CHESS ON ICC

[curtains]

Who here has ICC? Been playing a lot lately, I figure I could start some therad and use it to rant when I lose some stupid game or brag when I play like a big genius.

Basically when I play chess online I like to take the games real seriously, study the openings figure out some psychological weaknesses. So I could just post some funny positions in here or something. Is it easy to post positions on 2+2?

[pudley4]

Not me, but I'd love to see you annotate some of your better games.

[curtains]

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Not me, but I'd love to see you annotate some of your better games.

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How about I annotate one of my wins against St. Olaf [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[curtains]

but ok a good example is a game I had earlier today. I was playing some guy like 300 points lower than me and was up a pawn in a quiet position with like a minute up on the clock. I now decided I could read OOT while playing, and somehow the guy wasn't falling apart like he was supposed to. Eventually I just gave away a pawn for free and got real pissed. Then we got this position where he ahd like 30 seconds and I had under 15, and he was better. He repeated moves a few times and I could have just taken a draw, but for some sick reason I decided not to. This is a common error in judgement I've exhibited many times, being unable to submit to a draw when I really really feel like I shuold have won earlier in the game. Of course I lost very quickly.


Does anyone know an easy way to post a position?

[Hornacek]

wow. OOT, ruining chess games one at a time.

[pudley4]

If you look at one of the threads about recent chess games, a couple of people have links to sites that let you set up board positions. You can then use a site like photobucket.com or imageshack.com to host the pictures and post them here.

[pudley4]

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Not me, but I'd love to see you annotate some of your better games.

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How about I annotate one of my wins against St. Olaf [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I'll see you in the semifinals

[curtains]

Ok....I'll log some games. So I play the 5 minute system on ICC, which means you type in the number 5, and it randomly pairs you with someone similar to your rating, whom is also in the pool. My rating right now is like 2420. The highest rated guys are about 2700. Don't confuse this rating system with the "blitz" rating system, in which ratings are much higher. These ratings are often close to real life ratings.

Also the openings I play:

With white I play the English every game, and generally try to avoid any sharp theory and simply play chess.

With black I'm learning completely new openings in the French Defense and the Slav (a rarer branch with 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.nf3 nf6 4.nc3 a6). My whole life I played stuff like the Dragon Sicilian, Grunfeld, Nimzo Indian, and I just decided to switch to something very solid.

My style of play is pretty practical, in that I don't do anything crazy most of the time, and just try to grind down my opponents. This is in stark contrast to my style when I was younger and more active, in which I was known for being a tactical type of player. I think my experience with poker has made me into a more practical player.

Anyway, my first game was against some 2270 guy named Ratcatcher. I had white, he defended with the Hedgehog. The Hedgehog is my nightmare opening, as I tried to study how to play it for white and after endless amounts of time, I finally decided I liked nothing, and would just play some random moves and try to get some kind of playable normal position that suits my style.

This game I got a reasonable position and after looking it over I see that I missed a chance to win a pawn, although it's very difficult to see while playing...




At this point I could play 18.Bxe5 and if 18...Nd3 19. Bc7! Qd5+ 20.Nf3 and black cannot capture on c1 because the knight is pinned. Of course during the game I didn't even see that I could capture on e5 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]


In any case I played the stupid Nc4 in which my opponent responded by sticking a knight on d3, put his pawn on e4....had this nightmare piece on d3 torturing me the whole game. Eventually he broke through and won the exchange, and then a piece, thus was up a whole rook. Then of course his flag fell and he insulted me after the game. I basically told him if he wants to beat me he should challenge me to 6 minute chess next time.


Here is the entire game:

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2006.08.15"]
[Round "-"]
[White "curtains"]
[Black "Ratcatcher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black forfeits on time"]
[WhiteElo "2422"]
[BlackElo "2270"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[ECO "A16"]
[NIC "EO.64"]
[Time "16:12:18"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 c5 3. Nf3 e6 4. g3 b6 5. Bg2 Bb7 6. O-O a6 7. b3 Be7 8. Bb2
O-O 9. e3 d5 10. cxd5 Nxd5 11. d4 Nd7 12. Rc1 Nxc3 13. Bxc3 Be4 14. Nd2 Bxg2
15. Kxg2 cxd4 16. Bxd4 e5 17. Bb2 Nc5 18. Nc4 Nd3 19. Rc2 e4 20. Bd4 Bc5 21.
Bxc5 bxc5 22. Nb2 Qd5 23. Na4 Rad8 24. Qa1 Qf5 25. Kg1 Rd6 26. Qc3 Rh6 27.
Nxc5 Ne5 28. f4 exf3 29. e4 Qg5 30. b4 a5 31. bxa5 Ng4 32. Qxf3 Nxh2 33. Qf4
Qh5 34. Qf5 Nxf1 35. Qxh5 Rxh5 36. Kxf1 Rc8 37. a6 Rhxc5 38. Re2 R5c7 39.
Kf2 Ra8 40. e5 Rxa6 41. Rb2 g6 42. Kf3 Kg7 43. Kf4 Ra4+ 44. Kf3 Ra5 45. Kf4
Re7 46. Re2 Ra4+ 47. Kf3 Ra5 48. Kf4 Ra4+ 49. Kf3 Ra3+ 50. Kg2 Ra4 51. Kh2
Rd4 52. e6 Rd5 53. Rf2 {Black forfeits on time} 1-0

[curtains]

Ok this is good, forces me to study and think about my games! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[smilingbill]

i'm 2350ish in 5-min, gonna getcha when i bother playing there again [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]