Hello everyone,
Lots of useful constructive stuff here too, particularly towards the end. The
point about the Colle is well put which is why a lot of Colle people grasduate
towards the London System with Bc1-f4 placing the problem Bishop outside the
Pawn chain. One of my students has made a career out of it and he's only 18!
Tyson
On 14 March 2021 at 03:54 Nico Petrillo <mrnicopetrillo@xxxxxxxxx
mailto:mrnicopetrillo@xxxxxxxxx ;> wrote:
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
mailto: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"] 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
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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
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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
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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
mailto:blindadrenaline@xxxxxxxxx ;> <blindadrenaline@xxxxxxxxx
mailto: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
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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
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> > > > 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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