Hey Nick,
I appreciate the kind words man.
Yeah, one thing I am fairly good at is compartmentalizing stuff and moving on,
does no good to waste time kicking yourself, plenty of time for all that later.
Act in haste, repent at your leisure and all that.
Anyhow, I don't think I'll be taking on Kasparov any time soon with Colle, but
I like it as a learning tool at this point, leaves me flexible at the beginning
it seems to what I might see coming down the pike from the other side.
Although this guy threw me a curve ball with that early queen activity. Curve
balls are good though.
Yeah, I'm not sure how best to deal with my bishop on D3 early on, but the
more I play, the more the possible lines make sense.
You're right about pushing and defending the pawns, I was concentrating on
stopping his promotion, and totally forgot about my own.
Thanks again for the notes,
Take care,
Che
-----Original Message-----
From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Nico Petrillo
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2021 9:55 PM
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: A novice game for analysis
Hey, first of all let me say you played a very respectable game. To answer your
first question every game you play is always worth looking at afterwords, and
learning from both yours and the opponents mistakes is a good idea. Learning a
specific opening at your level is less crucial then building up the
fundamentals. The Colle system may be tuff to Excel with because you start with
a problem piece in the dark square bishop. You missed taking a free piece in
the game but instead developed a piece to put more pressure on it. Even though
the engine doesn’t like it, the move was very reasonable for your level. In
fact even at the highest levels players relieve tension before it is necessary,
so to get into that kind of mindset early is amazing! Next you found some
excellent tactics after loosing the queen to win the opponents queen. Having
the heart to keep playing, and playing well after dropping your queen is
important. Everyone blunders their queen from time to time so not giving up
when it happens is great. Finally once queens are off the board you should be
thinking about your end game plan look at the pawn skeleton and figure out
which pawn your promoting and which pawn your opponent wants to promote. Then
use your pieces to make it happen target backwards pawns defend your weakness
and push those pawns! It is also very important to activate the king in the end
game and get the king as central as possible. All in all you played a very
reasonable game just tactics and chess fundamentals that you need to work on.
Nick Petrillo
He/him/his
Virginia Association of Blind Students| President
703-346-9981
On Mar 13, 2021, at 4:53 PM, blindadrenaline@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi all,
I played a live game a bit ago on liChess that I ended up resigning.
I am working on learning the basics of the colle system, so I played white
and started with that opening.
I am wondering if this would be a good game to step through and analyze
myself to see what I can learn from it.
However, there were some blunders, by both myself and the opponent, so maybe
I should wait until I have something where I don't drop the ball so hard on
my toes.
If anyone looks at this, I just couldn't figure out the best way to go on
move 22, any thoughts there in particular appreciated.
I have pasted the game below, as well as attaching the raw pgn that liChess
generates, the only change is I broke the moves up one per line to make it
easier to read with screen readers.
If you export a raw file from liChess, this is what you get for those
interested.
I understand the header information in the file, except for the line:
[ECO "D04"]
What does that refer to?
Thanks for any advice,
Che
[Event "Rated Classical game"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/mcU4Zq7T";]
[Date "2021.03.13"]
[White "blindAdrenaline"]
[Black "MohammedEl-Gamal"]
[Result "0-1"]
[UTCDate "2021.03.13"]
[UTCTime "20:40:27"]
[WhiteElo "1087"]
[BlackElo "1478"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "-18"]
[BlackRatingDiff "+2"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "2700+10"]
[ECO "D04"]
[Opening "Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System"]
[Termination "Normal"]
1. d4 d5
2. e3 Nf6
3. Nf3 Nc6
4. Bd3 e6
5. c3 Rb8
6. O-O b5
7. Nbd2 b4
8. a3 bxc3
9. bxc3 Na5
10. Qa4+ Nc6
11. Bb5 Rxb5
12. Qxb5 Bd7
13. Rb1 Nxd4
14. cxd4 Bxb5
15. Rxb5 Qd7
16. Rb8+ Ke7
17. e4 dxe4
18. Ne5 Qxd4
19. Nc6+ Kd6
20. Nxd4 Nd7
21. Nxe4+ Ke5
22. Ng5 Nxb8
23. Nxf7+ Kxd4
24. Nxh8 Kc4
25. Bd2 Bxa3
26. Be3 a5
27. Rc1+ Bxc1
28. Bxc1 a4
29. Nf7 Kb3
30. Ne5 a3
31. Nd3 a2
32. Bb2 Kc2
33. Ne1+ Kxb2 0-1
-----Original Message-----
From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of JT
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2021 12:01 PM
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: Tips for shredder and liChess
Hi Che et al,
I'm guessing, here, but maybe you're using a remote keyboard? Using Shredder
on IPhone, IPad, without using a remote keyboard, the Evaluation item is just
below the board layout, just to the right of the Captured Pieces item, I'd
say just below the c-file if the board orientation is from white's
perspective, or just below the f-file, if the board orientation is from
black's perspective.
