French Domination
Check out this rampage against the French...
This game's dedicated to BDK, for today's discussion on combinations. The only combinations are moves 17-18 and 23-25. I didn't 'see' what happened afterwards only that my pieces looked very active. Fritz confirms that my play is extremely accurate from move 13 onwards. (19 Nh7 may have been better, other than that, I challenge you to find an improvement.)
This game's dedicated to BDK, for today's discussion on combinations. The only combinations are moves 17-18 and 23-25. I didn't 'see' what happened afterwards only that my pieces looked very active. Fritz confirms that my play is extremely accurate from move 13 onwards. (19 Nh7 may have been better, other than that, I challenge you to find an improvement.)
Samurai - It's pretty funny that right after I win a piece I just give it back. Just goes to show it's good to give back to the community as long as it serves some selfish purpose :).
LEP - Yes 5 minute game. I was getting down to a minute around move 23 because I saw the idea just wasn't sure it was worth it. One of my big weaknesses in blitz is that I spend a lot of time on critical moves (20s-1min) and it often costs me. Sometimes it pays off though because if you find a good move they have to take their time too.
You should be very afraid (I think a couple of the experts at the Reno Chess Club are more afraid of me than anyone else at the club). I don't play like an A player.
Chessaholic - I played Rc6 just to shut down the knight (all of Black's pieces look bad after this move). Then I realized that there were further advantages to this move, the weakness of the e6 pawn. This combination was much harder to initiate than the earlier combination, I figured I would probably get his queen for the rook and knight (there's so many ways...), but then I was left with only a rook and a queen. Then I saw that I would also have 3 extra pawns and that f5 and d5 would be weak, so I snapped off f7.
For some reason, I have the opposite problem from what you describe as your problem in blitz: I don't take nearly enough time to think about moves, most of the time I just play what feels most natural. I'd say in blitz I hardly ever spend more than 20 seconds on a move. While it frequently works out (I can cause enough complications for my opponent that he can't figure out without running out of time), I'm not particularly proud of such wins. I think I need to find more of a balance in blitz between taking too little and too much time.
I'll look at the rest of the game now. BTW, I've played or chatted with someone with the moniker of nooB, or something close to that, on one or two chess sites. I wonder if he/she is the same as my victim in:
Stripes - noob [C64]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Bc5 4.0–0 d5 5.Nxe5 dxe4 6.Nxf7 Kxf7 7.Qh5+ g6 8.Qxc5 Bd7 9.f3 Nf6 10.fxe4 Ke8 11.Bxc6 Bxc6 12.Qe5+ Qe7 13.Qxf6 Qc5+ 14.d4 1–0