Comments on: Why I’m not a Grandmaster

By: Donnie

Donnie — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:20:28 +0000

@l3rucewayne: Yep, me too! That’s why we’re not good.

@Chessgambiter: I’m tepid about doing link exchanges. But I’ll visit your site; if it makes a novel contribution to the chess blog world, I’ll sure link you.

@Polly: As much as me, apparently. Which is to make mindless moves to “develop” without enough understanding of the position.

By: Polly

Polly — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:39:05 +0000

I probably would have played Bg2 followed by 0-0, but what do I know?

By: Chessgambiter

Chessgambiter — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:34:07 +0000

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I offering you a link exchange…
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Chessgambiter

By: l3rucewayne

l3rucewayne — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:10:17 +0000

Me neither, its just one of those types of moves I tend to do when I don’t feel like thinking and am just waiting for my opponent to provide me with an easy goal.

By: Donnie

Donnie — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:41:01 +0000

I don’t like a3. It doesn’t seem like White needs to force Black to exchange immediately, and it leaves a hole on b3.

For what the opinion of a 1600 is worth.

By: l3rucewayne

l3rucewayne — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:04:47 +0000

I too would have done Bg2, that or a mindless a3 just to force him to do commit to exchanging the bishop or retreat it.