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Bogo-Indian?

Posted in Meme on October 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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A fractured reminder

Posted in Life beyond the chess board on October 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Don’t ask me how but one of the two games I played for Luton whilst in recovery from my main accident, where I fractured my skull alongside a great very many other vicissitudes has been found, and here it is. I do remember the game, and do remember delivering mate.

And in case you can’t read it, here it is:

Mark.J.McCready

Shamal Mohammed

24/11/16 OU v Kents/Luton

  1. e4 e6
  2. d4 d5
  3. Nd2 c5
  4. ce Nc6
  5. Nf3 Qb6 This is an antiquated move which I played because I forgot the theory. Qb6 was premature, the queen should never be moved so early in the French Defence.
  6. exd5 cxd5
  7. Nb3 Bg4
  8. dxc5 Bxc5
  9. Nxc5 Qxc5
  10. Be3 Qd6
  11. Be2 Nf6
  12. 0-0 0-0
  13. Nd4 Bxe2
  14. Qxe2 Nxd4
  15. Bxd4 Rfe8 This is precisely what I aimed for. Mostly inspired by Capablanca in my youth who blockaded an IQP with a bishop in one of his famous games. Normally this is done with the knight and not the bishop.
  16. Qb5 Ng4 I found black’s last move to be strange, the cheap threat is very easily countered.
  17. g3 Qh6
  18. h4 Qh5 Black needs more pieces in attack to make this work. There is no threat here.
  19. Rae1 f6. I understood it but thought it was not the best move in the position.
  20. c4 Ne5
  21. Qxd5 Kh8
  22. Bxe5 Rxe5
  23. Rxe5 Qxe5
  24. Qxb7 Rb8
  25. Qxa7 Qxb2 It was better to take with the rook I thought and was surprised by this.
  26. c5 Rc8
  27. Qa6 Rg8 After this was played I knew I would win.
  28. c6 g5
  29. c7 Qc3
  30. hxg5 fxg5
  31. Qd6 h5 The fatal blunder.
  32. Qh6 mate. Believe it or not it took a second or two to register but then I had not long been out of hospital from a head injury and was not yet fully functional.

MJM

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Welcome to the third floor

Posted in My own warped humour on October 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The big question on everyone’s lips in the chess world these days is ‘What can chess players get from glue sniffers’ right?

To answer this, let’s look at the first line in the chorus of the song 3rd floor by the American thrash outfit Death Angel. ‘Welcome to the third floor, it’s a one-way trip then they lock the door’.

Take a look at this fellow:

Further discussion of this (I am an amused contributor) can be found here:

https://aseannow.com/topic/1308309-glue-sniffing-homeless-man-falls-from-third-floor-of-building-and-breaks-his-arm-in-pattaya/#comment-18394741

I asked there, which is the best floor in a hotel to sniff glue on, similarly, which floor of a building is the best floor to play chess on? To some degree this depends on whether you want to sniff some glue whilst playing and how high you want to go. Unfortunately FIDE has not presented us with any statistics on what percentage of chess players are glue sniffers, although the word on the street is approximately 70%. If true, then the safest floor must be the ground floor…not the third floor because (on the glue) it’s a one-way trip! If not true how high up do you want to be when you play chess? Top floor maybe? Whatever your answer may be, if you like to sniff glue whilst playing chess, I recommend you play chess on the ground floor!

MJM

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