Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 00:22:05 02/27/04
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On February 26, 2004 at 12:55:52, ERIQ wrote: >On February 26, 2004 at 09:06:08, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On February 26, 2004 at 01:51:58, Matt Thomas wrote: >> >>>I decided to try and give myself a fighting chance and played one of the lower >>>level characters in Deep Sjeng. I probably just got lucky. I saw an awesome >>>fork, of course just after I moved another piece in the game. What do you think >>>of my style of play? >> >>You're not strong enough to have a style. >> >>> >>>[Event "I"] >>>[Site "The Ivory Tower"] >>>[Date "2004.02.24"] >>>[Round "1"] >>>[White "Matt Thomas"] >>>[Black "Deep Sjeng 1.5 - Amateur"] >>>[Result "1-0"] >>>[Opening "B27 Sicilian: Hungarian Variation"] >>> >>>1. Nf3 c5 2. e4 g6 3. Bc4 d6 4. O-O Bg7 5. Qe1? >> >>I call such moves picture painting. You evidently have seen something similar >>before and are copying it without understanding the idea. Optically it looks the >>same, but idea wise it is not. >> >>>Nc6 6. a3? Bg4 7. Qe3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3 >> >>White has made 2 redundant moves (Qe1 and Qe3) to accomplish this recapture with >>his most powerful piece. Not good. >> >>>e6 9. Ra2? >> >>An extravagance that takes a natural retreat square from the Bc4. >> >>>Nd4 10. Qd3 h6? 11. c3? Nc6 12. b4 cxb4 13. axb4 Nge7 14. Na3 O-O 15. h4 Ne5 16. >>>Qe3 Nxc4 >>>17. Nxc4 a6? 18. d4 Qd7? 19. b5? Qxb5 20. Nxd6 Qd7 21. e5 Nf5 22. Qf4 Nxd6 23. exd6 >>>Rfc8 >>>24. Bd2 a5? 25. h5 gxh5 26. Qg3 Kh8 27. Re1 a4? 28. Re5? Bxe5? >> >>28...Qxd6 wins. >> >>>29. Qxe5+ Kh7 30. Qf6 >>>Kg8 31. Bxh6 >>>Qxd6 32. Qg7# 1-0 >> >>You should annotate this game in detail (spend 2 hours at least) by yourself >>without the aid of a computer program, then go over your annotations with the >>help of Sjeng on a normal setting. > >It should not take two hours to figure this out !! other wise I concure with all >that you stated above. It sounds like this is something you need to do too. You're underestimating how long it takes to squeeze everything there is to learn from a game. It takes quite awhile to find your mistakes without the aid of a program. Add to this the time spent figuring out a strategy for avoiding repeating the errors in the future and you will find that the 2 hours fill up pretty quickly. Two hours is minimal IMO. Few people have the patience to do this properly, but it is a quite useful excercise to do if you want to become a good player. > >I've peppered the game score with "?", which >>you can ignore or use as hints if you wish. This will be more helpful to you >>than posting it on the internet and asking, "What do you think of my style of >>play?"
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