Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 Sorry. When playing online, I prefer this type of game. I hope it's not too bad. (And yes, I know I'm doing terrible at the moment! :p)
mcj metroid Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 Sorry. When playing online, I prefer this type of game. I hope it's not too bad. (And yes, I know I'm doing terrible at the moment! :p) haha I'm only messing with ya. Bit of a wake-up call lol If it takes all year we WILL finish this
Charlie Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 Cube, 20 minute game? PM me when you want to play or Skype: moria1231 MSN; [email protected]
jayseven Posted December 5, 2010 Author Posted December 5, 2010 Danny; 8 moves over 3 days is silly. You'll be holding up the whole tournament. You're supposed to play 3 games (or, I suppose, first to two wins). I've not played any with grunch yet but I'm sure when we play we'll get at least two games done in one session.
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 Dude, you do realise I'm not participating in the tournament for that very reason?
dwarf Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 @ MCJ - in almost every situation you have to be a complete n00b to be owning and still suffer a stalemate. Just keep the King in check whilst being able to check him next go, or making sure whatever you do leaves the guy some room.
jayseven Posted December 5, 2010 Author Posted December 5, 2010 My apologies Danny! I should really know who's in the tourney and who isn't, shouldn't I? D'oh.
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 (edited) My apologies Danny! I should really know who's in the tourney and who isn't, shouldn't I? D'oh. Haha, no worries! : peace: I have no problem with fast-paced games, really, but I'm not in the mood for committing to a tournament right now. Plus I suck, so ... Edited December 5, 2010 by Dannyboy-the-Dane
Jonnas Posted December 5, 2010 Posted December 5, 2010 Ok, it took some time to find Mundi, but we're ready to play, as soon as we're online at the same time. I thought I could leave a game challenge pending... Turns out I can't. We'll see what we can do.
Mundi Posted December 6, 2010 Posted December 6, 2010 Ok, it took some time to find Mundi, but we're ready to play, as soon as we're online at the same time. I thought I could leave a game challenge pending... Turns out I can't. We'll see what we can do. Well I just accepted your challenge and the game just started.
Jonnas Posted December 6, 2010 Posted December 6, 2010 Well I just accepted your challenge and the game just started. Woot! I've just seen it.
dwarf Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 (edited) I just got daily mailed by JayJay Aborigine Squander-bus. It was a kinda stale mate situation, and I said 'all I need to do is look out for the knight fork' and then maybe 2 moves later I blundered horrendously by giving JayJay a fork (and essentially a big spoon to lap it all up) and basically should've resigned immediatly. It wasn't worth offering a draw as I still had one 10% success chance move but never got to it. Argh. Edit: * A draw before the big forking. Edited December 7, 2010 by dwarf
jayseven Posted December 7, 2010 Author Posted December 7, 2010 It was a very close game! Dwarf surprised me with the first check, but what won for me was that I had castled, and he had not. my pieces were developed before his, so I just had to be patient with the game. Several times Dwarf surprised me and made me really have to think - I'm going to get the move list and go over this game later this week and see where I can improve. Definitely should play again!
dwarf Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 Had I castled after the Queen take I think it would've been a stale but I saw an opportunity. It failed, kind of. But yeah, good game! At the start I was just wondering why you weren't piling into my pawns, I think that would've raped me, as yours had a lot more defenders, and you had the opportunities take first. In actual fact, I think pressing forwards with Knight and Queen gave you more developing moves (like the castle) as I had no choice but to retreat the Queen, which was quite wasteful. Mutual respect we'll call it.
jayseven Posted December 7, 2010 Author Posted December 7, 2010 I didn't want to sacrifice my pawn structure for what would've been even material. It was my pawn structure and my fairly-safe king in the end that allowed me much more freedom with my playing pieces! You didn't really have to retreat immediately, you could've castled then let me initiate the exchange, which would've led to a different battle as at that point your bishop was the only one left and could've been quite crucial. As it was I think your bishop was neutered. But yeah, gonna play through it again and see how it could've been.
dwarf Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 Yeah, the Queen exchange at the time was postponed for a while (and eventually never happened) but I think what I was worried about at the time was you trapping my knight, without him being able to do any damage. Definitely was thinking of the castle but for some reason squandered the thought of doing so. Blah, it's all too confusing.
mcj metroid Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 Still undefeated girls Let me know if you wanna game
jayseven Posted December 7, 2010 Author Posted December 7, 2010 MCJ; I'm going to get some lessons from my dad and perhaps read a theory book or two before I dare challenge you again :P Have you ever studied the game or are you just naturally daunting?
mcj metroid Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 MCJ; I'm going to get some lessons from my dad and perhaps read a theory book or two before I dare challenge you again :P Have you ever studied the game or are you just naturally daunting? My dad taught me the game but I don't play it all that often. The only thing I know for sure is the proper opening but that's about it.Been playing against other guys on the app and I'm about average really.
jayseven Posted December 7, 2010 Author Posted December 7, 2010 I don't know any opening lines. That's my ground to work on!
MoogleViper Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 I don't know any opening lines. "Your feet must be tired because you've been running through my mind all day."
ReZourceman Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 my pieces were developed before his Well to be fair, you are quite a few years older than him....
Jonnas Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 Man, it's awesome, having good players to play with. Me and Mundi just had a great game, with an instance of a check-mate on a queen, no less. [ATTACH]3421[/ATTACH]
Mundi Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 Looks surreal seeing it from the other side. I like how the game started calm and relatively bloodless and then went into a bloody massacre that ended with both of us having 4-5 units left at the end of game.
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