My first 45/45 tournament game: No more pie!
I recently joined a team in the 45/45 League that plays at ICC. I play the fourth (i.e., last) board in our under 1300 division team.
I had my first game tonight, and played as black. I won. You can view an annotated version of the game here. I knew he played the Guico and that he likes to transpose to the four knights, so I prepared for that last night, which helped a lot. As usual, I played passively, but except for one move, don't think I earned any double question marks (I think I earned a few ?'s, though).
The slow time controls are fantastic: I was able to take as much time as I wanted for each move. This, in my opinion, is what chess is all about. As my opponent said afterwards, blitz games are just pie-throwing contests.
I had my first game tonight, and played as black. I won. You can view an annotated version of the game here. I knew he played the Guico and that he likes to transpose to the four knights, so I prepared for that last night, which helped a lot. As usual, I played passively, but except for one move, don't think I earned any double question marks (I think I earned a few ?'s, though).
The slow time controls are fantastic: I was able to take as much time as I wanted for each move. This, in my opinion, is what chess is all about. As my opponent said afterwards, blitz games are just pie-throwing contests.
6 Comments:
Good game. Illustrating the power of open lines against the king. Nice rooksac. Btw, what was your plan after 5 Bxf7+ ?
After that move, I had thought it would go something like:
5...Kxf7 6. Nxe4 d5, staking out a claim in the center. Then I would have to "manually" castle my king. That would indeed be a very tricky game, even though objectively it is better for black, he needs to be very careful his king doesn't end up in the middle of the board!
awesome game, terrific all around!!!!!!!!
Cool.
I think I'm going to join ICC. There just seems to be a alot of cool stuff on that site.
Congrats on your win for team "Nice To Mate You." Onward and upward.
Kick Ass!
I also find opening preparation does reap it's rewards.
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