Here's another live video - been a while -

background - been losing games to insidiously stupid blunders (usually with a massive material advantage and suddenly choke) - my last two games were like that, including hanging my rook vs. a 1000 rated player - (the rook that was covering my advancing pawn) - so seriously stupid going on - I decided to focus on game replay's of masters/analysis - (using Dan Heisman's Novice Nook about doing game analysis - find that link at http://home.comcast.net/~danheisman/Art ... _Links.htm - March 2005) -

Anyway, did the first 10 games of Kasparov's Great Predecessors - part I - which covered some early stuff and some good Paul Morphy games - then I sat down and did this video - not esp. eager to get into the Pirc as much as I used to but I just fell into it this game and ran into a solid book player in white.

thought I was about to lose on time worrying about a pawn when I decided to launch a sacrifice that would give me decent attacking chances vs. the enemy king - sort of a last minute hoo-ya - probably the Morphy high I was riding on after the replays - then my opponent started blundering and I sweeped it -

initial analysis shows how I could have defended a pawn better - and I won on time (and material) near the end after I missed a mate in 3 (Qxd1) and mate in 1 (Qa1), but we were both under serious time crunches and the tactical shots were easier to spot then the mates -

was one of my better games - blunder analysis shows no serious bloopers, surprisingly - hope you like it

RB

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hey KB - I ran it thru two Fritz analysis - and my only two real blunders were missing two easy mates - LOL of course, my opponent had some better responses he coulda pulled to keep it tight, but it was almost neck and neck, apparently.

The one I missed was Qa1, which as you pointed out, would have ended it right there - (and it did after that move anyways)

The other one was Qxd1 when he moved his rook there - that was a mate in three but I didn't see it till my post game analysis (that one I spotted w/o fritz)

I'm scared to play another one now - LOL - better do some more reading first.

gratsi
RB

Amazing finish to what appeared to be a bad position for you. Please post more games, I really enjoy watching your videos. Also, I enjoy watching videos of longer games since the players have more time to make better moves. So, I'd prefer if you made videos of longer games rather than blitz games. Great game and video and keep them coming.

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[Event "Rated game, 15m + 0s"]
[Site "Main Playing Hall"]
[Date "2008.05.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Slammer6"]
[Black "Whiskeytown"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B09"]
[WhiteElo "1333"]
[BlackElo "1279"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2008.05.26"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4 Bg7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 Na6 7. a3 c5 8. Be3
Bg4 9. O-O cxd4 10. Bxd4 Nc5 11. e5 Nfe4 12. Nxe4 Nxe4 13. h3 Be6 14. Qe1 d5
15. b4 f6 16. Bd3 fxe5 17. fxe5 Rf4 18. g3 Rxf3 19. Rxf3 Ng5 20. Re3 Bxh3 21.
Qe2 Qd7 22. Qh2 Qg4 23. Rd1 Qxd4 24. Kf2 Rf8+ 25. Ke2 Bg4+ 26. Kd2 Bxd1 27. Qh1
Rf2+ 28. Kxd1 Qxe3 0-1



here ya go - number 5697 in the replayer.

yah, the Pirc is a bit tricky - I don't like it as much as I used to because you give up so much space initially - he knew exactly the right line to come at me with it too and that's a bear. He left book only when he played a3, but he may not have ever studied with that Na6 before - I got that from the Nigel Davies DVD

I think Nigel has you trading off a couple minor pieces just to keep the Austrian beast at bay while you get to the middle game (Nigel Davies - Pirc DVD) - that flank knight is supposed to support the c5 pawn advance but it got sidelined till I traded pawns.

I made the right move with the knight on 11 and retreating the bishop on #13 - (maybe to a different square though) - but failed to see what would happen when that queen moved to e1 - I should have maybe played f4 instead of f3 to defend that pawn, but I really wanted to open up that file as well, so it's a good example of giving up material to get a better line, I guess - worked out like that anyways - yuk yuk.

One nice thing Fritz told me - I was never as far down positionally as I thought I was when playing, but white regularly had about half a pawn's worth of score over me in Fritz - but that's what happens with the Pirc when it runs into the Austrian - LOL

I still don't know what Qh2 was about - it wasn't his worst move - that was Rd1, but between the time pressure and worries about what the rook on f3 was for I think I threw him off the game - prior to that point we just kept looking at the tactical exchange where I lost a pawn - suddenly he's got a different beast sacrificing on f3 and only five minutes to get thru it.

glad you like it - probably one of my best-played games - I'm pretty psyched. After two games where I was winning and lost to severe blunders, it's fun to get a game where I have to fight tooth and nail to come out ahead. And I KNOW studying those Morphy games helped, if for no other reason then to improve my psychology - man, that guy threw QUEENS and ROOKS away like they were a bad penny to get his checkmates - LOL

pax
RB

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I believe once the tide started to turn in WhiskeyTown's favor, white just began to panic like was mentioned before. Couple that with only 5 or so minutes remaining and you get this game. It was indeed a very nice game given the seesaw effect of white being ahead, then black roaring back to win. Was there any defense for white at the very end? Wasn't it just mate in one for black when white resigned?

Edit: I see now that there is a defense to the mate in one at the very end of the game, but black has such a huge advantage in material the game would be over very soon even if white had not resigned and had more time.

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The move I saw was Qe1 to stop the mate at the point white resigned, but white didn't have time to find it and even then the game would be lost soon enough anyway.

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I enjoyed this game very much !

Before I read the comments, I wrote a note :

at 24:42, ...QxD1, KF2, RF8+,RF3, RxF8++.

I agree with Bullrock, I like the longer games (and videos) because there is more commentary, and we get to hear what you are thinking about and what your plans are.

Please keep posting the longer videos, it really helps us beginners.


Wayne77