tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post8669494958985274732..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: Miss Easy Tactics! with Justin XIITom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-85519420043444816572009-03-03T12:01:00.000+00:002009-03-03T12:01:00.000+00:00Actually it turns out this one was more complicate...Actually it turns out this one was more complicated than I thought.<BR/><BR/>I'd missed the ...f5 idea. I though White could check on e4 first and then take the pawn or do it the other way around.<BR/><BR/>I'd also looked at taking the pawn before even checking on the back rank ... but perhaps then Black can take back with the rook then block the check with the queen because the a3-f8 diagonal has been opened upJonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-66662020563892813892009-03-03T11:10:00.000+00:002009-03-03T11:10:00.000+00:00It's quite OK, no offence was taken or assumed.It's quite OK, no offence was taken or assumed.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-45176403735852398602009-03-03T10:43:00.000+00:002009-03-03T10:43:00.000+00:00I wasn't gloating, just stating a fact.I've made e...I wasn't gloating, just stating a fact.<BR/><BR/>I've made enough time trouble blunders myself to share your pain. The worse one was taking a draw through perpetual check against a strong GM when completely winning - more than 10 years on and that still hurts.<BR/><BR/>Alu ChinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-91095653969179288472009-03-03T10:18:00.000+00:002009-03-03T10:18:00.000+00:00Well, the whole series is about things that one pl...Well, the whole series is about things that one player permitted and the other didn't take, so in all instances (I think) they both missed it. As for why...I'd guess the same reasons, except interestingly that he wasn't quite so short of time as I was (I'd been playing with less than a minute, plus thirty seconds a move, since before the sequence began, while he began it with fifteen minutes to spare). I don't believe he saw it but bluffed - he'd have said so afterwards, I think - so I'd speculate that the reasons were the same, i.e. an assumption that the queen was staying on the d-file, a brief investigation of the e8-e4 idea and the "refutation" of ...f5 noticed, plus perhaps in both our minds an assumption that the rook was stuck on c1 and unable to move.<BR/><BR/>Games are mostly decided by the awareness of tactics, I think. That's why I keep losing them.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-14399096245844116642009-03-03T10:05:00.000+00:002009-03-03T10:05:00.000+00:00Sometimes this series doesn't seem too easy to me ...Sometimes this series doesn't seem too easy to me - but even I got this one.<BR/><BR/>Of course it's easy now but have played a full game and in the heat of battle it's strange what players can miss.<BR/><BR/>Your last point is interesting EJH - how did *he* miss it too.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-53203395550138736712009-03-03T10:00:00.000+00:002009-03-03T10:00:00.000+00:00Well, it's less easy with thirty seconds to play a...Well, it's less easy with thirty seconds to play a move and the imperative to get the queen back on d2 the main thing on your mind: but yes, as the opponent was graded 2299 and the match was lost 2.5-1.5, it did hurt more than a little when I found it later. (Oddly, though, I'm more annoyed about my failure to stick to the keep-the-queen-on-d2 discipline - tactical oversights are one thing, but losing because you don't sit tight, that's another.)<BR/><BR/>As often with tactical oversights move orders come into it - you're thinking something like "queen check, then queen check...ah, he's got f5 which wins" and my opponent quite likely thought much the same.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-37962398287385722732009-03-03T09:25:00.000+00:002009-03-03T09:25:00.000+00:00Oh dear, it's 45.Qe8+ and 46.Rxc2.And you're right...Oh dear, it's 45.Qe8+ and 46.Rxc2.<BR/><BR/>And you're right, it really is easy.<BR/><BR/>That one must still be hurting!<BR/><BR/><BR/>Alu ChinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-66536900514017197152009-03-03T08:44:00.000+00:002009-03-03T08:44:00.000+00:00ooh I think I can see this one.ooh I think I can see this one.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.com