tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post1833076097590927954..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: FtardTom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-90765177807138030032008-07-17T18:45:00.000+01:002008-07-17T18:45:00.000+01:00Oooh, nasty.Still, serves him right for 3.c3.Oooh, nasty.<BR/><BR/>Still, serves him right for 3.c3.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-62913378738107009482008-07-17T17:01:00.000+01:002008-07-17T17:01:00.000+01:00John Emms hunting for an IM norm in London 1989 bu...John Emms hunting for an IM norm in London 1989 but an unfortunate 11th move:<BR/><BR/>[White "John M Emms"]<BR/>[Black "Tarek Fatin"]<BR/><BR/><BR/>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. d4 Nf6 6. Be3<BR/>cxd4 7. cxd4 e6 8. Nc3 Qa5 9. Bd3 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. b3 Qxc3<BR/>0-1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-22431265498651140892008-07-17T02:13:00.000+01:002008-07-17T02:13:00.000+01:00Elizabeth, Jonathon (ftard). Jonathon, Elizabeth ...Elizabeth, <A HREF="http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/2008/07/ftard.html" REL="nofollow">Jonathon (ftard)</A>. Jonathon, <A HREF="http://lizzyknowsall.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-hate-myself.html" REL="nofollow">Elizabeth (I hate myself)</A>.Glenn Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098720545929557126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-1724418894180946032008-07-16T19:20:00.000+01:002008-07-16T19:20:00.000+01:00"is Mike Yeo reading this?"Yes, he is. And he agre..."is Mike Yeo reading this?"<BR/><BR/>Yes, he is. And he agrees with Crafty!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-77964511818180673482008-07-16T13:50:00.000+01:002008-07-16T13:50:00.000+01:00Crafty reckons you're not ok after 15.Nxc7...Crafty reckons you're not ok after 15.Nxc7...Tom Chivershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-60331091336279009472008-07-16T13:31:00.000+01:002008-07-16T13:31:00.000+01:00I wonder if it's to do with the fact that your que...I wonder if it's to do with the fact that your queen was operating next to a rook, and acting down a file....ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-51868453752963453952008-07-16T13:28:00.000+01:002008-07-16T13:28:00.000+01:00It's odd, though, that I had the same hallucinatio...<I>It's odd, though, that I had the same hallucination.</I><BR/><BR/>yes I suppose so - although it didn't cost you a point and you were looking at it on a computer screen not on a real board.<BR/><BR/>You're right about me not being able to explain it though. I just don't see how I could have made this mistake. I didn't even rush (not that that should have mattered) - I took about 3 minutes over the move according to my scoresheet.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-57477473698188423852008-07-16T13:08:00.000+01:002008-07-16T13:08:00.000+01:00It's odd, though, that I had the same hallucinatio...It's odd, though, that I had the same hallucination.<BR/><BR/>(I suspect, though, that this is connected with the reason I crack up at the end of competitions - I'm well aware that I play at a higher level than my tactical ability should allow me too, and perhaps there's a limit to how long I can keep that up.)<BR/><BR/>However, re: the question of my resignation, premature or otherwise, I should make clear that it wasn't based on a full and through examination of the position. I was aware of this and I didn't care. I did not care then and I do not care now. It was based on the fact that I'd just moved the queen from d8 to e8 and if I was going to have to move it straight back then I really didn't feel like wasting any more either of my time or that of the young woman who I was playing.<BR/><BR/>This is not an attitude which wins world titles, of course, but I didn't care.<BR/><BR/>And besides, if the week ended really badly, it had started really well and so the end didn't matter very much in the great scheme of things.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-13374385552014638762008-07-16T13:02:00.000+01:002008-07-16T13:02:00.000+01:00Yes 1. ... Ne3 was the offending move (it certainl...Yes 1. ... Ne3 was the offending move (it certainly offended me)<BR/><BR/>I was planning<BR/>2. Qe2 Nc2<BR/>3. Qxe8 Rxe8<BR/>4. Rsomewhere Rxe1+<BR/>-+<BR/><BR/>Utterly shameful.<BR/><BR/><BR/>I'm not even sure I could claim that I thought the queen couldn't take it ... just didn't even consider that it could. Well not until a nano-second after I removed my hand from the knight of course.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-27966522614605749122008-07-16T12:59:00.000+01:002008-07-16T12:59:00.000+01:00I've seen Jerry Sadowitz live about 4 or 5 times. ...I've seen Jerry Sadowitz live about 4 or 5 times. Always a great show.<BR/><BR/>Every amateur magician - and indeed the professional ones too - has a Jerry Sadowitz story. I personally know somebody who Sadowitz physically removed from International Magic (the shop where he works) after a minor disagreement went nuclear.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-63738012971890685752008-07-16T12:54:00.000+01:002008-07-16T12:54:00.000+01:00Then bleedin' Fritz can sit there and play it....Then bleedin' Fritz can sit there and play it....ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-27701367702420621232008-07-16T12:53:00.000+01:002008-07-16T12:53:00.000+01:00I just put it in Fritz. There's lots of tactical c...I just put it in Fritz. There's lots of tactical compilations but Fritz seems to think you're OK.<BR/><BR/>PGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-34652590697804602622008-07-16T12:31:00.000+01:002008-07-16T12:31:00.000+01:00There's not enough on d6.There's not enough on d6.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-46574131596817152392008-07-16T12:22:00.000+01:002008-07-16T12:22:00.000+01:00ejh sorry to hear your woes. But just Qd8 then if ...ejh sorry to hear your woes. But just Qd8 then if e5 Nf5.