So, in tonight's game, Luce took back a couple of moves early on, which I thought were pretty important moves, but I let them slide, because we're trying to be nice, and it sort of relaxes me because then it doesn't feel like a real game or something, if Luce wins I can always say it's cos he took back moves he didn't like. Then I overlooked that my pawn could take his queen, and he didn't let me take it back! The pressure was on because it looked like he could now take my queen for free. World War III nearly broke out, Luce starting packing up his bat and ball and was going home (he had the drawer out and was replacing pieces!!), we shouted that we loved each other and both liked to play chess, so CAN'T WE JUST BE ADULTS ABOUT THIS???
The position turned out not to be as dire as I'd thought, a queen swap, so I gave in and thought that if Luce beat me then I totally didn't need to take it personally, and that if I won that that would show that my chess practice was actually paying off. I won a couple of exchanges, which put me up a rook as our pawns were racing towards the king-line, and I was able to get a queen and then sacrifice my rook to prevent him from reciprocating. We had one 'take-back point', to see if Luce could stop me, but no way jose! :)
I'm definitely improving, I see more pretty patterns on the chessboard each time I look at it :D
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don't believe everything you read on a blog folks!!! one might say that this is how events unfolded according to T - i have a different take on them which i won't bore you with. make sure however you have a free 3hrs if you decide to play T in chess ;-)
it's ok - asking to take back a move is precisely the same thing as saying "I acknowledge defeat in this game already. Please can we play a variant game starting from a similar position?"
A quick game really is a good game BTW, you'll learn more about chess by playing a lot of games fairly well, than you will playing one single game perfectly.
BTW, it's your move on facebook.
:) yeah, that's what I thought.
As to your second point, the consensus I've found, is that as you getter better at a slow game, you naturally become quicker and better at a short game, but not necessarily the other way around. And that plenty of people are good at quick or slow chess but not both. I'm pretty sure that the more I go throug the course I'm doing, the quicker I'll get - once I have a pattern learnt, I'm quick to recognise it. I no longer need 30 min moves, and just a couple of mins is getting more common, although luce will probably dispute this.
facebook you say...
Skulle virkelig ønske eg kunne vært ei floge på veggen under dette sjakkpartiet...! :)
Du gjenforteller veldig... levende! :)
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