Chessmatch VI: Takeda vs. Skybird
 

Anyone throwing his glove into the ring? The rules are known by now, I assume.

I shall play. I even promise to play carefully. No recklessness. No crazy openings. No television after nine, etc.

White or black?

Doesn't matter. We probably do match & rematch anyway, don't we?

Rules are known: books, databases, user interfaces for chess software (like the one that I use to log my moves and create the diagrams), are allowed. Active chess engines and board computers are not. The looser must perform a bungee jump, while the winner is allowed to kick him down that tower :)

BTW, yesterday I listend to a new CD I bought, with some orchestral works by Franz Schreker, and immediately thought about you. I wonder why. Have we ever talked about this guy, and I simply forgot it?

"Shake hands."

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"Returning the shake of hands."

Looks like I am playing white. I do, however, look forward to the bungee jump. You are trained in a superior European system, and I do not anticipate defeating you. I shall give my best, none-the-less.

1. Ng1-f3


I do not believe that we have ever discussed Franz Schrecker. Still I have always been partial to his pantomime, Der Geburtstag der Infantin, and the opera Der ferne Klang.

Did not have a clue that bungee jumping is a European invention. Don't do bungee jumping myself anyway.

Your move: 1. Ng1-f3
My move: 1.../ Ng8-f6

So you know "Der ferne Klang". I have heared it the first time some weeks ago, a recording from the Salzburger Festspiele last year - one of the last concerts my father was playing in before he retired end of 2005. The stage decoration was in a strange way fascinating. I did not like all of it, but the music surely has it's great - or touching, moving - moments. Schreker was unknown to me before.

Would have been some good music for the soundtrack of 2001, maybe! :lol: Reminds me of some of the Ligeto stuff in that.

:lol: Ah, chess, red wine, and classical music :rotfl: All it needs now is a fast winter again, and a fire in the chimney :lol:

Go Team Takeda!!! :cool: If one guy can constitute a team that is. :rock:

I will not forget your biased attitude here, once we will play, Torp! :arrgh!:

Sky's move: 1. Ng8-f6
My move: 2. c2-c4

Pip-pip, cherio.


I imagine that we should probably be wearing cardigains and smoking from pipes as well. Schrecker, to me, has always been a good assimilator of new theory, kind of a mixture of late Mahler and early Shostakovich. He certianly combined these into a style that is readily recognized as his own, but he was not a true ground-breaker, as evidenced by the fact that he was actualy appreciated durning his day. :lol:

Your move: 2. c2-c4
My move: 2.../e7-e6

BTW, the name of that guy is Schreker, without "c". "Schrecker has a very different sound in German.

Sky's move: 2...e7-e6
My move: 3. Nb1-c3

You're right: I 'English-ized' Schreker. My bad.

Your move: 3. Nb1-c3
My move: 3.../Bf8-b4

edit: I typed wrong and have corrected it (before it was Bf8-c4, which is impossible to move, my move is Bf8-b4, of course. sorry.)

after 3.../Bf8-b4

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Sky's move: 3...Bf8-b4
My move: 4. b2-b3


I figured that Bc4 was a transcription error.

Your move: 4. b2-b3
My move: 4.../d7-d5

You have a faible for this extremely rare stuff, eh?

Sky's move: 4....d7-d5
My move: 5. e2-e3

:lol: I didn't really intend to go this road. I had wanted to transpose into a more standard English line, but got stuck on the fast track to obscureville.

is it ok to throw in a spectators commentary or would you guys rather not have any distractions? :lol:

The biggest distraction around is Tak himself :smug:
Does anyone understand what we are playing here...? :lol:

Your move: 5. e2-e3
My move: 5.../Nb8-c6

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Let's play this carefully. Like mating porcupines...

Keep them coming, Deathblow. Biting comments are part of the game and are considered as good style :cool: Hope the analysis you asked for kept you busy.

ok then.

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hm....perhaps: 4. d2-d4 ... would have been a better reply rather than 4.b2-b3 which pins the d2 pawn to protection of the knigth and allowed blacks move d7-d5 without fear of whites Qa4 check... Qxb4. If black plays

4. d2-d4
4... Nb8-c6 followed by eventually by d7-d5, then whites is still primed for c4xd5 weakening blacks control of the center.

hehe armchair chessplaying so to speak :lol: of course hind sight is 20/20

Just take care that your comments do not affect future moves. ;)

Not moving d4 is clever, White avoids the classical Nimzo-Indian Defense and Black's option to play Bc3:, and then concentrating on isolating and eroding d4 and finally murdering it from behind. Nimzo-Indian can be a beast for White, I avoid it when playing White as best as I could. My first match with Scnadium was influenced from the attempt to outmaneuver him when he went for Nimzo-Indian. After I had Nimzo-Indian off the table, he tried modern Benoni, which I also try to prevent when playing White. We finally agreed on Catalan :lol: