Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:31:54 11/07/05
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On November 08, 2005 at 00:55:11, Dagh Nielsen wrote: >You can also play chess at a slow pace (= correspondence chess) at >chessfriend.com, for a small amount of money a month or something. There are >lots of players of all strengths there. I know nothing about that server but you can play in http://gameknot.com/ without paying unless you want to play many games at the same time. I play there with the name edcba In the first game I played 1.c3 and won Most of the players there are usually not strong players and the proof is that I won easily my first 4 games there and I am going to win my 5th game. I knew that my opponents are weak based on other games so I did not use a lot of time against them and I probably could play better but I played well enough to win. My last opponent that still did not finish my game with him(superman123 that is better than most of the players in that site) does not know basic principles like not to develop the queen in the opening. It seems that it help him to beat players fast because some players in that site even fall for the simple trap of 1.e4 Bc4 Qf3 Qxf7# I think that the level of the average player in that site in 3 days per move is even weaker than the level of most israeli players in the time that they play their first game in tournaments on the board(usually israeli players do not dare to play in tournaments in the time that they are beginners but for some reason new players at that site has no problem with that idea). Note that the rating system there does not encourage me to play more games when I did not play at least 20 games because if I play against a player that is more than 400 elo weaker than me I lose rating. My rating is still 1200 because I did not complete at least 5 games and with that rating it is not going to be easy for me to find strong opponents. Note that I decided not to use database in my first games inspite of my right to do it. Here are the games that I finished there. I did not play very well and at some point panchitaroyal even could win a piece against me(I played first move that I never play in tournaments but the problem was not the first move) but I knew that at this level it is not decisive even if she finds it so I did not spend a lot of time on my moves. At move 9 I thought wrongly that I lose a piece against correct play I did not see nothing against Be7 and missed the simple idea dxe5 Be7 Bf4 with g3 later(based on analysis after the game fruit believes that Bf4 is not the best move but I considered losing the piece as probably getting lost position, inspite of being optimistic about winning in any case because of the weak opponent,because I know that usually piece is better than few pawns in the middle game). I decided at that point to play h3 inspite of seeing that I lose a piece by f4 with the assumption that the opponent is not going to see a combination of 5 plies f4 exf4 exf4 Bxf4 Qxh4 when seeing Be7 white move Bxh4 seemed to me more simple to see. Note that even after dxe5 black can win a piece by f4 exf4 Be7 but based on fruit it is not a good idea and white is better with few pawns and developement for a piece. [Event "Let's play chess"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=3942664"] [Date "2005.10.19"] [White "edcba"] [Black "panchitaroyal"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1200"] [BlackElo "1200"] [TimeControl "1/259200"] [Mode "ICS"] [Termination "normal"] 1. c3 d5 2. d4 Nc6 3. Nf3 f6 4. Bf4 g5 5. Bg3 g4 6. Nh4 e5 7. e3 Nh6 8. Be2 f5 9. h3 Rg8 10. dxe5 a6 11. hxg4 fxg4 12. Qc2 Qe7 13. Bd3 Nxe5 14. Bxe5 Qxe5 15. Bxh7 Qe6 16. Bxg8 Qxg8 17. Qg6+ Qf7 18. Nd2 Be6 19. O-O-O O-O-O 20. Qxf7 Bxf7 21. Nb3 c5 22. g3 b6 23. Ng2 c4 24. Nd4 Rd6 25. Nf4 Rf6 26. Nc2 a5 27. Rh2 b5 28. Nxd5 Rd6 29. Nf4 Rd7 30. Nd4 Rd6 31. Nxb5 Kd7 32. Nxd6 Bxd6 33. Rxh6 a4 34. Rhxd6+ Ke7 35. Rd6d7+ Kf8 36. Ra7 Kg7 37. Rdd7 Kf6 38. Rdxf7+ Ke5 39. Rae7+ Kd6 40. Re6+ Kc5 41. Rf5# 1-0 [Event "Let's play chess"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=3945916"] [Date "2005.10.21"] [White "edcba"] [Black "timbo12"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1200"] [BlackElo "1219"] [TimeControl "1/259200"] [Mode "ICS"] [Termination "normal"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Bg4 6. h3 Bh5 7. g4 Bg6 8. Nxe5 Qh4 9. Qf3 Bd6 10. d4 f6 11. Nc4 O-O-O 12. Nxd6+ cxd6 13. Nc3 h5 14. Kg2 hxg4 15. Qxg4+ Kc7 16. Qxh4 Rxh4 17. f3 Rf8 18. Be3 f5 19. Bf2 Rh5 20. h4 fxe4 21. fxe4 Rf4 22. Rae1 b5 23. Bg3 Rg4 24. Kh3 Nh6 25. Rf8 Kb6 26. b4 a5 27. a3 c5 28. dxc5+ Kc6 29. cxd6 axb4 30. axb4 Nf7 31. Kxg4 Ne5+ 32. Bxe5 Rxe5 33. Rd1 Bh5+ 34. Kf4 Re6 35. d7 Rd6 36. Rxd6+ Kxd6 37. d8=Q+ Kc6 38. Nd5 g6 39. Qc7# 1-0 [Event "Let's play chess"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=3960426"] [Date "2005.10.25"] [White "galaxy2"] [Black "edcba"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1298"] [BlackElo "1200"] [TimeControl "1/259200"] [Mode "ICS"] [Termination "normal"] 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Qf3 Nc6 4. c3 Be7 5. d3 d6 6. Bg5 Be6 7. Bxf6 Bxf6 8. Bxe6 fxe6 9. g3 O-O 10. h4 Qd7 11. Qg4 Rf7 12. Nd2 Raf8 13. f3 Ne7 14. Ne2 Nc8 15. O-O Qb5 16. b3 Qxd3 17. Rf2 Qxd2 18. Nd4 Qxc3 19. Nc2 Re8 20. f4 exf4 21. Qxf4 Ref8 22. Qe3 Qxe3 23. Nxe3 Bxa1 24. Rf1 Rf7xf1+ 25. Nxf1 Bd4+ 26. Kg2 Rf2+ 27. Kg1 Rxa2+ 28. Kh1 Rf2 29. Kg1 Rf3+ 30. Kg2 Rxb3 31. Kh3 Rb2 32. Nh2 Rxh2+ 33. Kxh2 a5 0-1 [Event "Let's play chess"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=3945882"] [Date "2005.10.20"] [White "edcba"] [Black "coloughl"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1200"] [BlackElo "1211"] [TimeControl "1/259200"] [Mode "ICS"] [Termination "normal"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nc6 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. Nxd5 Qd6 8. e4 g6 9. Nf3 Bg7 10. Bc4 Be6 11. O-O O-O-O 12. Rc1 Bxd5 13. Bxd5 Nb4 14. Bxf7 Bxd4 15. Nxd4 Qxd4 16. Qg4+ Rd7 17. Be6 Nd3 18. Bxd7+ Qxd7 19. Qxd7+ Kxd7 20. Rfd1 Ke6 21. Rxd3 b5 22. Rxc7 a5 23. Rd5 Rb8 24. f4 a4 25. Rdc5 Kd6 26. Rc5c6# 1-0 Uri
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