Checkmate...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

E2-E4 E7-E6
D2-D3 D7-D5
B1-D2 C7-C5
G1-F3 B8-C6
E4-E5 G8-H6
D1-E2 H6-F5
C2-C3 F8-E7
D2-B3 D8-C7
G2-G3 O-O
F1-G2 B7-B6
O-O F7-F6
C1-F4 C7-D7
D3-D4 A7-A5
A2-A4 C8-A6
E2-D2 A6xF1
G2xF1 C5-C4
B3-C1 F6xE5
F3xE5 C6xE5
F4xE5 E7-F6
F1-H3 F8-F7
C1-E2 A8-F8
F2-F4 F6xE5
H3xF5 F7xF5
D4xE5 F5-F7
D2-D4 F8-B8
D4-D1 B6-B5
A4xB5 D7xB5
D1-C2 ....

[mrkint]

E2-E4 E7-E6
D2-D3 D7-D5
B1-D2 C7-C5
G1-F3 B8-C6
E4-E5 G8-H6
D1-E2 H6-F5
C2-C3 F8-E7
D2-B3 D8-C7
G2-G3 O-O
F1-G2 B7-B6
O-O F7-F6
C1-F4 C7-D7
D3-D4 A7-A5
A2-A4 C8-A6
E2-D2 A6xF1
G2xF1 C5-C4
B3-C1 F6xE5
F3xE5 C6xE5
F4xE5 E7-F6
F1-H3 F8-F7
C1-E2 A8-F8
F2-F4 F6xE5
H3xF5 F7xF5
D4xE5 F5-F7
D2-D4 F8-B8
D4-D1 B6-B5
A4xB5 D7xB5
D1-C2 B5xB2

[thebish]

looks like he missed it! relax!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

E2-E4 E7-E6
D2-D3 D7-D5
B1-D2 C7-C5
G1-F3 B8-C6
E4-E5 G8-H6
D1-E2 H6-F5
C2-C3 F8-E7
D2-B3 D8-C7
G2-G3 O-O
F1-G2 B7-B6
O-O F7-F6
C1-F4 C7-D7
D3-D4 A7-A5
A2-A4 C8-A6
E2-D2 A6xF1
G2xF1 C5-C4
B3-C1 F6xE5
F3xE5 C6xE5
F4xE5 E7-F6
F1-H3 F8-F7
C1-E2 A8-F8
F2-F4 F6xE5
H3xF5 F7xF5
D4xE5 F5-F7
D2-D4 F8-B8
D4-D1 B6-B5
A4xB5 D7xB5
D1-C2 B5xB2
G1-abyss.
You're feckin' relentless man. I was trying to get my neddy and queen into position on D4 and B5 so that I could fart about with my king for the draw, but you never allowed me the tempo to get moving.

Anyway, well played. I enjoyed that, it was a good game.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

looks like he missed it! relax!

I was just toying with him.
He's young, you can't dishearten him by winning.

[thebish]

looks like he missed it! relax!

I was just toying with him.
He's young, you can't dishearten him by winning.

ahhh - i knew there must be a reason...

[Montreal Wanderer]

Well done, Spotty. Holding off the young Master for nearly 30 moves is impressive.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Well done, Spotty. Holding off the young Master for nearly 30 moves is impressive.

Cheers Monty. I really think you ought to have a go against him. Consult your opening oracles and forget about brain farts...

[Montreal Wanderer]

Well done, Spotty. Holding off the young Master for nearly 30 moves is impressive.

Cheers Monty. I really think you ought to have a go against him. Consult your opening oracles and forget about brain farts...

My only chance of having a game as long as yours would be because there is a five-hour time difference between us! Plus, since I am retired I no longer spend a lot of time at the computer - it would have been easier when I worked.

[mrkint]

E2-E4 E7-E6
D2-D3 D7-D5
B1-D2 C7-C5
G1-F3 B8-C6
E4-E5 G8-H6
D1-E2 H6-F5
C2-C3 F8-E7
D2-B3 D8-C7
G2-G3 O-O
F1-G2 B7-B6
O-O F7-F6
C1-F4 C7-D7
D3-D4 A7-A5
A2-A4 C8-A6
E2-D2 A6xF1
G2xF1 C5-C4
B3-C1 F6xE5
F3xE5 C6xE5
F4xE5 E7-F6
F1-H3 F8-F7
C1-E2 A8-F8
F2-F4 F6xE5
H3xF5 F7xF5
D4xE5 F5-F7
D2-D4 F8-B8
D4-D1 B6-B5
A4xB5 D7xB5
D1-C2 B5xB2
G1-abyss.
You're feckin' relentless man. I was trying to get my neddy and queen into position on D4 and B5 so that I could fart about with my king for the draw, but you never allowed me the tempo to get moving.

