davidmoodychess (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} davidmoodychess) wrote,@ 2007-01-28 10:11:00 |
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Chess for no good reason, part 40
Four Simple Rules for Snatching My QNP with Your Queen
1. Calculate carefully to be sure the queen can escape.
2. Double check your calculations.
3. Triple check your calculations.
4. DON'T DO IT ANYWAYS!
To which one is tempted to add a fifth: Make sure you aren't hanging material elsewhere.
David Moody (1576) - Nathan Goldberg (1576) [B98]
2nd Quick Quad Fairfax, Va. (2), 18.08.1976
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Be7 8.Bc4
I can only find this move in several games between non-Masters in my Michigan games database. I suspect that is because it allows the fork trick 8...Nxe4 at a favorable time for Black. Oddly enough, only one player seems to have found that move: David Murray (1943) vs. Jacob Swartz (1546) (East Detroit Open, 1989) continued 8...Nxe4 9.Bxe7 Qxe7 10.Nxe4 d5 11.Bb5+!? axb5 12.Nxb5 Qb4+! (after 12...dxe4? 13.Nd6+ is fine for White) 13.Nec3 0-0, and Black had a good game although the 400 rating points eventually told.
I make this unusually long comment about the opening simply because there's not much else to day about this game.
8...Nc6 9.0-0?? 0-0?
9...Qb6 would have won a piece. Both sides see the idea too late, whereupon White prevents it and Black fixates on it.
10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.e5 Qb6+ 12.Kh1 dxe5 13.fxe5 Qxb2??
The queen is in no particular danger, but stuff is hanging elsewhere.
14.exf6 gxf6 15.Bh6
Black saw too late that 14...Qxc3 15.fxe7 Qxc5 16.exf8Q+ was coming. Now he has to give up a rook to avoid the worst, which ensues when he tries to cut his losses to the exchange.
15...Qxc3 16.Qg4+ 1-0
Not a game worthy of the struggle for first place in the tournament! Hopefully, we were both a bit nervous.
Four Simple Rules for Snatching My QNP with Your Queen
1. Calculate carefully to be sure the queen can escape.
2. Double check your calculations.
3. Triple check your calculations.
4. DON'T DO IT ANYWAYS!
To which one is tempted to add a fifth: Make sure you aren't hanging material elsewhere.
David Moody (1576) - Nathan Goldberg (1576) [B98]
2nd Quick Quad Fairfax, Va. (2), 18.08.1976
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Be7 8.Bc4
I can only find this move in several games between non-Masters in my Michigan games database. I suspect that is because it allows the fork trick 8...Nxe4 at a favorable time for Black. Oddly enough, only one player seems to have found that move: David Murray (1943) vs. Jacob Swartz (1546) (East Detroit Open, 1989) continued 8...Nxe4 9.Bxe7 Qxe7 10.Nxe4 d5 11.Bb5+!? axb5 12.Nxb5 Qb4+! (after 12...dxe4? 13.Nd6+ is fine for White) 13.Nec3 0-0, and Black had a good game although the 400 rating points eventually told.
I make this unusually long comment about the opening simply because there's not much else to day about this game.
8...Nc6 9.0-0?? 0-0?
9...Qb6 would have won a piece. Both sides see the idea too late, whereupon White prevents it and Black fixates on it.
10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.e5 Qb6+ 12.Kh1 dxe5 13.fxe5 Qxb2??
The queen is in no particular danger, but stuff is hanging elsewhere.
14.exf6 gxf6 15.Bh6
Black saw too late that 14...Qxc3 15.fxe7 Qxc5 16.exf8Q+ was coming. Now he has to give up a rook to avoid the worst, which ensues when he tries to cut his losses to the exchange.
15...Qxc3 16.Qg4+ 1-0
Not a game worthy of the struggle for first place in the tournament! Hopefully, we were both a bit nervous.
