That’s how many of his I have recently studied. I love Keres games! He rocks! I would recommend to any student to study Keres’ games. Why? Because he cuts through the crap of a position, to show where the weakness lies. With Kasparov’s games, no one knows WTF is going on except for the relevant [...]
Archive for February, 2012
58 Keres Games
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Thursday’s Final Round
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Again, I play an opponent whom I’ve never played before. Round 4
Wednesdays Round 4, Feb 2012
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I played Daniel’s mom for the first time in this round. Round 4 One of the coolest lines not played was this one: 11..b4, 12.axb cxb, 13.Bb5+ Bd7, 14.d5xe6 Bxb5, 15.NxBb5 axN, 16.exd6 Nc6, 17.d7+ Ke7, 18.Bxc5+ Kxe6, 19.Re1+, etc. I had seen up to move 14, but wasn’t sure after that because G/90 is [...]
One of Keres’ best games
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Keres-Tolush, Moscow 1957 The losing move is 13…Bxg5. The real beauty of this game is in the sidelines. Here is the best example, White is winning after 13..Qc5, 14.Nd5! exN, 15.Nf5, and if ..Nxe5 the e-file gets opened up against the Black king. I figured out the end, if 29..Qe2, then 30.Qb4+ will mate (30..Ke7, [...]
Reality Check
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Round 3 I played DuWayne for the second time, once again as Black. The innocent looking 16..fxNe6 is a strategically losing move, even though Fruit gives it your ho-hum +.4 or so at first. The reason is due to 19.e5, which I saw as soon as he had played 18.Qc3 (I would have played this [...]
Wednesdays Round 3, Feb 2012
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Didn’t do much with this game, lived off of the ratings differential instead: Round 3 After 15.Qd4, I could have played 15..Be6 since his queen is at d4, not his knight, so I could play to wrong-foot his queen, considered it, but went for riskless play against his rating. I’d like to say that we [...]
A game on FICS
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
FICS Game Hadn’t played on FICS in a month. Sure enough, it’s one more example of who can condense their slow game the best into a blitz game. I had < 30 seconds when 53..Nxa is an obvious win. He had less time than me, but to be thinking of checkmate with no increment, and [...]
A Short-Lived Haitus
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Well, it’s true that I’ve dropped out of the Wednesday tournament, but I am not such a great quitter, and I really see the need more, should I desire to play club chess for however much longer it lasts, to play a stronger group of players. It’s really uninspiring to look around and see a [...]
My final club game
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2012 | 12 Comments »
..for a while. I am going to give up playing club games G/90, at least until summer and not until I get a better job as well. I’ll let the kids blitz their hearts out. Round 1 I had plenty of time in this game, I lost on time but it wasn’t really a time [...]
