Ethics as related to the 50 move rule and bullet chess at ICC

 

Mexican chess player Robert Rosarito plays for draws with the White pieces inviting early Queen Trades because he presumes he can outplay his opponent in the ending. Lewis McClary, a Texas player, endorses the Moron's defense which was actually studied in depth by a gentlemen named Glen Wilson from Dallas. 

Andrew Hanson of Arizona, who teaches chess, has had some success welcoming his opponent to give up the lady in the first 5 moves of the game.

In 3 minute chess, the 50 move draw rule comes into play especially when one of the players has mismanaged their time and then begs for a draw when they reach a theoretically drawn position as in the game below.

Note that the last pawn move of b6 was played on move 79 as seen in the game score below. Robert Rosarito's time expired in a position where no legal move would have resulted in splitting the point! That is what Rosarito deserved for being way behind on the clock! Dick Head made sure of that!! Roberts last move happened on move 122 making it 7 moves shy of 50 without any pawn moves or any type of capture. Dick Head won fair and square despite whining Robert's opinion on the matter! 

Alec Bojalad is familiar with ethics as it applies to chess and he also into other Geek stuff like unconventional chess sets.

[Event "ICC 3 0"]

[Site "Internet Chess Club"]

[Date "2021.05.01"]

[Round "-"]

[White "RosaritoRobert"]

[Black "DickHead"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ICCResult "White forfeits on time"]

[WhiteElo "1552"]

[BlackElo "1597"]

[Opening "Alekhine's defense: Maróczy variation"]

[ECO "B02"]

[NIC "AL.10"]

[Time "12:14:34"]

[TimeControl "180+0"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. d3 e5 3. Be2 d5 4. Nd2 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Nxe4 6. dxe4 Qxd1+ 7. Bxd1

Bc5 8. f3 Nc6 9. c3 a5 10. Bc2 Be6 11. b3 O-O 12. Ne2 f5 13. Ng3 g6 14. Ke2

Rad8 15. Rd1 Kg7 16. Bb2 f4 17. Nf1 g5 18. Rxd8 Rxd8 19. Rd1 Rxd1 20. Bxd1

h5 21. Bc1 g4 22. Bc2 Kf6 23. Nd2 Be3 24. Bd3 gxf3+ 25. gxf3 Bh3 26. Bb2 Nd8

27. Nc4 Bb6 28. Nxb6 cxb6 29. Bc4 Ne6 30. Bd5 Nd8 31. Ba3 Be6 32. c4 Bxd5

33. cxd5 Nf7 34. Kd3 Ng5 35. Ke2 Kf7 36. Bb2 Kf6 37. a3 Nh3 38. b4 axb4 39.

axb4 b5 40. Bc3 Ng5 41. Be1 Nf7 42. Bh4+ Kg6 43. Be7 Ng5 44. Bxg5 Kxg5 45.

d6 Kf6 46. h4 Ke6 47. d7 Ke7 48. Kd3 Kd8 49. Kc3 Kc7 50. Kd3 Kd8 51. Kc3

Kxd7 52. Kd3 Kc6 53. Kc3 Kc7 54. Kd3 Kd7 55. Kc3 Ke7 56. Kd3 Kf6 57. Kc3 Kg6

58. Kd3 Kh6 59. Kc3 Kh7 60. Kd3 Kh8 61. Kc3 Kg8 62. Kd3 Kf8 63. Kc3 Ke8 64.

Kd3 Kd8 65. Kc3 Kc8 66. Kd3 Kb8 67. Kc3 Ka7 68. Kd3 Kb6 69. Kc3 Kc6 70. Kd3

Kd6 71. Kc3 Ke6 72. Kd3 Kf6 73. Kc3 Kf7 74. Kd3 Kg8 75. Kc3 Kf8 76. Kd3 Ke8

77. Kc3 Kd7 78. Kd3 Kc6 79. Kc3 b6 80. Kd3 Kb7 81. Kc3 Ka7 82. Kd3 Ka6 83.

Kc3 Ka7 84. Kd3 Ka8 85. Kc3 Kb8 86. Kd3 Kc8 87. Kc3 Kd8 88. Kd3 Ke8 89. Kc3

Kf8 90. Kd3 Kg8 91. Kc3 Kh8 92. Kd3 Kh7 93. Kc3 Kg7 94. Kd3 Kf7 95. Kc3 Ke7

96. Kd3 Ke6 97. Kc3 Kd6 98. Kd3 Kc6 99. Kc3 Kb7 100. Kd3 Ka7 101. Kc3 Ka8

102. Kd3 Kb8 103. Kc3 Kc8 104. Kd3 Kc7 105. Kc3 Kd6 106. Kd3 Kd7 107. Kc3

Ke7 108. Kd3 Ke6 109. Kc3 Kf6 110. Kd3 Kg6 111. Kc3 Kh6 112. Kd3 Kh7 113.

