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Not that many folks here play chess, but I don’t mind paying a game now and then to defend my title.

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Maybe we will get more chess player in the future, and you never know when Skipper might return and attempt to reclaim the title. 😉

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darth_ender said:

Feedback for Warbler:

So here is the promised feedback. Sorry it took so long. First, while I neglected to take advantage of a pawn fork on turn 6, I traded bishops with you, thus making you move your pawn away from the king’s side. Since you castled on that side, it proved to be a huge weakness for you, which I took advantage of down the road. From a strategic standpoint, you generally want to keep your three pawns on kingside on their starting squares, or perhaps move them one square forward. You performed a fianchetto, which on its own can be a sound strategy, but with your pawn out of place, this presented a huge vulnerability that I knew I could exploit once you had castled.

I was trying to create protection for my king. I wanted to castle and have my king’s bishop on g2 and the g pawn on g3 and keep the other two kingside pawns in their original position.

On turn 10, I knew I had limited my own options, first by missing the pawn fork, and next by having my remaining bishop blocked in pretty well by my own pieces. But I saw an opportunity. Your most advanced pawn was defended by only one other pawn. If I could remove that pawn, I’d have a shot at gaining a pawn advantage and removing your portion of control of the center, generally the most important part of the field to control. I moved my queen to where she could attack your pawn on a subsequent move on c7 (generally it is frowned upon to bring your queen out too early, but if I blitzed your weak flank, I thought I could secure an early checkmate). When you moved your bishop to h3, this was a huge mistake, as now your king’s file is completely exposed, your bishop is undefended and on the same diagonal as my remaining bishop.

Yeah, that was a dumb decision. I saw that my Knight on d4 was threatening your pawn on e6. I thought by moving my bishop to also threaten that pawn and then moving my pawn on f4 to f5, that maybe the following would occur

fxe6 fxe6
Bxe6 Bxe6
Nxe6

and I would be threatening your rook on f8 and maybe even fork that rook and your queen and get something going. It didn’t work out.

I realized I could do even more damage. I traded knights. You captured with your pawn, which allowed me to put my queen in an offensive position, gain the other pawn on f4, and begin moving in on your weak kingside.

You lamented that you should have captured my knight with your queen instead of the pawn. However, you would have suffered worse if you did. My move would have then been:
… e5 (threatening your queen)
fxef Bxh3 (winning your bishop)

You could have followed up with:
exf6 Bxf1 (capturing your rook and gaining a bigger material advantage)

And you could either take my bishop or capture the pawn on g7, which would drastically weaken my position, but my material advantage would probably be insurmountable. So in reality, taking the f4 pawn with your pawn was to your advantage.

I lamented not taking your knight with my queen, because such a movie would have prevent queen from capturing my pawn on f4. I now see it was short-sighted lament. But nonetheless, allowing your queen to take the f4 square could easily cause me big troubles.

I did try to get your undefended bishop by then advancing my pawn to e5, either forcing a trade and giving me greater offensive potential on your weak flank, or if you didn’t pay attention, giving me a free bishop and even more advantage on that side. However, you attacked my queen with your knight, and an interplay between us continued.

Ultimately, through a series of moves, I was able to capture that bishop. I tried to overwhelm you with multiple threats that you would not be able to counter them all. You had successfully prevented it for a time, as you had made counterattacks that would have resulted in an equal exchange of material if I did not defend my own pieces, but eventually I had your queen on d3, knight on e2, and bishop on h3 under attack. You had to move your queen, yet try to keep her defending your bishop and knight, but she was overworked and could not defend them all, and your bishop fell.

Now your rook was under attack. Though it would have hemmed your king into a largely immobile spot, it would have been better to defend vulnerable avenues of attack by moving your rook to g1. But unfortunately, you moved it to e1 where it was much less useful,

Yeah that was a mistake, it is just that I have forgotten the number of mates made against me due to the fact the my king’s moves were restricted my own pieces. I was foreseeing that happening in our game.

and so I pressed the attack and moved my knight in closer, still hoping to secure a quicker mate, I had several pieces positioned to overwhelm your position, but it wasn’t enough. I had to call forth a rook to break through.

This was where you made your final mistakes. You advanced your queenside pawns, hoping your defenses were secure enough. You most certainly were not yet safe, as I had a substantial advantage near your king.

I must confess that by the time I was moving my queenside pawns, I was playing uninspired chess. I was effected and distracted by things in real life. Also I thinking that the game was basically over. At the time, I wasn’t seeing anyway to throw back your attack on my king. I could see mate coming, didn’t know exactly how it would come, but I felt it was only matter of time before you’d nail me. At the time I didn’t see anything I could do on the king side. I thought maybe I could get something going on the other side of the board, maybe eventually threaten the pawns on a7 and b7 and maybe eventually threaten to queen. I just wasn’t seeing any good moves on the king’s side of the board. I wasn’t concentrating my best and wasn’t giving my best efforts.