<BR/><BR/>PGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-8094243957824023972008-07-16T12:19:00.000+01:002008-07-16T12:19:00.000+01:00I saw Sadowitz live a couple of years ago - an abs...I saw Sadowitz live a couple of years ago - an absolutely frightening experience, but probably the best stand up gig I've ever been to.Morgan Danielshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964054143509110236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-6745294873790783532008-07-16T12:04:00.000+01:002008-07-16T12:04:00.000+01:00Heh, I've got it! 1...Ne3!!Because of course the q...Heh, I've got it! 1...Ne3!!<BR/><BR/>Because of course the queen can't take it, for some reason that you hallucinated but will never be able to explain!<BR/><BR/>(Except that I had the same hallucination, looking at the diagram...)ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-16156939650040334782008-07-16T12:00:00.001+01:002008-07-16T12:00:00.001+01:00ejh why did you resign?What's Black's next move?I ...<I>ejh why did you resign?</I><BR/><BR/>What's Black's next move?<BR/><BR/>I was, as it happens, utterly and abjectly pissed off. After seven rounds I was on 4.5 and in the eighth round I should have beaten an FM, but revoked my decision to play the (probably) winning move and played a losing one. In the ninth round I then lost to a much lower-rated player.<BR/><BR/>I then contracted food poisoning for the second time in the week, albeit not remotely as badly as the first time*. A Spanish guy offered me a lift from his mate to the venue for the tenth round - I was in a campsite three kilometres uphill from the venue - but come 8.50 am (the last round starts at nine) he was nowhere to be seen.<BR/><BR/>I therefore had no option but to rush downhill and hope not to arrive too late. Halfway down, the guy's mate pulls up in his car - but guess what, there's a bicycle in the back so I couldn't get in anyway. So I walked the whole way, arriving, miraculously, just fifteen minutes late. I then have to meet the Evans Gambit against another much lower-rated player, with half the tournament apparently using the space next to my end-of-aisle board as a conversation post.<BR/><BR/>And so, after 14.Nb5, I really didn't feel like hanging around to see what happened next, save the short period it took to tell the Spanish guy what I thought of his mate.<BR/><BR/><BR/>[* In the early morning before the sixth round, I woke up feeling awful and after several hours' tossing and turning in my tent, got up and vomited. Some hours later I vomited again. My guess is that the previous night's bistec de ternera hadn't been fully defrosted. Anyway, I was absolutely flat-out, almost literally unable to move, let alone leave the tent, feeling dead, until after two in the afternoon.<BR/><BR/>The round started at four and at three I started to walk down the hill - very slowly - in the heat of a Spanish July afternoon. I got to the venue at 3.58, God knows how, and bought myself a tonic water. I was a few minutes later and frankly had my opponent been at the board I would have had no option to offer him a draw or resign. But he was a quarter of an hour late, which gave me ten minutes to slump in my chair, doing, and thinking, and seeing, absolutely nothing. Which is what I needed to pull myself together - and I went on to win.]ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-6013599302728544902008-07-16T12:00:00.000+01:002008-07-16T12:00:00.000+01:00You left your Q en prise? e4 seems the 'best' squa...You left your Q en prise? e4 seems the 'best' square.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-61037717667472280312008-07-16T11:44:00.000+01:002008-07-16T11:44:00.000+01:00btw3:White didn't win by playing 2. Qxd5+btw3:<BR/><BR/>White didn't win by playing 2. Qxd5+Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-22096711637499019512008-07-16T11:31:00.000+01:002008-07-16T11:31:00.000+01:00ejh why did you resign? Looks dodgy but I can't se...ejh why did you resign? Looks dodgy but I can't see a clear win.<BR/><BR/>PGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-35306760203264484982008-07-16T11:03:00.000+01:002008-07-16T11:03:00.000+01:00btw1:Tell you what, I bet ...Have you just taken a...btw1:<BR/><I>Tell you what, I bet ...</I><BR/><BR/>Have you just taken a 'Speak-like-Big-Ron-Atkinson' course???<BR/><BR/><BR/>btw2:<BR/>the move I found was much much worse than yours.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-34987714216919489632008-07-16T11:00:00.000+01:002008-07-16T11:00:00.000+01:001. ... Nh4nope. Keep looking.btw: yes it was inde...<I>1. ... Nh4</I><BR/><BR/>nope. Keep looking.<BR/><BR/>btw: yes it was indeed a French Exchange ... and quite an <A HREF="http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/2008/04/interesting-french-exchange-v.html" REL="nofollow">interesting</A> one until I ruined it.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-54830104889363172102008-07-16T10:04:00.000+01:002008-07-16T10:04:00.000+01:001.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Be7 (is...1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Be7 (is Mike Yeo reading this?) 6.d4 Na5 7.Be2 exd4 8.Qxd4 Kf8 9.O-O d6 10.Bf4 Nc6 11.Qe3 Bf6 12.Na3 Nge7 13.Rd1 Qe8 14.Nb5 1-0ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-37436807372354332762008-07-16T10:01:00.000+01:002008-07-16T10:01:00.000+01:00Imagine that every time you play you take on two o...<I>Imagine that every time you play you take on two opponents - the guy sitting opposite and your own fuckwittery.<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>We all do this of course. Chess is a struggle against error and therefore a struggle against oneself.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-18757974463682523702008-07-16T09:43:00.000+01:002008-07-16T09:43:00.000+01:001....Nh4!! surely?Tell you what, I bet this a Fren...1....Nh4!! surely?<BR/><BR/>Tell you what, I bet this a French Exchange.<BR/><BR/>I also bet you lasted longer than the 14 moves it took me to lose the last game in Benasque.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.com