i kept up with most of the game, but the mix of systems made the game difficult to follow for a newbie like myself. especially when they changed systems toward the latter half of the game.

Im more than willing to play someone if you will start a thread and kick things off.

BTW, Porphy, Golden Rivet is looking for a match, he says. ;)

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Using three different notation systems in one match certainly is no good idea. Under FIDE rules for tournaments, since two years or so disqualification would be the likely outcome.

Ask Porphy, maybe? Or Lance, Fatty. Forgive that I will not play. Best is to start the challenge as sign you look for an opponent yourself - by launching a thread. ;)

Hi

Thanks for the diagram Sky.
Golden rivet, I would gladly play a game, but I will be quite busy the upcoming two weeks with job and preparing for a longer vacation trip. I fear the game would suffer from my irregular subsim on-time. I will be back for more chess late November. :)

cheers porphy

Hi

Looked through the game. Certainly its theme is "trap the pieces" :). First the knight, then the queen getting stuck that early in the game is a bit uncommon.
I didn't get the idea behind moving the black c-pawn three times in a row to certain death though. :hmm:

Black could perhaps tried 8..., b6
as white certainly will be tempted to 9. Bg2 (or even after gxh5), black plays Bc5 and gets at least some interesting complications in return both on white moving the queen to Qd1 or Qd3.

cheers Porphy

8...c5 was not a bad move, but why then c4 and c3 followed, I have no idea. However, the White options on Black'S kingside are a lethal threat, since white has the pair of bishops that could open fire on the diagonals towards the king's side any time, plus Rook on golf-line and pawns in advanced, hindering positions. Maybe f5 or g6 were in order, to clutter the upcoming attack (but at the cost of cluttering Black's king's side).

White's ideas certainly inluded Bc4 and Qf3 as a basic motive, or Rg1 and then getting something launched. However, I doubt that Black would have survived any attack. his position is already hurt, and the lack of activity of his figures allowed White to ignore structural integrity of his own position and focus on all-out attack instead.

To Letum'S defense it shall be marked that he said in the other thread that he has been out of practice since years. I was away from chess for over ten years myself and know how difficult it was to get back. I do not consider myself a good player, since at the table and playing live sees me making many errors, too. But I am a damn good analyst, and thus correspondence chess - or the kind of chess we played here - is my thing. Computer assistance for keeping record of variations allows me to analyse with many boards simultaneously. that opens options for me of which I would not have dreamed when playing traditional correspondence chess 20 years ago, with one wooden board, and a small album of pages with pocket chess boards to keep track of the actual matche'S positions, since it always were many matches simultaneously.

I play my chess engines the same way - over several days. Else I get slaughtered. In normal, dense positions without enforced variations to calculate 16 moves in advance is a little bit too much for me. :D