Sunday, February 8, 2009

Battle Stations


Ok, let me invite you to play Battle Stations. Click the picture above.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Tacticians Galore

That is me at number 100. Too low. Haha...

Ooops... You have to select Tacticians, and choose country, Philippines. My profile is godfather0618, as in my multiply account

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Practice games this week

1 CM9000 Liam 1833 white loss
2 Kasparov Chessmate 1740 white win
3 Fritz 532 Comet B68 1800 white loss
4 Fritz 532 Fritz 532 1890 black loss
5 Fritz 11 Rybka Dynamic 3 1760 white loss
6 Fritz 11 Shredder 3 1760 black loss
7 Fritz 11 Fritz 11 1760 white loss
8 Fritz 11 Cyclone 2.3 1822 black loss
9 Fritz 11 Crafty 20.14 1722 white loss
10 DS 11 Deep Shredder 11 1400 white win
11 Fritz 11 Hydra 8 1572 white loss
12 CMXII Strong GM 2650 black draw
13 CMXII Dave 1812 white win
average elo of opps 1809.307692

+3 =1 -9

old elo - 1545
new elo - 1549

performance - 1625

Monday, January 26, 2009

Wang Yue demolishes Morizevich in Corus A

[White "Wang Yue"]
[Black "Morozevich"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "2739"]
[BlackElo "2771"]

D85: Exchange Grünfeld: Unusual White 7th moves
and lines with 7 Nf3}

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bd2 Nb6 6.Bf4 Bg7 7.e3 c5 8.dxc5 Bxc3+ 9.bxc3 Qxd1+ 10.Rxd1 N6d7 11.Bb5 a6 12.Ba4


...f6 (12. ...Nc6 is appropriate)

13.Bxb8 Rxb8 14.Ne2 e6 15.Nd4 Ke7 16.Nb3 f5 17.Rd4 Nf6 18.Na5 Ne4 19.Rc4

...e5 (19. ...Bd7 20. Bxd7 Kxd7)

20.f3 Nf6 21.Rb4 Be6 22.c4 Rhc8 23.0–0 Nd7 24.c6 bxc6 25.Rxb8 Nxb8 26.Rb1


...Kf6 (26. ...Nd7 27. Nxc6+ Kf6 28. Na5)


27.Kf2 g5 28.Rb6 Nd7 29.Rxc6 Nc5 30.Rxc8 Bxc8 31.Bc2 Ke7 32.Ke2 Kd6 33.Kd2 h5 34.Kc3 h4 35.Nb3 f4 36.exf4 exf4 37.h3 Bb7 38.Bf5


...Bc6? (38... Nxb3 should be better)

39.Kd4

...Ne6+? (39... Again, Nxb3 should have been the key

40.Bxe6 Kxe6 41.Nc5+ Kf6 42.Nxa6 g4 43.hxg4 h3 44.gxh3 Bxf3 45.Nc5 and White has a decisive advantage 1–0

Key analysis through Deep Fritz 11

Saturday, January 24, 2009

I know....

Won't give though.


1.5 / 15


average elo of opps 1702

1 win, 1 draw, 13 losses (ugh!)


elo performance 1382

new elo 1545

Friday, January 23, 2009

Sunday, January 18, 2009

January 17

+3 =2 -8
4/13

elo opps - 1691

new elo - 1606
performance - 1537