CHESS 2008: Skybird vs. Clive Bradbury

[Skybird]

[shake hands]

Here we go. The rules have been outlined in the chess announcement thread. Again, I use software to log and to keep record of the moves, and to produce diagrams. I do not use any assistance by the calculating engines. Books on theory are allowed. If you use chessbase database, I have no objections.


My move: 1. c2-c4

[clive bradbury]

1. f5

Same here, Sky bird. I'll use Chessmaster 9000 to record the games - no electronic assistance, though - what would be the point? Chess is a challenge between two humans - in my opinion, other than for research, computers have no place in the game.

[Skybird]

your move 1.../f7-f5
my move 2. d2-d4

Never played the Chessmaster engines. Are they good?

Edit:

Ah.

http://ssdf.bosjo.net/rlwww072.txt

How is it balanced, then?

[clive bradbury]

2. e6. I'll revert to long algebraic if you prefer.

Chessmaster engine - too good for me.

[Skybird]

2. e6. I'll revert to long algebraic if you prefer.


As I said in the other thread, it is more about preventing mishaps and misunderstanding, not preferences.

your move 2.../e7-e6
my move 3. g2-g3

Do you play chess in any organised form? Correspondence chess? Tournament? League...? :-?

Just asking, since you have an advantage over me, for you can read my old matches from back then, but poor freigthened Skybird has no idea whom he needs to deal with, and that makes him a little bit nervous! :D

[clive bradbury]

3. g2-g3

3. ....Ng8-f6

I played league chess for many years, but not for the last 4 years or so. The chess I play now is pretty much limited to blitz on the web - sitting over the board for four hours seems like too much hard work nowadays!

[Skybird]

3. g2-g3

3. ....Ng8-f6

I played league chess for many years, but not for the last 4 years or so.

Oh-oh - then I'm warned, with that niveau I cannot compete. But I will try my best to delay your rush towards victory as long as possible. :ping: I played tournament chess and in chess clubs roughly 20 years ago, and played correspondence chess in the German league back then, too. But I took a break from chess for too long then (10 years), and never got back to it in full strength. that's why I prefer correspondence chess nowadays. the setting helps to compensate for what I lost in routine and knowledge.


yours 3.../Ng8-f6
mine 4. Bf1-g2

[clive bradbury]

4. Bf1-g2

4....Bf8-e7

I wouldn't be so concerned, Skybird, the only thin gI 've really learned about chess over the years is that I'm capable of losing to anyone...

[Skybird]

yours 4..../Bf8-e7
mine 5. Ng1-f3

Now this, gentlemen, promises to turn out to be as classical a Dutch defense as it can be.

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/5294/pos4yw2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[clive bradbury]

5. Ng1-f3

5.....O-O

That's me...classical...

[Skybird]

yours 5... O-O
mine 6. O-O

[clive bradbury]

6. O-O

6....d7-d6

[Skybird]

yours 6.../d7-d6
mine 7. Nb1-c3

[clive bradbury]

7. Nb1-c3

7....Qd8-e8

[Skybird]

yours 7...Qd8-e8
mine 8. b2-b3

[clive bradbury]

8. b2-b3

8....a7-a5

[Skybird]

yours 8 .../a7-a5
mine 9. Bc1-b2

[clive bradbury]

9. Bc1-b2

9....Nb8-a6

[Skybird]

yours 9.../Nb8-a6
mine 10. Rf1-e1

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/5649/pos6le6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[clive bradbury]

10. Rf-e1

10....h7-h6

[Skybird]

we now seem to plot course into uncharted regions of the world... at least unknown for me...:-?

yours 10.../h7-h6
mine 11. e2-e4

Wer nicht wagt, der nicht gewinnt.:hmm:

[clive bradbury]

I'm out of the book, too.

11. e2-e4

11....g7-g5

I am holiday until Saturday, now, Skybird, so you might not get any more moves until next Monday.

[Skybird]

I'm out of the book, too.

11. e2-e4

11....g7-g5

I am holiday until Saturday, now, Skybird, so you might not get any more moves until next Monday.
:cry:
Don't forget where the thread was located. Bon voyage.

[Skybird]

yours 11.../g7-g5
mine 12. e4xf5

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3076/pos7pf9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[clive bradbury]

12. e4xf5

12....e6xf5

[Skybird]

Didn't you say you were on vacation until weekend...?

[Skybird]

yours 12.../e6xf5
mine 13. Qd1-d2

[clive bradbury]

Yes, last move for tonight - see you after the weekend.

13. Qd1-d2

13...Rf8-f7

[Skybird]

the position sits nicley set up on a board and on my table, and occasionally I have another glance at it. Several directions to go from here. several moves I have the pain to chose from.

Is setting up a poll about the next move considered to be violating the rules...? :)

[Skybird]

yours 13.../Rf8-f7
mine 14. h2-h4

I have analysed a ridiculous amount of variations here. After pages written and becoming dizzy, I knew it was time to stop :D d5 and Re2 also on my mind. What would you have played?

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3938/pos9ag9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[UnderseaLcpl]

This is a good match. It looks like a dam thats about to break.
I wonder if sky's last move was the first crack.:hmm:

[clive bradbury]

14. h2-h4

14...g5-g4

Don't see much other choice for me here - everything else is too risky.

[Skybird]

yours 14.g5-g4

mine 15. Nf3-h2 (obviously)

Thought about Ng5, but shied away from the analysis of that. Let'S play it save. I see myself as having an advantage here, but it is too early to say I'm already through.

Hope you had good holidays.

[clive bradbury]

15. Nf3-h2

15....Qe8-f8

Sorry, I always seem to be missing lately - I am working away from tomorrow onwards until friday, so this might be may last move for a while - unless I squeeze a couple more in later this evening.

[Skybird]

it's okay, we do not need to rush the match in just seven days. i take as much time as I need, too - and I really do not wish to sit over the analysis board all day long. ;)

[Skybird]

Clive,

I just wanted to make sure you noticed my reference to our second match in the other thread (The Fall of Europe).

BTW, I always thought that you abandoned the second chess match of ours, and right now I wanted to pull your leg by asking for your next move. But now I checked back the old thread, and to my surprise I see that it is me whose last move is missing. However, in my old protocol, I have entered one. Has the forum software made my reply to you disappearing, maybe during a lag when sending it (lags haunt me on this forum quite frequently, and more than just a few postings went lost that way)? Want to continue? :)

However, I apologize, since the fault seems to have been on my side, I just found out. I had no intention to abandon the match in silence and just leave you behind. Somehow the story just - disappeared from my mind.


If you do not wish to play on after half a year, then that is understandable. Since it has been my fault, obviously, we of course score this match then as 1 point for you and 0 points for me, giving our double match a final score of 1:1, in conformity with international rules for correspondence chess if one side exceeds preset (or in our case: reasonable) time limits.

I just don't know how this could have happened to me. Altzheimer, maybe. :88)