Game of the Week for T40
Round 6
jazzyrick vs Konstantinos - a struggle into the 50's , even tho Black is up a R-vs-N . Taking a "free pawn" on b5 leaves White's Q out of position to stop Black's mating sequence
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Round 5
hewdondada vs BadHabitMarco - Well played long game , with neither player having a clear-cut advantage until close to move 60 . Black trades 1 pawn for 2 , and can Q faster after that
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Round 4
SneakyRed vs Portola - White plays for Qside control , shifts gears into a Kside threat . Opens up his castled K's defense to pressure Black into a R-for-N trade , then survuives an attack thru the open f-column
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Round 3
Duguesclin vs CREDITorDEBIT - White plays the 4 pawns version of the King's Indian well , surviving the weakness of his castled K without the f pawn( or g , later) and being two pawns down
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Round 2
Portola vs SneakyRed - Even game until move 31 . White sacs a pawn to open up d-column , access to Black's back rank . Black defends , trades off evenly , and then uses the pawn ad to win
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Round 1
alaskauk vs chesskix - Nicely crafted draw . White plunges deep into Black's board but can't push any pawns past 6th row ; Black has a lone passer but not enough power support to help walk it down
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Round 6
simon2007 vs Intelectual - White gets the scoolboy + on h5 , making the Black K run to Qside . Then a Q trade stops a mating attack on White's Kside , giving White the tempo to initiate the winning finish on Qside .
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Round 5
crankn8tr vs Slartibartfast - Black plays the 2 Bishop fianchetto game . The Qs come off the board early ; it breaks down into a 2Ns vs 2Bs game , but White can't trap the Black K in the corner ; White loses too many pawns .
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Round 4
parrot9 vs RealChosenOne - Wild , wide-open game . Blak wins even tho it is a piece down in the end . Both Ks get pushed around the board ; White has no safe place for its K .
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Round 3
Solfege vs giltar The "Hillbilly" :o) version of the Caro-Kann . White squeezes a B from Black , appears to give a N back for it , but is really setting up a mating triangle impacting g7 , with Q out of position to affect the sequence ...
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Round 2
Bega vs Rainbird - no piece exchanges until move 24( alot are in endgame by then) , all trading is even for the next 40 moves , then there is a almost 80-move !!! endgame where White eventually Qs a pawn and out-works Black for the win . A 141-move game ! 'Nuff said ....
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Round 1
RedAttack vs andy4226uk - Andy's 1st STC win ! Uses the Benko Gambit to open up a and b columns , then overcomes being the pawn down to control those columns , and the game .
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Game of the Week T38
Round 6
Kingmaker vs Paulkov - A key trade for White's black B and a + that pushes White's K to a bad square helps Black overwhelm the middle . The open h-column deflects White into a useless attack ...
Honorable Mention - RealChosenOne vs Duguesclin - White castles , and then attacks from that side ; gains a one-pawn advantage , and then plays the better endgame ...
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Round 5
nanning vs Swaney - A game featuring a Kside attack , a N sac for Black's h-pawn to create daylight , and White using some of my favorite diagonals :o) to flow to that opening ...
Honorable Mention - Chessduke vs BadHabitMarco - Nice beatdown of Smith-Morra :o) All of White's potential attack angles are countered , while the c column weakness is exploited well ..
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Round 4
bajerk vs slackjaw - A N sac for the f7 pawn forces Black to 0-0-0 ; then White's two Bs control the endgame action , leading to unstoppable pawns ..
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Round 3
chessateer vs ddlj81 - After castling , Black has to survive a Kside sac attack, with only one pawn in front ; the extra N wins the endgame tho ...
Honorable Mention - neskaya vs Endgamer - EG's 1st STC win . Black counters the White B fianchetto attack , ends up two passed pawns down , but uses R control of the other two open columns to win ..
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Round 2
ZiggyStardust vs sean98 - Exciting but tense game , decided by tempo control . White makes a small N blunder , but is able to save it and then trap the R that attacked it ...
Honorable Mention - Kingphisch vs Heraclitus - "Mr p-f4 " uses a Kside feint to flush the Black K out (no 0-0 ) and a Qside attack to mate it
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Round 1
LuxAeterna vs Solfege - A good Black win(we all seem to win more with Black :o) ) for 1800's #1 board . Control of the middle comes after a R trade , then the Q cleans up ...
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