CHESS 2008: Skybird vs. Clive Bradbury

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by clive bradbury

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!

[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]

Originally Posted by clive bradbury

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. 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.

[clive bradbury]

5. Ng1-f3

5.....O-O

That's me...classical...

[Skybird]

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