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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:

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

:cry:
Don't forget where the thread was located. Bon voyage.

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

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

12. e4xf5

12....e6xf5

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

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

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

13. Qd1-d2

13...Rf8-f7

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...? :)

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

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:

14. h2-h4

14...g5-g4

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

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.

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.

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. ;)

Clive,

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

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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)