teach tactics: Emrald speed test and Chess Tempo.



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26 May 2014, 7:51 am

morslilleole wrote:
Nah. I play very rarely. I do want to learn to play better, I believe I could become decent at it. But I make so many stupid mistakes.

I do find it interesting to see what I would do in the same situation as on the board. But if I choose the "correct" move, it's usually just luck.


Feel free to send me a private message if you decide to try to improve at chess. I can give you some suggestions.

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I can think of two sites to test/teach tactics: Emrald speed test and Chess Tempo.


Indeed! These are great.
Emrald is extremely intense and from memory you have approximately 3-5 seconds to give your solution, after the diagram loads, if you wish to gain points for solving it.
I used chesstempo often (a few years ago) and it was extremely useful as a training tool.

Good suggestions!



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26 May 2014, 8:47 am

sencha wrote:
wbport wrote:
I can think of two sites to test/teach tactics: ... Chess Tempo.


I used chesstempo often (a few years ago) and it was extremely useful as a training tool.



From chesstempo I learned that "skewer" and "x-ray" are not synonomous. With WPe4 WQd5 WRb1 BQc6 BPb7, Rxb7 is an x-ray in that the Pb7 appeared to be "adequately" defended. You know the skewer already: for example, after a queen check, a piece behind it is unguarded and will be taken after the king moves out of the way.



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28 May 2014, 11:32 am

Indeed.



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27 Sep 2014, 2:53 pm

Back to the long abandoned correspondence game that started this thread: Black has the much better position. 28. f3? to hold the Pe4 drops a piece or a king to Rb2+; Ke1 drops the Nb1 since the Rh1 can't take back and Kd3 gives Black a choice of mates.

28. Rc1 Qd6+ 29. Ke2 Rxe4 30. Nd2 Rxc1 31. Nxe4?? Qa6+ & Rxh1
31. Rxc1 and White has a difficult game but is still in it. Here is the PGN of it.

[Event "Edited game"]
[Site ""]
[Date "2014.09.27"]
[Round "-"]
[White "-"]
[Black "-"]
[Result "*"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Na5 5. Bg5 c6 6. Nf3 d6 7. Qe2 h6 8.
Be3 Nxc4 9. dxc4 Be7 10. O-O-O Qa5 11. c5 Qc7 12. cxd6 Bxd6 13. a3 b5 14.
Qd3 Be7 15. Ne2 a5 16. Ng3 Be6 17. h3 O-O 18. Nd2 Rfb8 19. Qe2 a4 20. Nh5
Nxh5 21. Qxh5 b4 22. axb4 a3 23. bxa3 Rxa3 24. Nb1 Ra1 25. c3 c5 26. Kd2
cxb4 27. cxb4 Rxb4 28. Rc1 Qd6+ 29. Ke2 Rxe4 30. Nd2 Rxc1 31. Rxc1
*



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17 Oct 2014, 11:37 am

wbport wrote:
Back to the long abandoned correspondence game that started this thread: Black has the much better position. 28. f3? to hold the Pe4 drops a piece or a king to Rb2+; Ke1 drops the Nb1 since the Rh1 can't take back and Kd3 gives Black a choice of mates.

28. Rc1 Qd6+ 29. Ke2 Rxe4 30. Nd2 Rxc1 31. Nxe4?? Qa6+ & Rxh1
31. Rxc1 and White has a difficult game but is still in it. Here is the PGN of it.

[Event "Edited game"]
[Site ""]
[Date "2014.09.27"]
[Round "-"]
[White "-"]
[Black "-"]
[Result "*"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Na5 5. Bg5 c6 6. Nf3 d6 7. Qe2 h6 8.
Be3 Nxc4 9. dxc4 Be7 10. O-O-O Qa5 11. c5 Qc7 12. cxd6 Bxd6 13. a3 b5 14.
Qd3 Be7 15. Ne2 a5 16. Ng3 Be6 17. h3 O-O 18. Nd2 Rfb8 19. Qe2 a4 20. Nh5
Nxh5 21. Qxh5 b4 22. axb4 a3 23. bxa3 Rxa3 24. Nb1 Ra1 25. c3 c5 26. Kd2
cxb4 27. cxb4 Rxb4 28. Rc1 Qd6+ 29. Ke2 Rxe4 30. Nd2 Rxc1 31. Rxc1
*


Nice to meet another chess player. :)

I don't think that game is going to continue. I agree that Black is winning. It was an interesting game.



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20 Oct 2014, 8:04 pm

Nice to see some more autistic chess players :D. I play in some tournaments and really enjoy it my live rating is about 1670.



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20 Oct 2014, 9:37 pm

Cartz wrote:
Nice to see some more autistic chess players :D. I play in some tournaments and really enjoy it my live rating is about 1670.


I was over 2100 before my final slide. My last tournament was about 20 years ago but I still play online blitz.