Kc3 Kh8 114. Kd3 Kg8 115. Kc3 Kf8 116. Kd3 Ke8 117. Kc3 Kd8 118. Kd3 Kc8

119. Kc3 Kb8 120. Kd3 Ka8 121. Kc3 Ka7 122. Kd3 Kb7 {White forfeits on time}

0-1

Devastating Rook Pin Along your Opponent's 2nd Rank

 I was reminded of a former chess buddy J.P. Hyltin who resided in Austin Texas and often played in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. He once drew with legend Joe Bradford after memorizing Big Joe's Benko Gambit line if I recall and wore a T-Shirt about his pregnant wife's GM candidate fetus. 

He was probably a genius in many regards including his profession in some branch of engineering, but I remember him saying that an overwhelming number of decisive tactics involved exploiting or creating a lethal pin. I also respected his views on the absurd DWI laws in our country where way too many repeat offenders end up killing people never having spend a day behind bars!!! His Austin friend and lawyer Mike Simpson Esquire defended many of those types usually the weekend when the Longhorns played the Sooners. I think  Victor Yaward  and Luis Salinas had strong opinions on vehicular homicide as well.

The following position involves the latter. See if you can figure out the winning move in the following position with White to play:

ICC player Danifrani had just withdrawn his Queen to the f6. Can you see how this move is a losing blunder due to the presence of the White Rook on the c7 square? I missed it in the game, but eventually won on time in a 3 minute no increment time control blitz game.

Outside Passed Pawn Wins Again

 A very common error in King and Pawn endings is to keep pushing your pawns forward in a middle game attack fashion. However, that often leads to lost endings! 

In the following three minute blitz game played at the Internet Chess Club in Pennsylvania, Black played the losing move pawn to b4. Do you see why?

After some pawn exchanges on the b4 square, White(Gianky59 from the country of Switzerland ) wins easily by capturing Black's f5 pawn which forces the creation of outside passed White h pawn which will drag the Black Monarch way out of play!!!

ChessFactor content provider IM Andrey Ostrovskiy does an above average job of explaining the mechanisms associated with these type of structures that involve "on the edge of the board" type of motifs. Istanbul, Turkey chess benefactor Mert Bahadır is an ardent fan of Andrey's pedagogy and self-effacing style.

BTW Black would have easily drawn by replacing the blunder b4 with the drawing Kd6 which leads to a sterile, innocuous drawn position!

Benoni-Three Minor Pieces for a Queen

Chess luminaries Pachman and Silman both had astute observations regarding when 3 minor pieces were stronger than a Queen. Irascible "How to Reassess your Chess" Jeremy stated that as long as the Queen did not have a "disruptive pawn" that the Queen would usually lose to the three minors.

 Rewan Demontay and David Miedema have also thrown in their opinions on this fascinating imbalance which happens to be the term that made Silman's book famous but also with the significant flaw of oversimplifying at times.  Jeremy now spends some of his time reviewing Kung Fu Movies or some other Asian themed avocation. 

Cristinel Leaua of Romania unwittingly sacrificed his Queen for three minor pieces in the following Benoni Defense played at the Internet Chess Club in the United States of America.  His move Ng4 was actually a blunder as he amateurishly saw only Bd4 pinning Queen at e3 to the White King located on g1 square.  White wins two Horses and one Prelate which led to a convincing victory for the first player!
 

Stunning Pawn Sac in Dead Drawn Looking Ending

 In the following blitz game played at USA based Internet Chess Club, TheBlackCat must have thought he had an easy draw. Black despite having an extra pawn, had no way to promote his passed g3 pawn.

I was not able to figure out a brilliant pawn break through based on the "weakness of White's f4 pawn". Do you see it?!?!? That's right pawn to e5, followed by pawn to d4 leads to the capture of White's f4 pawn and Black should win! 

H C Schonberg would have easily discovered these two naked pawn sacs based on the informant notation Xf4. Contemporary commentator Naroditsky would have noticed it in less than 10 seconds probably between his binge viewing of Breaking Bad. He was cool kid at Stanford when I was working on my post doctoral stuff. He may have been the reason I never finished because his love of Royal game was soooo damn infectious along with his massively expansive vocabulary. The late Emory Tate may not have found it because he did not reach many endings based his tendencies to have things resolved in the middle game. 

Monkey See Tactic, Monkey Play Tactic

 My Russian friends at ICC are among the most rational and concrete thinking guys I have ever known. However, Potoslonam must have been having trouble with family or girlfriend when he egregiously blundered with Knight captures d5 pawn in the following diagrammed position. 

His weak amateurish idea was to pray(I know most Russians are atheist) that Black captures the horse on d5 leaving his f5 Horse en prise. Black now wins easily with Qg1 threatening mates on g3 square and Qh1 mate. The White Queen cannot defend both threats so the Russian disconnected and lost.

Hockey fan Mark Scheig is also a talented chess player and a friend of the affable Russian expert of our beloved Royal Game.

Trading Queens a Losing Blunder in the blitz game

Swedish player Gianky59, a weak 1498 player, after playing better than his low USCF rating, offered a Queen exchange on the e3 square which leads to a LOST King and Pawn ending in the following diagrammed position.

After the exchange on that dark square, Black plays Kf5 to be in attacking range of White's over advanced and vulnerable 3-2 Queenside Majority. Black is easily winning because she can make an outside passed h pawn!