13. Qa4 Bb6
14. Qxc6 he finds Bd7!
15. Qb7 Bb5! (D)
Sunday, October 3, 2010
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intermittent thoughts on my life and work as the chess coach at IS 318, a public middle school in Brooklyn
9 Queens!!!!!
www.9queens.org
links
- Al Jazeera English
- Big Think
- bionic lime
- blue eyed rook
- Boylston Blog
- Braden Bournival's blog (hilarious chess raps)
- chess addict
- Chess Flash
- Chicago Chess blogspot
- curtains' hilarious chess videos
- Dana Mackensie's Blog
- Endgame clothing blogspot
- Endgame clothing purchase
- getting to 2000
- Ginzie's blog
- Goddess Chess
- Goddess Chess Blog
- greg's blog
- hardcore pawnography
- Internet Chess Club
- Jenn's blog
- Katar blog
- Kenilworthian
- knights of castle kimbark
- mushroom chess blog
- Natalia Pogonina's website
- nonprofit cheap used books w/free shipping
- panda chess--really really funny
- Pokerstars.net
- random number generator... for when you just can't decide
- robert pearson's blog
- Route 20 chess club (keith)
- San Fransisco Chess News
- Scholastic Chess Blog
- Sergio's site
- Soapstone's Studio Blog
- US Chess League Homepage
- UTD Brownsville
6 comments:
Instead of moving the rook, what about (from the second diagram)
16.c4 Rb8
17.Qxb8 Qxb8
18.cxb5
Taking on c6 was a mistake, but this still looks playable.
Ah, the sublime joy of spending tempi to use the queen to hunt a poisoned doubled pawn. This is at least a disease which kills swiftly enough to cure one of the malady in the future.
To quote Charlemagne in Pippin, it's smarter to be lucky than it is lucky to be smart. :-)
don't mean to nitpick but that isn't really luck, is it? he found the correct moves and punished his opponent for pawn-grabbing. that's more like... skill? d:
Wow! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
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