Here’s a game against my fellow blogger, Blunderprone. Unfortunately for me, Blunderprone did not. (Blunder, that is.)
I did, however, by exchanging queens into a disadvantageous endgame.
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Hi Steve,
I was wondering about the availability of the piece graphics you are using for use in ChessFlash. Are they public domain? Yours? Do you know? Please drop me an email.
Thanks,
Glenn
26. … b5 is a very bad move… you need to fix the mobility of White king first and also fix white pawns on the same colored squares as his bishop. You had very good winning chances if you played 26. … e4!
He can try with f3, but then you can take on f3 and his pawn structure would be even more damaged. You should not protect your e4 pawn with f5, because he can take on e4 and win either your pawn on e4 or g7 after king maneuver to f2,g3,f4…
Steve, I need some help in ChessFlash customization, perhaps you can help me. You seem like a busy guy with a work at Matlab, but perhaps you can help me for my tiny website project. Hiring a guy who is not proficient with chessflash might lengthen development time, whereas you could do the customization fairly quickly.
You can reach my at my e-mail address. With regards,
Tamer—Thanks for your comments on the game. I’m afraid I don’t have any time for more side projects. I suggest that you contact Glenn Wilson, original creator of ChessFlash.
Hello, We played in the World Open. I currently live in Medford. If you would like to get together to work on the game feel free to drop me a line.
Hi Joshua. You might consider coming to the MetroWest Chess Club on Tuesday nights.
Thanks for posting this game Steve. I completely forgot this melee. This was about the time I was studying the Rubinstein variation in response to the Nimz-Indian ( through the eyes of Zurich 1953).
8.Bd2 isn’t accurate and I threw you out of book ( as well as myself at this point). I beleive the correct move is to either move the queen to c2 or b3 or simply put the question to the bishop. White’s compensation with a doubled c-pawn is the Queen’s bishop gets a nice active diagonal on either b2 or a3. I need to look at this more closely.
The exchange of pawns in the center actually gave me long term goals of an end game. Despite the doubled b-pawns, I knew with at least a Bishop v knight endgame ( typical with Nimzo-indian) I stood a better chance.That’s why the middle game went the way it did as I tried to play forceful moves geared for exchanging to the end game.
In hindsight… on move 17, better for white I think was to play 17 Qf5. I’m not entirely sure this is true but it does appear to put the right pressure on your e5, the knight on f6 and the vulnerable f7.
The queen exchange was planned because I knew that once I recaptured on f1 it brought my King closer to the queenside. The bishop versus knight with pawns on both sides does typically favor the side with a bishop but alone this cannot be a win. Couple it with a (slightly) better king position then the plan becomes:
1) get the king over to the queen side before the other guy does
2) exchange minor pieces
3) Win the Opposition
Move 38 was all about that… basic Silman’s Endgame course chapter on class D players.
Blunderprone—Thanks for sharing your thoughts about the game.
how do you make this chess game viewer, I would love to add this to our chess club’s site
John—I use Chess Flash.