Inventive Approach in this Chess Game

 An ICC blitz player named ReInventor, playing Black in the below diagrammed position, had to love the inventive nature of this Naked hanging piece sacrifice. His greed for pawns weakened his f7,e6, and b7 White Squares. Also his Horse at b8 blocks the Rook at a8.

Applying Laskerian logic to the three anemic squares, the NAKED piece sac Ng5 presents itself as a winning move! The Knight move attracts the Black Queen to the g5 square which also creates devastating back rank mate threats after the White Lady ingests the b7 pawn.

Read the work of medical researchers V. Kalidasan, Narcisse Joseph, Suresh Kumar, Rukman Awang Hamat, and Vasantha Kumari Neela to learn more about iron deficiency as it relates to our Royal game. I learned all about Iron homeostasis from these medical students or interns or maybe even Doctors. In any invent the move Knight to King's Knight 5 jacked Black's efforts at homeostasis.

The game Dexter Dale Jr. vs. Ryan Folgarty had some themes similar to this game.

Two different Assassinations

 

Chess is the Netherlands is more historically rich and dense compared to almost pop culture blitz ethos that exists in the USA. The former Santa Fe NM Grand Master would surely agree given his recent public squabbles with Greg Shahade. 

The theme illustrated in the diagram below witnesses yet another example of greed being harshly punished.  Thetheo1304 is "up the exchange and a pawn", BUT is still dead lost. So one could say he was suffering from excessive emphasis on his distorted notion of material. Yaz, the cool dude and blood brother of IM John Donaldson, once stated his first chess teacher Pupols taught it is not what comes off the board, it is what stays  on the board. 

This ICC member appears to have dearly loved Theodore Van Gogh who was assassinated by a Dutch man from Morocco,Africa.  Never got the significance of 1304 in his online moniker. 

Perhaps the death was still weighing on his distant mind when his materialism allowed Black's g pawn to become dangerously passed. Maybe he thought Rook takes pawn check on the d5 square would give him time to prevent the promotion to Queen. A draw may have been held by moving the King towards the Queening Square rather continuing with the pawn grabbing avarice. 

Greed, Greed, Greed.....Lose, Lose, Lose

One of the seven deadly sins is Greed and chess psychologist Rowson expounds lucidly on the perils of not overcoming avarice in our beloved Royal Game pastime.

However, ICC user Missile14 apparently did not get the memo after getting splattered by the mating pawn move f6 in diagrammed position. The military jet fighter plane enthusiast was aiming for rapid consolidation with Nd6 with the goal of liquidating the powerful e4 Horse. In fact, Missile14 played Knight captures Knight after White played the overt checkmate move pawn to f6 pinning the g7 mating square pawn to the trepidating Black Monarch!  

Black could have played the desperate  Nf5 which only delays the mate or the calamitous loss of material. I think our military man was just assuming since he had an extra "do nothing" proverbial WHOLE ROOK on a8 square(not half mind you) that he would just win by swapping aka the Patzer's curse. 

I did find something about the Infrared Air Force FALCON homing missile14. 

BTW, a cat with a youtube channel called chess traps has a beautiful trap number 28 out of the Kings Gambit opening involving a knight on the grim rim and another fork winning Whites Queen!!!

Finally a tribute to some old acquaintances/buddies in Texas USA: 

Carmen Chairez - Army Veteran 

Tom Crane - Navy Veteran 

    Charles Fricks - Army Veteran 

 Troy Gillispie - Army Veteran - 

           Sheryl McBroom - Air Force Veteran

Bret Lynn - Air Force Veteran

Tom Boyd 

                            Master  John Farrell jarhead(teasing John semper gumbi) 

                                   My favorite Asian who love Biden's VP choice  Neil Naputo  

                           David Hater 

                               Leon Toliver and Jimmy Nazario 

MISS AND LOVE ALL YOU GUYS!!!! probably will never be able to play any of you face to face due to personal issues and fickle COVID policy starting with the leadership vacuum in the White House.....credit to Microsoft BOSS for that one!!!!

Jerome Knew Tactical Based Defenses

There was this old timer who said something like, paraphrased, "He who takes his opponent's Queen's Knight Pawn sleeps in the gutter" God Damned English descriptive SUCKS. 

A dude named Rick Kennedy, who loves gambit play, told me about only fools grab b2,b7, g2,g7 pawns.

