Game of the Week for T44
We are still in the process of selecting the Games of the Week for T44. We will post them after they have been chosen.
Game of the Week for T43
Round 1 : miazga vs Majamutu Sokolsky still lives ! and he was not "insane" :o) because he wins ! Nice distraction on Qside then once fN is pulled to QSide out of position , the Kside attck starts ...
Round 2 : miazga vs poni - Sokolsky wins again ! only this time with a Kside distraction . Goading Black into the R for B sac on move 27 is key ; allows White the tempo to ignore the attack on his Qside after 0-0-0 ...
Round 3 : GadsHill vs BrerRabbit - a tight , snug game until move 24 , when White can snatch a pawn . Then once his N gets another one , it's just a matter of trading Qs and Rs evenly ..
Round 4 Magagna vs SneakyRed - Qs off the board early , so this became a tactical struggle . Black has to stare death in the face , but squirms out nicely enough to escort d and e pawns into winning position ..
Round 5 AngryPirate vs sly20 - White attacks well , gets the white B for a pawn . But the middle is wide open ; has to stare down a mating threat from a Q-ing pawn - with the help of a timely R-for-N sac ...
Round 6 CaoCao vs miazga - Long game ...Black controls it by dominating the middle , surviving a R loss to a N pin . White gets an opening to work with , and creates a viable mating threat ; excellent endgame execution ( :o) ) saves the day ...
Game of the Week for T42
Round 1 : TerryMalloy vs QueensCounselor - White initiates a white Bishop trade on move 4 , and thus plays to control all the white squares of mid-board and those diagonals ,which allows for a piece-grabbing attack on c-column ....
Round 2 : chesskilleruk vs easycure - ck's 1st STC win ! The opening gives White solid control of the middle ; Black's unwillingness to trade Bs for Ns costs him a R ; then a R-for-N sac weakens the rest of his defense ...
Round 3 : Paulkov vs matein7 - Black appears to have regained the pawn he lost on move 2 , but now the way is open for White's d-pawn push . Once B takes the f6N , the way to the back rank is clear . Black must make many forced moves , that aren't in its favor ...
Round 4 : juniorVishy vs Satellite-Dan - Excellent tactics by Black leads to control of both flanks . A feint toward Kside splits White's forces ; now it can't defend the Qside thrust of b pawn . Initiating the trades was not in White's favor ...
Round 5 : chicopee-ed vs MikeA - Evenly played into a B-N endgame ; then ( @27) Black misses the potential fork of its B and a pawn by N-C6 . All White needs is that one-pawn advantage ...
Round 6 : JeeniousChess vs Portola - Sokolsky lives ! and wins ... Evenly played , but Black's 19 ... p-h5 sets up a weakness White uses to get "behind enemy lines" and , while grabbing pawns , set up the mate ....
Game of the Week for T41
Round 1 : tc66062 vs koni - Good endgame tactics decide this one . Once they get there , White seems to control the flanks , but Black is able to use its last piece(N) better than White(B) and create more passers ...
Round 1, Honorable Mention : TwentyMiles vs kingphisch - Twenty's 1st League win ! Things are fairly even , except White keeps a pawn 1 sq. closer to Q-ing than Black , so Black's R can't protect its pawns and stop Q too ....
Round 2 : Ptzz vs Folgers - Black takes the c4 pawn and still wins ! Even sacs a B for the g2 pawn , to open the K's defense up . Then uses 30 moves to evade White's pressure and nurse a pawn down for a Q replacement ...
Round 3 : AMAV vs BadHabitMarco - A game only a gambiteer could love :o) A 20-move VERY tactical sequence leaves black a N up but a pawn down , for the endgame . Black could have won this , but lost two pawns and had to settle for forcing an entertaining draw ...
Round 4 : budugu vs yemisco - Evenly-played Ruy Lopez game , untill White can snatch the ubiquitous 1-pawn ad. Then some careful endgame play and another blunder by Black on #49(which stops his best chance at a Q) clears the path for White to Q ...
Round 5 : playwaycool vs Paulkov - nice Black upset of a player 200 pts higher . The opening allows Black to dominate the middle with its c,d,e, AND f pawns . Then , as the power gets traded off , White is unable to defend against all the passers ...
Round 6 : SneakyRed vs Antmantis - well-planned attack from White ; plays very positionally until he can swing the bN all the way around to f5 . It takes the black B , which then weakens the middle and the castled K's defense ...