Anyway, well played. I enjoyed that, it was a good game.

Good game, dude I enjoyed it, too. I thought on move 25 that your knight going to d4 would've been annoying for me, so was surprised when you put your queen there - meant you're knight only had one legal move, whereas on d4 it would've attacked my pawn and made me more passive. As it was it gave me time to swing over my rook to the queenside and punch a hole through there. Hope this gets you playing regularly again

[thebish]

I'll give you a game, spotty - if you are fully recovered... not playing kinty - he's way too good! also - I am probably slower than him! you can go first and invent a whacky unconventional opening - I'll follow your lead...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I'll give you a game, spotty - if you are fully recovered... not playing kinty - he's way too good! also - I am probably slower than him! you can go first and invent a whacky unconventional opening - I'll follow your lead...

No, I'll give you white... Post yer best opening, only I won't respond until the morning coz I'll be out of WiFi reception shortly (in a good pub... But wifiless, oh well).

[thebish]

I'll give you a game, spotty - if you are fully recovered... not playing kinty - he's way too good! also - I am probably slower than him! you can go first and invent a whacky unconventional opening - I'll follow your lead...

No, I'll give you white... Post yer best opening, only I won't respond until the morning coz I'll be out of WiFi reception shortly (in a good pub... But wifiless, oh well).

ooh - you generous soul!! I'll whack out my most whacky opening then!! just of to find a board of some sort....

[thebish]

ok - I'm going with the unconventional réti opening just to un-nerve you!

GAME 2 Bish(white) vs Spotty(black)

1. g1-f3

[Montreal Wanderer]

Back in 1889 the champion Willhelm Steinitz played Mikhail Chigorin for the World Championship in Cuba. Among the conditions were that Chigorin, when White, would play the Evans Gambit in order to allow Steinitz to test his defense against this then devastating opening. When Steinitz was White he agreed to play the Zukertort Opening, which began KN-KB3. It would be forty years before Richard Reti popularized the opening, claiming he introduced into master play 1923. The scoundrel!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Back in 1889 the champion Willhelm Steinitz played Mikhail Chigorin for the World Championship in Cuba. Among the conditions were that Chigorin, when White, would play the Evans Gambit in order to allow Steinitz to test his defense against this then devastating opening. When Steinitz was White he agreed to play the Zukertort Opening, which began KN-KB3. It would be forty years before Richard Reti popularized the opening, claiming he introduced into master play 1923. The scoundrel!

I've got five pints inside me. I've no idea what you two are on about... but I've got a feeling that pawns ain't involved.

[thebish]

Back in 1889 the champion Willhelm Steinitz played Mikhail Chigorin for the World Championship in Cuba. Among the conditions were that Chigorin, when White, would play the Evans Gambit in order to allow Steinitz to test his defense against this then devastating opening. When Steinitz was White he agreed to play the Zukertort Opening, which began KN-KB3. It would be forty years before Richard Reti popularized the opening, claiming he introduced into master play 1923. The scoundrel!

I've got five pints inside me. I've no idea what you two are on about... but I've got a feeling that pawns ain't involved.

this might be my best chance!! go on - beat me whilst drunk!!! let's not use any pawns at all!!

[Montreal Wanderer]

Back in 1889 the champion Willhelm Steinitz played Mikhail Chigorin for the World Championship in Cuba. Among the conditions were that Chigorin, when White, would play the Evans Gambit in order to allow Steinitz to test his defense against this then devastating opening. When Steinitz was White he agreed to play the Zukertort Opening, which began KN-KB3. It would be forty years before Richard Reti popularized the opening, claiming he introduced into master play 1923. The scoundrel!

I've got five pints inside me. I've no idea what you two are on about... but I've got a feeling that pawns ain't involved.

Two? I'm not discussing anything with anyone. I just mentioned a little known fact that the Reti opening (which you will face when you sober up tomorrow) was really discovered and analyzed by Johannes Zukertort (then the second best player in the world)forty years and more before Reti was credited with it. It is of course, as you suggest, one of the few openings in which pawns are not immediately involved by White. The Wing Gambit, the Wing Orthodox and the Slav Wing system all begin the same way by White but are Black's way of avoiding the Reti.

[thebish]

any attempt to sober up will be seen as extreme cowardice - I've just necked 3 pints of absinthe...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

any attempt to sober up will be seen as extreme cowardice - I've just necked 3 pints of absinthe...

I'm off to bed however.
Si'thee in't mornin'. Be afraid.