For a 1. …a6 start, that’s some swift victory.
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@a6crush
Posted in Selected on-line games on August 29, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Are you not entertained?
Posted in Selected on-line games on August 20, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I played this on a speedy skytrain but how fast does it get with The St. George’s Defence? Watch and find out but understand I am not posting out of pride, I am posting out of amusement.
Outfoxed but unstripped of steely resolve.
Posted in Selected on-line games on August 19, 2020| Leave a Comment »
A decent opponent outplayed me and then I blundered but I did not lose for it was I who checkmated him, commentary is provided. I confess I am quite proud of this, especially since I saw his mating threat late on and won the game by averting it.
Olcmarcus
An English demolition job.
Posted in Selected on-line games on August 19, 2020| Leave a Comment »
All you need to do is the watch the video on how I win this game, it won’t take long. Commentary is provided. I solemnly swear I played purely on instinct and never gave my moves any real thought.
Olcmarcus
You can’t run a lance through St.George.
Posted in Selected on-line games on August 13, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Some little on-line pipsqueak beheld my St.George’s Defence and tried to mate me in the opening! Okay it’s suspicious from the outset, The St.George’s Defence that is. But it’s highly transpositional, and so making use of the spatial advantage granted is not as simple as it may seem. You are welcome to see how I got my game together in the middlegame and took him to pieces, played on a skytrain too I might add. Some sound middlegame play here by myself, none of it required any real thought.
https://lichess.org/JrrvYmu9MGbt
Enjoy.
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A side note on how to read old Tom Sweby's columns
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Not perhaps, but quintessentially, Old Tom Sweby is best thought of as a passionate devotee to the newspapers he wrote for. He was well read and knowledgeable of the Bedfordshire chess scene and well beyond, given that he was the president of the S.C.C.U. once upon a time. He was generally well-respected and rubbed shoulders with many, if not all, of those eminent within British chess circles. It would, however, be a critical mistake to see his column is primary source material entirely. That it is not. You will also find secondary source material quoted too, and the reliability of that is not quite as Tom hoped. Given that he wrote for decades, this is to some degree inevitable, and after all we are all prone to error whether we realize it or not. Thankfully, with regards to old Tom Sweby, they are infrequent and for the most part old Tom continued to document events and developments in the Bedfordshire league from the get go as best he could but, of course, everything lies open to interpretation. Despite this, and generally speaking. this does indeed make him informative and thus worth reading. Dare I say his columns constitute a narrative describing the latest developments, match reports and changing nature of the Beds league...he knew his audience and wrote according. This manifested itself over decades but brevity was always in play courtesy of the restictions imposed by writing a column. Should you wish to read a in instrumental figure of the Beds' league post WW2, you are quite welcome to peruse what has been posted here... . :-) I should, however, point out that as the decades wore on he gradually moved on away from narratives concerning the Bedfordshire league towards affairs both historical and international. The reasons for this are multifarous, old age was a predominante factor presumably, however, the bottom line is with regards to how the Bedfordshire chess scene developed post WW2: old Tom Sweby is your go to guy. He wrote more about chess in Bedforshire than anyone else did but given he was a Lutonian and writing for a Luton newspaper there is both bias and greater coverage of his hometown than the rest of the county.
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