Based on Ian's request, this will be our official thread for beats and brags. Post your greatest victories and most bone-headed plays.

Here are the a couple Beats and Brags posted in the thread requesting a beats/brags section:


Ian posted this beauty:

Ian-NN

1. e4 d5
2. exd5 Qxd5
3. Nc3 Qd8
4. Bc4 Nf6
5. Nc3 Bg4
6. Ne5 Bxd1??
7. Bxf7++

Merciless.

Razboi's reply:




Keep em coming!

Okay, here goes--I'd rather post my most all-time embarrassing moment now, that way when I post somehting good it will look even better by comparison

W: R. Arteaga (1407) B: R. Pearson (1600) 1. e4 d5 2. ed Nf6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Nc3? Nxd5 5. Nxd5 Bxb5 6. c4 Bxc4 7. Qa4+? b5 8. Qa5 Qxd5 9. Qxc7 and now any reasonable move stays a piece up with what I would certainly characterize as a dream position after nine moves as black...and of course his Queen can't do anything all by itself (can it?); so let's look for the killer...9. ... Qxg2 ????????????? 10. Qc8 mate 1-0

Well, I guess my approach is the opposite of Robert's. I want something nice to look back on when I post a truly embarassing game.

Here's a nice position I had at the 2007 U.S. Amateur Team East. I was black.



1...Qd2 Constructing a mating net
2. Qb1 f4
3. Bf5 Qe3+
4. Kg2 Qe2+
4. Kg1 f3 and he resigned. White has to give up a lot of material to avoid mate.

I just beat a guy ranked 1462!

[Event "rated blitz match"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]
[Date "2007.04.11"]
[Round "?"]
[White "white"]
[Black "dan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1462"]
[BlackElo "949"]
[ECO "D00"]
[TimeControl "600"]

1. d4 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Bd3 Bg4 4. Nf3 Bh5 5. Nbd2 Nc6 6. c3 e6 7. O-O Bd6 8.
h3 g5 9. g4 Bg6 10. Bxg6 hxg6 11. Nxg5 Nh7 12. Ndf3 Nxg5 13. Nxg5 Qxg5 14. e4
Qe7 15. e5 O-O-O 16. exd6 Qxd6 17. Kg2 Rh7 18. Rh1 Rdh8 19. Qf3 f5 20. Bf4 e5
21. dxe5 Nxe5 22. Bxe5 Qxe5 23. Rae1 Qd6 24. g5 Rh4 25. Kf1 Rf4 26. Qg2 Qa6+
27. Kg1 Qxa2 28. Re2 Qb1+ 29. Kh2 Qd3 30. Re3 Qc2 31. f3 Qxg2+ 32. Kxg2 Rfh4
33. Rhe1 Rxh3 34. Re8+ Kd7 35. R8e7+ Kc6 36. R1e6+ Kc5 37. Rxc7+ Kb5 38.
Rxb7+ Ka5 39. Rxa7+ Kb5 40. Rxg6 Rh2+ 41. Kg1 Rc2 42. Rh6 Re8 43. Ra1 Kc4 44.
g6 Rg8 45. Ra4+ Kd3 46. Rd4+ Ke3 47. Rh3 Rxg6+ 48. Kf1 Rf2+ 49. Ke1 Rg1#
{white checkmated} 0-1

I just played this one, not particularly proud of it, but it's quite nice because my opponent neglected his development and got punished:
1. e4 e6 2. d4 Nc6 3. Nf3 d5 4.e5 f6 5. Bd3 fxe5 6. Nxe5 Nxe5 7. dxe5 g6 8.Qg4 c5 9. c4 Qa5+ 10. Bd2 Qb6 11. Nc3 Qxb2 12.Rb1 Qa3 13. O-O d4 14. Rb3 Qa5 15. Ne4 Qxa2 16.Rxb7 Bxb7 17. Qxe6+ Ne7 18. Nf6+ Kd8 19. Qd7# 1-0
I played some questionable moves such as 8.Qg4 and I missed a good continuation on move 13 with cxd5 instead of casteling and if exd5 i had 14Bb5+ forcing the king to move after which I'd have a much better position.I'm proud of the rook sac since rybka agrees it's the best move in the position.

My one and only claim to fame game against a well known English GM on the Playchess Server, I managed to catch him after he had played about 20 games and was tired

I have altered his name, but you should know who it it is from the substitute name i have used.

[Event "Rated game, 5m + 0s"]
[Site "Main hall"]
[Date "2001.11.18"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Oliveboy"]
[Black "Cumnor Chess Club"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2646"]
[BlackElo "2237"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventType "game"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. Nc3 d5 7. exd5 cxd5
8. Bb5+ Bd7 9. Qd3 Bxb5 10. Qxb5+ Qd7 11. Qxd7+ Kxd7 12. Bf4 Bb4 13. Kd2 d4 14.
Kd3 dxc3 15. bxc3 Bc5 16. f3 Ne7 17. Rab1 Kc6 18. Be5 Rhd8+ 19. Kc4 Nf5 20. Rb5
Ne3+ 21. Kb3 Kxb5 22. c4+ Kc6 23. Rb1 Rab8+ 24. Kc3 Rxb1 0-1

Hmm, I can't figure out who the GM is...but nice game! Also, where in England is the Cumnor Chess Club? I played in an English tournament in Blackpool about 4 years ago.

He lives on a Olive farm in Greece and he is allergic to Olive's.

Cumnor is just outside oxford, visit our web site http://www.cumnorchessclub.com/cumnorclubdetails.htm

oh, cool. So is your account for the entire club or are you just a member?

We do have some Club Members who are still unable to access the Internet at home, so i let them use my laptop on club nights, so yes they could probably use this account but only on my say so

PS: I am going to ask the members on 31 May 2007 who have internet access to sign up here and post some of their games for analysis

awesome!

BUMP! I miss this thread.

Alright, I got a nice win with the Dragon last night in a slow game (60min +15)

[Event "rated standard match"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]
[Date "2007.07.24"]
[Round "?"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "Kox"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1817"]
[BlackElo "1770"]
[ECO "B76"]
[TimeControl "3600+15"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8.
Qd2 Nc6 9. O-O-O Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Be6 11. Kb1 Qc7 12. g4 Rfc8 13. h4 Qa5 14. a3
Rab8 15. h5 b5 16. hxg6 hxg6 17. g5 Nh5 18. Bxg7 Nxg7 19. Rh6 b4 20. Qh2 Nh5
21. Nd5 bxa3 22. Nxe7+ Kg7 23. Rxh5 Rxb2+ 24. Ka1 Ra2+ 25. Kb1 Qb4+ 26. Kc1
Ra1# {NN checkmated} 0-1

Let me brag with some games/positions as well

(1) From an over the board blitz game...

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(2) From a longer over the board game...

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(3) Also from an official over the board game...

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(4) From an internet blitz game

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(5) Another over the board game

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