HTH,
Jim T
-----Original Message-----
From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ;
blindadrenaline@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:20 PM
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: Tips for shredder and liChess
I think it just means without the stockfish analysis included, but not
positive about that.
Btw, I only did the b,c,d, and e files with the pronunciation thing on my
iPhone, the rest I can make out.
Now if I could just find a quick way to get down to that evaluation button
and back, that would be sweet.
Having a blue tooth keyboard helps, but still not a quick thing.
Later taters
Che
-----Original Message-----
From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Jorge Paez (Redacted sender "iamjorgepaez" for DMARC)
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2021 6:27 PM
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: Tips for shredder and liChess
Hi Che:
Thanks for this.
What’s the “raw format” you mention in terms of Lichess?
On Mar 12, 2021, at 3:04 PM, <blindadrenaline@xxxxxxxxx>
<blindadrenaline@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, I should have done this early on but wasn't sure if I was gonna stick
with shredder long term.
, anyhow figured out how to change the pronunciation so that shredder
announces NATO, takes a bit of time, but well worth it.
Go to settings>voiceover>speech>pronunciation
Then simply add what you want changed, then what you want it changed
to So for example put e4 in the first field and echo 4 in the second, and
bang, bob's your uncle. Just rinse and repeat for each one you want changed.
This makes it much easier to accurately hear where shredder moved.
As for exporting from liChess, after a game finishes, turn off blind mode,
then you should have export options.
I export mine in raw format, but you can include the computer analysis as
well if you want.
My layout may be a bit different, as I have exported games before, not
positive, but you may need to click on fin and pgn first to get the export
options up, but it can definitely be done.
For those of you that haven't checked out liChess, it is well worth the
limited amount of time it takes to learn how to use it.
Hope that helps some,
Che
-----Original Message-----
From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jorge Paez (Redacted
sender "iamjorgepaez" for DMARC)
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2021 11:40 AM
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: Another Game for analysis
Hi Tyson:
Sorry I should’ve specified this game was a practice game on Shredder with
no time controls.
I think you can do time controls on there but I haven’t figured out how.
Yeah I think the king was part of something, it was really weird.
I offered it a draw and it told me it wanted to play a little bit longer so
yeah.
Jorge
On Mar 12, 2021, at 11:58 AM, mordue andrew (Redacted sender
"tyson.mordue" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jorge et al,
Two early errors to highlight. Why not 7 Nxh3 developing a piece and
preserving your Pawn structure? Why doesn't the engine play 11...Kxf7?
My other observations are that
1) at the rate the engine was going then if you'd carried on you would have
got a draw under the 50-move rule. The Black King must be used to help
create a mating net.
2) some engines do recognise a five-time repetition.
3) If you've played a 109 move game since I last posted then you're still
playing too quickly! I've only had a handful of games over 100 moves in my
entire OTB career.
Tyson
On 12 March 2021 at 15:49 Jorge Paez wrote:
This one’s from my morning practice, I ended up resigning because in the
real world this game would’ve ended a while back but the computer didn’t
recognize the three moves draw rule.
Jorge
Sent from my iPhone
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