Make Luft NOT War

 The following position was reached against one FranticGopher in a blitz game at the internet chess club. Canadian Frantic Gopher is aptly named as his play is indeed and frenetic bordering on actually being sound. The chess player with the hummingbird metabolism has been spotted in Minnesota USA I think as well. 

You can not help but like the guy who wins via quality or pre-moving in the opening not caring whether he drops pieces just to rattle his opponents!  He is losing in all his bullet games, but still wins the majority of them. Admirably he is a staunch opponent of the knuckleheads who expect takebacks in Blitz chess. Some of those malcontents actually will let their time expire, rather than resign, if you do not grant the takeback!!  Pathetic existences they live.

In the diagrammed position Frantic Gopher is also losing AND WENT ON TO LOSE as White played the appropriate make Luft (German for air) move h3.  The weaker g3 allows the desperate varmint a possible perpetual check on the light squares! 

You must admit burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae are quite cute. 

Kuwait Player goes for too much out of Opening

Being patient enough to wait for the latent potential of King's Indian Bishop to be liberated was one of the favorite ideas of New Mexico chess talent Silas Perry. I had the pleasure of meeting Silas in Albuquerque during a National Guard deployment around a decade ago. 

Like many eccentric chess players, he has resisted attempts at communication, but that is OK since he helped me gain over 200 USCF rating points without knowing it! I did not want to admit it due to my extremely competitive spirit, but the four or five games I lost to the dude forced me to  retool my game!!

He and GM Kraai highly advocate taking paper notes in a real notebook and analyzing why one sometimes makes stupid moves at critical times in the game. 

One of Perry's favorite sayings was this guy should not be able to get away with "this attack". He won a game against Amarillo Master Simms when he felt the Texan had overreached. The game you see above where Kuwait player unexpected launched a suspicious attack reminded me of the sage advice of Silas. 

White's b2 Bishop is just oozing some latent potential  as the second player's "attack" has created an uncountable number of weak squares around his Monarch. This is sometimes OK in the Dutch Defense but not in this case as White mopped the mess up quite handily with an Ne1-Nd3 repositioning of his f3 horse which was being attacked by overextended g4 pawn

An early Bg4 leads to a hard to defend Position

A very strong chess player from the country of Chile missed, a relatively easy tactical shot that would have given him a substantive initiative. DvonDessauer84, whose ICC name suggest a German military hero or strategist, may have been stressed about the worldwide social distancing imposed by COVID-19 when he missed a move that would have been followed by a pawn fork of two minor pieces.

Chilean lovers of chess are frequently aggressive always seeking forcing, initiative seizing move orders. In the diagrammed position, the weaker American player appears to have a quite comfortable, if not winning advantage. Both the a7 and c6 Black pawns are anemic and it appears White can leisurely double his Rooks on the  a-file for a stress free win. See if you can find the move that turns the advantage back in Black's favor.

BTW, this position arose from a double queen pawn game where the Chilean Jugadore prematurely played Bg4 leaving his b7 pawn weak and unprotected. Qb3 often punishes such immature development. Note the b7 square is vacant  in the diagram!! Be patient before your scroll down to find the saving move.

DID YOU FIND the move Ndexc5 ?