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- Mon Aug 09, 2021 7:49 pm
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Really enjoyed this one
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2156
Really enjoyed this one
I just finished this correspondence game that we started in mid-June. It was fascinating! I probably shouldn't have allowed White's rook in, but the a pawn provided counterplay. It seemed sensible to then give it up in order to get the two connected pawns in the middle that I could just push. Was sl...
- Sat May 22, 2021 7:01 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Looking for a training partner
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1420
Re: Looking for a training partner
Sorry for the delay in responding - been away from the computer most of the week with other things. Thanks folks! Jonathan - those suggestions are great; I'll take a look and get round to making an account. I tend to use the rating limits on both chess.com and lichess though I do worry that online r...
- Sun May 16, 2021 6:59 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Looking for a training partner
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1420
Re: Looking for a training partner
I haven't, only because I usually avoid social media! Are there accounts you'd recommend following/tweeting at to advertise?
Thanks for the suggestion, Jonathan.
Thanks for the suggestion, Jonathan.
- Sat May 15, 2021 7:42 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Looking for a training partner
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1420
Looking for a training partner
Hope everyone is doing well. While there's no OTB chess, I'm looking for someone I can play some regular (once a week roughly) 15+10 games with for training. Ideally, someone stronger than me (my last ECF rating was 1255E).
Give me a shout if you can help me out.
Give me a shout if you can help me out.
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:40 am
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Look at the space!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2491
Look at the space!
Not a question, but just wanted to share a recent game. Most of my games these days are blitz or bullet, which are not the best but I occasionally play some rapid. I find it quite difficult to play anything longer online and probably like most, sorely miss OTB chess. Most of my life I've been playin...
- Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:00 am
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Unfamiliar territory: Black in a Nimzo-Larsen
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2708
Re: Unfaimilar territory: Black in a Nimzo-Larsen
Did you notice that Black's structure and the material imbalance of two Bishops and a Knight against two Knights and a Bishop can also arise from the Trompowsky? I didn't, but that's likely as I've had no experience with the Trompowsky either. These days I'm playing the English and responding to d4...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 9:16 am
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Unfamiliar territory: Black in a Nimzo-Larsen
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2708
Unfamiliar territory: Black in a Nimzo-Larsen
I'm really missing OTB chess as probably a lot of people are, but I'm trying to play some decent games online. Here's a correspondence game I played with Black over the course of a day (!). I can't recall facing the Nimzo-Larsen before and I misplayed the opening losing a pawn. I got it back and the...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:43 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: A game I enjoyed
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2011
A game I enjoyed
I'm playing lots of correspondence games these days, on chess.com, lichess.org as well as through the ICCF, while we wait for OTB chess to resume when it's safe to do so. I particularly enjoyed this game and my opponent made the unwise decision to open up his king after castling long, instead of pla...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 3:06 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: July 2020 grades
- Replies: 73
- Views: 39616
Re: July 2020 grades
Quite! I'd like to be at least 100 really .
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 11:23 am
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: July 2020 grades
- Replies: 73
- Views: 39616
Re: July 2020 grades
I'm up to a reasonable 74E. I felt like I was playing decent chess this season. Still aiming for 100.
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: A couple of games with the French
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1823
Re: A couple of games with the French
Thanks for the game references, Jonathan; I'll have a look when I have some more time. Even if I've been playing on and off for a number of years, I still consider myself quite inexperienced. Having said that, I still find the Italian quite dull.. I'll probably try to start playing some OTB rapid ev...
- Wed Dec 20, 2017 4:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: A couple of games with the French
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1823
Re: A couple of games with the French
Roger: thanks for that. I figured that passed pawn was the asset in that ending. I was also surprised by 45. exf6 and thought that e6 made sense there. David: also thanks. Yeah, perhaps I should have played on. Apparently c3 is OK (working with that loose bishop) or exd5 getting two rooks for the qu...
- Wed Dec 20, 2017 11:04 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: A couple of games with the French
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1823
Re: A couple of games with the French
I guess I'd probably be even more out of depth with a Sicilian, though I suppose said opponents maybe wouldn't know the theory either . Hopefully I'm still managing to play OK!
- Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:12 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: A couple of games with the French
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1823
A couple of games with the French
I've been away from serious OTB chess for quite a while now (though we do have a club at work where I still play some casual games) and so most of my chess activity these days is online, where I'm playing blitz or correspondence (but I'm really trying to avoid the former!). I played a couple of rapi...
- Sat Jul 25, 2015 9:59 am
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: The July 2015 Grading List
- Replies: 45
- Views: 13349
Re: The July 2015 Grading List
I've not played much this season, but I've gone up all the way to 37. Maybe one day I'll reach 100, if I continue to play.