tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post5094967489938204054..comments2024-03-28T01:17:43.262+01:00Comments on Temposchlucker: Intermezzo IITemposchluckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-45656786489827878862007-07-30T09:50:00.000+02:002007-07-30T09:50:00.000+02:00Loomis,you are right that the game was decided in ...Loomis,<BR/>you are right that the game was decided in the middlegame. There are a few important details though. I didn't inflict the weakness on b2 intentionally, but once it was created by accident I recognized it. The trade of the bishop was on purpose. So to me what decided the game was the new acquired endgame knowledge which 1. lets me recognize characteristics that are created unintentionally 2. guides my actions to create characteristics intentionally.<BR/><BR/>The endgame knowledge is not the knowledge you find in reference books about theoretical endings, but in books that focus on endgame <I>strategy</I> such as Shereshevsky's book and the on of Lars Bo Hansen.Temposchluckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-19901185722877340872007-07-30T05:15:00.000+02:002007-07-30T05:15:00.000+02:00You're right, I did miss the tactical necessity of...You're right, I did miss the tactical necessity of 18. c3. But it's also clear that the positional weaknesses it leaves are clear and are in fact a large part of how black won the game.<BR/><BR/>So, now I have a slightly different take on this game. You sac a pawn in the opening and attack the uncastled king. You aren't able to mate or win material, but you do inflict serious positional weaknesses, 1) Bad bishop and 2) weak queenside pawns. You then enter a BOOC middle game where you have the initiative due to the positional weaknesses of your opponent. During this middle game you clean up enough pawns so that an exchange of pieces leads to an easily won endgame.<BR/><BR/>I believe this game was won in the middle game.Loomishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18256742331773514858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-36823754669265251742007-07-30T00:57:00.000+02:002007-07-30T00:57:00.000+02:00as i recall, BDK mentioned Tisdall first. but his...as i recall, BDK mentioned Tisdall first. but his name has indeed come up at both your blogs.<BR/><BR/>i am indebted to Tisdall for the most basic idea of focusing on fewer key position, such as via Dvoretsky or Gelfer Positional Chess Handbook, and now Alburt Pocket Chess Training (or GM Ram et. al. if you will, etc.).<BR/><BR/>i love this idea of dumping a bunch of thoughts to create more room for the new. <BR/><BR/>on that basis, i have a crammed basement.transformationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10834788878068428887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-84055068774904333222007-07-29T19:03:00.000+02:002007-07-29T19:03:00.000+02:00I think your insight about recasting particular po...I think your insight about recasting particular positions in terms of usable principles that will generalize is very useful. I'll be posting about it soon, as I recently discovered an interesting psychology article that seems to directly support it. I'm using it to change how I do the final set of circles in Phase 5 of CTB.<BR/><BR/>Note also that Tisdall in his book also stresses the importance of creating an internal narrative about the position in terms of general principles rather than simply thinking through variations. I think you may have mentioned this in a previous post (or I did on a comment to one of your posts).Blue Devil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12045468316613818510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-50113062050335200982007-07-29T17:09:00.000+02:002007-07-29T17:09:00.000+02:00Loomis,I'm a (was?) one-trick pony. If I win a gam...Loomis,<BR/>I'm a (was?) one-trick pony. If I win a game, it is because I overplay my opponent in the opening and mate the king right away, or he has to give material to prevent it. If not, I'm aiming for a draw. Only now I'm starting to learn a second trick: to head for a beneficial ending. If I'm pawns ahead I used to trade that for a draw against a higher rated opponent. Since when I try to play it out, there are big chances I'm going to lose. But now things are changing. That is why I talk at move 28 about the ending, since at that moment it is not likely anymore that I'm going to crush his king anymore anytime soon. At that moment my goal changes from crushing the king to look for a beneficial ending. Since I have a holy respect for the bishoppair I wouldn't have come up with the idea to trade it for a knight myself.<BR/><BR/>So I'm leaving the toddlerphase of my chessyouth and start where Capablanca tells me to start: at the endgame. Only now I have a clue how to do that.<BR/><BR/>The plusside is that there is vast room for improvement:)<BR/><BR/>The move 18. c3 is necessary from a middlegame point of view, he can't allow me to have the dominance over the a6-f1 diagonal.<BR/><BR/>At move 45 I had a blackout after 5.5 hours of play and I repeated moves since I didn't see that I could simply take with my queen at b2. My opponent sensed that and offered the draw. If I hadn't know what I was trying to accomplish I would have accepted it. I didn't enter it in the PGN since I thought it would only obscure matters.Temposchluckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-31436856868772066412007-07-29T16:10:00.000+02:002007-07-29T16:10:00.000+02:00I might evaluate the course of your game different...I might evaluate the course of your game differently. I haven't looked deeply at it, but it seems that there were about 4 or 5 cases where you had a 2 move tactic that won a pawn. As a result you were able to be 3 pawns ahead and win easily.<BR/><BR/>When was the draw offered?<BR/><BR/>I think that when you say at move 28 that your newly acquired endgame knowledge is paying off you are still in the middle game. BOOC endgames tend to be drawish, but as you point out BOOC middlegames are not drawish at all. I think you can find this in many books. By move 30 you are looking at a good bishop vs bad bishop.<BR/><BR/>Another important strategic element in your game is your opponents bad pawn on b2. Having to move his bishop to c1 to defend it made his position even more difficult to play. Perhaps 18. c3 should get a '?' as it weakens the b2 pawn and gives you the b3 square.Loomishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18256742331773514858noreply@blogger.com