davidmoodychess (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} davidmoodychess) wrote,@ 2007-01-06 23:30:00 |
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Waiting
You want to know what really bugs me about playing chess? It's the waiting. After all, when you've got a style like mine, it is extremely nerve wracking to see whether your opponent falls for your swindle or not.
And when you're playing correspondence ... well, let's just say there's a reason I don't have much hair anymore.
David Moody - C. Stanley McMahon
Correspondence, 1979
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.c3 dxc3 6.Qb3 Qf6
This is probably not the best of ideas, with the White knight just asking to leap into d5. I really can't say why he disdains ...Na5 for so long.
7.Nxc3 h6
Apparently more worried about 8.Bg5 instead of 8.Nd5. OK, let's put him out of his misery.
8.Nd5 Qd8 9.0-0 d6 10.Re1 Nge7 11.Nf6+
Undoubtedly unsound. My problem with correspondence is that I so often play the games like blitz.
11...gxf6 12.Bxf7+ Kf8 13.Bh5 d5 14.Bf4 Bd6 15.exd5 Na5
Avoiding 15...Bxf4 16.dxc6 threatening 17.Qf7# and 17.cxb7.
16.Qc3 Kg7 17.Bd2
And here is the swindle. I spent a full week sweating over whether he would see the threat or not. When the card came, I couldn't bear to look at it. I went to my room, lay down in bed with my eyes closed, lifted up the card and slowly opened my eyes.
17...b6??
Hallelujah!
18.Qxf6+! Kxf6 19.Bc3+ Kf5 20.g4+ Kf4 21.Bd2+ Kxf3 22.Re3+ Kf4 23.Re6+ Kf3 24.g5# 1-0
You want to know what really bugs me about playing chess? It's the waiting. After all, when you've got a style like mine, it is extremely nerve wracking to see whether your opponent falls for your swindle or not.
And when you're playing correspondence ... well, let's just say there's a reason I don't have much hair anymore.
David Moody - C. Stanley McMahon
Correspondence, 1979
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.c3 dxc3 6.Qb3 Qf6
This is probably not the best of ideas, with the White knight just asking to leap into d5. I really can't say why he disdains ...Na5 for so long.
7.Nxc3 h6
Apparently more worried about 8.Bg5 instead of 8.Nd5. OK, let's put him out of his misery.
8.Nd5 Qd8 9.0-0 d6 10.Re1 Nge7 11.Nf6+
Undoubtedly unsound. My problem with correspondence is that I so often play the games like blitz.
11...gxf6 12.Bxf7+ Kf8 13.Bh5 d5 14.Bf4 Bd6 15.exd5 Na5
Avoiding 15...Bxf4 16.dxc6 threatening 17.Qf7# and 17.cxb7.
16.Qc3 Kg7 17.Bd2
And here is the swindle. I spent a full week sweating over whether he would see the threat or not. When the card came, I couldn't bear to look at it. I went to my room, lay down in bed with my eyes closed, lifted up the card and slowly opened my eyes.
17...b6??
Hallelujah!
18.Qxf6+! Kxf6 19.Bc3+ Kf5 20.g4+ Kf4 21.Bd2+ Kxf3 22.Re3+ Kf4 23.Re6+ Kf3 24.g5# 1-0
