The hero and the goat
The two games from this weekend…
A flawed victory
A flawed defeat
液體蛋 (Liquid Egg Product)
Preparing for when Beijing takes over in 2025
Preparing for when Beijing takes over in 2025
"When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you can head off your foe with a balanced attack."
-- The Sphinx, "Mystery Men"
-- The Sphinx, "Mystery Men"
You really know how to use that ugly Pirc to your advantage, hey? Nice game. Trouble playing the KID?
Comment by ookwelbekendalsemc | 5 November 2007
Btw, have you figured out who i am in the pictures yet?
Comment by ookwelbekendalsemc | 5 November 2007
I don’t necessarily play the Pirc that well. But other people don’t see it much, so they often misplay it as well.
And obviously, I’ve got to figure out what happened in Game 2 (before the obvious blunder)
You must be the shaved head guy.
Comment by Donnie | 5 November 2007
How do you figure i’m the shaved head guy?
Comment by ookwelbekendalsemc | 5 November 2007
Considering that your repertoire already includes the Pirc and the KID you might want to take a look at the Moron Defence: http://glennwilson.com/chess/labels/Moron.html (the older posts have some of the background).
Besides, it seems to fit in with some of your recent posts…
Comment by Tacticus Maximus | 5 November 2007
@ookwelbekendalsemc: Based on the hints you gave…visible from both sides, and that’s the only guy I could see from both sides. Unless you’re Seirawan’s twin…
@Tacticus: Awesome! I’m putting the Moron Defense in my (small) opening book if for nothing but the name.
Comment by Donnie | 5 November 2007
In the second game–I’m intrigued by your 6. … c5; I tried this a few times many years ago but the opponents played 7. d5 with a standard Benoni. Just my own uniformed opinion but perhaps wait on Bd7 and play a6 first, keeping your options open in the Maroczy bind? Bb7 might still be played later. Anyway, this is interesting and I may be tempted to try it again sometime instead of 6. … e5.
Comment by Wahrheit | 6 November 2007
@Wahrheit: LOL. I’m slightly embarrassed to say I’ve no idea what a Maroczy bind is (have heard the term though, and will look it up). Opening knowledge is easily the weakest part of my game. I don’t like opening study much.
You mentioned Bb7, and I actually never considered that might be played. For some reason, I was thinking the b7 Pawn would not be able to be moved for some time. Again, something to look up.
(David K also recommended for me to hold off deep study of openings until reaching 1800 or so, so I’m taking his advice. :D)
Comment by Donnie | 7 November 2007
A brief followup–the Maroczy bind is just a Sicilian where Black has the g6, Bg7 set up and white has gone c4…It might normally start out something like 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. c4 Bg7 leading through various move orders to the position after White’s 8th move–it’s a strange trip indeed that you can get there so many different ways. Anyway, David is right, and your openings look okay, anyway.
Comment by Wahrheit | 7 November 2007
Sweet! Now I don’t have to look it up myself. I owe you one…
Comment by Donnie | 8 November 2007