Most of them against title holders -- because I am cherry-picking my opponents -- and I scored more or less break even.
I am happy to turn in some of my precious virtual e-rating points for a couple of FM/IM/GM whoopings though.
And the inevitable result is that I win some of them too -- and those are going straight to this blog ;-)
First I screw a Slovenian FM... in one of the best games that I've played lately. After that he beat me three times in a row though. Good player.
Then I catch an English IM with a dirty premove recapture trick (=> he thinks I just recaptured while in the meantime I sneakily set up a trap)
And to wrap it up, I get to play an English Grandmaster!
Of course, it may be somewhat unfair, for them it is just another game of Chess against some random newbie while I am all excited about the privilege of facing titled players and playing Full Force.
And I am only showing my wins here; I lost a bunch of games too, and rest assured they weren't pretty.
OK, ready? Here they come.
Slovenian FM
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The English IM
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The English GM
OK, then an English GM showed up. I sent him a challenge... and to my surprise he accepted!Soon he won the first & the second game without much resistance...
I played opening variations I had never tried before, and he simply screwed me big time.
Lured into a false sense of security, he enters the third game.
I remember NM Dale's Groovy Advice and I grab a cheap internet win that will be cherished forever.
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After all this Chess violence, I almost forgot the...
Chess Problem
A nice "deep" keymove, and a good solving exercise. White to move & mate in three.By Johann Nepomuk Berger, Frankfurter Rundschau 1887.
After any black move, White will have a simple check&checkmate-in-two. Except for one. What to do to have a mate in two prepared for that one?
I looked at all those blitz games today but the mate in 3 I give up today after 5 seconds since trying to solve it could take maybe half an hour maybe and I`m feeling lazy.
ReplyDeleteYep that Qf6 is Groooooviness revisited.
NM-Dale
Good games Mr. Heinz.
ReplyDeleteNever tried the problem.
GP
Good games Mr.Heinz.
ReplyDeleteNever tried the puzzle, looked
too hard.
GP
Great problem thanks! :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome games too. I don't think you won because you premoved though! all skill.
- Maxacre
Hey you guys
ReplyDeleteDale and Greenpee, you bunch of wussies... look even little Maxie got it right! It's not difficult - you only need to spot one aspect of the position in order to find the key. White has a simple check-checkmate in two after all black moves except one. Which one? What to do?
The more I think about the GM scalp, the more it seems I played the "perfect game". After my "inferior move" Rh2 he stalled Nxd3+... because Nxd3+ seems to prevent Rdh1. And after my Kb1 the man was too busy with his a-pawn. :-)
And another thing I realized, is that in the game vs. the IM, after Bxf8, a seemingly correct defensive move ...h6 doesn't work due to the "simple" Bb4+! Rxe8 Rxe8+ Kg7 Bxa5. Not something like Bxh6+? Rxe8 Rxe8+ Kh7, or Qe7? Rxf8, and Black is alive and kicking.
Hk