Curtains vs PoG
 

Finally back after being lynched first in the first All-Star Game, Curtains is back to get revenge on the entire forum in the form of a chess match.

Ground Rules
1. After Curtains makes his move we will nominate possible moves. After it looks like no more moves are being nominated I will post the moves in a poll to run for a few hours.
2. No using computers
3. If you are an IM or GM, you are too good for this match.
4. Otherwises everyone is free to discuss the game as much as they want in the thread

PoG
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i4...Whitemove1.jpg
Curtains

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1...resigns

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I nominate Qe1

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1.c4

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sounds good. i suck [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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1...e5

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1. c4

PoG
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i4...blackmove1.jpg
Curtains

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What is that, the English? [censored].

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I always played 1...e6 transposing to the Queens Gambit Declined

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e5 obv

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e5

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chuck, can you flip the board?

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sure, any consensus on which is better?

Curtains
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i4...lackmove1a.jpg
PoG

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i dont know about everybody else, but since we are black, id rather it like this

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eh? just have it oriented to whoever's move it is

edit: if you're referring to the board design, i like the 2nd one

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I actually think this'll be intersting to watch.

god I need help

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d5? no?

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i likes e5 a lot better. i suck at gambit-esque positions

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<no actual strategic input>

if we go e5 we might get him in 4 moves.

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<no actual strategic input>

if we go e5 we might get him in 4 moves.

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if we were going for the fastest help mate possible we should go nc6

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if we were going for the fastest help mate possible we should go nc6


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Think he'll fall for it?

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...e6, go for the transpose.

Curtains, I used to see you and sis at the Adam's Mark at least once a year for many years. Continued good luck and all that. Oh, and I played levels below you even then.

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e5

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Curtains
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i4...lackmove1a.jpg
PoG

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I voted ...e5.

If ...e6 what could that transpose to? (I don't even think I own an MCO anymore [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img])

This will be fun and my first game in a few years.

And oh yeah... 1..resignes is a good one too. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I voted ...e5.

If ...e6 what could that transpose to? (I don't even think I own an MCO anymore [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img])

This will be fun and my first game in a few years.

And oh yeah... 1..resignes is a good one too. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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1...e6 2.d4 d5 is the queen's gambit declined

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1...e6 2.d4 d5 is the queen's gambit declined


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[img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] Would you believe I studied some of the QGD Tarrasch system I believe it was.

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Hey, what kind of bs opening move is c4? Why don't you just move one of the rook pawns ahead one?

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Hey, what kind of bs opening move is c4? Why don't you just move one of the rook pawns ahead one?

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I think it was first played by Howard Staunton, which is pretty good. You know those chess pieces are called Staunton for a reason. Botvinnik played it quite a bit.

Bobby Fisched played 1. e4 99% of the games he played. I imagine Boris Spassky was quite surprised to see it in 1972 in Iceland.

I am way better at chess history than I am at actual chess.

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In regards to whites first move, 1.c4 will/could turn into an opening where white had played 1.d4

Thats what all the 1...e6 talk was about.

Had white played one of his rook pawns first, black would still have its hands full. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Speaking of the rook, can we get white to drop one of his rooks? Just kidding. This game should be fun. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Amplify- intersting stuff, keep it coming.

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Scott votes 1 ... KT So

I vote 1 ... e5

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in response to the OP, are there any IMs or GMs who actually post on 2+2?? (aside from me ofc)

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in response to the OP, are there any IMs or GMs who actually post on 2+2?? (aside from me ofc)

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It seems to me that Roundtower is the highest rated among us.

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PoG play 1...e5

1. c4 e5

PoG
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i4...whitemove2.jpg
Curtains

It is now Curtains turn. I should mention I will PM Curtains after each turn to let him know its his turn.

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in response to the OP, are there any IMs or GMs who actually post on 2+2?? (aside from me ofc)

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Honestly I don't know. You never know with lurkers though.

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2. g3

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2. g3

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Hypermodern bastard.

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I don't know the book move. D5?

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1. c4 e5
2. g3

Curtains
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i4...blackmove2.jpg
PoG