Comments on Blunder Prone .... the Chess Blogger's History Channel: Hastings 1895: Featured Player: Henry Bird Part 2

Hello,I have recently begun a chess blog devoted t...

2008-07-25T11:58:00.000-05:00

Hello,

I have recently begun a chess blog devoted to the Sicilian Defense and looking for some people to trade links with. Would you be interested in linking to each other. You can check out my site athttp://www.thesiciliandefense.com

If you are interested I will add you to the blogroll on my homepage.

-Tony

Despite being still in my 20's, it's heartening to...

2008-07-23T10:26:00.000-05:00

Despite being still in my 20's, it's heartening to hear about the old guy who can still mix it up with the whippersnappers.

Dude, awesome job on these.

2008-07-23T01:30:00.000-05:00

Dude, awesome job on these.

Thanks for the advice! I think am going to start ...

2008-07-22T22:04:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the advice! I think am going to start with a couple of Morphy games, since they aren't too murky. And I am going to try and use the same process when I analyze my own games.

Thanks again,

Tommyg

Tommy, The method I use is two fold. First, I atte...

2008-07-22T09:21:00.000-05:00

Tommy,

The method I use is two fold. First, I attempt my own analysis with a "raw" game. Then I cross it with the book I have " Hasitings 1895 centenial edition" since this entire tournament was annotated by all the players. I will run Fritz on occasion for good measure espeically if i see a line I think is worth persuing.

For the London 1851 series, I did a similar thing and used Staunton's tournament book and annotations as a guide ONLY AFTER I struggled through the variation.

I also looked up the history and origin of certain openings used via wiki as a reference.

I agree with your coach. I advocate that you are better off attempting to annotate raw games since its the same process. As I have done a few hundred games now, I find my first pass is I set the game in motion to get a first feel of how the action goes. The I take it one move at a time. If its an opening I don't know, I dig deeper and take a stab at understanding it. Middle game ideas seem to come about from various sources ( silman, Nimzovitch, Lev Albert) as my memory tries to metaboloze these ideas from various books. I find master game studies like this is a wonderful way to see how well I recall these concepts.

Good morning (evening?),I was curious how you are ...

2008-07-22T01:44:00.000-05:00

Good morning (evening?),

I was curious how you are going about analyzing these games. Are you using a computer? Doing it yourself?

I had a lesson with my chess coach today who chided me on how I have been annotating my own games. He wants me to use MUCH LESS computer analysis and also wants me to use the same process for analyzing master games.

Have a good one,

Tommyg

Blunder Prone, thanks for your awesome comment on ...

2008-07-21T19:33:00.000-05:00

Blunder Prone, thanks for your awesome comment on "The Brain and Chess", and your cool historical shorts, they're fun to read!
I wanted to let you know I got my first two wins on FICS today and posted them, they're really short but I'd love any feedback. Thanks again!

Did you see all these pictures?http://picasaweb.go...

2008-07-21T15:50:00.000-05:00

Did you see all these pictures?

http://picasaweb.google.com/iwijetunge/WO2008

Getting to 2000

Blunderprone: sorry for the slow reply regarding o...

2008-07-21T13:15:00.000-05:00

Blunderprone: sorry for the slow reply regarding our tournament game. I just left a comment on LEP's blog too - I was on vacation last week and forgot to give you a heads-up. How is either Wednesday or Thursday 7 PM PST / 10 PM EST for you?

Tommy, thanks for Shredding. I couldn't find a sho...

2008-07-21T12:15:00.000-05:00

Tommy, thanks for Shredding. I couldn't find a shorter path to Queening. I might have challenged the opposing Bishop with 3. Ba5 to gain control of that diagonal.

BDK! I've actually coached Scholastics players in the past. I also coach beginners through our church. A local GM Igor Foygal has approached me to help him with some scholastic players. It's a time constraint though and I can't devote too much time on this at the moment.

I have been given lots of support in this series. I am doign this mainly for my benefit and curiousity adding my own twisted flare and commentary. I decided to go "blog" on this series as I felt others might find it beneficial or at least entertaining as well. Learning about the personalities behind the names takes chess to a whole new level of appreciation for me for some reason. I am finding that there are some out there who are not too different than myself or others I've met along the way.

That is awesome!! That is hilarious about Larry Bi...

2008-07-21T11:48:00.000-05:00

That is awesome!! That is hilarious about Larry Bird.

Dude I have my lunch hour fun cut out for me now. You do a wonderful job with these. You should be a chess coach!

The internet is great, as I don't think you could recreate the fun or usefulness of these games in book form. You could publish a series of tournaments and sell it in a DVD.

I'll have some specifics as the next couple of weeks roll on and I peruse these properly.

Hey Blunderprone!I put the Bird-Janowsky position ...

2008-07-20T07:44:00.000-05:00

Hey Blunderprone!

I put the Bird-Janowsky position from this post into Shredder and it came up with the following:

1. b6+ Bxb6 2. Kb5 Bc7 3. Be3 Ka8 4. Kxc5 Ka7 5. Kb5+ Kb8
6. c5 Ka8 7. c6 Kb8 8. Kc4 Ka8 9. Kd5 Kb8 10. Ke6 Bd8
11. Kd7 Bc7 12. Ba7+ Kxa7 13. Kxc7 Kxa6 14. Kd7 Kb5 15. c7
Kc4 16. c8=Q+

Did you see a shorter way to get a pawn promoted? Just curious. Good work as always.

TommyG