You could not possibly hope to hold off all my pieces. I decided to threaten your rook by attacking with my knight on e3. I knew it was undefended and hoped you would actually capture it. You did. I was able to subsequently force a series of moves where I kept your queen neutralized behind my bishop with no good position to come to her majesty’s defense. I now had a rook, bishop, and queen against a very defenseless king, and while I could not dictate the exact sequences of moves, I saw several paths to unpreventable checkmate. Your best bet was:

  1. Ng3

Ng3 would have been impossible on that move, as my king was in check.

But from there I would have played:

  1. … Rxg3
  2. axg3 Qh1+
  3. Kf2 Qg2 mate

axg3? there was no piece on the a-file that could capture on g3. I think maybe you meant 25. Qxg3. Also, Qh1+ would have been impossible, due to my pawn on h2. Maybe you meant Qxh2? But I am not sure.

So, I am not really sure what you intended the set of moves to be here. Could you look at this again please?

You took the bait to capture my knight, and your queen was useless for the rest of the game.

That was my thinking. I think you still did well and played better than in past games. Remember to keep your king safer. You left him exposed from early on, and did not call forth enough material to his defense when the situation became more deadly. Even moving your rook to g1 at any point after I attacked it with my bishop would have delayed checkmate. And moving your queen away was the nail in the coffin. Don’t always grab an easy piece.

Thanks for playing me, Warbler. I hope we can play again sometime. 😃

Thanks for your advice, I also hope we can play again.

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Warbler said:

darth_ender said:

I’m going to take a break and focus on real life. I hope to watch others play, though.

Ok, but if you take too long a break, I might have to declare you OT.com championship title vacant. If you wish to keep the title, you have to defend it once and awhile.

I found the thread oojason was referring to, buy it’s been more than a couple of years:

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Announcing-OTCom-Online-Chess-Tournament/id/5139/page/1

ah, the good old days.

Nice find by darth_ender - just read through that tournament thread (11 years ago, eeek!) - quality times indeed mate 😃

I have to say if I knew d_e vs me were playing for the ‘ot.com Chess Master’ title I’d have taken it more seriously… and played right-handed 😉

 

Warbler - if you’re free in a few weeks or so, would you like to play a game vs me again? (no worries if not, or busy etc)

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Sure, let know when you wish to start.

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Warbler said:

Sure, let know when you wish to start.

Nice one - it’ll likely be a couple of weeks mate (I need to recover from trying to use my brain again vs d_e first! 😃)

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A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

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The following has be observed:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

As for chess, I was an expert-level tournament player for many years,

As creator of this thread and therefore arbiter of the official ot.com chess championship, I feel it is my duty to set up a game between our champion (Darth Ender) and Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda. Puggo says he was an expert-level tournament player for many years. This is reason enough for Darth Ender to have to defend his title against Puggo.

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I have contacted Darth Ender and Puggo.

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I’m busier than ever, but I am willing to give it a shot. I’ve played rather poorly lately in those rare occasions where I’ve taken a moment, and if he’s played expert-level, then I’m certain to fail! But hey, I’ll give it a shot!

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I am willing to wait a bit until you are not so busy if you want. But not too long.

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You’d probably wait at least two more years if I put it off.

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darth_ender said:

You’d probably wait at least two more years if I put it off.

No, I wouldn’t wait that long.

Still waiting to hear from Puggo.

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I’ve decided to organize and hereby forthwith do declare the founding of:

The OT.com Chess Federation©®™(OTCF©®™)

I declare myself its first commissioner and of course recognize Darth Ender as OT.com chess champion.

The game between Darth Ender and Puggo shall go on as before.

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Warbler said:

I’ve decided to organize and hereby forthwith do declare the founding of:

The OT.com Chess Federation©®™(OTCF©®™)

I declare myself its first commissioner and of course recognize Darth Ender as OT.com chess champion.

The game between Darth Ender and Puggo shall go on as before.

The OP might have something to say about all this.

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If he wants to, but he never gave a definitive date to resume playing.

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darth_ender said:

If he wants to, but he never gave a definitive date to resume playing.

Your mom gave everyone a definitive date.

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I play board games, but generally not chess. The main problems I have with with chess are how long it can take to play a round, and that there’s no theme. I like theme. Plus, I’m better at tactics than abstract strategy.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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chyron8472 said:

I play board games, but generally not chess. The main problems I have with with chess are how long it can take to play a round, and that there’s no theme. I like theme. Plus, I’m better at tactics than abstract strategy.

cool.

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I understand the desire for a theme, but chess is actually very heavy on both tactics and strategy.