So aforementioned scenario happened in a game at ICC in the position you see below. JPF555 from Australia licked his chops for awhile pondering munching White's undefended b2 pawn after he exchanges Towers on the c file. I guess you callem Rooks or Castles in COVID overrun America. A lot of the rest of the world believe Corona originated in the United States.

As it turns out the b2 pawn is tactically defended to borrow the phrase from Larry Christiansen,  Artemiev ,Kenneth John McPherson,Patrick Daly,Cyrus Lakdawala, dude that maintains the path to chess mastery blog, Doctor Fianchetto(christopher.p.bak),Tanmay Srinath and Farmer Darren Walters.

See if you can envision why capturing the b2 pawn, after the c file clears, LOSES? A chess friend named E. Rios says to imagine possible mating patterns and figure out a way to get your attacking units to the right squares. A key to see this relatively easy mate in 3 is to observe the h6 escape square is surveilled by White's g5 pawn.

Even National Masters suffer from Materialism

The diagrammed position, arising from the Leningrad Dutch Defense, is sound evidence that even titled USCF players fall prey to the Chess Sin of greed. ICC player National Master rpenquin, is a gentleman and a scholar, but became fatally weak along the h1-a8 diagonal after mistakenly "winning the exchange" snapping off the inactive Rook in the corner.

It is just a blitz game, but look at the c1 Bishop and a1 Rook the NM is neglecting while all of Black's forces are active poised to attack on the permanently weakened light squares near White's Monarch. The NM should have "talked to his pieces" in the chess psychologist Rowson fashion. They would have articulated their abject misery about being locked out of the action and poorly coordinated due the avarice and materialism of the first player.

Concretely, with White to Move, the NM has no choice but to "castle into the menacing assault" on his trepidating King.

Neophyte players should be comforted to learn that even GMs are willing subject themselves to brutal onslaughts hoping to hang on to their precious material for an endgame conversion to victory.


Finally, I would welcome the valued input of Seattle, Washington GM Gregory Serper on the soundness of this National Master's decision to engage in such risky play. Serper is flexible in his approach to Royal Game capable of attacking or defending as the position dictates. Go Seahawks!!

Punish this Greedy Player

The chess champion and philosopher E. Lasker was not fond of greed and spoke of ways of punishing greed and avarice in life and chess.

Lordi, a 50 year old player at the Internet Chess Club, must not be familiar with Lasker's aversion for pawn grabbing out of the opening. With the White pieces, Lordi misplaces a Bishop at a3 and a Knight at a4 to win the Black c5 pawn. Dan Heisman would get nauseous and Rowson would excoriate the Indian player fot not "talking to the Horse and Prelate" before engaging in such unprincipled abuse of the Royal Game! You see this idea in the Nimzo Indian Defense, but the pawn chains are more locked up or closed.

So how do we punish this careless and materialistic Caissa sacrilege? The move is not  obvious, but it refutes White's poor understanding of material and piece coordination. Alex Yermolinsky student Rikkitikkitavi also still battles the addiction of pawn grabbing in opening and late middle game. The relatively slow move solution appears under the diagram.

Qe7!

Punishing Underdevelopment and Greed

One of the most remarkable insights into the game of chess is the well known comparison between it and the game of life. Just as countless television programs, articles, and social commentary speak to the extent that greed can ruin one's life, greed can also cost you the game in chess.



I have a copy of a book once owned by Anthony F. Kaye titled Common Sense in Chess by Emanuel Lasker. The great long time world champion spends some time showing the reader how excessive greed can turn a winning position into a losing position.

In the following 3 minute blitz game played at the internet chess club, Ewanyengi of the United Kingdom sees a way to win the exchange before he has castled or fully developed his pieces. His Queen at b3 and Knight at g5 can combine to win the Black Rook at f8.

White can not prevent this or he will lose to the sadistic and much dreaded smothered mate. With White to move, can you see why he will lose the game if he tries to win the Rook for his Knight? Chess also has a principle of Justice which is manifest here also. Bill Wall the prolific chess writer from Colorado who knew Bobby Fischer on a first name basis has, I believe, written beautifully on the manner in which chess and living a decent life go hand in hand.

Finally it is a widely promulgated rule of thumb in chess that a Rook is worth 5 points and minor pieces 3 points. Relying too much on rules of thumb do not lead to chess mastery!