Your last: 30.../ Qa6xa3
My move: 31. h3-h4

Your move: 31. h3-h4
My move: 31.../c5-c4 (sorry for being a tag :smug: )

I think the Force is with me...

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/6707/pos61ft.jpg


If you - then me:

32. Rf1-d1 - Rf8-d8

32. Qf3-e2 - Rc3xd3
32. Qf3-f2 - Rc3xd3
32. Qf3-g3 - Rc3xd3
32. Qf3-f6 - Rc3xd3
32. h4-h5 - Rc3xd3
32. Rf1-b1 - Rc3xd3
32. Rd2-d1 - Rc3xd3

Your last: 31.../c5-c4
My move 32. h4-h5
Your move: 32... Rc3xd3
My move: resigns

That was another enjoyble one Skybird. This ending is hopeless though for white and unavoidable at this point.

Aaaah... yes, it has been a hopeless case for White since a while now. Nevertheless my compliments, you play definetly not on a starter's level :yep: I enjoyed this match, too, not because of the result, but because of the complexity that we were able to create.

I will breed about some analysis this night, and post all thoughts and variations I have noted, will check them with computer assistance, too, and then post it. Maybe better a downloadable file, for easier reading, and easier formatting.

"Shake hands".

Skybird you should consider creating an account on FICS. There are regular 90/30 (STC, Slow Time Control) , 60/15 (OCL, or Online Chess League), and 45/45 (45/45 League) tournaments where you play one game per week at the respective time control for 6-7 weeks, and you might enjoy them. The nice thing about them is the pairings for each round are posted several days in advance so you have time to prepare for each opponent (this was what my "learning a new opening" comment was about earlier in this thread, as at that time I was studying an opening in preparation for a 45/45 League game I had scheduled).

There are some other upshots as well. In the two online chess leagues I mentioned, for instance, you play as part of a team with 4-6 other players which can be very enjoyable in itself.

This is all my notes, thoughts, calöculated variations, and some analysis I did after the match by using hiarcs 10 and Fritz 8. Five pages. The complex variations inlcuded are a bit tricky to scan, although I tried to give them a structure that makes it easier to perceive what belongs to gether.

http://people.freenet.de/Skybird/Chess2.doc

Scandium, I have played correspondence chess many years ago, haven't I told that before? Thought I did so, but maybe I just planned to do so. I played correspondence chess in the late 80s, in the regular German league. Back then they had a four-league-system, 2nd and 1st class, major class, and master class. You had to qualify for the next higher class by playing in the lower class first, and win (or make a 2nd place). I played four tournaments in all four leagues and won all four, then I lost interest, and went to university, and didn't play chess for over ten years. The latter is the reason why I have left so much palying strength when sitting at a life board in a regular 1 on 1 match. Do not think that I play like in our match when we would sit together at the same table! But a match like we did, where I can move the figures on two boards, and analyze as long as I want, and make notes - well, that is something different. :) I use to play aginst my chess propgrams that way - and I can beat them that way, even on tournament level. But when obeying to regular table tournament-rules when playing against them, they wipe the floor with me.

I have an account for Schach.de, the biggest German chess server, it comes automatically with chess programs by Chessbase whenever you buy one. But I never use it. I also have no interest in club activities (I never was a "club animal"), and also not in doing correspondence chess again like back then. My idea was limited to this forum, because some peopole know each other since years now, and I imagined it could be funny if two peopole play and the others monitor the match and start peppering the action with some biting comments and ironic analysis :lol: maybe Takeda or the other players that originally started with us want to play on. Beyond that, my interest is limited. I have chess computers and some really nasty engines enough and must not necessarily play online...

Do you play at FICS? Maybe some time later this year we two play again, but let's first take care of the other guys that started along with us. I realized that you moved more slowly and played a lot stronger in the second match. What was wrong in the first one?

Our earlier game was the first time in a year that I had played a game or even looked at a chess set, so I was quite a lot rustier then. Since that game started I've been playing again regularly, online, and am no longer rusty at it. I've been playing on FICS since '95, with this same user name.